Who is Red John?

Theories of Scarlett57 (1)

The list is fake and I think the next episode will prove it. In the promo for Fire and Brimstone, Lisbon says "If you do this, and you're throwing your life away", Jane: "No one is leaving, bye Lisbon" and the building blows up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqIiOERZeY



I'm suggesting that in this next episode Jane is going to fake his death along with all remaining fake suspects. Lisbon and the team won't know and Lisbon's grief will help convince RJ that it was real. RJ will relax because Jane is dead and Lisbon will think RJ is dead because she believed in the list of seven suspects who are all dead at that point. It will be like the season 4 finale where Jane faked a breakdown only this trap has been carefully sewn for several episodes. The audience didn't know that Jane's breakdown was fake until he told Lisbon. Similarly in this season, the audience believes the list is real because Lisbon does.



I think it was the tiger tiger group that killed the private investigator in the Red Tattoo so that will be no help in finding RJ, it did however give Jane a good excuse to get the remaining fake suspects in a room together that Lisbon would believe. With everything happening with the tiger tiger group, it's more likely that they were the ones feeling so threatened that they wanted to bug Jane's office.



Now I've always believed RJ to be Walter Mashburn and as far as I can remember he is the only suspect that had a phobia before they started shoving supposed phobias from the fake suspects down our throats. Jane guessed that Mashburn had a mild dirt phobia. RJ has always been very good at leaving no evidence behind at crime scenes. From the psychiatrist we know that RJ has a phobia of some kind. Now consider when RJ visited the psychiatrist, it would be very important that he didn't leave any fingerprints so he probably touched as little as possible and wiped down anything he actually touched. This would've come across as a cleanliness phobia to Sophia Miller. RJ is not scared of birds, heights, or spiders. RJ is simply very good at not leaving condemning evidence behind.

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