Does anyone else think that Red John has a hard time making water cooler 'small talk' with his coworkers on Mondays?
Coworker: "Hey Roy, what did you do over the weekend?"
Red John: "Ummmm............I visited some friends? <high-pitched voice with inflection at the end> We hung out at a Malibu beach house until the party got busted-up" <walks back to his cubicle, whistling some Bach>
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Lisbon is NOT Red John, BUT she's being manipulated against her will by him and she knows it. I believe RJ contacted Lisbon with one of his creepy RJ 'Instant Messages' and told her he would kill Jane if Lisbon didn't play along. This may or may not have something to do with her random broken arm, but RJ knows Lisbon loves Jane and he's using that as leverage.
Jane knows Lisbon is no longer trustworthy. Hes known since last season. There are several times he deliberately gives her information that we the audience know is misleading. Jane most likely has known whom Red John is for some time now but he is pretending to buy into the list Red John concocted and he also knows that the tattoo is related to the secret law enforcement group. He only feeds Lisbon information that would lead Red John to believe Jane is buying the ruse that Red John is selling.
In yesterdays episode, Jane told Lisbon she was the most honest person he knows....double meaning? She is highly moral and Jane can read her well so if shes being forced to help RJ, I bet Jane picked up on it. Also, notice how her face is enraptured when he confesses his feelings out on the bluff. She's so in love with him that she would do anything to protect him.
Last night, Lisbon was CERTAIN Jane was throwing his life away she says it verbatim 2-3 times....she has *never* been this forceful. This is because she knows RJ has set a trap at PJ's Malibu House. RJ wanted Jane to get the remaining members of the list together with Jane so he could kill them all and tie things off neatly. -Everybody with any ties or knowledge of Red John would all die at the same time. RJ uses Jane to set this meeting up with the other members of the list because he cant get them all together himself and killing them off one-by-one would alert the others that RJ was coming for them -Just like in the previous episode with the false list.
Next weeks episode is called 'The Great Red Dragon'. I believe that is the acutal name of the group we are all calling 'Tyger, Tyger'. When this group realizes that three of their members have been kidnapped, they come out in force to rescue them. Thats what we are most likely seeing in next week's preview. Of course, RJ is COMPELLED to appear because when he finds out that PJ and some of the others have survived his bomb, he needs to be on site to 'finish off' anyone who might survive to talk.
Expect Jane to pull some crazy trick to lure RJ away from the other officers to try to kill the 'bait'.....then RJ will kidnap PJ and they will finally get to catch up and have some "alone time" to talk about their relationship. Red John gives the *final* rose to Patrick Jane. Eat your heart out, Chris Harrison!
After last night's CBS "snafu" of showing a Mentalist repeat to most of the country, I'm pretty certain I know who Red John is.....
He's an psychotic executive at CBS who chooses to cover his tracks by showing as little of the Mentalist as possible to us viewers. Think about it: "Sports Delays", Playing the wrong episodes this close to the series finale, moving the show to a late, Sunday night time slot to shed viewers.......
These are all attempts to mislead and obscure the truth! Red John is so purely evil that I would bet he's behind such critical flops such as the 'Good Wife' and 'Hostages'. Oh, I don't think Dean Harken is Red John, -of all the choices, he looked the most like a sociopathic, network executive mass-murder!
Bonus theory: I think Visualize is somehow involved because have you ever noticed the creepy resemblance between the CBS and Visualize 'eyeball' logos?
Happy Monday =D
The tragedy that's coming for Rigsby/Van Pelt is directly related to Wayne's investigation into Bob Kirklands death. The Tyger group will have to protect itself from investigation.
The 'stolen list' mentioned in upcoming episode 4 is the list of names that PJ left up on his penthouse wall at the CBI.
Whomever PJ suspects, he is keeping to himself. In several episodes he discusses his 'memory palace'. PJ doesn't need to keep notes on a wall, they are stored safely in his head!
The reason for the fake list was to 'test' people. Knowledge of the secret contents of the list will draw some people out of hiding towards suspects. In essence, PJ is using some of the people on the list as bait!
Hats off to whomever realized the Pidgin "lady" is Brett Partridge. I checked the video several times in slow motion and that's definitely a man In loose, frumpy clothing. He writs, hands and shoe size are very large for a woman. The writs look slightly abraded from the zip ties and if you compare the woman's facial profile to Brett's, you will notice they match with the elongated facial structure, pronounced nose. Also, her 'natural' hair color matches Brett's with RED highlights in the wig.
Red John was baited to come out of hiding to listen to what Lisbon/Jane had to say because Jane dropped a hint about knowing something Red John didn't while in Bertram's office.
He's not afraid of birds. The dead psychologist picked up on his growing fear of Jane discovering him. That's the real reason he visited her and what was immediately on his mind.
This post is an expansion of my prior theory #5409. It explains why the other six names are on the list and why they act so shifty. It also explains why Red John works alone, even though it often seems otherwise.
Red John works alone but has an uncanny expertise in many things including forensics, servailence , FBI, etc. The other six suspects are collectively documented experts in these areas. This is no coincidence. They are being extorted by Red John to help in his exploits. Red John specifically picked each one of them to use as tools in his nefarious 'performances'.
Red John had damaging or embarrassing secrets on each of the other six, most likely through his link to Visualize. Red John contacted each of the other suspects anonymously through email perhaps and requested a 'favor' from them in exchange for not disclosing their secrets. The initial favors were seemingly benign enough where the six suspects chose to comply in order to protect themselves.
Each suspect eventually became aware who they had helped when Red John pulled off another one of his murders...At this point, they know they helped Red John, but have no idea who he is or even how to contact him. Moving forward, they have no choice but to continue helping him because he can blackmail them and end their careers with scandal. As time passes, some of the six suspects come in contact with each other while watching the Red John investigations unfold.
I think what we saw in season 6 episode 2 was a 'Red John Support Group'. -These guys have figured out at the others are involved and have reached out to share information in an attempt to bring Red John down. I don't think any of them know who he is, if they did, they would probably kill him themselves.
Bertram desperately wants to know the latest developments on the Red John case to pass them to Red John and keep him happy, but he is probably privately hoping Jane catches him in a manner where Bertram's 'secret' doesn't get out.
These six suspects have conflicted feelings about Jane because they would love for him to catch or kill Red John, but they don't want their secrets to be revealed when that happens. Also, there is probably some resentment towards Jane because many of the illegal things they are forced to do are to taunt Jane or obscure his investigation, so they also feel like Jane is hunting them as well as Red John. Tricky, no?
There are lesser characters who are willing fans or followers of Red John. Notice how their value to him is very limited to having 'hands' to carry out more visible dirty work. These guys always die in the end. RedJohn sacrifices his pawns to protect his prized pieces who can further provide him forced assistance or information. These lesser characters are societal outcasts that probably meet Red John through chat rooms or fan sites and he eventually selects the ones who will be blindingly loyal after providing them something they desperately want.....