Who is Red John

So...quick recap:

September 2013
Heller: "I hope people are satisfied and hope it's a great, fun conclusion to that particular aspect of the show. But you can only do your best and put it out there. I know that everyone here is happy and pleased. Sometimes you're forced to hate the conclusions or the wrapping things up in silly, absurd ways or in fact — naming no shows — it turns out they didn't have any idea how they were going to end the show or what the secret was or why there were pygeons ...uhmm I mean polar bears. We have the answers and it's very important to us, for those people who have been following us from the start, to reveal not in a series of cryptic moments that leave a lot of questions begged. We're going to tell the story and explain who Red John is and what happened and what is going to happen as clearly as possible because the audience deserves that."

Latest interview:
Heller: "There is a great deal of [backstory], if anyone waned to ask those questions, I’d be happy to answer. There’s a lot of questions about motivations and what [Red John] was doing and when and how… It makes for great Internet fodder, but it’s not very entertaining for a weekly TV audience."

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What the actual f*** went wrong in your head in these 2 months, Bruno Heller??
There were so many ways in which season 6 could have been epic. Instead you say it would not have been very entertaining.

Sad to say I probably won't we sticking with the mentalist until the end of the season. I feel like I was screwed real bad.

I'll just go watch Hitler's reaction, listen to Bach and drink some tea.

Tyger Tyger.

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Is it possible that Partridge somehow found out about Tyger Tyger (say, he might've noticed that evidence was being messed with to cover something up), and that's what got him killed?

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Once again, rather than a theory, this is more of a thought.
Something struck me as odd when I was going over the recent episodes in my head, and it was kind of bugging me: exactly on what grounds did Patrick assume that Kira (private investigator from The Red Tattoo) was hired by RJ? I couldn't remember, so I went and re-watched the ending of episode 5.

It turns out, the moment Cooper (was that the name?) says he/Visualize did not bug their office, Patrick says that Kira was hired by RJ. It was the logical conclusion at that moment, since he wasn't aware of the existence of Tyger Tyger.
Now, in view of the recent events, we know that the three dot tattoo is the mark of the organization. And since Kira said nothing else except that her attacker had that tattoo, there is really no evidence to suggest that it was Red John.
Was the person who hired and killed Kira from Tyger Tyger? Most probably. Since they seem to have been keeping tabs on Patrick, they have enough motive to want to be in on whatever his team does (although, the reason for sending a private investigator when the members are all in law enforcement eludes me completely, same goes even if it's RJ's doing).

My point is, we can't say with certainty that RJ was involved, even though Patrick's assumption is understandable. Hence, the tattoo clue might also be bogus.

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This isn't exactly a theory but just something I find interesting. The episode after 'Fire and Brimstone' is called 'The Great Red Dragon', which also happens to be the name of a series of paintings by William Blake, the one and only author of 'The Tyger'.....

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