Hi everyone, 
In response to the theory below me, on the point of why Rigsby and Van Pelt will come in the final episode.......................... it's pretty obvious that they are invited to Jane and Lisbon's wedding         (*tries to not choke with disgust while typing*).  The name of the last episode is "White Tulips" , put two and two together and it's obviously a setting for a finale wedding. And Rigsby doesn't have what it takes to pull off what Red John did anyway, so your theory is wrong nonetheless.

Keeping with the current theme of the board today....
For will the thrill.....

Red Rigsby

Rigsby and Van Pelt are in the last episode. I have two possible options as to why they are in the finale.
1-Rigsby was definitely a choice for Red John by the writers. The clues are immense and impossible to ignore. Whether they moved on from him being Rj is another question. But no doubt he was a choice.
-Rigsby is Derrick Logan. A troubled teen who was bound by black tape and humiliated by a popular girl in front of his whole class.

Logan later turned to drugs but joined Visualize and got clean. People thought he died.
He started killing only red haired women and of coarse Rj always uses black tape to bound his victims wrist just like he was in high school.
He killed women just like the high school girl who tormented him.

-Rigsbys dads episodes are tell tales of horror.
"Weakness is in the eyes boy" is Mr Rigsby's favorite line. Reminds me of the Rj smiley bleeding from the eyes.
Mr Rigsby pulls out a knife and it scares the shit out of Wayne even as an adult. He most likely saw that knife many times in childhood.
Its a small knife and exactly the type Rj uses to kill.
-We really don't know who killed Todd Johnson and set him aflame.
We assume Olaughlin did it but Rigsby was a suspect for a reason.
-The Bertram usb was definitely not Bertrams. No way he held BA incriminating evidence like that and just left it there. He had no idea it was there. Rigsby wanted Jane to crack the code and take down the Ba. Just like he did.
-the Haibach stuff is insane.
No clue or proof that Haibach tapped all Cbi members, killed La Roche, Ardilles, or broke into Rigsby's house!
Haibach only captured Gvp when he learned he was a suspect.
Maybe someone paid Haibach to capture Gvp and let him know he was a suspect.
HOW ELSE COULD HAIBACH KNOW HE WAS A SUSPECT!?
-Of coarse the 5 shots to the chest of Rigsby and him walking around like he is fine right after was so odd.
Something is up with that guy!

The way Jane took down the Ba seemed too easy for me.
This high powerful organization was taken down because they hired a random Pi to tap Cho's desk in broad daylight. Also Left her alive long enough to give Jane the tattoo clue.
Jane was given clues like breadcrumbs until Macalister was finally on his lap.
Seemed like someone was leading Jane to the Ba all these years.

OR
2: Rigsby and Gvp are in the final episode for a Jisbon wedding....

So which one did it ? Who murdered his wife ?
Jane: Does it matter ?
not Jane that i know .... WTF!

Just finished watching the Silver Briefcase on the CBS website.

Have to admit it was the best episode of season 7, but the fact I watched it on the CBS website is shows just how far this show has gone downhill for me.

There was a time I couldn't wait for The Mentalist to come on tv, now it's just meh, I'll catch it whenever there's time to kill during the week.

Honestly I don't care what happens now, the sooner the series ends, the better.

So why do I even watch it?  I guess it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, I already know nothing good can happen but I still can't look away.

I see from the comments, some people are still holding out for a coherent RJ wrap up.  That's ok, I really do understand your delusion, denial always comes before the first step to recovery. :-)

On a more merciful note, only a few more episodes left before we can all finally forget about what might have been and reluctantly accept the hidden pocket pigeon meets Lost reality of Heller.

The only hope for any of this to be decent is if the entire last episodes of Season 6 and all 13 episodes of Season 7 are a long con.  If the relationship is mostly a ruse to capture the real Red John or if Patrick himself is Red John then it will be worth it.  Mashburn, Minelli, or Partridge would all be excellent choices, or Stiles, if Grace is somehow involved.  The reason it won't happen is that Heller and Baker would have had to have the whole thing worked out before last season even started in order for all the pieces to fit.  Heller doesn't care about the show anymore.  Someone could see if CBS would give permission for a post-Mentalist book that gave a much better ending to the saga.   I have taped all the episodes this season but have only watched two.  I just cannot get into it like I was in Season 1-3 and even for parts of last season.  I thought it was going to tie back into the carnival and likely Patrick's dad, or at least have a sixth sense like reveal, but it didn't happen.  Expectations were too high, I guess.  There was really good writing and acting for more than 5 seasons, though.