Remember a year ago around this time when you would have so much anticipation on Sundays, and then Sunday nights were full of excitement? 
Glory Days of The Mentalist...

Can't you see the scenario? Red John will be back. That's how: 
Red John sent Agent Pike to Teresa Lisbon. When they became lovers, Patrick Jane got jealous. I mean, Red John urged Patrick Jane to declare his love to Lisbon... And now they became lovers.
Now it's Red John's turn. He will come back and kill Lisbon. This is a familiar case, right? Red John will take Patrick Jane's love for the second time.

Let's wait and see

Hi guys! :)
 
Looking back, I appreciate everyone's theories, no matter how crazy they sounded, at least they have thought about the show and gave it some thought! 

I still think the Partridge theories were the best, I think the writers and Bruno Heller made a huge mistake when they didn't even consider him to be RJ..My heart always said Partridge was the killer.

But anyway, well done to everyone who has come up with theories, you guys gave it more thought than the people who worked on the show! 

Which episodes did you guys like the best? I liked the one with crazy Rebecca killing Bosco and his team,  and the one with the blinking red light. ( James Panzer). And also every episode with Bret Stiles in it! :) What about you?

Have a lovely week! :)

This is a ending i wrote, first time doing anything like this so be nice. i think its worth a read, let me know what ya think cheers

 

Lisbon goes
missing, Patrick presumes she’s gone with pike, one day passes with no contact.
Jane and Cho have a murder to investigate. It’s a gruesome murder with blood
everywhere footprints, handprints and blood smeared all over the walls, the
victim was stabbed multiple times.  There
is very little to go on and with Lisbon missing Janes mind is elsewhere.



There is a
second murder, again gruesome with the same blood everywhere, Fisher and abbot
investigate. They try to get Jane on board with the investigation, but with
Lisbon missing Jane is leaving message after message thinking that she and Pike
are together.



A third
murder occurs, this time slightly different, the victim the same stabbed but
this time only two dots and a semi circle under it.... Wiley is at his computer
investigating the murders and finds a link between all three victims. They were
all interviewed by visualise but never committed to them. After the link is
found and Jane is told he immerses himself in the murders.



In the dead
of night while he is going through pictures of the crime scenes the picture of
the two dots and semi circle baffle him, frustrated by it he casually throws
the pictures onto the glass table. Two of the pictures aline to show an all to
show an all too familiar sight. The dots the eyes, the semi circle alines with
another to create the head, Jane frantically flicks through the pictures and
suddenly stops the final piece hidden among all the blood spatter, a subtle
smear, a smurk, all together create a smiley know too well. Janes heart sinks
realising that Lisbon isn’t with Pike and what he felt for the past 3 years,
that Red John is still alive.



Janes mind
starts racing trying to remember clues or hints to where he and Lisbon might be
but nothing comes, finally the list, he hasn’t looked at it since he made the
deal with Abbot. He stares at it hopeing for something to jump out at him but
no luck. He enlists the help of Wiley and his computer. He scans the code onto
his computer and runs it through a code breaker, after a long wait it converts
the symbols to numbers. Jane and Wiley investigate the numbers not phone
numbers, the next logical step coordinates. They proceed to pin all the
coordinates on a map, there seems to be no pattern in the pins, Jane stares at
the map when one pops out, it was Janes home. Confused he starts looking at the
other addresses when another jumps out, it was the address where Lorelei was
found. He continues the process and eventually the majority of addresses are
linked with a Red John crime scene and murder.



The only
place Jane can think of going is to his house where it all started. He arrives
at the door fearing the worst he walks through the door, nothing, everything is
the same as he left it. He begins walking up the stairs, at the breast of the
stairs, a note is pinned to the door. Brings back terrible memories, he takes a
deep breath opens the door dreading what he finds but again nothing apart from
the smiley staring back at him.

He opens the note;

Hello
Patrick, it’s been a long time. I’ve missed you, I thinks its time to meet ...
again. I’ll be waiting where I first introduced myself to you. Hope to see you
soon. P.S Lisbon says hi :) 

Jane again
is none the wiser, he reads the note over and over. Introduced!?? Normal conversation
would say met you. He racks his brain when suddenly he jumps up and sprints to
the car. He drives to Palm Springs. He drives up the driveway of a mansion and
screeches to a halt, jumps out and sprints to the door. Unsurprisingly its
unlocked, he proceeds wearily, in the living room he sees a lifeless Lisbon
lying face up in a pool of blood. He rushes over to her but just before he gets
to her he hears a voice, soft and high pitched. “Hello Patrick.... I thought it
was time for us to finally meet properly” Jane turns slow to see the outline of
a man pointing a gun at him. “now Patrick how is that memory of yours? What was
the first thing I said to you?” Patrick replies with “Red John enters here” “Ahh
very good Patrick, I told you, I told you who I was, all this time and the
smartest man in every room didn’t get it. So now Patrick take a seat” Red John
puts down his gun “ now I told you before I wanted to be your friend, so what
do you think?” Jane:”you killed my wife and daughter and now the other love
Lisbon. I will kill you this night” RJ “ I don’t think so” tapping his gun “I did
those things so we could be friends, we could have everything”  PJ “ I don’t want everything, I want you dead
for what you did to me” RJ “I made you stronger” PJ ”I never asked for this”
with that being said PJ lunges for RJ, He reaches for his gun but in the
struggle its knocked away out of reach. They struggle and finally PJ landing a
few blows gets on top, the same as MacAllister, with PJ Choking RJ with both
hands, PJ then asks the same questions he ask MacAllister but this time RJ says
hes not sorry. Through the choking, RJ mutters “shes still alive” PJ loosens
his grip “what??” RJ: “ Lisbon, shes alive” PJ: I don’t believe you. RJ: go
check.



Jane jumps
up and rushes to Lisbons side checks her pulse, its faint. RJ: now Patrick I told
you I wanted to be friends and this is my gift to you, your beloved Lisbon. Now
I am going to leave and will ring you and tell you how to save her. After a long
silence and while holding Lisbon PJ: .....thank you..... RJ walks out with a
smile creeping across his face “ Goodbye Patrick, till next time”

The phone
rings, PJ answers but says nothing “time heals all wounds” and  click.

Hours pass
with Jane Just holding Lisbon, her eyes open slowly..............

  

Oscar Cordero deserved the end he got.

When Jane arrives to the Chapel he does a search on him... finds his gun... takes it from him... then Jane responds with a pun "'worth the shot" but he thinks the whole time "Thank God he didn't find the... pigeon."

No wonder the man under Cordero's protection meet their makers. He was the worst frisker ever.

Laugh as much as you want but Red John will have the last smiley.

If Red John returns will the writers of the show press it hard from the beginning or will they tease us till the end?

I'd love nothing more than to have Red John come back from the get go, to watch every new episode glued to the edge of the seat, but I don't think the writers are capable of keeping that kind of tension going over the course of 13 installments. Heck, I'd be happy if they can come up with a single decent end to the Red John story line. If he is coming back it will be at the end, and they will conceal all the clues of his existence for the same length of time. IMHO

Would there be any indication or signs of his return earlier?

Perhaps. The most obvious would be to watch out for the announcement of the episode titles. Red in the title equals Jackpot! but this is just another reason I believe RJ will have to wait till the end. If they delay the name of the last episode for too long, that would be a good sign.

Also, if they make the end to last two hours (12-13) that has a promise to be epic, as well.

And the last clue for Red John's return would lie in the wedding. More precisely where would they have the ceremony? If they choose any church, then Red John might not return at all. However, if they gonna tie the knot at the Visualize church (for any reason), then I'd say the chances for Red John's return are 99.99%.

Where do we go from here?*

Season 7 has only 13 episodes, but what are we going to watch in them, when Jisbon was already introduced and the season is too short to start a new arc or even a sub-plot. Will there be more pathetic FBI cases until the wedding and perhaps a honeymoon to wrap it up?

Or it will start with the partial BA list finally being deciphered, to close the book on the least interesting mystery that still remains, then jump to Stiles return. With him back the Visualize questions will be answered, then we'll have the wedding that will resemble a funeral and the final showdown with the real Red John.

If Red John is coming back I'd say they will hold him for the very last episode. We will harbor the hope until then and not complain... not really. Last episode come, it will make us either happy or very disappointed. However, by then No one will be there to listen to our complaints. I just want to prepare ya'll for the worst case scenario.

* Russ Ballard