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Kristina Frye

Kristina Frye
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ROLL TIDE

First of all, let me say that I am one of you who cannot accept that McAllister is Red John. (I felt better about it when we thought it was Timothy Carter; I could have lived with that.) Furthermore, I am also of the common mind that believes that all that has occurred after the bomb in Jane's house is some sort of comatose dream.

I posted a theory a couple of weeks ago, prior to "My Blue Heaven", where I presented a few reasons that Bret Stiles (among a few others) could be Red John, mostly because of his intellect and acuity, which makes him an ideal nemesis for Patrick Jane. He is, I feel, the only man who could possibly challenge Jane, and play this game with him for so long.

But here is something that bothers me: "Roll Tide"

I've always thought that Kristina Frye was a real psychic. She read the waiter when she and Jane were on their date. Her reading was extremely precise, including the "Roll Tide" rally cry.

Red John said "Roll Tide" to Patrick later in the episode during their meeting. He was really saying "I was there, I heard it, at the restaurant. Just wanted you to know."

So where was he? Was he the waiter? The diner visible in that scene? 

Or is he Kristina Frye?

1) Yes. She is the only other character on the show who possesses the same level of intellect and acuity as Patrick. Aside from Stiles, she is the only other mathematical possibility. They are the only ones that can defeat him with words. There was an unmistakable magnetism between them. Unfortunately, she has only appeared in four episodes, and viewers who have started watching since that episode will not know about her.

2) No. But, if she is a true psychic, she is still possibly involved, depending on what McAllister said at the beginning of his death scene:
Did he say
"I am a psychic" ?
-or-
"I have psychic..." (and the word "powers" or "abilities" was cut off by Jane's hand on his throat?
-or-
"I have a psychic" ?

(I watched the scene over and over, trying to discern the words, but I had so much trouble.)

If the latter is what he said, he could have been referring to Kristina Frye.

Knowing that she is a psychic, her kidnapped her, brainwashed her, and has been using her as a weapon against Jane this entire time. She divined his list for Red John. I'll bet that Jane also knew all along that she was a real psychic, he just couldn't admit it to himself, much less anyone else, because of his past, and the harm that his former life caused to others.

Agree: You think that Kristina Frye IS a psychic, AND that McAllister was referring to her in his death scene OR that she is Red John.

Disagree: You think that she is not a psychic, and has not been invisibly involved at all since her departure from the show.

Please comment!!! I need to discuss this before I can move past it!!!

ROLL TIDE

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Kristina Frye is Red John; Kirkland twin "Roy' is her henchman, as well Harker's lover

but I also suspect  Oscar Ardiles

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My theory is that RJ is still alive.  Bob Kirkland. Yep, he’s still alive and the whole killed during attempt to escape thing was staged.  He was revealed in the 100th episode and in the recap of the previous episode they keep showing the scene where he gets shot; as if the director is trying to make sure the audience remembers what happened to him so twist gets even bigger.   

The Sheriff doesn’t fit the profile of RJ, and that voice that he did was an obvious attempt to imitate RJ’s voice almost successfully.  Also, as others have pointed out, there are holes in the theory which will IMO get filled later.
 

Christina Frye disappeared from the scene.  I thought she was an important character and I truly believe that she’ll be back.  Also Rosalind Harker – the blind woman who can identify RJ.  Doesn’t it seem strange that Jane wouldn’t confirm RJs death by having her identify the body? Or for that matter any of the CBI or FBI members? 
 

Remember you are watching The Mentalist, and the ultimate con will be that the director BH plays a “Jane” trick on the audience!

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what if Thomas Mcallister is not red john? they even updated Wikipedia
page accusing him!! but  i think this list of seven is a carefully
designed distraction.RJ would never verify a list including him as
suspect! BH wouldnt reveal and kill RJ so early in the season.
manipulating blake association hints RJ is within law enforcement. if
not for this i would say only other character with enough weight to be
RJ is Kristina Frye( bret is dead). for now.... i hope they fix the
storyline soon.

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For all the people who are being so childish PLEASE READ:

I have to tell guys, you have a real problem, so much hate I can't believe it, I mean it's crazy, stop already with the hating, Bruno and all the people behind the show are trying to do the best they can for us to enjoy it, and for you of course, it's so easy to sit in your computer and complain about everything, I mean, it's OK to complain if you really like the show and didn't like the way Red John story turn out, and I respect your opinion, but there's no excuse for you to be an ASSHOLE. I bet that you are going to watch the show anyway. You people are saying that you are done with the show, so be it! get the hell out of here with all that crying nonsense and stop acting so childish, I feel sorry for Bruno for having to bear with all this mediocre people who just like to talk shit and not talk about something that can actually be nice and have a positive reaction.

LEAVING THIS ASIDE..

I have a really cool theory that I want to share with you guys that got me really excited. First of all, I really enjoyed the Red John reveal, Sheriff McAllister is so awesome, just look at him, he is so creepy, I think all the people are underestimating him saying that he is an idiot and that he looks really dumb, but what makes a real killer is the way he pretend to be a complete different person from what he really is (like when he played rock-paper-scissors). Think about it, you never thought that he was a serial killer, and that makes him really scary (it looked like he was really going to kill Van Pelt in S01E02, Rigsby save her!) People these days are all about image, if you don't look good, they don't take you seriously (most of the time), so I think that a lot of people where expecting a lot about the image of Red John, but really it was just a mind's game between Red John and Patrick, not about who looks cooler or talks cooler, that's all. Another thing that I want to emphasize it's that Red John never was more intelligent that Patrick, he was one step ahead Patrick because he had a lot of followers and friends that make a lot of favors for him, and Patrick just had the team to help him, so that's really unfair. If you don't understand that Red John wasn't a God, that you're getting it wrong, I mean for real, who paint's a smiley face on the wall?? haha that's not elegant, don't you think? He just seem to be a normal intelligent serial killer with a lot of followers and friends that make a lot of favors for him, making him look greater that what he is, but really he doesn't. I think that Sheriff McAllister fit exactly in that profile. About the way he was scared, EVERYONE IS SCARED TO DIE, what do you expect? Red John laughing? not everyone is like Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in Fight Club in the scene when someone is punching him in the face and he is laughing out loud.

AND FOR THE THING THAT GOT ME EXCITED..

I think that Red John was being manipulated or controlled by someone greater than him, someone that indeed, is on Patrick's mind level, maybe Red John was only a pawn for this man or woman, because if you really think about it, there's a lot of episodes left and I don't think they're about Patrick being in Argentina (for example, I haven't seen the promo) having a good time. I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A BIGGER PLOT THAT WE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT, that's why the writers put Red John in the past episode so normal and not so intelligent, and when Patrick said, "I have to tell you, I'm really disappointed" it's because there's someone far more intelligent that Red John. Another important thing it's that Patrick got a lot of people angry, it was somehow his fault that Bret Stiles and Ray Haffner died, so he really pissed off VISUALIZE, and on the other hand, he pissed off THE BLAKE ASSOCIATION for exposing them. So for what I'm seeing, Patrick is in a LOT OF TROUBLE, and he is going to do something about it because Lisbon and the team are in the middle of all of that. If you realize, the plot has become so big know, because involves a lot of people, maybe thousands, one greater person has to be in the back of all of this, Red John was just a very intelligent serial killer that happens to killed Jane's family, and Patrick had his revenge like we all wanted, now we are moving on to the bigger plot!

AND SOMETHING ELSE..

Please stop complaining about answers not being shown, THERE'S A LOT OF EPISODES LEFT, all of our Red John doubts are going to be answered, it's just that it was so difficult to accomplish that in just 45 minutes, if you we're a director, you'd understand.

JUST WAIT TILL THE SEASON IS OVER AND THEN CRITICIZE ALL YOU WANT LIKE YOU LOVE TO DO IT, but really, I feel like we are going to be amazed. :-)

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well that episode cleared up everything.. said no one. EVER. 

how disappointing. 

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“Red John thinks of himself as an artist, a showman, he has a strong sense of theater” and “Red John wouldn't risk capture just to taunt me.”
- Patrick Jane , Pilot episode.

“I am pretty sure Red John is not a woman”
- Patrick Jane, Season 6 episode 1

The assignment "Red John" was given to the serial killer by the police and public. The nickname itself deceives us from the first episode, making us assume blindly that Red John is definitely male. Kristina Frye is both a strong mental mastermind and a persona fitting the serial killer's identity. She shook hands with Patrick, she was erased from the equation in the most sloppy way possible (Comparing it to Patrick's thoroughness) and she found numerous opportunities to mock and play with Patrick in a friendly way. She was "abducted" by Red John and the similarities to things Red John minions have said are immense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiRGU_RneLM @1:50 Exact quote of McAllister in S6E8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y97GV22SVWk @2:40 Last thing we ever heard of Kristina.

There's no real proof that the so-called list of 7 suspects includes Red John and frankly excluding all female suspects was the biggest goof in my eyes. Kristina Frye remains the most probable suspect for myself and I'd be really delighted if she indeed is Red Johnette.

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