GUYS i know now wat who is mar mean
cuz iam bruno heller's mother and he told me
it means he is marshmallow eater
redjohn loves to eat alo of marshmallow
and the only fat suspect is reede smith
and he kill women cuz his mother no buy him marshmallow anymore and want him go on a diet

Hi, Mentalist Fans --

Here's a difficult challenge for us all.  I HATE the idea that Reede Smith might be Red John, but I keep coming back to him as the very least likely RJ candidate I can imagine (espeically from the list of 7, assuming it's real).  So, instead of debunking the possibility of Smith being RJ, can anyone make a compelling case in favor of him being RJ?

Otherwise, I'm hard pressed to come up with any reason why he'd be on a suspect list by PJ or RJ.  Yeah, I know he's brutal and credible as a Tiger Tiger member.  But all the Tiger Tiger members aren't on the list (the driver of the van when Kirkland was killed, for instance).  Even if he is just a Tiger Tiger member (not RJ), it would seem he'd have to be in the upper echelon.  He certainly seemed to be giving Bertram rather sharp orders in the meeting of Bertram, McAllister, and Smith.

Again, IS there a reasonable case to be made for Smith being RJ?  And if not, why the hell is he on the list?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Well, by now my guess would be Red John is Smith, because (if they're not kidding us) he is more likely to have a tattoo... also I think he is a very good actor (seen in s06e04) and an unknown and unratable variable...
BUT on the other side I'd accuse BERTRAM , because in the previous seasons he sometimes made strange phone calls, which were pretty suspicious, and Bruno Heller never told us more about it. Altough Jane helps him with playing poker, it could be just some kind of cover.
My THIRD theory would be, that RJ is someone from Lisbon's team... but that would fuck with everybody's head... so I hope this one's nonsense.
Greetz, Fabian from Austria

Just an angramam:

Reede Smith -- Me Is the Red

house of names . com - "the reede surname derives from the olde english word 'read' meaning 'red'"

After the end of season 5, I had an intuition that there was some sort of conspiracy going on, and that Red John is only a parsona created by this conspiracy to hide their actions. Then the series reveal the Tyger conspiracy, which includes at least three of the suspects. 

As individuals, none of the suspects give me the sense that they could be Red John. They lack the Red John drive to make killing a form of art, improving on his art and the need for reckognition (which is his self-destructive drive). They are all nascissits, but not the kind of psychopath who would kill just for the kiiling, to express themselves "one-upping" the police. They lack something. 

But the "Tyger club" has all of it. The smiley face would serve as a marking that that killing was done by someone in the club, and the others should cover it up. The other parts of the M.O. (painted fingernails, face drawn with the left or right hand -- or with a plane --, weapon of choice, etc) would identify each member of the group as the one who did the killing. And the killings of people who talked thrash about Red Jonh in TV would be some sort of "brand improvement" needed to keep the conspiracy out of the media.

This would explain the incredible mobility that Red John has, and why the killing in Mexico don't fit the M.O. (did you notice that in that killing the face is not the first thing you see, like in all others?): someone new to the club did it, and got it wrong.

My other intuition is that this conspiracy spans outside law enforcement, and even created outside law enforcement, to cover powerful people doing dirty jobs to increase their power.

If that's the story, then someone in the conspiracy did kill Jane's family. I think this kind of job is usually done by a thug, so my guess is Smith.

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Some random stuff from 6x02: Haffner is displeased with Lisbon, as show by him shaking his head while saying that he likes Lisbon (a classic display of a desagreement between someones words and their true intentions/feelings). Bertram is so certain that he will "be there when [Patrick] catches [Red John]" that he smiles and nods his head. 

Guys this one time Reede Smith had a weird look on his face also he can crush people to death with his weight also one time he wiped his nose on his sleeve just like RJ wiped that poison onto Bosco's murderer lady he's clearly RJ OMG it's so obvious