To be honest I was perfectly happy for the sheriff to be RJ until I saw the promo. Why did they have to ruin it for us? We are not supposed to know he is alive! If he just popped up in the next episode without us knowing, I would have been happy with it.

Now I don't want McAllister to be RJ, I would be much happier if it's Stiles or Haffner, at least we didn't see them in the promo. Ridiculous.

First I want to say something completely irrelevant to my theory, I had a dream where it was in fact CBI Ron who is Red John. I think I've been watching the mentalist too much lately and I do think about who could possibly be Red John every single day since the end of season 5..


I'm going go through some of the major points why I believe Thomas McAllister is Red John, Some of the points I make are not originally mine.

The scene with Van Pelt in the forest and McAllister acting like a serial killer with his next victim is one of the very first clues that point to him being Red John

The handshake clue given to us by Lorelei Martins was referencing the rock paper scissors game between Patrick and McAllister. If Red John told Lorelei that he shook hands with Jane it's unlikely he would've went into details saying it was a metaphor for the game they played.

He's been with us from the beginning, originally my red John suspects where pretty much Partridge, Minelli, Wagner and McAllister in no particular order at that point. Throughout the first season there where numerous references to sheriffs and marshals which all could be clues pointing to McAllister.

Being the Sheriff of Napa County coupled with the fact of being part of the Blake Association would give him the mobility to be Red John.

The 10 years of no murder could have been while McAllister was working his way up in law enforcement in Napa County and possibly working his way up in the Blake Association.

There have been multiple references of wine throughout the show which could be cluse pointing us towards Napa Valley

The age thing has always bothered me from the start, McAllister being younger than the actor who portrays him. 

Red John has a fear of Pigeons, Lisbon opening the door in the house where Partridge was killed allowed them to escape thus interrupting Red John before he could finish the job. Later it was shown that McAllister could have a fear of Pigeons.

He is Mar, the M is for McAllister, the a could be a smudged/blood drip forming a dying man's C, and the r could be the start of an a. The one flaw here is why right he is? Seems like a waste if your dying I know. Can't explain that. 

Red John may be ambidextrous and it is possible to deduce that McAllister is also ambidextrous with his hand placements, the way he holds things/walks etc.

He fits the Red John description,of short straight hair and his height fits.

I believe McAllister is the only one to have actually saved Patrick's life. The fear of heights was a red herring earlier on in that episode which we ruled out when Patrick was saved on the rooftop causing us to not read too much into the fear of pigeons explanation. Also McAllister is one of the few suspects to get along with Patrick.

McAllister was first presented as a dumb, small town sheriff but is later shown to be able to match wits with Patrick when they solve a murder case together. There is also a strong playful chemistry between both Patrick and McAllister.

The bomb in the hat theory works for the explosion, McAllister was standing far enough to not have been killed in the explosion, and DNA was placed with the bomb to fake his death. 

And my final point is that Red John likes the use of first names which is what friends do which is why McAllister asks Patrick to call him Tom.


Mostly circumstantial evidence, but that is mainly what we've been given about Red John. 

Keep in mind ... What constitutes a twist to the 9 or 10 million people who watch the show casually every week is different than a twist for the 3 or 4 hundred obsessives who populate this site ( me included ) ...

Stuntman Chris Nielsen declared on Twitter that double Berkeley in the finale episode ''Red John''
I am not dissaponted at all! Xander was the best actor to make Red John between all the 7.He has so much experience for bad guys and he was my first pick from the start.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisnielsen/status/388894514057723905

Stuntman Chris Nielsen declared on Twitter that double Berkeley in the finale episode ''Red John''
I am not dissaponted at all! Xander was the best actor to make Red John between all the 7.He has so much experience for bad guys and he was my first pick from the start
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisnielsen/status/38889451405772390

 If you stop at 15sec and you take a closer look the hair of the subject you can notice that is not completely bald and there is a small line of hair in the middle of the head. You can compare that with Gale Bertram's head and see that it doesn't match, because Bertram exept for the back side of the head is compleately bald. 
Sheriff Thomas McAllister instead fits perfectly that fisionomy. According to this you can now add the fact that both McAllister and Red John wear the same jeans and jacket. Plus there is a pidgeon sitting on the statue right after Patrick shot Red John. 
McAllister said clearly he hates that things (pidgeons). The usage of that is to let Patrick realize which is Red John's phobia and finally put all pieces together.
The fact that McAllister is Red John fits perfectly. He lays low and living in the Napa county is able to move freely. He is part of Blake Association because is a cop, obviously. He managed to control Blake's members thanks to his ability to manipulate people. McAllister knew what Patrick Jane wanted in the very first moment he received the phone call. He placed the bomb and knew the exact wayout of the area in order not to get hurt.
He said to Patrick he is not Red John because he knew he could play the card of the tattoo and had the bomb as a backup plan. He gained time for the bomb. He licked his lips because he was really nervous. He was the only one not losing the head when Patrick took out the shotgun (he just said "take it easy Patrick", again to gain time for the bomb). Bertram tried to reason with Jane "you've gone to far", Smith tried to pull put the gun, prevously Haffner tried to leave the meeting, Stiles mocked Patrick but McAllister was the only one who stayed calm and waited.
McAllister hunts everything with a face as he said. I believe he hunts animals to keep his need to kill a little under control, then sometimes he just follows the flow and becomes Red John.

Sequence shown in the Sneak Peek->FBI breaks into Patrick Jane's place at CBI and found nothing-> Patrick goes visit the grave of his family -> FBI gets Bertram -> Jane confronts Bertram -> Bertram says he had to meet Red John in the church so they both can escape -> Jane puts the gun in the church's bench -> the FBI is at the graveyard waiting Red John and so are doing the former CBI agents -> McAllister is spotted at the graveyard by the CBI agents who doesn't inform the FBI but Patrick instead -> Patrick runs with the car at the graveyard -> scene with FBI and CBI holding guns each others -> Patrick touches FBI agent who was previously ipnotised -> Patrick reaches the church before Red John -> Red John thinks to meet up with Bertram and finds Patrick instead -> he says he won because he is stronger than Patrick and in that faceoff  Red John clearly wins -> Patrick shots Red John -> Patrick notes the pidgeon is distracted and Red John escapes -> scene in which Patrick runs after Red John in the graveyard -> scene with McAllister breaking the window and Patrick right Patrick runs after McAllister -> McAllister reaches a calm place in the park, is wounded and suffering and couldn't escape anymore -> Patrick reaches him, Red John is laying on the grass, Patrick takes his time and looking Red John straight in the eye, shots him. Then there is the end of the season.

Hi guys,

Two things on the new episode promo:

- Who broke through the glass: https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisnielsen/status/388894514057723905
- Pigeons: Reference to the 6x03 episode "Wedding in Red", Mcallister shat in his pants when a pigeon flew by him.