This doesn't make sense at all. Red John is afraid of birds but NOT of heights? Remember when McAllister saved Jane from the rooftop? He seemed very at ease to me. And please don't tell me that some information of the psychiatric are wrong. This is only one of the things that doesn't fit with this character. Such an ending seems way too rushed and made the whole series with all its clues a 5 years waste. Sorry for my bad english.

So i just watched ep08 and i'm kind of disappointed.. especially because the german (i'm from Germany) voice of McAllister is so stupid. The voice makes him look so dumb.. you could compare it to the english voice of doofy from scary movie... omg >.< I guess I won't watch the german version of this season when it airs for the first time..

I know the real (english) voice of McAllister is not that stupid, but it sill bugs me that he is RJ. What's with all the clues we gathered troughout these 5 seasons? He doens't fit most of them at all.. and if they come up with something like "uhh.. yeah mr/mrs XXX lied, he/she was told by RJ to give PJ some fake informations".. that's bs! RJ was supposed to be the napoleon of crime, the counterpart of Sherlock Holmes if you want! And then we get some crybaby that begs for mercy after he got disarmed by a freaking pigeon!!! A PIGEON!!! what the Hell(er)?! Where's the master of mind games? Where's the person who was ALWAYS one step ahead of PJ? Why do we get an episode called "Red John" where there's like "30min driving around and catching up" bs-fillers and in the end we get a little 10min sequenz where RJ is unmasked, tricked and finally killed. Did we actually wait 6 years for an 10min ending of the RJ-arc?! Damn it.. the finale of season 3 was way more better. RJ as a new character that was played so well by Timothy Carter.

I guess Brett Patrigde was RJ in the beginning. But people started to find out and Heller was told to run the show for some more seasons. So he changed the character for RJ. But McAllister.. come on. He was the ultimate red herring.

There's still a little bit of hope that this thing could turn out like the season 3 finale. That McAllister is not RJ, but just pretended to be.. but I dont think that something like this would happen twice a series.. :(

There are still some questiones unanswered:
- Why doesn't McAllister care if Gale Bertram would be accused to be RJ? We learned in season 2 finale that he can't stand it when other people take credits for his work
- Why on earth did he lose to PJ (roc, papers, scissors)?. Don't tell me it was HIS mind game and he always knew what PJ was doing, so he always took the wrong decision on purpose..
- Why would women like Lorelei Martins fall for a man like him?.. come on..
- Where's the "He is Mar.." - connection?
- How did he find out the 7 names? (i guess this will be answered in the next episodes)

A few thoughts:

I wish Rosalind just described him as bald or balding instead of short straight hair.

We never find out how RJ knew the list of 7 suspects because the writers couldn't figure it out.

Xander Berkley is 57?  Isn't he too old to be some kid at the Red Barn episode?

I get the episode wasn't up to par, but I have the feeling they might explain a bit more [not much] in future episodes.

Also, to anyone saying this is yet again another fake, it isn't. They are done with the Red John storyline. I know McAllister isn't the #1 choice, but butthurt Partridge fans [not all partridge fans are, just a lot] have to accept the truth.

Come on people, it's over, McAllister is RJ, he is not a fake one like s03 finale, and Loreli or Partrige are both dead. Get over it. The show must go on.

After going back and watching 1x02 and watching Jane and "Red John" play rock, paper, scissors together, made the reveal even more pathetic. Jane should of been "Red John" it's the only ending that would of made sense and been satisfying at the same time.

I don't understand why people are giving this episode such a hard time. I thought it was a brilliant ending to the saga. There was always something sinister about McAllister and masquerading as a hillbilly cop was genius. Yes, there are questions unanswered, but yes there are still episodes to come and we will find the answers we are looking for. This episode was about revenge- one man's battle to conquer his demons by going through with murder. There were poignant scenes of mothers with their daughters and we saw Red John's 'delusions of grandeur' exposed. Patrick didn't just kill him- he reduced him to a sad, desperate figure crying out for mercy- appealing to Patrick's morality and to the police authority that he had worked so hard to corrupt. I think Brice Heller and the team really made this work and the look in Patrick's face as he literally squeezed the life out of Red John was startlingly moving.