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HELLER GO BACK TO WRITING SCHOOL..LOOK HERE ..MYSTERY WRITING 101...THE BASICS....THE BASICS HELLER!!!!!  http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/05/08/25-things-writers-should-know-about-creating-mystery/

LOOK HELLER STEP 13
 

13. THE LONGER THE MYSTERY PERSISTS, THE MORE SATISFYING THE ANSWER MUST BE All that being said, you shouldn't drag out mysteries if their resolution isn't satisfying. You can’t spend 300 pages or two hours just to get to, OMG THE KEYS WERE IN HER SHOE THE WHOLE TIME. *crash of thunder* The longer you let a mystery hang out there, the more satisfying the mystery — and its resolution — must be. How to gauge this? Hey, you just gotta go with your guttyworks.

OR STEP 21 HELLER WHERE WERE YOU THIS DAY, AT HOME PRETENDING YOU WERE SICK WHEN YOU WERE DOSSING HELLER

21 Mysteries and endings. A tricky subject. My essential advice: answer all mysteries by the ending. Every last one of ‘em. The audience wants those answers. The introduction of a mystery is an unofficial promise to answer that question. But. But! Sometimes, that’s just not in the cards. (See: Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid, which is a story as much about the subject of mystery as it is about the mysteries present in the story.) Sometimes it’s good to leave folks hanging on things. Because when you do that it’s like the book is still open. The story is ongoing. They remain a part of it — entrenched and unable to escape. MOO HOO HA HA HA. (But only savvy storytellers need apply!)


STEP 24 HELLER IT WAS METAPHORICAL BREADCRUMBS HE MEANT NOT FECKING REAL BREADCRUMBS........IT WAS AN EXAMPLE HELLER AN EXAMPLE.

24. We begin with a question. We lead with that — because that’s the fishhook in the cheek of the audience. And the way we tell the story is like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs — not whole loaves, just crumbs — for the listener to follow. We say things to get attention, to lead the audience in with us — “Man, Jenkins fucked up bad today!” — and the listener is all like “WHOA WHAT’D THAT ASSHOLE JENKINS DO NOW?” As Admiral Ackbar would say: “It’s a trap!” Oh, but what a wonderful trap storytelling is.

AND FINALLY HELLER....THIS TALKS ABOUT TRUST.....THE TRUST YOU BROKE WHEN YOU FAILED THE MYSTERY WRITING TEST OF ALL TIME. THE TRUST YOU BROKE

25. Being a storyteller  you need to find  the audience — who is willing to trust you with (and stick with me here) a complete lack of trust. They’re willing to say: “I trust that I can’t trust you,” and then they let you perform whatever deviant manipulations you care to visit upon body, heart and mind. Same thing with creating mystery in your story: mystery is one way you show the audience that they can’t trust you but, at the same time, that they trust in this implicit lack of trust. They know the questions you pose will be troubling. They know that the answers will have consequences they did not imagine. But they trust in you to answer these mysteries, to manipulate without making them feel manipulated, to not leave them hanging upside-down with a ball-gag in their mouth and a My Little Pony-branded buttplug up their… well, no need to be redundant. You and the audience have a contract (though no safe-word): they trust that you cannot be trusted. Mystery is one of the sexy tools on your sexy Bondage Batman tool-belt. What? You don’t have a sexy Bondage Batman tool-belt? Amateur.

AND HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A A SEXY BONDAGE BATMAN TOOL-BELT :-(

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The leaked episode is real. Wikipedia in Italy says that red john is Mcallister.

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Since there is a possibility that we might see a different episode tonight, I'm gonna make my final joke about the leaked episode. Saved this one to the end=) 


The Pigeon 
thinks of itself as a showman; an artist. It has a strong sense of theater ... the first thing that anyone sees is his shit on the wall. You see the shit first and you know. You know what's gonna happen and you feel dread. Then, and only then it shits on your head. Always in that order. 

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Guys dont forget to leave your brutally honest review on the website http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3196216/reviews-enter after you see the same episode. Please don't hold back on the honestly but keep it clean will you and non violent.

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GUYS, I POSTED THIS IN THE EARLY SUMMER. HE IS MAR. WAS NOT WRITTEN BY JARED RENFRO, IT WAS WRITTEN BY RED JOHN TO TEASE JANE. HE IS MAR STANDS FOR S HE R I FF THOMA S M c A LLISTE R (HEI - S - MAR) HE CODED IT WITH HIS ENTIRE NAME. REMEMBER BRUNO HELLER SAID RED JOHN WAS AT THE MALL IN STRAWBERRIES & CREAM. LOOK FOR A GUY WITH A RED & BLACK SHIRT. HE WALKS BACK AND FORTH & MAINLY STAYS AT THE COFEE CART TAKING TO THE WOMEN. YOU SEE HIM FROM BEHIND. IT IS USUALLY BLURRY, BUT OTHER SHOTS ARE CLEAR. IF YOU NOTICE AFTER JANE SHOOTS TIMOTHY CARTER THE LAST PERSON YOU SEE WHEN THE SECURITY COME FOR JANE IS McALLISTER. YOU WILL SEE A GUY IN A RED & BLACK SHIRT RUN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AFTER THE SHOT IS OVER. HE IS THE LAST PEDESTRIAN YOU SEE. THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SEEN, YOU CAN SEE HIM 7X. MOSTLY FROM THE BACK. WEARING A HAT. IT WAS VERY CLEAR.

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SPOILER( i know you guys don't care anymore about spoilers but if you still wanna enjoy tonight's episode don't read it)  Thursdays leaked episode is real just not 40 minutes we missed out more than  20 minutes of explanations that didn't make the rough cut. Mcallister actually a good red john and its a good ending with the explanations. you are frustrated not because of him. its not complete and thats why. Patrick doesn't care about how red john got the list off course he doesn't care he just kill him. also the chasing scenes are not like that they are gonna change a lot with editing. we have red john POV flashback and patricks long con about how he found out that red johns identity. There are huge sacrifices by bot PJ and RJ. PJ actually sacrifices his moral stand and gets really darker before its all sunny again. lisbon has a great role in RJ plans and Cho has a great role in PJ's. The idiot who leaked the episode fucked us not bruno. I'm really satisfied by the real one. We see RJ as a mastermind first the brought down to his knees by PJ and it was ecstatic this way even 911 call. pigeon scene actually not like that there are pigeons! like the batman begin scene he's not afraid of one pigeon. there is a special effect there so its not in the rough cut. and what else hmm. and to all partridge fans you gonna like the episode too because he is not just a ghoul true disciple of RJ and a really smart one. he has a crucial role in fooling PJ for all this year. but I can't say anything for Haffner and Stiles. just weirdos I think. I'm the only happy mentalist fan I think :) give bruo heller some credit will ya

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When will some of you guys stop sucking up to Bruno Heller...saying the leaked episode is fake lol. That's beyond delusion. The episode was full of horse shit. Even some of the previous episodes were awful. This one did stand out because of the impact on the story. Everyone and their mothers' desire was watching Red John's mystery unfold in a smooth manner: Answering all their questions and connecting the dots between the clues. NOTHING WAS ANSWERED. MORE QUESTIONS WERE RAISED INSTEAD. The clues were COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN. No shock value whatsoever. It just reeks of bad writing.

Bruno has been milking this story for years. The number of the viewers dropped over the years but the majority of them kept on watching because they were CAPTIVATED BY THE RED JOHN MYSTERY. We were all ignoring the bad writing on certain episodes because we JUST
WANTED TO DISCOVER THE IDENTITY OF THAT SON OF A BITCH TROLLING
EVERYBODY WITH HIS SMILEY FACE.

We were just deluding ourselves over the years. Bruno is below average. To further prove my point: the reveal left a huge monumental crapstorm and Mr. I Can't Write For Shit chose not to address any questions/details on the 6x09 episode, but instead decided to make a 2 years jump in the future.

I'm not buying his bullshit anymore. He can GO FUCK HIMSELF.


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