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tall black woman, with curly long hair and a deep voice, most likely 15 years of age.

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brett partridge
being exposed as RJ would be the crappiest plot twist ever - in a show
supposedly starring a mentalist. in fact it wouldn t even be a twist, just
plain dumb. there would be nothing to reveal, his creepiness jumps
right into your face- in fact no mentalism needed.

bp theories are based on pigeons and the fact that he happens to stand right next to rj smilies at the crime scene (which is by the way his job), his name and of course - we didn t see his face last episode.


you people get so easily distracted.




it would be such a let down if the big finale of the mentalist, the big mentaltwist turns out to be something like - oops so bp wasn t really dead, he faked his death - here we go, it was the creepy one, we ALL KNEW IT - again, no mentalism needed.


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Bertram, McAllister and Shawn Barrlow - none of them is Red John. I know that someone almost bald is shown in promo, and it can be one of them (McAllister can be alive since he was standing next to Bertram and Reede and they weren't hurt, DNA tests can be fake), but they are not Red John. 

Rosalind said that RJ had straight hair, and three man mentioned above are bald with no ability to grow hair again. + Sophie said RJ is middle aged and at least McAllister, but in my opinion also Barlow do not fit this descriptions. 

Kirkland is dead and there are no doubts to it. 

Reede is apparently not RJ, we know for sure after The Red Dragon episode.

Stiles does not match the RJ profile at ALL and i never suspected him.

For a little while I thought Partridge can be RJ, because his voice was quite matching, and Cho didn't check face of the body at morgue in 6x07, but then i figured that:

- RJ is too smart not to modify his voice
- we heard his voice few seasons ago, so Jane would recognize his voice a long time ago
- Patridge looks too young to me
- he seems to be dead

After all that said I have no idea who RJ is. The only options left are:

- it's no one from the list (Yes, I know what Heller said but he can be messing with us)
- it's Micheal Kirkland but that seems soooo illogical and cheap and stupid ending, i would be VERY dissappointed with an ending like that

I can't wait for the big suprise on Sunday!!

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Guys...
I think that Erica Flynn

is Red Jhon...watch S04E15 and you will recognize this theory specially the final scene of the episode

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Why does so many of you keep thinking Bertram is RJ and the scene at the churhc is "proof"? Aside from everything else, this is not the ending scene. We know that Jane will meet the real RJ outside, in a park, alone.

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Flash drive:

http://imgur.com/a/4lH3e

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Hey guys

Seeing as this Sunday we finally come to the end of the Red John journey I thought I'd do a quick theory as to how the writers may still catch us out.  I doubt it though, and I must say the way thing turned out so far has been quite disappointing.  But lets do a final roundup of the last few episodes.

In a previous post I took a look at the GPS trackers in the first episode of season 6 and proved that apart from Partridge, whom I was disappointed to see dead in episode 7, Gale Bertram was the closest to the scene where Partridge died, which was about 16 minutes away.

Now once again, we find that one person is being made to seem like an obvious Red John, which is Bertram. He's the only one of the 7 who is still alive apart from Reede Smith, yet Reede Smith seems to not be Red John. He seems too weak. Gale has the tattoo he murdered a bartender and he is on the run because of the Blake Organization.  In the preview for episode 8 we see, who seems to be Bertram, join Patrick in the church and Patrick saying "Now you want to beg for mercy?" to him while he points the gun at him. Does this not strike you as a bit of an "easy conclusion"? I mean Patrick is in the church at the end of episode 7 so whoever that is comes in at the START of episode 8.  So is it really Red John?

I'm still curious about Bret Stiles. I know I know... He's "Dead", but as we've seen in a former Visualize episode, when a cop that is part of Visualize is asked to 'clean' the crime scene, they do so with no regard for their well being.  Also on numerous occasions we've heard that Bret communicates with Red John, so why is he acting all dumb in episode 6 when Jane wants to see his arm?  He must be clued up on this. 

Other things, they said that at the end of episode 1, there is a big clue. I thought it is the GPS tracker thing, or Partridge saying "Tyger Tyger", but others say that as well so why episode 1? Then I realized that Red John paints blood on Lisbon's face, the same way Stiles paints his disciples' faces in the ritual in episode 6.  

The three dots tattoo? As previously stated by another user, this could also be a mark made during chemo therapy, we know that Bret Stiles is dying, he said he does not have long, so could he have cancer and the three dots were a mark after getting treatment? Why did the writers feel we need to know he's dying, when they planned to kill him at the end of the episode in which they reveal that he will die soon? The information seems irrelevant when not taken into the Red John context.

Older clues include him knowing where Kristina Frye was. He helped PJ get Lorrelei out of prison, clearly Red John wanted her out to kill her so that's a coincidence.  He also semi-hypnotized Van Pelt which to me shows he has the same abilities as Patrick and also when he meets Patrick, they seem like they are jousting as they speak.  

Thank you everyone for enjoying the show with me and for all the fun discussions on this site.

Enjoy Sunday's episode.

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