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Americ's review doesn't tell us anything especially since it's edited out the boring parts. Would be nice if he just told us if he was happy with it himself. But alas, he can't really ruin it for anyone otherwise they would be very maaaaad.

Anyway, I have had a breakthrough!!!!!! Which I have posted below.




















I still don't have a clue who it is but they say acceptance is the first step. Just for everyone here are the 8 steps to Red John Anonymous. It's a terrible disease to over come and we all need to reach out to each other and help each other.



Aim of RJA. The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve NO SEVEN Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society:

1.We admit that we are powerless over who Red John is-  that our lives had become unmanageable with trying to guess.

2. We believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity ( After we find out who Red John is) .We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Heller as we understood Him NEVER.

3.We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of Red John Suspects, .Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another mentalist followers the exact nature of our wrong guesses.
We are entirely ready to have Heller  remove all these defects of wrong character guesses.
We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings

4. We.Make a list of all persons Red John has harmed, and became willing to make  resurrected psychopathic serial killers of them all.  We Make direct amends to such accused people wherever possible... every two minutes, except when to do so would not agree with the list or increase their height or decrease the amount of hair they have.

5. We still continued to take character inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit before changing our minds yet again.

6. We sought through meditation and twitter to improve our conscious contact with Heller as we  never understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for Red John and the power to carry that out his character effectively and satisfactory.

7.Having had a absolutely no spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to all Red John Anonymous members and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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Hmmm i've seen almost every episode of this season twice. i just read a very odd theory. there's something very fishy about the way theory 12782 is a "fan fiction". how many fan fictions do we ever see on this website? and how many theories tie together loose ends from this season far so creatively. im not saying its right. 

but heres a warning. if you read this theory, consider there is a very, very, very small chance you are reading poilers

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NOT A THEORY, A QUESTION

If Jane thinks that Red John is one of his suspects, and that he has 3 dots on his shoulder, what made him think that it is bertram or smith??? why not mcallister who got killed?? soo many questions i hope episode Red John answers them all... I think we are about to witness a big twist...


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I've just watched the episode...!!!!OH MY GOD.

*Please don't ask me to spoil in the comments, because I won't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYpReqi678&feature=c4-overview&list=UUamPGTREfS0YRJBkC7cBHPg

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I hate to be wishy washy. Especially within 10 minutes of commenting on someones theory but that person's theory got me thinking...especially with how Heller and other writers have been toying with their words. Here is the writer from this last week about the explosion

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mentalist-red-johns-identity-cbi-656671

Was it particularly difficult seemingly killing three Red John suspects -- Sheriff Tom McAllister, Visualize leader Bret Stiles and FBI agent Ray Haffner -- at the beginning of the hour? Was that always the plan?To be honest, that was one of the easiest things I had to come up with because Ken Woodruff wrote the episode before mine [titled "Fire and Brimstone"]. All I had to do was write, "Fade in. The house has blown up." I will say, fewer body parts made it in than were on-set that day, which was a personal regret of mine. I understand that you can't get everything out of life, but there was more than a foot there. Our show isn't normally that gory, but we wanted to make very clear that that was a human foot and there were dead bodies in there.

Now look at the italics and underlining. Is that sentence one that means..."some suspects were killed." Or does it just plainly say "there were dead bodies?" Because, as an earlier person mentioned, Jane could get cadavers and set up the whole thing. Everyone of those guys could be in on it...getting RJ. Jane finally had to go all out to beat RJ so he basically played his game and made the ruse so large that it would make RJ come out. 

Now, I will admit, I would normally call b.s. on these things because it makes it seem like the show jumped the shark. But the writers are perfectly riding the fence on what they give us. So yes those are body parts and yes they are dead bodies. But did it say those are those people's bodies? There were sheets all over the house covering furniture.

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Sean Barlow, his voice, his apperance,  his ring in the in the promo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z77P7ebT0QI

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Wait. I got it!
It all makes sense now.
CBS has done everything in their power to make us think that they goofed and let the cat out of the bag that Sheriff is RJ. Well, they'd have only goofed if he was. He isn't!

But he is still alive. No way he got burned to a crisp when he was standing with Smith, Bertram, and Jane and they all fine.

He escaped. He may even be helping Jane but that's beside the point.

I think the scenes we've seen with him in the upcoming episode. Running into glass window, running through cemetery, etc., isn't him running from Jane, but from either Bertram or Red John.

If Bertram is NOT Red John, then he is high ranking member of Blake. If he is, well, there you go.

I think Bertram could be RJ, but I think a better twist would be Michael Kirkland bc of the voice and the out-of-left-fieldness of it all.

So I think that while Sheriff definitely shows up in the next episode, his running and bullet holes are the work or Bertram or RJ, probably Bertram.

Either way, I think that either Bertram or Michael Kirkland is most definitely RJ.

We won't know for sure until Sunday!

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