Lets see the Male to Female Ratio on this site:

Male: Click Green Button "Plausible"

Female: Click Red Button "Unlikely"

RJ is Grady Ship from S02E23.
One of his followers wore the halloween mask and was waiting out of sight, ready to jump in and act just before RJ had to kill Jane (shooting RJ in the leg, and killing the two horror movie buffs).

The guy you thought was a pawn was actually the player.

I think 'Red John' is an entire institution of political bigwigs. It's not just one person, it's a bunch of killers or bigwigs gone rogue. 

im in Australia so i am not sure what is going on with CBS but has the new episode been aired this week? if not, will it be aired sometime soon?

1) Search on google: the mentalist stream tv
2) click on the first website
3) choose the episode (if looking for the most recent scroll down to the bottom)
4) click on it
5) pick a website you choose to stream off of (All are reliable but you need to close all the bullshit ads before starting) (no viruses but be cautious)
6) enjoy :)

Could Red John already be dead ? Brett Partridge could have been the serial killer known as RJ, but he may have been disposed of by the organization Tyger Tyger when he became a liabilty ... Jane has promised to cut RJ open like an animal, but there is no way Lisbon would continue to work with Jane after a premeditated torture-murder... and the series does continue...it also creates a powerful new adversary for Jane ( the Tyger Tyger clique )....

See Bob talks about how Michael hit the bottle pretty bad and became a drunk. And then became clean. If you remember back when Patrick was drinking like crazy every night while staying a hotel room loreli found him with the help of red john. and she told Patrick red John's message. she said red john has been there too. hinting at the drinking everynight and got straight. So that's why I truly think it's Michael Kirkland.