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Mccallister fear of pigeons:

We all saw at the end of e3 how he was spooked by the pigeons but lets face it. If a group of birds just came out of nowhere towards your face it wil spook you too so we can't call what happened there a(phobia).

He might be Red John but I don't think he has fear of pigeons




Rigsby as Red John:

I dont see Rigsby as RJ becausen he doesn't match the description. He was born in 1978 (35 yrs old) and he is 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) so he is too young and too tall to be RJ besides according to Lorelei RJ is supposed to be someone who does not get along with Jane but we can see that he and Rigsby are just fine together.

So I think it safe to say Rigsby isn't RJ

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Food for thought. Remember at the end of the very first episode of Season 6 when Lisbon at the time was tracking all the 7 Red John suspects and went to Brett Partridge's location? If they did track correctly, shouldn't RJ who was at the scene be on the tracker too? 

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I think Jane's wife faked her death and is the real Red John. This would explain how RJ new about Patricks memory that he (she) killed. Plus its the best way to blow everyones mind when they close it out.
RJ set it up to look like a guy just to throw us off.

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[...] and then Kratos killed his wife and child because of Ares.
Now Ares did the same thing with Jane

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Red John is a persona or a construct created by Brett Stiles, not one particular person. The Visualize religion is a cover for a CIA clandestine operation to develop assassins using post-hypnotic suggestion, narcotics and psychological conditions (i.e, phobias) as tools.

 The subjects of the operation are drawn to Visualize and if they are suitable, they are brainwashed and conditioned to believe they are Red John.

At this point their suitability as assassins is tested by various targets to which they are assigned.

The idea is that clandestine operations can be executed by subjects who are not aware of what they are doing and have complete deniability even under torture.

I deduced this answer from the following observations:

1, Brett Stiles has a long association with Red John dating back to the first happy face on the barn.

2. Hypnosis and psychological susceptibility is a frequent theme in the series. For example the man who drags in a body to CBI believing it to be a sack of potatoes.
 
3. Stiles has friends in high places, throughout law enforcement. They are not touching him because his program is sponsored by intelligence agencies of the government. This is idea has parallels in real life such as the MK Ultra program from the 50s and 60s (look it up, its scary!).

4. There needs to be a trigger for the post-hypnotic suggestion. It is Tiger Tiger.

5. At least two of the suspects have phobias (pigeons, heights or spiders). This points to a psychological susceptibility.


Its not possible to determine, which of the seven original suspects are 'Red John' but my guess is all of them, and probably more (Roy Tagliaferro, and all the characters who have said 'Tiger Tiger'! ).

Hope you like the idea, Happy to discuss it.

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I think, that Red John is Bob Kirkland's TWIN brother. They said about him in the series for a reason. And even if Bob Kirkland said that his twin brother was killed by Red John, I think it is not true. There is a possibility that Red John was an old man, started to kill people long time ago (evidence is "the face" on the building in one of the episodes). If that old man died, Bob Kirkland's twin brother could continue the work of original Red John.
I am betting for Evil Twin!!!

P.S. I think Bob Kirkland thought about it, that is why he was asking everyone "Do you recognize me? Have you seen me before?" hoping, that victims would mistake him for his twin!

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This isn't mine, I found it and thank whoever found this out. 

Roll Tide is a common phrase for Alabama, whose mascot is the Elephant. I searched William Blake and Elephant, which he had drawn and also noted the character of the elephant in his “Heaven and Hell” poem:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_blake/poems/1105.html
This poem uncovers various roles of the animals, including the tyger, and it seems to be more telling of this series and the RJ suspects and Jane, etc, than other poems. It’s worth a look.
                                                                                        - latidah

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