Oh my fucking god. Can people stop being so damn negative about the episode? The episode is bad quality and i promise you that sound make much. So you guys miss all the flashback and loose ends? I tell you now that Im sure we will found out everything we want in the upcoming 5! episodes. It would have been different if this was the SERIES finale or SEASON finale, this is just a regular episode with the RJ expose involved, you had so ridiculous high expectaions on this episode that no matter how hard Heller would have tryid he wouldn't had make you guys happy.

I just want to thank heller for a fantastic saga of Red John, I will never forget this serie, my favorite series ever. And people, i know it maybe wasnt the best episode, think of all the great memories we got instead.

Lets instead of complain write about our favourite mentalist moment ever! :)

Thank you Heller, and thank everyone here for all the fantastic and good theories here, I really meen it, Thank you! <3

No theories, just a question, so hit green or red - whichever you think is more likely:

GREEN: Bruno Heller will be on the phone on Monday, calling the head of CBS with a smile, and stating: "My deal with Fox is now complete. I have two ten-year contracts to develop any series I want, with unlimited budget. And I have just made your ratings plummet with the latest episode of The Mentalist. You can keep your shitty show now. The game is over, and I won."

RED: Bruno Heller was on the phone last night, calling a multimillionaire friend of his, sweating, swallowing hard, and saying: "Uh, yes, this is Bruno... listen, could I borrow about 10 million tonight, in cash? I really need some moolah, friend. I have to take about 12 TV actors via private jets to California tomorrow, shoot about an hour's worth of emergency footage really fast, and do major post-production on it, and it's all gotta be done in one day... and that will cost a lot! Hope you can help me out, man."

By the way, here's a photo from Cracow in Poland, one of only seven cities in the world that filled Redneck John's heart with pure terror:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/u/TvyamNb-BivtNwcoxtkc5xGBuGkIMh_nj4UJHQKuor5WjG39lv3PvcgEyD_goLKw...

As we all of course know, the leaked episode is just a stupid fake. Never ever could the producers think of such a lame ending for the Red John arc. Not even the actors are real and clearly photoshopped into some holiday pictures from Bruno Heller. The story is so hilarious, everyone can see that there aren't enough drugs in California for writers to come up with such an ending. A pigeon? Seriously?

But well, just for the fun of it, lets assume for a moment that this will be the episode that airs on Sunday (a bit more polished of course) and McAllister is really the sad excuse of a Red John of the faked version.

For everyone who can't believe it, here are the top 10 explanations about what might have happened:

10. Someone at CBS messed up big time and aired the fake episode instead of the real one.

9. Some crazy guy with a pizza hat took the pigeon hostage and demands to air the fake episode or he will kill the pigeon!

8. Bruno Heller lost a huge bet against the producers of Jersey Shore and had to put this on air. (And Snooki will be a guest star in an upcoming episode)

7. The whole real life is a fake and now we have the proof.

6. It was an act of god, to remind us about his powers.

5. It was an act of the devil, to remind us that he holds the copyright on evil™

4. Peta stopped the real episode to protect the pigeon from bad story writing.

3. It was just a filler episode because of the sports event, the real episode will air next week - really! Trust me!

2. Red John is a true psychic and made us all believe that we saw a faked episode while in fact the real one was aired.

And the number 1 explanation why the fake episode might air on Sunday:

1. They realized in the last minute that the real episode is even worse because it featured a guest appearance of Kermit the frog as Red John.

See you on Sunday night!

This is the real Red John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKvgP2Nq-E

Ok, now that everybody is realizing that the leaked episode was fake (I explained it in at least 5 comments; someone else also integrated my proof), I'd like to come back to the main theme. Who's Red John.

"Brace (= couple ? "Fearful simmetry") or partridge" is a bit naive, but it really means that there are two RJ, one of them was Partridge. Or someone known to us by this name. 

I'm sure we will get some explanation, maybe not everything because the show had too
many writers and clues to give a thoroughly account, but we will also be disappointed by
the artificial craftiness of the plot.

Let's hope they don't ruin the ending too much. The fans have a way better vision of the show, of the clues than the writers, so I expect an avalanche of found faults after the real episod gets aired.

Havent been on this site for a couple of days and i come back to all these comments about a fake/leaked episode? So confused right now. Does anyone have a link to this episode? 

Guys
guys guys I cannot believe anybody didn't notice this before! It was right in
front of us all along.

Check out this photo, look carefully at the bottom left
corner but it's not that easy to spot :

http://oi44.tinypic.com/2w7kc3m.jpg