Penultimate Red John episode kills all future Mentalist DVD box set sales with cheap imitation of RJ's work.

Enough with bashing Heller for toying with our minds be leaking a fake episode.  Gain some perspective.  He made us a fake episode full of jokes to entertain us until Sunday.  Most people won't even know it existed until they buy the dvd boxset where it will be included as a special feature.  We got to see it early.  It's a gift to the hardcore fans that have devoted hours to theorizing and stuck with the series for six years.  The real question is whether Heller is one of the the people on this site.  Lol, we should stop with RJ theories and start making cases as to who Heller is.  I think it's very likely that he would have written theories on McAllister to increase the fake episode's impact.

I am 100% sure that the leaked chapter is fake.  Almost no explanations (He is mar, Roy Tagliaferro...), performance  was ridiculous. We have been led to believe that Red John is Moriarty, and in the chapter Red John instead seemed stupid and coward, not to mention the ridiculous suposed Red John's voice. Don't worry, the real Moriarty will appear in the real episode.

If a competition was held for who can write the worst RJ ending, you'd struggle to beat that...

I mean come on, there's something seriously wrong when 99% of the theories you read on here are preferable to what's served up by professional script writers.

I'm going to hold to the belief that the episode's fake - 

Never before - in my memory at least - has a Mentalist episode been leaked, let alone their most crucial one, on their own website!

Bruno Heller said it's an ending us, the fans, deserve

You're damn right we deserve a good ending. We've watched 5 mammoth long seasons of pretty much the same story, and spend even longer theorising in depth as to RJ's motives and identity. It that's the legit ending, pretty much every clue we were given is rendered meaningless - you could have picked Mentalist characters out of a hat and made them Red John.

IT'S EITHER FAKE OR YOUR CAREER IS OVER HELLER!!!

Come on my friends, remember the flash drive they found in
Bertrams’safe. Jane was supposed to decode it. In the leaked episode, there is
no explanation of what it is. Do you really think that the writers would come
to write that scene if there was no point in it ?



That let me think that the leaked episode is fake and here
is my theory :



Bruno heller wanted to get revenge from the media since the
name of Red John was leaked in IMDB (Walter Mashburn). After all, they had time
to do a fake episode in a rush (since the show was delayed because of football),
and indeed, the leaked episode gave the impression that it was done in a rush.
And I’m not talking about the sound, or rough cut or anything like that, but I’m
talking about the writing.



My only question is where did they find money to do an extra
episode.

he is ma.... Walter Mashburn

Only other male character with any charisma (except Stiles who is too old)

I haven't been back here since last Sunday so I have to read some more entries. However, this has been a fun place to theorize and see how other viewers' minds work. One question: if you "don't give a shit who Red John is, why are you here." But the answer is clear: you do. The Mentalist is a really well written show that goes much deeper than other detective dramas. See "the forest for the trees". We have all become "mentalists" because of Patrick Jane and the brilliant writers.

With that said, and without reading more theories before I say this I say "he is Mas..."- Walter Mashburn. He is the only other interesting, charming and multi-layered character like PJ. And he is the only man who we know had a fling with Lisbon. How ironic...

Thank you, show, you have taken me into an interesting world.