"I'm surprised the two of you didn't become lifelong friends the moment you shook hands."  That sentence alone is enough of a reason for me to believe that Brett Partridge is NOT Red John.  If Bruno Heller  has other plans to make this unlikable, pithy, geeky wanker of a  character into a sudden god-like swarthy, charismatic  lothario that women swallow cyanide over... I will ban the show.  Patrick Jane is a smart man.  He knows who his equals are.  If he EVER thought that Brett Partridge was of equal caliber believe me... this would not have lasted six years... I would rather see Lisbon turn on him than have Partridge as Red John.  And I love Lisbon...