I’m sticking
with the idea that Heller was telling the truth that RJ is one of the original
7 suspects from the list. Figuring last nights episodes, here’s where I was and
now am with that list.

Reed Smith –
Not RJ. We got to have him “be” RJ for a few moments in this episode, so there’s
no way the big reveal in the next episode will take us back to him. Also, Jane
ruled him out clearly.

Gale Bertram
– Not RJ. Before yesterday, he seemed one of the top 3 likeliest. Having him
reveled as RJ in ep.7 makes it near impossible that Heller will have the big
reveal in ep.8 be that it is Bertram. No way is it Bertram. This means it has
to be one of the dead people.

Brett
Partridge – He has always been the easiest to rule out since Lisbon actually
watched him die and even watched him after he died. Now add to that Cho seeing
him in the morgue. No way that two “great” agents mistake a dead identity…Granted,
the director probably purposely didn’t show us Partridges face (I assume they
didn’t want to pay Plotnick to pose there) because they want a few people to
think he could still come back. Clearly though, Partridge is still intregal to
the story in some way.

Bob Kirkland
– Since RJ must be one of the dead people, I guess his chances are as good as
anyone’s and we still don’t have a reason to the “do you recognize me?” stuff.
But Seems Reed Smith’s comments probably rule him out.

Stiles,
Hafner, and McAllister – I think our list is narrowed to these three. Of our
dead people, these are our best chances for false death identifications. Hafner
was always my least candidate, but I think this puts him and McAllister almost
at equal footing now with maybe even an edge to McAllister. The side of the
room the 3-dotters were on seemed to be the safest place to be.

Also, the
gunshot wasn’t explained and we didn’t seem to get a fair goodbye from Malcom
McDowell, which I think tells us that more happened during that blast than we
know and will be explained in the next episode.

 

I also now
allow for any of the 7 characters to be RJ, because of the cheese factor. The
series is well written, but I forgot that the show does sometimes get into the
cheese factor..the group being called “The Blake…” so cheesy…so maybe they’ll
do something cheesy like mysteriously bring Partridge back from the dead and
use the cliché creepy forensic guy twist…