Who is Red John?

Theory #12472 • by Scarlett63

Suspect

Walter Mashburn

Walter Mashburn
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ARGUMENTATION

It should be obvious now that RJ was never on the list of suspects.  Reede Smith confessed to other crimes and is off to prison.  It's not Bertram because the media has accepted his as RJ so Jane would not become a wanted man in South America for killing him.  Everyone else is DEAD.  There are no fake deaths.  RJ faked his death in the S3 finale and is not going to do it again.  RJ set that bomb that killed people and unless he's insane, than he was nowhere near that building when it blew up.  He was not in that room.  There are no suspects left on the list, it is time for everyone to start writing up their theories on the names we saw in Jane's notebook.  Those names were Jane's real suspects.  The list everyone has wasted time theorizing about was RJ's list of suspected tiger tiger members given to Jane to expose the tiger tiger group.  

Recall RJ's message to Jane:  "I know that you've made a list, and I know that by the time you watch this video, you'll have narrowed that list down to a few names. That's quite a feat of memory and research. Bravo. I bet you think you're pretty damn clever, but you're not. You got a lucky break. That's not clever. I'll show you clever."  If RJ doesn't think Jane's ability to make that list is clever, then no way will he think that stealing Jane's list is much more clever.  What would be clever?  Sending Jane a list of seemingly random names that will lead Jane straight to the biggest secret law enforcement club.  Jane has played RJ's game by Red John's Rules, he investigated RJ's names with Lisbon as if he was looking for RJ.  The game is over and the question is did Jane catch RJ or did RJ catch Jane?

The Mentalist never catches killers through a series of elimination and that is not how RJ will be caught either.  There is going to be a big twist next week and part of that twist will be that RJ was never on the list.  The real suspects were
 Brett Partridge, Vint Molinari, Dean Harken, Ellis Mars,Jason Cooper, Linus Wagner, Walter Mashburn, Towlen Morning, Virgil Minelli, Oscar Ardiles from Jane's notebook.  Some are obviously not RJ.  Narrow it down to the most likely suspects and you get Jason Cooper, Walter Mashburn, Virgil Minelli, and Oscar Ardiles.  One of those four men will be revealed as RJ in the next episode.  I strongly suggest that everyone abandons the seven suspect list before next Sunday because you've run out of time to make viable theories.

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