Bruno Heller made some comparisons.

1) Red John is like Waldo.

2) Red John is like Moriarty.

3) Red John is like Keyser Soze.

Waldo-thing could be to throw us of the hook, or to make us watch some old episodes again. Or maybe RJ was there in the background, very well hidden. Anyway, no use to search every scene for something that we probably not gonna find.

If he's a freak like Moriarty, Partrigde is the best guess, but Partridge has been dead for a while.



The comparison with Soze is more interesting. In that case Bertram is obviously Keaton. The big, strong man with connections that seems to organize everything. While in fact it turned out to be the weak one, the one always controlled by that same Keaton, that pulled the strings.

We have never seen Partridge and Bertram together (at least I don't think so) and as I stated Partridge is more the Moriarty-type + we saw him die.

What we're looking for here, is someone with clear weaknesses, someone that walks difficultly, that speaks difficultly. So I say Haffner. Strange way of walking, totaly dominated by Bertram, outplayed by Jane in any verbal collision. He's very interested in Red John, loves to talk about him. Lisbon in the role of detective Dave Kujan.


And as I mentioned before (now I mention it again because it strikes me as very important regarding our whole investigation): the best clues in the series points to Haffner imo, with this one being the very best: 04X02 from 23:20 to 24:10.