I'm sincerely hoping for a jaw dropping finale Sunday coming, but I can't shake the feeling Heller is trying to make TV history by being the first series to ever re-jump the proverbial shark for good measure.
(the first shark jump was when Red John came back from the "dead" after Jane killed Timothy Carter in the mall, IMO)
Now it looks like RJ is coming back from the "dead" again to try the jump one more time.
Will it be Bertram? The political bureaucrat who can't even play poker, suddenly turned cold, calculating killer who can outsmart Jane? Hardly.
Partridge? He's dead, despite them not showing his face in the last episode. Unless we assume Cho is totally incompetent and check his face off camera, after talking to Jane on the phone.
So who is Red John?
Rigby said the explosion in Jane's house was from military grade bomb and brought to the scene by RJ.
Cue Jaws theme for shark re-jump (da dum ... da dum ... da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum ...)
Who was hunting deer in the previous episode with a military style rifle with night scope?
McAllister.
Who was supposedly burned to a crisp while separated WITH all the other survivors of the explosion (Bertram, Smith and Jane)?
McAllister.
As for Haffner and Stiles? Well if the Mentalist doesn't get canceled, they could always raise Red John from the dead in true Lost meets Mentalist style (i.e. Stiles) for a THIRD time by having Stiles and Haffner magically escape to Equador.
Afterall, there is talk that Jane will be fleeing to South America.
And Equador (where Stiles was going) is in South America ... just sayin'.