what to believe after this episode? there are still so many questions that i don't think all will be answered in next final Red John episode. here's my take on current state:

- gale bertram is not red john. patrick wants RJ for himslef, he would never give his true identity to the press. it was just a distraction, part of a plan really.

- what's the story behind that gunshot before the explosion? why it wasn't explained? i think it's essential for closing in on RJ, and Patrick must remember it and know something, but why he didn't share it with Lisbon and others?

- sheriff must have survived the blast. if patrick, gale and reede survived, who all were at the same side of the room (same as sheriff), away from other 2, then sheriff would have survived it as well. So the bomb must have been planted somewhere around haffner and stiles. i think it was hidden inside sheriff's hat (there's no other way to bring the bomb really) and he left the hat on the couch. But, does that make him RJ?

- in promo for Red John episode we see a lot of scenes with a character that looks like sheriff, but would they really give red john that easily? in a promo? even though i like sheriff as a red john, i wasn't expecting they would reveal rj to us in a promo. it's too easy which makes me now kinda doubt it is him.

- this episode ended in church (i think there's a reason patrick went there) and from promo we see the next ep continues in church with a possibly sheriff (rj?) walking in and saying something like ''game over''. I don't believe we will know who is red john already in beginning of next episode, somewhere in middle yes, but not at the beginning. What if that really was sheriff in church and he was holding the phone which from real RJ was talking through?

- brett partridge. there's a huge mystery with him atm. why did RJ kill him? it is still not answered! if that was really his body at the morgue, why is his skin from shoulder removed and who did that? did he even have a tattoo? if he was in TT, why would RJ (who's also part of TT, according to Reede) killed him then? at that point no1 even knew about TT, so he wasn't danger to the organization or RJ and wasn't needed to be killed.

- when it was found out reede and gale are in TT collective, why only reede was ordered to get killed and not gale too? is gale their leader then? reede said it's called the blake association, because some1 is a big fan of blake and we saw back in season 3 gale recited some other blake's poem. it appears to me gale is leader and what is rj to them then, just a member or?

who can be rj then?
1. sheriff - i like him the most of all 7 suspects and i want it to be him. but, if he's rj and he is the one in promo we see, i'd be disappointed i found it out in a promo and not in a episode. THAT WOULD SUCK HARD. but since he's alive he's top option.
2. brett partridge - there are too many questions around him and his apparent death and so far we didn't get any answer to that. just because we didn't learn anything about it i gotta give him some chance, but would he need cbi credentials to enter cbi building to kill rebecca? hmm...but look at this, if he is RJ, and faked his death and would want his identification to remain secret, wouldn't you as well remove some1's skin from shoulder from your fake body so nobody would ever know were you in TT organization or not.
3. ??? who else? I believe hafffner and stiles are really dead dead, there had to be some casualties at that bomb explosion, no question about it. and bob kirkland's evil twin brother is biggest shit i read here, i give more chance to reede.


10x for reading