I repost it to try to explain me better because Red John is Linus Wagner.

He gets arrested in the pilot so it's the perfect alibi but if you can manipulate the whole police,
it's not important. He discredited himslef on purpose. Don't forget he's
supposed to be as smart as PJ. Now look at the pilot again and think
it's all on purpose. Just to let Jane thinks he ruled the game. But he
didn't Linus was ruling the game like the poor sad man he was supposed
to be. Sorry for my bad english i'm french. The game is over. The first
episode could be called the game has started.

He drove Jane exactly where he wanted.