If a competition was held for who can write the worst RJ ending, you'd struggle to beat that...

I mean come on, there's something seriously wrong when 99% of the theories you read on here are preferable to what's served up by professional script writers.

I'm going to hold to the belief that the episode's fake - 

Never before - in my memory at least - has a Mentalist episode been leaked, let alone their most crucial one, on their own website!

Bruno Heller said it's an ending us, the fans, deserve

You're damn right we deserve a good ending. We've watched 5 mammoth long seasons of pretty much the same story, and spend even longer theorising in depth as to RJ's motives and identity. It that's the legit ending, pretty much every clue we were given is rendered meaningless - you could have picked Mentalist characters out of a hat and made them Red John.

IT'S EITHER FAKE OR YOUR CAREER IS OVER HELLER!!!