So don't know if any of you saw my other post about Stiles faking his death to return as a 'Messiah' which explains why Visualize hasn't had a word mentioned about it despite being a prominent theme throughout the show and Red John, and why we've shifted two years forward - to make the reveal more dramatic.

So I cant believe I didn't spot this before BUT in season 5 episode 8, the one where Jane enlists Stiles help to get Lorelie out of prison, he meets Stiles at the start of the episode in a cinema. He's watching 'North by Northwest' the Hitchcock classic. The two scenes they show of the film are when Cary Grant gets 'shot' and killed infront of a room full of witnesses, which the viewer regards as real.

Then the next scene we see is the one shortly after where the car carrying Grant's  'body' pulls over and it is revealed it was a ruse he struck with the woman who shot him who's been working for the FBI/government and is a spy/informant on a powerful figure. The 'he's not really dead' angle.

This is the last episode we see of Stiles before season 6 I believe.

Foreshadowing anyone? Possible? Likely? Theories?

As much as I wish Stiles was RJ don't think he is, what that may be implying is he's either 'coming back from dead' as the messiah like figure, or was working with the government or RJ reluctantly and this was a consequence of that, he may be really dead or if he was working with government and or RJ the film scene may be a nod he's coming back too.

Either way, messiah ruse or working for/with somebody I see Stiles coming back now, more than ever after that scene. He also comments on the film saying 'It's a classic, never gets old....gets better every time.'

Almost like the character Bret Stiles! Sadly very unlike The Mentalist.

Let me know if you agree he'll be back!