Hey Stoopkid, as much as i appreciate your optimism about Red John returning............. i highly doubt it's gonna happen. The fuckhead Heller had 14 episodes after episode 8 to mention Red John or all those important people he killed off-screen  but he didn't even breath a word of it. Only in that lame as fuck "con-trial" was Red John even mentioned. You see, he gave not one explanation about his clues and killed all of the past characters so that we will never be given an explanation. 

Don't get me wrong i want Red John back.