And another thought that came to my mind, about…Walter
Mashburn! Ok, he is not on the list, so
what? Jane never reveals his suspects before catching them. At first, I said
ok, let`s trust Bruno Heller and accept that we can trust the list. Maybe we
can. Maybe all those seven are somehow involved. But also, The Mentalist is not
a show where they give us the killer just like that. Because, let`s be honest:
we have a list of suspects, so when the
moment of revealing RJ will come, maybe we will be surprised, but not that
much. What is the point of knowing the suspects? It just reduces the impact of
the show. Some of the fans could say “Ok, we have a list. I`ll watch only the
last episode to see which of them is the bastard.”. And then, when he is
revealed, we would be like “Ok, it`s Stiles, or Partridge, or one of the other
five. Interesting, but not a bummer”
My point is, everytime I think about Mashburn, all the
things related to him make me think that he is RJ. Besides the fact that he is
rich, has links and many important friends, he is mean and always get what he
wants, there is something that intrigues me.
In the last episode of season 5, “Red John`s rules”, Lisbon
says to Jane, “I can keep secrets”; he disagrees, but in a very weird way, like
he actually know that Lisbon is hiding something from him. Now, from what we know,
which is the ONE thing that Lisbon never told Jane? Right, Jane has no clue
that Lisbon slept with Mashburn. Of course, she doesn`t have to share with Jane
her sexual life, but still, it`s Mashburn, not just a random guy. In fact,
neither of us knows how did Mashburn get Lisbon to sleep with him.
More than that, when we first saw Mashburn in the second
season, there was a moment when he told Jane “now you just have to catch me”.
Then, in “Red John`s rules”, in the video which RJ sent to Jane he says, at a
point “until you catch me, or I catch you”. Small clue, but still.
Also, did you noticed that, each time Mashburn appears
(especially in the first episode we saw him) a really creepy music plays in the
background?
