People, read carefully .. (excuse my english skills)
The show " the mentalist" is not named just after Patrick Jane, but also after Red john ( he is mentalist too). Why do you think Jane is struggling so much on EVERY Red John case and fails to solve it. It is because they think alike, and by that advantage,Red John knows the way Jane thinks , every single Red Johns accomplice that was caught by Patrick said that they are so much alike. They think the same way, behave the same way, filled with charm, confidence , can seduce women easily = Walter Mashburn.
Red John is not sneaky,shy,lonely or anything like that.. like Brett Partridge is.
Bruno didn't film the scene where Lisbon slept with Mashburn for no reason.. that is going to be interesting when she has to confess to Jane that she SLEPT WITH RED JOHN. Lisbon never goes off sleeping with another man, that proves my point that Mashburn can manipulate women like Jane can.
One last thing ..
List is a way to deceive viewers because he was throwing everyone off with it, cause he knows someone has broken into that place where he kept the evidence... Bruno Heller said that list is 100% accurate. But he didn't say which list, because the one that we saw little glimpses off in the book before IS the list.
Bruno Heller likes to play with our minds alot :)
-happy hunting-