Finally! They said his name! I didn't want to get into some vague discription of who I was talking about but I always suspected him. Ron! And to now here that his name is Ron; the combination of Red and John.

That side, while I've been watching the seasons, I've always noticed that one 'extra' who seemed to continuously show up in the background or a walk by at the CBI. Other cop extras would come and go but why would you bother maintaining one background character from the very begining. He has access to everything and everyone. Now very recently he has actually had a speaking part and had Jane call him out in the hallway. If they wanted to even rub it in our face more, when Lisbon was just attacked by Red John, Ron just rounded the corner after speaking with Jane when Red John called Jane. Could have been a time laps between the attack and the call, could have been someone else that attacked Lisbon posing as/for Red John since the attack didn't follow his MO. Maybe Partridge was attacked because he was on the list, or maybe he was attacked because he himself had actually found out something. He always has had an interest in the Red John case and he might have stubbed on to something if not about Red John himself but about the Tiger Tiger club.

I know this is not a name on the list of 7 and Bruno Heller has said we can believe in the list, but that doesn't mean Red John is on the list. It just means the list has meaning in the catching of Red John. All of the people on the list are connected to RJ or the Tiger Tiger club or the catching of RJ. Jane has been smart enough to make a fake list of Red John suspects before for other eyes to discover, why not another one?

Lastly, one of the writers once compared to the search of Red John as a game of 'where's Waldo'. Rod has always be tucked into background shots or wide angle office shots. You could easily call it a game of 'Where's Ron'