Well, it seems in the last Bruno Heller interview he says that Red John is "definitively" not
Patrick Jane.
That's a relief!
I was afraid the series (hitherto one of the best on TV for 5 seasons) was going to degenerate into a cheap imitation of Fight Club. Heller also says that Red John is one of the 7 suspects on the list. But which list? a fake one meant for Red John or Jane's real list, which exists only inside his head? Or is the list we saw in photo form and heard Lorelei read on the DVD THE REAL LIST?
I still think that of all the suspects, Brett Partridge fits the profile the best.
Honestly, I don't know why McAllister and Reede Smith are even on the list; they are such minor characters and each only appeared in one episode. Is this the "disappointment" of which Heller speaks? That some nobody will prove to be Red John? The banality of evil and all that?
I don't recall Smith at all, and my main memories of McAllister are
1) my mistaken belief (and intentionally misleading story line) that McAllister was the murderer of the red-headed women in the episode because he acts very suspiciously when Grace is acting as a decoy to entrap him. It turns out that the murders were committed by a nutjob chef and his wife who liked to watch.
2) McAllister loses at several rounds of rock, paper, scissors, with Jane. But then Jane always wins at poker and chess, so it's reasonable to surmise that no one beats him at a game. Which is why Red John loves the challenge and is sure he will win this time.
Hmmm, Gale Bertram could easily be the one: head of the CBI, on the inside in an important position, probably told Timothy Carter to meet Jane in the food court in the finale of Season 3, is involved in some shady plan with Kirkland that involves Lisbon ("can we trust her?") And he quotes William Blake's Tyger Tyger, which RJ recites when he talks to Jane who is bound up with tape. Later on, a dying RJ operative taunts Jane with "Tyger, Tyger." This is obviously some sort of secret word among RJ acolytes.
Kirkland? It seems more likely that he himself wants to catch RJ. Either that, or he stole the timeline from Jane to find out what Jane was thinking in order to mess with his mind.
Kirkland kills Lennon in the hospital for unclear reasons--Lennon worked at the women's shelter where Lorelei's sister Miranda stayed. He asked Lennon "do you recognize me?" and seemed to think he was doing Lennon a kind favor by dispatching him. The type of thing RJ might say--he is a showman about death, as though it were something to be staged in a play.
Ray Hafner? Certainly a suspicious character, trying to co-opt Lisbon into working for him and asking her pointedly if she stays on the job because of Jane (much as Lorelei tells Jane that she thinks he stays with the CBI because of Lisbon.) She discovers he's a member of Visualize, which was harboring the young RJ. So...he certainly is connected, if not the man himself.
Bret Stiles? Too old. Why is he on the list? He's a slimy bastard for sure, and he's got something to hide. He may be enjoying the RJ/Jane show and manipulating both of them--a puppetmaster of sorts. But RJ? No.
And why are there two guys with the name Bret? (tt)?
Getting back to Partridge: He makes an appearance on the season finale after not being on the show for a very long time. Jane hates him, calls him a ghoul, says he likes his work too much (works for CBI coroner and is a crime scene examiner) He also admires "great" killers. He says that Eileen's murder is a RJ copycat, and when Jane asks him if he's sure, he says he's just guessing, and Jane is the expert. He could just be a serial killer groupie like the zombies on "The Following," or he could be RJ himself. We don't know much about him.
To be continued...
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