Don't know if anyone else is watching, but this is the culmination of a years long arc. Arc's are supposed to be a good thing, right?
To update those who are just vaguely interested (or whose finger just twitched innopportunely, accidentally clicking on the thread,)
Ass-Kicking Bimbo/Quasi-Love Interest for Patrick Jane, having found out that Red John wasn't really her bestie but had killed her sister, dropped the hint to Jane that Jane had actually met Red John, shaking the man's hand. Jane promptly recalled everyone whose hand he had shaken and ruled out everyone who could not be Red John.
He came up with a list of seven names. Two were from Visualize, coming from the old cult connection, Brett Stiles the leader and Ray Haffner the Visualize LE connection. One came from the blind woman on Red John's apparent commute, Sheriff McAllister. Rounding out the list were four LE people, the new medical examiner (who replaced the guy Jane euthanased,) an FBI agent Reed Somebody (I've already forgotten his name again!) pompous CBI boss Gale Bertram and Homeland Security creep Bob Kirkland.
Now we saw Kirkland looking at Jane's list last season. Red John spooked Jane and Lisbon by telling Jane who his seven suspects were (in a mash note.) Red John gave the winnowing process a helping hand by killing the ME. We then hear that Jane has planted a fake list. In last week's episode we see that Bob Kirkland has begun kidnapping, torturing and killing the fake suspects. We also see that Bob believes there is a vast conspiracy, signaled by the phrase "tiger, tiger."
Jane wass kidnapped by Kirkland, who is in pursuit of the real list (and really pissy about the fake list too.) Lisbon rode to the rescue. We see Reed Whozis getting all smarmy with prisoner Kirland, mumbling "tiger, tiger" in a really punk tone of voice. Prisoner Kirkland is then murdered while "attempting to escape." This doesn't fool Our Heroes, but what are they gonna do?
At first glance, this puts Reed in the lead as Red John. Not to mention, he's plump enough that the Red John face is not a bad likeness! Jane doesn't know this, but he thinks that the short list of five is small enough to handle. As in, judging from the previews, kidnapping them all at once. Maybe he's going to try the burying alive bit en masse?
However, Bob Kirkland told Jane that he was after Red John for revenge. His black sheep brother had met a "man," meaning that Red John recruited brother Michael into the Red John Fan Club. In other words, there is an Evil Twin.
The man Michael met could of course have been Brett Stiles, whose Visualize cult taught Red John the nuts and bolts of manipulating people in a cult. Which means that the Evil Twin could be Red John.
What candidates does anyone interested favor? Do we like the Evil Twin possibility? Do we think this arc has gone completely nuts like most do?
To update those who are just vaguely interested (or whose finger just twitched innopportunely, accidentally clicking on the thread,)
Ass-Kicking Bimbo/Quasi-Love Interest for Patrick Jane, having found out that Red John wasn't really her bestie but had killed her sister, dropped the hint to Jane that Jane had actually met Red John, shaking the man's hand. Jane promptly recalled everyone whose hand he had shaken and ruled out everyone who could not be Red John.
He came up with a list of seven names. Two were from Visualize, coming from the old cult connection, Brett Stiles the leader and Ray Haffner the Visualize LE connection. One came from the blind woman on Red John's apparent commute, Sheriff McAllister. Rounding out the list were four LE people, the new medical examiner (who replaced the guy Jane euthanased,) an FBI agent Reed Somebody (I've already forgotten his name again!) pompous CBI boss Gale Bertram and Homeland Security creep Bob Kirkland.
Now we saw Kirkland looking at Jane's list last season. Red John spooked Jane and Lisbon by telling Jane who his seven suspects were (in a mash note.) Red John gave the winnowing process a helping hand by killing the ME. We then hear that Jane has planted a fake list. In last week's episode we see that Bob Kirkland has begun kidnapping, torturing and killing the fake suspects. We also see that Bob believes there is a vast conspiracy, signaled by the phrase "tiger, tiger."
Jane wass kidnapped by Kirkland, who is in pursuit of the real list (and really pissy about the fake list too.) Lisbon rode to the rescue. We see Reed Whozis getting all smarmy with prisoner Kirland, mumbling "tiger, tiger" in a really punk tone of voice. Prisoner Kirkland is then murdered while "attempting to escape." This doesn't fool Our Heroes, but what are they gonna do?
At first glance, this puts Reed in the lead as Red John. Not to mention, he's plump enough that the Red John face is not a bad likeness! Jane doesn't know this, but he thinks that the short list of five is small enough to handle. As in, judging from the previews, kidnapping them all at once. Maybe he's going to try the burying alive bit en masse?
However, Bob Kirkland told Jane that he was after Red John for revenge. His black sheep brother had met a "man," meaning that Red John recruited brother Michael into the Red John Fan Club. In other words, there is an Evil Twin.
The man Michael met could of course have been Brett Stiles, whose Visualize cult taught Red John the nuts and bolts of manipulating people in a cult. Which means that the Evil Twin could be Red John.
What candidates does anyone interested favor? Do we like the Evil Twin possibility? Do we think this arc has gone completely nuts like most do?
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