But that would betray Jane's character. He didn't have to answer to anyone. In the season 6 episode "The Great Red Dragon", Smith decides to hand himself in after the same organization he is part of attempts to kill him, in the same way he killed Bob Kirkland. Yes, Sheriff Thomas McAllister (Xander Berkeley) is Red John. In the season 4's penultimate episode "Red Rover, Red Rover", Jane receives a message from Red John: an envelope with the words "Happy Anniversary" under the wiper of his car. Alerted to Jane's whereabouts, the CBI begins to close in on the pair, but Jane allows Lorelei to escape, telling her to "find the truth" for herself and come back to him when she realizes Red John used her. Sheriff Thomas "Tom" McAllister was the sheriff of Napa County. Then, and only then, do you see the body of the victim. Do you know what that means? Instead, he accepted a mystery gift from his arch-nemesis and freaked out over a pigeon (should we even point out that Red John's bodyguard found the gun on Jane but missed the living bird in his pocket?). Red John has twice painted his victim's toenails with their own blood. The viewer is supposed to be convinced. Lorelei looks at the box Jane is bearing and asks if it contains a football or a cabbage. This poem is alluded to numerous times throughout the series, before and after its reveal to Jane, with its contents making up the backbone of Red John's philosophy (implying the reason for why it is his favorite poem) of there being no such thing as life without death or light without darkness, something he tells his followers to get them into the correct mindset for their murders and exploits. Zack Snyder Explains Why Batman Needed Joker In Justice League's Knightmare Sequence, How Mark Wahlberg And His Family Are Doing After Leaving Hollywood. In the season 2 finale "Red Sky in the Morning", Red John and Jane meet when Red John rescues Jane from kidnappers; however Red John wears a mask that obscures his face. It's just a game, and he keeps winning. I liked to think Jane is running because, for the first time since his family was killed, for the first time since we met him, he is free. Jane asks two questions: Does he feel sorry for murdering his wife and daughter? [Laughs] But I can't complain. Once he is alone with Lisbon and Jane, he reveals that he is a member of The Blake Association (whose name is simultaneously first revealed), that they use the phrase "Tyger, Tyger" to identify fellow members, and that Red John is also a member of the Association. You go, 'Next! Although those names aren't revealed until the end of the episode, Jane and the CBI investigate a Red John murder. This choke hold did. Sheriff Tom McAllister, whose death had been presumed-slash-faked in the explosion at Jane's house. Lisbon faxes him a photo of the crime scene where the word "ROY" can be seen scrawled on the floor next to the sister's body information that had been withheld from the public at the time of the murder. It's huge!". At this time, Red John is shown to be stalking Darcy via an uploaded video called "I Dare You" on the Major Crime server, which shows her in her apartment, unaware that she is being filmed. In the fifth season episode "The Red Barn", it is hinted that Red John may currently be or was a member of the "Visualize Self-Realization Center" church, a notorious cult with a reputation for brainwashing its members, as two bodies which fit his MO were found on a farm previously controlled by Visualize, complete with his signature smiley face on the outside of the barn where the bodies were found. Visualize is also known for teaching its members various and diverse skills, such as bomb manufacturing and advanced technology and computer uses, skills that Red John himself and many of his followers also display throughout the series. After five seasons and change, The Mentalist has finally revealed the identity of serial killer Red John. When Jason Lennon (who admitted to being an accomplice of Red John) awakes from an induced coma, he is interviewed by Kirkland. You see the face first and you know. And he's dead, he's done, he got what he had coming. seemed like the natural correct choice. He tells them that he was supposed to meet Melanie at the restaurant at 11:30 pm but showed up 10 minutes late and thought she hadn't come out yet. Tonight was the big one. Van Pelt and Rigsby are at the restaurant. Most of the intentional clues before the reveal are in season 5 and season 6 . She refuses to speak about Red John but tells Lisbon that she and Jane have been lovers, calling each other "lover" frequently. She identifies the tattoo and shoots Smith, wounding him, but he escapes. In the season 4 episode "Blinking Red Light", Red John kills James Panzer, a blogger and serial killer known as the San Joaquin Killer, after Panzer has been goaded by Jane into insulting Red John on television. After watching this hour of The Mentalist last week under top-secret embargo,. By contrast, McAllister always, from his first appearance onward came across as an intelligent man hiding behind a country bumpkin sheriff persona. He plans to attract each suspect individually, telling them he has critical information about Red John. Baker said something similar during our interviewthat he wished the show could have explored a 24-style serialized format when chasing Red John, but lamented that since The Mentalist is on CBS, they had to stick to a procedural format. If Red John was going to be McAllister, I wish the show would have spent fewer weeks/months/years hiding him, and more time having fun with these two rivals going after each other, especially since concealing Red John's identity was so creatively limiting. In the season 2 episode "His Red Right Hand", it is revealed another man was killed when he interrupted his wife's murder at the hand of Red John. He does not know who Red John is but was ordered to lure Jane to a meeting so that he can be killed. I did like Jane planting a gun in the church in the previous episode (a device that was, unfortunately, spoiled in CBS' promos last week). If Red John wanted to die, maybe this is how he wanted to die. Jane believes this occurred early in Red John's career and that Red John made a "mistake" due to his inexperience. One was a concussion bomb that knocked out everyone in the room, at which point McAllister dragged Jane, Bertram, and Smith away from the more deadly bomb. Because of the nature of long-teased surprises, there will no doubt be some who are disappointed by the big reveal, but from where Im sitting, it was actually a pretty fitting climax for more than a few reasons. Jane is shocked and tells Lorelei to get out. "Xander is a wonderfully subtle actor who can go deep deep enough to be our Red John," says series creator/exec producer Bruno Heller, who says he selected McAllister to be his Big Bad "about a year ago, after carefully weighing all other options. There had to be some kind of misdirections, and we get those thanks to the Sheriffs fake death and the nonsense with Bertram just getting up and shot like some random redshirt. 3. It I've fallen from 30-story buildings three times, including once as a transvestite psycho-killer in a tutu and a red wig. After more than five seasons, we finally met the man who murderedPatrick Janes wife and child on 'The Mentalist' and to say that it was a shock would be an understatement. In season 2's finale episode "Red Sky in the Morning", a William Blake theme is introduced, when a person, who is believed at the time to be Red John, saves Patrick Jane from being killed under the direction of deranged slasher movie makers Ruth and Dylan. McAllister made the most sense. Rebecca Anderson, a loyal Red John operative who murdered Sam Bosco and his team under his orders before she is killed by Red John, reveals that Red John "opened her eyes to the truth" and enabled her to see the world for what it really was. Smith is one of them. What differentiates living as mere roommates from living in a marriage-like relationship? Red John was smoke and mirrors and then, "Oh hell, let's just have Red John be that guy. Hightower goes to stay with her sister. Lorelei is arrested unhurt, although the driver/bodyguard is killed. By the episode "Blinking Red Light", it is now widely believed that Red John is dead, with Jane and Lisbon the only ones aware he is still alive. The show will apparently pick up in two years, but what exactly anyone involved will be doing at that point is unclear. In Terminator 2, I had the line, "Tell that f--king nut to shut up!" He tells Jane that he was fooled for a while by Jane's plot but was apprised of the truth by a "good friend" inside the FBI. There's the typecasting thing in Hollywood they see you do something and they want to see you do it again and again. If youre on the West Coast and havent yet gotten a chance to see the episode, or youve simply DVRed it instead of watching it live, I would highly, highly suggest holding off on reading this article until after youve gotten a chance to watch the events unfold. Nerwin_Aldarion: Yes, it fit who RJ was, playing the power behind the throne easily. He previously shot a man once that he thought was Red John. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. But Jane, still not satisfied Carter was Red John, brings Rosalind Harker, the blind woman who had a relationship with Red John, to identify Carter's body. [Warning: Major spoilers ahead from Sunday's episode, "Red John." Do not proceed if you have not watched.] Sure the name sounds like a condo management company. RELATED | The Mentalist Promotes Emily Swallow to Series Regular Ahead of Dec. 1 Debut. Then he asks, Are you afraid to die? I remember it all looked like such a lark back then. sequential (one-line) endnotes in plain tex/optex. Later that day, the man contacted Jane to explain that he would be of no further assistance, although this doesn't save Renfrew's life. master of his domain. Generating points along line with specifying the origin of point generation in QGIS. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. It went on for so long that, after a while, I was thinking, "Is the bullet still in him?". The end. Meanwhile, a limousine pulls over in the middle of a deserted street where Jane is waiting. He needed that freedom and the quiet loneliness of the countryside to do his thing as Red John." This finally explains how Red John recruited so many followers over the years who worshipped him and who were willing to give their lives for his plans. He could disappear. Here's your problem, Pat. He explains that the killer didn't intend for her to die that way. In a later episode, a private investigator named Kira Tinsley, who was hired by Red John to spy on the CBI, mentions that it was a Visualize member that hired her, confirming that Red John is indeed still a functioning member of the organization. He was later included among the seven final people on Jane's List of Suspects to be Red John. This is also the mindset Red John's accomplices follow to act on his orders. Now that three men have identical tattoos, a new window is opened to identify who Red John is; and whether Red John also has the tattoo. Blake Lively Had A Funny Response When Asked About Which Met Gala Look She Loves The Most, Universal Orlando Teases Halloween Horror Nights With New Video And I'm Completely Creeped Out, How Wolf Entertainment's New Cop Drama Will Be Fundamentally Different From Chicago P.D. Here is a scene in the show's second episode, "Red Hair and Silver Tape," in which Jane unwittingly meets Red John for the first time. Jane tells Lorelei that she will eventually reveal what she knows and walks out of the room, ending season 4. Plus, McAllister was in the second episode of the entire series, which offers a nice cyclical arrangement. Jane says in the pilot episode, "Red John thinks of himself as a showman; an artist. She says, "He told me to ask you a question 'Do you give up yet?'" This implies that Red John used the cult and its techniques to recruit individuals who would make suitable followers (as many of Visualize's members come from broken families and traumatic childhoods, a trait that nearly every single Red John operative also shares), then brainwashes or seduces them to effectively control them.