Having done two network dramas in a row, what would interest you next? A episode cable series, a comedy, playing a perky carrot-dicing sitcom mom…? But you know what, Matt? What do you think it brought to the table that was perhaps distinct? It was a well-executed conclusion to the mystery that's driven the CBS series from the beginning: After shooting Red John in the stomach but not killing him, Jane strangles his nemesis to death after getting him to admit that he's sorry for killing his family and that he is afraid to die.
The camera focused on Jane's face for the gruesome moment, and the Emmy-nominated Baker delivered a poignant sense of relief.
Baker said Jane made the decision long ago to avenge his family's death, so when he finally gets the opportunity, he doesn't let his emotions get the best of him. Jane just wants to get on with the job. When Red John dies, a part of Jane dies as well, Baker said. Now that the case is closed, Jane and the series will move in a new direction, Heller said. The Dec. Bertram and Smith both have the same tattoo as McAllister.
Jane orders them on their feet and tells them to get up against the wall. The shot cuts to outside as we hear a voice saying "wait, NO! When Jane points the shotgun against the three suspects, a bomb, armed probably by Red John presumably one of these suspects , explode in the place. Lisbon arrives on the scene and rushes to the building, but is thrown back by a massive explosion.
Jane investigates the Tyger Tyger conspiracy and its seeming connection with Red John. Jane founds out there is indeed a secret organization The Blake Association of cops and other officials that hands out crimes to be committed.
He opens a box and pulls out stacks of hundreds to put in his briefcase, along with some passports. Reed is in another alley, in a very bad condition. He calls Van Pelt and offers to turn himself in for protection.
Cordero pulls up where Smith is and manages to reel the paranoid Smith towards his car, claiming he was sent by CBI. Cordero then pulls a gun on Smith and tells him to get in the trunk, where it is lined for his execution. Smith tries to stall and it works when Cho arrives and starts shooting at Cordero, who gets away.
In interrogation, Smith reveals that 5 years ago, he had an addiction to pain killers and accidentally killed a 12 year old girl on the job. There were witnesses and evidence but it all went away when he pledged to the secret organization. That is how they get their members: by recruiting people with things that they need to hide.
Van Pelt decrypts it to find a single file that is full of strange symbols. Bertram is the only patron at a bar and asks the bartender for rocks for his scotch.
The bartender sees the news report on the TV behind Bertram and comments that the guy they are looking for looks a lot like him. He gets the broken bottle and stabs the bartender repeatedly, splattering blood all over him. He makes a call to Cordero. The death of the bartender has narrowed the area for the CBI team to where Bertram could be. They have closed off the highways.
The team and backup surrounds the house. However, a lot more SWAT vans pulls up, even from other districts. Jane realizes the ploy and commands everyone to stay but a SWAT member gets into a car and manages to drive off without anyone noticing in the chaos. Lisbon races after him and asks what they should do next, suggesting to decode the list Van Pelt found.
Jane says no and that it is out of their hands. Lisbon cannot believe he is quitting and Jane says he is just letting go. As the elevator doors close on him, he gives Lisbon a sad smile and says sorry.
The last scene shows Jane entering a church and looking at the holy depictions on the stained glass. He walks towards the pewter and sits in a pew, looking as if he is waiting for something. Patrick Jane finally comes face-to-face with Red John, the serial killer he has tracked since the man murdered his wife and daughter.
For 10 years, Jane has doggedly hunted his nemesis in his search for justice. Believing Bertram to be Red John, Jane agrees and meets him at the rendezvous point.
There Bertram shocks Jane by claiming that he is not Red John but merely a humble foot soldier in the Blake Association whereas Red John is much higher. Gale reveals that this is a trap and ruefully gives Oscar the order to shoot and kill Jane but instead Oscar shoots Bertram. Sheriff Thomas McAllister then appears from behind and orders Oscar to remain outside and ensure that he and Jane are not disturbed.
McAllister reveals himself as Red John and explains that he fully controls the Blake Association but while everyone else thinks that Bertram is the real Red John, it will make a fitting end for he and Patrick to be found dead together, having apparently killed one-another. Unimpressed, Jane calls McAllister an evil, sexually perverted sociopath with pathetic delusions of grandeur, angering McAllister who asserts that his sense of grandeur is real due to the power he wields through his organisation.
McAllister goes on to boast that he faked his death with Partridge's help, with a dead body, a stun grenade, and the bomb. Patrick knew how Red John faked his death, but admits that knowing the names on his list was smart.
Patrick asks to show him something to which the overconfident Red John agrees. Patrick then pours breadcrumbs into his hand before releasing a pigeon which flies at the ornothophobic psychopath, causing him to flail in panic. While Red John is distracted, Patrick takes a hand gun from under a pew and shoots the sheriff in the leg. Patrick says that he knew how everything was going to happen. Frightened but still arrogant, Red John taunts Patrick saying that he won't be able to kill him because it will haunt him.
Patrick however is savoring the moment because he knows that the real Red John is finally at his mercy. He taunts Red John back, claiming to be "disappointed". At this a woman walks into the church; Patrick explains that he is from the police and that she needs to leave but she does not believe him. Patrick disarms her and gets his handgun to pursue his wounded nemesis. A woman sees Red John and screams down the police. Patrick asks the woman which way Red John went and she points him in the killer's direction.
Patrick gains on Red John who with the wound in his torso cannot run much further; their chase is about to end. The FBI arrive at the cemetery and begin running to find Patrick. Meanwhile Red John enters the backyard of a home and he then tries to run through the door but a girl closes it. Undeterred, Red John breaks through the glass. Patrick arrives and sees what happened. He hastily explains that he is police and will call for backup. Though Patrick asks for the phone, he does not bother calling anyone.
Red John runs past a school bus, Patrick is sprinting hard and about to get him. It cuts to the FBI entering the church where we see Gale shot dead. Meanwhile, an exhausted Red John collapses near a creek and Patrick finally catches up with him. Patrick pins the murderer to the ground by his throat. He tells him to blink once for no and twice for yes. Jane asks if he is sorry for killing his daughter and wife; he blinks twice.
Patrick simply says "Good" then strangles McAllister to death, finally fulfilling his promise to kill Red John and ending his reign of terror once and for all. Rosalind is a young blind woman who was Red John's girlfriend for a brief period of time, and his closest approximation to a normal human relationship; though only feigned from his part. They met when Red John's car got broken near to Rosalind's house and RJ asked Rosalind's permission to use her telephone, introducing himself by his alias Roy Tagliaferro.
They found a common taste for classical music, and a relationship grew. Red John liked to hear Rosalind play the piano, and she developed a sincere love for him.
However, Red John just used her, as he only frequented her while he was in town building a trap for Jane and Maya Plaskett; and always lied to her, since he posed as a businessman who was "doing business in the area" and not even told her his true name. He also painted one of his trademark smiley faces above Rosalind's bed, mocking the fact that she was blind and couldn't see it. When the trap for Jane was finished, Red John simply left without saying goodbye, leaving Rosalind devastated.
However, she still kept feelings for him and always believed in his innocence, even after Patrick told her that Roy was Red John. RJ retained one of Rosalind's tea cups as a souvenir, which could be seen in the warehouse he was spying Jane from.
Red John visited her again three years later and she looked very happy for his return, playing the piano for him like before. However, Red John only used her again to inform Jane and Susan Darcy that he was still alive, and then hypnotized her and left the corpse of a morgue attendant in her closet. The FBI put Rosalind under witness protection after that encounter, though is unlikely that he had a reason to attack her, since he really never attempted anything against her before.
Once arrested, she revealed to Jane that Red John "loves" her and that they have a connection. Jane responds by stating that RJ only has tools this is established afterward when RJ poisons Rebecca moments after talking to Jane. Visualize cult leader Bret Stiles hinted several times to be a close person to Red John, though the exact nature of that relationship was never specified. He had information of things that only Red John could have known, like the location of the kidnapped Kristina Frye, and was aware of facts concerning RJ, like his joy in sparring with Jane and his encounters with Rosalind Harker and the San Joaquin Killer.
When questioned by Patrick Jane about the source of such knowledge, Stiles simply said that he knew so much more than him or Red John could ever imagine. Since Red John was a member of Visualize during his youth, it's likely that the two met during that period.
Stiles apparently did not hold any grudge against RJ for having murdered fellow Visualize members Martin Talbot and Allen Charney at the barn of the church in Elliston. Both men were very much alike in the sense of being charismatic and manipulative and having hordes of fanatic followers worshiping them. It's very possible that Red John learned that behavior from Stiles. There are hints of a possible cooperation between their two organizations, Stiles' Visualize and Red John's Blake Association, since both used similar tactics; and Visualize was known for committing crimes and mysteriously evading justice, while the Blake Association was later discovered to have been formed by corrupt members of law enforcement.
However, not a single member of one organization was confirmed to have been member of the other, aside from Red John himself. Stiles showed the unique ability to act against Red John's interests without fearing retaliation from the killer, as seen when he used his influences to release Lorelei Martins from prison, in order for Patrick Jane to contact her and get information on Red John's identity.
This was a very brave action considering Red John's extent of power and tendency to be easily infuriated, and suggested that he could be in an almost equal or even superior position though it must be noted that Stiles hesitated before accepting Patrick's request.
However, this connection didn't stop Red John from murdering Bret Stiles by a bomb blast at Jane's house, as part of a plan from the killer to fake his own death during the incident. Red John was known for having a large amount of fanatic followers who felt a great admiration for him, almost like if he was a messiah, and were willing to do anything he asked them to.
Most of them were closet psychopaths who seemed completely normal. They saw him as a savior, since Red John appeared in their lives in moments of despair and helped them. But he didn't. He made you strong. He made you feel proud of that darkness. Red John used them as accomplices in many of his crimes, and they gladly accepted thinking that he was "on a mission of love and enlightenment".
It is unknown whether Red John really believed in that or if it was just a lie he told to make them follow him. Their admiration for Red John was so strong, that some of them went as far as to kill themselves to protect his master. Red John's accomplice Miriam Gottlieb said that they must obey his orders without questions. It is hinted that some of them could also have been his sexual partners, since Lorelei Martins had sex with Patrick Jane under Red John's orders without hesitation.
However, as Jane pointed out, Red John didn't feel any attachment to them, and saw them only as disposable tools that he could kill when they were no longer useful for his purposes or to protect himself. He also killed Lorelei's sister Miranda just to provoke a breakdown in her and be able to "rescue" her.
Red John had a twisted and obsessive relationship with Patrick Jane, something that Bret Stiles described as "a kind of love". The two got in contact in when Jane, then posing as a psychic, joined the police in the quest for the serial killer. After Jane appeared in an interview on TV and called the criminal "a tormented, ugly little man", an infuriated Red John went to Jane's home while he was out of town and killed his wife and daughter in retaliation.
This was atypical from the beginning since it supposed the only time that Red John, who doesn't tolerate being slandered in the media, attacked the relatives of the person that provoked him and not the provoker itself; though he was probably looking for Jane and in his absence decided to attack his family instead.
This caused a breakdown in Jane and, after spending 6 months in a psychiatric facilty, he left his old life as a psychic and joined the CBI as a consultant with the sole purpose to find and take revenge on Red John, becoming his most formidable enemy ever since. As the clashes between the two progressed, Red John began to find fun in sparring with Jane, being his only worthy adversary, and developed a strange connection with him.
After his failed attempt to kill Jane in Red John's Footsteps , Red John never attempted anything against his life nor those of his friends again at least until their last encounter , and instead let him get much closer during his investigations than to any other member of law enforcement, always keeping an eye on every of his movements and playing with him through a series of traps and tricks.
He even came to show some kind of protective attitude towards Jane, as seen when he released him alive after Patrick repeatedly said to his face "go to hell", while others had been savagely murdered for much less; and even saved his life twice by appearing just in time and murdering the criminals who were about to kill him.
Red John also allowed to be manipulated by Jane in one occasion, when Patrick tricked the San Joaquin Killer into belittle Red John on air, knowing that RJ would be angry, and he murdered the San Joaquin Killer without taking any retaliation on Jane for the action. This relationship can be analyzed from many points of view. First, it is obvious that Red John didn't kill Jane because he loved attention, and no one gave him more than Patrick.
Red John thought of himself as a showman, in his mind he was performing, and he delighted having such a discerning audience. The brilliant Patrick Jane, whose life was devoted to deciphering every one of his moves. His life would be diminished without Jane. Moreover, over time it was revealed that both men were in fact extremely similar, something pointed out too by some Red John's accomplices. Both possessed genius-level intelligences, the same set of rare mentalistic abilities see Skills , were well cultured despite apparently none of them having a formal education ; and even shared some aspects of their personalities, like their taste for tea, belief in atheism, and appreciation of good literature and classical music.
During his early years as a fake psychic, Jane's personality was highly manipulative and cynical, much alike Red John's but without the violent and murderous tendencies. In fact, the similarities are so numerous that the most popular theory among fans about the true identity of Red John was that he was none other than Jane himself, or a close relative like his father or a hypothetical twin brother.
Carefully analyzing, there are also strong hints of a psychosexual component in Red John's attitude towards Jane; though not necessarily conscious and not necessarily anything he would act on. Conducts like saving Patrick's life, then stroking his shoulder and chest lovingly and releasing him alive despite Patrick having duped him, all point to a deep attraction. When Bret Stiles referred to Red John's behavior as "a kind of love", he suggested that having attacked Jane's two romantic partners Angela Ruskin Jane and Kristina Frye was a sign of jealously.
Dumar Tanner and Rebecca Anderson strengthened that component with quotes like "he wanted you badly" and "Red John misses you".
Lorelei Martins said that Red John saw Patrick as "an old comrade, rather than an enemy", and that he hoped Patrick to feel the same way. Jane recognized that the reason why Red John didn't kill him was because he expected to turn Jane to him. The most evident sexual-like action from Red John towards Jane was when he sent Lorelei to release him from prison, take care of him and make sex, then dropping the bomb about who sent her and why. It could be said that by proxy, through Lorelei, Red John now had the most intimate knowledge of Patrick.
And the cherry on the sundae for Red John, is that he got that knowledge without Patrick's consent. However, this attraction was completely one sided, since Patrick Jane's feeling towards Red John had always been the same: nothing more than pure hatred. His obsession with Red John was motivated by the only intention to kill him and make him pay for all the suffering he caused to him and to his loved ones.
Many people noted that behind his seemingly cheerful and positive appearance, Jane was deeply hurt and sad for the loss of his family. Every time that Red John was around, he visibly lost control of his emotions and was swayed by hate.
He was even willing to devote to his obsession the rest of his life and put it in risk without second thoughts if that could bring the destruction to Red John too, in a clear analogy with Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. During all their brief encounters in Red Sky in the Morning , The Crimson Hat and Red John , Patrick showed absolutely no interest in talking to Red John or listening what he had to say; and when they finally came to meet face-to-face, Jane mercilessly murdered his nemesis with his own hands as soon as he had the chance, expressing great relief after the act and finally moving on with his life.
Red John draws a Smiley Face "The crying smiley" as a signature to his killings. This smiley face is drawn with the blood of the victim, clockwise, using three fingers of his rubber-gloved right hand, according to the observation that Brett Partridge came up with.
However, because the blood hasn't yet congealed when he draws it, the face looks like it's crying. Patrick Jane says in the first episode, Pilot , that "Red John thinks of himself as a showman, an artist.
He has a strong sense of theater. You see the face first, and you know. Then, and only then, do you see the body of the victim. Red John kills his victims with "a frenzy of stabbing and cutting with subsequent abuse of the viscera" according to the coroner in the pilot.
His weapon of choice, which he is seen wielding in a flashback in His Red Right Hand and when killing one of his copycats in Red Sky in the Morning , appears to be a linoleum knife , which has a short, curved blade.
This is the type of knife Patrick buys when fabricating the evidence against Thomas Maier in the murder of James Panzer. It was mentioned in the Pilot that he uses a taser to incapacitate his victims and binds them with plastic flex cuffs before stabbing them. In a scene depicting his early. Red John's weapon according to Jane: edged knife with rubber shaft and an arched blade. Most victims are apparently undressed before they are killed, either down to their underwear or completely.
Red John has painted the toenails of the two victims red with her own blood.
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