Lorelei tortures Julia to get information about her sister's death. "[3] In addition, "Jane and the audience are coming to the gradual realization that this is a much larger task than it seemed at first. Before leaving Jane, Red John recites the first stanza of "The Tyger" by William Blake (see above). Last appearance After Lorelei comes after Lennon, Jane appears to try to rescue Lennon (for Jane's own ends) and to acknowledge Lennon's and Red John's involvement in Miranda Martins' murder. This makes Panzer Red John's ninth male victim. In Lorelei's message from Red John, she names the seven men Jane had narrowed down his list to include, indicating that somehow Red John has gotten inside Jane's mind, although Red John doesn't deny being one of the seven men. When Jason Lennon (who admitted to being an accomplice of Red John) awakes from an induced coma, he is interviewed by Kirkland. Jane moves in to take a closer look at whom he now believes is the real Red John before Bret Stiles indicates for him to look at Gale Bertram and Reede Smith, who both have the same tattoo as the sheriff. The Mentalist's Red John Speaks [Warning: The following story contains major spoilers from Sunday's episode of The Mentalist. When it becomes clear that Jane's nemesis, the serial killer Red John, is involved, Jane and Lisbon reveal that there is a mole within the CBI working for Red John and that their ex-boss Madeline Hightower, now in hiding, is innocent of a murder. Panzer's murder proves Jane's theory that Red John is still alive. Jane is saved by Hightower and Lisbon, and Kirkland is arrested. She feels his face and told him that she had never met the man before, confirming Jane's suspicion that Red John is "still out there somewhere". She calls SAC-PD; however, when she arrives at the address, a lady on the line informs her that they are temporarily unavailable. Jane uses this information to work out that an apparent Red John murder was a copycat crime. Jane used background noises from the conversation as a starting point to find this man, but Red John got to him first, killing both Renfrew and the prostitute Renfrew had been with. As Jane tries to calm the woman and get her to leave, she reveals herself to be another of Red John's agents and attempts to slit Jane's throat with a knife. According to Patrick Jane, she had an unhappy childhood and was molested by a close relative. Jane tricks Sally into revealing the girl's location. This episode reveals two new accomplices of Red John: Julia Howard and Jason Lennon, well-regarded citizens, a worker and a trustee of a women's shelter, respectively. In the season 3 finale, "Strawberries and Cream – Part 2", the mole is identified as Grace Van Pelt's fiancé, FBI Agent Craig O'Laughlin (played by Eric Winter); O'Laughlin attempts to assassinate Hightower and instead shoots Lisbon, and is then himself shot dead by Hightower and Van Pelt in tandem. Satisfied with his answers, Jane then strangles McAllister to death. Red John's victims have been mostly female, with some exceptions, such as Jared Renfrew (Todd Stashwick) in the season 1 episode "Red John's Friends", a man Jane helped to be released from prison on the condition he would give Jane information on the whereabouts of Red John. Whether Bret Stiles actually knows the identity of Red John appears to be debatable throughout the series, but subsequent episodes imply that, although Stiles may know Red John is connected to his organization, he does not know which member he currently is and simply uses his own resources to keep tabs on the killer's activities. The first was Patrick Jane's wife, Angela; Red John wanted to punish Jane for saying derogatory things about him during a TV interview. Nothing. In the forests of the night When he and Panzer both appear on Karen Cross's television talk show discussing the SJK case, Jane recognizes Panzer has to be stopped and goads Panzer into comparing Red John unfavorably to SJK. '; it's 'Why did he give it to you?'". Before her arrest, she gave Jane a DVD from Red John, which featured the now dead Lorelei Martins, who recorded a video shortly before her own murder by Red John. Meanwhile, Special Agent J.J. LaRoche (Pruitt Taylor Vince) begins rigorously working to find Johnson's killer. Votes: 1,243 Jane believes Red John removed the body from the crime scene (something he had otherwise not done) to bury the mistake. What immortal hand or eye Red John has twice painted his victim's toenails with their own blood. The viewer is supposed to be convinced. 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. In the premiere of season 6, Jane is highly disturbed at how Red John could deduce who he would have on his final list two months before finishing it, as well as have so much intimate knowledge of his memories and thought process. She does not react angrily, apparently since Red John (and thus she) became aware of Jane's deception. In Cho's interpretation, he refers to a third, and earlier poem by William Blake, called "The Lamb" to which "Tyger Tyger" is a response or a further musing on the different parts of creation and the reasons for them, as started in "The Lamb". Jane accepts, but has to resign and the whole CBI team risks suspension to help him. Jane and Lisbon then realize that Brett Partridge was chanting the phrase "Tyger, Tyger" to Lisbon just prior to his death, in the hope that she was a member and could help him. As part of his criminal signature, Red John draws a smiley face on the wall with the blood of the victim—always clockwise (except when it was portrayed in skywriting in "Red John's Footsteps"), using the three fingers of his rubber-gloved right hand. Jared Renfrew has lost the last appeal against his conviction for the rape and murder of Undine Kopecki, the daughter of his family estate's housekeeper. In a mall, after Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston) leaves in a huff over Jane's wasting of his time. 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. Locating an entry dedicated to a man with the last name "Roth" (a word meaning 'red'), Red John's alias when visiting Sophie, Jane listens to a detailed description of Red John's inner workings; he seems to have a case of acrophobia, and/or other phobias, is middle aged, is in good health, has no family but many friends, is a great speaker, has good posture, is an excellent whistler, possesses hints of narcissism, and seems to be harboring something dark within himself. 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. 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. In the episode, Red John saves Jane from two student filmmakers who had copycatted Red John murders. He and the driver cover it up and before departing say, "Tyger, Tyger." Patrick Jane is very much alive and is very much about being alive in the face of death. Lorelei and a huge, armed man emerge from the car, and she claims Red John is inside. In "Red Sails in the Sunset", Lorelei Martins reveals, in a moment of pique, that Red John is someone Jane knows by telling him that he and Red John are very much alike and she is surprised that they didn't become best friends "as soon as they shook hands". Spoiler Alert! Jane comes to believe the man he shot was not Red John, but Timothy Carter, a sadistic businessman who, with his equally twisted wife, Sally, had kidnapped a young woman Debbie Lupin, in whose search the couple cynically pretended to join. He plans to attract each suspect individually, telling them he has critical information about Red John. After Jane had finished questioning Rebecca, she was escorted to a holding cell, and on the way there was killed by possibly Red John himself or a member of the Blake Association. A couple of episodes later, Jane has made a list of all the people he has shaken hands with. At first, the man appears upset and threatens to call security, but then smiles and says he was joking and claims he is Red John. Other Members. He tells her it is a melon, specifically a honeydew. Jane says he will not be able to move on until Red John is dead. He then orders Oscar to kill Jane. In "Little Red Book", Lisbon arranges a meeting with Agent J.J. LaRoche, who is apparently leaving Major Crimes, to see Sally Carter, who committed suicide by slitting her wrists with a sharpened spoon, leaving a note about how lost she was now that her "God" (by which she presumably means Timothy Carter) is dead. 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. FBI Regional Director Alexa Shultz is the federal agent who is first seen in season five of the Mentalist. Jane says in the pilot episode, "Red John thinks of himself as a showman; an artist. When Patrick asks how she knows his name, she says, "Your friend told me," and reveals the red smiley-face painted on her hand. This makes Jane conclude that there is a connection between Johnson and Red John, but he doesn't tell anyone about this either. Rebecca Anderson was Sam Bosco's team assistant at the CBI. T. Orville Tanner. Infuriated that Lisbon went behind his back and played into Red John's hands, Jane and Lisbon have a falling out, with Lisbon eventually going to an abandoned house after receiving an anonymous tip at 5570 West Huron Street. He doesn't leave clues. He’s always on the lookout for clues. Red John even pulled a baffling trick in which a recording suggests he knew Jane's list of seven suspects before Jane did. Jane then looks Smith in the eye and asks him if he killed his wife and daughter, at which point Smith states that he did not. When Johnson realized that Red John would never let him live while he was in custody and surrounded by potentially corrupt officials, he was prepared to reveal everything he knew to Jane, before he himself is killed by another Red John operative, but still managed to utter the society's main form of communication to Jane. Once the five suspects are together, Jane tells them that one of them 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. Also under Red John's orders and using the alias "Agent Rojo" (Spanish for "red"), she stole the body of one of Red John's past victims and evidence which could have brought Lisbon's team closer to identifying and capturing Red John. Jane knocks out the woman with a candle stand and, realizing that McAllister escaped during the commotion, leaves the chapel to chase the killer. Darcy subsequently realizes that Red John was still alive even though Jane has kept up the deception. After unmasking himself to Patrick Jane, McAllister discloses that he is the founder and overall leader of the secret organization known as the Blake Association. With so much corruption being revealed to have infiltrated California's law enforcement agencies, along with Bertram seemingly revealed as Red John, an out of state FBI team led by Special Agent Dennis Abbot from Austin, Texas, is sent to disband the CBI, at which point Jane decides to "let go" but tells Lisbon he hasn't quit in his hunt for Red John. During the encounter, Red John keeps his face hidden behind a mask, preventing Jane from identifying him. But a secret league of corrupt cops is credible concept and helped explain Red John’s power and access. This is similar to Visualize's motto of opening up potential members' eyes to the truth in order to effectively recruit them, implying that Red John uses the same philosophy to recruit his followers. — DID NOT WORK: Red John’s … Darcy is investigating the apparent deaths of Lisbon and Rigsby. As Jane begins to regain consciousness, Bertram flees and Lisbon and Jane deduce that either Bertram or Smith is Red John. The driver replies with the same phrase. It's like those Amazon tribesmen who throw spears at passing airplanes, then come to realize those planes are the seeds of a much larger civilization that is coming down on them." In transit after her arrest, Gottlieb commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, refusing, like almost all Red John's operatives, to be taken alive. Tyger! However, Jane and the authorities locate Lisbon, who seems to have been left unscathed by Red John, confusing her and Jane. Jane is not present at the time of the reciting, but it is quite out of character for Bertram to recite poetry, and the fact that it is a poem by the same author is probably more than a simple coincidence. First to reveal is Raymond Haffner and Bret Stiles, who do not have tattoos. In The Great Red Dragon, he is revealed to be a member of the Blake Association. When discussing what the poem means, Cho says, "Well, God made the lamb, but he also made the tiger. The murders are revealed to have been committed over two decades ago, when various Visualize members worked on the farm until its eventual shutdown due to a lack of farming expertise, and ten years before Red John was an active serial killer who targeted predominantly women. 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. You can't have light without darkness. In The Red Tattoo, he is introduced as the officer who investigated Bob Kirkland's shooting. Jane has spent his entire time at CBI obsessing over Red John. Lorelei reappears in episode 16 of season 5, "There Will Be Blood". Red John is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the CBS crime drama The Mentalist for the first five seasons and half of the sixth. However, Oscar, also under orders from Red John, shoots Bertram dead as the real Red John enters the chapel: Sheriff Thomas McAllister. Upon arrival, they find Harker alive and unhurt, playing her piano alone, seemingly sad that Red John "couldn't stay". Red John, in the meantime, decides to exploit the opportunity to use Johnson's murder as a means to target another individual close to Jane and additionally cover up the identity of Johnson's true killer, who also served as his secret informant on the CBI. Lorelei does have her assistant beat Jane up "a little". It's just a game, and he keeps winning. At this moment, Lisbon and her team, who were to move in and arrest Red John, are arrested by Darcy and her squad. The next day, as the FBI cleans out the CBI headquarters, Jane receives a phone call from Bertram, who is still on the run with the aid of Oscar, but cuts their conversation short when a police officer at the gas station he is calling from recognizes Bertram. With one of Red John’s alluring accomplices in custody, the hunt for the elusive serial killer gets back on track. Gottlieb tricked Turner into separating herself from her volatile husband and moving into a motel, where Red John struck. The Mentalist debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS and follows Simon Baker as Patrick … After kissing Jane, she departs on a mission to kill Red John, breaking her pact to reveal Red John's identity. Information Red John also kills the two kidnappers, one of whom was male, but leaves alive a boy who the kidnappers blackmailed into looking like a criminal. The cameraman uploads an infobox saying, "She's cute, this is going to be fun". Lisbon then sees Bertram and tells him Smith is Red John. Profession Knowing about the tattoo and using it as his leverage, Jane plans to gather the remaining five suspects at his old house where he has ammunition. Red John communicates through Lorelei that he will only meet Jane in person if he kills Lisbon and brings him her head as a "present". 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On his deathbed, Johnson says "Tyger Tyger" to Jane, indicating he is in some way connected to Red John. In the episode, Patrick Jane and the CBI unit investigate a seemingly unsuccessful attempt at a gas station bombing. On his deathbed, Johnson says "Tyger Tyger" to Jane, indicating he is in some way connected to Red John. This turned out to be a deception of her later when the serial killer disposed of her to avoid being caught. Jane then snatches a gun he taped underneath one of the pews the previous day and shoots McAllister in the torso and Oscar dead when he enters to stop Jane; McAllister begs Jane not to kill him. The thing is, Red John is a master of the mind game. In the season 4 premiere it is revealed that Ron Deutsch, the bald security officer at the mall, was a Red John operative who removed crucial evidence from the scene. Darcy notices a blood trail leading to a nearby closet, which, when opened, reveals the murdered body of the morgue attendant, confirming that Red John is still alive, either following Darcy or with access to the information in her files and/or her comings and goings. ", in the last line of the fifth verse: Did he who made the Lamb make thee? In flashback just after Jane has joined the CBI, a man is seen thanking FBI Director Alexa Shultz for asking Virgil Minelli to keep the FBI updated on the Red John investigation. This revealed that Jane knew McAllister was Red John before meeting Bertram and deduced his phobia, which Sophia Miller previously speculated on (also implying why he was unable to kill Lisbon previously as the house they were in during the season premiere contained pigeons). She turned out to be one of Red John's accomplices. Patrick shot Red John dead right then and there with the gun hidden in his pocket. This episode knocks off several Red John suspects right away following last week's explosion, leaving Bertram as the person Jane, Lisbon and the rest of the CBI team believe is the culprit. In the season 6 episode "Red Listed", there is a revelation by Bob Kirkland (Kevin Corrigan) as to what "Tyger Tyger" means. She brings forward Red John's proposal for friendship and a 'change' in Jane's lifestyle to help him overcome his depression. Jane tells Lorelei that she will eventually reveal what she knows and walks out of the room, ending season 4. Our team is made of people from all sectors. He has a strong sense of theater ... the first thing that anyone sees is the face on the wall. The reason behind Todd Johnson's cop killings is left unclear, but later seasons along with Johnson's knowledge of the phrase "Tyger, Tyger" would imply that their deaths were in some way connected to the "Blake Association". Family On his way to prison, his vehicle is pulled over by FBI Agent Reede Smith. Smith pretends to know nothing about "Tyger Tyger" until he shoots Kirkland in the back six times when pretending to free him from a prison transfer, after which he tells the driver, who belongs to the same organization, "Tyger Tyger". Mentalist fans and blog readers, write down your answers and theories (as comments to this post) regarding who you think killed Todd Johnson (and is therefore Red John’s accomplice). "Red John (The Mentalist)" redirects here. In the season 4's finale "The Crimson Hat", after being fired from the CBI, Jane finds himself in a Las Vegas bar, where he meets an attractive woman named Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chriqui). Could frame thy fearful symmetry? When Patrick Jane questioned Rebecca, she stated that she loved Red John, and he loved her. Although it was initially believed that Red John wasn't involved in the murder, and that it was either the victim's husband or uncle, it is revealed that Red John committed the murder with the help of Miriam Gottlieb, a social worker who wanted Eileen Turner's child. While the FBI shuts down agent Lisbon's CBI team, Patrick goes off on his own to track down the man he has publicly identified as Red John. Jane had had suspicions that he was being watched and realizes that his room has been broken into because he sees the toothpick he had been leaving of late between the door and the frame lying on the floor where it fell after Kirkland's men entered the premises, never noticing it.[7]. Status As Harker speaks on the phone, a slim man, holding a tea cup in his left hand, and dressed in a smart, dark-coloured suit, is sitting nearby; Harker, when asked, confirms that "Roy" is present and listening. After the main character Patrick Jane talked bad about Red John in a show, he killed his wife and his daughter as revenge. The character of Red John himself remained largely unseen from the beginning. She says, "He told me to ask you a question ... 'Do you give up yet?'" In the cemetery where Jane's wife and daughter are buried, a little girl named Hailey (Emma Rayne Lyle) approaches him and says, "Hello, Patrick." Like Moriarty, Red John has a network of agents, willing to kill or to die for him. They take pictures of the information on Red John that Jane has on display. Jane then begins a secret investigation of his own to track the killer. Lorelei is arrested unhurt, although the driver/bodyguard is killed. Smith informs him that the "Tyger, Tyger" quote is used by dirty officers of California Law Enforcement. One of Red John's accomplices lets slip that Jane has shaken hands with Red John. Fearing Red John, the man escaped Jane's custody before giving any relevant information. Rebecca Anderson Lisbon forces Jane to come clean and he tells her about Hightower being framed by Red John, and that he hired Culpepper to steal LaRoche's list of suspects from his Todd Johnson murder investigation. After a long struggle of finding the serial killer who murdered his wife and daughter, Patrick Jane finally gets closer to Red John when Lorelei Martins (RJ's mistress) accidently tells … It would later be revealed that Red John has a multitude of followers that see him as a savior who gave their life a purpose and willingly aid him in his various plans and murders in gratitude for what he gives them, which can range from a new life, an occupation, or some form of compensation. The killing of Eileen Turner marks the beginning of a new killing spree as Lorelei tells Jane that Red John will "start killing again ... often" until either Jane catches him, or he catches Jane. Panzer rises to the bait, making bold statements that the SJK killings were the work of a genius and Red John by comparison is a "common sociopath, lazy, sloppy, delusional" and already forgotten since Jane killed him. Later in the episode, Patrick burns all the CBI files of Red John, presumably out of despair, and the next morning says, "He's right... it's time to give up ... nothing's working. Finding Red John and taking revenge against him for the murder of his wife and daughter was Jane's central goal during the first 6 seasons of the series, a goal constantly frustrated by Red John's ability to be alwa… It is believed that the men who have these tattoos are all corrupt government officials who use the "Tyger, Tyger" phrase to cover up their unlawful work. The FBI closes the case, presumably leaving Darcy safe, as she will presumably drop her inquiry. In the season 4 premiere "Scarlet Ribbons", Patrick Jane says that Red John's victims are “nearly all women, late at night, in their homes. As it is revealed that Red John stole Sophie's personal files on her patients, Jane concludes that Red John most likely came to her in the guise of a patient in order to ply her for knowledge. Once he learns that the list was fake from Jane, he kidnaps him. As a serial killer, he is believed to have begun his killing spree in 1988, and has, with his operatives and acolytes, killed more than 70 people in California, Nevada, and Mexico. The two shake hands, and Kirkland tells Jane that he knows him, although Jane didn't know Kirkland. He's fighting Moriarty. His face was confined in the shadows when he escaped from the abandoned house in the first-season finale. Smith is one of them. After assisting the CBI team – Teresa Lisbon, Kimball Cho, Wayne Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt – with solving the state’s most serious crimes, Patrick Jane now senses that Red John is closer than ever. His followers do not simply aid him, but worship him and willingly give their lives for his cause, refusing to ever reveal any information about their leader or how they met him. One of the people believing Red John to be dead is James Panzer, a blogger pretending to devote his life to find a serial killer known as "the San Joaquin Killer" (abbreviated SJK, who has killed at least five young women). You know what's happened and you feel dread. 9.3 A man in prison claims that he has information about Red John & he wants to use that information in exchange for Jane proving his innocence. Jane bides his time until Bertram calls him again, wishing to meet him to gain a sense of closure and believing that their rivalry has ended in an honorable tie. Bertram is later revealed to be among Jane's final list of Red John suspects. He pulls out his shotgun and asks that they all put their guns on the floor. Directed by David Barrett. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? Rebecca Anderson was Sam Bosco 's team assistant at the CBI. Red John (former lover; according to Rebecca). The CBI team executes a plot where they fake the murders of Lisbon and Rigsby at the hands of Jane, and the team goes into hiding. With Jane's help, Hightower stages a hostile escape and is advised by Jane to remain in hiding, not only to evade the police but due to the danger imposed by Red John. As McAllister claims that he knew who would be on Jane's final list of suspects because he is a real psychic, Jane asks him two final questions to determine his honesty by looking at his eyes. Just as Lorelei is about to reluctantly punish Jane by cutting off two of his fingers, the CBI and FBI teams arrive. At the start of the series, Red John was initially known as simply a serial killer who tortured and murdered mostly women, with at least eleven confirmed victims by the series' premiere. However, Lorelei refuses to believe Jane about the murderer. Could frame thy fearful symmetry? After two attempts are made on his life, Smith decides to hand himself in to the CBI in exchange for protection, where he reveals that he joined the Blake Association after accidentally killing a twelve-year-old girl as a result of paranoia induced by pain medication he was addicted to at the time, eventually being cleared of the crime due to his ties with the Blake Association.
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