“ | Tiger, Tiger burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal hand and I could frame that fearful symmetry. | „ |
~ Red John |
Sheriff Thomas McAllister or better known as Red John, he is the main archenemy of Patrick Jane and also the main antagonist of seasons 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. He is portrayed by and his voiced is by Simon Baker.
History[]
Biography[]
Red John is a cruel serial killer who murdered many women. And when seer who claims to be psychic, Patrick Jane decides to describe Red John's personality, he didn't like it, in revenge. Red John then killed Jane's family, his wife and daughter. And with that Jane promises revenger on him, and becomes the CBI consultant, so he can help them capture the cruel serial killer.
The Mentalist[]
Season 1[]
Jane makes a deal with Jared Renfrew who claims to have information about Red John in exchange for exonerating him since he was incriminated by his mother and at the end of this all Mrs. Renfrew was arrested for the murder of Jared Renfrew's half sister Andine however Jared escape CBI protection and Red John kills him along with a prostitute before Jane can interrogate him.
Red John kills one of the groaning girls, and that Jane notices something strange behind if, and that despite him knowing that Red John was present in this crime, but that the victim had been kidnapped before being stabbed was killed before being thrown in. This did not fit Red John's modus operandis as all his victims were kills indoors, while the CBI investigates the case when an airplane makes Red John's smiles as his signature crime. And with that Jane realizes and concludes that the twin is alive. And during investigations the CBI realizes that Red John used fakes name under Roy Tagliaferro and related to a blind woman named Rosalind. And in the end Jane learns that Sheriff Hardy is one Red John's accomplices. And that Red John is keeping an eye on him.
Season 2[]
Soon after, along with her accomplice and Rebecca Anderson kills Bosco and his team so that Jane can investigate the case again. And Jane finds out that Rebecca and Red John cheats on Rebecca and kills her before she can reveal her real identify. And in the final episode of season two, when two psychopaths Dylan and Ruth decide to copy Red John in order to cover up their crimes and enclose to create a false story, which in the end when Jane is captured by the pair, however Jane already knew it was them. Two and that they used student Wesley Blankfein to kill Jane they were investigating and coerced Wesley into doing what they wanted if they would not kill their mother, and in the pair are easily killed by Red John who the same snub Ruth for not tolerating cheap imitations, and shoots Wesley in the leg, he later recites William Blake's poem which is The Tiger.
Season 3[]
After ordering Craig O'Lauglin to kill Todd Johnson who is serial killer who had information about Red John, he then mesmerizes Isla the Assassin that if she fails the mission she would kill herself, he then sends her to kill Hightower, however she gets caught in the trap of Patrick Jane and the CBI and kills himself. After that Jane thinks Red John's accomplice is Gale Bertram, but during a conversation with Bertram, he soon learns that Red John's real accomplice is Craig O'Lauglin and when Jane alerts Lisbon, Van Pelt and Hightower. After that Jane asks Lisbon to pick up Craig's cell phone and call Red John, and when she does the cell phone rings, and Jane comes accross a man who claims to be Red John he even tells Jane how he killed his wife his and daughter and at the end of the episode Jane kills him and is arrested.
Season 4[]
Then when Jane was arrested, he soon got his innoncence before the jury, and soon found out that the man he had killed who said to be Red John wans't really, and his name was Timothy Carter a kidnapper who lives with false identifies. The next day Jane takes Rosalind a blind woman Red John has been with, and as she goes to the coroner's office she feels his face and says Carter is not Red John. And in the next episode, when a serial killer begins to kill, called the San Joaquin Killer, and Jane soon begins to suspect James Panzer a crime reporter, and during a television shown, Jane soon begins to tease him, and Panzer without think what you say you said Compared to SJK, Red John was nothing. An amatteur Already forgotten. Red John hearing this he was furious with Panzer and killed him for his own arrogance.
Jane soon meets Lorelei, after he pretends to collapse on his daughter's and wife's birthday, and is even his first lover after the death of his wife and daughter, Lorelei later reveals herself as an friend and says that Red John has a gift from the corpse of Lisbon, and then when the team fakes Rigsby's death, she then hides. Patrick then goes to a meeting with Red John and is greeted by Lorelei and a henchman, and when Patrick gets in the car, Red John tries to make Jane his disciple plus Jane refuses, Red John then orders Lorelei to cut two of his fingers. As he prepares to cut his finger with a pair of scissors, the FBI arrests the Lisbon team. And when Darcy arrives in the back seat it is to see the supposed dead Red John, who turns out to be Luther Wainwright dead, who was gagged and duct and that Red John just spoke his neck through a telephone.
Season 5[]
Then when Lorelei learns about Jason Lennon that a friend of Red John, that they were responsible for killing his sister, she almost hesitates to kill him. However after Lorelei's attack, Jason falls into a coma and when he wakes up he comes across Robert Kirkland who demands to know of he was responsible for the death of his twin brother Michael, but when Lennon says he doesn't know, Kirkland kills him by injecting a syringe that causes embolism in your heart and it dies.
And when Lorelei is kidnapped by Red John, he giving a list of one the people who may be Red John, she then names the suspects who are Reede Smith, Thomas McAllister, Gale Bertram, Brett Partridge, Robert Kirkland, Ray Haffner and Brett Stiles. And Jane sees everything in a DV before her death.
Season 6[]
After killing Lorelei, he then stabs Partridge and leaves him bloody, and when Lisbon appears to investigate Partridge through a tracker, she is soon attacked by Red John who leaves a smilling smile in the shape of blood. Shortly thereafter, Red John kills Sophie Miller and her dead body is found by Jane, after Red John disguised himself as a Sophie patient to find out about Jane's past. With that his next victim is Robert Kirkland who started hunting people on the list of the scare Red John, who none of them would be. And when Kirkland takes Jane as a hostage, Jane finds out that he also wants to kill Red John for killing his twin brother. However Lisbon and Hightower manage to rescue Jane, and Kirkland is arrested, soon after when Kirkland is being transported to prison he is killed by Reede Smith.
Shortly after Jane discovers that a private detective has been hired, and Red John kills her and she before she dies reveals that Red John had a three-point tattoo. And then Jane decides to reunite the seven suspects, but only Reede Smith, Gale Bertram and Thomas McAllister got the tattoo, while Brett Stiles and Ray Haffner didn't have it.
However, Red John finding himself cornered by Jane sets off a bomb and escapes, which while Ray Haffner and Brett Stiles die, and with the three being fugitives, but the list shrinks to three when Reede Smith gets involved and arrested, Reede then confesses everything what you know about the Blake Association. And when the CBI thinks that Red John was Bertram, and when Jane meets Bertram that says he is not Red John, and his crime partner, Oscar Cordero, who on Red John's orders shoots and kills Bertram. And Red John reveals himself to be Thomas McAllister. And while McAllister asks Oscar to leave while talking to Jane shoots him twice, and during the confrontation McAllister tries to escape but is caught by Jane and killed.
Personality[]
Given his personality, as Sheriff Thomas McAllister, he was an honest and good cop, yet all this was a mask, and yet he managed to fool even Jane that he was as good at reading people as he was. And since Red John is likely to have the same mannerism as Patrick Jane, be seductive and know how to make coffee as an example, Red John unlike Jane, Red John was a psychopath, cruel, bloodthirsty, sadist, narcissistic and god complex. Since he himself created the Blake Association, in honor of the famous writer William Blake just to feed his ego, he also punished all who opposed him, and who offended on the national network, such as Jane and Panzer, and even teens Ruth and Dylan for copying their murders, for thinking they were taking credit on their behalf. He also treats his surbodinates with pawns and did not hesitate to eliminate them when they became a problem or failed.
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Trivia[]
- Red John is very similar to Shogo Makishima, both are serial killer cruel, both are serial killer cruel, both a rivalry similar to the protagonist of the story, Red John to Jane, and Makishima to Kogami, both also have a wide variety of followers and use them as mere pieces. They do not hesitate to kill or let their own followers do so.