#red john

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Be the change you want to see in a Fandom that's been dead since the 2000's

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2x23 Red Sky in the morning

There is no theme or pattern with these gifs, they were just shots during the episode that I liked and I thought caught the atmosphere perfectly.

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[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

"I had been chasing that man for eight years." That's interesting. My Jack Hellion post started a bit of a commentary on the show's inconsistency with time — which is true. But one thing they kept track of very well was the timeline of Jane's family's murder, which means I can say with absolute certainty that, when RJ was caught, it had been about ten years and a half of chasing.

Interesting that they lost track of that now.

[robntunney]

15 YEARS OF THE MENTALIST Day 3 : Cinematography

Directed by: Allison Anders Director of Photography: Tom Camarda

[plant-based-faggot]

THE MENTALIST SPOILERS DO NOT LOOK IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE RED JOHN ARC I'M LOOKING AT YOU MY SON

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOW JANE CHOSE LIFE THAT HE LITERALLY DID!! WHEN HE KILLED RED JOHN, HE STARTED TO TURN THE GUN TOWARDS HIMSELF AND THEN STOPPED. HE CHOSE TO LIVE IN THAT VERY MOMENT!! HE CHOSE TO WALK AWAY AND CALL LISBON AND TELL HER IT'S DONE. BC AS MUCH AS JANE WANTED TO BE THE ONE TO KILL RED JOHN IT SEEMED PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT RED JOHN WANTED TO BE THE ONE TO KILL JANE AND HIM NOT DYING IS JUST BEATING RED JOHN EVEN MORE! I FEEL LIKE NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT AND MAYBE I'M CRAZY BUT HE CHOSE TO LIVE JUST LIKE LISBON SAID HE WOULD IN THAT VERY MOMENT!!! idk I feel like it's a really important moment, at least to me.

[profwonderbearthementalista]

Happy 16th Anniversary to The Mentalist!

Mentalist Mondays - Week 35

Happy 16th Anniversary to my favourite show! 16 years ago today, on the 23rd of September 2008, the Pilot episode aired. This collage celebrates some of my favourite things associated with the show: the amazing vehicles including Jane's Airstream trailer and Citroen; the wonderful ships with Jisbon, Rigspelt, Chummer and Vylie; the Red John mystery; and several inanimate objects which we as a fandom got obsessed with (the teacup and the couch).

@magicandmaybe, @backgroundagent3, @lightningzombie, @adder24 and @feministjane

@pisceanix, @stxrdust-widow, @wildwildtarget, @a-carnie-and-a-cop, @kathnaris

@catnuns, @psychicpinenut, @lisbonsteresa, @kaimelypowaaah, @renegadesstuff

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Lisbon *about Jane*: I could fix him.

Red John: Please don’t. It took a lot of work to f!ck him up this bad.

[w1llspark]

i mean i definitely have an opportunity to post something else ykr ???

let my boy rest 💔💔

[kirstangirl]

Teresa and Grace matching icons to use with your bestie 🫶🏼

I wish I had better pics, but this is the best I found. 😭

[autumn0689]

The more I think about The Mentalist the more I realize that Red John really resembles a possessive lover/stalker with Jane.

I mean yeah he did kill Jane’s wife and child but like he targeted his psychiatrist, he targeted Lisbon (even though she ended up living), he targeted Kristina Frye (I mean yeah she also taunted Red John but she went on a date with Jane!) like yeah no wonder Jane tried to distance himself from others!

I keep coming back to when he straight up saved Jane (and also to kill ‘inferior copies of his work’) and how Bret Stiles is like “yeah he’s jealous of anyone who is with you.” and Red John wants a friendship with Jane!

Also in Season 2 when he got Rebecca to kill Bosco and his team so that he could have Jane on the case because he ‘misses him [Jane]’ LIKE???? Obsessive much?

I swear it’s a mutual obsession and they made it everybody’s problem (moreso Jane since he really was out here ruining his relationships and doing anything to find Red John)

Anyways their dynamic is so interesting to me, especially with how Red John is with Jane (even with Jane’s pure hatred for him)

[wideeyedloner]

If Timothy Carter had been Red John it would have been hilarious and on-brand to have set it up to look like Jane murdered some random dude.

[someonestolemyshoes]

what the hand, dare seize the fire?

Pairing: Patrick Jane/Teresa Lisbon  Show: The Mentalist  Rating: Teen and Up Summary: 

She slowed her breathing and searched her mind for a recent memory. Anything at all that might give her some kind of clue. She remembered driving out to Salton Sea. She remembered a body in the desert, and a small diner off the highway. She remembered calling Grace, fighting with Jane, driving back to Sacramento alone. Awareness hit her like a bolt of lightning, and her eyes shot open. The brightness in the room sent a white hot stab of pain through her skull but Lisbon did not close her eyes again. She darted her gaze around and found herself not in her bedroom, but in a brightly lit hospital room with daylight spilling through the half-open blinds, sunbeams pouring over the foot of the bed. The beeping came from a monitor which she was strapped to, the pace of which had increased dramatically in the last ten seconds. She looked down to find herself dressed in a hospital gown and half covered in a scratchy blanket. The distress call. The dilapidated old house. Partridge. Red John. 

I have always wondered what might have happened if Red John had been less charitable when he kidnapped Lisbon in Desert Rose, so I wrote about it! You can read the fic here :)

[eyepatchcrow]

so i’m watching the mentalist for the first time, (late to the party, i know,) and i’ve just finished the red john arc. honestly my one reservation with 6x08 is not the identity of red john, but that the final chase is backwards. they should have run to the chapel, not away from it - it would have made for a much stronger image

red john, who thinks of himself as a god, dying at the hands of a man who refuses to believe in god, on the steps of an alter. the alter in the chapel of the graveyard where the victims that created the man who defeated him are buried. there’d have been some poetry in that, i think, rather than some nameless lakeside

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

For funsies and since we never got any confirmation of his actual death, I choose to believe that Red John killed Jane's dad too, he just didn't care.

[siennahrobek]

Okay but for real, the season finale for the first season is something else, just in terms of Jane’s actions. He gets all upset with Lisbon about their plan and being led to Red John and Jane has so little regard of his own life. Even when Maya is mentioned, he just. All he wants is Red John. If he can’t have a go at him, he needs Lisbon to get him, even if it means his own death.

This guy is practically allergic to guns most of the time. But the moment this guy makes a move - as obsessed with Red John as Jane is - Jane shoots him in defense of Lisbon. Like he doesn’t even think, he just picks the gun up and does it. And then his hand kinda shakes and he drops it immediately.

Say what you will about the first season of The Mentalist, it’s more episodic nature and Jane’s behavior etc., but the dude cared about Lisbon from the get-go more than he probably gets credit for. And I appreciate that.

[blessedshortcake]

currently SCREAMING about how the episode titles change from red only references to different colours once red john dies. actually fucking screaming