bertram was red john in the tv series the mentalist.
bertram was red john in the tv series the mentalist.
who was red john in the tv series the mentalist?
bertram
arriving at the cemetery's church, jane, inside, is greeted by bertram, who goes on to claim that he is not red john, nor is he even among the blake association's higher ranks. however, reluctantly deeming jane a loose end, he orders jane killed. cordero, however, also under orders from red john, shoots bertram instead, prompting the real red john to enter the church: sheriff thomas mcallister (an uncredited xander berkeley), previously believed to have perished in the explosion in jane's house at the end of the episode "fire and brimstone". greeting each other, mcallister brags to and berates jane, gloating over how he was able to survive and also find out the names on jane's list of suspects. while admitting that he never figured out how red john knew the names, jane does disclose his knowledge on mcallister's survival: two bombs went off in his house, one being a concussion bomb that allowed for red john to drag jane, reede smith and bertram out of the way before a second lethal bomb killed bret stiles and ray haffner. mcallister faked his own death by placing a body with falsified dna evidence provided to him by the now-deceased brett partridge. mcallister, impressed, allows jane to "show him something", only to be attacked by a pigeon jane hid under his sleeve (taking advantage of mcallister's previously-displayed phobia of the creature). jane brandishes a gun he had hidden in the church and shoots mcallister in the abdomen and cordero dead. as jane relishes having mcallister --whom he finally acknowledges as red john-- at his mercy, he is interrupted by a woman (kamala lopez-dawson) who tries to persuade him to spare mcallister. when jane tries to get her to leave, she attacks jane with a knife. using the distraction to escape, mcallister runs away while jane overpowers the woman and takes pursuit.
red john (the mentalist episode)
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. fearing red john, the man escaped jane's custody before giving any relevant information. 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. 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. 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. jane believes this occurred early in red john's career and that red john made a "mistake" due to his inexperience. jane believes red john removed the body from the crime scene (something he had otherwise not done) to bury the mistake. 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. 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. 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. jane did this because he could think of no other way to protect society from panzer.
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