Red John John is the fate that awaits us all in the end." In season 2's finale episode "Red Sky in the Morning", a William Blake theme is introduced, when a person, whom we believe at the time to be Red John, saves Patrick Jane from being killed under the direction of deranged slasher movie makers Ruth and Dylan. Jane is tied with saran wrap to a chair and, while he is immobilized, Red John recites the first verse of the William Blake poem "Tyger Tyger": <poem>Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could
Lord Tyger its sometimes graphic content. Algis Budrys declared "Lord Tyger" to be "an entertaining, rich, inventive adventure novel in the best sense, with its most lyrical passages far surpassing any effect Edgar Rice Burroughs was ever able to achieve." Farmer's handling of Tarzan has been met with different reactions. Some said that he succeeded in creating a "real" Tarzan, or that it even surpassed Burroughs' original work. Even among those who did not enjoy the plot or deconstructionist aspects of the book, most found Farmer's writing to be of high quality. "Lord Tyger" was first released by Doubleday in 1970, as