Patrick (Simon Baker) was in the church and finally ends up in his attic again. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) arrives for work to see the last of all the fixtures of the CBI being removed and Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) asks where Patrick is, she doesn't know but he doesn't believe her. The others hide out in the parking garage and Lisbon tells them the CBI is gone and they're on their own, she's no longer their boss.
Bertram (Michael Gaston) enters a store to call Patrick but is made by a policeman and Cordero (Joe Nieves) shoots him. As he's on the phone, wonder if Patrick heard the gunshots. Bertram is not RJ and Patrick new that from last ep, he just wanted Bertram out of the way, or get him on the run cos he knew he'd lead him to Red John eventually, so really Bertram was bait and boy was he bait! Patrick buys someone's phone in the park and uses it to call Bertram, so how did he know the payphone number.
Patty and his "beady eyes" comment was a reference to RJ of course and that being McAllister (Xander Berkeley). It was no coincidence that Patrick was sitting by the pigeons feeding them since that's what McAllister's phobia was, well at least he hated them. So if you hadn't got the clue by now and figured out who Red John is then well I have no idea what you were watching, ha!
Bertram wants to talk to Patrick and sort things out telling him "the game is over...we could both use a little closure." Which is exactly what they got. Bertram is right when he says he could have killed him many times but since he's not RJ, he was probably ordered not to do that. Question is why now, I mean why kill Patrick now, now that the game's afoot and the Association is no longer secret, RJ could have just got away and none, other than Patrick would be any the wiser as to his identity. They will meet and Patrick suggests Alexandria cemetery. He doesn't tell Lisbon where he's meeting him. Patrick doesn't want the FBI to get him, "you knew this day is coming" and he doesn't want her involved in this anymore. That's an understatement. He needs her gun as a prop. He was right about that cos he had planted one there already. "Theresa, trust me, please just trust me." Sure, always, ha. As he runs away. Obviously the FBI turn up cos they bugged Lisbon's car. Lots of running from Patty in this ep and doesn't he do it so well!
He's cornered whilst making his getaway and pleads with Abbott to let him go and he'll give himself up in one hour. Think Patty could have rammed his way through the cars? Ha. Lisbon shows up and promises to bring him in as do the others. Apparently Patrick's pleading falls on deaf ears. Cho (Tim Kang) being so bold tells Abbott to let Patrick go and they all pull guns one each other, with Abbott telling them they're no longer CBI. Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) asks how they know they're FBI and not part of the Blake Association, adds Rigsby (Owain Yeoman). Abbott doesn't want anymore bloodshed so their guns are lowered and the CBI team are arrested. Once again Lisbon tells hims he doesn't know where Patrick is headed but he doesn't care since he bugged her car. Lisbon tells him it's their duty to Protect Patty cos they don't know he's not in danger.
Patrick heads to the cemetery and we're shown the graves of his wife and daughter but for the reason that they're finally going to get closure too, as well as Patrick and it was no coincidence that Patrick chose the cemetery to meet. Patrick sees he's being followed and leaves the car outside a store to be stolen and runs. He stops a driver and hitches a lift. Oh come on I know you don't give lifts to strangers but how could that woman resist picking up Patrick!!
Cordero searches Patrick and takes the gun from him. yep that was the prop angle. Bertram talks and tells him he's not Red John. He's higher up and he's just lower down in the Association. Of course Patty knew that cos he looks around the church as if he's expecting someone else to be there, which of course he is. The others sit in the SUV under arrest and the FBI agent tells Abbott that Patrick wasn't in the car as Lisbon and Van Pelt laugh. Rigsby tells him, "Sir we really don't know," his whereabouts As Cho berates him for calling him 'sir.' Rigsby calls Cho 'Dillinger' and tells him they're under arrest so he should calm down. Cho asks why, they'll get a better cell.
Cue Red John, it had to be McAllister so no drum rolls there!! As Patty says "I'm disappointed" well so am I! For reasons below. Bertram tells him that's the last lie he'll tell him, of course Patrick knew that, which is why he asks him to say it twice. Bertram thinks Cordero will kill Patrick now but he turns his gun on Bertram which was obvious was coming. Bertram's not happy but the Association doesn't like loose ends. Patrick pleading for his life was priceless cos once more he's in trouble and all alone! Bertram's last words: "hey."
As always Patty's always on the ball. As for the bombs, Patrick tells him they were two, one a concussion bomb to stun them in which case he removed Smith, Bertram and Patrick from the room and then exploded the second bomb, killing Haffner and Stiles. He then got Partridge to plant his DNA on another DB and left it there to ensure they would think he died. Not very clever RJ! Of course Partridge was a minion since he was such a weasel, it was apparent he was so contemptuous of Patrick for those reasons. But I did mention that in my last review about Partridge or any other tech being able to manipulate evidence and DNA. McAllister is the Blake Association and intended for Bertram and Patty to die together, with Bertram being taken for RJ.
Patrick is meant to die after all these years, McAllister disguises his voice again, and Patrick tells him it's not a game. he's an "evil sexually perverted sociopath with delusions of grandeur," he owns that as McAllister says, but not the delusions part. He built a secret empire and controlled lives of thousands of people, that's grandeur. Patrick: "The ravings of a squalid ego maniac." His family is dead cos he's arrogant and disrespectful. Patrick is nobody. McAllister: "You can't imagine anyone smarter than you, which is why I've been ahead of you." I want to know how he knew the names on the list. Patrick doesn't know since it was a good trick. SO was Patty's trick with the breadcrumbs and the pigeon and RJ actually loses his composure. How did Cordero not find that? Ha. Magic.
Patrick shoots him and somehow you'd think he'd get some satisfaction but it's not over yet. As Red John pleads for his life, how can he be so small and insignificant since he is such a psychopathic killer. Not so brave in the end for someone who was one step ahead. Er, think he needed to rethink those words of his. A woman tries to distract Patrick so he can make his escape. Patrick: "It's theatre like the bomb...whatever the truth looked like, the opposite had to be true." He's savouring the moment and not hesitating. "You're Red John." SO the chase ensues and ends by the lake.
Patrick gets hold of his neck as he straddles him and asks him if he regrets killing his family, mentioning them by name, he blinks twice for yes. He's afraid to die. Patrick squeezes the life out of him as we hear gurgling sounds from him and the evil life leaving his body and leaves the gun in his left hand. Patrick kicking him over like the dog that he is. He calls Lisbon leaving a message to say he's done it, it's over - "I want you to know I'm okay, I'm gonna miss you" as he runs. Yeah slow motion running, such a great scene! Ha. I know so shallow after what happened in the ep I talk about Patty's running! Ha. I will play that scene several times over!
Funny moments Van Pelt and Rigsby fighting, she can break the window with her head and they can all jump out. Rigsby knowing that there's no use getting angry or fighting. Abbott using a paper map to find where Patrick would have met Bertram and it's something Patrick would do.
So reasons to be disappointed like Patty: McAllister was far from charming or charismatic and yet he heads this entire organization and kept everyone under his thumb with fear and obedience. Then McAllister with women, as Patrick calls him "sexually perverted" exactly, I mean Lorelei and him were together. Rosalind Harker, the blind woman also fell for him and all that piano playing for him, his drinking tea in a cup like Patrick all went through the window with the final reveal! McAllister was only in the second episode of season 1 Red Hair and Silver Tape, where they played paper, rock, scissors in their first meeting, so he was the sociopath. Naturally I got he was RJ after the pigeon incident but yeah majorly disappointed. It was anticlimactic. Now Red John is gone people have been asking how long the show can continue without that big evil hanging on. But I didn't watch the show for Red John that was just something which was a premise of the show.
Red John wasn't decided by Bruno Heller, creator, until a few years ago, so everything about him which featured in the show, was kind of playing up to and was written without a definite suspect in mind. In Which case he should have just made it Kristina Frye and have done with it. I have to say Bret Stiles and Haffner had more going for them than McAllister. Who at the end of the day was a boring RJ! Or even Patrick himself as the dastardly killer would have contained more 'humph' to a dull story. Or perhaps even ending it when Patrick killed the so-called RJ at the end of season 3. Even Simon Baker said, "I was eventually satisfied with the way I killed Him" and nothing more about RJ's identity.
But Simon played choking RJ to the hilt and this was more important, that after ten years he finally had his revenge, using a much more hands on approach than a gun, which would have been too easy as he was afraid to die and he did what he set out to do with no one around and exactly what he told Lisbon. That he would kill him. But she can't arrest him cos she's under arrest herself, even though she did say that RJ eventually deserves everything he gets and deserves to die. So that was one dilemma solved.
Patty running at the end was to gather his thoughts, to be free of this non-entity that haunted him for so long. It wasn't to escape the FBI, he said he'd turn himself in and he is a man of his word but eh didn't owe Abbott anything since he wasn't the one who let him leave. He was running after not having to think about being hounded by Red John anymore, his wait was over and vengeance was his.
As for Red Tape and Silver Hair, I suppose playing rock, paper scissors looking back on it was effective since Patrick won him each time and he got frustrated. If RJ's identity had been decided back then it would have made for an appropriate episode and title. As well as McAllister acting suspiciously and being a suspect in the investigation. Not to mention the suspects actually being serial killer couple. Well serial killer would have been appropriate under the circumstances. Wonder if McAllister would have planned to meet with Patrick and had a part in those murders taking place here and that couple being his acolytes.
Some foreshadowing here as Patrick used Van pelt as bait in this episode he used Bertram as bait to lure red John out cos he just couldn't resist showing his hand. I also draw your attention to the conversation between Patty, Lisbon and McAllister,
McAllister: "Who is this guy?"
Lisbon: "He's a consultant. You want CBI assistance he comes as part of the package." Patty's a package, ha.
McAllister: "Consultant, what are you clairvoyant or some gizmo? You got psychic powers?"
Patrick: "No, no powers, I mean I had them once, I mean I pretended I had them obviously."
Again this was leading up to season 6, if only RJ was really RJ here and them thinking RJ was psychic and that's how he found out the list of suspects, but I have no idea why this question wasn't answered here and Patrick told him he doesn't care how he knew, er did the writers know.
Patrick later says, "no such thing as psychic powers."
Patrick also tells Frankie, he caused his daughter's death, "Out of arrogance... stupidity. I made an evil man very angry and he killed them to teach me a lesson. To make me sorry for what I've done... and I am sorry. Being sorry is far worse punishment than being dead, everybody dies... very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done."
This speech was so relevant here when he finally gets RJ and kills him. He gets RJ to admit he regrets killing his family and yes everybody dies. I wonder if this episode was alluded to when 6.8 Red John was written? There are so many relevant quotes in it. Subtle little nuances which really kind of make you understand why McAllister was chosen as Red John.
Oh and a word about Patty's suit, he wore something similar in the second ep of season 1 when he met McAllister and maybe I'm wrong but it looked like he wore similar clothes here, white shirt 'n'all.
So we have to wait to next year for the aftermath and what happens next, though it's been easy finding out beforehand, but I really wish Channel Five had shown this in sync with the US episodes so we would have got 10 at least or the usual 9 but this year we only got 8. Huh! Big sulk.
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