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"The Mentalist" Season 6 Episode 7 ("The Great Red Dragon") airs Sunday, Nov. 17 on CBS at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT. Catch the live stream of the episode for free on Hulu or the CBS website the next day if you miss the episode Sunday night. The CBS preview reveals: "The Red John list gets even smaller and the case becomes the CBI's primary concern."The Red John suspects have been narrowed down to the three candidates with the red dots on their shoulders: FBI Agent Reede Smith, CBI Director Gale Bertram and Sheriff Thomas McAllister.

The Mentalist revealed that Red John has three red dots tattooed on his arm. But could the red tattoos be a fake clue? The show's writer Ken Woodruff revealed on TV Guide this might be the case: "As soon as more than one person has the tattoo, it sort of throws into question the whole theory that Jane's been operating on up until this moment," he said. "So I wouldn't throw it out... just given the nature of our show and how we twist things around, and Red John as a character, how sort of capable and deceitful he's been able to be all these years."

In terms of who survived the explosion then, well, obviously Patrick Jane must have got out somehow - we can't have The Mentalist without him. But in terms of the Red John suspects, don't discount Bret Stiles. Ken Woodruff told TVGuide that "I think he's been one of the strongest Red John suspects since his character's introduction, and you get to see him I think in a vulnerable way that we haven't really seen him in before. He's on the run." So our picks are that Jane, Stiles, Bertram and Smith all survived the blast. Tune in tonight to find out!

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