Mentalist - what did I miss

[whatkungfuthat]

I've started watching the new season the Mentalist but I'm a bit confused as it seems they think Red John is still alive. Where there some episodes last year that I might have missed? I remember the one where he killed 'Red John' and I'm sure I saw a couple after that but I don't know who the serial killer is that Red John is now supposed to have killed (the other killed dismissed RJ on a TV show with Jane I believe)

I'm a bit confused too, but I think Jane found out that it wasn't actually Red John that he'd killed, but since he'd based his whole argument for getting out of prison on the fact that he'd had such a good reason for the murder (death of his wife and daughter), then he couldn't admit that he'd killed someone else. Also, he doesn't want RJ to find out that he knows he hasn't killed him. Does that make sense? If I'm completely wrong I'm quite happy to be corrected!

Thanks Pixel, I had a look at Demand 5 and there are some episodes on there I missed. I worked out that there are about 7 I haven't seen so I'll have to trawl through the ones that look like they are significant to the current story.

The man he killed was still connected to red john he just wasn't the real red John. So Jane doesn't feel too bad about killing him