[recreating the events of a crime] I shoot Mrs. Marlow expertly through the neck. This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery. She is paralyzed before it leaves her body. Which doesn't mean she can't feel pain. It just means she can't do anything about it. This is my design.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Normally I wouldn't even broach this, but what do you think one of Will's strongest drives is?
Fear.
Mm-hmm.
Will Graham deals with huge amounts of fear. It comes with his imagination.
It's the price of imagination.
Alana, I wouldn't put him out there if I didn't think I could cover him. [pause] All right, if I didn't think I could cover him 80%.
I imagine what you see and learn touches everything else in your mind. Your values and decency are present yet shocked at your associations, appalled at your dreams. No forts in the bone arena of your skull for things you love.
Whose profile are you working on? [to Jack] Whose profile is he working on?
I'm sorry, Will. Observing is what we do. I can't shut mine off any more than you can shut yours off.
Please, don't psychoanalyze me. You won't like me when I'm psychoanalyzed.
Will...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go give a lecture on psychoanalyzing.
[about Will] What he has is pure empathy. He can assume your point of view, or mine — and maybe some other points of view that scare him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
I would apologize for my analytical ambush, but I know I will soon be apologizing again and you'll tire of that eventually, so I have to consider using apologies sparingly.
Just keep it professional.
Or we could socialize, like adults. God forbid we become friendly.
I don't find you that interesting.
You will.
(over the phone) Mr. Garret Jacob Hobbs?
GJGarret Jacob Hobbs
Yeah. Who's this?
You don't know me and I suspect we will never meet. This is a courtesy call. Listen very carefully. (pause) Are you listening?
GJGarret Jacob Hobbs
(anxious) Yes.
They know. (hangs up)
The reason you currently used to work homicide is you didn't have the stomach for pulling the trigger. You just pulled the trigger 10 times!
Wait, so psych eval isn't a formality?
No, it's so I can get some sleep at night. I asked you to get close to the Hobbs thing. I need to know you didn't get too close. How many nights did you spend in Abigail Hobbs' hospital room, Will?
Therapy doesn't work on me.
Therapy doesn't work on you because you won't let it.
And because I know all the tricks.
Well, perhaps you need to un-learn some tricks.
Why not have a conversation with Hannibal? He was there. He knows what you went through.
Come on, Will. I need my beauty sleep!
Jack thinks I need therapy.
What you need is a way out of dark places when Jack sends you there.
Last time he sent me to a dark place I brought something back.
Took me 10 shots to drop Hobbs.
Zeller wanted to give you the bullets he pulled out of Hobbs in an acrylic case, but I told him you wouldn't think it was funny.
Probably not.
I suggested one of those clackin' swingin' ball things.
That would've been funny.
It's not Hobbs' ghost that's haunting you, is it? It's the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good.
Killing Hobbs felt just.
Which is why you're here, to prove that sprig of zest you feel is from saving Abigail, not killing her dad.
I didn't feel a 'sprig of zest' when I shot Eldon Stammets.
You didn't kill Eldon Stammets.
I thought about... I'm still not entirely sure that wasn't my intention, pulling the trigger.
Killing must feel good to God, too. He does it all the time, and are we not created in his image?
Depends on who you ask.
God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshipers last Wednesday night in Texas, while they sang a hymn.
Did God feel good about that?
He felt powerful.
[skinning a deer] I don't know how I'm gonna feel about eating her after all this.
GJGarret Jacob Hobbs
Eating her is honoring her. Otherwise, it's just murder.
[about Abigail Hobbs] She has a penchant for manipulation. Withheld information to gain information. She demonstrated only enough emotions - to prove she had them.
You beginning to appreciate my lack of sympathy?
So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?
It's the ugliest thing in the world.
[to Freddie Lounds] It isn't very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.
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