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Oh! I didn't realize you were still in the house.
I'm sorry to startle you. Here's the estimate. House looks good. Can't think you need much beyond door and window sensors. I included in the cost three keypads.
My husband wondered, would you ever just sell the stickers for the windows and a sign for the front lawn?
Signs come with the sensors, I'm afraid.
Of course they do. That makes sense.
We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Science Unit.
Scientists?
We're from the Behavioral Science Unit. We're doing research. Interviewing men like you.
Men like me?
Murderers with multiple victims. To better understand why you do what you do.
I'd like to know, too.
You know what? I don't think I'm interested.
Fine. You want to diddle around, we'll walk out of here. We'll go have a nice, leisurely lunch wherever the fuck we want, and then take the picturesque drive back to Quantico. What's the rest of your day look like?
Cancer. It's, uh... It's a bitch, man. Yeah, it's hard on a human being. So I let her go. It's, uh... It's a weird feeling, man.
What's a weird feeling, Monte?
Um How do I put it?... Showing mercy.
I mean, if they admitted that they rape and murder for pleasure, it would destroy them. There's a tension. They need to be seen to have power over someone, and yet circumstance demands that they erase the only witness, which means they have to do the whole thing over again. It must be Hell.
His given name is Benjamin Barnwright, but everybody calls him Benji. He came back to town, just like I told you he would. Benji was home watching TV the night Beverly Jean was killed?
That's what he told us and I believe him. He let us search his car, no warrant. And we didn't find a thing except for some of Beverly Jean's hair, but in the passenger seat, like you'd expect it.
Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that. But you said he was home alone watching TV? That's not much of an alibi.
Why? Isn't that what most people do most nights of the week?
Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.
How do they understand emotions if they don't have them?
Well, they have emotions. They just don't believe other people have them. Or, more specifically, they don't believe that other people have interior lives.
[brushing his teeth at a hotel] Here's a question, if it is Benjamin or some other boyfriend who freaked out on her, does the case merit our involvement? We still can't rule out a sequence killer, but if the perpetrator was a townie, then the crime is random, and there's no expectation that he'll be repeating it.
Here's my question, shouldn't our funding cover separate rooms?
You don't like my company?
We'll get connecting doors.
The mutilation of her body alone justifies our involvement.
Would you mind sitting on your own bed, please?
You know, you're going to see people present with similar pathologies, but the way a person kills is as individual and distinct as the way they have sex.
And just as complicated.
It's always the mother. They all have a crazy, angry mother.
Or an absent father. Benjamin only changed after his father took off. Maybe this has nothing to do with the mother.
Aren't all fathers absent in some way? I know my old man was never around. Imagine how different Benjamin and Rose's lives might have been if their father never left.
[over dinner] In society, everyone behaves in certain ways in order to avoid embarrassment, either for ourselves or others.
The very idea of embarrassing oneself, or others, by being oneself speaks to a deeper treachery.
"Treachery!"
Goffman saw a connection between the kinds of acts or masks that people put on in their daily lives - and in theatrical performances. In a social interaction, as in a theatrical performance, there's an onstage area where individuals or actors, as the case may be, appear before the audience. But there must be a backstage, a hidden, private area, where individuals can truly be themselves.
Of course, Annaliese, that's lovely, but you're missing the point. There's no risk of embarrassment for anyone in their hidden and private places. It's not backstage where the damage is done.
[emerging for grand jury hearing] You know what we're up against. We have to consider the attention span of a prospective jury pool. Need to keep them in mind. Our objective is the lowest cost for the highest quality of justice.
One time, my mom walked in on me jacking off. Came into my bedroom. I hadn't locked the door.
Really?
Yeah.
What'd she do?
I'd never seen her so shocked. It's like I was doing something too horrible to even imagine. She thought I needed help.
She offered to help?
Psychological help.
If what we're doing doesn't get under your skin, you're more screwed up than I thought, or kidding yourself.
Those shirts looked good on you. I can't believe you didn't buy them.
I don't like patterns.
You know, you dress the same off-duty as on-duty?
I'm wearing plain clothes.
Yeah, plain is right.
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