I've been around crazy. I was in the army.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Guys communicate in a certain way. It can be rough, but it's like a code. It gets out the conflict.
Goffman says we wear these masks to make everyone else comfortable. Like you and your suits.
We're not talking about my clothes again.
Your suit is your uniform you wear to fit in at Quantico.
I don't want to fit in.
Everyone is trying to fit in.
Guess that explains your hippie thing, too.
My "hippie" thing?
Your peasant tops, long hair, bracelets, leather sandals. Helps you assimilate on campus.
Right. It's exactly the same.
What would you wear if no one were looking?
Probably nothing. What about you?
I'd wear my suit.
TTeacher
Do you have children?
Not yet.
TTeacher
Imagine one of those seven-year-olds is yours. Principal Wade has her take off her shoes and socks so that he can tickle her feet. Wouldn't you be worried one day he'd ask her to take something else off? Put a call in, please?
What's the point if we don't apply it to the real world?
We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.
Yet! Certainly our goal is to be preemptive.
We're the FBI, Holden. That is not our goal. Yet.
[holding Richard Speck newspaper clippings] It's like meeting a movie star.
Could be as anti-climactic.
"Crime of the Century."
Until Charles Whitman two weeks later...
I remember staring at this wanted poster of him, trying to figure out if I saw him on the street, would I know he was insane?
You clip all these?
Everything I could get my hands on. Even went to my neighbors who subscribed to newspapers outside of Milwaukee.
Holden and his first criminal crush!
[defending his interviewing techniques] You want truffles, you gotta get in the dirt with the pigs.
You would really turn down the chance to meet Richard Speck? He's almost up there with Manson.
Well, maybe he'll give you an autograph.
That would be inappropriate, right?
PDPeter Dean
[concluding an intense interview] Gentlemen, we'll review these and keep you updated on our findings. What we expect from you during this process, more than anything, is candor.
JBJohn Boylen
[turns off his recorder] Richard Speck, what a shit stain, huh?
[nerve-relieving laughter around the table]
I can choke down the bile, manufacture empathy - when our subjects are at least informative.
[holding up a letter] Got another one. "Wish you were here." [opens the letter] "Dear Holden, it's been some time since we've seen each other, and while the memory of your voice has faded, what we discussed has not. I've had more insights into my behavior, which I'd like to share with you at your earliest convenience. Warmest regards, Ed Kemper."
GSGregg Smith
Ed Kemper writes you?
Please stop analyzing me.
I'm not analyzing you.
You run this commentary on everything I do.
I was talking about your work. That's how we communicate, right? You talk about your job, I give my opinion.
Maybe I don't always want your opinion.
When I'm not in agreement with you...
Could you just be my girlfriend? Could you just listen?
You mean shut up and adore you?
Well, you could try it. Once...
EMEsther Mayweather
When you go from an abstract idea of murder to the visceral reality, you can no longer be objective. Only when you feel the pain of those victims and their loved ones can you know the magnitude of the choice that killer made. And it's that choice that seals his fate.
There's no reason to kill people when we have the wherewithal to lock them up. These people spend the rest of their lives in horrendous conditions, which likely reflect the environments in which they were raised.
PDPeter Dean
If you leave, I can't help you. I have to write a report on this. It will go down on your permanent record. You're making a terrible mistake.
[continuing out the door] The only mistake I made was ever doubting myself...
You want to get something? It's getting late, we should get going.
No, I don't think so.
Okay... Are you still mad? Are you... What exactly are you?
Must I be something?
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