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Mindhunter

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Mindhunter	label	Mindhunter
Mindhunter	page	Mindhunter
Mindhunter	comment	Mindhunter is a Netflix original series created by Joe Penhall (The Road), inspired by John E. Douglas' True Crime book of the same name. Executive producers include him, Charlize Theron, and the notoriously Serial Killer-obsessed David Fincher, who has served as the series' most frequent director and de facto showrunner, and was largely responsible for getting it off the ground after taking interest in adapting the Douglas book in 2009, which Theron had forwarded to him.The series fictionalizes the origin and development of criminal profiling by the FBI's then-new Behavioral Science Unit during the late 1970s. It stars Jonathan Groff (Glee, Frozen) as Holden Ford, a young and somewhat naÃ¯ve hostage negotiator loosely based on Douglas himself. Holt McCallany (Gangster Squad, Lights Out) plays Bill Tench, Ford's partner and immediate superior, based on Douglas's own profiler colleague Robert Ressler. Along the way, they interview several notorious real life serial killers and mass murderers like Edmund Kemper, Jerry Brudos, Richard Speck, David Berkowitz and Charles Manson, and help local law enforcement agencies solve bizarre sexual crimes before their perpetrators can add their names to the former. Anna Torv (Fringe) and Hannah Gross complete the cast as psychologist Dr. Wendy Carr and (in Season 1) Holden's girlfriend Debbie Mitford, respectively.All ten episodes of the first season were released online at once on October 13, 2017. A second season was greenlit almost immediately, eventually being released on August 16, 2019. In January 2020, Netflix announced that the show had been put on "indefinite hold" due to Fincher being busy with other projects (most prominently his first Netflix-exclusive feature film Mank), but the company also emphasized in the same announcement that the series had not been cancelled. However, in February of 2023, it was confirmed that the show would not be moving forward with a third season, which Fincher attributed to Netflix not believing that enough of an audience had been attracted to justify continuing to invest in the show.Not related to the Renny Harlin thriller Mindhunters.
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Mindhunter / int_121476bd	type	The Millstone
Mindhunter / int_121476bd	comment	The Millstone: Gregg Smith, the new guy in the unit.
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Mindhunter / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Mindhunter / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Holden when he realizes that he is Alone with the Psycho in the Season 1 finale.
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Mindhunter / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Mindhunter / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In Episode 4, Dr. Carr claims that Richard Nixon is a sociopath. When Holden asks how a sociopath could become President of the United States, she sarcastically asks back how a non-sociopath could. Jonathan Groff described Kemper and Ford's last scene together in Episode 10 as if Kemper is Holden's scorned lover. Shored up by the layers of menace in Cameron Britton's voice when Kemper asks if the two of them are friends.
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Mindhunter / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Mindhunter / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: When Ford visits Kemper at the hospital, there is a shot of Kemper staring at the ceiling while Ford monologues, where the glare of the light gives a very sinister effect. Camille Bell on the other hand is a non-villanous example.
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Mindhunter / int_1f171944	type	Food Interrogation
Mindhunter / int_1f171944	comment	Food Interrogation: Since parole is out of question, the best the team can come up with the subjects is food. Kemper gets a pizza, Rissel gets his Trademark Favorite Food Big Red soda, and Pierce all the candy he can eat.
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Mindhunter / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Mindhunter / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Is Principal Wade a pedophile or not? Even Holden is unsure, but he errs on the safe side in the end.
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Mindhunter / int_21584c75	type	The Profiler
Mindhunter / int_21584c75	comment	The Profiler: The origin of the trope.
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Mindhunter / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Mindhunter / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Georgia and its different attitude to the death penalty have a prominent role in the Season 1 finale.
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Mindhunter / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Mindhunter / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Tons. As pitch dark as the show is it never ceases to throw in humor.
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Mindhunter / int_236846ce	type	Too Smart for Strangers
Mindhunter / int_236846ce	comment	Too Smart for Strangers: Holden has the hardest time trying to talk an elementary school class about the Macdonald triad, because of the strict censorship of "bad words" by the school principal.
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Mindhunter / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Mindhunter / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Downplayed. Holden and Carr are both competent and intelligent in their own ways, but Bill tends to be the most frank and practical of the three.
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Mindhunter / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Mindhunter / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: In-Universe. Holden mentions during Season 1 that he would love to interview Manson, believing him to be both fascinating and a possible gold mine of data. He gets the chance in Season 2, and can barely conceal how excited he is, even bringing a copy of the book about Manson to the interview (which Manson signs). He even gives Charlie his sunglasses simply because he asked.
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Mindhunter / int_2a4b8ad6	type	Tour Guide Detective
Mindhunter / int_2a4b8ad6	comment	Tour Guide Detective: A major theme of the show is the changing nature of the FBI in the post-Hoover era.
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Mindhunter / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Mindhunter / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Manson, Kemper, and Speck.
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Mindhunter / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Mindhunter / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Happens twice to Holden: first, at the end of Season 1, following his hospital visit to Kemper, which leaves him suffering a massive panic attack; and at the end of Season 2, as he realizes that, while they seemingly caught the perpetrator of the Atlanta Child Murders, he was merely a powerless cog in a system that was more interested in delivering a good PR result than in delivering true justice to the mothers of the victims.
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Mindhunter / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Mindhunter / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: The project takes its toll on Bill and Holden in different ways. Bill becomes exhausted, irritable, and jaded, while Holden's success causes him to become disturbingly self-assured.
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Mindhunter / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Mindhunter / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: Almost Once per Episode. Called mindfucking by Speck.
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Mindhunter / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Mindhunter / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: One of Holden's (white) students in hostage negotiation in the pilot pretends to be an angry Black man.
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Mindhunter / int_310d40de	type	Thoughtcrime
Mindhunter / int_310d40de	comment	Thoughtcrime: Holden becomes excited about the potential to look for early markers of psychopathy. However, when he applies these ideas to Principle Wade, who is unquestionably creepy but doesn't seem to have actually broken any laws, Shepard outright accuses him of being the Thought Police.
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Mindhunter / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Mindhunter / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Holden often comes across this way. It gets worse as the series progresses and the BSU's work starts to advance faster, although he is ultimately humbled by the Atlanta case.
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Mindhunter / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Mindhunter / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Both Dr. Carr and her girlfriend.
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Mindhunter / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Mindhunter / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Richard Speck killing his pet bird in a sudden rage.
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Mindhunter / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Mindhunter / int_34e15b76	comment	The cat for Dr. Carr.
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Mindhunter / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Mindhunter / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Almost every line of Richard Speck's contains some kind of expletive. It doesn't even make sense at times—when he's first thrown into a room with Holden and Tench, he calls his guard a cracker (Speck is also white, by the way).
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Mindhunter / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Mindhunter / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: See Wounded Gazelle Gambit below.
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Mindhunter / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Mindhunter / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Psychopathy takes up a notch with puberty, and so did most interviewed killers.
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Mindhunter / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Mindhunter / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The investigation into the Atlanta child killings makes it abundantly clear that under the promise of a â€œNew Southâ€� supposedly moving away from racial issues and a â€œnew Atlantaâ€� with a shiny new airport and an African American mayor is an Atlanta that will never forget that history. The city ignores the slaying of Black children, never even looks around their neighborhood to find some of the most glaring suspects the series has seen, tries to downplay the idea of a predator to keep investment rolling in, and even when the killer is caught, itâ€™s quite possible that there actually were multiple suspects that the city is ignoring so it can close the case and end the predator idea.
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Mindhunter / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Mindhunter / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Despite his various appearances in the opening and closing credits, BTK won't be caught in the timeline of at least the first two seasons of the show. Despite the pushback pressing him to investigate white leads from the KKK, Ford's then-controversial profile of the Atlanta Child Killer unsub as a local young Black man ends up being more or less correct.
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Mindhunter / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Mindhunter / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Holden. Unusually, he is neither Hot-Blooded nor a Rabid Cop.
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Mindhunter / int_3e87fc1f	type	Psychological Projection
Mindhunter / int_3e87fc1f	comment	Psychological Projection: Ironically despite being decently versed in psychology themselves, both Bill and Holden frequently use this, particularly in the Beverly Jean case. Immediately after revealing his strained marriage due to the ambiguous disorder of his son, Bill rather disturbingly starts talking about how married men experience a life full of pressures that may build up until they snap. Not only does Holden realize this, Officer Ocasek, who has barely met Bill, realizes it too and shoots him a concerned glance. Holden also does this after speaking to Beverly Jeanâ€™s mother in law: he notes how a Manic Pixie Dream Girl like Beverly wants to settle down with someone who is sensitive with a stable income, and given how he attempted to discuss marriage with his own girlfriend Debbie, itâ€™s clear heâ€™s having similar anxieties.
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Mindhunter / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Mindhunter / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Unsure of her own emotions in the moment, Debbie asks Holden to try one on her in the first season finale. He realizes she wants to break up with him.
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Mindhunter / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Mindhunter / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Averted when Holden and Tench get into a car accident with an actual Pinto. However this is a front-impact collision, not a rear-impact collision which risked damaging the fuel tank.
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Mindhunter / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Mindhunter / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The season two finale. Wayne Williams is caught, and it's a Foregone Conclusion that it's generally accepted that he committed most of the murders.note Not only did the murders stop when he was imprisoned, later DNA testing strengthened the case against him. However, the grieving mothers are left unsatisfied with the conclusion (and Williams is charged with only two of the murders); both Atlanta authorities and Gunn only care that their respective political goals are met; Ford's idealistic profiling technique is both challenged and exploited; Carr is still left frustrated professionally and broken up with Kay; and Tench loses his family due to his work. And of course, BTK is still out there, and will kill again.
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Mindhunter / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Mindhunter / int_4192763e	comment	William Pierce sticks to his story that he didn't kill any women and only knew where the bodies were because he's a Clearvoyant. Henley is also in deep denial about many details of his and Corll's relationship.
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Mindhunter / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Mindhunter / int_46290b93	comment	Holden also does this after speaking to Beverly Jeanâ€™s mother in law: he notes how a Manic Pixie Dream Girl like Beverly wants to settle down with someone who is sensitive with a stable income, and given how he attempted to discuss marriage with his own girlfriend Debbie, itâ€™s clear heâ€™s having similar anxieties.
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Mindhunter / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Mindhunter / int_469e3e2f	comment	In his interview, Paul Bateson mentions that the idea of a gay man killing other homosexuals was deeply unsatisfying to and uncomfortable for the LGBTQ+ community, who would feel much better if it had been a homophobe, even though, as Bateson points out in an In-Universe case of Fridge Logic, any gay man at a bar at that time would have been on the look out for a homophobe trying to get them alone, and they would have likely sensed that something was off if a homophobe tried to pretend to be gay in order to lure them away. During the Atlanta investigation, the Black community has a similar reaction to the idea of Black man Wayne Williams being the one preying on Black children, and many try to claim that the KKK or other racists are the true culprits, regardless of how damning the evidence against Williams is. The team comes to the same conclusion as Bateson about how it would be easier for a predator to lull someone that they have at least some commonality with; a Black child in a southern state would naturally be more wary and cautious if a strange white man tried to, say, lead them away somewhere or offered them a car ride (and it would have caught the attention of more bystanders), whereas a Black man doing the same thing would have an easier time with it and wouldn't stand out to potential witnesses.
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Mindhunter / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Mindhunter / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: In-universe example when Brudos, who has been in jail since 1969, is surprised to find that the FBI's tape recorder has a built-in microphone resembling a tiny silver panel. Bill tells him that there are also photo cameras outside that fit in a pocket.
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Mindhunter / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Mindhunter / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The final shot of season 1, in which Dennis burns his sketches... our first look at his crimes.
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Mindhunter / int_4fa986e	type	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
Mindhunter / int_4fa986e	comment	Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: Holden crosses the line when he goes after Principal Wade.
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Mindhunter / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Mindhunter / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Jerry Brudos.
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Mindhunter / int_51974a43	type	Storefront Television Display
Mindhunter / int_51974a43	comment	Storefront Television Display: Several sequences are shown of the FBI's progress on a group of '70s-style wood-paneled TV sets in a storefront.
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Mindhunter / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Mindhunter / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Edmund Kemper is a polite and articulate guy who considers Ford his friend. He nonchalantly gives him sexual advice that is, naturally, only based on his own experience as a horrific rapist, mutilator and murderer. This is all Truth in Television, with the real Kemper even also becoming a prolific narrator of audiobooks for the blind after his imprisonment. Faux Affably Evil: Sets up a perfectly unsettling scene in the Season 1 finale.
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Mindhunter / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Mindhunter / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Downplayed by Debbie.
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Mindhunter / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
Mindhunter / int_55ee648c	comment	Mommy Issues: Very common among serial, often lust-motivated killers.
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Mindhunter / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Mindhunter / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Holden describing Speck's victims as "eight ripe cunts" during his interview is so blatantly off-script that it leads to a minor coverup by the BSU.
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Mindhunter / int_56401e68	type	Teaser-Only Character
Mindhunter / int_56401e68	comment	Teaser-Only Character: An unusual example is Dennis Rader (BTK), who appears solely in the cold opens of each episode of the first season beginning in the second one.
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Mindhunter / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Mindhunter / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Debbie is more grounded than Holden, and Dr. Carr is the most intelligent of the three main characters. The show has only pitched the team against male offenders.
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Mindhunter / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Mindhunter / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The show presents the BSU interviewing William Henry Hance after he's been incarcerated and as though he were previously unknown to them, but in actuality he was captured based on a profile created at the BSU by Robert Ressler (the character Bill Tench is based on).
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Mindhunter / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Mindhunter / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Crossing over with Batman Gambit, Kemper attempts to kill himself with a pen to make Holden meet with him again... in a hospital room with very little security compared to the prison kitchen.
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Mindhunter / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Mindhunter / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Holden has a mild infatuation with Dr. Carr, who, unbeknownst to him, is a lesbian. Kay the bartender explains politely to the Marine who's trying to pick her up that she "play[s] for the other team." Happily for the lonely Dr. Carr, she says this within her earshot.
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Mindhunter / int_5e79c812	type	Bathroom Search Excuse
Mindhunter / int_5e79c812	comment	Bathroom Search Excuse: Holden asks to go to the bathroom in Wayne Williams's house aka the Atlanta child killer. He instead uses it as an opportunity to snoop, but gets busted quickly when Wayne's dog (which he claims he didn't have) starts barking. Holden claims to be lost, but Wayne doesn't buy it.
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Mindhunter / int_5ece868a	type	Consulting a Convicted Killer
Mindhunter / int_5ece868a	comment	Consulting a Convicted Killer: For the first season, the consulting is purely theoretical, working to build ground work for profiling, but in season 2, Ford and Tench ask Edmund Kemper and David Berkowitz for input on the BTK profile.
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Mindhunter / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Mindhunter / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: None of the prisons Holden and Bill visit are especially nice, but the Joliet Correctional Center where Richard Speck is held really stands out. The whole place seems like it's on the verge of a riot, with inmates screaming, trash being thrown everywhere, and the guards doing little to stop the mayhem.
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Mindhunter / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Mindhunter / int_6220c00d	comment	PÃ¦do Hunt: The Principal Wade arc. The show doesn't confirm or deny that Wade is a pedophile, but the stereotypical glasses, refusal to stop tickling children even when directly requested by their parents and the superintendent, and his strategy to deflect criticism—accusing the complainers of having the indecent thoughts, not him—sure don't help.
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Mindhunter / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Mindhunter / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Dennis Rader, still yet to make his debut in the story proper, appears one last time in the season 1 finale as he destroys all his "keepsakes".
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Mindhunter / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Mindhunter / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Richard Speck.
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Mindhunter / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Mindhunter / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In the second episode, Bill tells Holden there's no way he's going with him to interview Ed Kemper. Cut to the two of them sitting opposite Kemper.
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Mindhunter / int_695d36b5	type	Must State If You're a Cop
Mindhunter / int_695d36b5	comment	Must State If You're a Cop: The kids in Baltimore that Gregg tries to approach demand he show them his dick to prove he's not a cop.
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Mindhunter / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Mindhunter / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: A downplayed example in the last episode of season 1, when Debbie challenges Holden to explain her behavior after he gets back from another late night at work. He reads the scene, analyzes her actions, and as he describes the situation he realizes that she's breaking up with him.
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Mindhunter / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Mindhunter / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Shepard. He's an unabashed old-school type who doesn't hide his dislike for the young and forward-thinking Holden, letting it be known through sarcastic, abrasive comments, and doesn't even acknowledge the good things he's done alongside Bill and Dr. Carr. But you can't deny he has the best interests of the FBI and its new Behavioral Sciences Unit in mind, even bordering on Only Sane Man territory when Holden oversteps his bounds in the Roger Wade case and goes overboard in his interview with Richard Speck.
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Mindhunter / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Mindhunter / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Kemper reading in the press that Holden considers him his friend.
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Mindhunter / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Mindhunter / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: S1:E2: Kemper: â€œWhat do you want from me?â€� Holden: â€œI have no idea.â€� S1:E10: Kemper â€œWhy are you here, Holden?â€� Holden: â€œI don't know.â€�
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Mindhunter / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Mindhunter / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: In Fringe, Anna Torv played a gun slinging FBI agent uncomfortable with having to work surrounded by academics. In Mindhunter, she's an academic uncomfortable with having to work surrounded by FBI agents.
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Mindhunter / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Mindhunter / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Despite Hance outright stating on the tape that he didn't see his standout victim as being white because she was an army grunt like himself, only Agent Smith states the obvious when the other agents fail to figure out the same conclusion (though it can be handwaved that Ford and Barney were already bored and frustrated by Hance).
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Mindhunter / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Mindhunter / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The main draw of the show, obviously, though in a case of Shown Their Work they are still known as "sequential" or mass killers at first. "Serial killer" is introduced in Episode 9.
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Mindhunter / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Mindhunter / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Holden and Debbie's first meeting. Evolves into a Belligerent Sexual Relationship when they become a couple.
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Mindhunter / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
Mindhunter / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: The agents receive little outright abuse over it, but this series is set during the nadir of the FBI's public image—as Debbie puts it, "They'll never forgive you for putting a tail on John and Yoko." This presents some obstacles near the beginning of the series as Holden tries to pull liberal academics to help the Behavioral Science Unit.
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Mindhunter / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Mindhunter / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The Macdonald triad is showcased on Episode 8. Kemper decapitated his sister's dolls. Brudos brought a pair of high heels from a landfill when he was 5 and wore them until his mother burned them. He later stole his teacher's shoes. Bill's son is emotionally detached, has a morbid curiosity about his father's job, and bites other kids at school. One of the plot threads in season 2 revolves around Brian leading a group of older boys into an house where they strangle a toddler while he watches and later suggesting that they should tie him to a cross Jesus-style. Tanya's kid at the hotel is oddly blase about the prospect of Holden being a pedophile trying to solicit him for services, and the kids in Baltimore Greggs tries to get come with him prove he's not a cop by showing them his his penis.
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Mindhunter / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Mindhunter / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Kemper killed his mother and grandparents.
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Mindhunter / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Mindhunter / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Jerry Brudos, at least until the agents figure him out. He will deny making a photograph where his own reflection appears. William Pierce sticks to his story that he didn't kill any women and only knew where the bodies were because he's a Clearvoyant. Henley is also in deep denial about many details of his and Corll's relationship.
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Mindhunter / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Mindhunter / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Assuming Kemper is always telling the truth, his mother continued to bully him after she knew he was a killer and he had grown into a giant. No guesses what happened to her.
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Mindhunter / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Mindhunter / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: After Wayne Williams clocks Holden and Bill as they're tailing him and brings over some fast food to their car, the other officers (and Bill) see the funny side. Bill can't help but break into a chuckle when Kemper says that he buried the heads of his victims in his mother's garden so they would be looking straight up at her room because "Mom always liked people to look up to her."
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Mindhunter / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Mindhunter / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bill is red to Holden's blue.
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Mindhunter / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Mindhunter / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: A common sight in Atlanta, where many boys spends most of the time outside, doing odd jobs for a few dollars. One episode opens with what appears to be the killer picking up a boy from the side of a road, but is revealed to be an Atlanta PD undercover sent by Holden to test his theory. Gregg in turn is sent to try this at a housing project in Baltimore, where the kids tell him to fuck off or take out his dick to prove he's not a cop. Serial killer Monte Rissel that the team interviews also grew up with very little supervision and access to alcohol, drugs and weapons.
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Mindhunter / int_8741b74	type	Playing with a Trope
Mindhunter / int_8741b74	comment	Played straight, then subverted with Speck's pet bird. As he puts it, he found it in the yard with a broken wing and nursed it back to health with meatloaf and an eyedropper. However, he angrily ends his interview by throwing it into a fan.
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Mindhunter / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Mindhunter / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Dr. Carr.
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Mindhunter / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Mindhunter / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Brudos is a pathological liar who won't accept his guilt, but he is also a psychopath dying to talk about his crimes to relive them, so he ends becoming this. All while insisting that "the killer" is not himself.
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Mindhunter / int_8f7b77d3	type	Cargo Ship
Mindhunter / int_8f7b77d3	comment	Cargo Ship: In-universe, Jerry Brudos with women's shoes.
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Mindhunter / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Mindhunter / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Richard Speck, shown to great effect in his first scene. Not that other characters are notably gentle in speech.
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Mindhunter / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Mindhunter / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Sets up a perfectly unsettling scene in the Season 1 finale.
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Mindhunter / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Mindhunter / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: A common theme with the interviewed killers. Ranging from Brudos' and Pierce's outright and implausible denial to Kemper's rationalization. In turn, Holden himself doesn't seem to grasp how often his actions cause problems for other people.
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Mindhunter / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Mindhunter / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Holden, Bill and Dr. Carr single-handedly come up with criminal profiling and its usual jargon, such as "Sequential Killer" and the distinction between organized and disorganized killers.
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Mindhunter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mindhunter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Episode 1, Bill Tench is standing beside the light switch in the lecture Holden overhears by Professor Rathman on David Berkowitz/Son of Sam Kemper touching Holden's neck the first time they meet alone. By the last episode, Holden comes much closer to an up-close-and-personal demonstration of what Kemper does to his victims' necks. When Holden first picks Bill up in the morning, the latter is sitting on his front stoop drinking his morning coffee, rather than being inside with his family. Note that he was in no way expecting Holden to be picking him up. It anticipates later revelations that all is not 100% well in the Tench household. While trying to expand the unit, Bill and Wendy interview a Black Atlanta candidate that looks almost like Wayne Williams and the conversation immediately jumps to race. Debbie drives a light-colored beetle very similar to Ted Bundy's. Holden's shuddering collapse at the end of the first season, as medical professionals rush to help him, suggests the real John Douglas' near-death brush with viral encephalitis. Charles Manson is mentioned a couple of times in Season 1, with Holden especially mentioning how much of a get he would be to interview. In Season 2, Holden finally gets his chance. In his interview, Paul Bateson mentions that the idea of a gay man killing other homosexuals was deeply unsatisfying to and uncomfortable for the LGBTQ+ community, who would feel much better if it had been a homophobe, even though, as Bateson points out in an In-Universe case of Fridge Logic, any gay man at a bar at that time would have been on the look out for a homophobe trying to get them alone, and they would have likely sensed that something was off if a homophobe tried to pretend to be gay in order to lure them away. During the Atlanta investigation, the Black community has a similar reaction to the idea of Black man Wayne Williams being the one preying on Black children, and many try to claim that the KKK or other racists are the true culprits, regardless of how damning the evidence against Williams is. The team comes to the same conclusion as Bateson about how it would be easier for a predator to lull someone that they have at least some commonality with; a Black child in a southern state would naturally be more wary and cautious if a strange white man tried to, say, lead them away somewhere or offered them a car ride (and it would have caught the attention of more bystanders), whereas a Black man doing the same thing would have an easier time with it and wouldn't stand out to potential witnesses.
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Mindhunter / int_9ed576e1	type	Evil Orphan
Mindhunter / int_9ed576e1	comment	Evil Orphan: Bill's adopted son Brian shows signs of being this.
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Mindhunter / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Mindhunter / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Dr. Carr after she realizes that a perp who confessed to Bill and Holden is now facing the death penalty. Defied by Holden, who refuses repeatedly to feel guilty about what his intervention meant for Principal Wade or Devier.
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Mindhunter / int_a21f81a	type	Monster Fangirl
Mindhunter / int_a21f81a	comment	Monster Fangirl: Speck has multiple female fans, many of whom mail him pornographic photos of themselves. Principal Wade is worshipped by the youngest female teachers in his school.
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Mindhunter / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Mindhunter / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Unit Chief Shepard.
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Mindhunter / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Mindhunter / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Racism, sexism, homophobia, and gun culture all casually pop up as Holden tries to introduce profiling to the Quantico of 1977. While many liberals today are at least slightly suspicious of the various three-letter agencies, the way the counterculture-dominated academic community refuses to even give the time of day to FBI agents may look strange to modern eyes. Mrs. Gonzalez, an old Catholic woman, is so dismayed by her daughter's divorce that she actually crosses herself when she mentions it. Bill and Holden almost die in a car crash in Episode 4. They don't wear safety belts, their car doesn't seem to actually have any, and they don't discuss the concept at all. Also, several characters, including law enforcement officers, drive drunk. Dr. Carr is stuck between a rock and a hard place. She must hide her identity as a lesbian due to the conservative lean of the FBI, but she must also hide her project with the FBI from her academic colleagues due to their disdain for that same conservatism. The team interviews an agent who's highly qualified and capable, but ultimately decides against bringing him onto their project because he's Black. Not out of their own racism, but because they are mainly interviewing white serial killers. Carr argues that many of them will likely be racist along with their general antisocial tendencies; the presence of a Black man may change the killers' behavior in some way and corrupt the team's data. However, the fact that they interviewed a Black agent at all and nearly hired him is a huge departure from the FBI of previous decades—it's Tench, outwardly the most traditional of the team, who expresses concern that this makes them look prejudiced. Principal Wade's tickling of his young students and paying them in nickels is seen as at least peculiar by most, but also not inherently inappropriate. Wade also refuses to heed complaints from parents to stop touching their children, which earns the rather weak line "I guess [the parents] should have a say" from Smith. In fact, most of the parents seemed to be more upset about the nickels, since the children could secretly buy candy with them. Even today, what Wade did may not be illegal (for instance, corporal punishment in school is still legal in many states), but the idea of a school official unnecessarily making physical contact with a child is severely frowned upon, and simply ignoring a parent's complaints would likely cause an uproar.
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Mindhunter / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
Mindhunter / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: Averted. Famous real-life offenders (Kemper, Brudos, Speck) and very obscure ones (Rissell, Devier) are featured in Season 1. Season 2 features Berkowitz, Henley, Hance, Pierce, and Manson himself.
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Mindhunter / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Mindhunter / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The worst killers invariably have the worst childhoods.
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Mindhunter / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Mindhunter / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Audiences will be forgiven for screaming at their televisions due to the complete lack of common sense Holden exercises in his interviews with Edmund Kemper, including having Kemper's handcuffs removed, eating food that he's made, and even letting Kemper put his hands on his throat. Holden only survives when Kemper has him at his complete and total mercy because Kemper seemingly likes him enough not to kill him (and also probably realizes that injuring or murdering a federal agent will get him in a lot of trouble, including potentially the death penalty).
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Mindhunter / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
Mindhunter / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: Edmund Kemper is 6 foot 9 (2 meters tall) and weighs between 250 and 300 pounds (120 to 130 kilos). He targeted petite women. Jerry Brudos may not be so big, but he is still a big guy.
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Mindhunter / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Mindhunter / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: The series of the book, that is. The book is Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas, which is completely non-fiction.
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Mindhunter / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Mindhunter / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: People not taking any reponsibility for their actions seems to be this for Bill. The most notable example is when he and Holden interview Manson, who refuses to accept any blame for the murders (as did the real Manson), leading to an increasingly-enraged Bill coming within a hair of beating the living shit out of him. He also goes off on Holden on more than one occasion for the latter's Insufferable Genius Cowboy Cop tendencies, especially when it leads to a problem that Holden refuses to admit was his fault.
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Mindhunter / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Mindhunter / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: In-story. Many FBI agents and police officers have this opinion, to Holden's exasperation.
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Mindhunter / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Mindhunter / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Kemper to Holden in the hospital.
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Mindhunter / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Season two moves the time setting to 1980.
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Mindhunter / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: In the series prologue, a mentally ill hostage taker commits suicide with his own shotgun.
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Mindhunter / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Jerry Brudos.
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Mindhunter / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Mindhunter / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: There is nothing sexy about graphic sex crime scenes, that's for sure. Holden's first case is a mentally ill hostage taker who believes himself invisible. So he strips naked in his attempt to fool law enforcement. Unfortunately, he is not. Holden and Debbie's own sex scenes are far from a joy to watch, because of their overly belligerent attitude.
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Mindhunter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mindhunter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Bill Tench's line to Holden Ford about his son, Brian, "I wish I knew what went on inside that head of his", is an almost verbatim quote of "Doctor" Westphall's line in the last episode of St. Elsewhere about his autistic son, Tommy Westphall. During the scenes at Harvard, Holden and Bill sit on a couch together as they wait outside an office. The exact same location and shot is used when the Winkelvosses wait outside the Dean of Harvard's office in The Social Network, another David Fincher work.
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Mindhunter / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Mindhunter / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The police's refusal to admit that there is such a thing, lest they come across as sympathizing with criminals, is a big early obstacle on Holden's project. Charles Manson was born to a teenager who didn't want to become a mother and was abused by his stepfather. Edmund Kemper was abused by his mother, who blamed him for everything wrong in her life and believed that he was a rapist before he even hit puberty. Montie Rissell was neglected by his mother and abused by his stepfather.
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Mindhunter / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Mindhunter / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The Lawrence Bittaker and Ray Norris tape.
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Mindhunter / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
Mindhunter / int_cf4d770	comment	Edmund Kemper is 6 foot 9 (2 meters tall) and weighs between 250 and 300 pounds (120 to 130 kilos). He targeted petite women.
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Mindhunter / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Mindhunter / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: The Beverly Jean murder case. Frank and Benji raped and murdered her, and Rose helped destroy the evidence.
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Mindhunter / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Mindhunter / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Serial killers start as serial animal torturers/killers.
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Mindhunter / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Mindhunter / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The long-time babysitter for the Tenches resigns as soon as she finds a murder photo hidden in Brian's bed. Bill has to convince her to take the day's pay.
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Mindhunter / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Mindhunter / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Brudos is called "Jerr" by his (ex) wife. Brian, Bill's son, is often affectionaly called "Bri" by his parents.
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Mindhunter / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook. Speck's "Born to raise Hell" tattoo is discussed as a part of his descent into his criminal personality. Pierce and Manson sport a large amount of prison tattoos as well.
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Mindhunter / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Mindhunter / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Holden gets cocky and decides to meet Kemper and Brudos without Bill. He eventually learns that this is a really bad idea.
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Mindhunter / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Mindhunter / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The unit comes with the moniker "stressor" to label these.
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Mindhunter / int_e288e579	type	Lying to the Perp
Mindhunter / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: Holden takes this way off limits and is reprimanded by his superiors for it.
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Mindhunter / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Debbie for Holden. Bill's family. The cat for Dr. Carr. Played straight, then subverted with Speck's pet bird. As he puts it, he found it in the yard with a broken wing and nursed it back to health with meatloaf and an eyedropper. However, he angrily ends his interview by throwing it into a fan.
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Mindhunter / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Mindhunter / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Bill and Holden are fictional, but based on Robert Ressler and John E. Douglas, the real developers of modern criminal profiling. Douglas's book serves as the basis for the show and he is credited as an advisor. Principal Wade is inspired by a school principal Douglas was asked about, although the principal had already been fired. Kemper's scene with Holden in the season 1 finale is inspired by an incident that happened between Kemper and Ressler in prison, not a hospital. It also wasn't intended as a lesson: Kemper picked up that Ressler was somewhat agitated at not being let out immediately once their interview was over, and so decided to troll Ressler by joking with him about how helpless the latter was in the situation. Kemper really did attempt suicide with a pen case, but he did it years earlier in 1974 and it wasn't an attempt to lure someone to him. Speck killed his pet bird as shown, but he didn't do it during his FBI interview. The Beverly Jean case is based on a real murder, but instead of involving the victim's fiance and future siblings-in-law, it was her fiance and his (blood) brother and sister. The child killing Brian is involved with is based on a real crime.
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Mindhunter / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Mindhunter / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Gregg Smith is introduced to the team as a hiring candidate with strong personal connections to Chief Shepard, causing Holden to immediately suspect him as Shepard's spy. Tench and Carr don't dismiss the idea, but decide they have nothing to hide anyway and he ends up hired. He's decidedly not Shepard's spy, just dangerously honest. He ends up going around Shepard to send the Speck tape to an internal investigation after everyone, including Shepard, agrees to cover up Holden's misconduct during Speck's interview.
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Mindhunter / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Bill is the Id, Holden is the Ego, and Wendy is the Superego.
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Mindhunter / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Mindhunter / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: The fictionalized cases like Mrs. Gonzalez's, Beverly Jean's and Principal Wade, although these are stretched over two or more episodes.
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Mindhunter / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Mindhunter / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Wayne Williams is seen in the crowd with the reporters two episodes before he shows up as a character.
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Mindhunter / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Mindhunter / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: The series begins in 1977, with the obvious implications for fashion and music.
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Mindhunter / int_f8084d07	type	Society Is to Blame
Mindhunter / int_f8084d07	comment	Society Is to Blame: Discussed. Debbie studies sociology and talks often about Emile Durkheim's theories. During the Atlanta Child Murders investigation, the GBI agent that monitors the local Klan chapter doesn't think all the murders are connected, and are more a result of the high risk lifestyles many of the kids lead, saying â€œIf you're looking for a monster, it's povertyâ€�
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Mindhunter / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Holden often fails to get the suave sarcasm of his girlfriend or colleagues and takes their comments at face value.
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Mindhunter / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive. Both Bill and Gregg make some heavily homophobic remarks in the presence of Wendy, and Holden keeps putting his foot in his mouth when talking about Black people.
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