- Status
- Ended
- Network
- Netflix
- Premiered
- 13 Oct 2017
- Ended
- 16 Aug 2019
- Episodes
- 19 in 2 seasons
Overview
See production notesMindhunter revolves around FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, along with psychologist Wendy Carr, who operate the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Together they launch a research project to interview imprisoned serial killers to understand their psychology with the hope of applying this knowledge to solve ongoing cases. The first season takes place from 1977 to 1980, in the early days of criminal psychology and criminal profiling at the FBI. Cameron Britton has a recurring role in this season as notorious serial killer Edmund Kemper, who is the first to assist Ford and Tench in understanding how a serial killer's mind works. Other notable serial killers featured in the first season include Montie Rissell played by Sam Strike, Jerry Brudos played by Happy Anderson, Richard Speck played by Jack Erdie, and Dennis Rader also known as BTK, played by Sonny Valicenti. The second season takes place in 1980 and 1981, with Ford and Tench investigating the Atlanta murders of 1979 to 1981, which included at least 28 deaths, mostly children. This is based on the real case of Wayne Williams, who was charged and convicted for the murder of two adult men but was never tried for the killing of the children and adolescents, causing mass outrage and questions over Williams's guilt as the children's cases went cold. The second season also features other infamous murderers, such as David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam, played by Oliver Cooper, William Pierce played by Michael Filipowich, Elmer Wayne Henley played by Robert Aramayo, and Charles Manson, played by Damon Herriman.
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- Original language
- English
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See all quotesWhen we know who the criminal is, we can understand what set him off. In a homicide situation, we do the inverse. We ask, "What happened? Why did it happen that way?" Which narrows the search for who did it. But what if our killer is someone who's not rational? Why do we behave the way we do? It's a question asked by poets, and philosophers, and theologians since time immemorial. The playground of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Freud. The stuff of Crime and Punishment and Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The greatest minds in history have been fascinated by the vagaries of behavior. So, in a case where we can't immediately divine a motive, we shouldn't panic. It's a riddle, but it can be solved. It's complex, but it's human.
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[teaching] Personality and character far outweigh the presence of psychotic or defective diagnoses. In other words, by extrapolation, are criminals born or are they formed?
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Holden Ford: You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes. Bill Tench: Okay. Well, how do we do that? Holden Ford: What do we have in common? What unites us? What keeps us all awake at night?
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The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it this way?
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Bill Tench: [squabbling about their differing methods] Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend? Holden Ford: I do now, Bill, as it happens. Bill Tench: Okay. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your girlfriend. Okay? Holden Ford: Okay. Bill Tench: How's that sound? Holden Ford: It sounds okay, Bill.
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Bill Tench: Holden, they're not gonna let you in with a sidearm. Holden Ford: The guy is six foot nine, weighs 300 pounds. Bill Tench: That's right. Holden Ford: So what's he gonna do? Bill Tench: He's gonna take the fuckin' thing away, kill you with it, and then have sex with your face.
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