I have been on Criminal Minds fest. I don't usually watch this kind of show en masse because then I can't sleep.
Criminal Minds is a different kind of cop show, to me. It is more deep, intelligent and probative. It speaks to the depth of humanity, both good and bad.
One of the episodes touched on something my best friend and I have talked about off and on our whole adult lives. In this episode 2 abuse survivors (torture, beatings) face off in the same room and discuss the abuse that made them who they are. One became a serial killer. One became a profiler who catches killers.
If we could figure out what sends people the two different ways, maybe we could save the broken ones aimed at destruction. But how? How do we see it in time? How can we know?
This question has haunted me my whole life. How did I become one of the lucky ones? What part of my psyche protected me? If we could figure that out maybe we could stop some of the killers acting out their childhoods into their adulthoods...
I have always believed that if we could understand peoples stories, what broke them and reformed them, we can come to understand why they do what they are doing.
