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I fear I am writing a requiem for myself. —Mozart
Bill put his hand to his neck. “I had an allergic reaction to the bug spray,” he said.
Before your tenure with the Bureau, Dr. Phillips, you wrote a thesis on the criminal mind titled Some Choose Darkness. That thesis is still widely heralded as a comprehensive look into the minds of killers and why they kill. Please tell us, Dr. Phillips, how you gained such insight.”
It was three o’clock in the afternoon and Rory was on her second glass, her head vertiginous with the early effects of the alcohol. In a show of rebellion to her own thoughts, she lifted the glass, took a long swallow, and then spent two hours on the 1979 file, lost in the details of Angela Mitchell and what she had managed to do.
She read Lane’s discernments on what made a person choose to end another’s life: the rationalizing that occurred, the blocking of emotion, the pouring of societal norms and moral obligations into a black hole of the mind. This concept got back to the core of his thesis: At some point in every killer’s existence, a choice is made. Some choose darkness, others are chosen by it.
