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Dr. Lamont.
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I see two possibilities.
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One: The person who wrote this book
is your murderer...
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and acted out the killing described
in ritualistic, literal detail.
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Two: Someone who wants
to harm the writer...
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read the book and enacted the killing
described to incriminate her.
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What if the writer did it?
Then what are we dealing with?
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You're dealing with
a devious, diabolical mind.
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You see, this book had to have been
written at least six months--
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maybe even years--
before it was published...
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which means the writer must have planned
the crime in the subconscious back then.
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Now, the fact
that she carried it out...
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indicates psychopathic
obsessive behavior...
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in terms not only
of the killing itself...
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but also in terms of the applied
advance defense mechanism.
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Sometimes I can't tell
shit from shinola, Doc.
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What was all that you just said?
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-She intended the book to be her alibi.
-Correct.
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She's going to say, "Do you think
I'd be dumb enough to kill anyone...
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in the exact way
I described in my book?"
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I wouldn't do that because
I know I'd be the suspect.
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So, what if it's not the writer?
What if it's someone who read the book?
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You're dealing, then,
with someone so obsessed...
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that he or she is willing to kill
an irrelevant and innocent victim...
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in order to place the blame
on the person who wrote that book.
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I'm talking about a deep-seated
obsessional hatred...
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and an utter lack of respect
for human life.
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So, we got a once in a lifetime,
top of the line looney-tuney.
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That's what you're saying,
right, Doc?
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You're dealing with someone
very dangerous...
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and very ill.
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You know there's no case here.
You've got no physical evidence.
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She hasn't got an alibi.
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She hasn't got a motive, either.
Believe me...