[ Interestingly, it's James' curiosity that peels him finally away from the mask. It's compelling, but he's always had a particular affinity for watching people question, learn, study, think. It's part of why he switched over to teaching from field work. Why every partner he's ever had has been someone intellectual, someone complicated, someone that made him second guess himself.

Not a murder scene, at least not outright, that's correct. That doesn't necessarily mean it won't come later. ]

Psychopaths like to tear the wings off of birds before they kill them. Just to watch them struggle.

[ You get what he's saying?

A flickering glance over at it again. ]

I don't know, maybe whoever's doing this is a doctor. That's one of the trademarks for sociopaths and psychopaths - they seek out positions of power. They're particularly interested in positions that let them legally dig into the human body, take it apart, put it back together.

[ He shrugs. That's the best theory he's got. ]