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* Want a good example of how CreepyGood Goren can be? To prove that a convicted perp isn't the Motel Ripper or a copycat in "Seizure", he straight up ''cuts his own palm with a pocket knife'' and then shoves the injury in front of the guy's face to make him faint from the sight of blood. He doesn't bat an eye at the pain and causally covers up his hand in the aftermath, having proven his point that such a person couldn't have committed the Ripper's overly-brutal sprees.

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* Want a good example of how CreepyGood Goren can be? To prove that a convicted perp isn't the Motel Ripper or a copycat in "Seizure", he straight up ''cuts his own palm with a pocket knife'' and then shoves the injury in front of the guy's face to make him faint from the sight of blood. He doesn't bat an eye at the pain and causally casually covers up his hand in the aftermath, having proven his point that such a person couldn't have committed the Ripper's overly-brutal sprees.
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* "Major Case" has a long-time famous forensics expert helping in the case of a murdered teenage prostitute, apparently bleached completely to make sure no one could find traces of anything on her. As the case proceeds, however, Nichols starts SpottingTheThread when DNA evidence pointing towards the first suspect comes up implausibly despite the airtight alibi on the guy. The episode makes it clear from the beginning that the expert is the culprit, going through extensive means to cover up all traces of his involvement and what he did while exploiting the system to cover his tracks. And even worse, he's a would-be child predator that didn't even realize that all of his famous cases were teenaged girls, and as Nichols phrases it, the only reason this entire incident happened was because this was a "live one" that he killed when she rejected his impulsive attempts to rape her.

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* "Major Case" has a long-time famous forensics expert helping in the case of a murdered teenage prostitute, drug dealer, apparently bleached completely to make sure no one could find traces of anything on her. As the case proceeds, however, Nichols starts SpottingTheThread when DNA evidence pointing towards the first suspect comes up implausibly despite the airtight alibi on the guy. The episode makes it clear from the beginning that the expert is the culprit, going through extensive means to cover up all traces of his involvement and what he did while exploiting the system to cover his tracks. And even worse, he's a would-be child predator that didn't even realize that all of his famous cases were teenaged girls, and as Nichols phrases it, the only reason this entire incident happened was because this was a "live one" that he killed when she rejected his impulsive attempts to rape her.
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* The episode, "See Me". The killer, an optometrist who is "treating" homeless men with schizophrenia by blinding them or greatly damaging their eyes through dangerous experiments to get rid of their illness-induced illusions has [[{{Squick}} close-ups of these experiments.]] However, what keeps the killer from being completely [[UnintentionallySympathetic unsympathetic]] is that at the end of the episode, we learn that he's schizophrenic as well, and while he ended up doing serious harm to his patients, he was genuinely (if extremely misguidedly) trying to help them. He winds up hospitalized instead of imprisoned.

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* The episode, "See Me". The killer, an optometrist who is "treating" homeless men people with schizophrenia by blinding them or greatly damaging their eyes through dangerous experiments to get rid of their illness-induced illusions illusions, has [[{{Squick}} [[EyeScream close-ups of these experiments.]] However, what keeps the killer from being completely [[UnintentionallySympathetic unsympathetic]] is that at the end of the episode, we learn that he's schizophrenic as well, and while he ended up doing serious harm to his patients, he was genuinely (if extremely misguidedly) trying to help them. He winds up hospitalized instead of imprisoned.
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* In "Homo Homini Lupis", we're treated to the sight of a man's kidnapped preteen daughter being dragged off to be raped. What makes it even worse is that as it's happening, both her mother (who's in the same room as her) and her father (on the phone) are forced to listen to her cries for help as she tries to fight back. We then get a RapeDiscretionShot, but it doesn't help much.

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* In "Homo Homini Lupis", we're treated to the sight of a man's kidnapped preteen daughter being dragged off to be raped. What makes it even worse is that as it's happening, both her mother (who's in the same room as her) and her father (on the phone) are forced to listen to her cries for help as she tries to fight back. We then get a RapeDiscretionShot, but it doesn't help much. Incredibly, the scene could have been even ''more'' horrifying, thanks to her younger sister also being in the room. Luckily, she had on a blindfold and headphones playing music. It's still awful to think about her being near her sister as she's being sexually assaulted, though.

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