All language subtitles for Signs.Of.A.Psychopath.S10E06.Its.Despicable.and.Gruesome.1080p.DISC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RAWR_track3_[eng]

The thing
inside of me, it's like...

the appetite,
It's like a wolf that's...

feeling...
the hunger.

What we do know about
Mr. Johnson is that,

at the age of 18,
he was convicted of rape,

and served
10 years in prison for that.

Knowing his history,
and then hearing this story

in the context
of a missing person situation

is the fact that, you know,
the story already

doesn't really fit together, right?

She broke her neck
in the shower, like,

you would have
a reaction to that.

But then the response being,
like, "Oh, so I cut her up

and put her in several
different storage bins."

It's just such a... disconnect.

But then, when you add in
the layer of, like,

this is somebody who has
a history of disregard

for somebody else's
bodily autonomy.

That's the piece that sort of,
I think is the most relevant.

He gets distressed
a little bit

whenever he's picked up by
the police to be interviewed,

but until then,
he's really not doing much

about his wife missing.

That-- leads into this idea
that he has this mask,

so to speak,
of being one person,

this caring, loving, doting
husband and father.

But in reality, there's a very
different side to him

underneath that mask.

He's trying to figure
out how he wants to play this.

He's neither paying attention
to what's going on around him,

nor is he really
paying attention to
his feelings and emotions,

which we probably suspect
that he probably doesn't have

the ones that we might be
expecting for

somebody whose wife is missing.

But it's more like he's trying
to figure things out.

And that's, like, occupying
so much of his computing power

that he's got to put the rest
of the stuff just on autopilot.

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The fact that
he uses the phrase,

"He doesn't really care,"

is the almost dictionary irony,
in that he probably

has no connection to it.

But he's, again, probably
in his mind, trying to implicate

his friend, and just sort of
tossed off this phrase.

But from what we know
about what happened, it is...

incredibly poignant for him
to use those words,

because he's the one
who doesn't seem to care.

It's kind of like he's decided,
"I'm gonna to have

"this very sort of poster
child perfect family life,

"but I still want to do what
I want when I want to do it.

"And so I'm gonna to sneak off,
and have that thrill seeking,

"and that indulgence,
because that's what we know

psychopaths crave."
They want that stimulation.

They want to have
that gratification.

So he's gonna do what he wants,
but the way that he's sort of

utilized his charisma,
if you will, is to kind of

have created these
two separate lives

that he gets to live,
kind of almost in parallel.

Even though
he's the perpetrator,

he actually seems, like he's
trying to elicit some sympathy.

But it's interesting,
because here he's accused

of murdering her, yet
he's talking negatively about

some of her characteristics
that he perceives.

When he says her words hurt,
and she's so cold,

it really seems, like,
a narcissistic injury.

His fragile ego
is getting impaled

by these cold words
that she's saying.

And when Johnson
is constantly talking about

what she was doing to him,
he's trying to portray

this victim scenario
and he's trying to really curate

what the detectives are
thinking about him and saying,

"OK, this is a man
who was at his wit's end
because his wife

was trying to be overly
controlling of him."

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He can't help but see things
through the lens

of his own interest,
because I think he's trying

to come across as sympathetic
by kind of acknowledging, like,

"Oh, what have I done?"

But then it has that
narcissistic overlay,

'cause it's told
in that way of, like,
"I lost this, I lost this,"

as opposed to, like, "What
have I done to her family?"

But he just can't help himself.

He just can't get out
of his own point of view.

The truest things he said,
the most kind of direct from

the psychopath's mouth, "I was
angry, I wanted some control,"

and sort of,
"Well, she had the card."

I think the baby represented
sort of a trophy in a way.

Like, he didn't want her to be
able to exert that kind of

mastery over the situation.

If anybody's
gonna be in control,
it's supposed to be him.

And I think that's what
he found difficult to tolerate.

The separation between
what he does,

and his actions after,
especially when he is
in Menards,

that just sticks out
to me the most.

He doesn't look stressed.

The level of callousness,
the lack of responsibility

or emotion that goes along with
that is almost unfathomable.

2
He's talking at the end about,
"'I'm sorry' just being words."

But the way he has been talking
throughout this entire interview

seems, like, just words.

It's not clear that there's
remorse or true sorrow

for what he has done.

And there's no indication that
Johnson has any amount

of empathy for the pain that
he has caused,

and will cause his son as
his son gets older,

and realizes what's happened.

But also the pain that
he's caused both families,

whom he just described
as wonderful.

For psychopaths,
they exist in the world

solely seeking out
their own interests.

And so, as long as somebody
is serving their interests,

they'll get the benefit of
being treated sort of

externally the way the person
in that role would be treated.

And so, i.e., in this case,
he treated her like his wife,

so long as she played
the character of his wife

in the way that
he wanted and needed.

But as soon as
that stopped happening,

the character to which
he has no emotional connection

now becomes expendable.

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