All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S10E02.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY_track3_[eng]

[suspenseful chord strike]

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[man] The thing inside of me,
it's like...

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

feeling...
the hunger.

[Dr. Morgan]
When the police arrive,
Cheyanne Jessie's not crying.

She doesn't sound worried.

Her daughter is a six-year-old
who has medical needs,

has behavioral problems,
appointments with doctors.

And it seems really unusual

that a mother would wait a week
to call 911.

This is a context
in which I think the police

should be thinking, this woman
knows a great deal more

than she's letting on.

[Dr. Vienna] We would expect
a loving mother to say,

"OK, well then
you must leave

because my first obligation is
to my child."

But instead, Jessie sees
her daughter as an object

that gets in her way.

She doesn't find any use in her.

She's blocking her
from what she wants.

[Dr. Morgan]
As we learn more about Jessie,

we find out that she has
a complicated relationship

with her father.
There's confrontation.

There's anger, irritability,
according to her boyfriend.

This complicates the features
for someone with psychopathy

because, since they don't
regulate emotions

like a healthy person does,
um...

it makes them more frustrated

when they can't just get
what they want.

So they tend to become
quite impatient

and short with people.

They ask for something,
and when they don't get it,

they get angry and they react.

I think Jessie thought
that she had control over Cody.

I think she thought
that she could, you know,

use her feminine ways
and victim mentality.

And in turn, she was buying
his loyalty.

But that's not what happened.

He comes out and tells police
everything.

One of the traits of psychopathy

is trying to control
other people

and control the story that's
being told about you to others.

And the way she did that,

or attempted to do that
with Cody, sort of backfired.

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There's an idea
in the concept of psychopathy

that we talk about which is
called "shallow affect,"

which refers to the idea
that people don't have

a wide range of emotions.

We just get this monotonous
kind of tone describing things,

but putting out some ideas

that in and of themselves are
actually quite distressing.

Maybe she's ben hurt
by girlfriend Vickie, right?

She's trying out
different narratives

about what might've happened

that'll help shift
the blame from her.

I think that's
a manipulative strategy that --

to keep the police guessing,
keep the police busy,

but not paying attention
to her.

[Dr. De La Torre]
"I'm dehydrated."

That's biologically
ridiculous, right?

This is someone who
doesn't respond well

when things get overwhelming,

who does not like
to be challenged,

who does not like
when things get rough,

when things don't happen the way
she just wants them to happen,

and will respond negatively,

will respond in a way
in which other people

were not anticipating.

She's definitely saying

the first thing
that comes to mind

to try to make it
more reasonable.

But the problem is,

is that her reasonableness is
so ridiculous

that it's unbelievable.

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[Dr. Morgan]
And now she's a victim,

someone who's afraid,
afraid of Mark Weekly

and terrified and vulnerable.

Ah -- so this is
setting the stage

for a new narrative.

If there's a physical threat,
we generally accept the idea

that a person has the right
to physically defend themselves.

So she's planting the seeds
that it wasn't just verbal,

it was physical.

Harm is being done to her
by this aggressive,

violent man, her father.

When someone says
they black out,

especially in a criminal case,
it's usually a convenient excuse

to discard
any sort of responsibility.

Jessie's placing blame
on her medication

and why she takes medication.

She's not just controlling
the situation of how police are

seeing her,
but she's displacing blame,

which is a key
psychopathic trait.

They don't take
any responsibility
for what they've done.

Taking responsibility is not
in their mentality whatsoever.

[Dr. Morgan]
This is where you see
the remarkable ability

to invent a story very quickly.

The minute he says, "Did he come
at you with a knife?"

She's like, "Yes."

She's already playing
the acting.

She's making it up as she goes.

It is a remarkable example
of how rapidly a psychopath

can generate what might be
a compelling narrative

to someone whose, like --
falls for the tears

and then the apparent detail
in what she's saying.

This is the new scenario.

This is the new reality
she wants to create.

I would have anticipated her
to be crying, and it isn't.

It's not the time
that she's crying.

It's cold.

It's meant for other people
to see her as a grieving mother,

but she's not
a grieving mother.

She didn't care
that her daughter died.

Then later she says,
"I was angry."

She was just so angry.
She had been angry.

She had been angry at Monroe
for threatening to leave.

She had been angry at her father
for the abuses that she thought

that she suffered from before.

And she was most angry
at her daughter

because the daughter put her
in a position

to have to make a choice.

And a psychopath doesn't like
to be forced to a choice.

What stands out here is
that Jessie has no remorse,

no shame, no feelings whatsoever
that her, her daughter is dead,

her dad is dead,
and that she did this.

And that's pretty consistent
with a psychopath.

So if she is crying
or pretending to cry,

I think it's has more to do
with her going to jail

and being punished
and losing the one thing

that probably mattered the most
to her, which was the affection

and attention
of Matthew "Cody" Monroe.

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[news reporter]
According to reports,
Cheyanne Jessie

killed her father and daughter
inside her father's home.

She returned days later

and put their bodies
in plastic totes,

then hid them
in a neighbor's shed.

[Dr. De La Torre]
Cheyanne Jessie,

I think, is a product
of a lot of different things.

Her own psychopathy
was probably a development

of a deprived childhood.

I think she ran up against
a society in which she thought

that the only thing that she had
was her being a woman --

and her being a woman meant
that she needed to have a man.

And the challenge
that she received

by having a six-year-old

who was acting like
a six-year-old,

I think all of that was
too overwhelming for her.

And in her psychopathy,
she was willing

to completely detach
from the relationships

that she should have leaned on
for support.

I also think
that those relationships,

whether it was her father
or whether it was her boyfriend

or whether it was her daughter,

were never
really gonna be healthy.

And Cheyanne just responded in
the only way that she knew how,

and that's to be violent
towards them.

[news reporter]
Jessie, who was accused
of killing her father

and her own daughter,

has been found guilty
on both counts.

The jury did recommend Jessie

be put to death
for killing her daughter,

but life in prison
for murdering her father.

The judge is scheduled
to sentence Jessie on Friday.

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