All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S09E08.Make.Me.Look.Not.Guilty.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.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.

McAtasney may not have
expected the authorities

to show up on his doorstep
as quickly as they did,

and it was
the middle of the night.

But he's got this
very scripted response

that he's prepared
for the authorities,

and he's not really
showing any emotion.

Most people hearing that a dear
friend of theirs is missing,

there would be a sense
of panic or worry.

We don't see any of that
with McAtasney.

What we also learn very quickly

is that his phone is
conveniently missing.

This is a lot of information
to be shared

for someone who just
in the middle of the night

had his door knocked on

and has just supposedly learned

that his friend is missing.

I think there is
an element of victim blaming

in some of the narrative
he creates for Sarah.

I think he's still trying to
keep two narratives going.

One is that Sarah
has committed suicide

and/or that she's run off
to Canada.

And he's gotta find motives
for those.

In contrast to how
he criticizes Sarah

and how he creates this
really false narrative

about this strained relationship

and horrible relationship
with her dad,

he consistently tries to
portray himself

as this really
nice and virtuous guy

to the cops.

He wants to be
a police officer.

He is doing all these things
to manage

their impression of him.

When he's confronted about
one important detail,

this trip to the bank,

his answers suddenly
become limited,

they're monosyllabic,
they're one word,

and he doesn't really
provide any details.

He actually rapidly
shuts it down by saying,

"I don't know anything
about that."

So he doesn't lie to them,

he doesn't miss a beat,

he acknowledges it,

but he doesn't really account
for the fact

that he left that
omission out

when he was so detailed
and specific otherwise.

There's nothing
about that question

that seems normal
or usual or typical.

It's got to raise flags for
law enforcement as to whether

McAtasney is manipulating them,

whether everything
he's been telling them

is just a lie to try and throw
them off the investigation.

And really, at a minimum,
what they're going to start

to look more closely at
is his own motivations.

And what he's really doing
is trying to kinda

put the pieces together
for them.

But what he's also trying to do
is see what they know

and what they don't.

He informs detectives that
he had had a conversation

with Mr. McAtasney
about a week prior to

um...
Sarah's disappearance.

And in that conversation,

Liam describes how he would

choke her out
and then dispose of the body

by throwing her off the bridge.

A week later,
this person disappears,

and her car is found
on the bridge.

It's tremendously alarming,

because it seems as if perhaps

Mr. McAtasney was
sharing his plans.

It speaks to somebody who is
far more calculated,

premeditated, and manipulative.

And while they may or may not
have assessed McAtasney

in that manner, they now are
quite concerned.

This speaks to not
a 19-year-old who just wants

to find his friend,
but a 19-year-old

who was calculating in every one
of his interactions

with law enforcement.

It's like he's in
his element now.

He is coming in, he's kind of
smirking a little bit.

He's kind of proud of himself,

and I think he is
really, really eager

to tell Anthony Curry
what he's done.

On the one hand,
it's bragging

a little bit
at the beginning.

One of the things
that we see here

is this kind of grandiosity,

this sense that I'm so smart,

I'm so important,

I'm such a planner,

that I can do these things
and get away with it.

McAtasney is continuing to talk
freely with his friend, Curry,

about what actually
happened in the crime.

But what McAtasney also doesn't
care about is his codefendant.

He now has implicated
an additional party,

Preston Taylor,

who was involved in the crime.

And what we also see,

classic to somebody with
very superficial emotions

and connectedness
to human beings,

is McAtasney has the audacity

to not just talk about the crime
so freely and openly

with his friend
and to implicate another party,

but he actually has
the audacity to complain

about the amount of money
he ultimately got.

He thought this was gonna be
a big payout of a job,

and it wasn't.

It's absolutely
a dehumanizing description.

The strongest emotion
I'm picking up

is this sort of annoyance.

The 30 minutes
struck me as, um,

as something that I didn't
really fully understand.

The idea that
he may have been

sort of gathering information
for future crimes--

this is not the first time that
he was gonna end up

having to do
something like this.

It's certainly possible.

The common denominator between
McAtasney and Taylor

seems to be
their interest in money.

And there's certainly
an antisocial component of that,

you know,
the focus on the money

and an absolute absence of
focus on the person involved

and the fact that it would
entail killing somebody.

Hurting other people doesn't
seem to be a big reservation

on either of their parts.

OK.

Monotone, even voice,
no emotion,

just a flat description,
just a narrative.

Truly falls, you know, kind of
in line with the way

psychopaths experience
the world--

devoid of emotion,
just facts, just a narrative.

If you look at the entire
sort of crime as a whole,

it was a means to an end.

They needed money,
this was a way to get money.

That money was going to
run out.

This would have been repeated,
had they not been caught.

One hundred percent.

I'm going to sentence
Preston Taylor to 18 years

in the Monmouth County,
in a state prison,

and that's subject
to no early release act,

meaning he will have to serve
at least 15 years

before becoming
eligible for parole.

I told you when we opened,

weeks and weeks ago,

that it was going to be shown
to you that it was fantasy,

that it was an audition,

that Liam McAtasney made it up

for Anthony Curry,
the horror film director.

Consistent with what we see in
psychopathic individuals,

the failure to take
responsibility

for his own behavior.

McAtasney at this point
is grasping at straws.

But what we don't see is any
humility or shame or discomfort

about how outlandish
the story is.

He has zero shame.

He has zero discomfort
about this ongoing lie

that he's perpetuating,

and it really speaks to how much
he discounts and disregards

other people
and their intelligence.