Notes on WG as a study subject in Rtd

Thinking about H taking W to one of his work get togethers
Realized that if it’s psychiatrists then maybe they might have heard about W
Even if W’s name was held in confidentiality

There’s a general communal confidentiality going on when medicals need to talk
Probably be uncomfortable
Showing up at a dinner or cocktail meeting
Having someone realize they want to study you
Or had a mentor/colleague who did

In terms of story, this would be the H/C
Despite amnesia, W’s actual feelings about being the object of observation is real
Hmm feeling like a freak show
Or weird professional fetish
That’s a fear right there

And of course on top of that, fear of being seen as monstrous if anyone looks too closely

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ANOTHER TAKE

Female administrator was in power before Doctor Chilton at the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Dr INGRID MARTIN
Tall, leggy, ashy blonde, nearing forties in 2003
One of the senior doctors on staff -- shoe in for administrator

Dr STANIMIR PETROV is current administrator

Knows Hannibal as Hannibal conducted some of his practice work on patients

Ah, yes. That thing you do. You
are quite the topic of conversation
in psychiatric circles

Don't you know Hannibal? He has a closure rate of 97 percent. I'm told that this is a statistical anomaly, considering how many murders there are in New Orleans - highest rate of homicide in the country, per population. Did you think about it? New York has a homicide every eighteen hours

Too noisy

Ah yes, you omegas with your country estates


We’re woefully short of material on abnormal presentations of omega psychology.



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Dr Stanimir Petrov - balding, sixties, looks older due to eyebags - Hannibal

Handshake

H - Dr Petrov

Petrov - all attention drawn away to W - Mister Graham

Dr Martin - ashy blonde, leggy, late forties - do you know each other

W - no
Petrov - yes

W - a professional acquaintance

Petrov - I've had the pleasure of meeting Detective Graham once

W - thinks - and then you harassed me via email.
If harassment via emails qualified as being acquainted. It used to come regularly to his official
Email address but since moving on, his personal email had begun to get some mileage. He had told Hannibal about his work in general terms, but never mentioned anything he didn’t have to
No idea about how much interest there had been in how his mind worked. Led H to think that he was just a bit more sensitive to environment, able to connect cause and effect
Talked about how an investigation is like a jigsaw
Gloss over how his vivid imagination — or that it’s all dark, did not talk about his empathy disorder at all


Petrov - Professor Johnson of Tulane. She first came to know Detective Graham here through his work with Louisiana police and introduced me when I was down at Tulane for my guest lecture series


Doctor Johnson
Will remembered Doctor Johnson. The woman had respected his request to not be studied on a specimen. It had been mandatory to see her when the NOPD needed to cover themselves by showing that adequate aftercare and follow-up had been given to the only unmated omega working homicide. Unfortunately, part of her pro-bono work contract with the department was the stipulation that all patient data could be used for her ongoing public health research into the general state of law enforcement mental health. Nothing ever published would have his name, but that doesn’t stop people talking. Will had limited contact as best he could but that didn't stop.

P— Mister Graham has a unique mind to understand the motivations of killers just by looking at the evidence.

Dr Martin - isn't that what an investigator is supposed to do?

P - if all investigators were capable of making leaps of logic as Mister Graham does, I suspect the rate of unsolved homicides would drop.



H - no

P - Tell me, during intense conversations, have you noticed him adopting your cadence of speech?

H - chuckles, but clearly thinking this is rude - it's not something I've paid attention to

P - no? Why not? - waves hand in a nevermind way -
It's not a gimmick to get the back-and-forth going. It’s involuntary. He couldn’t stop
himself if he tried.
(then)

What he has is pure empathy. And I believe based on what I've read about him, projection. He can assume your point of view, or mine -- and he definitely assume some other points of view that scare him.






Ive heard about that thing you do

There’s been a lot of rumours about the way I think

There would be less if you gave an interview.

Or you could just give up





We’re in a room full of psychiatrists

(Idea of hell; nosy self-important people who dictate how someone should be judged - gatekeepers of sanity. Who have their own agenda, their own egos to polish. There’s an email account he barely touched where we received)








Fear of the unknown are excesses of the imagination, fear of the everyday, a persistent stranger, footfalls on a dark staircase, violence and violation, are fears because it can happen to you