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[absinthe_eyed]

[It's... very dark. After a moment, an off-screen light flickers to life, revealing a Justin who looks far more disheveled and dirty than usual. There's an uneven dirt wall directly behind him. The camera is close; he's clearly not working with a large space.]

Four feet down. I've been digging off and on since Tuesday and I'm only four feet down

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[cant_just_hang]

Mr. Pendleton, is there a particular reason you're digging?

[absinthe_eyed]

Curiosity, primarily.

There aren't any laws against this in the City.

[cant_just_hang]

Oh no. I didn't mean to imply that there were. If it gets the job done then...[She trails off because saying laws are negligible might not be the best idea. She's a very means to the end girl.]

I was just curious why you'd be digging a grave. You don't seem the type but you do seem the curious type so that satisfies it.

[absinthe_eyed]

Have you thoroughly profiled me?

1/2

[cant_just_hang]

[Silence because...yes]

[cant_just_hang]

The entire police force.

Nothing official. No paperwork. Nothing on my computer. It's just--what I do.

[absinthe_eyed]

Habitual?

How accurate are your profiles, generally?

[cant_just_hang]

Yes. Even before I worked with the FBI.

[She pauses because she's not entirely sure how truthful to be] 80% sometimes someone manages to throw me. I'm more accurate with certain kinds of people than with others.

[absinthe_eyed]

It's a useful skill outside of criminal justice.

I didn't realize that some people are more readily profiled than others.

[cant_just_hang]

I guess.

I don't--maybe not to everyone? My training isn't really formal. [As in the FBI wouldn't train her as a profiler because she couldn't pass her psyche tests. She's officially a statistics analyst] I'm more accurate with criminals than with victims. Sometimes when we'd work a case we'd profile the victim in an attempt to get a bead on the criminal. I could put myself in the criminal's shoes but not the victims.

[absinthe_eyed]

I would think that understanding the criminal would be more conducive to solving a crime than understanding the victim. Not all crimes are about the victim.

[cant_just_hang]

Most of the time it is. The exception is when the criminal isn't leaving much behind and we've got a serial killer. Web--that was my boss at home--would have us profile the victims in order to figure out what the common factor was so we could start on a profile for the criminal. I used to practice profiling victims in my spare time.

[Yes she's that...nerdy if that's the word for it]

[absinthe_eyed]

Serial killers are a different species.

Is it difficult to identify with the victim of a murder?

[cant_just_hang]

You have no idea. They really are.

It is for me. Other profilers don't have as many difficulties with it.

[absinthe_eyed]

I have some idea.

It seems like it would be hard to play the victim--even in a situation that has already played out--for a living. Stressful.

[cant_just_hang]

[A short pause] I guess you probably do.

Yes. And so much of it for me depends on the nature of the crime.