(Text/Yang Shiyang)
Finally, the FBI caught the infamous serial bomber. In the past ten years before that, he wrapped three homemade bombs one after another, killing three people and injuring 23 people seriously, except for the corpses and mutilated limbs. He did not leave any clues to the police that he might be traced.
After the arrest was successful, the detectives celebrated in the bar, boasting about their courage and feat at the moment of the arrest, while the senior leaders talked in front of the media cameras, discussing how well the plans and strategies they made were effective. efficient. Only no one mentioned Fitzgerald, the real catcher who found clues, a behind-the-scenes hero accustomed to silence and neglect. The man quietly walked past the colleague who toasted and drank and the boss who talked in a bleak expression, and drove on the road to the hut that the bomber had built for himself in the jungle. He walked into the room with no running water, no electricity, and no signs of modern civilization. He stroked all the wood inch by inch, then slowly turned around and closed the door. To some extent, it was this moment that made the "Bomb Chase", the most ambitious scene, and also the most daring scene. It set the tone of the whole story and completed the actor's most significant inner turning point. This story soars from the common setting of all serial killers in this category. Fitzgerald was a person who stared into the abyss, but the abyss not only looked back at him, it was even harder to imagine that he identified with the abyss—on a certain level. At the moment the door was closed, the arrester and the bomber began to overlap in a spiritual sense.
Rather than saying that the protagonist of "Bomb Pursuit" is the hunted criminal Ted, it is better to say that the real protagonist is the hunter Fitzgerald, this dull but tough man, was transferred to the beginning of this special operations group. I would think that this case would change my life so strangely and cruelly. Originally, like most police officers, he hoped to add luster to his resume in a major case, but this case expelled him from the family, kept him away from the crowd, and even made him doubt his once firm beliefs.
The story of "Bomb Pursuing" began with a search. Several senior officials of the FBI found Fitzgerald, who had been living in seclusion, in a forest hut, hoping that he could help the police and the serial bomber Ted in follow-up negotiations. In order to get him to confess his guilt, because the latter claimed to only be willing to talk to the person who "really caught himself". Soon, this short shot was watered down by the subsequent hunting story and the worrying failures. Until the end, people will understand what it means when Fitzgerald walks out of the wooden house—something To a certain extent, Fitzgerald partly believed in Ted's theory. He eliminated the part of violent revenge, and it did not become so thorough and extreme. However, some unexplainable things finally entered his brain. His seclusion, his isolation, his rejection of the mundane excitement, and the boredom of the crowd are like Ted's rebirth and resurrection. This moment and the moment when he walked into Ted's wooden house alone, handed over and confirmed each other.
Real opponents are rare confidants. Only by making yourself that person can you really capture that person. This is the only way. Therefore, Fitzgerald analyzed the words and sentences written by his opponent, which was an unconscious process of immersion. He felt that he was hunting down the enemy, but he subconsciously modified himself. This is the most secret core of the story.
This 8-episode crime drama is adapted from a real event. A mathematics professor with a super IQ disgusted with modern civilization and hid himself in a wooden house deep in a dense forest. He destroyed one after another in his heart related to modern civilization, colleges and universities. For scholars or computer vendors in China, serial bombs are his strategy, and he wants to get his attention. He sent a manifesto of his own writing to several important media, calling on people to return to the basics and not be backed by technology. This statement was his spiritual support, but it eventually became a clue and sent himself to prison. Who can penetrate this fatalistic cruel humor?
Fitzgerald's pursuit of the murderer was almost based on a void, and language turned out to be a way to capture a violent criminal. In that passionate declaration, Ted revealed his personal language habits. Those unique inverted vocabularies were named criminal linguistics by Fitzgerald. This was scorned by the mainstream, but this metaphysical way of judging cases was He determined stubbornly that in his heart, those trivial rhetoric were a person's mental fingerprint. In the end, those lines of letters let people capture this crazy but meticulous man.
"Bomb Pursuit" has explosive explosions, and FBI's extravagant arrests, but compared to these, it is more like a secret scene of psychological chasing. This story is full of deliberate judgments and unspeakable speculations. This is the case between Fitzgerald and Ted, and it is the same in the FBI camp. The success of this story lies in the fact that it has never been stingy to show the internal friction, frustration, confusion, confusion, and despair that exist in the justice side. The interesting thing about this story is that it describes the story of a person who disrupted a world. In this sense, Bomber Ted is like a god. The FBI is just a group of mortals. In the end, Fitzgerald became another god.
For ordinary criminals, being caught is the end, but for Ted, it is just a comma, and the second half just started. But he did not expect that before, he played around with the world, and this time, he turned out to be his own lawyer and the plaything of the legal system. His lawyer tried to deceive him and exonerated him with insanity as his defense. For the vast majority of criminals, going to the hospital is better than the old death prison, but how can Ted allow himself to be remembered by the world as a lunatic. This became the climax of this psychological secret war story.
From the perspective of others, Ted’s behavior is undoubtedly crazy, but based on his own values, he believes that he is a rational alerter and prophet, and other human beings controlled by technology are crazy without knowing it. . Therefore, for him, the biggest punishment is not prison, but the stigma of madness. Fitzgerald took advantage of all this to push him into a blind spot, allowing him to complete a game of two alternatives alone: enter a mental hospital as a lunatic, and become a "normal person" after a series of electric shocks and medications. , Mediocre and sluggish, find a job, get a credit card, spend a lifetime eating junk food and watching soap operas, or go to jail and sanctify, continue to maintain their sharpness and anger. Ted has always had his own unique decency, not material, but decent in the spiritual sense, methodical, and determined in his heart, but this final decision made him on the verge of collapse. He chose the latter, and of course it is a humiliation to confess guilt actively. But if you don’t, you have to endure the greater humiliation of being labelled mad. Did Fitzgerald win? Winning is also not decent. Did Ted lose? Even if he lost, he actually tampered with his opponent's inner world. In the course of the confrontation, Fitzgerald's solid belief boundary also began to shake. Does technology mean the liberation of human nature? Does social interaction define a person's normality better than withdrawn? Doubts are growing. He began to think about the simple habits in life that were named as education, and those late-night intersections that were completely empty, and he would still stop silently before the red light. Is this the progress of civilization or the shackles of spirit?
In the final scene, Fitzgerald was at the intersection, staring up at the red signal light, with a thoughtful but ultimately incomprehensible expression, with a thin hair-like smile on his mouth but full of incomparable compassion. The expression looked like Ted.
(This article first published "Beijing Youth Daily")
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