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JOHN DOUGLAS: Super Bowl
Sunday, January, 1972, Detroit,

Michigan.

J. Edgar Hoover
wanted 1,000 arrests

made in the United States.

The Super Bowl is one of
the most lucrative betting

events in sports.

But back in 1972, most
NFL bets were illegal.

Illegal gambling was rampant
throughout the United States,

primarily run by the
organized crime families.

But meanwhile, back
in Detroit, now I'm

about 26 years of age, my
first office of assignment.

The FBI took advantage
of Super Bowl

Sunday to do a
cross-country gambling raid

and catch illegal
bookmakers in the act.

My assignment that day
was to arrest two or three

of these characters here.

The second guy I arrested,
got him into the car,

and it's raining that day.

Good-looking guy.

He looked like-- to me, he
looked like Paul Newman,

kind of a young Paul Newman.

And I said, Frank, man--

I said, Frank, why are
you doing this stuff, man?

Why are you doing it?

And I said, how
old are you, kid?

26.

You don't get it, kid.

You don't understand.

And I said, what do you mean?

And he looks over the right
side of the pane of glass,

and he says, you see those
two raindrops over there

off to the side?

I said, yeah.

I said, I bet you
the one on the left

gets down to the pane of glass
before the one on the right.

He said, OK, let's go.

Not betting any money.

OK.

Let's go.

So here go to the drops.

They come down.

He wins.

And he looks over back at me,
and he said, see what I mean?

I said, what?

You just beat me
in a raindrop race.

What are you talking about?

He says, we don't
need a Super Bowl.

No.

All we need are two raindrops.

Because we are who we are.

Crime is in our
heart and our soul.

And whatever you do, we're
going to keep doing it.

When he said that,
I started thinking,

if they are who they are, if
they're not going to change,

it's predictable.

If they are who
they are, we may be

able to predict their behavior
and cut them off at the pass.

It was on that
rainy day in Detroit

that the idea of criminal
profiling took hold.

And I never let it go.

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I'm John Douglas.

I was in the FBI for 25 years,
developed an investigative tool

called criminal profiling.

Some of the bigger
cases in my career

were the Atlanta child murders,
the Green River Killer,

the Unabomber case,
the Trailside Killer,

and the BTK Strangler case
out of Wichita, Kansas.

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I'm going to teach you
some of the techniques I've

used as a FBI agent, as a
criminal profiler working

thousands upon
thousands of cases.

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In 1990, I got a call from
director Jonathan Demme.

He's got this movie called
"Silence of the Lambs,"

and he's going to be filming
that down at the FBI Academy.

And he hired actor Scott Glenn
to portray me in the movie.

They will recreate
my office elsewhere

because when they came
down to my office,

they saw really how
depressing it really was.

We were 60 feet underground.

We would say we were 10
times deeper than dead people

being 60 feet underground.

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1995, I'm eligible to retire.

I end up with a book
called "Mindhunter."

"Mindhunter" becomes the
"New York Times" number one

bestseller.

And then about
2014, I got a call

telling me actress
Charlize Theron is

interested in
adapting "Mindhunter."

She took me down to Malibu to
meet director David Fincher.

And that turned into
a hit show on Netflix.

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There's been so
many TV shows that

have misinterpreted
what I do, like you

have to be some kind
of psychic phenomena

to recreate these
cases in your mind.

Our criminal profilers
go through two years

of extensive training
before they fly solo.

It's really experience
working a lot of cases,

seeing these cases
over and over again,

where you develop the skill.

It was difficult for me to deal
with crimes like this day in

and day out.

And my own stress at my job
spilled over into my family.

I have two daughters
and one son.

I would take my daughters
for a pony ride,

and I'm watching a guy
who's taking pictures.

My youngest daughter, Lauren,
gets off the pony ride.

I say, Lauren, you see
this guy over here?

I bet he doesn't have a
child on that pony ride.

And sure enough, it
ends, the ride ends,

and he's taking pictures.

I said, let's tail this guy.

Let's tail this guy.

Here I am with a six-year-old.

Let's tail this guy.

We followed him,
and sure enough, he

didn't have a child--

a life lesson for Lauren,
but not the last for my kids.

As they got older and
they started dating,

that's when I
really put everyone

through the ringer, but
particularly the date.

I was nice, but I think
I made my wife nuttier.

My one daughter, Erica, she came
in with this really nice guy.

And my wife's modus
operandi would

be, what does your picture
on your driver's license

look like?

Want to see mine?

Mine looks like this.

It's a horrible picture.

Let me see yours.

She would offer a drink.

The reason she's
offering a drink

is because she wants
latent fingerprints off

of that can of soda that
we could process this

later on if something happens.

In this class, you're going
to get exclusive access

to an unpublished manuscript
that my daughter and I put

together.

And in this, it was some
very, very good advice

in everyday life
type of situations

that will be applicable to you.

There'll be a lot of
learning points here--

how not to become a victim,
how to develop your intuition,

how to spot a liar,
how to use empathy

to put yourself in
someone else's shoes,

how to identify a cult
leader or a narcissist,

how to effectively
interview people,

and how to avoid bad people.

You'll be able to pick
up these little traits

and characteristics
of these individuals

so you have a better
understanding of them.

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I'm John Douglas, and
this is MasterClass.

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