"When they live like that, they die like that."-- Liev Schreiber, season one apologia
Theodore
Johnson is elevated into the documentary examination
of how parapsychology informs on his low-burn serial murders not for the murders
themselves, but because of his successful manipulation of Britain’s criminal justice
system in relation to them. It is difficult to gage at this juncture whether
the eleven years he received for the murder of his first wife Yvonne wasn’t an
equitable balance against the loss of life, as there is no reason why a husband
cannot be abused in the face of domestic discord with suicidal ideation. In
this criminal defendant’s case it’s borderline as to whether mitigating
circumstances applied, but to all accounts, Theodore served his full term for
manslaughter before he once again married a second Yvonne, produced a daughter,
and then strangled her mother. He got out on early release again because of the
daughter, with a less than scrutinized stipulation that he was not to engage in
relations with the opposite sex from the wagging paternalism of Europe and the
United Kingdom’s belief in rehabilitation. Canada and Britain both seem to have
excessively brutal murders from their emigrant populations, whether they’re
Indian, Asian, Iranian (at least two of these were particularly savage), or as
in this case, Jamaican. Retired DCI Colin Sutton, with traditional Anglo-Saxon
shrewdness, may delineate the investigation and mechanisms for British and
American audiences alike, but he and other documentary analysts, including
psychologist Linda Papadopoulos, fail to ever mention geographical displacement
or immigration policy. Why not? Is this somehow a liberal taboo, particularly
as it relates to the European forge in the
creation of Jamaica today? Although film critics assert that Marlon Brando’s neo-imperialist
movie Burn is hot to trot about the domino effect regarding incursions
into Vietnam, it reads far more closely about British guilt over hanging Paul
Bogle for killing civilized Caucasians, and of course, no judge today is that
self-conscious as it relates to clemency for indigenous individuals in this age
of technocratic supremacy, but the case that being too lenient with the
descendants of human trafficking is as harsh as being too authoritarian can be
made, and it cost Angela Best her life, because apparently, the only humans who
still know how to draw lines in the sand are Nigerian extremists, but let’s not
forget Johnson himself; it’s theorized that his last suicide attempt, throwing
himself in front of a train, was germane, setting himself up as the nebulous
figure which drove David Janssen and his pursuer through every episode of The Fugitive,
but this is one amputee not slated for the release of the disabled on
compassionate grounds.
