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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don’t want to believe kids are born this way but a small percentage of kids really are. They just don’t have the same feelings as others.

Think of the James Bulger case where a two year old boy was kidnapped, tortured extensively, and killed by two ten year olds.

That is what the therapist completely realizes but she is hired by the defense. So she is in a quandary of how to write it up when she knows he is evil and has an explosive temper. [/quote]

She would do her correct right up, submit it, and be fired.  Prosecution would then hire her. [/quote]

I don’t think she was hired to see if he was guilty.

They had the tape. She was supposed to figure out why. Maybe to merit a lighter sentence/sympathy? [/quote]

I think she was hired to determine competency. She seemed to be trying to get at whether he understood what he had done. That's why she asks him if he understands that death is forever.

I do think she's devastated at the end because she knows how dangerous he is. He's not just a troubled boy who snapped in a moment of passion -- he planned and executed a revenge killing.

I think when he asks her if she likes him, she is sad because of course she doesn't like him, but also she recognizes that her dislike of him, like Katie's dislike of him, can only drive him further towards violence. It's a very disturbing realization.

He clearly wants love and acceptance, but now he will never get it (at least not from women like Briony) because he's shown himself to be capable of so much premeditated violence and hatred.

That's why I do think it's important in the last episode when Jaime's sister Lisa says they need to stay where they are and support Jaime, because he's theirs. Someone does have to step up and love this child. It makes sense that it's his family. That doesn't mean he'll for sure rehabilitate, but he definitely wouldn't without their love and support. [/quote]

Yes all true, once you determine yours dealing with someone volatile you walk on eggshells. Doctors included.

The rest of the family’s lives are over as now they have to coddle and cater to the most dysfunctional member.

Not uncommon. The murder part is but the rest is not. [/quote]

No, I think she was crying because she thought the boy was so tragic.

At that point she knew she was safe from him (he was being dragged off by a guard). She did not shudder, she cried. Someone in her field  probably cares about children and she is sad that this one is so damaged. [/quote]

She was crying because of how skillfully nasty and evil he was talking and being. [/quote]

Oh yeah, I am sure that someone who spends her days interviewing hardened criminals cried because someone was nasty to her. 🙄[/quote]

She's a child psychologist, so she probably mostly interviews kids, but I still agree. If she is being hired to do a competency assessment, she almost certainly would be spending a lot of time with kids in juvenile detention, accused of violent crimes. There's no way this would be her first experience dealing with a kid who is vicious, belligerent, or violent. I actually think what was most upsetting to her was that Jamie was NOT always like that. She clearly had conversations with him where she accessed vulnerable, kind parts of his personality.

A lot of times kids facing charges for violent crimes have very little of that left in them -- I have a good friend from law school who was a public defender and represented a lot of teens. Most of them were *hard*. A lot of them had been exposed to so much violence and trauma from such a young age (for some, probably in utero) that there was no kindness at all in them. Many likely had brain injuries from early abuse and that can alter your personality really severely.

But Jaime has a lot of moments where he seems like a typical kid, sometimes it almost seems like he feels remorse or shame, but then pushes it away. That would be such a difficult thing to witness up close. To feel like there is almost room for this kid to rehabilitate but then when they really get into discussing what he did to Katie, realizing it's almost certainly not possible. Something is broken and he is no longer able to see the moral wrongness of killing or harming a woman just because she made fun of you or made you feel bad. [/quote]

Yes! In the beginning he just seemed like a scared little boy. The soft parts of him were the result of the parenting they got right.

A very well done piece of art. [/quote]

This was her third visit with him. She was well aware he was disturbed. He was never ever a scared little kid. He had discipline issues while being held there and she must have seen his file. If he were ugly, or went through puberty earlier, or not white people would be willing to see a sociopath.

I don’t get how people are forgetting that he stabbed a girl, then instead of being distraught or calling for help he calmly walks away, changes and disposed of his clothes and hides the murder weapon. All at 13.

He doesn’t crack when the police come or when he is interviewed by the police at the station.

When is father asks him if he did anything he looks him in the eye and and completely and convincingly lies.

Everything he does is to gain an advantage for himself. [/quote]

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