Niall Donald

Would I kill her?

Or, you know, they relate to the morality of the individuals involved.

You know what I mean?

They think about it in those terms.

And maybe less so in this country, but investigators as well.

People can, you know, obviously in TV programs, you know, police become also their character and their, you know, what motivates them becomes a way in which it reveals the bigger story.

So what happened in The Monk is not, I don't think, personally, that there is any, you know, it shies away from saying he's a criminal, basically.

I mean, I don't think it does.

No, I don't think it does.

Exactly.

So it doesn't present him as not a criminal.

But I think what some people object to is not that they can't say that and nobody could say that.

But what they do say is underlying it all.

It doesn't present them as a psychopath.

Yeah.

And that's what they feel he should be presented as.

So I don't mean a psychopath in the normal sort of

I mean, a proper psychopath, which is somebody who has no remorse, has no empathy, is only self-involved and commits violence without a second thought.

Or if he was to be there, that he should be, that should be how he is presented as a cold, ruthless, self-absorbed psychopath, as your letter says.

Now, you know,