On his way into the police department, he is bombarded by reporters who are throwing out questions at him regarding the murders and accusing him of obstructing the investigation. What other dark secrets might Kreizler’s past hold?Ĭommissioner Roosevelt isn’t doing much better. She heavily implies Kreizler has a dark past perhaps filled with taking pleasure and developing fantasies off of his patients’ twisted stories. She tells him that a person would most likely want to cause pain or inflict mutilation if that is something present in their own lives already even using Kreizler as an example. It seems this particular former patient might have dabbled a bit in mutilation or domination of some sort. To start off with, Kreizler goes to visit an old patient of his hoping to gain some understanding of what the killer is thinking when he commits his crimes. Laszlo Kreizler’s obsessiveness in figuring out the mindset of the killer grows in the newest episode of The Alienist. Experts who studied them were therefore known as alienists” “In the 19th Century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be alienated from their own true natures.
Spoiler Alert! The following contains spoilers from episode 4 of The Alienist titled These Bloody Thoughts.
