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S3E6 Profiles in Terror Alison acts childish


The DA told Alison to be sure not to let the FBI profiler guy know anything about her psychic abilities. Alison had seen the murder in a dream and knew who the killer was (Richard Gomez). Of course she could not say that she knew because she could not say how she knew this.

So she simply asked the FBI guy if he had considered Richard Gomez as the killer. The FBI guy explained that Richard Gomez's m.o. was very different from that of the current murderer.
So at that point Alison knows she cannot give him any reason for suggesting Gomez as the killer without revealing her psychic dream, because there is no physical evidence available at that point in time or any other evidence to suggest Richard Gomez.

But knowing this, she pipes back up again, interrupting the FBI guy a second time and somewhat petulantly asks him why he won't consider Richard Gomez as the killer, given that he is still at large.
That was childish. Alison knows there is no evidence she can offer, and none known at the time to suggest Gomez as the killer. The FBI guy correctly tells her as much.
Then Alison gets that shocked and hurt expression again, as if she has no idea why her idea got shot down. Honestly, they make this woman seem so stupid. She isn't in real life.

It is so stupid to have her get upset, shocked and hurt over her completely baseless suggestion being shot down. The writers make it seem as though she only has her psychic dreaming abilities. As though she had never studied criminology or law and cannot follow the rules of evidence or use logic.
That is the big fault of the writing in my opinion: making Alison seem unable to see or understand anything but her visions and dreams.













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