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A windfall for the Tea-Leaf industry
fastplanet26 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I really hope that when I need to flee the jurisdiction that this is the team that is tasked with tracking me down. Madame LaRue would have a much greater chance of divining my location than the crew presenting this show.

The show presents various forensic detective methods and psychological profiling techniques as they are used to identify and locate miscreants. The first episode they are tasked with chasing down Bloodthirsty skate wizard Tony Hawk using only several obscure pieces of evidence.

To lend a little credibility to the proceedings various professionals are consulted with. The credentials for the first pro is that he worked on the Unabomber case and the Green River Serial Killer case. They did not mention that that the Unabomber blew up the '80s before being turned in by his own brother. The Green River Killer murdered with impunity for 20 years before finally being arrested. That just doesn't say much at all for the methods used by the self-proclaimed experts. It drains so many resources from proved methods, and many people died as a result. Perhaps a future episode they will bring in the Yorkshire police force to teach us how to organize our files.

The host babbled on about mental firepower, they relied on a motorcycle expert that was so ill informed that I was surprised he was able to find his way to work that day. They focused on what they sensed to be correct, and blithely disregarded other options.

In the end they did manage to track down our skater-on-the-run by identifying an outrageously expensive piece of artwork. I expect that method will apply only to multimillionaire suspects, everyone else can just keep on with the crime spree because these fools will conveniently arrest someone else based on puka beads.
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