[Devil_Anse]

"Hollywood usually portrays criminals as sexy and smart, but the reality is that most are low-life brutes. The glimpse that Angela gave of Richard the other night shows that he was more than that. His violent past shows us a more sociopathic side. He was a complicated man that's for sure."

Okay, Sandude, I'll defer to your greater knowledge of the size of Mormon extended families, but on the subject of sociopaths...

Sandude, it wasn't the VIOLENT STUFF that indicated Rick's sociopathic side--it was the sweet, endearing stuff! Don't you know, the sociopath is so good at mimicking the normal emotions that well-adjusted people have, that the sociopath COMES OFF AS MORE LOVABLE than the honest, genuine person?? (Think Clinton. To this day, he still has a following.)

Sociopath: con artist; also, person with no conscience.

There are degrees of everything, but I definitely think there is a touch of the con artist in Angela. I can see that Angela conned YOU, Sandude, into believing that this CAREER CRIMINAL was "more than a low-life brute," that he was "a complicated man." Sandude, low-life cons like Ricci are a dime a dozen. Trust me on that! He was no complicated man--he was a slave to heroin and alcohol, who looked for criminal opportunities, and often found them.

Of course, every human is God's creature. There has to have been good in the man--good that came from God. But I see absolutely no good in him that came from the man himself.

[sandude]

Of course, every human is God's creature. There has to have been good in the man--good that came from God. But I see absolutely no good in him that came from the man himself.

I do believe that there was not much redeeming value in Richard but there was some. I was trying to point out that he did show a level of intelligence in his writing that one would not find in a lot of criminals. He was capable of planning something like this. Good points on the Clinton comparison.