Law: My Senses Have Been Stripped

I think that most people have a natural urge to confess.  The urge to break their silence spilling secret and soul.  Keeping silent is an extremely difficult thing to do and it takes a special kind of mindset to live with the consequences of one’s actions. 

Sycophants and psychopaths have such qualities in abundance but it’s not limited to them.  Soldiers and spies have long since been trained in the ways of golden silence. 

There is an emotional need accompanying the desire to speak, it doesn't really matter what about as long as it breaks the silence.  Trained interrogators start off by trying to establish a rapport and slowly coax the information out of them. 

They’ll start off with something small, something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything and therefore there’s no need to guard it so jealously. 

Eventually talking turns to engaging and soon a regular back and forth comes to light and the interviewee starts to relax a little.  The interviewer/interrogator; treading carefully; will start steering the conversation towards his own interests easing his victim along all the way. 

In a heartbeat a transfer of power had taken place.  Somehow he’d started telling about his family troubles and ended up divulging sensitive information.  It happened because he wanted it to happen.  Somewhere subconsciously there was that need to confess.

That was step one and is usually enough for most.  But there is a second step.  In step two when the interviewee finally manages to catch on and starts “clamming up” the interrogator throws the information that was acquired back at the interviewee.

 

The interrogator becomes violent and unreasonable, flinging questions in rapid succession, taking apart and questioning everything that is said.  The interviewee is off balance and attempts to hide behind thinly veiled and often contradictory lies. 

The interrogator will keep pushing and twisting every sentence.  Shifting between lie and truth back and forth until the eventual fail the interviewee will finally cave and try to justify his actions with divulging information against his self interest.  Climax.  Fade To Black.