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What does it mean?
The speaker imagines a serial killer named Walter watching a commercial, then later murdering three women in a mall area.
In plain terms
He envisions Walter seeing a commercial, then killing three women in a mall.
What can you take from it?
Imagined scenarios can illustrate a perpetrator’s pattern.

Where it applies

  • crime fiction
  • psychological profiling

Putting it to work

  • create suspense
  • illustrate evil

Questions to consider

  • What effect does vivid violent imagination have on audiences?
  • How does media consumption relate to violent thoughts?

Another view

It glorifies violent fantasy without context.

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