[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “The Alienist” finale “Castle in the Sky.”]After months of research, late nights, stakeouts, and diving into dark psyches, “The Alienist” investigative team finally finds their man … and then promptly loses him when a rogue police officer shoots and kills him.
It’s a frustrating outcome for all involved, but most especially Dr.
Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), whose work profiling the killer feels incomplete.Over the course of the season, Kreizler’s attempts to profile the man he’d come to know as Japheth Dury, aka John Beecham, uncovered horrific stories of emotional abuse at the hands of his mother and sexual abuse from a trusted family friend.
Although Kreizler can’t condone Dury murdering and mutilating boy prostitutes, he eventually came around to having a bit of sympathy for him.
“We set out to find a monster, but all we found was a child,” Kreizler muses after the case has closed.
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