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Go Spotting: Analyzing Go in TV's "Criminal Minds"

Xinming Simon Guo sends us this brief clip of the go scene in the 2005 pilot of “Criminal Minds,” the CBS series starring Mandy Patinkin and Aaron Hotchner as agents in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, which focuses on profiling the criminal, rather than the crime itself. In this scene, the agents discover that their suspect is a go player and, saying that “go is considered to be a particularly psychologically revealing game,” analyze the board position in the suspect's apartment to conclude that he's an “extreme aggressor,” which is also the name of the episode.