"In less than 10 hours …."
“another five people will be dead.”
That’s what the gang of Criminal Minds was told in a recent episode, “Masterpiece” . Jason Alexander plays a serial killer that tells the FBI Profiler Team. He then shows them a room with one adult female and four children. Each person is breathing through an oxygen mask, and the masks are spaced far enough apart that the people cannot touch each other, yet close enough that they can all see each other.
The FBI is horrified to watch one child run from the room and not be seen. When confronted by the FBI, the serial killer’s response is “I told you in less than 10 hours, five people will be dead. I never told you they would die at the same time.”
Are you clear in your communications, or do you mistakenly assume others will understand what you meant? Or are you intentionally ambiguous?
It’s not what you say, it’s what they think they hear.
Tags: ambiguous words, communication, Criminal Minds, FBI, profiler