Mindhunter S02 (2019) Season two is set later in 1980 and covers the Atlanta murders of 1979–81.

Two FBI agents, fighting the departmental stigma of backroom boys – those who try to complicate the status quo of simple Means, Motive, Opportunity (MMO) of crime-solving with academics – work to develop an innovative investigative field incorporating psychology, anthropology and sociology as a method to reveal the motive. They acknowledge classic crime-solving – MMO – as no longer sufficient because criminality is becoming more complicated as Motive graduates from need and greed to inexplicable and irrational reasons.