该剧根据1996年前FBI探员约翰·道格拉斯（JohnDouglas）和马克·欧夏克（Mark Olshaker）的著作《心理神探：美国联邦调查局系列犯罪破案揭秘》（MindHunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit）改编。退休后的道格拉斯深入研究犯罪心理学，美剧《汉尼拔》（Hannibal）和《犯罪心理》（CriminalMinds）中的角色刻画也参考了书中的很多案例。
Returning from France, Jefferson strives to preserve the fragile new U.S. government and helps create the first political party, in bitter struggles with the Federalists. He becomes vice president in 1797, and the third U.S. president in 1801. His Louisiana Purchase doubles the nation's size, but he faces controversy and scandal, finally retiring to his beloved Monticello in 1809. His last years are spent founding the University of Virginia.
