Die Hard with a Vengeance is way beyond the intellectual capacity of the authors of that form. And the The Mentalist would have been like reading James Joyce translated into Finnish.

I went back and read Julie Raines' paper from Northern Kentucky University. She discusses the behavioural aspects used by American Airlines' contract security firm when they were at Orly. These were:

1. Appears nervous
2. Does not cooperate with security agent
3. Passenger tries to avoid questioning
4. Makes contact with other passengers suspiciously
5. Makes contradictory statements

These are not particularly insane criteria even though they are subjective and dependent on the security agent's skill.

But the biggest difference is that they are not scored or ranked. The agent is supposed to THINK.

It's rather like when I teach a class on suicide assessment (a hot topic at the moment.) I always, always taught to never use a score. You can't use a rating scale and say, "You got a 2 out of 10" so you must be fine. Then the patient goes and kills himself. Scoring and ranking are a dangerous way to avoid sound clinical judgment.