1 00:00:04,267 --> 00:00:06,699 - _ - You said he had a personal philosophy, 2 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:09,913 some message he's trying to send. You were right. 3 00:00:10,033 --> 00:00:12,132 Screw this up, we'll crucify you. 4 00:00:12,133 --> 00:00:14,632 We need you to get into a room with Kaczynski, 5 00:00:14,633 --> 00:00:17,551 break him down. Ted asked for you. 6 00:00:18,967 --> 00:00:20,932 I need help. 7 00:00:20,933 --> 00:00:23,100 They need me to get the guilty plea. 8 00:00:23,949 --> 00:00:26,413 _ 9 00:00:26,533 --> 00:00:30,666 You tell yourself that you're the ones in control. 10 00:00:30,786 --> 00:00:34,036 They obey you, your technology, 11 00:00:34,156 --> 00:00:37,032 your machines. 12 00:00:37,033 --> 00:00:41,899 But what would you do without your car, your telephone? 13 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:45,959 What if all the airplanes just stopped? 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,466 10 years ago, computers were expensive toys. 15 00:00:51,467 --> 00:00:56,084 Today, civilization as we know would fall apart without them. 16 00:00:57,633 --> 00:01:01,066 You live in terror of a blackout, a computer crash, 17 00:01:01,067 --> 00:01:04,466 a car won't start, a phone doesn't ring. 18 00:01:04,467 --> 00:01:06,799 So you construct your lives, 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,372 your whole society so that won't happen. 20 00:01:11,267 --> 00:01:15,699 Everything revolves around their needs, not yours. 21 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,847 They buzz, you jump. They beep, you answer. 22 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:21,296 So ask yourself... 23 00:01:21,416 --> 00:01:24,466 Who's really in control? 24 00:01:24,467 --> 00:01:27,762 You or them? 25 00:01:35,275 --> 00:01:37,580 _ 26 00:01:49,554 --> 00:01:52,953 - Synced and corrected by medvidecek007 - - www.addic7ed.com - 27 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:56,413 Hey, we just got handed a 56-page manifesto 28 00:01:56,533 --> 00:01:58,566 from the most elusive criminal in the world, 29 00:01:58,567 --> 00:02:00,716 something so important he wants both The Post and The Times to 30 00:02:00,836 --> 00:02:03,349 have it, and I just want five minutes in the lab to read it. 31 00:02:03,469 --> 00:02:05,497 I'll gown up, I'll look over their shoulders. 32 00:02:05,617 --> 00:02:08,099 - It's five minutes. - There's a system here, a process, 33 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:10,857 a process that begins with a compete forensic analysis... 34 00:02:10,977 --> 00:02:12,932 Thorough, unhurried, uncorrupted 35 00:02:13,052 --> 00:02:15,174 - by meddling rubberneckers. - Yeah, I know, but it's 36 00:02:15,294 --> 00:02:17,479 a big break in the case, and I'm here to be a word guy, all right? 37 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:19,811 You are here to wait and to do what you're told. 38 00:02:19,931 --> 00:02:21,966 A big break in this case comes when we pull 39 00:02:22,086 --> 00:02:25,699 a fingerprint off one of those pages, when we find another Nathan R. 40 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:27,860 A single strand of hair would be far more valuable 41 00:02:27,980 --> 00:02:30,913 than anything you are gonna get from reading the guy's rant. 42 00:02:31,033 --> 00:02:33,466 Well, "Dad, it is I"... He got that from reading. 43 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:36,532 Yeah, case friggin' closed. We wait for forensics... 44 00:02:36,533 --> 00:02:38,999 A month, a year, however long it takes. 45 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,977 And meanwhile, if you want to see some real police work, 46 00:02:42,097 --> 00:02:43,446 step inside. 47 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,565 Fitz, dude, you got to check this out. It's friggin' sweet. 48 00:02:48,685 --> 00:02:50,976 - You're up. - We analyzed the postal steam 49 00:02:51,096 --> 00:02:53,218 of the whole West Coast, and we traced the path 50 00:02:53,219 --> 00:02:55,184 of every Unabom letter and package 51 00:02:55,185 --> 00:02:57,973 from the moment it dropped into a mailbox 52 00:02:58,093 --> 00:02:59,945 to sorting and distro to 53 00:03:00,065 --> 00:03:03,120 final delivery, where we identified two critical choke points. 54 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,057 So, if Unabom decides to keep 55 00:03:06,177 --> 00:03:08,851 dropping his mail in the Bay Area, there is a 95% chance 56 00:03:08,852 --> 00:03:11,690 that it will be sorted through one of these two facilities. 57 00:03:11,810 --> 00:03:14,648 Meaning that we train those handlers and sorters 58 00:03:14,768 --> 00:03:16,699 to identify a Unabom package. 59 00:03:16,819 --> 00:03:20,051 Then we could intercept every bomb en route. 60 00:03:20,052 --> 00:03:22,718 Never have to worry about a Unabom package again. 61 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,118 Cool, right? 62 00:03:25,119 --> 00:03:27,184 Yeah. 63 00:03:27,185 --> 00:03:30,006 You still want to tell us about "Dad it is I"? 64 00:03:31,185 --> 00:03:35,118 Okay. Logistically what are we talking about here? 65 00:03:35,119 --> 00:03:38,818 Okay, so you see 945 A and 945 B? 66 00:03:38,819 --> 00:03:41,391 Those are the checkpoints right here... 67 00:03:41,511 --> 00:03:43,567 "Dad, it is I" tells us he likes 68 00:03:43,687 --> 00:03:45,984 word games and puzzles, 69 00:03:45,985 --> 00:03:48,684 and that he thinks he's smarter than everyone, 70 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,313 and that he can be sneaking on by us. 71 00:03:51,433 --> 00:03:54,232 - _ - It's kind of true, 'cause 72 00:03:54,641 --> 00:03:56,236 no one here noticed 73 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:59,818 'cause you all underestimated him. 74 00:03:59,819 --> 00:04:03,267 He has problems talking people. 75 00:04:03,985 --> 00:04:06,613 That's why he resorts to cyphers. 76 00:04:07,585 --> 00:04:10,458 - _ - And he's probably got Daddy issues. 77 00:04:10,578 --> 00:04:11,862 Now, 78 00:04:12,155 --> 00:04:14,379 I got all this from a one-page letter. 79 00:04:14,499 --> 00:04:16,923 - _ - Imagine what I would get 80 00:04:17,043 --> 00:04:20,096 - _ - off a 56-page manifesto. 81 00:04:22,219 --> 00:04:23,684 Oh, yeah. 82 00:04:23,685 --> 00:04:26,552 Now, that's my partner, right there. 83 00:04:27,307 --> 00:04:31,304 You'll get your 56 pages after forensics is finished. 84 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:34,618 Goodbye. 85 00:04:34,619 --> 00:04:36,184 Yeah, it's Cole. 86 00:04:39,152 --> 00:04:41,718 What?! 87 00:04:41,719 --> 00:04:43,019 Where? 88 00:04:43,652 --> 00:04:45,984 I opened a letter from the Unabomber. 89 00:04:45,985 --> 00:04:47,484 You work at the San Francisco chronicle... 90 00:04:47,485 --> 00:04:49,279 You're the only person who touched this? 91 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:50,818 I'm just an editorial intern. 92 00:04:50,819 --> 00:04:53,730 I just open letters to the editor as they come in. 93 00:04:54,452 --> 00:04:56,051 But I-I could have died. 94 00:04:56,052 --> 00:04:58,251 I could have been, like, blown up or something. 95 00:04:58,252 --> 00:05:00,284 Yeah, but you weren't and a lot of people might be, 96 00:05:00,285 --> 00:05:02,351 so count your blessings and shut up. 97 00:05:02,352 --> 00:05:04,418 - What do you got? - Chief, you ready? 98 00:05:04,419 --> 00:05:06,440 It's bad. "Warning... 99 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,251 "The terrorist group FC", called 'Unabomber' by the FBI, 100 00:05:09,252 --> 00:05:11,184 is planning to blow up an airliner out of 101 00:05:11,185 --> 00:05:13,019 Los Angeles International Airport 102 00:05:13,139 --> 00:05:15,318 sometime during the next six days. 103 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:18,022 To prove that the writer of this letters knows something 104 00:05:18,142 --> 00:05:21,893 about FC, the first two digits of their identifying number 105 00:05:22,013 --> 00:05:24,026 "are 55." Is that number a match? 106 00:05:24,146 --> 00:05:26,352 What's the number he sent The Times? 107 00:05:27,285 --> 00:05:30,549 What's the authentication number FC sent The Times? 108 00:05:33,304 --> 00:05:36,472 553254394. 109 00:05:37,819 --> 00:05:39,551 It's him. 110 00:05:39,552 --> 00:05:41,974 Trisha, get Director Freeh on the phone, 111 00:05:42,094 --> 00:05:44,918 L.A.P.D. Commissioner, FAA, and alert Janet Reno's Office, 112 00:05:44,919 --> 00:05:46,621 and make it clear we have 113 00:05:46,741 --> 00:05:48,951 a potential mass-casualty situation. 114 00:05:48,952 --> 00:05:51,584 When a letter arrived at a San Francisco newspaper 115 00:05:51,585 --> 00:05:53,618 threatening to blow up an airliner... 116 00:05:53,619 --> 00:05:56,551 They say it bears all the marks of the Unabomber. 117 00:05:56,552 --> 00:05:59,284 Federal officials believe the sender is the terrorist 118 00:05:59,285 --> 00:06:01,018 who has been sending bombs... 119 00:06:01,019 --> 00:06:03,418 The Unabomber appears to be ready to strike again. 120 00:06:03,419 --> 00:06:05,918 This time the threatened target is a jetliner 121 00:06:05,919 --> 00:06:07,584 flying out of Los Angeles. 122 00:06:07,585 --> 00:06:11,318 Frederick Benjamin Isaac Wood, FBI Wood. 123 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:12,884 Uh-huh, but those were planes with depleted fuel tanks. 124 00:06:12,885 --> 00:06:14,418 - Return address 549... - Here we're talking about 125 00:06:14,419 --> 00:06:16,451 fully fueled jetliners within a shrapnel radius 126 00:06:16,452 --> 00:06:18,884 of an explosive device of unknown size and power. 127 00:06:18,885 --> 00:06:21,599 How much fuel is in a 747 that's about to take off? 128 00:06:21,719 --> 00:06:25,008 Phil, now tell me where we are on refraction beam scanners. 129 00:06:25,128 --> 00:06:28,355 - Uh-huh. right. So now you see... - No, it's got to be mobile. 130 00:06:28,475 --> 00:06:30,832 You can't bring items into the airport to be scanned. 131 00:06:30,952 --> 00:06:32,084 Jesus, Phil. 132 00:06:32,085 --> 00:06:34,118 You got to do it on the runway. 133 00:06:34,119 --> 00:06:35,984 We got to just do it plane by plane. 134 00:06:35,985 --> 00:06:37,684 - Unbelievable. - Okay, two-one breach... 135 00:06:37,685 --> 00:06:40,184 Lucas. hey, can I... can I borrow your pen, please? 136 00:06:40,185 --> 00:06:42,299 - Thank you. - Two, one, three. 137 00:06:42,419 --> 00:06:44,584 We're at about 30%, but it looks like 138 00:06:44,585 --> 00:06:47,518 all the big databases are up and searchable. 139 00:06:49,219 --> 00:06:51,939 IRS, USPS... 140 00:06:52,619 --> 00:06:54,118 Social security? 141 00:07:05,393 --> 00:07:07,239 _ 142 00:07:07,359 --> 00:07:09,299 _ 143 00:07:09,419 --> 00:07:11,116 Do you realize what this means? 144 00:07:11,236 --> 00:07:14,451 This is gonna be the first major case solved by computer. 145 00:07:14,452 --> 00:07:16,010 If this is the guy. 146 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:18,851 There's no if, it's driven by the data. 147 00:07:18,852 --> 00:07:22,584 Think about all the data the government has on its citizens. 148 00:07:22,585 --> 00:07:25,818 Addresses, employment, military, census. 149 00:07:25,819 --> 00:07:29,351 Eighty years of data, 250,000,000 people, 150 00:07:29,352 --> 00:07:30,818 but you can't do anything with it 151 00:07:30,819 --> 00:07:33,951 because it's scattered across dozens of different systems. 152 00:07:34,071 --> 00:07:35,986 That's why I built the MPP, 153 00:07:36,106 --> 00:07:39,154 to bring all that data together in one place 154 00:07:39,274 --> 00:07:41,126 for the first time. I mean look, 155 00:07:41,246 --> 00:07:43,818 FC's authentication number looks a lot like 156 00:07:43,819 --> 00:07:47,120 a social security number, right? So I did a search. 157 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,451 And it's a match. 158 00:07:48,452 --> 00:07:50,818 The number belongs to a guy named Alan Meeks. 159 00:07:50,819 --> 00:07:53,084 40-year-old white male. 160 00:07:53,085 --> 00:07:55,598 Then I crunched the USPS data. 161 00:07:56,049 --> 00:07:59,118 Look where Meeks has been living for the past 30 years. 162 00:07:59,238 --> 00:08:02,139 Oakland, San Francisco, 163 00:08:02,259 --> 00:08:04,318 Salt Lake City, Sacramento. 164 00:08:05,085 --> 00:08:08,984 It's all the key locations associated with Unabom activity. 165 00:08:09,427 --> 00:08:12,118 - Where is he now? - He's already in custody. 166 00:08:12,119 --> 00:08:14,418 They arrested Meeks right here. 167 00:08:14,419 --> 00:08:17,018 Recognize the place? 168 00:08:17,019 --> 00:08:19,818 Yeah, Rentech... it's the site of the Hugh Scrutton bomb. 169 00:08:19,819 --> 00:08:21,684 The Unabomber's first kill 170 00:08:21,685 --> 00:08:23,951 returning to the scene of the crime. 171 00:08:23,952 --> 00:08:25,984 They're getting Meeks ready for interrogation right now, 172 00:08:25,985 --> 00:08:28,884 and I got to know if Meeks is the Unabomber. 173 00:08:28,885 --> 00:08:31,409 What was he looking for here? 174 00:08:40,252 --> 00:08:42,818 Why'd you come back? Why this place? 175 00:08:42,819 --> 00:08:44,718 Computer rental store. 176 00:08:44,719 --> 00:08:46,951 Computers. Technology. 177 00:08:46,952 --> 00:08:50,251 What did these people symbolize to you? 178 00:08:56,819 --> 00:09:00,165 You got to work early, you didn't expect them to be there. 179 00:09:00,285 --> 00:09:02,951 10 seconds, 20 seconds... That's all you needed. 180 00:09:09,019 --> 00:09:12,755 But she looked, and suddenly the Unabomber was flesh and blood. 181 00:09:14,819 --> 00:09:18,484 A man, not a concept, and that's why this scared you so much. 182 00:09:18,485 --> 00:09:20,918 That's why you stopped for six years... 183 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:21,984 Hey, Hugh? 184 00:09:26,485 --> 00:09:28,851 Phyllis, do you have that invoice 185 00:09:28,852 --> 00:09:31,318 from Phoenix Games and Hobbies? 186 00:09:31,319 --> 00:09:34,551 I'm trying to get this stuff out the door before we open. 187 00:09:34,552 --> 00:09:36,126 Phyllis? 188 00:09:36,552 --> 00:09:39,151 Are you in the bathroom? 189 00:09:48,385 --> 00:09:52,234 ... Even though it felt good to finally succeed. 190 00:10:06,585 --> 00:10:09,389 He was reliving it, savoring it. 191 00:10:09,509 --> 00:10:12,435 Which he never got to do in '85 because of the eyewitness. 192 00:10:15,629 --> 00:10:18,299 Meeks is ready! Let's get over there. 193 00:10:18,419 --> 00:10:20,352 This could really be him. 194 00:10:27,162 --> 00:10:29,984 "Pure Wood." Read 'em and weep, Fitzy. 195 00:10:29,985 --> 00:10:32,018 That's the Unabomber. 196 00:10:32,019 --> 00:10:33,918 T-h-e-n. 197 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:35,318 Thicker than water. 198 00:10:35,319 --> 00:10:37,118 It's not him. 199 00:10:37,119 --> 00:10:39,051 It's a spelling mistake. So what? 200 00:10:39,052 --> 00:10:40,851 You get drunk, you get a tattoo... 201 00:10:40,852 --> 00:10:43,499 I don't remember seeing a spelling mistake in all those letters. 202 00:10:43,619 --> 00:10:46,218 Does this guy look like the author of a manifesto 203 00:10:46,219 --> 00:10:48,784 entitled "industrial society and its future"? 204 00:10:48,785 --> 00:10:51,013 He sure does to me. 205 00:10:52,681 --> 00:10:54,045 Here's the thing, 206 00:10:54,884 --> 00:10:56,768 I don't think you meant to kill anyone, 207 00:10:56,888 --> 00:10:59,069 I think you just wanted to send a message. 208 00:10:59,070 --> 00:11:00,370 To scare them ***. 209 00:11:00,303 --> 00:11:03,518 I definitely didn't mean to kill anyone, that's for damn sure. 210 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:05,284 Look, I believe you. 211 00:11:05,285 --> 00:11:08,529 But these guys, they don't. They're hard asses. 212 00:11:08,649 --> 00:11:11,172 So tell me how to stop LAX. 213 00:11:11,292 --> 00:11:13,465 - Help me help you. - What's LAX? 214 00:11:13,585 --> 00:11:15,318 If you make this hard for me... 215 00:11:15,319 --> 00:11:16,718 - I didn't mean to kill anybody. - ... I will make your life 216 00:11:16,719 --> 00:11:18,584 - a living nightmare. - I can't take back what I did, 217 00:11:18,585 --> 00:11:20,718 and I'll live with this the rest of my life. 218 00:11:20,719 --> 00:11:23,292 I paid my debts to society. 219 00:11:25,212 --> 00:11:26,439 Wait. 220 00:11:27,509 --> 00:11:31,551 - Excuse me? - Eight years, Iowa State Pen. 221 00:11:31,830 --> 00:11:34,930 I came out a changed man. I learned my lesson. 222 00:11:35,050 --> 00:11:38,438 I never drove drunk again. Not once, I swear. 223 00:11:43,378 --> 00:11:46,018 Meeks was in jail half the time the Unabomber was active. 224 00:11:46,019 --> 00:11:48,986 - How come that wasn't in my file? - We pulled everything we could... 225 00:11:49,106 --> 00:11:51,299 Cali, Federal. You're telling me you don't have 226 00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:54,467 Iowa Bureau of prisons records in your MPP? 227 00:11:55,685 --> 00:11:59,876 - Didn't we do this before? - It's just for our files. 228 00:12:04,674 --> 00:12:05,709 Here. 229 00:12:07,503 --> 00:12:08,751 What's "Pure Wood"? 230 00:12:08,871 --> 00:12:11,018 Pure area in Peckerwood. 231 00:12:11,019 --> 00:12:13,807 Their ain't no jungle-bunny blood in these veins. 232 00:12:13,927 --> 00:12:15,318 Right. 233 00:12:15,319 --> 00:12:17,151 She's thicker than water, right? 234 00:12:17,152 --> 00:12:18,818 Thicker than what? 235 00:12:18,819 --> 00:12:20,351 Thicker than water. 236 00:12:20,352 --> 00:12:21,651 "Wudder"? 237 00:12:21,652 --> 00:12:23,918 Well, where the hell you from? 238 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:27,451 And who talks like that? Y'all here that... "Wudder"? 239 00:12:27,452 --> 00:12:29,319 Christ. 240 00:12:31,209 --> 00:12:33,013 Fitz, let's go. 241 00:12:34,185 --> 00:12:36,166 The extraordinary precautions come 242 00:12:36,286 --> 00:12:38,651 because a letter was mailed to the San Francisco newspaper 243 00:12:38,652 --> 00:12:41,151 from a man the FBI calls "the Unabomber." 244 00:12:41,152 --> 00:12:43,784 Anything? 245 00:12:43,785 --> 00:12:46,968 - Wudder under the bridge. - Damn. You heard that, too? 246 00:12:47,452 --> 00:12:49,051 What Fitz has with his hoagie. 247 00:12:49,052 --> 00:12:51,284 Wudder? 248 00:12:51,285 --> 00:12:53,484 Tabster, stone cold. 249 00:12:53,485 --> 00:12:55,446 - Come on. Philly. - Fitz, 250 00:12:55,566 --> 00:12:57,415 - Burkhardt, conference room. - I've never heard you say pierogi, 251 00:12:57,535 --> 00:12:59,041 but you do say wudder. 252 00:12:59,161 --> 00:13:01,151 Water. Water. 253 00:13:01,152 --> 00:13:03,818 I like wudder. It's part of who you are. 254 00:13:03,819 --> 00:13:07,851 So, one word, one tiny slip, and you think you know who I am? 255 00:13:07,852 --> 00:13:10,451 Are you seriously pissed off? 256 00:13:10,452 --> 00:13:11,940 About what? 257 00:13:12,485 --> 00:13:14,793 I said one word slightly wrong, and you can all peg me 258 00:13:14,913 --> 00:13:16,818 as the Philly street cop out of his depth. 259 00:13:16,819 --> 00:13:19,018 Fitz! Now! 260 00:13:21,319 --> 00:13:24,220 Dude! Are you serious? 261 00:13:26,752 --> 00:13:28,651 So, you can read it. 262 00:13:28,652 --> 00:13:30,414 Yeah? 263 00:13:30,534 --> 00:13:31,751 What is this? 264 00:13:31,752 --> 00:13:34,180 The forensic report. 300 pages 265 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:35,917 - that say we found nothing. - No, not the report, the document. 266 00:13:36,037 --> 00:13:37,965 - His document, his manifesto. - They're over there. 267 00:13:38,085 --> 00:13:40,251 No one else wanted one. What? 268 00:13:40,252 --> 00:13:42,118 Well, you're talking about three different dossiers, 269 00:13:42,119 --> 00:13:44,936 and I don't have them, so... 270 00:13:45,313 --> 00:13:47,008 Hold on a second. 271 00:13:47,128 --> 00:13:49,484 For 17 years, the Unabomber has been trying to say something 272 00:13:49,485 --> 00:13:51,384 with these bombs, trying to send us a message, 273 00:13:51,385 --> 00:13:53,066 and now he lays it out, everything he's been 274 00:13:53,186 --> 00:13:56,197 trying to tell us, and you don't want to take the time to read it? 275 00:13:56,207 --> 00:13:59,018 We're dealing with a major airport shutdown here, 276 00:13:59,019 --> 00:14:02,884 so write up a three-page synopsis, clean, no typos, 277 00:14:02,885 --> 00:14:04,962 and we'll give it a look. 278 00:14:05,252 --> 00:14:06,766 Yep. All right. 279 00:14:09,119 --> 00:14:11,418 New Unabom letter sent to The Times. 280 00:14:11,419 --> 00:14:14,051 - What? - New York is faxing it through. 281 00:14:14,052 --> 00:14:16,467 Jesus! Greg, I got to go! 282 00:14:18,052 --> 00:14:20,251 Look at page 3. 283 00:14:27,319 --> 00:14:29,618 Is this guy jerking us around or what? 284 00:14:29,619 --> 00:14:31,618 "Since the public has a short memory, 285 00:14:31,619 --> 00:14:34,551 "we decided to play one last 'prank' 286 00:14:34,552 --> 00:14:36,484 "to remind them who we are. 287 00:14:36,915 --> 00:14:40,018 "But no, we haven't tried to plant a bomb 288 00:14:40,019 --> 00:14:42,718 "on an airliner." 289 00:14:42,719 --> 00:14:45,051 Recently is in parentheses. 290 00:14:45,052 --> 00:14:49,638 - He says it's a prank. - Yes, Sir. One last prank. 291 00:14:49,758 --> 00:14:52,365 and we're certain it's from the Unabomber? 292 00:14:52,973 --> 00:14:54,884 It's been authenticated, Sir. 293 00:14:54,885 --> 00:14:57,945 It is definitely from the Unabomber. 294 00:14:58,165 --> 00:15:00,504 And we will get you our recommendation. 295 00:15:00,624 --> 00:15:02,718 What if he's just trying to get our guard down? 296 00:15:02,719 --> 00:15:04,151 He's got a bomb in one of those planes, 297 00:15:04,152 --> 00:15:07,051 just waiting for us to clear them for takeoff, and then boom. 298 00:15:07,052 --> 00:15:09,018 We get another Lockerbie on my watch because 299 00:15:09,019 --> 00:15:11,751 I took a serial bomber at his word. 300 00:15:11,752 --> 00:15:14,651 Personally, I think this whole manifesto thing 301 00:15:14,652 --> 00:15:17,232 could be a red herring. We're dealing with a dummy here, 302 00:15:17,352 --> 00:15:19,718 an airline mechanic with a G.E.D., Max. 303 00:15:19,719 --> 00:15:23,251 So, who's to say he didn't retype somebody else's essay 304 00:15:23,252 --> 00:15:26,284 to throw us off the scent, to draw us down blind alleys, 305 00:15:26,285 --> 00:15:29,218 to keep us away from the real leads in the real world... 306 00:15:29,219 --> 00:15:30,384 Forensics. 307 00:15:30,385 --> 00:15:32,851 Sir, now that the manifesto has cleared forensics, 308 00:15:32,852 --> 00:15:35,184 I think it's imperative that our agents read this document. 309 00:15:35,185 --> 00:15:36,851 Okay, stop. 310 00:15:36,852 --> 00:15:38,784 The Unabomber has threatened 311 00:15:38,785 --> 00:15:41,184 to blow an airplane out of the sky. 312 00:15:41,185 --> 00:15:45,051 I've got four Senators and Janet Reno on my call sheet, 313 00:15:45,052 --> 00:15:47,341 asking me whether to believe this letter, 314 00:15:47,461 --> 00:15:50,563 where he says he's going to kill a few hundred innocent people, 315 00:15:50,683 --> 00:15:53,662 or this one, where he says the bomb threat is just a prank. 316 00:15:53,782 --> 00:15:55,451 So, I'm not reading anything else. 317 00:15:55,452 --> 00:15:57,684 I'm reading this and trying to decide 318 00:15:57,685 --> 00:16:00,118 whether LAX can reopen for business. 319 00:16:00,119 --> 00:16:02,251 And if I make the wrong call, 320 00:16:02,252 --> 00:16:04,518 a few hundred people are gonna be blown out of the sky. 321 00:16:04,519 --> 00:16:07,151 So give me a profile that answers that question. 322 00:16:07,152 --> 00:16:10,218 If not, that's a stack of papers. 323 00:16:10,219 --> 00:16:12,851 These are human lives. 324 00:16:12,852 --> 00:16:14,051 Got it? 325 00:16:14,052 --> 00:16:17,151 Okay. What do we got? 326 00:16:21,252 --> 00:16:24,384 Dude, have you read this? In the manifesto? Listen. 327 00:16:24,385 --> 00:16:27,784 "In modern society, all that's required of you is obedience." 328 00:16:27,785 --> 00:16:29,418 Isn't that exactly what Cole said? 329 00:16:29,419 --> 00:16:31,718 The manifesto has to wait. There are lives at stake. 330 00:16:31,719 --> 00:16:34,368 The Unabomber and his bomb threat prank. 331 00:16:34,488 --> 00:16:36,596 Which one's the truth? 332 00:16:39,085 --> 00:16:41,438 How could we possibly know that? 333 00:16:52,816 --> 00:16:56,157 _ 334 00:16:59,152 --> 00:17:00,918 You know, Fitz, whatever it is you're going through, 335 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:04,132 it didn't start two years ago. It didn't start with this case. 336 00:17:04,252 --> 00:17:07,244 It happened long before the Unabom. It must have. 337 00:17:09,352 --> 00:17:10,818 I know. 338 00:17:12,352 --> 00:17:15,139 I just don't know when I started to feel so powerless. 339 00:17:15,259 --> 00:17:17,351 Hey, we all feel that way. Everyone does. 340 00:17:17,352 --> 00:17:19,551 If everybody feels that way, what do we do about it? 341 00:17:19,552 --> 00:17:21,018 Nothing. 342 00:17:21,019 --> 00:17:23,251 We like it. 343 00:17:23,252 --> 00:17:26,139 We like feeling trapped, 344 00:17:26,769 --> 00:17:28,227 crushed. 345 00:17:29,019 --> 00:17:31,918 I guess freedom is far more terrifying than slavery. 346 00:17:31,919 --> 00:17:33,818 But there's nothing to do. 347 00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:36,418 It's life. You suck it up and you live. 348 00:17:36,419 --> 00:17:38,691 That's not... that's not life. That's not living. 349 00:17:38,811 --> 00:17:40,951 That's sleepwalking. 350 00:17:41,919 --> 00:17:44,445 Watching TV, eating trash, 351 00:17:44,565 --> 00:17:45,934 working to... 352 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,818 to become something for someone else. 353 00:17:48,819 --> 00:17:50,384 And nobody does anything about it. 354 00:17:50,385 --> 00:17:52,251 Nobody even tries. Nobody except for Ted. 355 00:17:52,252 --> 00:17:54,978 Yeah, but, Fitz, he's the Unabomber. 356 00:17:58,585 --> 00:18:00,003 He's evil. 357 00:18:03,852 --> 00:18:05,707 Just down here. 358 00:18:11,404 --> 00:18:13,602 _ 359 00:18:18,219 --> 00:18:20,484 You gonna be okay? 360 00:18:20,485 --> 00:18:22,558 I don't know. 361 00:18:24,319 --> 00:18:27,084 I have to go in there I have to face him. 362 00:18:33,796 --> 00:18:35,044 Go. 363 00:18:46,183 --> 00:18:47,999 _ 364 00:19:07,352 --> 00:19:11,884 Is there a bomb on a plane, FC, or is it a prank? 365 00:19:20,621 --> 00:19:23,748 Boss needs these reports clean. No typos. 366 00:19:24,452 --> 00:19:27,084 Cole wouldn't be happy, FC. 367 00:19:46,668 --> 00:19:48,337 _ 368 00:19:48,457 --> 00:19:50,384 Excessive soldering. 369 00:20:00,919 --> 00:20:02,684 This is the original letter. 370 00:20:02,685 --> 00:20:04,699 Look, he punched right through the paper, 371 00:20:04,819 --> 00:20:07,418 not just crossing out his mistakes... obliterating them. 372 00:20:07,419 --> 00:20:10,118 Profilers talk about signatures versus M.O. 373 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,484 M.O. is everything necessary to complete the crime, 374 00:20:12,485 --> 00:20:14,319 but signatures are the extras. 375 00:20:14,439 --> 00:20:17,684 They reveal the psychology, the character. 376 00:20:17,685 --> 00:20:19,484 Damn. Like correcting the hell out of that letter. 377 00:20:19,485 --> 00:20:21,119 Yeah, that's right. 378 00:20:21,239 --> 00:20:23,442 But, uh, the Rentech bomb, 379 00:20:23,988 --> 00:20:27,018 the forensic report says something about excessive soldering. 380 00:20:27,019 --> 00:20:29,384 His signature, definitely. 381 00:20:29,385 --> 00:20:31,485 How do you know that? 382 00:20:34,419 --> 00:20:36,351 Don't worry. It's just a mock-up. 383 00:20:36,352 --> 00:20:39,899 But it's the exact copy of the way that bomb looked before it blew up. 384 00:20:40,019 --> 00:20:41,547 You built this? 385 00:20:43,019 --> 00:20:45,134 What's wrong with you? 386 00:20:45,522 --> 00:20:47,987 You sure you're not the Unabomber? 387 00:20:49,352 --> 00:20:51,951 And all this as forensic evidence? 388 00:20:51,952 --> 00:20:53,484 Yes, sir. 389 00:20:53,485 --> 00:20:55,251 I built this and a few others. 390 00:20:55,252 --> 00:20:57,125 Bosses thought it was a waste of time, 391 00:20:57,245 --> 00:20:58,818 but I learned a lot by doing it. 392 00:20:58,819 --> 00:21:02,465 He carves "FC" on the most indestructible component of each bomb... 393 00:21:02,585 --> 00:21:04,732 The part that he's sure will survive the blast. 394 00:21:04,852 --> 00:21:07,051 Just to make sure we know it's him. 395 00:21:07,052 --> 00:21:08,518 Like the excess soldering, 396 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:10,832 he just floods all the connections like he's trying to hide them, 397 00:21:10,952 --> 00:21:14,046 then there's tons of extra epoxy all at the joints that 398 00:21:14,166 --> 00:21:15,897 no one seemed to report. 399 00:21:16,017 --> 00:21:18,100 Totally unnecessary. Just slathered it on. 400 00:21:18,220 --> 00:21:20,491 Signatures. Not M.O. 401 00:21:21,363 --> 00:21:23,933 He didn't want anyone to see the cracks. 402 00:21:30,052 --> 00:21:31,418 What's your name again? 403 00:21:31,419 --> 00:21:32,898 Ernie Esposito. 404 00:21:34,352 --> 00:21:36,255 Thanks, Ernie. 405 00:21:47,819 --> 00:21:50,218 This is my analysis on the LAX bomb threat. 406 00:21:50,219 --> 00:21:52,488 It's clean, no typos, lots of big words. 407 00:21:52,608 --> 00:21:54,984 Janet Reno will read it, and she'll be impressed by you. 408 00:21:54,985 --> 00:21:56,923 What's the bottom line? 409 00:21:58,352 --> 00:22:00,818 Well, in my opinion, it's a prank. 410 00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:02,684 There's no bomb at LAX 411 00:22:02,685 --> 00:22:06,018 FC cares about his reputation, his credibility. 412 00:22:06,019 --> 00:22:08,584 He's ashamed of his mistakes, and he tries to obliterate them. 413 00:22:08,585 --> 00:22:10,818 He tries to hide all the joints in his bombs 414 00:22:10,819 --> 00:22:12,450 so we don't see the work. 415 00:22:13,338 --> 00:22:16,151 He's obsessed with presenting this perfect public image. 416 00:22:16,152 --> 00:22:18,284 He wants to be seen as intelligent, as logical, 417 00:22:18,285 --> 00:22:19,856 as superior. But it's 418 00:22:19,976 --> 00:22:22,051 a fragile self image, because he's really just 419 00:22:22,052 --> 00:22:25,288 afraid that everyone's gonna see his flaws. 420 00:22:25,652 --> 00:22:28,608 Now, the bomb threat, that services his need for power. 421 00:22:28,728 --> 00:22:31,684 You know, he enjoys making us squirm, but his reputation, 422 00:22:31,685 --> 00:22:34,067 that's the most important thing he has. 423 00:22:34,330 --> 00:22:37,151 And he's not gonna give us the ammunition to go 424 00:22:37,152 --> 00:22:39,789 to the press so they can hold up something that he wrote and say, 425 00:22:39,909 --> 00:22:42,474 "this guy's untrustworthy, he's a liar, 426 00:22:42,594 --> 00:22:46,051 "he's a blood-thirsty lunatic who has no credibility 427 00:22:46,052 --> 00:22:48,818 "and will say anything to kill people." 428 00:22:48,819 --> 00:22:50,956 It's just all my opinion, but, um, 429 00:22:51,543 --> 00:22:55,383 you know, I can back it up. Including the physical evidence, 430 00:22:55,708 --> 00:22:57,325 I stand by it. 431 00:22:58,448 --> 00:22:59,901 The thing about Fitz... 432 00:23:00,021 --> 00:23:02,990 He's no B.S.Er, for better for worse. 433 00:23:05,087 --> 00:23:08,340 Okay, we're gonna read it and pass it up the chain. 434 00:23:08,919 --> 00:23:10,207 Thanks for this. 435 00:23:10,428 --> 00:23:13,942 This might cross Janet Reno's desk, so stay close. 436 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:19,897 You listen to me, you get a gold star. 437 00:23:20,316 --> 00:23:22,551 A little obedience is all it takes. 438 00:23:22,552 --> 00:23:24,818 I think FC says that in the manifesto, too. 439 00:23:26,085 --> 00:23:28,431 You can put that in your three-page summary. 440 00:23:28,551 --> 00:23:31,163 Leadership tips from the Unabomber. 441 00:23:41,552 --> 00:23:42,882 Now we dig in. 442 00:23:48,002 --> 00:23:50,190 _ 443 00:23:52,987 --> 00:23:54,560 Let's go for the big picture. 444 00:23:55,022 --> 00:23:56,818 He wrote 56 pages, 445 00:23:56,819 --> 00:23:59,318 laying out his philosophy of the modern world. 446 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:02,651 He called it "industrial society and its future." 447 00:24:02,652 --> 00:24:05,018 We call it his "manifesto." 448 00:24:05,019 --> 00:24:07,884 So, he sends the bombs as messages. 449 00:24:07,885 --> 00:24:10,918 He's struggling to make himself heard. 450 00:24:10,919 --> 00:24:12,518 So, what's the message? 451 00:24:12,519 --> 00:24:15,159 - Technology sucks? - All right, technology sucks. 452 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:17,897 And we are basically screwed. 453 00:24:18,017 --> 00:24:20,572 The Unabomber just opened a door into his mind. 454 00:24:20,692 --> 00:24:22,684 We need to step through it, so... 455 00:24:22,685 --> 00:24:24,241 Opening line, 456 00:24:24,766 --> 00:24:27,132 "the industrial revolution and its consequences 457 00:24:27,252 --> 00:24:29,489 "have been a disaster for the human race." 458 00:24:29,619 --> 00:24:32,151 Technology was supposed to set us free, but it doesn't. 459 00:24:32,152 --> 00:24:34,763 Like the car thing. Cars were invented, and then, 460 00:24:34,883 --> 00:24:37,818 we're all suddenly free to go wherever we want. 461 00:24:37,819 --> 00:24:40,618 But then, basically, it becomes mandatory to have a car. 462 00:24:40,619 --> 00:24:42,699 So, instead of becoming more free, we've become more limited, 463 00:24:42,819 --> 00:24:44,933 - more constrained. - I mean, every city 464 00:24:45,053 --> 00:24:46,874 in society is all rearranged 465 00:24:46,994 --> 00:24:49,433 around cars until you can't even buy food 466 00:24:49,553 --> 00:24:51,651 without driving somewhere. I mean, they're forced upon us. 467 00:24:51,652 --> 00:24:54,144 Yeah, TV seemed harmless, too, before we flipped it around. 468 00:24:54,264 --> 00:24:57,232 We put CCTV cameras everywhere and turned it into a tool to watch us. 469 00:24:57,352 --> 00:24:59,693 We can't even drive fast if we're in a hurry 470 00:24:59,813 --> 00:25:03,184 - or slow if we want to chill out. - We started in charge. 471 00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:06,240 Now we're slaves to our own technology. 472 00:25:07,185 --> 00:25:09,251 "Human beings are being permanently reduced 473 00:25:09,252 --> 00:25:11,482 "to engineered products, and mere cogs 474 00:25:11,602 --> 00:25:14,491 "in the social machine, deprived of dignity, 475 00:25:14,611 --> 00:25:16,951 "autonomy, and freedom." 476 00:25:16,952 --> 00:25:20,384 The only option available to us is obedience. 477 00:25:20,385 --> 00:25:23,336 - _ - We're being turned into caged rats, 478 00:25:23,456 --> 00:25:25,984 distracted from the maze by the meaningless cheese 479 00:25:25,985 --> 00:25:29,881 we're running after... Status, promotion, money, 480 00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:33,451 nicer cars, bigger houses, more TVs, 481 00:25:33,452 --> 00:25:36,144 blasted with entertainment, adjusted with therapy 482 00:25:36,264 --> 00:25:40,191 and Prozac till you don't even want to be free anymore. 483 00:25:40,547 --> 00:25:42,651 Or if you can't be adjusted, 484 00:25:43,726 --> 00:25:46,715 the psych ward. 485 00:25:47,852 --> 00:25:49,484 Or prison. 486 00:25:54,752 --> 00:25:58,384 The only alternative, the only hope for us, 487 00:25:58,385 --> 00:26:00,651 the only way to break free... 488 00:26:03,019 --> 00:26:05,918 ... is to blow the whole thing up. 489 00:26:11,652 --> 00:26:13,618 I'm ready. 490 00:26:28,385 --> 00:26:31,119 Kaczynski, you ready? 491 00:26:37,352 --> 00:26:40,384 Ted, as your attorney, I'm begging you to reconsider this. 492 00:26:40,504 --> 00:26:42,848 Do not go in there alone with Fitzgerald. 493 00:26:43,619 --> 00:26:45,625 It is unthinkably reckless for the defendant in 494 00:26:45,745 --> 00:26:48,446 a capital case to, "A," talk with the arresting agent, 495 00:26:48,566 --> 00:26:51,220 and "B," do so without counsel present. 496 00:26:53,085 --> 00:26:54,851 This is a huge risk for you. 497 00:26:54,852 --> 00:26:57,760 And there's no reason to take it. Let me come in there with you. 498 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,451 I'll stay out of the way, just observe, and be ready to step in. 499 00:27:03,852 --> 00:27:05,932 I'll be in the next room the whole time. 500 00:27:06,052 --> 00:27:08,822 All you need to do to end the interview is to ask for me, okay? 501 00:27:16,952 --> 00:27:19,118 We need a guilty plea from Ted. 502 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,151 This is our only shot. 503 00:27:21,152 --> 00:27:23,352 You're our only shot. 504 00:27:24,952 --> 00:27:26,355 Right. 505 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,827 Give us a second. 506 00:27:39,352 --> 00:27:41,651 We know Ted Kaczynski's the Unabomber, 507 00:27:41,652 --> 00:27:43,684 but we can't go to trial. 508 00:27:43,685 --> 00:27:47,082 This case hangs on so many different technicalities. 509 00:27:47,202 --> 00:27:50,275 If we go before a jury, if we roll that dice... 510 00:27:50,852 --> 00:27:53,318 These are dangerous, uncertain times. 511 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,414 Look at Waco. Look at O.J. 512 00:27:56,534 --> 00:27:59,118 Even the Menendez brothers hung their juries. 513 00:27:59,695 --> 00:28:02,411 The Unabomber has an IQ of 168. 514 00:28:02,831 --> 00:28:05,018 Think about that... 168. 515 00:28:05,019 --> 00:28:07,484 If Ted Kaczynski goes to trial, he could walk. 516 00:28:07,485 --> 00:28:09,118 If he walks, he disappears. 517 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,118 If he disappears, he's back in action. 518 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,151 Only this time, we'll never find him. 519 00:28:14,152 --> 00:28:17,386 The guilty plea is the only way to make sure that doesn't happen. 520 00:28:18,652 --> 00:28:20,041 Listen, Fitz. 521 00:28:21,813 --> 00:28:23,156 I think Ted 522 00:28:23,418 --> 00:28:26,576 asked for you because he recognized a kindred spirit. 523 00:28:27,619 --> 00:28:29,384 Play into that. 524 00:28:29,385 --> 00:28:33,218 Make him feel smart, understood, sympathized with. 525 00:28:33,219 --> 00:28:35,651 Build a connection, but stay opaque. 526 00:28:35,652 --> 00:28:37,251 Don't give him too much. 527 00:28:37,252 --> 00:28:40,718 He knows you as well as you know him. Better. 528 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:43,651 He's gonna be probing you for weaknesses all the time, 529 00:28:43,652 --> 00:28:45,818 looking for anything to go against us. 530 00:28:49,652 --> 00:28:51,518 Get him talking, build a connection, 531 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:54,851 then start to steer him towards the guilty plea. 532 00:28:57,476 --> 00:28:58,851 You're trying to help him, 533 00:28:58,852 --> 00:29:00,684 trying to save him from the electric chair. 534 00:29:00,685 --> 00:29:02,984 You're his only friend, but do it gently. 535 00:29:02,985 --> 00:29:05,128 Don't spook him, okay? 536 00:29:05,716 --> 00:29:08,951 Get him there. 537 00:29:36,432 --> 00:29:37,484 Okay. 538 00:29:52,819 --> 00:29:54,686 Agent Fitzgerald? 539 00:29:57,352 --> 00:30:01,137 I am so glad to make your acquaintance at last. 540 00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:15,484 When would be a good time for you? 541 00:30:15,485 --> 00:30:17,551 I already talked to Kim about taking the days 542 00:30:17,552 --> 00:30:20,484 Nancy says she can cover for me, and Mom would watch the boys. 543 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:21,593 So, 544 00:30:22,306 --> 00:30:26,067 just tell me when. But I took it. 545 00:30:26,187 --> 00:30:28,421 Good to hear it. 546 00:30:28,768 --> 00:30:30,584 That's great. 547 00:30:31,126 --> 00:30:32,206 Uh, 548 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,665 why don't you just call me back when I won't be 549 00:30:35,785 --> 00:30:38,149 - just talking to myself. - Oh, no. No, no. I'm here. 550 00:30:38,269 --> 00:30:39,947 I'm here. I'm listening. I am. 551 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:42,119 It's just, 552 00:30:43,504 --> 00:30:44,710 you know... 553 00:30:45,979 --> 00:30:47,154 You know... 554 00:30:50,249 --> 00:30:52,550 What's going on with you? 555 00:30:56,504 --> 00:30:58,497 I'm just gonna call you back. 556 00:31:00,721 --> 00:31:03,040 Okay. okay, bye. 557 00:31:23,552 --> 00:31:25,887 Um, that's for today. 558 00:31:26,007 --> 00:31:27,891 Fitz. Right now. 559 00:31:31,730 --> 00:31:34,418 We've looked at the FAA reports, 560 00:31:34,419 --> 00:31:37,348 L.A.P.D and airport briefings, 561 00:31:37,468 --> 00:31:39,984 read the material S.A.C. Ackerman sent. 562 00:31:39,985 --> 00:31:41,651 Based on what we've seen, 563 00:31:41,652 --> 00:31:45,418 A.G.'s office is good to sign off on reopening LAX. 564 00:31:45,419 --> 00:31:46,810 How about you, Bill? 565 00:31:46,930 --> 00:31:48,718 FAA is good with that. 566 00:31:48,719 --> 00:31:50,743 FBI Director Freeh here. 567 00:31:50,863 --> 00:31:52,559 I'll confirm that from our end 568 00:31:52,679 --> 00:31:55,018 and give the green light to flight control. 569 00:31:55,019 --> 00:31:56,734 Flight control, 570 00:31:56,854 --> 00:31:59,718 I see the green light here, good to reopen runways. 571 00:31:59,719 --> 00:32:01,755 First plane should be up momentarily. 572 00:32:01,875 --> 00:32:04,147 Flight control, this is S.A.C. Ackerman, 573 00:32:04,267 --> 00:32:06,413 permission to stay on the line? 574 00:32:06,533 --> 00:32:08,089 Affirmative, agent. 575 00:32:09,033 --> 00:32:11,053 The Unabomb device that almost blew up 576 00:32:11,173 --> 00:32:15,175 American airlines 444 was triggered by an altimeter 577 00:32:15,295 --> 00:32:18,152 set to blow up at 20,000 feet. 578 00:32:21,552 --> 00:32:24,141 American flight 7 is airborne. 579 00:32:27,219 --> 00:32:30,082 United 732 airborne. 580 00:32:32,119 --> 00:32:35,551 TWA one-niner-niner airborne. 581 00:32:42,352 --> 00:32:44,518 This is American flight 7. 582 00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:46,318 We are climbing to 15,000 feet. 583 00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:48,518 Climbing to 20,000. 584 00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:50,684 Check in uniform 7. 585 00:32:50,685 --> 00:32:53,318 We're approaching 10,000. 586 00:32:54,226 --> 00:32:57,268 KLM 206, we're climbing now. 587 00:32:59,285 --> 00:33:02,218 KLM 206, cruising altitude, over. 588 00:33:02,819 --> 00:33:04,618 Approaching cruising altitude. 589 00:33:04,619 --> 00:33:06,384 American flight 7, 590 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:10,284 we're at 25,000, reaching cruising altitude now. 591 00:33:10,285 --> 00:33:12,351 Approaching cruising altitude, over. 592 00:33:23,685 --> 00:33:26,851 All clear. All clear. You hear that, agent? 593 00:33:26,852 --> 00:33:29,118 Loud and clear. 594 00:33:29,119 --> 00:33:30,641 Thank God. 595 00:33:51,142 --> 00:33:54,079 - You made the right call. - I shouldn't have made any call. 596 00:33:54,199 --> 00:33:55,718 All those people on the plane, 597 00:33:55,719 --> 00:33:58,132 and it was based on what, on some letters? 598 00:33:58,252 --> 00:34:00,532 It was the right call. 599 00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:07,451 You really think you can get something good 600 00:34:07,571 --> 00:34:10,218 out of this manifesto? Something worthwhile? 601 00:34:10,952 --> 00:34:13,092 Yeah. yeah, I think I can. 602 00:34:14,278 --> 00:34:15,511 Okay. 603 00:34:15,631 --> 00:34:17,304 I'm giving you an office. 604 00:34:17,424 --> 00:34:20,129 And a team, if you want it. 605 00:34:22,019 --> 00:34:24,084 Maybe you'll even read the manifesto now. 606 00:34:25,511 --> 00:34:27,321 I will. We all will. 607 00:34:27,441 --> 00:34:29,418 Actually, I already tried to read it. 608 00:34:29,419 --> 00:34:30,933 Oh, no, I did. 609 00:34:31,053 --> 00:34:35,218 But, come on, end notes and all these dead sentences. 610 00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:36,885 Who writes like this? 611 00:34:39,652 --> 00:34:41,300 Who writes like this? 612 00:34:45,581 --> 00:34:47,270 Fitz? 613 00:35:11,585 --> 00:35:13,584 Who writes like this? 614 00:35:21,196 --> 00:35:23,828 _ 615 00:35:24,942 --> 00:35:26,689 When I say "wudder," 616 00:35:26,809 --> 00:35:29,018 you learn everything about me. 617 00:35:29,019 --> 00:35:31,760 One tiny word, one tiny mistake, 618 00:35:32,169 --> 00:35:35,096 and you can tell I'm from Philly, blue-collar, local school, 619 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:37,984 fan of Dave Schultz. Just like when you say "bruh," 620 00:35:38,047 --> 00:35:39,967 it could only be from San Francisco, right? 621 00:35:43,816 --> 00:35:48,632 What if there's a wudder or bruh in here, in the manifesto? 622 00:35:49,685 --> 00:35:52,283 I mean, how do we even start to look for that? 623 00:35:54,915 --> 00:35:56,693 I don't know. Read it again. 624 00:35:56,955 --> 00:35:59,184 Oh, boy. 625 00:35:59,185 --> 00:36:01,791 Get some coffee on then, bruh. 626 00:36:07,765 --> 00:36:11,383 _ 627 00:36:20,419 --> 00:36:23,319 Agent Fitzgerald. 628 00:36:33,952 --> 00:36:35,735 Long way from Montana. 629 00:36:35,855 --> 00:36:37,634 Oh, yeah, well, 630 00:36:38,893 --> 00:36:42,184 most people carry their cage with them wherever they go. 631 00:36:42,185 --> 00:36:45,251 At least if I remain disgusted by this place, 632 00:36:45,252 --> 00:36:47,151 I know I'm still alive. 633 00:36:47,152 --> 00:36:49,451 Still free in here. 634 00:36:49,452 --> 00:36:51,118 So why me? 635 00:36:51,586 --> 00:36:54,518 Why you? You wrote the document that put me in here. 636 00:36:54,519 --> 00:36:56,332 Your linguistic analysis of the manifesto 637 00:36:56,452 --> 00:36:58,549 got them the search warrant, the search warrant 638 00:36:58,669 --> 00:37:01,410 - got them the evidence... - The document that put you 639 00:37:01,530 --> 00:37:04,623 in here you wrote. 640 00:37:07,130 --> 00:37:08,583 I am becoming very 641 00:37:08,703 --> 00:37:10,684 well-acquainted with your work. 642 00:37:10,685 --> 00:37:13,618 It is the product of great imagination. 643 00:37:13,619 --> 00:37:17,118 What I really appreciate about you is that most people 644 00:37:17,119 --> 00:37:20,318 take language for granted, but not you. 645 00:37:21,452 --> 00:37:24,018 You saw it differently, and that is the first step 646 00:37:24,019 --> 00:37:27,100 toward becoming free... A shift in perspective. 647 00:37:27,425 --> 00:37:30,404 Manifesto, for instance... 648 00:37:31,852 --> 00:37:33,684 I never liked that moniker. 649 00:37:33,685 --> 00:37:36,763 It makes it sound like an unconsidered rant, and 650 00:37:37,633 --> 00:37:40,251 you and I both appreciate the power 651 00:37:40,371 --> 00:37:42,251 and specificity of words. 652 00:37:42,371 --> 00:37:44,258 Manifesto versus article, 653 00:37:44,378 --> 00:37:47,251 insanity versus enlightenment, 654 00:37:47,252 --> 00:37:49,218 mental breakdown versus 655 00:37:49,338 --> 00:37:51,557 unextended leave from active duty. 656 00:37:52,669 --> 00:37:55,260 You have had a change of life 657 00:37:56,015 --> 00:37:57,618 circumstance, 658 00:37:57,619 --> 00:38:00,718 since your work on the Unabomb case, am I wrong? 659 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,884 - Yeah, I have. - Because of what I allegedly wrote? 660 00:38:04,219 --> 00:38:06,412 - Yeah. - What was it? 661 00:38:06,842 --> 00:38:09,025 Just between us. 662 00:38:10,095 --> 00:38:11,563 When did it all click? 663 00:38:15,937 --> 00:38:17,123 No? 664 00:38:17,819 --> 00:38:19,757 Well, for me, uh, 665 00:38:20,408 --> 00:38:22,232 it all began in Chicago. 666 00:38:22,352 --> 00:38:25,251 One day, this mockingbird began singing in the backyard there, 667 00:38:25,371 --> 00:38:27,079 you know, that puffed-up confidence 668 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:29,349 just belting out his song, and 669 00:38:30,073 --> 00:38:31,918 I began to realize 670 00:38:31,919 --> 00:38:35,184 that the mockingbird is singing the car alarm. 671 00:38:35,185 --> 00:38:38,151 Ba-beep, ba-beep. You know the one? 672 00:38:38,152 --> 00:38:41,251 Rrr, rrr. And I... I just sat there, 673 00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:43,318 listening to that poor, dumb bird for maybe 674 00:38:43,319 --> 00:38:45,268 an hour straight, thinking, 675 00:38:45,488 --> 00:38:46,941 "what have we done?" 676 00:38:47,061 --> 00:38:49,086 How wrong that was, and 677 00:38:49,206 --> 00:38:50,499 it stuck with me. 678 00:38:50,619 --> 00:38:53,884 I kept coming back to it, just trying to figure out 679 00:38:53,885 --> 00:38:57,218 where in the world we had gone so wrong 680 00:38:57,219 --> 00:39:00,015 that it had ended up here. 681 00:39:03,219 --> 00:39:05,389 For me, it was the part about driving. 682 00:39:07,613 --> 00:39:09,291 Every time I got in the car, 683 00:39:10,109 --> 00:39:11,418 I thought about it. 684 00:39:11,419 --> 00:39:14,646 The more I drove, the more it made sense. 685 00:39:18,663 --> 00:39:21,433 Like, there was this one night I was driving home from work, 686 00:39:21,684 --> 00:39:24,851 and there was nobody on the street, I mean, nobody. 687 00:39:24,852 --> 00:39:26,918 And I'm sitting there at a red light, 688 00:39:26,919 --> 00:39:29,712 just waiting, waiting. 689 00:39:33,793 --> 00:39:37,156 And there's no cars anywhere. 690 00:39:39,653 --> 00:39:42,600 But, still, I sat there. I obeyed. 691 00:39:44,452 --> 00:39:47,084 That's when I realized it's not about technology, 692 00:39:47,085 --> 00:39:49,245 it's not about machines. 693 00:39:49,365 --> 00:39:51,868 It's about what they're doing to us. 694 00:39:51,988 --> 00:39:54,632 It's about what they're doing to us. What they do to our hearts, 695 00:39:54,652 --> 00:39:56,151 'cause our hearts are no longer free. 696 00:39:56,152 --> 00:39:58,084 - And you wanted to be free. - Right. 697 00:39:58,085 --> 00:40:00,518 You wanted your human dignity, your autonomy. 698 00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:02,899 - Yeah. - Everybody wants that. 699 00:40:03,224 --> 00:40:05,818 People want it so badly, they're dying by the thousands 700 00:40:05,819 --> 00:40:08,346 every day, just trying to salvage some of their humanity. 701 00:40:08,466 --> 00:40:10,084 - Okay... - Think about this, 702 00:40:10,085 --> 00:40:12,718 more people have died from suicide in just the time 703 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,433 we've been talking than I allegedly killed in my entire career. 704 00:40:16,716 --> 00:40:18,984 More people died from anti-depressants, 705 00:40:18,985 --> 00:40:21,038 plastic surgery, fast food. Why... 706 00:40:21,158 --> 00:40:24,138 W-why is everybody so terrified of me? 707 00:40:25,219 --> 00:40:28,118 And ask yourself this question... 708 00:40:28,119 --> 00:40:31,151 Why are these men in suits so desperate 709 00:40:31,152 --> 00:40:33,423 to prove that I'm crazy? 710 00:40:34,485 --> 00:40:36,551 I will tell you. 711 00:40:36,552 --> 00:40:39,112 It's because they know that I'm right. 712 00:40:40,085 --> 00:40:41,984 I'm awake. 713 00:40:41,985 --> 00:40:43,818 - They're asleep. - Yeah. 714 00:40:43,819 --> 00:40:46,240 And they're terrified they might have to wake up, too, 715 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,084 and turn off their cellphones and their TVs 716 00:40:49,085 --> 00:40:51,218 and their video games, 717 00:40:51,338 --> 00:40:54,061 and face themselves the way that you and I have. 718 00:40:56,316 --> 00:40:57,684 You and I? 719 00:40:57,685 --> 00:40:58,957 You and I. 720 00:40:59,819 --> 00:41:02,384 Ted, I came here 'cause I believe in what you wrote. 721 00:41:02,385 --> 00:41:03,657 Good. 722 00:41:05,010 --> 00:41:07,618 I think you asked me here 'cause you need an ally 723 00:41:07,619 --> 00:41:09,851 to help save your life, so you can spread your message 724 00:41:09,852 --> 00:41:11,984 and change things. 725 00:41:11,985 --> 00:41:14,718 Really change things. Right? 726 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:15,884 Right. 727 00:41:15,885 --> 00:41:18,220 Now, I've gone through all your options. I think a guilty plea... 728 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:19,518 No. 729 00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:21,273 No. 730 00:41:23,319 --> 00:41:25,618 And he was doing so well. 731 00:41:25,619 --> 00:41:28,351 I can talk about my options with any one of these 732 00:41:28,352 --> 00:41:31,793 barbary apes watching through the cameras. 733 00:41:32,223 --> 00:41:34,558 But I chose you 734 00:41:34,678 --> 00:41:38,129 because I thought you were different. 735 00:41:41,684 --> 00:41:42,970 Next time, 736 00:41:43,090 --> 00:41:46,106 you might bring me some writing paper and some stamps. 737 00:41:46,226 --> 00:41:47,884 They're so stingy in here, 738 00:41:47,885 --> 00:41:50,118 and I have so much correspondence. 739 00:41:50,119 --> 00:41:52,922 It's really quite overwhelming. 740 00:41:55,744 --> 00:41:56,908 Thank you. 741 00:42:29,152 --> 00:42:31,051 - _ - We're looking for a "wudder," right? 742 00:42:31,052 --> 00:42:34,284 Something that tells us who he is, where he comes from? 743 00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:36,751 We're looking for mistakes, I found the first real mistake! 744 00:42:36,752 --> 00:42:40,451 This is cutting edge, using language to solve crimes! 745 00:42:40,452 --> 00:42:42,251 There's not even a name for what you're doing. 746 00:42:42,252 --> 00:42:45,918 Fingerprints are forensics, DNA is forensics. 747 00:42:45,919 --> 00:42:48,884 Spelling willfully with one "l" is not forensics. 748 00:42:48,885 --> 00:42:52,051 We don't even know what we're doing, we're making this up as we go. 749 00:42:54,219 --> 00:42:55,906 No more feelings, no more theories, 750 00:42:56,026 --> 00:42:58,423 hit him hard with the facts. 751 00:42:58,543 --> 00:43:01,684 Make him understand that we own the courtroom. 752 00:43:01,685 --> 00:43:05,885 James, do you really not have any idea why I brought you here? 753 00:43:06,005 --> 00:43:09,299 - Synced and corrected by medvidecek007 - - www.addic7ed.com -