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Previously on The Hot Zone Anthrax.

Bruce, where did you just go?

The USA is in an understandable

state of anxiety.

This could be related to terrorism.

Who knows where those bastards
are hiding out, just find them.

Didn't you say Iraq doesn't
have the Ames strain?

Here's a copy of what
I faxed to your office.

- Happy to help.
- We found that something

have been added to the spores.

How certain are you about
what that substance is?

Bentonite? 100%.

There's only one county we know of

that's added Bentonite to anthrax.

If we go for Saddam,
will we even get Al-Qaeda?

All the terrorists who did all this?

So tell me more about
your lone wolf theory.

All signs point to our perp

being a highly educated American citizen

with scientific expertise,

most likely works in isolation,
suffers from mental illness.

I drew up this profile to send to
the American Society of Microbiology.

What if the anthrax killer is one of us?

You did a real service for
your country, Dr. Ivins.

It's an honor, sir.

Things are good.

Boss, hey.

Jesus. Are you already out running?

It's not even 6:00. I
was gonna leave a message.

Yeah, well I haven't been
getting much sleep lately.

Actually, none of my team has.

I got them out swabbing mailboxes
all around the clock in Jersey.

I was calling to commend
you on this Bentonite thing.

Uh, Bentonite, what?

From what I understand, Iraq is...

the only country that's
used it in producing anthrax.

Uh, yeah. Well, that's
what the inspection team

- found after the war but.
- Yeah, right well...

Your USAMRIID team just found Bentonite

in the attack spores, which gives...

us a direct link between
the letters and Iraq.

Made some people on the Hill

very happy to be finally getting
some traction on this case.

Did they send over their results?

No, that's your department.

All I know is Director Mueller

just assigned us a major case number.

More teams coming on.

Investigation's officially
been dubbed Amerithrax.

Hey, Ryker...

This is a big win for us.

You've done the Bureau proud.

We're one step closer to getting
weapons of mass of destruction

out of the hands of terrorists.

- Agent Ryker.
- Excuse me, Colonel,

but your end run on the Hill

just sent us further down
a path to war with Iraq.

I wanna see this Bentonite
you say you found.

It wasn't me.

Bruce Ivins is our top anthrax man.

You should've been dealing
with him from the start.

Then I wanna talk to him.

Where is he?

Bruce is never late.
Something must've come up, but

here's his findings.

You sent info to the
Hill based on one image?

Are you kidding!

It wasn't just one
scientist. It was vetted.

It wasn't vetted by me.

This is the US Army, we
don't report to the FBI.

And none of us appreciate you
circulating a suspect profile.

Asking our microbiologists
to turn on each other.

Is that the Bureau's idea of teamwork?

I see what could be the
presence of Bentonite.

But this photo isn't detailed enough

to show whether the substance

is covering the spores
or embedded in them.

Embedded means someone took an
existing sample out of a lab.

And coated means it was
intentionally manufactured

to be more airborne, to be
a weapon of mass destruction.

That's what the inspectors
found in Iraq in '92.

But this photo, it's not conclusive
enough in either direction.

It's the best picture we can take

with the equipment with have.

Well, before our soldiers
go on a wild goose chase,

looking for biological weapons,

I would like to know for sure.

When the President says go,

look out, it's hammer time.

We are gonna make the world safer.

American and coalition forces

are in the early stages of
military operations to disarm Iraq,

to free its people,

and to defend the
world from grave danger.

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This is not about a single person.

The President has declared
war on international terrorism.

If we stick to the President's course,

we're against terrorists everywhere,

we're against any country
that supports them.

To go in to Iraq

and the suspicion about anthrax in Iraq,

and that this administration
doesn't wanna say the word Iraq

for fear of having to go in.

This administration is not afraid

of saying the word Iraq.

Iraq's been on the terrorist
list for, for years.

We've got to move on to phase two

and, in my opinion,
that's Saddam Hussein.

He, he hates us.

I have a feeling inside myself

that he may have had
some connection to, uh,

September 11th and
perhaps this anthrax scare.

The reports that the
anthrax could have been, uh,

tampered with by this
Bentonite that is Iraqi based.

I know that serious people are looking

at both of those matters seriously.

Ryker.

You've got a lot of contacts
with counterterrorism.

Good morning. Nice to see you.

I need to find someone
on the ground in Iraq

in the last five years.

Iraq? That is a 180.

- You're gonna bench my lone wolf angle?
- No, that's not what I'm doing.

I'm not pulling my profile.

- I'm not asking you to.
- Good,

because we've already got two hits,

one in Texas, one in Seattle.

I've got field agents interviewing.

Can you just, just

have a seat or go get me a
cup of coffee or something?

Look, there's a chance that the spores

have been weaponized with Bentonite,

and if that's true, we're gonna
have to admit to the powers that be

that they know something
more than we do,

which is that Iraq is
harboring biological weapons.

And Al-Qaeda.

Okay, look let's just
say that, that it's true.

You told me that the Ames
strain came from the US.

It did, but it has been shipped to labs

- around the world for research.
- How many?

We're still trying to
figure that out exactly,

but who knows how lax the
security is at any of them?

Some scientists could,
could've been recruited

or even blackmailed by Al-Qaeda.

Who smuggled it into
the Iraq, weaponized it,

brought it into the US,

dropped it in the mail
in New Jersey, I mean,

that sounds, it sounds a little messy.

I have no agenda.

It's my job just to follow the science,

which I admit right
now is less than solid.

Okay. All right.

Well, what kind of "intellectual
asset" are we looking for exactly?

Anyone who was part of
the UN inspection team

after Desert Storm.

- Hi.
- You've seen it, right?

- Seen what?
- The FBI profile, the "Anthrax Killer?"

Apparently, they sent it to everybody
in the microbiology community.

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Like we're crazy enough
to work with dry anthrax,

they think we have a
death wish or something.

This is poppycock.

They're treating us
like we're the enemy.

They shouldn't do that.

We're the heroes. They even said that.

It's gonna make us all
suspicious of each other,

as if this place isn't tense enough.

You know, Jody,

if anyone tries to tap
our phones or computers,

turn this into some witch-hunt,

there are ways to protect ourselves.

Yeah, that is a good point,
but if you think about it...

Excuse me. Dr. Ruiz?

Gabriel. Please.

Dani spoke highly of you.

Uh, thank you for taking the time.

She tells me that you were
part of an inspection team

looking for a bio and
chem weapons in Iraq.

I've been off the inspection
circuit for a few years,

- but I'll give you whatever help I can.
- I appreciate that.

I've got USAMRIID rattling cages

- in high places.
- Uh, careful now,

- I did train under some of their guys.
- Ah. Well,

there are just a few
quick triggers out there

linking the anthrax
attack spores to Iraq

using a shaky Bentonite connection.

Uh, we did find spores in the soil

less than an hour's drive from Baghdad.

And you can confirm
that they used Bentonite

to aerosolize the powder?

Bacillus thuringiensis.

Claimed they coated the anthrax with it

to make it easily
dispersible "Insecticide," but

we all know that just
made it highly airborne,

- deadly as hell.
- Huh.

But Iraq never had
the Ames strain, right?

- Never.
- Okay.

So, then, what are the
chances that the Iraqis

somehow got their
hands on Ames and then,

used their aerosolizing
process to weaponize it?

I guess possible in theory,

but the obvious question is why would
they jump through all those hoops

when they already have their own strain?

The Vollum strain.

That's what I was thinking.

The problem is none of
that seems to hold water

with the suits on the Hill.

Any other details you can remember

about the spores you found over there?

I can do better than that.

I brought back a little
souvenir from Iraq.

It's in the fridge.

All right.

Show time.

Spores from the Leahy
letter on the left,

Iraqi spores on the right.

The powders are nothing alike.

Sir, the reports
USAMRIID were premature.

The anthrax in the attack
letters did not come from Iraq.

We need to get this to the West Wing.

Uh, let's touch base tomorrow.

Mat, you can't be serious.

It's blasted all over the media.

An independent lab confirmed it
and I saw it with my own eyes.

This anthrax strain
is nothing like the one

we saw in Iraq after the war.

Well, if not Iraq, then who?

I'm hearing a lot about who
didn't give anthrax to Al-Qaeda.

- How about one lead on who did?
- Look,

there are probably reasons above
my pay grade to target Iraq.

Yeah, well... One being that
Hussein is a inhumane dictator.

Absolutely.

But if our troops are gonna
get shipped off to war...

Thin ice, Ryker.

It's not your neck they'll be coming for

if you turn out to be wrong.

30 years of crossing
every T, dotting every I...

Then let the science speak for itself.

Send this up the chain.

I first met Bruce Ivins at
Chapel Hill 25 years ago.

We were doctoral students.

It didn't take me very long

to realize that there was
something different about him.

Hold.

Wow.

Hey, I'm Bruce.

Bruce Ivins. What's your name?

And from that moment on,

Bruce was there to greet me,

every day.

So, he was an odd duck
who came on too strong.

That about right?

I got to say,

none of these points to Mr.
Ivins being our anthrax killer.

It's just, I...

Uh, I don't know.

You called us, remember?

There's a side to Bruce.

It's, uh, it's not easy
for me to explain. Um,

but it's an unsettling side
that only a few women have seen.

But I learned to keep my distance.

I started sneaking into the lab
through the basement to avoid him.

It didn't work.

Even after I was married and moved away,

he would drive by my house at night,

and then one day,

on my way to work in the morning,

he left me a little surprise.

You don't know what Bruce is capable of.

Bruce?

Andrew, come on.

Okay.

Amanda, breakfast.

Come on.

- Morning, Mom.
- Good morning.

Morning.

Hi.

- Hi.
- Good morning.

How do you know when you're
in the bathroom in France?

Euro-pean.

Oh, come on.

Did you hear about the
new book on anti-gravity?

- Oh, please, Dad.
- It's impossible...

- Impossible to put down.
- Yeah, I heard that.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, nothing yet?

Why don't cannibals eat clowns?

- Huh? Because they...
- Taste funny!

- Oh, come on!
- Oh, Bruce broke the eggs.

Sorry, honey.

Another late-night drive?

Who's hungry?

Do you think I'm capable
of hurting anyone?

Well, that is an
interesting question, Bruce.

Have you been experiencing
any aggressive urges?

- Any violent thoughts?
- What? No, no. Gosh.

After the events of 9/11,

you could, "Barely contain your anger."

You told me that your job gave you
access to deadly materials such as,

"Cyanide, to poison the neighbor's dog,"

and "Ammonium nitrate to make a bomb."

You wrote that down?

Okay.

I, I wanted you to know how
much trust they put in me.

I wasn't saying I'd
do anything. I mean...

Has this been triggered
by your suspicions

- regarding the fellow scientist that you saw?
- No, no, no, no, no, no,

forget what I said.
It wasn't Simon Kurz.

He's just not the guy. I was mistaken.

I think I was confused,
and I, I, I might have,

I had another one of those
out-of-body experiences.

Describe it for me.

Well, it was the same as last time.

I get this tingling down
both of my arms, and I'm...

And I get a little dizzy, and I
have this funny taste in my mouth.

Was it metallic, the taste?

I found a poem

that I sent to a friend, but
I, I don't remember writing it.

And the other day, I
was sitting at my desk,

but at the same time, I was
standing a few feet away,

watching myself work.
It's like I'm a passenger

on the ride of my own life, you know?

Nothing like living in
the first-person singular

and the third-person
singular, am I right?

Dissociative experiences
are not unusual,

given your aggressive
regimen of medication.

I'm gonna recommend that
we adjust your dosage.

Okay?

Okay. Yeah.

Bruce,

are you able to confide
these experiences to anyone?

Well, Jody and Mara.

Okay, Jody is your co-worker?

We share a lab.

Mara was our third amigo.

Till she hot-footed it off to
medical school and abandoned us.

I tell them things
I'd never tell anyone.

I'm blessed that way.

So, Ivins had a thing
for sorority girls?

He had a "thing" for the
women of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Bruce had been rejected

by one of my sorority
sisters. I don't know who.

Maybe she laughed at him or

maybe she was as nice as can
be, and simply not interested.

Bruce harbored a great
deal of anger toward Kappas.

Wouldn't be the first college boy

to have crushes on a
house full of young women.

He was a grown man,

a doctoral student,

and he never grew out of his obsession.

This wasn't an innocent infatuation.

It was invasive.

Bruce was always pestering
me with questions about

KKG initiation rituals. He
wanted to get a cypher, he...

A what?

It's a secret book

with a decoding key
for all the KKG rituals.

That's a real thing?

I take it you never
joined a sorority, Agent?

Look, it was as if Bruce
wanted to be one of us.

I was always shocked by how much
he knew about our secret rituals,

and I never could figure out
where he got his information.

For someone who claims not to have been

close friends with him, you
sure know a lot about Mr. Ivins.

He didn't give me much of a choice.

Bruce can snap just like that,

into a darker version of himself.

A Bruce that's prone to
secret acts of vengeance

with the most obscure reasons.

One day, my dissertation
notebook went missing.

All of my experiments,

my data for years,

all the work I desperately
needed to complete my doctorate.

Have you seen my notebook right there?

It felt as if my life had been stolen.

I ran from lab to lab
like a crazy person.

No one had seen my notebook.

And then suddenly, I knew who had it.

- Hi.
- Hello.

My notebook is, is, uh, missing...

- Are you asking if I took it?
- No.

No. Uh, uh, have you seen it?

I would never betray a KKG sister.

Of course.

Thanks.

Soon the clues started to come.

One was an acrostic.

A poem in which the
first letter of every line

spelled out a new message.

T, T, E, R.

Oh, I was right.

In this case, there
was a second acrostic

hidden within the first.

Writing down the opening
letters of each line

and then reading them backward revealed

the "secret location"
of my missing notebook.

Ah, here's something.

- Well, is this your notebook?
- An anthrax expert,

secret codes,

a man who plays twisted
games with people

using the US mail system?

Does that not sound familiar to you?

It's positive.

Positive. Agent Moore! It's positive!

Hey, excuse me, please, stop.

We need to clear the area.

Just move across the
street here, people.

Just cross the street, please.

Thank you very much.

I don't have knowledge of a direct link

of the anthrax incidents

to, uh, to the enemy.

But I wouldn't put it past them.

"I wouldn't put it past them."

- He's talking about the Bentonite in Iraq?
- Who knows.

What about the research
you did with Ruiz?

Didn't you push that up the ladder?

Copak passed it on, but clearly,
it didn't get enough traction.

We can just put Ruiz in
front of the press here

- and prove them wrong.
- No. See, the thing is,

all the scientists had to sign
a non-disclosure agreement.

Ryker.

We found the mailbox.

How sure are you it's
the one our killer used?

It's the only one that tested positive.

Where is it?

Uh, 10 Nassau Street.

It's about a block from
the entrance to Princeton.

Any security cameras on that street?

Uh-uh. Yeah, there's a bunch all
over the campus, but not here.

The letters, they have
microscopic scratch marks

from the glass of the
photocopier that the sender used.

I know this is daunting,
but we need to find

every photocopier in the area.

The libraries, Kinko's, we can
match the scratches on the glass.

Start canvassing.

Look for any professor
with an axe to grind

who could have given
the spores to Al-Qaeda.

Got it.

Chris, I gotta call you back.

The envelopes that were used,

they were a pre-stamped version

that were only sold in post offices.

Correct.

I'm sorry, I'm not following
your logic right now.

What if there were microscopic printing
irregularities on the envelopes?

And what if we could match them
to the machines that made them,

and then track the shipment logs

to follow where the batches of envelopes

with those specific
printing imperfections,

- and where they were sent?
- Okay. We could pinpoint

the place of sale.

We could look through
all the security footage.

And then track credit card purchases.

Leading us to the terrorist
operative who bought them.

Or the highly-educated
straight white Christian male

over 30 acting alone.

Okay, I'll load these up on the truck.

And then we'll go ahead and start decon.

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The problem is, she
doesn't have any proof.

We just got her word that
Ivins defaced her property or

took the notebook.

It could have been anybody.

She seemed pretty credible to me.

Well, maybe he stuck on her.

Maybe she led him on. Maybe he
was slow in getting the message,

doesn't make him a killer.

What should I do with the report?

It really seems like
there's something there.

Mark the lead as covered. Just file it.

Dearest Mara,

I hope you enjoyed my
poem about the two Bruces.

I have spoken to my therapist,

who posits my current sensitivities

may be related to my medications.

I have never been able to
really confide in other people.

That's why you and
Jody mean so much to me.

Congratulations on your soccer game.

Come to USAMRIID for a visit and
bring your anthrax strains with you.

Your devoted friend...

Saddam.

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It's come to my attention
that you and Mara

have been emailing each
other about me behind my back.

And I think it's just plain mean.

- Bruce.
- It's hard to understand, because

I've never spoken about her

or you other than in glowing terms.

Thanks for meeting us, Inspector.

Dust and debris collects
on the printing plates,

ink grows ever so slightly fainter
toward the end of a print run.

Is it possible to use any
microscopic flaws in the envelopes

to track them back to
the place of purchase?

I suppose.

Blue Eagle envelopes
are sold in packs of 500.

Oh, you can eliminate any envelopes
printed before March 1st, 2001.

- Why is that?
- Postage?

Price jumped by one cent.

Okay.

Any other way to narrow it down?

The attack envelopes used our new ink,

it's a brighter blue in the eagle wing,

a more vibrant gray in
the denomination number.

That reduces the number of envelopes

in the runnings to roughly, I'd say,

31 million?

To the naked eye, all pre-stamped
envelopes look the same.

But if you look at the
printing imperfections here,

and here, and here,

these ink discrepancies,

they're all from an actual
envelope we have in evidence.

We recalled the envelopes
from the post offices

that sold them, but we
ran into a roadblock.

Several had already sold out.

Then what good does that do us?

If we replicate the missing print runs,

the printer still has the
same plate, stock, even ink.

The same irregularity
should appear in a pattern,

and we can narrow down which
envelopes we're looking for,

which post offices they were shipped to.

Basically, bring us right to
where the killer bought them.

I got approval for more
Amerithrax teams to come onboard

and you're honestly asking for

a quarter-million to
print some damn envelopes?

The White House did say whatever
we need to catch this guy.

"Guy?"

Toretti got her claws in you now?

Sir, we just learned earlier today

that the only labs
outside the US with Ames

are in the UK and Canada.

Now, we vetted every
single person in those labs,

whoever sent these
letters got their anthrax

from an American lab.

What's it called in
football, when the quarterback

throws a long forward
pass in desperation?

That's not what this is.

If this isn't a Hail Mary,

what would you call it?

- It's a controlled experiment.
- Oh, okay.

You thought I was crazy for seeing
a code in the attack letters?

Just admit it.

You're out on a limb.

I'm impressed.

You don't give up, do you?

There is no place for you
in the Bureau if you do.

I would wager every last penny I have

based on those very tense jaw muscles,

this is a first for
you, summa cum laude.

I bet your credit score is way over 800.

Okay, fine.

It shouldn't be any secret
that when you're the only kid

in school who doesn't fit the pattern,

especially back in the 70s, and now,

you're the only guy in your
department who breaks the mold, yeah,

you spend a lot of useless energy

being the poster child
for following the rules.

But I'm guessing you're
familiar with that.

Working on holidays,

turning in every report early while
the title-jumper at the next desk

golfs with the boss on
Fridays? Yeah, maybe I do.

This is the first time I've
actually put my job on the line,

and I've never wanted anything
more than to catch these guys.

They said it's gonna take all night, so.

I'm gonna hang here for a while.

Yeah, suit yourself.

Um...

For what it's worth,

you are doing the right thing here.

That only matters if we find something.

* What tomorrow could bring *

* When today doesn't really know *

* Doesn't really know *

* I'm all out of love *

* I'm so lost without you *

* I know you were right *

* Believing for so long *

* I'm all out of love *

* What am I without you *

* I can't be too late to
say that I was so wrong *

Pass it to me, let's go.

Oops.

Pass it, pass it.

Get them, Mara!

Woo!

Go, Mara, get them!

Get them, Mara! Woo!

Get in there, Mara. You got it.

Get the ball, go, Mara!

Yeah, you got it.

That's you, Mara, woo!

Hey, it's me, oh.

Hey, she's wide open.

Wow.

Sorry. You okay?

Back it up, give her room.

Back it up, guys. Give her space.

They found an exact
match with the printing.

This is the post office
that sold the envelope?

- Yeah.
- You did it.

So, Jersey is 200 miles away,

that's seven hours by car round trip.

Okay.

It's far enough to avoid
immediate suspicion,

- but it's an easy drive.
- Mm-hmm.

We'll check the toll
booths for any cameras,

but our guy is pretty smart.

Avoiding the tollways would
add about an hour to his trip.

Mm-hmm.

If he leaves before midnight,
he's back home by morning.

Oh, boy, it's just middle
of nowhere Maryland.

- This is an entirely new area to canvass.
- Maybe not.

I got something to show you.

Take a look at that building.

What is that?

That's USAMRIID.

One of the 16 labs in the
US that has the Ames strain.

So, if our guy bought the
envelopes here, that means...

That the anthrax came from

the most respected
Biodefense lab in the country.

Someone in that building is our killer.

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