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Previously on The Hot Zone Anthrax.

The person who called
911, Thomas Morris,

he's dead, so is Joe Kercy.

This investigation now falls
under Operation Noble Eagle.

I'm forwarding you Bruce's
email, so you be careful.

When Bruce gets into these moods,

he sees everyone around him as a threat.

So tell me more about
your lone wolf theory.

All signs point to our perp being

a highly-educated American
citizen with scientific expertise.

Bruce can snap.

You don't know what Bruce is capable of.

So what should I do with the report?

Just file it.

The results came back, it's Ames.

Ames strain?

I didn't think it existed outside
of high security research labs.

It doesn't.

This administration is not afraid

of saying the word Iraq.

Iraq has been on the
terrorist list for years.

That's USAMRIID, one of
only 16 labs in the US

that has the Ames strain which
means the anthrax came from

the most respected
biodefense lab in the country.

Sometimes I go places.

Bad neighborhoods in Baltimore,

hoping somebody will pick a fight.

No one's cleaning up the streets.

There's no justice out there.

Justice?

Are you saying that you
carry a loaded weapon?

Bruce, in those moments
are you considering

doing bodily harm to someone?

People harm people for
bad reasons all the time.

If I wanted to do real damage,

every day I work with deadly diseases

no one's never even heard
of, USAMRIID's full of them.

One vial from my lab,

I could contaminate the water supply,

wipe out a whole city.

Obviously I'm not that person.

I wanna help people and save
lives like my anthrax vaccine.

Why don't they see that?

Who?

The FBI, they subpoenaed
anthrax samples from us.

Keep poking on our labs like we're
the suspects, us, the good guys,

when there's terrorists out there.

I'll tell you, Lisa,

senators here on Capitol
Hill are frustrated

by the FBI's sleepy response
to the anthrax attacks.

Five Americans have lost their lives

and yet no terrorists are in custody.

I'll make sure we get a
call on the Southwest today.

- What's going on?
- Copak's adding two more teams

- to the investigation.
- Miller and Reilly,

you'll join Sykes' team as well.

Senate just voted to
send our troops into Iraq,

people's husbands,
sons, wives, daughters

will be risking their
lives to fight terrorists.

We owe it to them to find the
terrorists here on our soil.

They've been out on
the streets too long.

We need results.

Everyone, run down your own
leads, stay in your lanes,

too easy to influence
each other, pull focus.

Whoever gets me a smoking gun first

I'm shifting all
resources to their team.

America needs to see someone in
handcuffs dragged into Guantanamo.

I need to talk to the head of the labs.

Chris, why don't you
pull access records?

Okay. I'll flag anybody who
was working unusual hours

in BSL three and four around
the time of the mailing.

Yeah, start with the day after 9/11.

- After?
- Yeah.

The powder in the
attack letter is cruder

than in the second batch
like it was made in a hurry,

probably in response to the towers.

You're turning the microscope
on the same scientist

you're asking help solve this.

Got everybody on edge.

Dr. Livingston, why did
you team drag its feet

submitting samples under subpoena?

Do you have any idea how overtaxed

this place has been since 9/11?

I got a pretty good idea.

Our samples should be arriving

at your repository in Arizona today.

Other labs submitted to
the subpoena days ago.

Yeah.

I've spoken to some of those labs.

They don't have agents running
all over their facility.

Why do you think that is?

We wouldn't be here if
we didn't have evidence

leading us back to USAMRIID.

We're gonna need to see
psych evals on all personnel

with access to level three
and level four hot suites.

Psych evaluations? I
mean, we don't do those.

You're telling me you have
scientists working with

every lethal pathogen on this planet,

and no one ever thought to
monitor their mental stability?

Okay, well, then we need
every personnel file.

I've got another one,

left the lab a little late,

entered the hot suite alone,

stayed for two hours.

Add the name.

I'll go see if Dani has
flagged anyone on the list.

You delayed submitting your
anthrax samples for weeks.

Arizona says you kept calling

for clarification on how to submit.

- So?
- So, it's pretty simple, Bruce.

I sent in the samples. They
should have them by now.

You used the wrong slants.
They won't accept it.

Because those generic
slants they want a malarkey,

- mine are better.
- They don't care, Bruce.

Well, they should care.

Does no one give a darn
about quality anymore?

Just follow their protocol, Bruce.

You're making us look like
we've got something to hide.

I've told Arizona to
dispose of your submissions.

We've promised that you would comply

and re-submit right away.

I'm not surprised, Adya,

since you've been best buddies

- with every FBI agent who's walked in here.
- Jesus Christ.

I didn't wanna be the one to tell you

but people are beginning to
wonder what side you're on.

We're all on the same side, Bruce.

We should all be careful.

These are not glorified
cops with badges.

Some of these agents are scientists.

And if you don't submit,

they will sweep in and do it for you.

How's your anxiety?

The Valium should help
get a handle on that.

Have you noticed a difference
with the new dosage?

We're under attack!

There's no meds that will fix that!

We're here to handle how you
react to those situations.

And was Baltimore the only
long drive you've taken lately

or have there been others?

We're almost out of time.

You missed group therapy twice.

Were you on one of your drives?

I went to see Mara.

You said she lived in upstate New York.

Why did you go see her?

I must have been really mad.

Did you have your gun?

What did you do, Bruce?

I might have put something in wine.

But I didn't give it to her.

I realized...

It's like that poem,

and all those emails,

I find after I've sent
them and I don't remember.

This is all confidential, isn't it?

Yes.

Unless I feel that you are
becoming a threat to yourself,

or to others.

Thank you so much for agreeing
to sit down with me today.

I understand how disruptive this is.

And I know you guys are all
professionals protecting America

and it's exactly what this
interview is going to prove today.

So let's start by talking a little bit

about some of your coworkers.

Tell me about Dr. Kurz.

Does he have any connections overseas,

maybe the Middle East?

Not that I know of.

He is very dedicated,

doesn't joke around much.

What's it like, uh,
working for Dr. Livingston?

Do you ever hear her
criticize the government?

Well, no more than anyone else nowadays.

Not sure, uh, honestly it took
a while to get to know her.

She's made some amazing
breakthroughs here though.

I have heard nothing but
good things about, uh,

Dr. Ivins.

Ivins, what can you say?

Bruce is Bruce. He's
always quick with the joke,

he's a seriously good researcher.

I had to cut this tree down in
my yard and who shows up on a,

on a Saturday with a chainsaw.

Helped me out with
some vaccine research.

And nobody has a better sense of humor.

I have heard nothing but
good things about Bruce Ivins.

Bruce, he's...

kind of a...

I mean...

Um, he's, uh, how do I say it?

An odd duck?

I don't know what to tell you.

Have you guys come across Bruce Ivins?

Uh, yes, he was on the
late-night access list.

Why, did he say something?

I haven't interviewed him yet but

it's more what everybody isn't saying.

The men really love this guy but
there's something with the women,

and I've talked to several

and he makes them really uncomfortable.

Okay.

So he's not exactly
smooth with the ladies,

- how does that link him to terrorism?
- Well, it doesn't.

I'm just looking for
any behavior that flags.

Did you guys get into the emails yet?

Yeah, they're scattered in there.

We have 20,000 of them.

Server pulls them in chronologically.

Be my guest.

Sykes, you up to speed
yet on Amerithrax?

I've been following it for
months, sir, glad to be on board.

- Mm-hmm.
- I just, uh,

I'm wondering if first team
isn't maybe veering off-course?

Heard Ryker's been taking
up a lot of resources and...

We tend to be more direct
within these walls, Sykes.

What do you got?

A tip from some sources overseas.

I know when they were record sniffing.

Take a look.

If you see something there,

I wanna head up this team.

You could put Ryker
back on petri dish duty.

I think I just found something.

What's it say?

"I'm a little dream
self, short and stout.

I'm the other half of
Bruce when he lets me out."

Is that good enough for you?

Can I do a preliminary inquiry now?

Sorry, Helen.

It's okay, I'll clean it up.

It should be fine.

I love it. You too?

Yeah, me too.

That lone wolf profile you sent
to the microbiology community.

- Yeah.
- Remember that hit we got in Seattle?

Her name is Dr. Nancy Haigwood.

Thought that was a dead end.

Yeah, so did the
superior who shelved it.

But there was a newer agent
who did the right thing

and tried to send it up
the chain but got shot down.

The point is, Dr. Haigwood
claims that Bruce Ivins

stalked her in grad school,

moved down the block from her,

and even vandalized her house.

And get this, at one point,

her dissertation notebook was stolen.

And whoever took it left
a trail of clues for her

to find it using a USPS mailbox.

The problem is,

- all of this is anecdotal.
- Oh, come on.

He screwed up his
repository submissions.

He's clocking late night lab hours...

- Mm-hmm. All at the time
- Alone.

of the attack letters but
that doesn't get us into court.

Well, I took some of the emails home

for little bedtime
reading, no comments please.

This one,

"My shrink says I have a
paranoid personality disorder,

an early sign of schizophrenia,

I am becoming a person
I do not want to be."

No, what we need is a
direct link to the letters.

The language in his
emails is eerily similar.

There's another one
here to an old coworker,

"Osama Bin Laden has now decreed
death on all Jews and Americans."

Those letters were
published in all the papers.

He could just be mirroring the language.

No, look at the date, September 26.

We didn't find the first attack
letters until three weeks later.

Dammit, Bruce!

You scared me.

Now step back, they're anthrax spores.

They have you working on
the vaccine, don't they?

That used to be my job.

A lot of changes around here.

It's okay.

I'm the one that made
you lose your grip.

I'll clean it up.

Does Copak know you're
circling USAMRIID?

Do you even have a
suspect or you're just

throwing a little gasoline on the weeds

to see if any snakes
comes slithering out?

Eyes on your own page, Ryker.

We're all supposed
to follow our own lead

so we don't influence each other.

That doesn't mean pitching a circus tent

in the middle of someone
else's investigation.

No one thought this was
possible but you can see,

plain as day, different colonies of Ames

with identifiable characteristics.

How did you make the colonies morph?

It wasn't intentional.

It was one of our
ongoing anthrax projects,

a colleague got busy,

the cultures overgrew.

We never considered
incubation time as a factor.

Arizona's been trying
to sequence the genomes

all this time and you
just stumbled upon this?

Even with all these minds and brains,

accidents are often how the
biggest breakthroughs happen.

If we can identify a
specific morph in the spores

of the attack letters then match
it to the subpoenaed samples,

we've got our smoking gun.

Once I can get back into the BSL4 lab,

I will forward you my findings.

What do you mean back into the lab?

Well, we had a spill.

Bruce surprised me,

I didn't see him so
I knocked over a tray.

Wait. Dr. Ivins was there?

He's been pretty edgy lately,

sees me as a traitor for
working with the Bureau.

Did he leave the lab with you?

No, he took it upon
himself to decon the area

and some nearby offices.

- Including his?
- Yeah.

Brought in a whole team.

It's a little overboard if
you ask me but that's Bruce.

Our number one suspect just
cleaned up his own crime scene.

I got to bring in Ivins tonight.

What? No.

We don't have enough
ammo to confront him.

He could literally be
destroying evidence as we speak.

Let me just try to dig up
something from his past,

something that can push
his buttons, uh, a motive.

Go ahead and track down his
childhood sled if you want.

If he knows we're circling him,

the cleanup might not end here.

He could head home and
destroy anything incriminating.

We may only have one
shot at a confession here

and he is not primed for it.

And if we give him more time,

we may lose any chance
we have at nailing him.

He's making rash moves,

I'm ordering a polygraph.

If you're determined to do this,

the way in has to be
through his hero's complex.

He wants to prove how smart he is.

- We get him talking...
- It's not my first interrogation,

I got it.

Lebanon PD, how can I help?

Agent Toretti FBI here,

I am looking for some information
on a former resident, Bruce Ivins.

I'd be interested in anything
fro his early years in Ohio,

should narrow your search
down to '50s and '60s.

I'll see what I can find.

Okay, um, I'll actually hold.

No problem.

- Dr. Ivins?
- Yeah.

I hear you're one of us.

A microbiologist.

I am.

A microbiologist in the FBI.

Neat.

Uh, before they
administer the polygraph,

I thought I'd ask you a few questions

about the samples you submitted to us.

Oh, yeah. Well,

I already got an
earful about my misstep.

So you intentionally submitted

inadequate anthrax
samples under subpoena?

Yes.

But only because the slants you
guys requested were inferior.

And the weeks leading up
to September 18th, 2001, uh,

the postmark date of
the first attack letter,

did you work extra hours,

unaccompanied hours in the BSL4 lab

with Bacillus Anthracis Ames?

After 9/11 everyone at
USAMRIID was working late.

You recognize this post office?

Yeah.

Did you ever purchase
pre-stamped envelopes

at this post office?

A couple of times I guess.

What about this email,

referencing anthrax and Saddam Hussein?

You read my personal emails?

You know that was a joke?

What about these?

Did you do this, Dr. Ivins?

You talked to Nancy?

How is a stupid thing that I
did 20 years ago at all relevant?

Okay. Fine, yes.

When I was younger,

I had obsessive behaviors linked

to sororities specifically,
Kappa Kappa Gamma,

of which Nancy Haigwood was an alumna.

Is it peculiar? Yes.

Can I explain it? Nope.

Happy?

You know, that's not
the only thing I did.

What else, Dr. Ivins?

I let myself into a sorority house,

two actually.

I stole their ritual book
and a cypher to decode it.

No one ever suspected me.

But I didn't hurt anyone.

See, I'm not hiding anything.

Aren't you?

Didn't you email a colleague,

another friend on numerous
occasions about a different, Bruce?

Saying that you were concerned
about your psychological state.

Did you ever experience
extreme anxiety, dissociation?

I know what you're doing.

Look,

I may not be the most popular guy.

There might even be a few
people who have said I'm odd

behind my back.

But does that make me a killer?

I mean,

when are you guys gonna
realize I'm here to help you?

Yes. Fine, yes.

How'd you even end up doing this,

a microbiologist in the FBI?

Pathogen biology is a
pretty competitive field.

We can't all be the ones making

scientific breakthroughs,
I suppose, but.

I wanted to serve my country.

Is that what you tell yourself?

Because I can't imagine

- going in and see...
- Ryker's already burned through

- most of what we've got on him.
- Of wearing a suit at a desk.

- You know, silver bullets.
- That's not for everybody.

Oh, okay.

Maybe a splinter,

enough to irritate him
and get his walls down.

I am curious, though.

What went wrong with your
dissertation, Agent Ryker?

Mistaking a eukaryotic
cell for a prokaryotic?

I knew plenty of guys
like you in college.

- Is that right?
- Oh, yeah.

Ivins is feeling empowered.

I can tell half a dozen in
the halls around the labs...

He should get him to open
up and if he loosens up

then maybe I can get some
answers about his past.

This guy is just, you know, smart.

But it didn't matter
how hard they studied,

they just didn't have the imagination.

It does take a unique blend of talents,

plus a willingness to skate on the edge

which I'm guessing is difficult for you.

But hey,

would a sane person tie a key
to a kite in a thunderstorm?

You know that Franklin didn't actually

fly the kite in that storm, right?

He had his son do it.

Even noble people do
unforgivable things, don't they?

You're missing my point.

Are you familiar with
the Stentor Roeselii?

It's a single-celled
ciliate micro-organism

capable of making
intelligent, complex decisions

all without the help of
a central nervous system.

Zero support.

No other organism on earth
has such an innate gift.

Is that how you see yourself?

Some sort of gifted Stentor Roeselii?

What does that make guys like me?

Plasmodial slime mold?

Think about it,

I know most Americans
aren't paying attention,

but you guys had signs,

that 9/11 was gonna happen.

Flight lessons,

a warning of an attack on New York.

And now, you can't figure
out who sent these letters.

All the hours you put in and
you just can't measure up.

So instead,

you are harassing
hard-working patriots like me.

Have you even done your
homework, Agent Ryker?

I mean, what about Thompson,

Benjadi,

or even Kurz?

There are plenty of
people with my same access.

But they didn't point the finger
at their colleagues, did they?

You're the only doing that.

Here's what I think.

- No. No. No, no.
- Just like the clue

you left Haigwood to
find her notebook...

I think you wanna be found out.

This is some sort of
twisted experiment, isn't it?

Uh, sorry, Agent Ryker.

- Sorry I'm late.
- Oh, it's okay.

We have a few more questions to go.

Good, I have another
one, if that's all right.

- Mr. Ivins...
- Doctor.

It's Dr. Ivins.

And you are who again?

Oh, I'm just another hunk of slime mold.

Doctor Ivins,

in your own words, can you
describe your childhood for me?

I don't see what that has
to do with any of this.

Maybe it's better we focus
on one event in particular.

The police responded to
a domestic disturbance

to your house.

Did you witness your mother's attack?

This was an accident.

Neighbors described your mother

as unpredictable,
irrational, and violent.

You were there, weren't you, Bruce?

Are we almost done here?

Childhood trauma can have a
lasting effect on a person.

Did your mother ever hurt you, Bruce?

My mother loved me.

She loved me very much.

Now, Doctor Ivins,

you understand that your
appearance here today

and taking this polygraph
test is voluntary?

Yes.

To establish a baseline,

is your name Bruce Edwards Ivins?

Yes.

Were you born in Lebanon, Ohio?

Yes.

Hmm. Okay.

Now, we are going to run

something called a stim test.

To measure my adrenal response.

I'm gonna need you to lie

when you answer my next question.

That will give us indicators to look for

if you lie in response
to a later question.

But I'm not gonna lie to you.

Are you a time traveler?

Sorry.

Yes, I am a time traveler.

Last question, Doctor Ivins.

In the fall of 2001, did you
mail letters containing Anthrax

via the United States Postal Service?

No.

You get any hits off him?

We got a good read on the
baseline for comparison.

Where did he lie?

Some lines indicated elevated stress,

but no answer showed deception.

What about when you asked if
he mailed the attack letters?

No, it looks like he's not your guy.

So,

I told him exactly what I thought.

That he wasn't supporting
me in my decision.

I used exactly the
words that we discussed

and you know what?

He shut his trap for the
rest of the night. It worked.

- Oh.
- That's really great to hear.

Yeah.

Bruce?

Bruce?

Would you like to tell
us about your week?

Yeah, it was wonderful.

Very productive.

Ryker, I made some
calls and it's debatable.

It, it's not the
easiest to trick a poly.

- Unless he's a complete sociopath.
- Hmm.

What's your gut say?

I think he felt like he
had the upper hand with you.

That might have put him at ease

and thrown his vitals off.

So, you're saying I screwed up?

No, it was a solid tactic,

but I think it is safe to say
that your cracks were showing

through that perfectly
pressed suit of yours.

All right, Sykes, what do you got?

Who the hell is that?

Steven Hatfill received his
medical training in Africa.

Hatfill just happened to
be on the ground in Rhodesia

during the most deadly Anthrax
outbreak in recent history.

He trained first responders
on bioweapon threats,

which would include anthrax.

Do you have a direct link
between Hatfill and the letters?

It says right here he's a virologist.

A virus guy, not bacteria.

About his science background,

Mr. Hatfill claimed to have a
degree that there's no record of.

And to be a part of a
royal medical society

that hasn't heard of him.

A few people in this room have r�sum�s

that look better than reality.

You can't just pick up
anthrax at a local drugstore.

Do we have proof that
he had access to it?

Actually, Hatfill did work at USAMRIID.

For two years.

Now, we don't know yet what
Hatfill had access to then,

but we do know that he tried to
get higher security clearances.

One of which was suspended before 9/11.

And if he wasn't
handling deadly bacteria,

wanna tell me why he was taking Cipro

at the time the attack
letters were mailed?

All right. Our top suspect is Hatfill.

Ryker, I'm putting you on Sykes' team.

He's short a science guy.

Does that include me?

No, he's already got
a behavioral analyst.

Head up to the fifth
floor for reassignment.

You too, Agent Moore.

- Well done.
- Thank you, sir.

I'm staying on Ivins.

Really?

I mean, the guy passed his
polygraph like a valedictorian.

They don't have any more on Hatfill

than we do on Ivins and
the science doesn't add up.

But, you know, if they
make Hatfill the target,

we are gonna catch hell
for veering off course.

No, I'll be the one to catch hell

because I'm the only
one who is reassigned.

All right. I'm in.

What's the plan?

What do you think about
seeing if one of the people

that Bruce confided in,

emailed, would be
willing to contact him?

I don't think he's
gonna confess like that,

but it is worth a shot.

Chris, I need you to surveil him.

See what he does in his downtime.

Especially if he thinks he
sailed through the polygraph,

- he might make a misstep we can use.
- Okay.

And what about you?

Looks like I'm stuck playing science guy

for Sykes's wild goose chase.

- I'll check in when I can.
- All right.

Excuse me, sir. Have you
found the Anthrax Killer?

- Is the suspect in custody, sir?
- The citizens deserve to know,

are we in danger, sir?

Another inexplicable leak to the press,

complete with a circus.

You're going to let the
public indict this guy

before we have any physical evidence?

Where is Hatfill, anyway?

Got him at a motel.

He thinks we're doing this to everyone

who's worked at USAMRIID. Come on.

Meet Tinkerbell and her cohort.

Let's give them the scent.

I just need visual confirmation
on air sample 23-Q37

from the letter that
Senator Daschle received.

Confirmed.

All right, boys.

There you go.

Okay.

All right, boy, you got
it. Find it, find it.

What do you know?

Hatfill's place.

Suit up.

So, I'm in the back of a truck
in freakin' Rhodesia, right?

And who ambushes us?

Marxist rebels.

You're kidding me.

What choice do I have?

I leap off the back of a truck,

but I forget that I have a pack on,

I fall flat on my face
and break my damn nose!

I...

I couldn't breathe right for years!

I just went under for sinus...

That's my house.

Ongoing since October.

You said routine search.

Agents in Hazmat suits
are searching the home

of the person of interest
in the Anthrax murders.

We haven't been able to get confirmation

or more details from the FBI,

but this could be the first
real breakthrough we've seen

on the Amerithrax case in months.

A new development in the
Anthrax investigation,

FBI agents today searched the home

of a former government
researcher Steven Hatfill

is a specialist in infectious diseases

who's done research for the
government since the '80s.

Got it, pulled up a photography
unit right out front, so.

Yeah. Second degree until
something's detected.

We might need to process this.

None of our rapid test
are picking up spores.

In fact, we're not finding
anything that points

to where Hatfill cultured his Anthrax.

So, what do you think?

He's got some sort of
secret lair somewhere?

No, a storage unit.

We're trying to locate
it and get a warrant.

- Agent Sykes?
- Yeah, what do you got?

It's an unpublished novel.

There's a synopsis.

It's about a terrorist who unleashes

a deadly plague on Washington D.C.

Excuse me,

where's the computer?

FBI took it.

Saved up a year to upgrade those.

Hi, Agent Ryker,

this is Dr. Livingston.

- Hmm. Yes?
- Just got off the phone

with the repository in Arizona.

They ran our new morph test
on samples from different labs,

USAMRIID's among them.

Everything came up negative.

All the USAMRIID samples?

None were a match to the Anthrax

used in the letters.

Hope that answers any questions
about the integrity of our team.

Thank you, um,

I'll, uh, I'll be in touch.

We got the warrant for the storage unit.

Holy crap.

Hatfill has a map to Camp David.

I got one here, too.

It's hand drawn, don't know by whom,

but it looks like it leads to
a remote location in the woods.

You still think we got the wrong guy?

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