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[Ted] You tell yourself that
you're the ones in control.

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They obey you, your technology,
your machines.

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But what would you do without
your car, your telephone?

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What if all the airplanes
just stopped?

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Ten years ago, computers
were expensive toys.

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Today, civilization as we know
would fall apart without them.

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You live in terror of
a blackout, a computer crash,

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a car that won't start,
a phone that doesn't ring.

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So you construct your lives,

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your whole society
so that won't happen.

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Everything revolves around
their needs, not yours.

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They buzz, you jump.
They beep, you answer.

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So ask yourself--
who's really in control?

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You or them?

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[telephone ringing]

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[paper tears]

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Hey, we just got handed
a 56-page manifesto

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from the most elusive
criminal in the world,

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something so important
he wants both The Post

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and The Times to have it,
and I just want five minutes

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in the lab to read it.

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I'll gown up, I'll look
over their shoulders.

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It's five minutes.

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There's a system here,
a process,

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a process that begins with
a complete forensic analysis --

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thorough, unhurried, uncorrupted
by meddling rubberneckers.

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Yeah, I know, but
it's a big break in the case,

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and I'm here to be
a word guy, all right?

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You are here to wait
and to do what you're told.

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A big break in this case
comes when we pull

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a fingerprint off
one of those pages,

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when we find
another Nathan R.

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A single strand of hair
would be far more valuable

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than anything
you are gonna get

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from reading
the guy's rant.

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Well, "Dad, it is I" --
he got that from reading.

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Yeah,
case friggin' closed.

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We wait for forensics --

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a month, a year,
however long it takes.

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And meanwhile, if you want
to see some real police work,

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step inside.

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Fitz, dude, you got
to check this out.

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It's friggin' sweet.

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-You're up.
-We analyzed the postal stream

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of the whole West coast,
and we traced the path

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of every Unabom letter
and package

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from the moment it dropped
into a mailbox to sorting

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and distro to final delivery,
where we identified

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two critical choke points.

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So, if Unabom decides
to keep dropping his mail

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in the Bay Area,
there is a 95% chance

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that it will be sorted through
one of these two facilities.

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Meaning that we
train those handlers and sorters

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to identify a Unabom package.

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Then we could intercept
every bomb en route.

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Never have to worry about
a Unabom package again.

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Cool, right?

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[ Scoffs ] Yeah.

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You still want to tell us about
"Dad, it is I"?

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Okay. Logistically what are we
talking about here?

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Burkhardt: Okay, so you see
945 A and 945 B?

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Those are the checkpoints
right here...

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"Dad, it is I" tells us
he likes word games and puzzles

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and that he thinks
he's smarter than everyone

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and that he can be
sneaking on by us.

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Which it's kind of true,
'cause no one here noticed

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'cause you all
underestimated him.

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He has problems
talking to people.

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That's why
he resorts to cyphers.

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And he's probably
got daddy issues.

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Now, I got all this
from a one-page letter.

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Imagine what I would get
off a 56-page manifesto.

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Oh, yeah.

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Now, that's my partner,
right there.

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You'll get your 56 pages
after forensics is finished.

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Goodbye.

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[phone rings]

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Yeah, it's Cole.

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[door opens, closes]

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What?!

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Where?

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Man: I opened a letter
from the Unabomber.

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Andy: You work at
the San Francisco Chronicle --

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you're the only person
who touched this?

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I'm just
an Editorial Intern.

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I just open letters
to the Editor as they come in.

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But I-I could have died.

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I could have been, like,
blown up or something.

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Yeah, but you weren't,
and a lot of people might be,

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so count your blessings
and shut up.

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-What do you got?
-Chief, you ready?

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It's bad. "Warning--
the terrorist group FC,

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called 'Unabomber'
by the FBI,

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is planning to blow up
an airliner out of

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Los Angeles
International Airport

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sometime during
the next six days.

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To prove that the writer
of this letters knows something

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about FC, the first two digits
of their identifying number

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are 55."

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Is that number a match?

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What's the number
he sent The Times?

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What's the authentication number
FC sent The Times?

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553254394.

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It's him.

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Trisha, get Director Freeh
on the phone,

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L.A.P.D. commissioner, FAA,
and alert Janet Reno's office,

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and make it clear we have

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a potential
mass-casualty situation.

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When a letter arrived
at a San Francisco newspaper

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threatening to blow up
an airliner...

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They say it bears all the marks
of the Unabomber.

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Federal officials believe
the sender is the terrorist

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who has been sending bombs...

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The Unabomber appears
to be ready to strike again.

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This time the threatened target
is a jetliner

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flying out of Los Angeles.

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Frederick Benjamin Isaac Wood,
FBI Wood.

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Burkhardt:
Uh-huh, but those were planes
with depleted fuel tanks.

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-Return address 549...
-Here we're talking about

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fully fueled jetliners
within a shrapnel radius

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of an explosive device
of unknown size and power.

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How much fuel is in a 747
that's about to take off?

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Phil, now tell me where we are
on refraction beam scanners.

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Burkhardt: Uh-huh. Right.
So now you see --

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No, it's got
to be mobile.

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You can't bring items into
the airport to be scanned.

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Jesus, Phil.

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You got to do it
on the runway.

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We got to just do it
plane by plane.

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-Unbelievable.
-Okay, two-one breach...

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Lucas. Hey, can I -- can
I borrow your pen, please?

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Thank you.
Two, one, three.

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We're at about 30%,
but it looks like

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all the big databases
are up and searchable.

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[ Computer whirs ]

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IRS, USPS...

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Social Security?

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[ Keyboard keys clacking ]

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[ Copier whirs,
beeping, printing ]

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[ Beeping ]

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Andy:
Do you realize what this means?

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This is gonna be the first major
case solved by computer.

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Stan: If this is the guy.

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Andy: There's no if,
it's driven by the data.

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Think about all the data the
government has on its citizens.

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Addresses, employment,
military, census.

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Eighty years of data,
250,000,000 people,

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but you can't
do anything with it

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because it's scattered across
dozens of different systems.

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That's why I built the MPP,
to bring all that data

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together in one place
for the first time.

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I mean, look, FC's
authentication number
looks a lot like

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a Social Security number, right?
So I did a search.

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And it's a match.

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The number belongs
to an Alan Meeks.

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40-year-old white male.

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Then I crunched the USPS data.

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Look where Meeks has been
living for the past 30 years.

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Oakland, San Francisco,
Salt Lake City, Sacramento.

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It's all the key locations
associated with Unabom activity.

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Where is he now?

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Andy: He's already in custody.

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They arrested
Meeks right here.

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Recognize the place?

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Jim: Yeah, Rentech -- it's the
site of the Hugh Scrutton bomb.

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Andy:
The Unabomber's first kill

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returning to the scene
of the crime.

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They're getting Meeks ready
for interrogation right now,

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and I got to know if Meeks
is the Unabomber.

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What was he looking for here?

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[ Door opens ]

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Jim: Why'd you come back?
Why this place?

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Computer rental store.

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Computers. Technology.

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What did these people
symbolize to you?

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You got to work early,

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you didn't expect them
to be there.

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10 seconds, 20 seconds --
that's all you needed.

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But she looked, and suddenly the
Unabomber was flesh and blood.

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A man, not a concept, and that's
why this scared you so much.

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That's why you stopped
for six years...

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Woman: Hey, Hugh?

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Phyllis, do you have
that invoice

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from Phoenix Games and Hobbies?

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I'm trying to get this stuff
out the door before we open.

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Phyllis?

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Are you in the bathroom?

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[ Screams ]

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Jim: ...even though it felt good
to finally succeed.

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He was reliving it,
savoring it.

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Which he never
got to do in '85
because of the eyewitness.

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Meeks is ready!
Let's get over there.

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This could
really be him.

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[Stan] "Pure wood."
Read 'em and weep, Fitzy.

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That's the Unabomber.

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[Jim] T-H-E-N.

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Thicker than water.
It's not him.

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[Stan] It's a spelling mistake.
So what?

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You get drunk,
you get a tattoo--

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I don't remember seeing
a spelling mistake

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in all those letters.

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Does this guy look like
the author of a manifesto

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entitled Industrial Society
and its Future?

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[Andy]
He sure does to me.

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Here's the thing, I don't think
you meant to kill anybody,

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I think you just wanted
to send a message, to
scare them a little.

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I definitely didn't mean to kill
anyone, that's for damn sure.

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Look, I believe you.

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But these guys, they don't.
And they're hard asses.

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So tell me how to stop LAX.
Help me help you.

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-What's LAX?
-If you make this
hard for me...

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-I didn't mean to kill anybody.
-...I will make your life

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-a living nightmare.
-I can't take back what I did,

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and I'll live with this
the rest of my life.

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I paid my debts to society.

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Wait.
Excuse me?

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Eight years,
Iowa State Pen.

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I came out a changed man.
I-I learned my lesson.

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I never drove drunk again.
Not once, I swear.

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[sighs]

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Meeks was in jail half the time
the Unabomber was active.

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How come that wasn't
in my file?

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We pulled everything
we could-- Cali, Federal.

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You're telling me
you don't have

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Iowa Bureau of Prisons
records in your MPP?

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-Didn't we do this before?
-It's just for our files.

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[sighs]

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Here.

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What's "pure wood"?

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Pure Aryan peckerwood.

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Their ain't no jungle-bunny
blood in these veins.

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Right. She's thicker
than wudder, right?

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-Thicker than what?
-Thicker than wudder.

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"Wudder"? Well, where
the hell you from?

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And who talks like that?
Y'all here that-- "wudder"?

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Christ.

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Fitz, let's go.

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[Jennings] The extraordinary
precautions come

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because a letter was mailed
to a San Francisco newspaper

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from a man the FBI calls
"the Unabomber."

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-Anything?
-[blows raspberry]
Wudder under the bridge.

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[laughs] Damn.
You heard that, too?

243
00:12:23,493 --> 00:12:24,703
What Fitz has
with his hoagie.

244
00:12:24,743 --> 00:12:27,080
-Wudder?
-[laughs]

245
00:12:27,121 --> 00:12:30,542
-Tabster, stone cold.
-Come on. Philly.

246
00:12:30,584 --> 00:12:31,626
[Stan] Fitz, Burkhardt,
conference room.

247
00:12:31,668 --> 00:12:32,793
I've never heard
you say pierogi,

248
00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:34,337
but you do say wudder.

249
00:12:34,379 --> 00:12:36,797
Water. Water.

250
00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:39,300
I like wudder.
It's part of who you are.

251
00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:43,513
So, one word, one tiny slip,
and you think you know who I am?

252
00:12:43,555 --> 00:12:46,140
Are you seriously
pissed off?

253
00:12:46,182 --> 00:12:48,184
About what?

254
00:12:48,226 --> 00:12:50,311
I say one word slightly wrong,
and you can all peg me

255
00:12:50,353 --> 00:12:52,522
as the Philly street cop
out of his depth.

256
00:12:52,564 --> 00:12:55,483
[Stan] Fitz! Now!

257
00:12:55,525 --> 00:12:57,444
[sighs]

258
00:12:57,485 --> 00:12:59,571
Dude! Are you serious?

259
00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:04,367
So, you can read it.

260
00:13:04,409 --> 00:13:06,994
Yeah?
What is this?

261
00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:10,624
The forensic report. 300 pages
that say we found nothing.

262
00:13:10,665 --> 00:13:12,500
No, not the report,
the document. His document,
his manifesto.

263
00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:15,712
-They're over there.
No one else wanted one.
-What?

264
00:13:15,754 --> 00:13:18,839
Well, you're talking about
three different dossiers,
and I don't have them, so--

265
00:13:18,881 --> 00:13:21,217
[knock on glass]

266
00:13:21,259 --> 00:13:22,843
Hold on a second.

267
00:13:22,885 --> 00:13:24,971
For 17 years, the Unabomber
has been trying to say something

268
00:13:25,012 --> 00:13:26,847
with these bombs,
trying to send us a message,

269
00:13:26,889 --> 00:13:28,849
and now he lays it out,
everything he's been

270
00:13:28,891 --> 00:13:30,184
trying to tell us,
and you don't want

271
00:13:30,226 --> 00:13:31,852
to take
the time to read it?

272
00:13:31,894 --> 00:13:34,481
We're dealing with a major
airport shutdown here,

273
00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:38,693
so write up a three-page
synopsis, clean, no typos,

274
00:13:38,735 --> 00:13:40,861
and we'll give it a look.

275
00:13:40,903 --> 00:13:44,865
Yep. All right.

276
00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:46,909
New Unabom letter
sent to The Times.

277
00:13:46,951 --> 00:13:49,788
-What?
-New York is faxing it through.

278
00:13:49,828 --> 00:13:53,792
Jesus!
Greg, I got to go!

279
00:13:53,832 --> 00:13:55,960
Look at page 3.

280
00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:05,094
Is this guy jerking us
around or what?

281
00:14:05,136 --> 00:14:07,096
"Since the public
has a short memory,

282
00:14:07,138 --> 00:14:10,016
we decided to play
one last 'prank'

283
00:14:10,057 --> 00:14:12,268
to remind them who we are.

284
00:14:12,310 --> 00:14:15,730
But, no, we haven't
tried to plant a bomb

285
00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:18,441
on an airliner (recently)."

286
00:14:18,483 --> 00:14:20,527
Recently is in parentheses.

287
00:14:20,568 --> 00:14:25,406
-He says it's a prank.
-Yes, sir. One last prank.

288
00:14:25,448 --> 00:14:28,743
Man: And we're certain
it's from the Unabomber?

289
00:14:28,785 --> 00:14:30,620
It's been authenticated, sir.

290
00:14:30,662 --> 00:14:33,914
It is definitely
from the Unabomber.

291
00:14:33,956 --> 00:14:36,292
And we will get you
our recommendation.

292
00:14:36,334 --> 00:14:38,294
Man: What if he's just trying
to get our guard down?

293
00:14:38,336 --> 00:14:40,046
He's got a bomb
in one of those planes,

294
00:14:40,087 --> 00:14:42,799
just waiting for us to clear
them for takeoff, and then boom.

295
00:14:42,841 --> 00:14:44,718
We get another Lockerbie
on my watch because

296
00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:47,261
I took a serial bomber
at his word.

297
00:14:47,303 --> 00:14:50,431
Personally, I think
this whole manifesto thing

298
00:14:50,473 --> 00:14:51,725
could be a red herring.

299
00:14:51,766 --> 00:14:52,933
We're dealing with a dummy here,

300
00:14:52,975 --> 00:14:55,228
an airline mechanic
with a G.E.D., max.

301
00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:58,773
So, who's to say he didn't
retype somebody else's essay

302
00:14:58,815 --> 00:15:01,818
to throw us off the scent,
to draw us down blind alleys,

303
00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:05,946
to keep us away from the real
leads in the real world --
forensics?

304
00:15:05,988 --> 00:15:08,366
Sir, now that the manifesto
has cleared forensics,

305
00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:10,951
I think it's imperative that all
our agents read this document.

306
00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:12,620
Okay, stop.

307
00:15:12,662 --> 00:15:14,330
The Unabomber has threatened

308
00:15:14,372 --> 00:15:16,708
to blow an airplane
out of the sky.

309
00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:20,837
I've got four Senators
and Janet Reno on my call sheet,

310
00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:22,963
asking me whether
to believe this letter,

311
00:15:23,005 --> 00:15:25,966
where he says he's going to kill
a few hundred innocent people,

312
00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:29,763
or this one, where he says
the bomb threat is just a prank.

313
00:15:29,804 --> 00:15:30,971
So, I'm not reading
anything else.

314
00:15:31,013 --> 00:15:33,182
I'm reading this
and trying to decide

315
00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:35,894
whether LAX can
reopen for business.

316
00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,978
And if I make
the wrong call,

317
00:15:38,020 --> 00:15:40,106
a few hundred people are
gonna be blown out of the sky.

318
00:15:40,147 --> 00:15:42,942
So give me a profile
that answers that question.

319
00:15:42,983 --> 00:15:45,986
If not, that's
a stack of papers.

320
00:15:46,028 --> 00:15:48,615
These are human lives.

321
00:15:48,656 --> 00:15:49,990
Got it?

322
00:15:50,032 --> 00:15:52,952
Okay. What do we got?

323
00:15:52,993 --> 00:15:56,997
[ Indistinct talking ]

324
00:15:57,039 --> 00:15:59,918
Tabby: Dude, have you read this?
In the manifesto? Listen.

325
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:03,087
"In modern society, all that's
required of you is obedience."

326
00:16:03,129 --> 00:16:05,005
Isn't that exactly
what Cole said?

327
00:16:05,047 --> 00:16:07,258
The manifesto has to wait.
There are lives at stake.

328
00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:09,969
The Unabomber
and his bomb threat prank.

329
00:16:10,010 --> 00:16:13,097
Which one's the truth?

330
00:16:13,139 --> 00:16:16,100
[ Sighs ] How could we
possibly know that?

331
00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:28,571
You know, Fitz, whatever
it is you're going through,

332
00:16:28,613 --> 00:16:30,030
it didn't start
two years ago.

333
00:16:30,072 --> 00:16:31,908
It didn't start
with this case.

334
00:16:31,950 --> 00:16:37,079
It happened long before
the Unabom. It must have.

335
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:40,040
I know.

336
00:16:40,082 --> 00:16:43,043
I just don't know when
I started to feel so powerless.

337
00:16:43,085 --> 00:16:45,004
Hey, we all feel that way.
Everyone does.

338
00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:47,214
If everybody feels that way,
what do we do about it?

339
00:16:47,256 --> 00:16:48,675
Nothing.

340
00:16:48,716 --> 00:16:50,927
[ Scoffs ] We like it.

341
00:16:50,969 --> 00:16:56,683
We like feeling
trapped, crushed.

342
00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:59,602
I guess freedom is far more
terrifying than slavery.

343
00:16:59,644 --> 00:17:01,437
Natalie:
But there's nothing to do.

344
00:17:01,479 --> 00:17:04,064
It's life. You suck it up
and you live.

345
00:17:04,106 --> 00:17:06,233
That's not -- that's not life.
That's not living.

346
00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:09,320
That's sleepwalking.

347
00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:14,617
Watching TV, eating trash,
working to -- to become

348
00:17:14,659 --> 00:17:16,452
something for someone else.

349
00:17:16,494 --> 00:17:18,037
And nobody does
anything about it.

350
00:17:18,078 --> 00:17:20,039
Nobody even tries.
Nobody except for Ted.

351
00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:26,253
Natalie: Yeah, but, Fitz,
he's the Unabomber.

352
00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:31,509
He's evil.

353
00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:34,721
Just down here.

354
00:17:36,597 --> 00:17:39,099
[ Thunder rumbles ]

355
00:17:46,148 --> 00:17:48,150
You gonna be okay?

356
00:17:48,192 --> 00:17:51,988
I don't know.

357
00:17:52,030 --> 00:17:55,033
I have to go in there,
I have to face him.

358
00:18:01,706 --> 00:18:03,583
Natalie: Go.

359
00:18:15,887 --> 00:18:18,431
[ Chain rattling ]

360
00:18:35,197 --> 00:18:39,953
Jim: Is there a bomb on a plane,
FC, or is it a prank?

361
00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:52,172
Boss needs these reports clean.
No typos.

362
00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:55,051
Cole wouldn't be happy, FC.

363
00:19:01,348 --> 00:19:03,517
[ Sighs ]

364
00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:18,198
Excessive soldering.

365
00:19:21,243 --> 00:19:28,208
[ Music playing softly
through headphones ]

366
00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:30,419
This is the original letter.

367
00:19:30,461 --> 00:19:32,254
Look, he punched
right through the paper,

368
00:19:32,296 --> 00:19:35,174
not just crossing out his
mistakes -- obliterating them.

369
00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:37,885
Profilers talk about
signatures versus M.O.

370
00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:40,220
M.O. is everything necessary
to complete the crime,

371
00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:41,806
but signatures are the extras.

372
00:19:41,848 --> 00:19:45,225
They reveal
the psychology, the character.

373
00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:47,227
Damn. Like correcting
the hell out of that letter.

374
00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:48,855
Yeah, that's right.

375
00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:52,817
But, uh, the Rentech bomb,
the forensic report says

376
00:19:52,859 --> 00:19:54,777
something about
excessive soldering.

377
00:19:54,819 --> 00:19:57,237
His signature, definitely.

378
00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:59,573
How do you know that?

379
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,120
Don't worry.
It's just a mock-up.

380
00:20:04,162 --> 00:20:05,830
But it's the exact copy
of the way that bomb looked

381
00:20:05,872 --> 00:20:07,790
before it blew up.

382
00:20:07,832 --> 00:20:10,543
You built this?

383
00:20:10,584 --> 00:20:13,253
-What's wrong with you?
-[ Chuckles ]

384
00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:17,133
You sure you're
not the Unabomber?

385
00:20:17,175 --> 00:20:19,760
And all this
is forensic evidence?

386
00:20:19,802 --> 00:20:23,014
Yes, sir. I built this
and a few others.

387
00:20:23,056 --> 00:20:24,640
Bosses thought it was
a waste of time,

388
00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:26,308
but I learned a lot
by doing it.

389
00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,769
He carves "FC" on the most
indestructible component

390
00:20:28,811 --> 00:20:30,270
of each bomb --

391
00:20:30,312 --> 00:20:32,690
the part that he's sure
will survive the blast.

392
00:20:32,732 --> 00:20:34,650
Jim: Just to make sure
we know it's him.

393
00:20:34,692 --> 00:20:37,277
Ernie: Like the excess
soldering, he just floods
all the connections

394
00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,779
like he's trying to hide them,

395
00:20:38,821 --> 00:20:40,280
then there's tons
of extra epoxy

396
00:20:40,322 --> 00:20:43,283
all at the joints
that no one seemed to report.

397
00:20:43,325 --> 00:20:45,828
Totally unnecessary.
Just slathered it on.

398
00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:49,082
Signatures. Not M.O.

399
00:20:49,123 --> 00:20:52,292
He didn't want anyone
to see the cracks.

400
00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,299
What's your name again?

401
00:20:59,341 --> 00:21:02,302
Ernie Esposito.

402
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:05,223
Thanks, Ernie.

403
00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:09,143
[typewriter clacking]

404
00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:18,027
This is my analysis
on the LAX bomb threat.

405
00:21:18,069 --> 00:21:20,113
It's clean, no typos,
lots of big words.

406
00:21:20,154 --> 00:21:22,782
Janet Reno will read it,
and she'll be impressed by you.

407
00:21:22,823 --> 00:21:26,160
What's the bottom line?

408
00:21:26,202 --> 00:21:28,621
Well, in my opinion,
it's a prank.

409
00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:30,330
There's no bomb at LAX.

410
00:21:30,372 --> 00:21:33,667
FC cares about his reputation,
his credibility.

411
00:21:33,709 --> 00:21:36,336
He's ashamed of his mistakes,
and he tries to obliterate them.

412
00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:38,714
He tries to hide
all the joints in his bombs

413
00:21:38,756 --> 00:21:41,050
so we don't see the work.

414
00:21:41,092 --> 00:21:43,719
He's obsessed with presenting
this perfect public image.

415
00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:46,973
He wants to be seen
as intelligent, as logical,
as superior.

416
00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:49,892
But it's a fragile self image,
because he's really just

417
00:21:49,934 --> 00:21:53,353
afraid that everyone's
gonna see his flaws.

418
00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:56,274
Now, the bomb threat, that
services his need for power.

419
00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:59,359
You know, he enjoys making us
squirm, but his reputation,

420
00:21:59,401 --> 00:22:01,821
that's the most important
thing he has.

421
00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:04,949
And he's not gonna give us
the ammunition to go

422
00:22:04,991 --> 00:22:08,077
to the press so they can hold up
something that he wrote and say,

423
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,454
"This guy's untrustworthy,
he's a liar,

424
00:22:10,496 --> 00:22:13,874
he's a blood-thirsty lunatic
who has no credibility

425
00:22:13,916 --> 00:22:16,376
and will say anything
to kill people."

426
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:20,380
It's just all my opinion, but,
um, you know, I can back it up.

427
00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:26,179
Including the physical evidence,
I stand by it.

428
00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:33,060
The thing about Fitz-- he's no
B.S.er, for better or for worse.

429
00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:36,396
Okay, we're gonna read it
and pass it up the chain.

430
00:22:36,438 --> 00:22:38,232
Thanks for this.

431
00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:43,321
This might cross Janet Reno's
desk, so stay close.

432
00:22:43,361 --> 00:22:45,156
[door closes]

433
00:22:45,198 --> 00:22:47,908
[Stan] You listen to me,
you get a gold star.

434
00:22:47,950 --> 00:22:50,119
A little obedience
is all it takes.

435
00:22:50,161 --> 00:22:54,207
I think FC says that
in the manifesto, too.

436
00:22:54,248 --> 00:22:55,749
[laughs] You can put that
in your three-page summary.

437
00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:59,670
Leadership tips
from the Unabomber.

438
00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:03,423
[telephone ringing]

439
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:09,429
[printer whirring]

440
00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:12,141
Now we dig in.

441
00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:17,938
Let's go
for the big picture.

442
00:23:17,980 --> 00:23:19,481
He wrote 56 pages,

443
00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:22,151
laying out his philosophy
of the modern world.

444
00:23:22,193 --> 00:23:25,487
He called it Industrial Society
and its Future.

445
00:23:25,529 --> 00:23:27,907
We call it his "manifesto."

446
00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:30,784
So, he sends
the bombs as messages.

447
00:23:30,826 --> 00:23:33,453
He's struggling
to make himself heard.

448
00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:36,456
-So, what's the message?
-Technology sucks?

449
00:23:36,498 --> 00:23:40,961
-All right, technology sucks.
-And we are basically screwed.

450
00:23:41,003 --> 00:23:43,339
[Jim] The Unabomber just opened
a door into his mind.

451
00:23:43,381 --> 00:23:45,465
We need to
step through it, so...

452
00:23:45,507 --> 00:23:48,761
Opening line,
"The Industrial Revolution

453
00:23:48,802 --> 00:23:52,472
and its consequences have been
a disaster for the human race."

454
00:23:52,514 --> 00:23:55,142
Technology was supposed to
set us free, but it doesn't.

455
00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:57,477
Like the car thing. Cars
were invented, and then,

456
00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:00,564
we're all suddenly free
to go wherever we want.

457
00:24:00,606 --> 00:24:03,483
But then, basically, it becomes
mandatory to have a car.

458
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:06,486
So, instead of becoming more
free, we become more limited,
more constrained.

459
00:24:06,528 --> 00:24:09,489
I mean, every city
in society is all rearranged

460
00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:12,201
around cars until
you can't even buy food

461
00:24:12,243 --> 00:24:14,494
without driving somewhere.
I mean, they're forced upon us.

462
00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:16,872
Yeah, TV seemed harmless, too,
before we flipped them around.

463
00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:20,000
We put CCTV cameras everywhere
and turned it into a tool
to watch us.

464
00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:22,211
We can't even drive fast
if we're in a hurry

465
00:24:22,253 --> 00:24:23,796
or slow if we want
to chill out.

466
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:26,215
We started in charge.

467
00:24:26,257 --> 00:24:30,303
Now we're slaves
to our own technology.

468
00:24:30,344 --> 00:24:32,346
"Human beings are being
permanently reduced

469
00:24:32,388 --> 00:24:35,266
to engineered products and mere
cogs in the social machine,

470
00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:40,062
deprived of dignity,
autonomy, and freedom.

471
00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:43,441
The only option available
to us is obedience.

472
00:24:43,481 --> 00:24:45,901
We're being turned
into caged rats,

473
00:24:45,943 --> 00:24:49,029
distracted from the maze
by the meaningless cheese

474
00:24:49,071 --> 00:24:52,616
we're running after --
status, promotion, money,

475
00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:56,536
nicer cars, bigger houses,
more TVs,

476
00:24:56,578 --> 00:24:58,998
blasted with entertainment,
adjusted with therapy

477
00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:03,543
and Prozac till you don't
even want to be free anymore.

478
00:25:03,585 --> 00:25:07,547
Or if you can't be adjusted,
the psych ward."

479
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:10,926
[ Alarm buzzes ]

480
00:25:10,968 --> 00:25:13,971
"Or prison."

481
00:25:14,013 --> 00:25:17,808
[ Alarm buzzes ]

482
00:25:17,850 --> 00:25:21,561
"The only alternative,
the only hope for us,

483
00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:23,689
the only way
to break free..."

484
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:26,066
[ Alarm buzzes ]

485
00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:29,278
"...is to blow
the whole thing up."

486
00:25:34,616 --> 00:25:36,702
I'm ready.

487
00:25:36,743 --> 00:25:42,041
[ Whistling softly ]

488
00:25:42,082 --> 00:25:48,130
[ Thunder rumbles in distance ]

489
00:25:48,172 --> 00:25:51,591
[ Whistling softly ]

490
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:54,512
Guard: Kaczynski, you ready?

491
00:26:00,476 --> 00:26:03,479
Ted, as your attorney, I'm
begging you to reconsider this.

492
00:26:03,521 --> 00:26:06,648
Do not go in there
alone with Fitzgerald.

493
00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:08,566
It is unthinkably reckless
for the defendant

494
00:26:08,608 --> 00:26:11,362
in a capital case to, "A,"
talk with the arresting agent,

495
00:26:11,404 --> 00:26:15,699
and "B," do so without
counsel present.

496
00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:17,743
This is a huge
risk for you.

497
00:26:17,784 --> 00:26:19,453
And there's no reason
to take it.

498
00:26:19,495 --> 00:26:20,913
Let me come in there
with you.

499
00:26:20,954 --> 00:26:22,622
I'll stay out of the way,
just observe,

500
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:23,957
and be ready to step in.

501
00:26:23,999 --> 00:26:26,960
[ Alarm buzzes ]

502
00:26:27,002 --> 00:26:28,546
I'll be in the next room
the whole time.

503
00:26:28,586 --> 00:26:30,005
All you need to do
to end the interview

504
00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:33,426
is to ask for me, okay?

505
00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:42,518
Frank: We need
a guilty plea from Ted.

506
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,520
This is our only shot.

507
00:26:44,562 --> 00:26:46,772
You're our only shot.

508
00:26:48,399 --> 00:26:51,527
Right.

509
00:26:51,569 --> 00:26:53,653
Give us a second.

510
00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:04,664
We know Ted Kaczynski's
the Unabomber,

511
00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:06,666
but we can't go to trial.

512
00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:09,669
This case hangs on so many
different technicalities.

513
00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:13,966
If we go before a jury,
if we roll that dice...

514
00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:16,427
These are dangerous,
uncertain times.

515
00:27:16,469 --> 00:27:19,096
Look at Waco.
Look at O.J.

516
00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:22,057
even the Menendez brothers
hung their juries.

517
00:27:22,099 --> 00:27:25,060
The Unabomber has
an I.Q. of 168.

518
00:27:25,102 --> 00:27:27,563
Think about that -- 168.

519
00:27:27,605 --> 00:27:30,316
If Ted Kaczynski
goes to trial, he could walk.

520
00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:32,109
If he walks, he disappears.

521
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,111
If he disappears,
he's back in action.

522
00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,947
Only this time,
we'll never find him.

523
00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:38,865
The guilty plea is
the only way to make sure

524
00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:41,701
that doesn't happen.

525
00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:44,497
Listen, Fitz.

526
00:27:44,538 --> 00:27:47,958
I think Ted asked for you
because he recognized

527
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,710
a kindred spirit.

528
00:27:50,752 --> 00:27:52,463
Play into that.

529
00:27:52,505 --> 00:27:56,175
Make him feel smart,
understood, sympathized with.

530
00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:58,718
Build a connection,
but stay opaque.

531
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,220
Don't give him too much.

532
00:28:00,262 --> 00:28:03,681
He knows you as well
as you know him. Better.

533
00:28:03,723 --> 00:28:06,519
He's gonna be probing you
for weaknesses all the time,

534
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,812
looking for anything
to go against us.

535
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:14,485
Get him talking,
build a connection,

536
00:28:14,527 --> 00:28:17,821
then start to steer him
towards the guilty plea.

537
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:21,534
You're trying to help him,

538
00:28:21,575 --> 00:28:23,410
trying to save him
from the electric chair.

539
00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:25,787
You're his only friend,
but do it gently.

540
00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:27,998
Don't spook him, okay?

541
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,749
Get him there.

542
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:31,960
[ Alarm buzzes ]

543
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:40,760
[ Door closes, alarm buzzes ]

544
00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:00,739
Okay.

545
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:03,659
[ Alarm buzzes ]

546
00:29:09,081 --> 00:29:12,084
[ Alarm buzzes, door locks ]

547
00:29:15,837 --> 00:29:20,342
Agent Fitzgerald?

548
00:29:20,384 --> 00:29:26,098
I am so glad to make
your acquaintance at last.

549
00:29:30,603 --> 00:29:32,812
Ellie: When would be
a good time for you?

550
00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:35,357
I already talked to Kim
about taking the days

551
00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:37,943
Nancy says she can
cover for me,
and Mom would watch the boys.

552
00:29:37,984 --> 00:29:41,821
So, just tell me when

553
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:43,407
to buy a ticket.

554
00:29:43,449 --> 00:29:45,951
[ Chuckles ] Good to hear it.

555
00:29:45,992 --> 00:29:48,412
That's great.

556
00:29:48,454 --> 00:29:51,624
Ellie: Uh, why don't you just
call me back

557
00:29:51,665 --> 00:29:53,833
- when I won't be
just talking to myself?
-Oh, no. No, no.

558
00:29:53,875 --> 00:29:57,588
I'm here. I'm here.
I'm listening. I am.

559
00:29:57,630 --> 00:30:04,637
It's just,
you know -- you know...

560
00:30:07,473 --> 00:30:13,604
Ellie:
What's going on with you?

561
00:30:13,646 --> 00:30:18,108
I'm just gonna
call you back.

562
00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,361
Okay.
Okay, bye.

563
00:30:21,403 --> 00:30:23,947
[ Telephone beeps ]

564
00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:31,371
[airplane flying overhead]

565
00:30:37,294 --> 00:30:39,713
[telephone ringing
in distance]

566
00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:43,383
-[typewrite clacking]
-Um, that's for today.

567
00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:48,888
Fitz. Right now.

568
00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:51,725
[Janet] Well, we've looked at
the FAA reports,

569
00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:54,728
L.A.P.D. and, uh,
airport briefings,

570
00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:57,272
read the material
S.A.C. Ackerman sent.

571
00:30:57,314 --> 00:30:59,107
Based on what we've seen, uh,

572
00:30:59,149 --> 00:31:02,736
A.G.'s office is good to
sign off on reopening LAX.

573
00:31:02,778 --> 00:31:05,864
- How about you, Bill?
-[Bill] FAA is good with that.

574
00:31:05,905 --> 00:31:07,907
[Louis] FBI Director Freeh here.

575
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,410
I'll confirm that from
our end and give the green light

576
00:31:10,452 --> 00:31:12,912
to flight control.

577
00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:14,914
[Man] Flight control,
I see the green light here,

578
00:31:14,956 --> 00:31:16,916
good to reopen runways.

579
00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:18,918
First plane should
be up momentarily.

580
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,296
Flight control,
this is S.A.C. Ackerman,

581
00:31:21,338 --> 00:31:24,049
permission to
stay on the line?

582
00:31:24,090 --> 00:31:26,635
[Man] Affirmative, agent.

583
00:31:26,677 --> 00:31:28,387
The Unabom device
that almost blew up

584
00:31:28,428 --> 00:31:32,516
American Airlines 444
was triggered by an altimeter

585
00:31:32,558 --> 00:31:35,894
set to blow up
at 20,000 feet.

586
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:44,695
[Man] American flight 7
is airborne.

587
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:49,533
United 732 airborne.

588
00:31:49,575 --> 00:31:52,952
TWA one-niner-niner airborne.

589
00:32:00,168 --> 00:32:04,297
[Man
This is American flight 7.
We are climbing to 15,000 feet.

590
00:32:04,339 --> 00:32:05,965
Climbing to 20,000.

591
00:32:06,007 --> 00:32:07,967
[Man] Check in uniform 7.

592
00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:10,721
[Man
We're approaching 10,000.

593
00:32:10,763 --> 00:32:16,727
[Man
we're climbing now.

594
00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:19,979
KLM 206,
cruising altitude, over.

595
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,524
[Man
cruising altitude.

596
00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:25,611
[Man
we're at 25,000,

597
00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:27,780
reaching cruising altitude now.

598
00:32:27,821 --> 00:32:29,989
[Man
cruising altitude, over.

599
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:31,742
[click]

600
00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:35,871
[static crackles]

601
00:32:41,042 --> 00:32:44,296
[Man] All clear. All clear.
You hear that, agent?

602
00:32:44,337 --> 00:32:46,590
Loud and clear.

603
00:32:46,632 --> 00:32:48,049
Thank God.

604
00:32:50,093 --> 00:32:52,971
[exhales heavily]

605
00:33:08,779 --> 00:33:09,863
You made the right call.

606
00:33:09,905 --> 00:33:11,907
I shouldn't
have made any call.

607
00:33:11,949 --> 00:33:14,033
All those people on the plane,
and it was based on what,

608
00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:15,744
on some letters?

609
00:33:15,786 --> 00:33:18,789
It was the right call.

610
00:33:22,793 --> 00:33:24,962
You really think you can
get something good

611
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:28,256
out of this manifesto,
something worthwhile?

612
00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:31,969
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I can.

613
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,680
Okay.
I'm giving you an office.

614
00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:39,685
And a team,
if you want it.

615
00:33:39,726 --> 00:33:41,561
Maybe you'll even read
the manifesto now.

616
00:33:41,603 --> 00:33:45,106
[chuckles]
I will. We all will.

617
00:33:45,148 --> 00:33:48,067
Actually, I already tried
to read it. Oh, no, I did.

618
00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:52,698
But, come on, end notes
and all these dead sentences.

619
00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:57,118
Who writes like this?

620
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,038
Who writes like this?

621
00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:05,084
-Fitz?
-[door closes]

622
00:34:28,942 --> 00:34:31,152
Who writes like this?

623
00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:46,292
When I say "wudder,"
you learn everything about me.

624
00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:50,129
One tiny word, one tiny mistake,
and you can tell

625
00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:53,633
I'm from Philly,
blue-collar, local school,
fan of Dave Schultz.

626
00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:55,176
Just like when you say "bruh,"

627
00:34:55,218 --> 00:35:01,140
it could only be from
San Francisco, right?

628
00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:06,855
What if there's a wudder or bruh
in here, in the manifesto?

629
00:35:06,897 --> 00:35:12,110
I mean, how do we even
start to look for that?

630
00:35:12,151 --> 00:35:14,320
I don't know.
Read it again.

631
00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:16,364
[ Scoffs ] Oh, boy.

632
00:35:16,406 --> 00:35:19,492
Get some coffee
on then, bruh.

633
00:35:30,796 --> 00:35:33,131
[ Alarm buzzes ]

634
00:35:33,172 --> 00:35:36,093
Ted: Agent Fitzgerald.

635
00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:48,438
Long way from Montana.

636
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,190
Oh, yeah, well,

637
00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:54,402
most people carry their cage
with them wherever they go.

638
00:35:54,444 --> 00:35:57,489
At least if I remain
disgusted by this place,

639
00:35:57,530 --> 00:35:59,365
I know I'm still alive.

640
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:01,660
Still free in here.

641
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:04,663
-So why me?
-Why you?

642
00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:06,706
You wrote the document
that put me in here.

643
00:36:06,748 --> 00:36:08,708
Your linguistic analysis
of the manifesto

644
00:36:08,750 --> 00:36:11,628
got them the search warrant,
the search warrant got them
the evidence--

645
00:36:11,670 --> 00:36:15,214
The document that put you
in here... you wrote.

646
00:36:15,256 --> 00:36:19,511
[laughs]

647
00:36:19,552 --> 00:36:23,015
I am becoming very
well-acquainted with your work.

648
00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:25,892
It is the product
of great imagination.

649
00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:29,437
What I really appreciate
about you is that most people

650
00:36:29,479 --> 00:36:33,775
take language for granted,
but not you.

651
00:36:33,817 --> 00:36:36,235
You saw it differently,
and that is the first step

652
00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:39,698
toward becoming free--
a shift in perspective.

653
00:36:39,739 --> 00:36:45,912
Manifesto, for instance--
I never liked that moniker.

654
00:36:45,954 --> 00:36:48,373
It makes it sound like
an unconsidered rant,

655
00:36:48,414 --> 00:36:51,376
and you and I both
appreciate

656
00:36:51,417 --> 00:36:54,504
the power and specificity
of words.

657
00:36:54,546 --> 00:36:59,509
Manifesto versus article,
insanity versus enlightenment,

658
00:36:59,551 --> 00:37:02,428
mental breakdown
versus unextended leave

659
00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:04,681
from active duty.

660
00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:09,811
You have had a change
of life circumstance,

661
00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:13,523
since your work on
the Unabom case, am I wrong?

662
00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:16,609
-Yeah, I have.
-Because of what
I allegedly wrote?

663
00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:17,736
Yeah.

664
00:37:17,777 --> 00:37:22,074
What was it?
Just between us.

665
00:37:22,115 --> 00:37:25,035
When did it all click?

666
00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:30,289
No?

667
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:34,711
Well, for me, uh,
it all began in Chicago.

668
00:37:34,753 --> 00:37:37,589
One day, this mockingbird began
singing in the backyard there,

669
00:37:37,630 --> 00:37:39,716
you know, that puffed-up
confidence just belting out

670
00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:44,221
his song, and I began
to realize

671
00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:47,473
that the mockingbird
is singing the car alarm.

672
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:50,435
Ba-beep, ba-beep.
You know the one?

673
00:37:50,476 --> 00:37:53,312
Rrr, rrr. And I--
I just sat there,

674
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:56,357
listening to that poor, dumb
bird for maybe an hour straight,

675
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:59,111
thinking,
"What have we done?"

676
00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:02,906
How wrong that was,
and it stuck with me.

677
00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:06,201
I kept coming back to it,
just trying to figure out

678
00:38:06,243 --> 00:38:09,537
where in the world
we had gone so wrong

679
00:38:09,579 --> 00:38:15,501
that it had ended up here.

680
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:20,173
For me, it was
the part about driving.

681
00:38:20,215 --> 00:38:23,760
Every time I got in the car,
I thought about it.

682
00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:27,722
The more I drove,
the more it made sense.

683
00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:34,062
Like, there was this one night
I was driving home from work,

684
00:38:34,104 --> 00:38:37,398
and there was nobody on
the street-- I mean, nobody.

685
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,567
And I'm sitting there at
a red light,

686
00:38:39,609 --> 00:38:42,028
just waiting, waiting.

687
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:51,704
And there's
no cars anywhere.

688
00:38:51,746 --> 00:38:57,002
But, still, I sat there.
I obeyed.

689
00:38:57,043 --> 00:38:59,378
That's when I realized
it's not about technology,

690
00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:01,547
it's not about machines.

691
00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:04,383
It's about what
they're doing to us.

692
00:39:04,425 --> 00:39:06,845
It's about what
they're doing to us,
what they do to our hearts,

693
00:39:06,886 --> 00:39:08,471
'cause our hearts
are no longer free.

694
00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:10,431
-And you wanted to be free.
-Right.

695
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:12,851
You wanted your human dignity,
your autonomy.

696
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:15,645
-Yeah. But--
-Everybody wants that.

697
00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:18,148
People want it so badly,
they're dying by the thousands

698
00:39:18,190 --> 00:39:20,775
every day, just trying to
salvage some of their humanity.

699
00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:22,401
-Okay--
-Think about this--

700
00:39:22,443 --> 00:39:25,071
more people have died
from suicide in just the time

701
00:39:25,113 --> 00:39:26,614
we've been talking
than I allegedly killed

702
00:39:26,656 --> 00:39:29,159
in my entire career.

703
00:39:29,201 --> 00:39:31,410
More people died
from anti-depressants,

704
00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:33,246
plastic surgery, fast-food.

705
00:39:33,288 --> 00:39:37,583
Why-- w-why is everybody
so terrified of me?

706
00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:40,461
And ask yourself
this question--

707
00:39:40,503 --> 00:39:43,506
why are these men
in suits so desperate

708
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:47,093
to prove that I'm crazy?

709
00:39:47,135 --> 00:39:48,887
I will tell you.

710
00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:52,431
It's because they know
that I'm right.

711
00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:55,894
-I'm awake. They're asleep.
-Yeah.

712
00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:58,437
Ted: And they're terrified
they might have to wake up, too,

713
00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:01,482
and turn off their
cellphones and their TVs

714
00:40:01,524 --> 00:40:04,694
and their video games
and face themselves

715
00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:08,447
the way that
you and I have.

716
00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:10,283
You and I?

717
00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:12,160
You and I.

718
00:40:12,202 --> 00:40:14,996
Ted, I came here 'cause
I believe in what you wrote.

719
00:40:15,038 --> 00:40:17,540
[Ted] Good.

720
00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,043
I think you asked me here
'cause you need an ally

721
00:40:20,085 --> 00:40:22,461
to help save your life,
so you can spread your message

722
00:40:22,503 --> 00:40:24,463
and change things.

723
00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:27,259
Really change things.
Right?

724
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,802
-Right.
-Now, I've gone through
all your options.

725
00:40:29,844 --> 00:40:32,471
-I think a guilty plea--
-No.

726
00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:35,474
[scoffs] No.

727
00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:38,061
And he was doing so well.

728
00:40:38,103 --> 00:40:40,563
I can talk about my options
with any one of these

729
00:40:40,605 --> 00:40:43,482
Barbary apes watching
through the cameras.

730
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:50,740
But I chose you -- because
I thought you were different.

731
00:40:53,243 --> 00:40:55,161
[slams table]
Next time,

732
00:40:55,203 --> 00:40:58,497
you might bring me
some writing paper
and some stamps.

733
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,499
They're so stingy in here,

734
00:41:00,541 --> 00:41:03,211
and I have so much
correspondence.

735
00:41:03,253 --> 00:41:05,504
It's really
quite overwhelming.

736
00:41:05,546 --> 00:41:08,174
[alarm buzzes]

737
00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:10,302
Thank you.

738
00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:12,887
[alarm buzzes]

739
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:25,942
[alarm buzzes]

740
00:41:31,948 --> 00:41:34,200
[alarm buzzes]