All language subtitles for Episode 05 Abri

The country's trash can's
being dumped in our lap here,

and it's all worthless.

Your tdy with the unabom
task force is terminated.

Hey, it's me.

I don't want to, upset you.
I just...

Have you read the
unabomber manifesto yet?

What are we gonna do, David?

Are you already
assuming he's guilty?

'Cause, I mean, really, when you
look at the evidence here...

No. I-i-I'm not... I'm not.

- I feel like you...
- I'm not.

I'm not assuming he's guilty.

All I'm saying is that
I see a connection

between that letter of Ted's
and the unabomber manifesto.

Well, when I look at it, I
don't see the connection.

I don't see this. I don't.
Maybe you're...

Have you considered your own
personal feelings for Ted

might be getting in the way

of making an objective
determination here?

- You're asking me that?
- Well, you don't know Ted.

I mean, you've never met him.
You've never even spoken to him.

Yes, he sent you a nasty letter.
Yes, he's different.

But every family has its oddball.

I know Ted.

H-He was always good.

He was my hero.

Well, if you're right and
he's innocent, then...

He's got nothing to worry about.

Well, that's not true. The...

Ted lives a very
unconventional lifestyle.

He is paranoid. He has
that hunting rifle.

I mean, those people on Ruby Ridge,

they were innocent, too.

And an FBI sniper shot them in the back.

If we accuse him and we are wrong...

...it'd be like...

Taking my own brother's life,

and I-I c... I can't.

I can't live with that.

But, David...

What if we're right?

Okay. Y-You came to me why exactly?

I mean, you could just mail it in.

I'll give you the address
for the task force.

- W-Well...
- Yeah, I mean, I-I deal

with law enforcement all day long

at the shelter where I
work, and, you know,

once these poor kids
get into the system,

it's impossible to extricate them again.

As soon as you get on the
criminal justice system's radar,

you become a target, especially if
you live an unconventional life.

All right. Here's what we'll do.

I will channel this directly
to the unabom task force.

It'll come from my office,
but you and your brother

will remain completely anonymous.

I'll make it clear that this
is not for distribution,

even internally within the utf.

Tight chain of custody. Need only.

Now, they'll do a complete
analysis and get US an opinion.

And if it's not a match,
we can all sleep easy.

I think... yeah.

All right. I...

To be clear, our priority is...

Is... Ted's safety.

I mean, he...

Even if he is the unabomber,
he's a human being.

He has a soul.

And... and we need to...

We need to protect him.

Dear David, the only thing
I've really respected in you

has been your life in the desert.

And now you're going to leave all that

just because this female
has decided to permit you

to become her personal property.

I presume you will now be adopting

a conventional middle-class lifestyle,

become an accountant maybe.

Or why not sell out all the
way and become a lawyer?

The reason you get me so upset

is that I do care about you, David.

You're still my little brother
and you still have my loyalty.

- Hello?
- David, Tony bisceglie.

I just got word from my guy in the utf.

They analyzed the letter,

and they're not moving
forward with the lead.

It's the wrong typewriter.

So it's not him?

It's not him. Your
brother's been cleared.

Thank you.

It's not him! It's not Ted!

Ted kaczynski is not the unabomber!

God.

Three months you've been back here.

Three months...

Of sleepwalking.

Half an eye on that manifesto there,

the other half on the fax machine.

You're like a teenage girl
waiting for her ex to call.

He dumped you.

Move on.

Fitz...

You are capable of great things here,

but not until you let unabom go.

I've been where you are right now.

I know.

I know that it seems like
more than a case right now.

But it's just a case.

And I say, from experience, let it go.

Yeah.

There's nothing. There's nothing by him.

This is all you got?

I weeded out, like, the
grocery lists and stuff.

Well, this is garbage. It's not here.

There's a million-dollar reward. You
realize how much crap we get in?

I see. You're all
gonna gang up on me.

You know that's not what this is about.

You have three parents now.

And we want to make sure we're
all saying the same thing.

...to unpack.

My dream is for you to...

It's still okay if you
want to come live with me.

- Hey, negro.
- What up, brah?

Yo, look. A long-ass letter
come across your desk?

Evidence slip says it's not a match.

I'm about to bag it up and send
it back to the lawyer. Why?

It's the wrong typewriter.
It's not from the unabomber.

Hey. Ernie?

Can you put your headphones on

and look the other way
for like 10 minutes?

That's "do not distribute."
It can't leave this room.

If the boss catches you with
that or finds out I let you...

Look. It's on me. You looked away.
Please.

This goes into the safe at 3:00.

Thank you.

I'll get my daughter!

Do not try any kind of rescue.

Do you understand me?

You would jeopardize the
lives of the vice president

and everyone else in the arena.

Believe me. We know what
the hell we're doing.

Our agents are entering the arena.

- You stay where you are.
- Excuse me.

We are gonna do this by the numbers.

- Where have you been?
- It's later here. I'm at the movies.

There's a 23-page letter
going through right now.

It's "do not distribute."

It was sitting in the fax
machine tray at the b.A.U.

Shit, dude, if I get caught...

All right. I'm going there now.

Hey. Just gonna run to work.
I'll be back before it's over.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- You guys okay?
- Yeah, we're fine.

Keep an eye on him.

"Human beings will become dependent...
On technology..."

"...beginning of this already...
Inability of people to avoid boredom..."

"Let US first consider the solution..."

Sketched by Perry London in
his book 'behavior control.'

"this solution makes a
convenient example."

"...disseminate it among
the population at large.

People can then use this technology..."

"...disseminate it among
the population at large.

People can then..."

"Continued scientific progress
will inevitably result

in the extinction of
individual Liberty."

"Technology," "freedom," "control."

It's him.

Are you sure? I-I wouldn't...

It's him. It's an outline
of the manifesto.

It's the same ideas in the same order

and the way he writes, his idiolect.

It is identical! It's identical!

S-So, what's his name? What's the name?!

I don't know. Some D.C.
lawyer... anonymous.

Look, it's dnd. You got
to shred your copy.

- What lawyer?!
- I don't know!

Okay? Just please let me go
through the proper cha...

Just find out! I don't care how!
'Cause this is him!

This is him! This is the man!

And the man that wrote this
letter, he is the unabomber!

You hear me?!

Fitz? You there?

What's happening?

Fitz?

Why the hell would you
abandon your children?

I was only gone one minute.
I was coming right back.

What... how long have I been?

It's been 4 hours. Danny's
in the car crying.

Are you coming?

You're seriously trying to argue

that the famously
anti-technology unabomber

has two similar but not
identical typewriters?

Look. I know what forensics said,

but the language of that letter

is really similar to the manifesto.

The ideas are laid out in a
similar way, and I really...

Yeah, I read it. I didn't see it.

You know something
concrete that I missed?

Yeah, you got an "analyze" with an "s"

or a "willfully" with one "l",

one of your other special spellings?

It's a steel trap.

Well, no. Not exactly.

It's just the overall.
Look, I just think

that this is a strong lead

that we should go down the road with!

Track down the writer,
do some interviews.

I don't think you
understand the backstory.

It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

And it's a letter that
forensics has said

conclusively is not a match.

It's a hornets' nest, tabby.
Why you kicking it?

Hey, yeah. It's Francine in accounting.

I got an incomplete billing record here.

One of Anthony bisceglie's cases.

Hey, are you coming with US tonight?

"While you were sleeping."
Opening night. You should come.

Record number 31040.
I need an address.

I mean, Peter Gallagher, right?

Thanks, hon! See ya later.

Bad move, tabby. Bad, bad move.

- Tabby.
- Fitz.

How sure are you about this letter?
Because...

I am completely certain, tabby.

Anything and everything
you get out of this

has to go through me.

You do not talk to anyone at the utf

without coming to me
first and making a plan.

I swear I will not even breathe
without going through you.

All right?

Okay. Got a pen?

Perry Avenue, schenectady,
New York, 12301.

Thank you.

I could have got these. You know that.

You didn't have to.

I don't really want you...

You know, inside here.

Let me finish this case.

When I want to get this guy...
And I'm gonna get this guy...

...we should put it all back
together, just start over.

You don't even realize
you were wrong, do you?

What you did to those boys...

You know what, Jim?

Boys and I... we're gonna be okay.

We're gonna be fine.

Everything's gonna work out for US.

But unless you stop now, I don't...

I don't know how all this ends for you.

I really don't.

I-It's not the case. It's you.

...in the early morning,
otherwise partly cloudy skies

in the Albany area with highs around 65

and lows dipping into the 50s.

...overnight at a gas
station in schenectady.

Police at the scene...

Hi. I'm supervisory special
agent James Fitzgerald.

I'd just like a word. May I come in?

Um, wh... i-I'm sorry.
What is this about?

It's about the letter. Can I come in?

I'm sorry. I don't know how you
got my name or my address,

but I'd appreciate it if you
get off my property right now.

I'm so sorry to tell you this,

but I read the letter you submitted,

and the man who wrote that
letter is the unabomber.

You...

Is th... is this a joke?

I mean, w-who...

Who the hell are you? What are y...

I'm the profiler.

I was assigned the investigation.

- I can explain everything.
- You, you're the profiler?

- Well, well your boss.
- If you just let me in.

Just called my attorney to communicate

that the FBI had ruled out
my brother as a suspect,

so I don't know what
you're doing here...

Your brother? He's your brother?

He's your brother?

Get off my property!

I came forward, I did what was
right, and he was cleared!

David? David, he's your brother?

The FBI have gotten thousands
of letters sent in.

Mothers turning in sons,
wives turning in husbands,

brothers across the country
turning in brothers,

just like you.

Now, I know you thought it was all over

and me being here is
your worst nightmare,

but I read every piece
of writing that came in.

I read thousands of possible leads.

I only knocked on one door!

Stop harassing me, or
I'll call the police!

One door... your door!

If you're an FBI profiler,

you know they're looking
for an airline mechanic

who is around 45 years old
and he is uneducated.

He does not fit that profile at all.

That's not the profile.

Well, then why are your
bosses on "Charlie Rose"

- saying, "this is the profile"?
- It's... it's wrong.

It's... the FBI profile's
wrong and they stand behind it?

And... and your boss, he...

He rules out my brother's
letter, but he's wrong, too.

Everybody's wrong, except for you.

Yeah.

You know, I... I counsel
at-risk kids, okay?

And the first thing I tell them...

If everybody in the world seems crazy

except for you and you're
the only sane one, right?

It's time to take a hard
look in the mirror.

You knocked on the wrong door.
And I am done.

You need to leave me alone, please!

I'm... please!

And get out.

- Why don't you listen to my profile?
- I... come on, man!

Why don't you listen
to the real profile?

And if it isn't a match
for your brother,

you can drive out of
here in good conscience

and you never have to see me again.

He's 50 to 55 years old.

He was raised near Chicago.

Read the Chicago tribune as a boy.

He got his phd between '67 and '72.

Sometime after that, he just
got cut off from the world.

There's no TV, no pop culture,

no close friends, no romantic relations.

Nothing. Just isolated.

He's smart, patient,

extremely precise.

And he's angry.

He's just thin-skinned,
takes offense easily,

and he lashes out at those that he loves

'cause he's got no one else in his life.

He feels underappreciated, victimized.

He's sidelined by his
lesser-talented peers.

He's lonely. He longs
for human connection.

But he can't find it. And
it is tearing him apart.

So you talked to Linda?

She... she... you've been talking
to her about my brother?

Is that... she contacted you.

I don't know who she is. I
don't know who you are.

I don't know your brother.

I don't know anyone in your life.

I do know the unabomber.

I know him like I know myself.

Um...

Ted.

His name is Ted.

Okay. This is Ted.

That's the unabomber.

I don't see any resemblance.
I mean, not at all.

And I've looked at the sketch for...
For hours.

It's not the unabomber.

What... what do you...
It's an eyewitness sketch.

The woman at rentech, she...
Yeah, the woman at rentech,

the only person to ever
have seen the unabomber.

See, the day after the rentech bombing,

she described the unabomber
to a local sketch artist.

The sketch was published
and was so close

that the unabomber went
into hiding for six years.

But that isn't the sketch.

In 1994, 10 years after
the rentech bombing,

the head of the task force
decides he wants a new sketch,

so he sends a new sketch
artist to the eyewitness,

and this time,

what the eyewitness
describes is that sketch.

And it is iconic.

It is the most famous
police sketch in history.

But it's not the unabomber.

See, the second time around,
the eyewitness was describing

the original sketch artist... this guy.

Some crazy thing in the human memory.

She was remembering
remembering the unabomber.

And she had spent...
Yeah, think about it...

Three seconds looking at the unabomber.

But she spent the whole
afternoon with him,

the sketch artist.

And over time, the faces blend together.

What about the original sketch?
What does that look like?

My god.

Is this where he lives?

David, is this where he lives?

That's the cabin we built together.

He's a mathematician.

He designed the cabin to a
perfect mathematical ratio.

There's no electricity or running water.

It's, it's perfect simplicity.

It's western Montana. It's
the middle of nowhere.

It's really beautiful.

He just lives off the land.
He forages, hunts for food.

Has a little garden.

I think he lives off
something like $400 a year.

He's got no job?

He does odd jobs here and there,

but he lives about as
far outside the system

as... as anybody can this day and age.

You know, a lot of people,

even my wife, they...

They look at that and they think he's...

He's crazy.

He just has the courage to
live according to his ideals.

I respect that.

Yeah, I do, too.

But it was a bit of a
push/pull situation,

Ted going to live out in the woods.

He was pulled out there by his ideals,

but there was a push, too,

not long after this photo was taken.

So what was the push?

He eventually ran out of
money living out there,

and he came back to
Chicago to get a job.

I got him work at this phone factory

that my, father worked at...

I was a foreman there that summer.

Anyhow, there was a girl
there he had a crush on.

Her name was Ellen.

He asked her out. They
went on a few dates.

I think they went apple-picking,
baked a pie in my mother's oven,

but Ted is not great with people,

so she told him she didn't
want to see him again.

Think she was cordial about it,

but when I showed up to work the
next day, there were, um...

"Certain young lady named Ellen
whose Fanny is very repellin'."

The place was covered in these.
These dirty limericks.

They were all about Ellen.

Must've been 150 of them.
They were everywhere.

I mean, anonymous
messages is his weapon.

It's the unabom in miniature,
right down to the typewriter.

Ted?!

I fired my brother,

and that's really
when he made his break.

He took his last paycheck,

and he went out to the cabin for good.

- You still see your brother?
- No.

- You still contact him?
- No.

- Call him, visit?
- He doesn't have a phone.

We used to write until a few years ago.

I mean, he sent me so many letters.

He would send me another one
before I could even respond.

I probably have 100 of them. Hundreds.

I'm gonna have to see those letters.

I'm gonna have to see every
letter that you have.

Some are them are,
at my abri in Texas.

It's a small cabin I used
to live in out there.

The rest are... are at my mother's.

She's nearby, so we could go get those.

We can go get 'em.

We'd have to tell my mother that...

[Inhales deeply... her son, is...

And I'm the one that...

That I'm the one that turned him in.

You know, you said there were
other mothers and brothers

who came forward, but, um...

It's my brother.

My brother's the unabomber.

Do you know what would happen
if it was someone else?

99% of them would just let it go.

They would have lacked the courage.

They would have lacked the
awareness to make that call.

They would have let fear get in
the way of doing what was right.

And we would never,
ever know who he was,

and we would never be able to stop him.

The world is lucky that it was you.

And you have to take
that burden of guilt

and suffering

so that the rest of US can
sleep safely at night,

and it is the most anyone can give.

Hey!

What's going on?

Yeah, so, if it's him,
then he must be stopped.

Because his victims, they
all had mothers, too.

But he was such a happy boy.

He... he was so gentle
with you, so loving.

Don't you remember?

So where did I go wrong?
What... what happened?

Did something happen to him at Harvard?

He would never tell me.

But I always felt like something
changed inside him there.

Or maybe when he was a little boy.

Or when?

Is there no answer?

Ted wrote all of these?

Yes.

These go back 30 years.

- The spelling checked out?
- Diction's right on.

It's him.

It's just... I need to
present this to the u.T.F.,

and I need to make them see it, too.

Okay. We can do this.

We need to go through Ted's
handwritten letters...

His language, his ideas...

And then find points of comparison

in the unabomber's manifesto.

Yeah, and his life, too.

We work out his history, who he is.

Does it match the timeline?
Does it match the profile?

It's him.

Do we have it?

We have him.

We have him.

- Wait.
- Whoa.

What are you doing?

Well, y-you said you left your wife.

- I just thought that...
- Yeah, I did.

But...

Wow.

Sorry.

Thank you.

"Thank you"?

You show up here why?

You leave your wife,
you come all the way

across the country to me. Why?

What are you even doing here?

You here for me or are you here for him?

Is that what I am to you?

Some accessory to get you closer to him?

I'm gonna go walk the dogs.
You can let yourself out.

Holy crap.

- Hey. Where's tabby?
- I don't know.

Where's tabby? Tabby!

Hey!

Double... hey, hey, hey! What
do you think you're doing?!

You told me to put a name on the board,

so I'm putting a name on the board.

Told you to put a name on
the board three months ago!

This is him.

This is the unabomber.
Theodore kaczynski.

Hold on, Stan.

You got five minutes. Go.

Meet Ted kaczynski.

He's born in 1942 outside
Chicago, makes him 53.

He's got an IQ of 167.
He's a bona fide genius.

He attended Harvard on a
full scholarship at age 16.

Got a phd in mathematics at the
university of Michigan in '68,

which correlates with the
formatting of the manifesto.

His dissertation was brilliant.

It won prizes, got published.

Just it was so advanced, only
four or five mathematicians

in the world could understand it.

But this plays into his
need to be listened to

and acknowledged as a
profound genius thinker.

Now, he taught at Berkeley for two years

before he withdrew into the
woods in Lincoln, Montana.

Built that cabin with his brother.

Ted went back and forth from Chicago,

but he moved there permanently in 1980.

He's living the life that he
describes in the manifesto...

Free from technology, completely alone.

Yeah, but a lot of
people live like that,

and a lot of people have big
degrees and grew up in Chicago.

So he fits your profile. That's great.

That does not make him the unabomber.

You're right. Except in 1971,

he wrote a document that
could only be described

as a trial run at the manifesto.

It mirrors the manifesto point by point.

It's the same order of ideas.
It's the same preoccupations.

It's the same linguistic idiosyncrasies.

Where'd you get this letter, Fitz?

His brother.

His brother read the manifesto
when we published it,

and he recognized the ideas,

which is why we had it published
in the first place, right?

Plus, look.

He gave me hundreds of
letters to analyze.

There's more coming
from his place in Texas

in the next couple of days. Look.

I compared his writings
to the manifesto,

and I found dozens of similarities.

I also used kaczynski's letters

to map his movements
for the past 20 years,

and they track closely
with the unabom events.

He's familiar with salt
lake city, Chicago,

and the bay area... the unabom nexus.

And he feels safe at universities,

which is why he can plant
the bombs there personally.

He fits the profile.

He fits the timeline.

The language is a match.

I got him.

Ted kaczynski's the unabomber.

Kaczynski's not tier one.
He's not tier two.

He's not even in our initial
pool of 15 million.

Computationally, he's not a suspect.

He's 1,500 miles away.

Every single unabom letter,
every single unabom package

came from the bay area, right?

So you're telling me he drove three days

every time he wanted to mail something?

He doesn't have a car.

Took a bus.

Took a bus.

It could explain why all his
letters came in batches.

That's always confused me.

He'd send a bunch of
letters and two mail bombs

all together at the same time,

and then he'd disappear for
months until the next burst.

We have to be very, very
careful about this.

Unabomber or not, this guy's got guns,

knows how to live off the land.

So best case, he's a flight risk.

Worst case, we're talking
"Ruby Ridge" Montana edition.

Stan, set up a stakeout
in Lincoln, Montana,

and get eyes on the cabin.

Let's see if we can
find his bank records,

set up a mail cover.

If he is taking a bus, there's
got to be a record of it.

- Yeah, I'm on it.
- Fitz,

what are your next moves?

I would love to mine these letters

for linguistic evidence to prove
that Ted wrote the manifesto.

Good. Andy, I want you to sit down

with Steve freccero. He's our d.O.J.
Liaison.

Start figuring out what we
need to feed a federal judge

to get inside of that cabin.

From now on...

Ted kaczynski is unabom
suspect number one.

Ted kaczynski. That's it.

Fitz.

Now, if I remember correctly,

this letter came here with a
"do not distribute" cover.

Now, you were at the b.A.U. When it did.

Care to shed some light
on that little mystery?

Did you just screw me?

All right. Got some work to do.
Come on, Fitz.

I told you you had to run

- everything by me.
- I tried to find you.

I stuck my neck out for you.

Look, I can fix this.
Tabby, I can fix it.

I looked up to you. I wanted to be you.

When you came, it was like

someone finally saw me, you know?

Saw my potential.

I wasn't just "tabby the street agent,"

- who stumbled behind a desk.
- Hey.

You know, I thought I
could do something cool,

be something more.

But you used me and you screwed me over.

Well, you did break protocol.
You did send the document.

You know, when you sent the address,

what'd you think was gonna happen?

You're leaving a trail
of burnt-out corpses

in your wake, man.

It's gonna catch up with you.

You know, at the end of the road,

you're gonna have nobody by your side.

Right.

Thank you.

We have to save Ted.

Whatever it takes,

no matter what we have to do or say,

we have to save his life.

There it is.

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Dear David,

I find myself at a strange
crossroads in my life,

and I am in need of
some fraternal advice.

A certain activity, which has
been very time-consuming

for nearly the entirety
of my adult life,

now seems to have become
no longer necessary.

I've been living on anger my whole life.

It is all that has sustained me.

David, I need to know...

How do you know if it's
too late to change?

How can you tell if it's still
possible to begin again?