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I just got a call from Florida,

they're tracking
a possible anthrax attack.

The last natural human
infection on American soil

was almost 30 years ago.

You're not the only one that's
supposed to see things coming.

But what if I do this time?

And no one listens?

The results came back.
It's Ames.

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

It doesn't.

JUDITH:
I share the concern about.

Iraq's biological
weapons program.

MOORE: Is Al-Qaeda even in Iraq?

Iraq's bioweapons
capabilities were shut down

after the war.

As far as you
and I have been told.

Anthrax spores do not die off.

They lay in wait.

What we are talking about
is a ticking time bomb.

Where might the
letter have been dropped off?

One of our blue boxes?

How many of those
blue boxes are we talking?

Over 600.

Bruce, we got some
samples coming in from Florida.

Do you suspect someone
at work is possibly involved?

BROKAW:
NBC was not the only target.

Other news outlets
including The New York Post

were targeted as well.

But now, with multiple attacks
along the eastern seaboard and

no suspect yet identified, our
nation is gripped with fear.

We can only hope there
will be no more victims.

REPORTER: And from Capitol Hill,

the White House continues to
gather support to pass the Patriot Act,

which would expand the
government's surveillance powers.

Critics charged that it would
take away vital protections

for personal privacy.

The most contentious issues
revolve around removing the.

FISA requirement that the
surveillance target be

a foreign national.

This means
the government can gather

what they call
foreign intelligence,

even if the target
involved is a US citizen.

The man with the task of
passing the controversial bill

is Senate Majority
Leader Tom Daschle.

Start over
there with distribution.

Hold on, you got all the...

Morning. Here you go.

REPORTER:
The White House is pushing for

a Senate vote later this week.

At least nobody calls
you Samantha behind your back.

REPORTER: But
Daschle insisting his members

have adequate time to
debate the USA PATRIOT Act,

an acronym for "Uniting".

"Uniting and Strengthening
America by Providing Appropriate.

Tools Required To Intercept
and Obstruct Terrorism."

Man, somebody
got really excited when

they came up with that one.

Mm-hmm.

Oh. Shocker.

More hate mail.

Want me to drop
it off in Leahy's office?

Ooh.

Please, let it be cute drawings
instead of misspelled profanity.

Oh, my God.

Okay, what did
they say in the training?

No one move more
than you have to.

Billy, call the Capitol Police.

Steve, the FBI?

Got it.

Close the door.

Toretti. Counterterrorism.

Okay.

I need a team at
Capitol Hill right now.

Toretti, Profiler
with Counterterrorism.

Profiler?

You're like a
shrink or something?

Yeah, if
disco was still a thing.

Where's the letter?

I got a guard on it.

Forensics is on their way.

Listen, we've responded two
of these hoaxes already today.

There's no reason to
think this is any different.

Oh, there's a
lot of reasons, actually.

I got a Hazmat
team on their way.

You seal that contaminated
room until they decon it.

Get me somebody in facilities.

It could be pumping spores
through this entire building right now.

Shut this
ventilation system down!

Tell Hazmat I need
rapid tests, swabs, and Cipro.

Are you the one that found it?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

Is it really anthrax?

We can't run it until the letter's
been swabbed for evidence.

But either way, we're gonna
start you on antibiotics.

So if you were exposed,
hammering it with Cipro before

symptoms appear
should knock it out.

It's what they did in New York.

What about the others?

It's the same protocol.

You gotta hit 'em
before they hit you,

that's what my mom always says.

I got the South Dakota version.

Better to be
cautious than sorry.

That's right. You'll be okay.

JENNY: Hey, Matty,
not sure if you're back yet.

Uh, don't forget Kari's
birthday party on the 17th.

Hope you can make it.

But just be forewarned,
Devon's been a bit of a

handful lately with
his dad off the grid.

Miss you.

VOICE: You've reached
the end of your messages.

To repeat this message,

press one.

Ryker.

COPAK: If you're thinking
of unpacking your suitcase,

gonna have to wait.

Hill just got hit.

Anthrax letter.

Where?

Senator Daschle's office.

But there's already
an agent on the ground,

she caught the
call when it came in.

I'm on my way in.

I need to see that letter.

Uh, Special Agent Ryker,

forensics is doing
a sweep right now on

the Daschle letter for
hair, skin, any particles.

I know you didn't find anything on
the New York letters, but I thought...

Worth a shot. Who are you?

TORETTI:
Special Agent Toretti. Dani.

What division?

Counterterrorism.

I lead a fly team.

Washington Field Office
called us in.

- On Hazmat?
- Mm-hmm.

So I'll take it from here.

No, that is
not how this is gonna go.

I was first boots on the ground.

I read your briefings
on Florida and New York,

I've seen copies of the letters.

It's the same block handwriting,

slanted to the right.

This sure as hell looks
like the same guy to me.

Guy? You mean Al-Qaeda?

No, that would
not be my first thought.

I would lean more
towards a lone wolf.

Three weeks after
terrorists started a war?

Not a chance.

Here's the thing,
it was postmarked three weeks

after the New York letters.

After Bob Stevens?

Yeah, and after the
entire country saw it on TV.

So our sender knew
he had killed someone.

He wants more people to die.

And we've swabbed all
the interns in the room now,

I'm gonna order anthrax tests
for everybody that was in

the Hart building today.

We need a wider sweep.

I'd quarantine all the
mail in the Capitol until

we can get it tested.

You wanna just shut down

the entire
United States government?

The Hill anyway, until
we can get the staffers tested

in the office and deconned.

In a perfect world, I'd set
up a full BSL4 lab to handle

that kind of volume.

Daschle had the
President on the phone and

we've been
offered all resources.

Good, I'll get someone scouting
locations to start the build.

Also, we need to get the head
of pathology from USAMRIID

over here and take
a look at that letter,

send it back to the lab, and
see if it comes back positive.

Thanks. We'll take it from here.

Uh, the type of
writing is the same,

but the powder is different
from the Brokaw and Post letters.

Take a look.

It's whiter,
less clumpy, no debris.

I need to know if
it's the same strain.

You'll notice something
different about this letter.

- A return address.
- Our guy is smart.

He knows that the anthrax
letters have been in the news,

people are nervous.

You see a letter with
strange handwriting,

you're gonna chuck it.

But from a bunch of kids.

Yeah.

We have to track down
the address and get

this to USAMRIID for testing.

Both the Brokaw and The
Post letters are postmarked here,

so our agents are gonna
swab all 600 plus mailboxes

that feed into this facility,

full hazmat gear.

This is gonna be tedious, okay,

but if we can
identify this specific box,

it's gonna help lead
us to the terrorists.

Excuse me.

Hey, it's Chris Moore.

RYKER: Hey, put
another agent on the boxes,

I need you on something else.

The Daschle letter
has a return address.

It's an elementary school
in Franklin Park.

MOORE: Franklin Park?

That's, that can't be
more than 20 miles from here.

That fed guy is up
in Quinton's office again.

Wonder what he got himself into.

Testing the sample is gonna
take me a few hours in the lab.

You got it.

I'll let him know
we're heading over now.

I can give him an ETA.

Is that from the Daschle letter?

Bruce. I didn't you were here.

Mind if I take a look?

Sure.

I've never seen
anthrax so aerosolized.

It's far more
lethal in this form.

Jody, what if the
anthrax killer is one of us?

I think you're
letting all this get to you.

Think about it, Jod.

The terrorists would
still need some patsy here

on the ground to
help them carry it out.

Someone who has
access to anthrax and

knows how to handle it.

I know there's been a
flood of new faces around here

with all with all the added
help for testing but they were

brought in after
the letters were found.

Be careful pointing fingers.

Maybe it's not someone new.

For shirts and giggles, let's
just say this person was part

of the old guard around here.

Someone we've been
working with on a daily basis.

Bruce, there's enough
division around here as it is,

science versus military,
old gen, new gen and

without creating more,

I just..

I'm not sure I'm the
one you should be talking to.

I tell you everything.

I would never keep
something like this from you.

If you really
have concerns, Bruce,

you should tell the Colonel.

I just think we
have a duty here, you know.

I mean, what if a person
could weasel their way into

a position where they could
impede the FBI's investigation,

maybe even destroy evidence?

It'd be up to us to
stop them, wouldn't it?

Hey, Matt, I
have to call you back.

Where are you?

Not where I'm supposed to be.

Small Biz Committee
started three minutes ago.

RYKER: On the Hill?

Yeah, why?

I want you to
get out of the building.

What's going on?

The Hill's been
attacked, it's anthrax.

RYKER: In a few minutes,

every building's
gonna be evacuated.

Oh, my God.

Listen, head to
Constitution and Second.

RYKER: There's three buses
arriving to take people to.

Bethesda to get tested.

Get on the first bus, okay?

I'll call you later.

Matthew?

REPORTER: As the evacuation
on Capitol Hill continues,

FBI teams scour for evidence.

Growing sources insist there

is a direct link
between the New York and.

D.C. mailings to terrorists,

and possibly Iraq.

So far, the FBI has
declined to comment.

Move it along, please.

Okay, do you have a fever?

Take the next person out here.

Hi. Sheila Willis.

REPORTER: The FBI is
quarantining all mail on Capitol Hill.

And reportedly, the Bureau is
building a lab as no labs on

the East Coast can
handle the volume.

Vacuum seals capable of
sustaining directional airflow, uh,

self-closing doors,
decontamination stations.

You're building an entire BSL4
lab in an unsecure, unsterile space?

Uh, it'll be
both once we're done.

Daschle got a green light
directly from the White House.

With this
splashed all over the news,

whole damn seaboard is
terrified to touch their mail.

Once we prove the rest of
the mail on the Hill is clean,

it'll put people's minds
at ease about their own.

Fine, the administration
is shelling out millions,

you better deliver more
than just another envelope

filled with white powder.

Hand them the connection
to terrorists.

Look, I'll find the terrorists,

but I've been hearing all
the rumblings in the press,

and I don't know that
this came from Iraq.

You and I aren't cleared
for all classified intel.

Who knows where those
bastards are hiding out?

Just find them.

Chris, tell me you
got something at the school.

So, I hate to be
the bearer of bad news,

but this return
address is bogus.

There actually aren't any schools
called Greendale in Franklin Park.

The closest match we could find
was a Greenbrook Elementary,

it's in Kendall Park.

But we've been here
since the doors opened,

there's nobody on any FBI
Watchlist associated with the school.

CIA's got nothing.

Students, faculty,
no one from Iraq?

Uh, five students,

three staff from
the Middle East.

But I mean, these people have
all been vetted since 9/11.

And there's none that
are of Iraqi descent.

There's nothing here, Matt.

MOORE: Sorry.

Look, I don't
wanna overstep here, but...

Didn't you say Iraq
never had the Ames strain?

Yeah, we'll
know more once we find out

where those letters were mailed.

In the meantime, get everyone up
there swabbing mailboxes, okay?

Okay.

REPORTER: Many
US citizens have stopped

opening their mail, even
tossing it on the curb.

We now join a live conference at

the Brentwood
Mail Facility in D.C.

MANAGER: Thank you
for joining us here today.

At the postal services
in Washington, D.C.

processing and
distribution center.

As you know, one letter
from among the more than

3.5 million pieces of mail handled
here each day contained anthrax.

And there is no...

I don't know why they
made you stay after your shift

and sweep up round the sorters.

You can't even
see them on the TV.

MANAGER: This afternoon,
I am announcing the offer of a

reward of up to
$1 million for the information

leading to the arrest
and conviction of those

responsible for the
mailing of the anthrax.

You leavin'?

There's enough
smoke being blown up

certain places around here.

And I'm feeling
a little run-down anyway.

Later.

How many others on
the Hill have been infected?

We got 28 new cases,
hundreds more to test.

And I've got
three more right here.

Okay, let's pin 'em.

The green indicates where
infected people worked,

the red is where our hazmat
teams found spores, here,

high concentration
in Feingold's offices,

in the central atrium,
and the courtyard in front

of Daschle's suite.

What about your three?

I got Alicia Herrera,

works in
Feingold's basement office.

Okay.

Mike Wakefield,
uh, Capitol Police,

first responders.

He's one of the first into

the Hart Building
after the attack.

That'd be atrium.

And Peter Browning,

a contractor in the
State Department...

Building.

Ryker?

We shut the Hill down too late.

Somebody opened another letter.

Mr. Browning, I
just need to confirm,

you were nowhere near the
Hart Building this morning, correct?

I stay in the annex.

Keep my distance from the
senators and staffers, the egos.

How long have you had symptoms?

I've felt
like crap for two days.

Well, you could have
been exposed days ago from an

entirely different letter.

We need to know when
that letter arrived and

who might've been the target.

Mr. Browning,

think back, do you remember
opening any suspicious mail

over the past week?

It would've likely look
similar to the anthrax letters

that you've seen on TV,

with all caps and
childish handwriting.

I don't
really see what comes in or

where it's going.

I'm a supervisor.

I don't open mail.

Ever.

Uh, give me a minute, okay?

Yeah.

Hey.

Hey. How bad is this?

I'm not really sure.
Are you okay?

Yeah. I'm still waiting to find out,
and they're getting us Cipro.

Mm-hmm.

I'm trying not to freak out.

Hey, you're
gonna be okay, all right?

The important thing is
they caught everyone on

the Hill early.

Okay.

Um, I really gotta go.

I'll check in with you later?

Okay.

It's a little high,
but not so bad.

Flu's going around.

It don't feel like the flu.

You know, Joe
left after his shift.

Looked like hell.

Said he wasn't
feeling good neither.

Joe said he hit the crab cake
buffet at Milton's yesterday.

Chances are it's food poisoning.

But they had
me shut down number 17.

You don't think maybe it had
to do with what's happening on

the Hill with the anthrax mail?

They held a whole
press conference here.

All the big wigs
were down on the floor.

They wouldn't do
that if it weren't safe.

Look, just take a few
aspirin and finish up.

You don't wanna use a whole sick
day just 'cause you're feeling warm.

It is a blessing to see
so many faces here tonight.

I only wish it was
for different reasons,

but the atrocities of 9/11
have left us searching for

answers and comfort in
the house of our Lord.

Honey?

Joe, you okay?

What's going on?

Come in.

IVINS: Colonel Charles, evening.

Sorry to barge in
on you this late.

Not a problem,
Dr. Ivins, especially

if you keep it quick.

Wife's making pot roast tonight.

Oh.

It's about the
anthrax investigation, sir.

I'd like to have a word
with you about Simon Kurz.

You have an issue with
how Kurz's running things?

I do, sir.

As you know I've spent my whole
career working on anthrax,

I pretty much wrote
the book on it, uh,

at least a cornucopia
of articles.

And Simon has not consulted with
me about the Daschle letter.

Not that strange, Bruce.

Situations like this always fall
to the head of the department.

With all due
respect to Dr. Kurz, sir,

I'm the one here
who's worked on not one,

but two anthrax vaccines

and I just...

I think something's amiss.

You think Kurz is
purposely keeping you out?

I don't want to speculate, sir.

I just want to help.

If I could have a couple of
hours with the Daschle letter,

there's some tests that
Simon hasn't run yet.

They're the same
stock as the attack envelopes?

Yes, how can a
person who didn't even open

the letter get infected?

I thought it took,
like, 8,000 spores?

Do you know how
they got those estimates?

Tests on monkeys.

For humans, they
don't know exactly.

Now, this cocoa powder is just
about the same particle size

as the anthrax.

So last week in New York,
a woman from The Post,

said she was infected,

who swears she never
opened an envelope.

- Like Browning?
- Exactly.

So I thought she just
couldn't remember opening it.

Then we found it,
and it was sealed.

But how can even a
few spores escape an envelope

that's been taped shut?

I don't think they did.

This morning, we got a call
from Dr. Kurz over at USAMRIID.

He said that the
second batch of spores were

the most refined he's ever seen.

Powder's not leaking
from the edges of the tape.

It's coming right through
the fibers of the envelope.

Which means that anyone
even in the vicinity of the

anthrax letters is at risk.

There could be a whole string of
victims we don't know anything about,

all the way back to Jersey

where the letters were mailed.

So we need to know each stop
that they made along the way.

RYKER: Shut it down!

What, all of it?

There must be a dozen
DBCS machines down there.

Yes, you need to
evacuate every employee and

get them all on Cipro.

We'd have mountains of mail.

It's a federal offense.

I've contacted the CDC
and you should be hearing from

the Governor any minute.

This needs to happen right now!

The Governor?

Your machines could be
spewing poison throughout...

RYKER: The entire building.

We already know of three
letters full of anthrax have

passed through your equipment,

there could be more.

The anthrax is
coming through the envelopes.

One of your employees was
already admitted into St. Francis.

They found a lesion on her arm.

- Who?
- Angela Lowman.

We're checking in
with another employee

who might also be infected.

I'm gonna have the
floor evacuated immediately.

Inspector,
sorry to keep you waiting.

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

- Happy to help.
- Thank you.

We shut down the Hamilton
facility in New Jersey.

But what we need to know is
everywhere the letter went

between there and
Senator Daschle's office.

We need test
everyone along the way,

so we just wanna know
how precise we can get.

Well, you see
those series of hash marks?

It's actually an
encoded time stamp.

It traces a letter's path,

marks every
facility it went through.

- Huh.
- Oh, there we go.

Okay, on October 9th,

the envelope went through the.

Automatic Flats Canceling
and Sorting machine

at Hamilton at 4:57 pm.

At 5:15, it was encoded by a
DBCS machine according to its

zip plus four, and sorted
into a mail bin that was

loaded onto Truck number 468.

The truck left Hamilton
at 7:18 am the next morning,

and drove to Newark Airport,

where it was loaded
on a USPS airliner.

We need to
track down that driver,

the pilot, and the co-pilot,
and those baggage handlers.

Plane landed in D.C.

on the night of the
October 10th, and from there,

the letter went to
its final USPS stop...

Brentwood.

Brentwood's one of the
largest mail facilities on

the East Coast.

It employs almost 2,000 workers.

Can you trace the exact
machines that letter went through?

Just one.

DBCS machine number 17.

We need to get all
those workers out of there.

What the...

They didn't evacuate?

How can they just let
these employees come to work

in a contaminated space?

I'm looking for Jerry Reid.

You found him.

Special Agent Ryker, FBI.

This place should have
been evacuated hours ago.

We got your recommendation.

We shut down DBCS 17 and I
passed it on up the chain,

they said that was enough.

Letters filled with anthrax
came through here days ago.

We've had two positive cases

in a postal facility
in New Jersey.

They shut down.

Why haven't you?

Hamilton is a
fraction of our size.

We service the
entire U.S. Government,

every embassy and...

You need to
shut this place down.

FBI doesn't have
carte blanche jurisdiction.

Look, there's a whole
chain of heavy hitters above

the two of us.

What part of this
do you guys not understand?

People are dying!

Not postal workers.
They're all fine.

You don't understand
what we do, what we are.

Social Security checks,
mortgages.

You don't let somebody's
house get foreclosed on,

'cause they missed a payment?

And what about the insulin
that's sitting in one of

our carts on its
way to some diabetic?

People's lives rely
on the postal service.

We don't "shut down."

Ever.

What you're looking at on that
floor is an essential service.

They're essential.

Don't you mean expendable?

I may not have the authority
to evacuate your employees,

but let's see how many of them
stick around when they start

seeing a hazmat team
sweeping through.

Rough pass first.

Get suited up.

What are they all doing here?

Excuse me?

Uh, can you tell us
what is going on here?

Is the floor
contaminated or something?

We don't know yet,

but I'm gonna be
honest with you.

There are probably a few
workers here in this facility

that have been
exposed to anthrax spores.

Now, I'm trying to track
down anyone who's been sick,

so we can get them help.

Are you feeling ill in any way?

Not, not me.

Somebody else then?

Their best chance is for us to
get to them as soon as possible.

A friend of mine,
Louis Miller, he,

he's never left mid-shift
his whole life until today.

I'll give you his number.

Please, yes.

He wasn't home and
he isn't picking up his cell.

TORETTI: He wasn't at
his HMO's urgent care either.

I'm heading over
to Central Hospital.

All right.

I'll tell you
what I find out here.

I'm looking for a patient,

African-American
male in his 40s.

Place of employment is
the Brentwood Mail Facility.

I have his name and
address right here.

Is it Thomas Morris?

Qieth McQue?

I've also got a Joseph Curseen.

These men all work at Brentwood?

Yeah.

And they're
all current patients?

Two of them are in the ICU,

but Joe is in Room 311.

Thank you.

Hi.

I'm looking for a patient,
he's a middle-aged man,

African-American
named Louis Miller.

He hasn't seen a doctor yet.

He's in the waiting area.

Okay, I need someone now.

Louis Miller?

Over here.

Mr. Miller?

From the
Brentwood Mail Facility?

Yeah, what's, what's going on?

Are you experiencing
flu-like symptoms?

Oh, something's not right.

I'm sorry, who are you?

Dani Toretti, FBI,
we believe you may have been

exposed to anthrax at Brentwood,

we just need to make sure.

Okay.

Chest X-ray and a spinal tap.

It'll show that
Mr. Miller has anthrax.

But first start him
on Cipro, right now.

I'll get a doctor.

Once we have you on antibiotics,

you should be okay.

There are others, you know,

who've been sick
all of a sudden.

Yeah. Yeah. We know.

Just give me one minute, okay?

Ryker, I found him.

We caught it just in time.

RYKER: No, we didn't.

I just found Joe Curseen.

He works with Louis.

He passed out in
church yesterday.

RYKER: By the
time he got to the hospital,

it was already too late.

He's dead.

All right, thanks.

MORRIS: My breathing is labored
and my chest feels constricted.

Uh, I am getting air,
but just to get up and

walk and what have you.

I feel like I
might just pass out.

911 OPERATOR: And you
said you work at the post office?

Which one?

MORRIS:
The post office downtown,

Brentwood Road.

They never let us know if
that thing had anthrax or not.

The doctor thought it was
just a virus or something,

so I was taking
aspirin for the achiness.

But now there's the
shortness of breath.

The person who called
911 was one of your employees.

Is he okay?

Thomas Morris,

he's dead.

So is Joe Curseen.

I don't know what to say.

Well, maybe there's a
reason the workers here call

this place "The Plantation."

Look, I shut the
machines down and started

closing the place up
after you left here.

My heart goes out
to them, their families.

Your team knew
there could be anthrax here

multiple shifts ago.

We were assured
it wasn't a problem.

I was following orders,
trusting the people who

are supposed to
know more about this.

"Supposed to"
doesn't mean anything to the

people who have lost someone.

Uh, it's pretty straightforward.

We examined the powder from
the Daschle letter under an

electron microscope which can
magnify up to 2,000 times and

identified the augmentation and

presence on a molecular level.

Layman's terms.

I'll have to
spell it out for them.

We found that something
had been added to the spores.

And based on
your expertise in anthrax,

how certain are you about
what that substance is?

Bentonite?

100%.

Will they know what that means?

They might not
understand microbiology,

but they've read enough
intelligence briefings.

There's only one country we know
of that's added bentonite to anthrax.

Iraq.

You're not answering your phone.

I hadn't slept since New York.

I haven't eaten. Do you mind?

No, make yourself right at home.

Not exactly a meal.

This is cozy.

Well, I spend
a lot of time on the road.

Sorry, I'm a little late.

It's just, I have a, a dinner
date tonight and then I have a

family birthday thing that
totally slipped my mind,

kind of a two birds
with one stone situation.

Who's the lucky girl?

Is she the stone
or one of the birds?

What are you doing here again?

They found
a hot drum full of mail,

led them to
another anthrax letter.

It's the one we
think infected Browning.

- Who was the target?
- Senator Leahy.

Leahy. Judiciary Committee.

Why wasn't it in the
mail from his office?

The postal machine misread
the handwritten zip code,

so it ended up unopened,

way down at the
State Department building.

Which is a very good thing,
because it had triple the

amount of powder than
the Daschle letter.

That's enough spores
to kill thousands of people.

No other hot spots?

No, not that they found so far.

So then why
target Daschle and Leahy and

then no one else?

Two Democratic Senators both

needed to push the
Patriot Act through.

Since when does
Al-Qaeda care about

our internal politics?

Is that what you're implying?

I'm not implying.

It's just a fact.

This is the perfect storm
for a copycat after

thousands of hoax letters
over the past few months.

Clumsily we're just throwing
the blame on Al-Qaeda.

Uncle Matty!

Oh, hello, you.

Happy birthday, girl!

How are you?

- Good.
- Yeah? All right.

Hey, I like you to
meet my friend, Sheila.

Hi.

Hi, happy birthday.

Look what I have.

Look what I have here
for a special someone.

Is it for me?

It is for you,
would you like it now?

- Yes.
- All right.

Go ahead. Take it.

Thank you.

Wow.

Valedictorian and
debate captain, huh?

Yeah, welcome
to our time capsule.

Oh, wow.

How long did your dad serve?

Uh, about six years.

He actually
wanted to stay longer,

but he got sick.

Oh.

Chemical exposure,
had to come home.

I'm sorry.

He looks really
happy in this picture.

Ah, he was
smiling for the photo.

It's my Mattie!

Hi, mom.

- Hello, sweetheart.
- Hey, you.

Come on here, loser.

Uh, Jenny, Mom,
I would love you to

meet Sheila Willis.

- Hi, Sheila.
- Hi, nice to meet you.

So nice to meet you.

Thank you for inviting me.

We just, uh,
we're dropping by on our way to dinner.

Oh, come on now,
we have plenty of food.

Uh, actually,
we have a reservation.

That's totally enough
time to get to know her.

Oh.

You'll have to
come over for dinner.

Oh, um, I'd like that.
Thank you.

So how long have you
two been seeing each other?

Hey, I have an idea.

How about we save the
third degree until after cake?

Come on back.

We're about to play
pin-the-tail-on-the Shrek.

Okay.

Which means
copious amounts of wine.

- Oh.
- I like copious.

Hey.

Hey.

REPORTER: There
are rumors circulating D.C.

about a possible war in...

Sorry I missed your game.

Didn't miss much.

We got our asses handed to us.

Dad thinks we need a new coach.

You heard from him this week?

Called from the base.

Said there's talk.

Maybe they're going to
get deployed to Iraq.

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

All the terrorists
who did all this?

Your dad's gonna be okay.

Is that what
they train you to tell us?

REPORTER: Two more victims
have died of anthrax exposure.

Ottilie Lundgren
and Kathy Nguyen.

Their cases are particularly
troubling as they have

no connection to
the media, politics,

or the U.S. Postal Service,

which have so far
been the targets.

So you heard
about Lundgren and Nguyen?

You're thinking
cross contamination?

I just found out that
Lundgren had a letter that

went through the DBCS machine at
Brentwood 15 seconds after Leahy's.

Well, your hunch was right.

And that powder was so fine,

it just blasted itself
all through those machines,

so it makes sense.

So tell me more
about your lone wolf theory.

Finally coming to your senses?

My senses aren't in question.

I'm just curious.

Okay.

I've been working with
our handwriting analyst.

We believe that the sender
tried to disguise his writing

with this block lettering.

Now, this is a penmanship
style that was taught to

American schoolchildren from
the 1940s through the 1960s.

American, born and raised.

Next up is this
"take penicillin" bit.

Somebody knows enough to
reference a specific antibiotic,

but they don't
know how to spell it?

And why would Al-Qaeda
warn their victims anyways?

So "Allah is Great"
was a misdirect,

to put the focus on foreigners?

Probably. Yeah.

All signs point to our perp being a
highly educated American citizen

with scientific expertise.

Most likely works in isolation,

suffers from mental illness.

Someone spurred by 9/11,

which is why the first
letters bore that date,

despite being mailed later.

I drew up
this profile to send to

the American Society
of Microbiology.

I suspect one of
their members knows or

is the anthrax mailer.

It's risky,
tipping off a suspect.

Or it's a very
smart way to smoke him out.

How many members are there?

TORETTI: 30,000.

And if we get any hits,

we send field agents
out to do interviews.

The Bureau's interest is
squarely on terrorists, I doubt...

I sent it through
my own channels already.

Evening, Colonel.

Got a call from
the Hill to commend you.

Oh, I was
just doing my job, sir.

Your name's
come up for commendations.

I wouldn't be surprised to see
you decorated one of these days.

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

Oh.

Well, that means
a lot to me, sir.

Thank you.

It's an honor, sir.