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- John Singer.

John Singer.

- Daddy.

Daddy. Oh, daddy.

- Hi, baby.

Hi, Nancy.

I've come to see my wife and children.

- Not anymore, Brother Walters. She's my wife now.

I take your children as my own.

- I have an order from the courts.

I demand to see my family.

- Julie, Grant, Nancy, go back to your mother.

Go inside.

Now get off my land, Brother Walters.

Go from here!

- Damn you, John Singer.

(dramatic music)

- Ron Gray.

Ron Gray, I need to speak with you.

- Ian, this is not the place.

- Now, Ron.

I wanna see my children and I want 'em today.

- Take it easy, Ian.

- I will not take it easy.

You're the sheriff. You're the law here.

And you bear responsibility for letting John Singer

defy the laws of this community.

You're all cowards.

You stand here in front of your meeting house,

talking about your families and your children

while that bastard's up there with mine.

He's hiding behind his rifle and he's laughing at all of us.

Well, if you're not gonna do anything about it, I will.

I will, Ron.

Believe me, I will.

- He heads to the mailbox, we pick him up.

It's a go.

(dramatic music)

- John Singer, you're under arrest.

He's got a gun!

(gun shot)

(engine revving)

You shot him, dammit.

Someone gimme a hand down here. Hurry up.

(dramatic music)

- Oh God.

John!

- After years of verbal warfare with authorities

and clashes with countless valley neighbors,

controversial Utah polygamous, John Singer was shot

and killed yesterday in a confrontation

with Summit County law officers.

Lawmen were forced to shoot as singer drew a handgun

during their attempt to serve a felony warrant.

Charges stem from a previous encounter, when singer resisted

arrest by threatening officers with a gun.

Vickie, Vickie, why did they let you go?

- They let me go because they had no right to hold me.

I was forced by the court to let an administrator supervise

the education of my children in their own home.

They have killed my husband, a righteous man,

and I shall see justice done.

- You're filing a wrongful death suit.

- He was shot in the back.

We have the photographs right here.

The state, the police and the church murdered him

because of his beliefs.

- Heidi, you are not allowed to attend public school

by your father, don't you think that you missed a lot

on a line by not going to school with children your own age?

- My good father believed that the world was our classroom.

In nature, in hymns and the writings of Joseph Smith

and all the prophets.

He and my mother took responsibility for teaching us

the path to truth and righteousness.

And look what these devils have done to him.

- [Reporter] Heidi, Heidi, you mentioned devil...

- I wanna marry that girl.

Hi, I know you.

I'm Adam Swapp.

This is my cousin, Ronald. Ronald Perkins.

- You're Heidi Singer, right?

- I majored in mathematics at the university

for about a year before I dropped out.

I believe that God's will is for man to spread his wings.

- Were you raised with fundamentalist beliefs, Adam?

- Yes ma'am. I was.

And I believe that it was a pure sin that the church decided

to turn its back on John Singer.

- Well, John didn't mind being an outcast.

He scorn the scorners.

He made them ashamed that they had abandoned

their own spiritual roots.

- Wow.

He's one of the few men of our time who stood on truth

even against persecution.

- They're still persecuting us today.

- Mother refuses to pay school and water taxes

because we won't support those who had a hand

in dad's death.

- I would do the same thing.

- Would you really?

- Yes I would.

God does not require us to support the abominations

of a corrupt government.

Rather, he commands us to stand upright against Satan

in all of his forms.

- When John was killed,

I spent the entire night listening to the children crying

and then the early dawn, I felt this most marvelous peace.

And John spoke to me, "Vickie don't sorrow."

He said, "Rejoice, don't look back,

"look forward to things that will come."

And then the words kept repeating themselves in my mind.

The hour of redemption is near.

There's a passage in the doctrine and covenants,

which speaks of he who is mighty and strong.

- Whom prophets foretold would rise up

and restore the church as it was.

- John will return.

- Of that I have no doubt.

(indistinct)

- Great work, Fred.

Hey, what do you think, Bob,

can Mike here join the task force?

- What do you say, Bob?

- Yeah, I like that.

Dogs can't talk back.

- You talk back to the feds.

You know we're here to do whatever you tell us to do.

- Always a little friction between the local law enforcement

and you federal people.

- Especially if it's with someone who wears suspenders

and a belt, I'd say that was a careful man.

What are you expecting,

a flood from the great salt leg down there?

- No, I'm expecting a flood of interference from Washington.

You know, information, deals, move into town...

- Take over the case, grab the manpower,

call the national press and screw the locals.

I heard it, been there. Done it.

- That's it.

- Bob. If your intent is to work on cases with us,

you know, share information, give and take,

then welcome to the mountains.

- You got a deal, fellas.

Oh, thanks...

- Fred House.

And Mike.

- How about a beer, fellas?

- Not here, brother Bryant.

- Couple coffee then?

- The water company has no record of specific rights for us.

The new collection system has cut back our spring

and now this.

It's a conspiracy, Adam, to drive up our crops

and drive us out.

They're cutting us off, Adam.

They are cutting us off.

- Adam Swapp!

Adam Swapp.

Adam, what the hell are you doing here?

- This water is ours and will be used for our food.

- It's county water.

And you've no right to divert it from the main slope.

- If you could understand what you were saying,

if you could then you would not be doing this to me

and my family.

Now get off of this land. Get off.

(slow instrumental music)

My name is Adam Swapp.

I'm married to Heidi Singer and also to her sister,

Charlotte singer, both of the daughters

of John and Vickie Singer.

And I now speak as the head of this household.

This letter is being written to all those who have conspired

against and had a hand in the mischief

against the Singer family.

You men are guilty of cold blooded murder.

You took an innocent man's life through

careful planning and cunning.

By using your positions of authority,

you received your instructions from the Mormon Church

in Salt Lake City to get rid of that polygamist

any way you can.

When you had him shot down like a hardened criminal,

his blood poured out upon the ground.

It poured out upon each one of your hands and heads.

It is a blood which will not wash off.

His blood poured out upon this entire country for redemption

or destruction of each individual who lives

under this wicked government.

It has been almost 10 years since John, Vickie

and their children have been forced into siege.

It has been nine years since John was butchered

by you devils.

There is a God who has seen all that has taken place.

He has seen your dark counsels full of conspiracies

and your hidden abominations.

He sees the blood of an innocent man

you killed upon your faces.

This blood cries to the Lord for vengeance.

The Lord's arm cannot be stayed any longer

and you will now suffer the wrath of just God.

- You all will suffer the wrath of just God.

Your senior dark counsel's full of conspiracies

and your hidden abominations.

- I got this letter, same one that was delivered

to two other families, school people.

One of them had even tried to counsel a singer kids

after John was shot.

Now this.

- We'll go out and have a word with him.

- Get off this property.

This is hallowed ground. You got no right to be here.

- Just need to talk to you about some matters, Adam.

- I got nothing to talk to you about.

- We've had some vandalism.

Somebody's been spray painting your neighbors' cars

and barns with graffiti.

- You're the one who threw the body of my father

in the back of a pickup like a sack of potatoes.

- I need to hear what you know about that graffiti, Adam.

Did you do it?

- I neither deny or admit anything.

- We have complaints from your neighbors

that you order 'em off the property at gunpoint.

- I am restoring our water. I am protecting our rights.

- You have no right to take that water, Adam,

and you know it.

- You have no warrant.

Now get off of this property.

(tense dramatic music)

(gun fire)

- Okay. All right.

I'm serving you notice.

You just fired a weapon in the presence of two officers

and that's enough for me to arrest everyone here.

Now, I am tired of the threats

and I'm tired of the craziness up here.

I'm gonna go get a warrant,

you step foot off this property and you're going to jail.

- And now you'll get off my land.

- Will you look at this.

Son of a gun, it's him.

Here we go.

Central, this is Greg.

- [Woman On Radio] Go ahead.

- Pulling over Adam Swapp. I'll bring him in.

- [Woman On Radio] Roger.

- Adam?

- I'm Jonathan Swapp.

- They've arrested your brother.

They're holding him for questioning.

He says he's frightened of them.

- Go get him, bring him back.

God, will they not let us be.

- There's still a few individuals left in this country

who believe in Liberty and decency.

And all the corruption cannot overthrow that.

You see, people always have this wrong idea

just because somebody mentions this word, law,

that everybody has to bow it.

No.

How do I know if I make a little compromise now

they will not be back in a year or two and expect

another compromise and another compromise

until I'm completely brought down to a slave.

- Dad was so handsome in this. So noble.

- [Vickie] Try it on.

So handsome. It suits you.

- I had a revelation last night, Adam.

You and I, we were confronted by a black bull in the lane.

He rose up and turned into a man with knives on his fingers.

He supposed to cut me and kill me,

but I knew you'd shoot him.

Dad would be there too to protect me.

- The bull represents our enemies.

The bull striking would be the cause of John's coming home.

(slow music)

- Nice child. John's coming home.

- Control, this is 44 Charlie, state (indistinct) charter.

Put it down at Southwest parking lot of the LDS

Stake Center in Marion.

- [Man] There is a helicopter landing in here, folks,

please, make room.

Please clear the area, there is a chopper landing in here.

Landing bay is cleared for the helicopter.

Please clear.

- Owen Douglas, ATF.

- (indistinct) Grill, Public Safety.

This is my boss, John (indistinct).

- (indistinct), what's it look like?

- Pretty good size.

About 100 pounds of high explosive.

They blew it in the church, left the big crater,

took everything else with it.

(indistinct)

- John (indistinct), Doug, what do you say?

- Special agent, Bryant, FBI.

And Owen Douglas, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm.

Sheriff, Greg,

- We appreciate you coming.

- No problem.

- Device was planted between the cultural hall

and the chapel.

100 pounds of dynamite, ammonium nitrate booster,

and about a four-minute delay on the fuse.

It's interesting though. Get this.

The alarm clock was a kid story.

- What?

- The alarm clock, kitty story.

- Great.

Listen, Tony, let's get a work out of this mess

with their people and get a report off to Washington.

Like know where they got all this stuff.

Doug, we got an explosives team we can have standing by?

We gotta assume there's more where this came from.

- Yeah, the guys that did the initial analysis

are standing by.

- Good.

Anybody got any ideas about who did this? Any witnesses?

- I got something outside. Y'all to take a look at.

- All right.

- The hell is this, Native Americans?

- Well, we think it's a symbol of some sort.

- Symbol of what?

- It's shamanistic. Coustic, something like that.

- Yeah?

- Well it has some connection with the Indian notion

of revenge, a declaration of presence.

I don't know.

- Well, who left it here?

- Tracks in the snow indicate two individuals.

They lead directly to the Singer compound

up the hill there.

- Oh brother.

Adam Swapp again.

- Okay, let's go get him.

- Bob, Bob.

It isn't that easy.

This Swapp is a strange one.

He's a polygamist, excommunicated from the LDS church.

He's been causing people around here trouble for years.

He's very bad news.

- Got it.

- [Woman On Radio] 1201 November, do you copy?

- This is 1201, go ahead.

- You are clear to 5,000, proceed direct to Greenpass.

Go to 8,000 at marker five and proceed 0190 SL beacon.

- This is 1201 November, on (indistinct) factor on approach

to Singer Swapp compound.

It's approximately 3.2 miles Southwest where,

route 20 meets them in Way Highway out here.

(helicopter blades whirring)

- It's pretty good. You got your FBI boys down there,

the ATF, local sheriff department, Public Safety,

whole shooting match.

- This isn't gonna be like taking down a bank robber,

where we can go in or he can come out.

There's still a lot of unanswered questions.

We think there may be nine or 10 kids inside.

So we proceed like it's a hostage situation.

- Even if we're not sure the kids are being held

against their will?

- That's correct.

As long as they're inside, we got a red light on the house.

So for now we evacuate all the neighbors near the farm

and seal this joint off.

Miller, let's get your guys dug in on the perimeter.

Four sides, dig them in.

Then we gotta tap into their phone line

so we can communicate with this guy

and let the negotiators do their thing.

If Swapp calls out,

I wanna have a word with them, all right?

You may wanna call your wives, fellas.

This may take a while.

Okay. Let's go.

(indistinct)

(dramatic music)

- Miller, take about five guys and cover the back.

(dramatic music)

- Siberia.

- It's pretty spectacular, isn't, Bob?

You sort of understand why Brigham Young stopped here.

- So what's your story with all this?

- It goes back 10 years.

This whole Singer-Swapp thing is a very sensitive issue

to the local townspeople.

It's embarrassing to them if the country perceives of Swapp

as a member of their church.

Media loves this kind of stuff.

Rural people, religious hysteria, that sort of thing.

The angle has been here's this polygamist

who won't let his kids go to school.

So the cops come in and kill him.

Bob, it's important that we deal with this thing

very carefully.

(indistinct)

- We got the main house here

with the north perimeter behind.

Main gate west, back gate east.

We're cutting off the access road of both ends

here and here.

We have a storage shed, a hay barn and a tool shed

of some sort here.

Goat pen on the south fence.

We built our bunker right here along the fence line.

- Picked up what I could from the neighbors

on who's in there.

And this is the file from salt lake on the family.

Adam, Adam's brother, Jonathan, Vickie.

- That's Charlotte and her sister, Heidi.

- That Adam's wives?

- Right. It's Ronald Perkins, Adam's cousin

who's up there with his wife.

- Who's the one in the wheelchair?

- Timothy Singer, 21.

- Cutting trees a couple years ago, one balance hit him

in the back, paralyzed him from the waist down.

- Okay.

Teenagers, Joseph Singer, 17, Benjamin Singer, 15,

Israel Singer, 12.

They belong to Vickie.

Okay. Annazela Swapp, six, Vanya, five, Hans, three,

John, two, Isaiah, two, Lillian, 10 months.

- All Adam's kids?

- Well he's prolific, if nothing else.

- The governor has to be kept up to speed

on anything tactical.

He's concerned about harm to the children.

- Bingo. We got the first call out.

Hello, Mr. Swapp.

- This is my land. What are you doing on my land?

- This is Bob Bryant, Adam, FBI.

We just wanna assess the needs of the family.

Find out what's going on up there.

- You're with the police, FBI?

Well, everything's fine.

What is it you want from us, sir?

- Adam, we need to talk about this.

- You have surrounded my home.

What is it you want?

- We'd like you to surrender yourself to us, Adam.

No one will be harmed. It's a very serious situation.

- I have no intention of coming out.

This is the sanctuary of my own home.

- You have your family there?

Your children, are they all right?

- My children are my concern.

And this matter is in God's hands now.

- What's in God's hands.

- Justice, sir.

We are taking a stand against wickedness and corruption.

- Listen, we need to get things settled

without anyone getting hurt.

If you have a grievance, that's what the courts are for.

Would you be willing to talk with us,

come down and try to get things sorted out?

- There's a verse in the book of Mormon.

Do you know the book of Mormon, sir?

- I'm sorry. I do not.

- And also for the praise of the world that they destroy

the saints of God and bring them down into captivity.

Destroy the saints of God.

You shot John Singer, a prophet sir, in the back.

And that is a cowardly and a godless act.

- What if we came up there, Adam.

If two unarmed officers came up and knocked on the door.

- That would be a grave mistake.

(indistinct)

- Hello?

Hello, Mr. Swapp.

Hello, Mr. Swapp.

Another hang up.

- Keep trying.

- Leave us alone. Get off our phone.

- Mrs. Singer.

- [Mrs. Singer] What do you want?

- This is Bob Bryant, FBI.

Listen, we're concerned about the children.

- The children are well.

- Look, there has to be a way for us to resolve this,

Mrs. Singer, reach a compromise that's safe for everybody,

especially the kids.

- Our children are safe in the hands of the Lord, sir.

It is to your shame that you raise your children

in this loss society.

Look after your own house, sir, we will look after ours.

- We need to get some sort of shrink up here

to deal with these people.

In the meantime, let's find someone to send in there.

A friend, family, someone they trust.

- And so we play...

- Commissioner Nielson, commissioner Nielsen.

- Mr. Nielsen...

- Has there been communication with him, Commissioner?

- Just a lot of rambling, religious chit chat.

But nobody wants a confrontation,

but we've got a volatile situation

that can't be backed away from.

- Commissioner, does this mean you're prepared to use force?

(indistinct)

- I found out that this friend of mine is Daniel Lands.

He's the Bureau's chief psychologist.

Found out he's in Salt Lake doing a talk

on crisis management.

He was headed up to Washington,

but I told him to get his rear end down here to help.

- Did you tell him what the situation was?

- No. No. I told him that we were up here skiing

and that the problem was finding a warm spot

to go to the head.

But you were the undisputed champ at that?

- Well, everybody's gotta be good at something.

- Can we get anything warm to eat around here?

23 below last night, I got guys coming in with frost bites.

- And get them the hell out of the line.

Send them to a motel.

Put the SWAT guys inside the structures out there.

Hey, is there any way of keeping this food hot?

Hey, you remember that dog guy?

A nice guy.

- The nice dog guy?

- Yeah.

At the task force demonstration.

That dog guy, House.

I was thinking there might be a way to get at this guy

without using weapons.

- The dog?

Yeah.

All right. Let's give him a call.

See if he can get on up here and tell him that we need

his dogs to come up with (indistinct).

- Bob.

- Yeah.

- I think we got somebody we can send in there.

Bob, this is Special Agent Bryant, FBI,

Mr. Borduroux, Public Safety.

- You live in the compound, Ronald?

- Yeah, I live in a separate house down there.

I wasn't home when the bomb went off.

- You married to one of the singer girls?

- Suzanne. We've been off visiting friends.

- Someone they trust needs to have a talk with them

to see if we can settle this peacefully.

You think they'd let you in?

- Well, I could try.

- We want you to do more than try.

We want you to tell them how many people we have out here.

- Yeah.

- Okay, Ronald, we're gonna send a special phone in

with you, if you can convince them to hook it up,

maybe we can speak directly with them.

(tense music)

- Hey look, who's here, everybody.

- Ronald.

- You can make yourself at home, Ronald.

- Hey, Ronald.

- What are you doing here, Brother Perkins.

- They asked me to come up and talk to you.

- Talk about what, Ronald?

About what, Ronald?

- Talk, warn you.

- Warn us about what?

This is your home, Ronald.

Have you come to soy on us at your home?

- Adam, listen, really done it this time.

You know how many of them are out there?

- We've been watching on TV.

- Is everybody okay?

- We're fine, Ronald.

How are you?

- Look, everybody's worried about what's happening up here.

- There's nothing to be worried about.

We have a mission and we intend to fulfill it.

- They're gonna ask me as soon as I go back, Adam,

if you did the bombing.

- Okay, go tell them that.

Just go there and tell them.

- Man, I have to go back out before dark.

When I go, if anyone else wants to come.

- No.

We're not going any place, Ronald.

- John's returning.

We're making our stand and John is going to be resurrected.

- I love you all.

- And we love you too, Ronald.

- Well?

- They didn't want the phone.

- They refused to talk with us?

- Didn't have any interest in it, sir.

- They tell you who did the bombing?

- Come on, Ronald, who bombed the church?

- Adam bombed the Stake Building.

- He told you he did?

- Told me he did it under revelation from God.

He told me to tell you

that they want an armed confrontation.

- Why?

Do they wanna die?

- They feel John will rise from the dead and protect them

when you launch your attack.

- They think John's gonna be resurrected.

- Prophet John Singer will rise from the dead

and that'll trigger the downfall of corrupt government

and religious institutions

and clear the way for the second coming of Jesus and Christ.

- You got your Fred House coming in.

- All right. Get him inside. Get him warm.

- Well, looks like you fellas have your hands full big time.

- Yeah, you could say that, Fred.

Hey, Pooch.

- This is Mike.

- Listen, Fred, you know what's going on up here?

- Miller filled me in on most of it.

And you guys have been on the news.

- The thing that we gotta do is take out Adam

without a firefight.

We think we have a better chance of doing that

with you and Mike here.

If we get Adam, then there's a good chance

the others will fold.

- Divide and conquer.

I think Mike can do that.

- Guys, this here's Mike and his main man, Fred House.

They're gonna be your new bunkies for a while.

Just give all Mike here a little room,

if you catch my drift.

- All right, now, Fred, listen,

if we can get this Adam character out,

you think Mike can get across that area

between the main house and the bull pens and bring him down?

- Yeah.

- Our concern is firing from the house.

You know, if Mike freaks out...

- I can't say he wouldn't, sir.

Mike's a pretty steady roller.

We've been through this drill before.

- Okay. Sit tight down here.

We'll see how this shakes out.

Good night, Mike.

- Hi, Mike.

- [Crowd] Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

- Excuse me, are you with the parties?

Are you with...

No, please, please don't listen to them. We need you here.

Please do not leave us.

Our community is in danger from these people.

- Dan this is Doug Budroux, Utah Public Safety,

Daniel Lands, Bureau's chief psychologist.

- Hi.

- How are you?

- Okay, look, I can place shrink for you.

Douse will psychological profiles

or just plain give you my gut.

- Go.

- I don't think you're gonna see any bending on their part

because of their religious foundation.

- How do you mean?

- You take someone who's lacking in any moral background

like a robber who is holding a hostage, you can talk to him.

Maybe sway his opinion, but someone seated with a deep sense

of morality, no matter how sordid it is,

they'll go down hard.

- Look, we wanna negotiate with these people, if we can.

- Yeah, then put them in the mood to negotiate.

You may have to consider using pressure.

- Give us some alternatives.

- Put flood lights on their house at night

to disturb their sleep, cut their power, water, use noise.

Any legal or ethical device to disrupt their routine

and make their existence uncomfortable.

(helicopter blades whirring)

- Standby. I got a couple of 'em coming out.

Two of the wives and little brother.

- I got him.

Walking towards the Perkins' house.

(suspenseful music)

Hauling out provisions.

Kid's got two weapons he didn't go in with.

And they got two ammo cans.

I could take 'em right now.

- Hold on.

- They're away from the house.

- Just calm down. You know the book on this.

- Roger.

- Miller, go to band three.

- Yeah, Bob.

- Two things: one, get a team in

to secure the Perkins' house.

I don't want them going back in for supplies.

And two, let's get these lights set up.

- You got it.

- We got movement in the windows.

Let's snap it up and wrap it up, people.

Hit 'em.

Jonathan, Timothy.

Lilly.

(indistinct)

- Hold your fire.

(gun shots)

- We are taking incoming.

We are taking incoming.

(gun shots)

- There was movement from an upstairs window

then they commenced fire.

- You've taken shots. - How many?

- I was too busy sucking snow to count.

- What do you mean how many?

There's a guy up in and the window. He's taking shots.

- And you were the lights.

- If you meet it (indistinct).

- Oh, what, oh it doesn't count

if it doesn't hit something, right?

It doesn't count.

- If you mean, did I feel a grief form,

you're damn right, I did.

Just look at the ringing in my ear.

- Is that what you're saying?

- What happened?

Did anybody get hurt?

- Hey, hey, hey, is there way to keep this area secure here?

Huh?

- Get this cow girl out of here.

- Hey, Daniels.

- Mmh.

- You know that story about John Singer coming back to life?

- Yeah.

- Well, if that happens,

I'm gonna pack my bags and move right into that house.

- Adam. Adam. You must sleep.

You need your strength.

- I draw my strength from God.

My father used to pray by his bedside morning and night.

Sometimes he wouldn't even sleep.

- Just for a few hours.

Timothy's at watch.

Don't worry, John is with us.

He's watching over us.

- I have a couple hours then I have to get back.

Any leftovers?

- Look at you.

Look at you, you're exhausted.

Sit down.

I'll fix you something.

- You know, you think we'd have enough people

to handle this thing, but it's endless.

After a while, it just starts getting to you.

- The news said shots were fired.

- Yeah, nobody was hit.

It is so cold, Beth, you wouldn't believe it.

My people are hurting.

- A lot of the press is negative.

Questions about why you're there.

Why you don't let 'em just walk away.

- You mean, is it worth a life if it comes down to that?

- Yes.

- These people are dangerous.

Somebody could have been in that church.

Somebody could have died.

Where's Mark?

- Doing his homework.

Why don't you get some rest?

- The Derby car.

- Can wait.

I'll tell him.

- No, just tell him dad's home.

- There we go.

Good. We got the front two running real good.

Now let's just put the back ones on.

I think we're gonna have us the first class Darby here.

We gotta be careful when you put these wheels on here, Mark.

'Cause you don't wanna break open the slot

that we cut in...

(gun shot)

- Everybody, okay?

- Yeah. So far. - How many rounds?

- Maybe 50. Boys are getting a little itchy.

- Sir, can I talk to you for one second?

- Yeah. Shoot.

- Some of us are wondering why we're screwing around

with these people.

They've committed an aggravated felony.

They're firing at us for crying out loud.

Why don't we just finish this and go home?

- The orders, which are my orders, Daniels, haven't changed.

We sit, we negotiate and we hope that's all that's needed.

You got it.

- Got it.

- Cut the water and electric.

What's holding up cutting it?

- Utilities want a court order.

- The get it.

- Bob?

- Yeah.

- Bob, got some news.

Walk with me a minute, will you?

A federal grand jury has Indic of Vickie and Adam

on two counts: maliciously damaging

a church with explosives, destructive device

and a crime of violence, possession of the bomb

and assault on a federal officer.

U.S. Magistrate says we have to put him on notice.

- Nobody wants to go up and knock on the door,

so we're airmailing the warrants.

- The governor hopes that this will have some impact

in turning the time.

He's asked to come in and take a look at the situation.

- [Man] Same day service, special delivery.

Back in a flash.

- [Man] 1201 November on approach Singer compound

from Southeast quadrant. Hold on.

Going in.

We're over the house.

(indistinct) ready, Bill?

Impact in five, four, three, two, one, go.

It goes. Let's get out of here.

- I need to explore more options.

- More dogs?

- Well say, Adam and Jonathan come out,

which one would Mike get?

- I honestly, couldn't say.

Dogs go after the meat. They smell fear.

The sweat of the suspect. There's two of them.

- And the other guy'd shoot the dog.

- That has happened. Mike wouldn't like that.

- Then we need another dog.

- Mike's got a couple buddies down the valley.

I could bring him up here,

run a few things with all of them. See how it works out.

- Get a break first. Go home and get some rest.

- What I need is to grab an hour to work on a Derby car

with my son.

- I already took care of my duties on that.

Suppose we'll be up for father of the year?

- Oh yeah.

- All right, go on, get outta here.

- Well, we got a court order, but we've still got a problem.

- What now?

- The guy won't go up the pole in front of the house.

Says he'd be a sitting duck.

- Listen, pal, we need a little cooperation here, man.

- No way.

- Hey, hey, come on.

Same reaction from the water company.

- Daniels.

- Yes, sir.

- You wanna shoot something, don't you?

- Sir?

- Take it down at the connectors.

Find the waterline, plug it.

We're cutting this guy off. Come on, go.

- Adam.

- They've begun.

- Good night.

- Time to catch the next boat for Yokohama.

I can't believe it yet, Jimmy.

- (indistinct)

- Oh, baby.

- Oh, boy.

Where you been?

You said you'd be home hours ago.

- Days ago.

- I missed you.

- Yeah. Well I was in the neighborhood.

I saw the lights on. I figured I'd come home.

- Oh, stop.

- Now. Where's Mario Andredy.

- Asleep.

They all are.

- Well. Yeah, I figured I'd work a couple hours

on that Derby car then turn in.

There's a junior G man he's gotta beat.

Wait a second, where's Mike go.

- Daniels get command to find Frank Jackson,

FBI hostage rescue in Washington

and patch him through her to me.

This is unbelievable, isn't it?

I mean, they're just sitting down there watching the tube.

Sheriff Gray says they got enough food

to last a couple of months.

- Try a year.

They're stockpiled for Armageddon.

- "When the wars come, we shall have to flee to Zion,"

Joseph Smith.

- You still remember that stuff, huh?

I was raised with it.

There was great solace in the Mormon texts.

- There you go, chief.

- Yeah.

Bryant, go.

- [Woman] Frank Jackson on the line.

- Good. Patch him through.

- [Woman] Go ahead.

- Bob.

Do you have any idea what time it is?

- Yeah. It's two hours later than it is here.

Where are you, Frank?

- Well, I'm in bed, Bob.

Where are you?

- Well, I'm in Utah in the middle of a field in snow

freezing my butt off. You got the picture?

- Yeah, I've been keeping up with it.

I was wondering when you'd give me a call.

- Listen, Frank, if you can clear with the bureau,

I need you and your team to get on the first plane out here.

I got these people contained,

but now I just gotta get 'em out of there.

- Suits don't think this is a hostage team matter.

No terrorist threat.

- Hey, there are nine kids in harm's way out here.

Now I wouldn't ask you if I didn't think you were needed.

Now, I need you, Frank.

- I hear you, Bob.

I'm on it.

- Okay. Thanks.

Oh, and Frank.

- Yeah.

- Bring your long johns.

(wind howling)

(slow instrumental music)

- Mike and Tiny Marion was about as normal as possible today

considering 150 law enforcement officials

and nearly just as men of reporters were surrounding a home

in a town where violence was possible at any moment.

In a surprising development, the LDS church released

a statement regarding the bombing

of the Marion Stake Center.

- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

bears no malice or animosity and seeks no recompense

for any damages suffered.

Church buildings are vital.

Lives are infinitely more important.

- This is Deborah Smith reporting live on this

the eighth night of what is now being referred to

as the siege at Marion.

According to both local and FBI officials,

no word has been heard from the Singer Swapp compound

since telephone wires went dead seven days ago

and concern for the children inside has grown by the hour.

Tonight law man stepped up the attack

on the Singer compound.

A police helicopter is now circling shining

a bright zeon light.

Illuminating the farm in an unearthly glow.

Throughout the evening snowmobiles have buzzed the perimeter

and officials report that this tactic will continue

throughout the night, in what appears to be a deliberate

escalation of psychological harassment techniques

on the part of law enforcement.

Now it seems they have unleashed a new weapon.

Just moments ago, they began blaring a very loud,

high pitched and annoying sound toward the Singer house.

- Cut 'em off.

- Adam.

Adam.

Get the kids down.

(indistinct)

(Adam chanting verses from the Book of Mormons)

(gun fire)

- Command. Anyone. You believe this crap.

I got these guys dead banged.

You hear me?

Alone on the ball field.

Command. command, you got this?

- Forget it.

- Doug, do these tactics against the Singers

amount the psychological warfare?

- Well, it's safe to say it's not meant to be entertainment.

- But have you guys explored every other available option?

- Our overriding concern here is those children.

They haven't done anything to anyone.

It's pretty hard for a one year old to say,

"I've had it, I'm walking out."

- How much does all this cost?

- Okay, that's it. Excuse me.

- Hey, Doug, I need some help with the parking.

Highway Patrol's got parked way off.

Could you get us a break on that and get is a little closer?

- Jackson's here from hostage rescue.

- Frank.

- Hey, Frank.

It's good to see you.

- Good to see you.

- Yeah. Doug Budreaux, Utah Public Safety.

- Thanks for coming, Frank.

- Wouldn't miss it. Got two teams coming in.

Plus snipers.

I staggered their arrival to avoid any commotion

with the press.

- Hey, Frank.

- Danny.

- How're you doing?

- Good.

- Bob, we just had some requests from Singer sympathizers

to deliver more provisions to them,

including letters from Adam Swapp's parents.

They say the kids need food and attention.

- The problem with these people is they're using the kids

as bargaining chips.

We asked Adam and Vickie to send them out, they refused.

That's where it stands.

Come on, Frank, we got some cold food for you.

(indistinct)

- Yeah, roger.

You could give us a (indistinct) update on that.

- Well, what we're most fearful of at this point

is some sort of doomsday plan.

- Jerry.

- Jones town?

- They could use more explosives.

Boobitrap the house, try and take some of our people

with them or they could sacrifice a child.

- Well, if something crazy happens,

Adam flips out, starts killing the kids

or he starts shooting and hits someone,

we've got an emergency assault plan.

Otherwise I've got a more deliberate plan to take them

when they least expected but I need a layout of the house.

- There are no blueprints. All we have is a rough schematic.

- Well, if we go in,

I gotta know where the doors and the windows are.

- And you need to take a closer look.

- Tonight.

No lights, no speakers.

We'll recon the place. Hopefully they'll be asleep

and we go in.

- My name is Raymond Swapp. This is my wife, Harriet.

I'd like to read this statement.

Each night they step up the pressure.

Each night, they attempt to deny the Singers and Swapps

their sleep.

- We own the entire compound except for the main house.

So here's the approach.

Charlie team takes the most direct route

up to the wood line.

Then down to the west side of the main house.

- Turn off the floodlights, turn off the noise machines,

move the officers back.

- Hotel team comes past the Perkins house.

Up to the east side of the main house.

- We feel if blood is shed here, it will be on the hands

of those making the decisions to tighten the perimeter

and move the troops closer.

- We move in on the crisis site,

eyeball it for what's feasible. If we've gotta go back.

- We don't think a building is worth a human life.

Please let us visit our family.

We ask this in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

We go in two hours.

(dramatic music)

- Daddy, daddy.

I saw a man in white.

- Where?

- Outside my window. Was it a ghost?

- (indistinct) Come here.

Listen to me, it should come as that the cholera,

war fires and earthquakes, one pestilence upon another.

Until the ancient of days comes

and judgment shall be given to the saints.

These things are at our doors.

These things are at our doors and you sleep.

You sleep!

Jonathan!

(dramatic music)

- I can't believe it.

They were here.

They were right here.

(gun fire)

- Long live freedom, liberty and justice, you bastards!

- We tried to figure out how to penetrate the walls

of the bug.

There's solid stone.

So a drill's not gonna work.

Besides it'll wake 'em up.

- They were asleep?

- I think we could have gone in right then and taken them.

- If I let you go back, what are your chances

nobody'll get hurt?

- Well, if we surprise him, no problem.

But somebody comes up with a gun

I can't guarantee that only the bad guys are gonna get shot.

- You know, you're looking at the longest siege

in FBI history where the subjects have gone without talking

to the authorities.

- Longest siege in the history of the world.

- You sit around here all winter waiting for 'em to crack.

You wanna know what I think, Bob,

I think the longer we wait around with this more likely

it is something's gonna screw up.

Bang, zoom, naming the paper.

- Bob got a guy out here.

We tracked down an old friend of the Singers.

Could be our intermediary. His name's Otto Dofer.

He's a fundamentalist, known the family for years now.

I don't know what side of the fence he's on.

How's practice fellas?

- Great.

- Cold.

- Mr. Dofer, Bob Bryant, FBI.

- How do you do, sir.

- I understand you're a friend of the family.

- I was supposed to come up the day after this bombing

business for dinner.

Of course, that never happened.

- Well, we appreciate your coming, Mr. Dofer.

Up till now we haven't let anyone bring anything into them,

but we're thinking of sending some provisions with you.

Food and milk for the children. Diapers.

- I'd be happy to take it.

- You're someone that respect, sir.

We need you to find out what they intend.

- Do what I can.

- We need you to try and do more than that. Mr. Dofer.

- More.

- You may be their last chance.

- Are you gonna kill them?

- That's not our intent.

- I've known the children since they were born.

- It's all the more reason that you should intercede

on their behalf.

If Adam doesn't wanna use them is shields,

then there's no reason he shouldn't send them out.

If you'll excuse me,

I'll go get those things put together for you.

- Ready?

- Yeah.

This'll pick up anything within 25 feet.

If he gets it inside.

(dramatic music)

- Mr. Vickie.

- What?

- Nothing but birds, birds chirping.

He left the stupid box outside.

- Well you folks here know how to wreck

a good dinner appointment.

- I'm sorry, Otto.

When this is all over,

you come over and we'll give you a big spread.

- I'll place it on my calendar.

How are the kids?

- The children are fine.

- The TV said that dynamite was used in the bombing.

Hope there's no more around.

Makes me nervous.

- Do you wanna see Adam?

- Hello, Otto.

- Adam, this is a terrible thing.

Everyone's concerned about the children.

What I mean is the FBI would like you to release them.

- Have you come to sell me, Otto?

Are you the FBI's slick salesman?

- We've had revelations of a confrontation.

There will be shooting and there will be death.

- Vickie, please, must that be necessary?

If they come onto our property,

it will be an act of aggression.

And we will defend ourselves.

- Adam, I don't believe it's your mission to create a war.

I don't want anything to happen to you

like it did with John.

- Don't be the traitor, Otto.

Don't you be my Judas Iscariot.

- I've brought along this camera, Vickie.

Perhaps I could take some pictures of the children.

Show everyone all is fine with them?

- That would be fine.

- Children, who wants their picture taken?

- Me. - Me.

- Anybody wants their picture taken?

- Come on, children.

- I want my baby.

- Okay, everybody line up over there.

- [Woman] Here we go.

- Say cheese, children

- [All Children] Cheese.

- Just like Ozzie and Harriet.

- Or Bonnie and Clyde.

- He said no one is coming out.

No one.

- Governor, we've tried to get them to negotiate

for 12 days now.

I'm afraid we're gonna have to take some type of

tactical initiative to bring this to a peaceful resolution.

And I'd like your blessing.

- I thought the psychological strategy was making an impact.

- No, it's not, sir.

You see, we didn't want to go in there

unless it was a last ditch situation.

But now we don't know if they're just pointing guns

or are shooting away from us.

We can't determine what their perception of reality is

from day to day.

15 rounds here, 32 there, as it accumulates,

someone is going to get hurt.

- Now, this idea that we could pack it up, go home.

Nobody gets hurt.

- With all due respect, Governor,

that doesn't make sense on any level.

- We have a community that's terrified and Adam has gone way

too far for us to pull out now.

- And my letter.

- They wrote that they don't recognize the authority

of the state of Utah or the government of the United States.

They say they're an independent and free nation

and not subject to our laws.

- Do whatever needs to be done.

Doug, Bob, these kids, you know.

- [Crowd] Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp.

Free Adam Swapp

Free Adam Swapp

Free Adam Swapp

Free Adam Swapp

Free Adam Swapp

Free Adam Swapp

(crowd yelling)

- Speakers have drawn out Jonathan and Adam before.

They've come down to the Perkins for supplies.

Come down to the goat pen for milk.

The plan is to use the dogs,

catch them when they're away from the kids.

- The governor is concerned about the children.

If anything goes wrong, if one of them was armed.

- They could get shot.

That's just the way it is.

As fast as we're moving when we go in there,

you don't have many time to sort it out.

If you're 12 years old and you've got a gun you're lethal.

Charlie team goes up to the fence line with the dogs.

When the new speakers come on,

they've got a flash bang on them.

If they trip 'em, they're gonna be temporarily

stunned and blinded.

We affect the arrest.

- Hotel team with Fred and Mike.

You go into the Perkins house in case they go there.

Either way, once the dogs have taken them

an ABC pulls up between you and the house to cover you.

Is everybody ready?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Let's do it.

- You ready?

- Yeah.

- Set this up facing the door with a remote switch.

Hit the switch, lights come on, blinds them temporarily.

Same deal will happen if they screw with the speakers

on the fence.

Now they threaten us, we take our threat level

up to whatever they're doing.

If they run it's Mike's job.

- Then I need to be up front by the door.

- My plan is for you to come at him from the back.

- That won't work.

See dogs aren't as smart as people.

You need to tell 'em what you want. They need to see it.

I can't have anyone between Mike and the subject.

- All right. You know, best.

- Rossy.

- I got two coming out.

They're coming.

They're going toward the fences.

They're coming your way away.

(gun fire)

- Get 'em.

(dog barking)

- They got a dog. They got a dog!

He's got our guy. He's got our guy.

- Hold your fire.

- Get in there.

- Hold your fire.

- Hang on.

- They're gone. We lost 'em.

- [Man] You okay?

- [Man] Yeah, yeah's I'm all right.

- We either take them in the morning at the goat pen

or we wait until tomorrow night.

- Men get high to go and it's a letdown for them

to sit and wait again.

Besides, these guys are dead.

- If we withdraw, they're liable to see us.

We could take a lot of rounds.

- Tell 'em to hunker down.

Let's see what the daylight brings.

- Here they come.

(slow dramatic music)

- Can you take them?

- Yeah, I think so.

- What about cover fire from the house?

- No one is visible right now.

- Go.

- Send the dog.

(indistinct)

- Bring him down. Get down. Get him up.

(gun shot)

- Adam!

- Bring in the APC straight through the south fence.

I've got a man down inside the Perkins house.

I've got an officer down. Bring in an APC.

- [Man On Radio] Roger that, roger that, Hotel.

We understand you have a man down.

(indistinct) APC advancing to Charlie team, do you read?

(slow dramatic music)

(Adam is moaning)

- (indistinct) see a weapon.

- Don't shoot. Don't shoot him again.

- He's coming out. He's coming out.

- Go, go, go.

- He's got a white flag.

- Go, go, go.

- Come on.

- [Man] Hold your fire.

- [Adam] John.

- Get up.

- Easy, easy, come on. That's it.

(slow instrumental music)

- Hands behind your head.

Hands behind your head, now!

(slow instrumental music)

(men shouting orders)

(indistinct)

- Get the kids.

Get all the kids.

Get the kids. Get the kids.

- You, sir, are damned to hell.

You have shot a prophet.

You killed John Singer. You're damned, sir!

- Take this.

- No!

(baby crying)

- Look at this, would you.

We're lucky more of our people didn't go down.

- [Reporter] The tense standoff in Marion between law men

and a heavily armed polygamist family ended this morning

in a bloody confrontation that Adams Swapp

apparently sought.

Reportedly, a state officer has been shot and killed

and Swapp, seriously wounded.

The name of the slain officer is being withheld

pending notification of his immediate family.

- I thought maybe we'd ride over together.

- Yeah.

(slow instrumental music)

- You been getting any sleep?

- No.

- You know all your training and all your skill comes down

to when it's your day.

Well, Fred wanted to be there.

The issue was those children.

That they'd be brought out safely.

- But was there another way?

I swear if they hadn't come out after Fred was shot,

I was ready to take that house down.

I don't know, Doug, Maybe deep down by then

I wanted a confrontation as much as they did.

- [Man] Adam Swapp is serving a sentence

of 15 years and 10 months for his role in the bombing

of the Mormon Stake Center

and faces one to 15 years for manslaughter

in the death of Fred House.

Jonathan Swapp is serving a 10 year sentence

for attempted murder after which he faces one year

for negligent homicide.

Timothy Singer is serving 10 years for attempted murder

and faces an additional one to 15 year sentence

for manslaughter.

Vickie Singer was sentenced to five years

for the Stake Center bombing.

After serving less than three years,

she was released from prison, June 7th, 1991.

Lieutenant Fred House was one of 181 law enforcement

officers to be killed in 1988 in the line of duty.

(dramatic music)