1 00:00:09,226 --> 00:00:12,490 TORETTI: Previously on The Hot Zone Anthrax. 2 00:00:12,577 --> 00:00:15,667 HALSTROM: Bruce, where did you just go? 3 00:00:15,754 --> 00:00:18,496 REPORTER [over TV]: The USA is in an understandable 4 00:00:18,583 --> 00:00:20,455 state of anxiety. 5 00:00:20,542 --> 00:00:22,718 MAN [over TV]: This could be related to terrorism. 6 00:00:22,805 --> 00:00:25,895 COPAK: Who knows where those bastards are hiding out, just find them. 7 00:00:25,982 --> 00:00:27,679 MOORE: Didn't you say Iraq doesn't have the Ames strain? 8 00:00:27,766 --> 00:00:29,203 RYKER: Here's a copy of what I faxed to your office. 9 00:00:29,290 --> 00:00:31,205 PARRISH: Happy to help. 10 00:00:31,292 --> 00:00:33,120 IVINS: We found that something have been added to the spores. 11 00:00:33,207 --> 00:00:34,512 COLONEL: How certain are you about what that substance is? 12 00:00:34,599 --> 00:00:35,687 IVINS: Bentonite? 13 00:00:35,774 --> 00:00:38,255 100%. 14 00:00:38,342 --> 00:00:39,996 COLONEL: There's only one county we know of that's added Bentonite to anthrax. 15 00:00:40,083 --> 00:00:42,259 DEVON: If we go for Saddam, will we even get Al-Qaeda? 16 00:00:42,346 --> 00:00:43,782 All the terrorists who did all this? 17 00:00:45,958 --> 00:00:48,309 RYKER: So tell me more about your lone wolf theory. 18 00:00:48,396 --> 00:00:52,226 TORETTI: All signs point to our perp being a highly educated American citizen 19 00:00:52,313 --> 00:00:54,358 with scientific expertise, 20 00:00:54,445 --> 00:00:57,361 most likely works in isolation, suffers from mental illness. 21 00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:04,064 I drew up this profile to send to the American Society of Microbiology. 22 00:01:04,151 --> 00:01:06,675 IVINS: What if the anthrax killer is one of us? 23 00:01:06,762 --> 00:01:08,851 COLONEL: You did a real service for your country, Dr. Ivins. 24 00:01:08,938 --> 00:01:11,071 IVINS: It's an honor, sir. 25 00:01:11,158 --> 00:01:12,594 Things are good. 26 00:01:21,951 --> 00:01:24,910 [birds chirping] 27 00:01:24,997 --> 00:01:28,175 [airplane rumbling] 28 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,493 [phone ringing] 29 00:01:44,452 --> 00:01:46,236 RYKER: Boss, hey. 30 00:01:46,323 --> 00:01:49,935 COPAK: Jesus. Are you already out running? 31 00:01:50,022 --> 00:01:52,547 It's not even 6:00. I was gonna leave a message. 32 00:01:52,634 --> 00:01:55,463 RYKER [over phone]: Yeah, well I haven't been getting much sleep lately. 33 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:57,682 RYKER: Actually, none of my team has. 34 00:01:57,769 --> 00:02:00,990 I got them out swabbing mailboxes all around the clock in Jersey. 35 00:02:01,077 --> 00:02:05,125 COPAK: I was calling to commend you on this Bentonite thing. 36 00:02:06,387 --> 00:02:08,345 RYKER: Uh, Bentonite, what? 37 00:02:08,432 --> 00:02:10,304 COPAK [over phone]: From what I understand, Iraq is... 38 00:02:10,391 --> 00:02:12,828 COPAK: The only country that's used it in producing anthrax. 39 00:02:12,915 --> 00:02:14,960 RYKER: Uh, yeah. 40 00:02:15,047 --> 00:02:17,137 Well, that's what the inspection team found after the war but. 41 00:02:17,224 --> 00:02:18,790 COPAK [over phone]: Yeah, right well... 42 00:02:18,877 --> 00:02:21,184 Your USAMRIID team just found Bentonite 43 00:02:21,271 --> 00:02:23,143 in the attack spores, which gives... 44 00:02:23,230 --> 00:02:26,102 COPAK: Us a direct link between the letters and Iraq. 45 00:02:26,189 --> 00:02:28,365 COPAK [over phone]: Made some people on the Hill very happy to be 46 00:02:28,452 --> 00:02:30,933 finally getting some traction on this case. 47 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:33,370 RYKER: Did they send over their results? 48 00:02:33,457 --> 00:02:34,850 COPAK [over phone]: No, that's your department. 49 00:02:34,937 --> 00:02:36,678 COPAK: All I know is Director Mueller 50 00:02:36,765 --> 00:02:38,984 just assigned us a major case number. 51 00:02:39,071 --> 00:02:41,030 COPAK [over phone]: More teams coming on. 52 00:02:41,117 --> 00:02:44,468 COPAK: Investigation's officially been dubbed Amerithrax. 53 00:02:46,601 --> 00:02:48,385 Hey, Ryker... 54 00:02:48,472 --> 00:02:49,691 COPAK [over phone]: This is a big win for us. 55 00:02:49,778 --> 00:02:52,128 You've done the Bureau proud. 56 00:02:52,215 --> 00:02:54,652 COPAK: We're one step closer to getting weapons of mass of destruction out 57 00:02:54,739 --> 00:02:56,654 of the hands of terrorists. 58 00:03:06,925 --> 00:03:08,710 COLONEL: Agent Ryker. 59 00:03:08,797 --> 00:03:10,451 RYKER: Excuse me, Colonel, but your end run on the Hill 60 00:03:10,538 --> 00:03:13,236 just sent us further down a path to war with Iraq. 61 00:03:13,323 --> 00:03:15,369 I wanna see this Bentonite you say you found. 62 00:03:15,456 --> 00:03:17,022 KURZ: It wasn't me. 63 00:03:17,109 --> 00:03:19,242 COLONEL: Bruce Ivins is our top anthrax man. 64 00:03:19,329 --> 00:03:21,201 You should've been dealing with him from the start. 65 00:03:21,288 --> 00:03:22,724 RYKER: Then I wanna talk to him. 66 00:03:22,811 --> 00:03:24,116 Where is he? 67 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:25,857 LIVINGSTON: Bruce is never late. 68 00:03:25,944 --> 00:03:28,382 Something must've come up, but here's his findings. 69 00:03:37,173 --> 00:03:39,219 RYKER: You sent info to the Hill based on one image? 70 00:03:39,306 --> 00:03:40,742 Are you kidding! 71 00:03:40,829 --> 00:03:41,743 COLONEL: It wasn't just one scientist. 72 00:03:41,830 --> 00:03:43,005 It was vetted. 73 00:03:43,092 --> 00:03:44,920 RYKER: It wasn't vetted by me. 74 00:03:45,007 --> 00:03:47,488 COLONEL: This is the US Army, we don't report to the FBI. 75 00:03:47,575 --> 00:03:51,231 And none of us appreciate you circulating a suspect profile. 76 00:03:51,318 --> 00:03:54,451 Asking our microbiologists to turn on each other. 77 00:03:54,538 --> 00:03:56,279 KURZ: Is that the Bureau's idea of teamwork? 78 00:03:56,366 --> 00:03:58,803 RYKER: I see what could be the presence of Bentonite. 79 00:03:58,890 --> 00:04:00,936 But this photo isn't detailed enough to show whether 80 00:04:01,023 --> 00:04:04,548 the substance is covering the spores or embedded in them. 81 00:04:04,635 --> 00:04:07,769 HALL: Embedded means someone took an existing sample out of a lab. 82 00:04:07,856 --> 00:04:10,293 RYKER: And coated means it was intentionally manufactured to 83 00:04:10,380 --> 00:04:11,816 be more airborne, 84 00:04:11,903 --> 00:04:13,992 to be a weapon of mass destruction. 85 00:04:14,079 --> 00:04:16,604 That's what the inspectors found in Iraq in '92. 86 00:04:16,691 --> 00:04:20,738 But this photo, it's not conclusive enough in either direction. 87 00:04:20,825 --> 00:04:23,785 LIVINGSTON: It's the best picture we can take with the equipment with have. 88 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:26,614 RYKER: Well, before our soldiers go on a wild goose chase, 89 00:04:26,701 --> 00:04:28,093 looking for biological weapons, 90 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:31,053 I would like to know for sure. 91 00:04:31,140 --> 00:04:33,838 SOLDIER [over TV]: When the President says go, look out, 92 00:04:33,925 --> 00:04:35,449 it's hammer time. 93 00:04:35,536 --> 00:04:37,929 We are gonna make the world safer. 94 00:04:38,016 --> 00:04:39,844 PRESIDENT BUSH [over TV]: American and coalition forces are in the 95 00:04:39,931 --> 00:04:43,457 early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, 96 00:04:43,544 --> 00:04:45,285 to free its people, 97 00:04:45,372 --> 00:04:47,548 and to defend the world from grave danger. 98 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:57,253 [theme music playing] 99 00:05:05,783 --> 00:05:07,829 RUMSFELD [over TV]: This is not about a single person. 100 00:05:07,916 --> 00:05:10,614 The President has declared war on international terrorism 101 00:05:10,701 --> 00:05:12,703 LIEBERMAN [over TV]: If we stick to the President's course, 102 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:14,749 we're against terrorists everywhere, 103 00:05:14,836 --> 00:05:17,404 we're against any country that supports them. 104 00:05:17,491 --> 00:05:20,972 ROBERTS [over TV]: To go in to Iraq and the suspicion about anthrax in Iraq, 105 00:05:21,059 --> 00:05:24,367 and that this administration doesn't wanna say the word Iraq 106 00:05:24,454 --> 00:05:27,327 for fear of having to go in. 107 00:05:27,414 --> 00:05:29,894 RUMSFELD [over TV]: This administration is not afraid of saying the word Iraq. 108 00:05:29,981 --> 00:05:32,897 Iraq's been on the terrorist list for, for years. 109 00:05:32,984 --> 00:05:35,160 LIEBERMAN [over TV]: We've got to move on to phase two and, in my opinion, 110 00:05:35,247 --> 00:05:36,858 that's Saddam Hussein. 111 00:05:36,945 --> 00:05:39,600 He, he hates us. 112 00:05:39,687 --> 00:05:42,864 I have a feeling inside myself that he may have had some connection to, uh, 113 00:05:42,951 --> 00:05:45,649 September 11th and perhaps this anthrax scare. 114 00:05:45,736 --> 00:05:48,826 ROBERTS [over TV]: The reports that the anthrax could have been, uh, 115 00:05:48,913 --> 00:05:52,569 tampered with by this Bentonite that is Iraqi based. 116 00:05:52,656 --> 00:05:55,050 RUMSFELD [over TV]: I know that serious people are looking at 117 00:05:55,137 --> 00:05:58,183 both of those matters seriously. 118 00:05:58,270 --> 00:05:59,533 COPAK: Ryker. 119 00:06:03,580 --> 00:06:05,843 RYKER: You've got a lot of contacts with counterterrorism. 120 00:06:05,930 --> 00:06:07,671 TORETTI: Good morning. Nice to see you. 121 00:06:07,758 --> 00:06:09,064 RYKER: I need to find someone on the ground in Iraq 122 00:06:09,151 --> 00:06:10,326 in the last five years. 123 00:06:10,413 --> 00:06:12,241 TORETTI: Iraq? That is a 180. 124 00:06:12,328 --> 00:06:13,764 You're gonna bench my lone wolf angle? 125 00:06:13,851 --> 00:06:15,200 RYKER: No, that's not what I'm doing. 126 00:06:15,287 --> 00:06:16,463 TORETTI: I'm not pulling my profile. 127 00:06:16,550 --> 00:06:18,378 RYKER: I'm not asking you to. 128 00:06:18,465 --> 00:06:19,640 TORETTI: Good, because we've already got two hits, 129 00:06:19,727 --> 00:06:21,032 one in Texas, one in Seattle. 130 00:06:21,119 --> 00:06:21,990 I've got field agents interviewing. 131 00:06:24,645 --> 00:06:26,429 Can you just, just have a seat or 132 00:06:26,516 --> 00:06:28,213 go get me a cup of coffee or something? 133 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:29,693 RYKER: Look, there's a chance that the spores 134 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:32,130 have been weaponized with Bentonite, 135 00:06:32,217 --> 00:06:33,958 and if that's true, we're gonna have to admit to the powers that 136 00:06:34,045 --> 00:06:36,091 be that they know something more than we do, 137 00:06:36,178 --> 00:06:39,050 which is that Iraq is harboring biological weapons. 138 00:06:39,137 --> 00:06:40,748 TORETTI: And Al-Qaeda. 139 00:06:40,835 --> 00:06:45,056 Okay, look let's just say that, that it's true. 140 00:06:45,143 --> 00:06:48,233 You told me that the Ames strain came from the US. 141 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,975 RYKER: It did, but it has been shipped to labs around the world for research. 142 00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:52,847 TORETTI: How many? 143 00:06:52,934 --> 00:06:54,239 RYKER: We're still trying to figure that out exactly, 144 00:06:54,326 --> 00:06:55,632 but who knows how lax the security 145 00:06:55,719 --> 00:06:58,156 is at any of them? 146 00:06:58,243 --> 00:07:00,637 Some scientists could, could've been recruited or even blackmailed by Al-Qaeda. 147 00:07:00,724 --> 00:07:02,378 TORETTI: Who smuggled it into the Iraq, weaponized it, 148 00:07:02,465 --> 00:07:04,119 brought it into the US, 149 00:07:04,206 --> 00:07:05,686 dropped it in the mail in New Jersey, I mean, 150 00:07:05,773 --> 00:07:08,602 that sounds, it sounds a little messy. 151 00:07:08,689 --> 00:07:10,517 RYKER: I have no agenda. 152 00:07:10,604 --> 00:07:12,170 It's my job just to follow the science, 153 00:07:12,257 --> 00:07:14,999 which I admit right now is less than solid. 154 00:07:17,349 --> 00:07:19,526 TORETTI: Okay. All right. 155 00:07:19,613 --> 00:07:22,485 Well, what kind of "intellectual asset" are we looking for exactly? 156 00:07:22,572 --> 00:07:25,749 RYKER: Anyone who was part of the UN inspection team after Desert Storm. 157 00:07:27,142 --> 00:07:28,273 [scoffs] 158 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,275 [knocking] 159 00:07:30,362 --> 00:07:31,973 IVINS: Hi. 160 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:33,975 HALL: You've seen it, right? IVINS: Seen what? 161 00:07:34,062 --> 00:07:36,586 HALL: The FBI profile, the "Anthrax Killer?" 162 00:07:36,673 --> 00:07:39,459 Apparently, they sent it to everybody in the microbiology community. 163 00:07:48,032 --> 00:07:50,818 Like we're crazy enough to work with dry anthrax, 164 00:07:50,905 --> 00:07:53,168 they think we have a death wish or something. 165 00:07:53,255 --> 00:07:55,475 IVINS: This is poppycock. 166 00:07:55,562 --> 00:07:57,651 They're treating us like we're the enemy. 167 00:07:57,738 --> 00:08:00,131 They shouldn't do that. 168 00:08:00,218 --> 00:08:02,786 We're the heroes. They even said that. 169 00:08:02,873 --> 00:08:05,093 HALL: It's gonna make us all suspicious of each other, 170 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:08,749 as if this place isn't tense enough. 171 00:08:08,836 --> 00:08:12,840 IVINS: You know, Jody, if anyone tries to tap our phones or computers, 172 00:08:12,927 --> 00:08:15,364 turn this into some witch-hunt, 173 00:08:15,451 --> 00:08:16,974 there are ways to protect ourselves. 174 00:08:23,459 --> 00:08:25,592 RUIZ: Yeah, that is a good point, but if you think about it... 175 00:08:25,679 --> 00:08:27,768 RYKER: Excuse me. Dr. Ruiz? 176 00:08:27,855 --> 00:08:31,336 RUIZ: Gabriel. Please. 177 00:08:31,423 --> 00:08:33,208 Dani spoke highly of you. 178 00:08:33,295 --> 00:08:35,471 RYKER: Uh, thank you for taking the time. 179 00:08:35,558 --> 00:08:37,038 She tells me that you were part of an inspection team looking for 180 00:08:37,125 --> 00:08:39,257 a bio and chem weapons in Iraq. 181 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:41,477 RUIZ: I've been off the inspection circuit for a few years, 182 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:42,957 but I'll give you whatever help I can. 183 00:08:43,044 --> 00:08:44,698 RYKER: I appreciate that. 184 00:08:44,785 --> 00:08:46,003 I've got USAMRIID rattling cages in high places. 185 00:08:46,090 --> 00:08:47,570 RUIZ: Uh, careful now, 186 00:08:47,657 --> 00:08:48,745 I did train under some of their guys. 187 00:08:48,832 --> 00:08:50,834 RYKER: Ah. 188 00:08:50,921 --> 00:08:52,662 Well, there are just a few quick triggers out there linking 189 00:08:52,749 --> 00:08:54,446 the anthrax attack spores 190 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:57,232 to Iraq using a shaky Bentonite connection. 191 00:08:57,319 --> 00:09:03,107 RUIZ: Uh, we did find spores in the soil less than an hour's drive from Baghdad. 192 00:09:03,194 --> 00:09:07,155 RYKER: And you can confirm that they used Bentonite to aerosolize the powder? 193 00:09:07,242 --> 00:09:09,766 RUIZ: Bacillus thuringiensis. 194 00:09:09,853 --> 00:09:11,376 Claimed they coated the anthrax with it 195 00:09:11,463 --> 00:09:13,770 to make it easily dispersible "Insecticide," 196 00:09:13,857 --> 00:09:16,164 but we all know that just made it highly airborne, 197 00:09:16,251 --> 00:09:17,818 deadly as hell. 198 00:09:17,905 --> 00:09:19,428 RYKER: Huh. 199 00:09:19,515 --> 00:09:21,125 But Iraq never had the Ames strain, right? 200 00:09:21,212 --> 00:09:24,128 RUIZ: Never. RYKER: Okay. 201 00:09:24,215 --> 00:09:25,739 So, then, what are the chances that the Iraqis 202 00:09:25,826 --> 00:09:28,350 somehow got their hands on Ames and then, 203 00:09:28,437 --> 00:09:32,223 used their aerosolizing process to weaponize it? 204 00:09:32,310 --> 00:09:37,664 RUIZ: I guess possible in theory, but the obvious question is why would they 205 00:09:37,751 --> 00:09:41,232 jump through all those hoops when they already have their own strain? 206 00:09:41,319 --> 00:09:42,930 The Vollum strain. 207 00:09:43,017 --> 00:09:45,367 RYKER: That's what I was thinking. 208 00:09:45,454 --> 00:09:49,327 The problem is none of that seems to hold water with the suits on the Hill. 209 00:09:49,414 --> 00:09:53,114 Any other details you can remember about the spores you found over there? 210 00:09:53,201 --> 00:09:54,724 RUIZ: I can do better than that. 211 00:09:54,811 --> 00:09:56,987 I brought back a little souvenir from Iraq. 212 00:09:57,074 --> 00:09:58,554 It's in the fridge. 213 00:10:05,909 --> 00:10:07,171 All right. 214 00:10:09,217 --> 00:10:10,697 Show time. 215 00:10:12,307 --> 00:10:15,049 Spores from the Leahy letter on the left, 216 00:10:15,136 --> 00:10:16,877 Iraqi spores on the right. 217 00:10:27,583 --> 00:10:29,367 RYKER: The powders are nothing alike. 218 00:10:31,021 --> 00:10:33,589 Sir, the reports USAMRIID were premature. 219 00:10:33,676 --> 00:10:36,548 The anthrax in the attack letters did not come from Iraq. 220 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:38,333 We need to get this to the West Wing. 221 00:10:38,420 --> 00:10:41,858 COPAK: Uh, let's touch base tomorrow. 222 00:10:41,945 --> 00:10:43,599 Mat, you can't be serious. 223 00:10:43,686 --> 00:10:45,819 It's blasted all over the media. 224 00:10:45,906 --> 00:10:48,517 RYKER: An independent lab confirmed it and I saw it with my own eyes. 225 00:10:48,604 --> 00:10:51,128 This anthrax strain is nothing like the one we saw 226 00:10:51,215 --> 00:10:52,652 in Iraq after the war. 227 00:10:52,739 --> 00:10:54,741 COPAK: Well, if not Iraq, then who? 228 00:10:54,828 --> 00:10:56,699 I'm hearing a lot about who didn't give anthrax to Al-Qaeda. 229 00:10:56,786 --> 00:10:59,136 How about one lead on who did? 230 00:10:59,223 --> 00:11:03,619 RYKER: Look, there are probably reasons above my pay grade to target Iraq. 231 00:11:03,706 --> 00:11:07,405 COPAK: Yeah, well... One being that Hussein is a inhumane dictator. 232 00:11:07,492 --> 00:11:09,625 RYKER: Absolutely. 233 00:11:09,712 --> 00:11:11,758 But if our troops are gonna get shipped off to war. 234 00:11:11,845 --> 00:11:14,543 COPAK: Thin ice, Ryker. 235 00:11:14,630 --> 00:11:17,067 It's not your neck they'll be coming for 236 00:11:17,154 --> 00:11:19,722 if you turn out to be wrong. 237 00:11:19,809 --> 00:11:22,812 30 years of crossing every T, dotting every I... 238 00:11:22,899 --> 00:11:24,771 RYKER: Then let the science speak for itself. 239 00:11:26,294 --> 00:11:27,643 Send this up the chain. 240 00:11:31,212 --> 00:11:37,697 ♪ ♪ 241 00:11:49,317 --> 00:11:56,150 ♪ ♪ 242 00:11:57,064 --> 00:12:00,763 [beeping] 243 00:12:06,813 --> 00:12:09,946 ♪ Let's do something new ♪ 244 00:12:10,033 --> 00:12:13,515 ♪ To keep it under our hats ♪ 245 00:12:13,602 --> 00:12:16,170 ♪ Let's do something new ♪ 246 00:12:16,257 --> 00:12:19,477 ♪ To keep it under our hats ♪ 247 00:12:19,564 --> 00:12:23,917 HAIGWOOD: I first met Bruce Ivins at Chapel Hill 25 years ago. 248 00:12:26,702 --> 00:12:28,835 We were doctoral students. 249 00:12:28,922 --> 00:12:30,750 It didn't take me very long 250 00:12:30,837 --> 00:12:35,189 to realize that there was something different about him. 251 00:12:35,276 --> 00:12:36,668 IVINS: Hold. 252 00:12:38,932 --> 00:12:40,890 [laughs] 253 00:12:40,977 --> 00:12:41,935 HAIGWOOD: Wow. 254 00:12:42,022 --> 00:12:45,808 [laughing] 255 00:12:47,592 --> 00:12:49,943 IVINS: Hey, I'm Bruce. 256 00:12:50,030 --> 00:12:52,946 Bruce Ivins. What's your name? 257 00:12:53,033 --> 00:12:55,035 HAIGWOOD: And from that moment on, 258 00:12:55,122 --> 00:12:59,256 Bruce was there to greet me, every day. 259 00:12:59,343 --> 00:13:02,346 MCALLISTER: So, he was an odd duck who came on too strong. 260 00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:04,740 That about right? 261 00:13:04,827 --> 00:13:08,222 I got to say, none of these points to Mr. Ivins being our anthrax killer. 262 00:13:08,309 --> 00:13:11,399 HAIGWOOD: It's just, I... 263 00:13:11,486 --> 00:13:13,401 Uh, I don't know. 264 00:13:13,488 --> 00:13:15,707 MCALLISTER: You called us, remember? 265 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:18,885 HAIGWOOD: There's a side to Bruce. 266 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,106 It's, uh, it's not easy for me to explain. 267 00:13:23,193 --> 00:13:29,330 Um, but it's an unsettling side that only a few women have seen. 268 00:13:31,636 --> 00:13:33,421 But I learned to keep my distance. 269 00:13:35,771 --> 00:13:38,730 I started sneaking into the lab through the basement to avoid him. 270 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:43,126 [banging] 271 00:13:44,649 --> 00:13:47,174 It didn't work. 272 00:13:47,261 --> 00:13:50,090 Even after I was married and moved away, 273 00:13:50,177 --> 00:13:52,396 he would drive by my house at night, 274 00:13:52,483 --> 00:13:54,007 and then one day, 275 00:13:54,094 --> 00:13:56,139 on my way to work in the morning, 276 00:13:56,226 --> 00:13:59,664 he left me a little surprise. 277 00:14:08,586 --> 00:14:11,372 You don't know what Bruce is capable of. 278 00:14:20,163 --> 00:14:21,730 [thuds] 279 00:14:25,777 --> 00:14:27,040 [groans] 280 00:14:40,792 --> 00:14:42,794 DIANE: Bruce? 281 00:14:49,453 --> 00:14:50,411 [knocks] 282 00:14:50,498 --> 00:14:51,455 Andrew, come on. 283 00:14:51,542 --> 00:14:53,022 ANDREW: Okay. 284 00:14:53,109 --> 00:14:56,286 DIANE: Amanda, breakfast. 285 00:14:56,373 --> 00:14:58,593 Come on. 286 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,769 AMANDA: Morning mom. DIANE: Good morning. 287 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,339 IVINS: Morning. 288 00:15:05,426 --> 00:15:06,514 DIANE: Hi. 289 00:15:08,081 --> 00:15:09,082 IVINS: Hi. 290 00:15:09,169 --> 00:15:11,258 AMANDA: Good morning. 291 00:15:11,345 --> 00:15:12,999 IVINS: How do you know when you're in the bathroom in France? 292 00:15:14,696 --> 00:15:17,090 Euro-pean. 293 00:15:17,177 --> 00:15:19,353 Oh, come on. 294 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,311 Did you hear about the new book on anti-gravity? 295 00:15:21,398 --> 00:15:23,139 - AMANDA: Oh, please dad. - IVINS: It's impossible... 296 00:15:23,226 --> 00:15:24,358 ALL: Impossible to put down. 297 00:15:24,445 --> 00:15:25,359 ANDREW: Yeah, I heard that. 298 00:15:25,446 --> 00:15:26,882 IVINS: Mm-hmm. 299 00:15:26,969 --> 00:15:28,492 Okay, nothing yet? 300 00:15:28,579 --> 00:15:30,973 Why don't cannibals eat clowns? 301 00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:32,453 Huh? 302 00:15:32,540 --> 00:15:33,497 Because they... 303 00:15:33,584 --> 00:15:35,499 ALL: Taste funny! 304 00:15:35,586 --> 00:15:36,892 DIANE: Oh, come on! 305 00:15:36,979 --> 00:15:39,634 IVINS: Oh, Bruce broke the eggs. 306 00:15:39,721 --> 00:15:41,941 Sorry, honey. 307 00:15:42,028 --> 00:15:43,507 DIANE: Another late-night drive? 308 00:15:48,077 --> 00:15:49,774 Who's hungry? 309 00:15:49,861 --> 00:15:52,603 IVINS: Do you think I'm capable of hurting anyone? 310 00:15:52,690 --> 00:15:56,781 HALSTROM: Well, that is an interesting question, Bruce. 311 00:15:56,868 --> 00:15:59,915 Have you been experiencing any aggressive urges? 312 00:16:00,002 --> 00:16:01,351 Any violent thoughts? 313 00:16:01,438 --> 00:16:02,874 IVINS: What? No, no. 314 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:03,963 Gosh. 315 00:16:05,703 --> 00:16:07,270 HALSTROM: After the events of 9/11, 316 00:16:07,357 --> 00:16:10,230 you could, "Barely contain your anger." 317 00:16:10,317 --> 00:16:15,017 You told me that your job gave you access to deadly materials such as, 318 00:16:15,104 --> 00:16:17,977 "Cyanide, to poison the neighbor's dog," 319 00:16:18,064 --> 00:16:20,849 and "Ammonium nitrate to make a bomb." 320 00:16:20,936 --> 00:16:23,286 IVINS: You wrote that down? 321 00:16:23,373 --> 00:16:25,158 Okay. 322 00:16:25,245 --> 00:16:27,029 I, I wanted you to know how much trust they put in me. 323 00:16:27,116 --> 00:16:28,378 I wasn't saying I'd do anything. 324 00:16:28,465 --> 00:16:30,554 I mean... 325 00:16:30,641 --> 00:16:31,903 HALSTROM: Has this been triggered by your suspicions regarding 326 00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:33,644 the fellow scientist that you saw? 327 00:16:33,731 --> 00:16:34,732 IVINS: No, no, no, no, no, no, forget what I said. 328 00:16:34,819 --> 00:16:36,908 It wasn't Simon Kurz. 329 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:38,823 He's just not the guy. 330 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:40,173 I was mistaken. 331 00:16:40,260 --> 00:16:41,478 I think I was confused, 332 00:16:41,565 --> 00:16:45,134 and I, I, I might have, 333 00:16:45,221 --> 00:16:48,529 I had another one of those out-of-body experiences. 334 00:16:48,616 --> 00:16:50,792 HALSTROM: Describe it for me. 335 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:52,446 IVINS: Well, it was the same as last time. 336 00:16:54,709 --> 00:16:59,322 I get this tingling down both of my arms, and I'm... 337 00:16:59,409 --> 00:17:00,976 And I get a little dizzy, 338 00:17:01,063 --> 00:17:02,586 and I have this funny taste in my mouth. 339 00:17:02,673 --> 00:17:04,023 HALSTROM: Was it metallic, the taste? 340 00:17:07,243 --> 00:17:11,117 IVINS: I found a poem that I sent to a friend, 341 00:17:11,204 --> 00:17:12,901 but I, I don't remember writing it. 342 00:17:15,121 --> 00:17:20,169 And the other day, I was sitting at my desk, 343 00:17:22,258 --> 00:17:23,520 but at the same time, 344 00:17:23,607 --> 00:17:25,131 I was standing a few feet away, 345 00:17:25,218 --> 00:17:27,307 watching myself work. 346 00:17:27,394 --> 00:17:30,005 It's like I'm a passenger on the ride of my own life, you know? 347 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:36,185 Nothing like living in the first-person singular and 348 00:17:36,272 --> 00:17:37,839 the third-person singular, am I right? 349 00:17:37,926 --> 00:17:39,623 [laughs] 350 00:17:39,710 --> 00:17:42,887 HALSTROM: Dissociative experiences are not unusual, 351 00:17:42,974 --> 00:17:45,194 given your aggressive regimen of medication. 352 00:17:47,718 --> 00:17:51,157 I'm gonna recommend that we adjust your dosage. 353 00:17:51,244 --> 00:17:52,723 Okay? 354 00:17:52,810 --> 00:17:55,639 IVINS: Okay. Yeah. 355 00:17:55,726 --> 00:18:00,557 HALSTROM: Bruce, are you able to confide these experiences to anyone? 356 00:18:02,864 --> 00:18:04,387 IVINS: Well, Jody and Mara. 357 00:18:04,474 --> 00:18:07,042 HALSTROM: Okay, Jody is your co-worker? 358 00:18:07,129 --> 00:18:08,261 IVINS: We share a lab. 359 00:18:10,176 --> 00:18:12,656 Mara was our third amigo. 360 00:18:12,743 --> 00:18:14,528 Till she hot-footed it off to medical school 361 00:18:14,615 --> 00:18:17,400 and abandoned us. 362 00:18:17,487 --> 00:18:20,751 I tell them things I'd never tell anyone. 363 00:18:20,838 --> 00:18:22,231 I'm blessed that way. 364 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,065 MCALLISTER: So, Ivins had a thing for sorority girls? 365 00:18:30,152 --> 00:18:33,764 HAIGWOOD: He had a "thing" for the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma. 366 00:18:33,851 --> 00:18:35,679 [sighs] 367 00:18:35,766 --> 00:18:39,205 Bruce had been rejected by one of my sorority sisters. 368 00:18:39,292 --> 00:18:41,337 I don't know who. 369 00:18:41,424 --> 00:18:44,906 Maybe she laughed at him or maybe she was as nice as can be, 370 00:18:44,993 --> 00:18:46,908 and simply not interested. 371 00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:54,785 Bruce harbored a great deal of anger toward Kappas. 372 00:18:54,872 --> 00:18:56,439 FOLSON: Wouldn't be the first college boy to 373 00:18:56,526 --> 00:18:58,441 have crushes on a house full of young women. 374 00:18:58,528 --> 00:19:00,095 HAIGWOOD: He was a grown man, 375 00:19:00,182 --> 00:19:02,010 a doctoral student, 376 00:19:02,097 --> 00:19:05,274 and he never grew out of his obsession. 377 00:19:05,361 --> 00:19:08,756 This wasn't an innocent infatuation. 378 00:19:08,843 --> 00:19:11,628 It was invasive. 379 00:19:11,715 --> 00:19:17,504 Bruce was always pestering me with questions about KKG initiation rituals. 380 00:19:17,591 --> 00:19:19,288 He wanted to get a cypher, he... 381 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:21,029 MCALLISTER: A what? 382 00:19:21,116 --> 00:19:23,336 HAIGWOOD: It's a secret book with a decoding key 383 00:19:23,423 --> 00:19:25,294 for all the KKG rituals. 384 00:19:25,381 --> 00:19:27,209 MCALLISTER: That's a real thing? 385 00:19:27,296 --> 00:19:28,819 HAIGWOOD: I take it you never joined a sorority, Agent? 386 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:30,691 [scoffs] 387 00:19:30,778 --> 00:19:37,480 Look, it was as if Bruce wanted to be one of us. 388 00:19:37,567 --> 00:19:40,875 I was always shocked by how much he knew about our secret rituals, 389 00:19:40,962 --> 00:19:45,749 and I never could figure out where he got his information. 390 00:19:45,836 --> 00:19:48,535 MCALLISTER: For someone who claims not to have been close friends with him, 391 00:19:48,622 --> 00:19:50,624 you sure know a lot about Mr. Ivins. 392 00:19:50,711 --> 00:19:52,582 HAIGWOOD: He didn't give me much of a choice. 393 00:19:54,018 --> 00:19:58,153 Bruce can snap just like that, 394 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,288 into a darker version of himself. 395 00:20:02,375 --> 00:20:05,465 A Bruce that's prone to secret acts of vengeance 396 00:20:05,552 --> 00:20:07,858 with the most obscure reasons. 397 00:20:11,384 --> 00:20:16,040 One day, my dissertation notebook went missing. 398 00:20:16,127 --> 00:20:20,741 All of my experiments, my data for years, 399 00:20:20,828 --> 00:20:24,875 all the work I desperately needed to complete my doctorate. 400 00:20:24,962 --> 00:20:26,399 HAIGWOOD: Have you seen my notebook right there? 401 00:20:26,486 --> 00:20:30,490 It felt as if my life had been stolen. 402 00:20:30,577 --> 00:20:33,536 I ran from lab to lab like a crazy person. 403 00:20:33,623 --> 00:20:35,712 No one had seen my notebook. 404 00:20:45,069 --> 00:20:48,072 And then suddenly, I knew who had it. 405 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,092 IVINS: Hi. HAIGWOOD: Hello. 406 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:14,316 My notebook is, is, uh, missing... 407 00:21:14,403 --> 00:21:15,752 IVINS: Are you asking if I took it? 408 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,537 HAIGWOOD: No. No. 409 00:21:17,624 --> 00:21:19,669 Uh, uh, have you seen it? 410 00:21:21,802 --> 00:21:24,065 IVINS: I would never betray a KKG sister. 411 00:21:26,981 --> 00:21:29,549 HAIGWOOD: Of course. 412 00:21:29,636 --> 00:21:31,028 Thanks. 413 00:21:32,552 --> 00:21:34,641 HAIGWOOD: Soon the clues started to come. 414 00:21:40,908 --> 00:21:43,214 One was an acrostic. 415 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:47,480 A poem in which the first letter of every line spelled out a new message. 416 00:21:47,567 --> 00:21:49,482 T, T, E, R. 417 00:21:49,569 --> 00:21:51,310 Oh, I was right. 418 00:21:51,397 --> 00:21:53,268 HAIGWOOD: In this case, there was a second acrostic 419 00:21:53,355 --> 00:21:55,270 hidden within the first. 420 00:21:55,357 --> 00:21:57,533 Writing down the opening letters of each line and 421 00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,100 then reading them backward revealed the 422 00:21:59,187 --> 00:22:01,668 "secret location" of my missing notebook. 423 00:22:01,755 --> 00:22:04,366 MAN: Ah, here's something. 424 00:22:04,453 --> 00:22:06,020 Well, is this your notebook? 425 00:22:06,107 --> 00:22:07,717 HAIGWOOD: An anthrax expert, 426 00:22:07,804 --> 00:22:09,980 secret codes, 427 00:22:10,067 --> 00:22:15,421 a man who plays twisted games with people using the US mail system? 428 00:22:15,508 --> 00:22:17,684 Does that not sound familiar to you? 429 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:33,395 ♪ ♪ 430 00:22:33,482 --> 00:22:34,483 AGENT: It's positive. 431 00:22:34,570 --> 00:22:35,789 Positive. 432 00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:37,704 Agent Moore! It's positive! 433 00:22:40,097 --> 00:22:41,185 MOORE: Hey, excuse me, please, stop. 434 00:22:41,272 --> 00:22:42,709 We need to clear the area. 435 00:22:42,796 --> 00:22:44,188 Just move across the street here, people. 436 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:45,625 Just cross the street, please. 437 00:22:45,712 --> 00:22:46,843 Thank you very much. 438 00:22:51,239 --> 00:22:54,808 PRESIDENT BUSH [over TV]: I don't have knowledge of a direct link 439 00:22:54,895 --> 00:23:00,466 of the anthrax incidents to, uh, to the enemy. 440 00:23:03,251 --> 00:23:05,819 But I wouldn't put it past them. 441 00:23:05,906 --> 00:23:08,648 TORETTI: "I wouldn't put it past them." 442 00:23:08,735 --> 00:23:10,345 He's talking about the Bentonite in Iraq? 443 00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:12,173 RYKER: Who knows. 444 00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:14,131 TORETTI: What about the research you did with Ruiz? 445 00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:15,655 Didn't you push that up the ladder? 446 00:23:15,742 --> 00:23:17,308 RYKER: Copak passed it on, 447 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,876 but clearly, it didn't get enough traction. 448 00:23:19,963 --> 00:23:23,402 TORETTI: We can just put Ruiz in front of the press here and prove them wrong. 449 00:23:23,489 --> 00:23:28,015 RYKER: No. See, the thing is, all the scientists had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. 450 00:23:28,102 --> 00:23:29,103 [phone ringing] 451 00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:30,931 Ryker. 452 00:23:31,018 --> 00:23:32,236 MOORE [over phone]: We found the mailbox. 453 00:23:34,108 --> 00:23:35,849 RYKER: How sure are you it's the one our killer used? 454 00:23:35,936 --> 00:23:37,981 MOORE: It's the only one that tested positive. 455 00:23:38,068 --> 00:23:39,505 RYKER [over phone]: Where is it? 456 00:23:39,592 --> 00:23:41,289 MOORE: Uh, 10 Nassau Street. 457 00:23:41,376 --> 00:23:43,596 It's about a block from the entrance to Princeton. 458 00:23:43,683 --> 00:23:45,380 RYKER [over phone]: Any security cameras on that street? 459 00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:47,295 MOORE: Uh-uh. 460 00:23:47,382 --> 00:23:48,427 Yeah, there's a bunch all over the campus, but not here. 461 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:53,170 TORETTI: The letters, they have microscopic scratch marks 462 00:23:53,257 --> 00:23:55,608 from the glass of the photocopier that the sender used. 463 00:23:55,695 --> 00:23:57,784 TORETTI [over phone]: I know this is daunting, but we need to find... 464 00:23:57,871 --> 00:23:59,699 TORETTI: Every photocopier in the area. 465 00:23:59,786 --> 00:24:01,309 The libraries, Kinko's, 466 00:24:01,396 --> 00:24:02,615 we can match the scratches on the glass. 467 00:24:02,702 --> 00:24:05,052 RYKER: Start canvassing. 468 00:24:05,139 --> 00:24:06,619 RYKER [over phone]: Look for any professor with an axe to grind 469 00:24:06,706 --> 00:24:07,750 who could have given the spores to Al-Qaeda. 470 00:24:07,837 --> 00:24:10,536 MOORE: Got it. 471 00:24:10,623 --> 00:24:12,233 RYKER [over phone]: Chris, I gotta call you back. 472 00:24:18,631 --> 00:24:20,241 RYKER: The envelopes that were used, 473 00:24:20,328 --> 00:24:22,025 they were a pre-stamped version that were 474 00:24:22,112 --> 00:24:24,027 only sold in post offices. 475 00:24:24,114 --> 00:24:26,900 TORETTI: Correct. 476 00:24:26,987 --> 00:24:28,989 I'm sorry, I'm not following your logic right now. 477 00:24:29,076 --> 00:24:31,121 RYKER: What if there were microscopic printing irregularities 478 00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:33,341 on the envelopes? 479 00:24:33,428 --> 00:24:35,561 And what if we could match them to the machines that made them, 480 00:24:35,648 --> 00:24:37,911 and then track the shipment logs to follow 481 00:24:37,998 --> 00:24:40,174 where the batches of envelopes with 482 00:24:40,261 --> 00:24:43,046 those specific printing imperfections, and where they were sent? 483 00:24:43,133 --> 00:24:46,397 TORETTI: Okay. We could pinpoint the place of sale. 484 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,138 RYKER: We could look through all the security footage. 485 00:24:48,225 --> 00:24:49,879 TORETTI: And then track credit card purchases. 486 00:24:49,966 --> 00:24:51,315 RYKER: Leading us to the terrorist operative 487 00:24:51,402 --> 00:24:53,448 who bought them. 488 00:24:53,535 --> 00:24:55,319 TORETTI: Or the highly-educated straight white Christian male 489 00:24:55,406 --> 00:24:57,278 over 30 acting alone. 490 00:25:01,238 --> 00:25:07,331 ♪ ♪ 491 00:25:07,418 --> 00:25:09,551 AGENT: Okay, I'll load these up on the truck. 492 00:25:09,638 --> 00:25:12,815 And then we'll go ahead and start decon. 493 00:25:16,602 --> 00:25:20,562 MCALLISTER: The problem is, she doesn't have any proof. 494 00:25:20,649 --> 00:25:24,610 We just got her word that Ivins defaced her property or took the notebook. 495 00:25:24,697 --> 00:25:26,307 It could have been anybody. 496 00:25:26,394 --> 00:25:27,830 FOLSON: She seemed pretty credible to me. 497 00:25:27,917 --> 00:25:29,876 MCALLISTER: Well, maybe he stuck on her. 498 00:25:29,963 --> 00:25:31,442 Maybe she led him on. 499 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:32,835 Maybe he was slow in getting the message, 500 00:25:32,922 --> 00:25:36,317 doesn't make him a killer. 501 00:25:36,404 --> 00:25:38,101 FOLSON: What should I do with the report? 502 00:25:38,188 --> 00:25:39,668 It really seems like there's something there. 503 00:25:39,755 --> 00:25:40,800 MCALLISTER: Mark the lead as covered. 504 00:25:40,887 --> 00:25:43,454 Just file it. 505 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:45,587 IVINS: Dearest Mara, 506 00:25:45,674 --> 00:25:49,678 I hope you enjoyed my poem about the two Bruces. 507 00:25:49,765 --> 00:25:51,854 I have spoken to my therapist, 508 00:25:51,941 --> 00:25:54,465 who posits my current sensitivities may be 509 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:56,598 related to my medications. 510 00:25:56,685 --> 00:26:00,733 I have never been able to really confide in other people. 511 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:03,474 That's why you and Jody mean so much to me. 512 00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:09,393 Congratulations on your soccer game. 513 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,745 Come to USAMRIID for a visit and bring your anthrax strains with you. 514 00:26:12,832 --> 00:26:14,311 Your devoted friend... 515 00:26:14,398 --> 00:26:16,009 Saddam. 516 00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,576 [laughs] 517 00:26:30,197 --> 00:26:37,030 ♪ ♪ 518 00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:56,049 [keyboard clicking] 519 00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:00,183 [computer chimes] 520 00:27:15,416 --> 00:27:17,026 [beeps] 521 00:27:41,790 --> 00:27:44,793 It's come to my attention that you and Mara have been emailing each other 522 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,665 about me behind my back. 523 00:27:49,537 --> 00:27:52,845 And I think it's just plain mean. 524 00:27:52,932 --> 00:27:55,021 - HALL: Bruce. - IVINS: It's hard to understand, 525 00:27:55,108 --> 00:28:00,200 because I've never spoken about her or 526 00:28:00,287 --> 00:28:04,683 you other than in glowing terms. 527 00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:18,697 RYKER: Thanks for meeting us, Inspector. 528 00:28:18,784 --> 00:28:21,700 PARRISH: Dust and debris collects on the printing plates, 529 00:28:21,787 --> 00:28:23,527 ink grows ever so slightly fainter toward 530 00:28:23,614 --> 00:28:25,834 the end of a print run. 531 00:28:25,921 --> 00:28:28,881 RYKER: Is it possible to use any microscopic flaws in the envelopes to 532 00:28:28,968 --> 00:28:31,710 track them back to the place of purchase? 533 00:28:31,797 --> 00:28:33,450 PARRISH: I suppose. 534 00:28:33,537 --> 00:28:35,757 Blue Eagle envelopes are sold in packs of 500. 535 00:28:35,844 --> 00:28:40,675 Oh, you can eliminate any envelopes printed before March 1st, 2001. 536 00:28:40,762 --> 00:28:42,938 TORETTI: Why is that? RYKER: Postage? 537 00:28:43,025 --> 00:28:44,766 PARRISH: Price jumped by one cent. 538 00:28:44,853 --> 00:28:46,333 TORETTI: Okay. 539 00:28:46,420 --> 00:28:48,074 RYKER: Any other way to narrow it down? 540 00:28:48,161 --> 00:28:49,553 PARRISH: The attack envelopes used our new ink, 541 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,251 it's a brighter blue in the eagle wing, 542 00:28:51,338 --> 00:28:54,167 a more vibrant gray in the denomination number. 543 00:28:54,254 --> 00:28:56,952 That reduces the number of envelopes in the runnings to roughly, 544 00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:59,781 I'd say, 545 00:28:59,868 --> 00:29:02,175 31 million? 546 00:29:02,262 --> 00:29:03,742 [sighs] 547 00:29:05,874 --> 00:29:07,354 RYKER: To the naked eye, 548 00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:09,138 all pre-stamped envelopes look the same. 549 00:29:09,225 --> 00:29:13,273 But if you look at the printing imperfections here, 550 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:18,060 and here, and here, 551 00:29:18,147 --> 00:29:19,975 these ink discrepancies, 552 00:29:20,062 --> 00:29:22,543 they're all from an actual envelope we have in evidence. 553 00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:24,980 PARRISH: We recalled the envelopes from the post offices that sold them, 554 00:29:25,067 --> 00:29:26,460 but we ran into a roadblock. 555 00:29:26,547 --> 00:29:28,070 Several had already sold out. 556 00:29:28,157 --> 00:29:29,811 COPAK: Then what good does that do us? 557 00:29:29,898 --> 00:29:31,682 PARRISH: If we replicate the missing print runs, 558 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:35,730 the printer still has the same plate, stock, even ink. 559 00:29:35,817 --> 00:29:38,602 The same irregularity should appear in a pattern, 560 00:29:38,689 --> 00:29:40,866 and we can narrow down which envelopes we're looking for, 561 00:29:40,953 --> 00:29:43,303 which post offices they were shipped to. 562 00:29:43,390 --> 00:29:46,306 RYKER: Basically, bring us right to where the killer bought them. 563 00:29:46,393 --> 00:29:49,918 COPAK: I got approval for more Amerithrax teams to come onboard and 564 00:29:50,005 --> 00:29:51,659 you're honestly asking for 565 00:29:51,746 --> 00:29:54,227 a quarter-million to print some damn envelopes? 566 00:29:54,314 --> 00:29:55,750 RYKER: The White House did say whatever we need 567 00:29:55,837 --> 00:29:57,056 to catch this guy. 568 00:29:57,143 --> 00:29:58,579 COPAK: "Guy?" 569 00:29:58,666 --> 00:30:01,016 Toretti got her claws in you now? 570 00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:03,802 RYKER: Sir, we just learned earlier today that the only labs outside the US 571 00:30:03,889 --> 00:30:07,109 with Ames are in the UK and Canada. 572 00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:09,546 Now, we vetted every single person in those labs, 573 00:30:09,633 --> 00:30:11,026 whoever sent these letters got 574 00:30:11,113 --> 00:30:13,376 their anthrax from an American lab. 575 00:30:15,074 --> 00:30:16,858 [sighs] 576 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:31,264 ♪ ♪ 577 00:30:47,715 --> 00:30:54,591 ♪ ♪ 578 00:31:10,259 --> 00:31:17,049 ♪ ♪ 579 00:31:32,238 --> 00:31:38,940 ♪ ♪ 580 00:31:56,566 --> 00:31:59,874 [sniffing] 581 00:32:12,669 --> 00:32:19,067 ♪ ♪ 582 00:32:33,125 --> 00:32:39,958 ♪ ♪ 583 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,674 [rattles] 584 00:33:00,761 --> 00:33:02,197 [creaking] 585 00:33:12,512 --> 00:33:18,997 ♪ ♪ 586 00:33:37,885 --> 00:33:43,891 ♪ ♪ 587 00:33:48,243 --> 00:33:50,637 [door opens] 588 00:34:08,916 --> 00:34:15,053 ♪ ♪ 589 00:34:33,897 --> 00:34:37,466 ♪ ♪ 590 00:34:37,553 --> 00:34:39,642 [sniffing] 591 00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:53,961 [sniffing] 592 00:35:11,283 --> 00:35:18,116 ♪ ♪ 593 00:35:35,002 --> 00:35:41,139 ♪ ♪ 594 00:35:49,451 --> 00:35:51,323 [groans] 595 00:35:54,630 --> 00:36:01,071 ♪ ♪ 596 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:18,045 ♪ ♪ 597 00:36:18,132 --> 00:36:22,919 [distant sirens] 598 00:36:38,544 --> 00:36:45,115 ♪ ♪ 599 00:37:02,481 --> 00:37:08,530 ♪ ♪ 600 00:37:27,984 --> 00:37:31,510 [rumbling] 601 00:37:31,597 --> 00:37:36,210 [ringing] 602 00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:40,214 [bells ringing] 603 00:37:55,098 --> 00:37:56,274 [thuds] 604 00:37:58,493 --> 00:37:59,929 [rattling] 605 00:38:07,807 --> 00:38:11,898 [panting] 606 00:38:22,822 --> 00:38:24,127 [beeps] 607 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:49,065 TORETTI: What's it called in football, when the quarterback 608 00:38:49,152 --> 00:38:51,633 throws a long forward pass in desperation? 609 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,635 RYKER: That's not what this is. 610 00:38:53,722 --> 00:38:54,767 TORETTI: If this isn't a Hail Mary, 611 00:38:54,854 --> 00:38:56,246 what would you call it? 612 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:57,204 RYKER: It's a controlled experiment. 613 00:38:57,291 --> 00:38:58,248 TORETTI: Oh, okay. 614 00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:00,468 [laughs] 615 00:39:00,555 --> 00:39:03,776 You thought I was crazy for seeing a code in the attack letters? 616 00:39:03,863 --> 00:39:05,430 Just admit it. 617 00:39:05,517 --> 00:39:06,953 You're out on a limb. 618 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,694 I'm impressed. 619 00:39:11,087 --> 00:39:12,959 RYKER: You don't give up, do you? 620 00:39:13,046 --> 00:39:16,571 TORETTI: There is no place for you in the Bureau if you do. 621 00:39:16,658 --> 00:39:18,399 I would wager every last penny 622 00:39:18,486 --> 00:39:21,707 I have based on those very tense jaw muscles, 623 00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:24,840 this is a first for you, summa cum laude. 624 00:39:24,927 --> 00:39:26,625 I bet your credit score is way over 800. 625 00:39:26,712 --> 00:39:29,062 RYKER: Okay, fine. 626 00:39:29,149 --> 00:39:31,325 It shouldn't be any secret that when you're the only kid 627 00:39:31,412 --> 00:39:32,848 in school who doesn't fit the pattern, 628 00:39:32,935 --> 00:39:35,242 especially back in the 70s, and now, 629 00:39:35,329 --> 00:39:39,942 you're the only guy in your department who breaks the mold, yeah, 630 00:39:40,029 --> 00:39:41,640 you spend a lot of useless energy 631 00:39:41,727 --> 00:39:45,078 being the poster child for following the rules. 632 00:39:47,733 --> 00:39:49,865 But I'm guessing you're familiar with that. 633 00:39:49,952 --> 00:39:53,260 TORETTI: Working on holidays, turning in every report early 634 00:39:53,347 --> 00:39:56,394 while the title-jumper at the next desk golfs with the boss on Fridays? 635 00:39:56,481 --> 00:40:00,223 Yeah, maybe I do. 636 00:40:00,310 --> 00:40:03,923 RYKER: This is the first time I've actually put my job on the line, 637 00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:07,535 and I've never wanted anything more than to catch these guys. 638 00:40:12,671 --> 00:40:16,152 TORETTI: They said it's gonna take all night, so. 639 00:40:17,676 --> 00:40:19,547 RYKER: I'm gonna hang here for a while. 640 00:40:19,634 --> 00:40:21,680 TORETTI: Yeah, suit yourself. 641 00:40:21,767 --> 00:40:22,942 Um... 642 00:40:23,029 --> 00:40:24,552 [clears throat] 643 00:40:24,639 --> 00:40:26,598 For what it's worth, 644 00:40:26,685 --> 00:40:30,602 you are doing the right thing here. 645 00:40:30,689 --> 00:40:32,734 RYKER: That only matters if we find something. 646 00:40:32,821 --> 00:40:34,736 ♪ What tomorrow could bring ♪ 647 00:40:34,823 --> 00:40:39,175 ♪ When today doesn't really know ♪ 648 00:40:39,262 --> 00:40:41,743 ♪ Doesn't really know ♪ 649 00:40:41,830 --> 00:40:44,006 ♪ I'm all out of love ♪ 650 00:40:44,093 --> 00:40:46,226 ♪ I'm so lost without you ♪ 651 00:40:46,313 --> 00:40:48,054 ♪ I know you were right ♪ 652 00:40:48,141 --> 00:40:50,535 ♪ Believing for so long ♪ 653 00:40:50,622 --> 00:40:52,667 ♪ I'm all out of love ♪ 654 00:40:52,754 --> 00:40:55,017 ♪ What am I without you ♪ 655 00:40:55,104 --> 00:41:01,937 ♪ I can't be too late to say that I was so wrong ♪♪♪ 656 00:41:02,764 --> 00:41:03,722 [whistle blows] 657 00:41:03,809 --> 00:41:05,985 [cheering] 658 00:41:06,072 --> 00:41:11,512 [overlapping chatter] 659 00:41:15,690 --> 00:41:17,692 WOMAN: Pass it to me, let's go. 660 00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:22,567 [overlapping chatter] 661 00:41:24,612 --> 00:41:25,831 [whistle blows] 662 00:41:34,970 --> 00:41:41,237 ♪ ♪ 663 00:41:41,324 --> 00:41:45,720 [overlapping chatter] 664 00:41:48,114 --> 00:41:49,507 IVINS: Oops. 665 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:55,469 WOMAN: Pass it, pass it. 666 00:41:55,556 --> 00:41:56,818 [overlapping chatter] 667 00:41:56,905 --> 00:42:00,648 [cheering] 668 00:42:00,735 --> 00:42:07,568 [overlapping chatter] 669 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:11,920 ♪ ♪ 670 00:42:12,007 --> 00:42:14,053 IVINS: Get them, Mara! 671 00:42:18,405 --> 00:42:20,581 Woo! 672 00:42:23,192 --> 00:42:25,934 Go, Mara, get them! 673 00:42:26,021 --> 00:42:29,329 Get them, Mara! Woo! 674 00:42:29,416 --> 00:42:30,765 Get in there, Mara. 675 00:42:30,852 --> 00:42:32,158 You got it. 676 00:42:32,245 --> 00:42:34,856 Get the ball, go, Mara! 677 00:42:34,943 --> 00:42:35,944 Yeah, you got it. 678 00:42:36,031 --> 00:42:37,903 That's you, Mara, woo! 679 00:42:37,990 --> 00:42:39,121 Hey, it's me, oh. 680 00:42:39,208 --> 00:42:40,993 WOMAN: Hey, she's wide open. 681 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,081 IVINS: Wow. 682 00:42:42,168 --> 00:42:44,083 [screaming] 683 00:42:44,170 --> 00:42:46,346 PLAYER: Sorry. You okay? 684 00:42:46,433 --> 00:42:52,526 [overlapping chatter] 685 00:42:54,310 --> 00:42:55,311 MAN: Back it up, give her room. 686 00:42:55,398 --> 00:42:56,443 WOMAN: Back it up, guys. 687 00:42:56,530 --> 00:42:57,879 Give her space. 688 00:42:59,533 --> 00:43:03,232 [overlapping chatter] 689 00:43:06,409 --> 00:43:12,285 ♪ ♪ 690 00:43:12,372 --> 00:43:14,069 [glass shattering] 691 00:43:23,513 --> 00:43:25,559 [engine revving] 692 00:43:25,646 --> 00:43:27,387 [tires screeching] 693 00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:46,058 RYKER: They found an exact match with the printing. 694 00:43:46,145 --> 00:43:48,277 [laughs] 695 00:43:48,364 --> 00:43:50,149 TORETTI: This is the post office that sold the envelope? 696 00:43:50,236 --> 00:43:51,585 RYKER: Yeah. 697 00:43:51,672 --> 00:43:53,152 TORETTI: You did it. 698 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,849 RYKER: So, Jersey is 200 miles away, 699 00:43:54,936 --> 00:43:57,112 that's seven hours by car round trip. 700 00:43:57,199 --> 00:43:58,418 [sighs] 701 00:43:58,505 --> 00:44:00,202 TORETTI: Okay. 702 00:44:00,289 --> 00:44:02,161 It's far enough to avoid immediate suspicion, 703 00:44:02,248 --> 00:44:03,162 but it's an easy drive. 704 00:44:03,249 --> 00:44:04,816 RYKER: Mm-hmm. 705 00:44:04,903 --> 00:44:06,034 We'll check the toll booths for any cameras, 706 00:44:06,121 --> 00:44:07,993 but our guy is pretty smart. 707 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,864 Avoiding the tollways would add about an hour to his trip. 708 00:44:09,951 --> 00:44:11,779 TORETTI: Mm-hmm. 709 00:44:11,866 --> 00:44:15,609 If he leaves before midnight, he's back home by morning. 710 00:44:15,696 --> 00:44:18,786 Oh, boy, it's just middle of nowhere Maryland. 711 00:44:18,873 --> 00:44:20,396 This is an entirely new area to canvass. 712 00:44:20,483 --> 00:44:22,355 RYKER: Maybe not. 713 00:44:22,442 --> 00:44:23,878 I got something to show you. 714 00:44:35,673 --> 00:44:37,326 Take a look at that building. 715 00:44:37,413 --> 00:44:38,763 TORETTI: What is that? 716 00:44:38,850 --> 00:44:40,721 RYKER: That's USAMRIID. 717 00:44:40,808 --> 00:44:43,724 One of the 16 labs in the US that has the Ames strain. 718 00:44:43,811 --> 00:44:45,030 TORETTI: So, if our guy bought the envelopes here, 719 00:44:45,117 --> 00:44:46,466 that means... 720 00:44:46,553 --> 00:44:48,163 RYKER: That the anthrax came from 721 00:44:48,250 --> 00:44:49,948 the most respected Biodefense lab in the country. 722 00:44:54,256 --> 00:44:57,216 Someone in that building is our killer. 723 00:44:57,303 --> 00:44:58,870 ♪ ♪ 724 00:45:01,394 --> 00:45:04,136 [music plays through credits]. 725 00:45:33,252 --> 00:45:34,601 Captioned by Cotter Media Group.