♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
Tim? If you want French toast, you got to bring me eggs.
You don't need to look like Will Rogers to do it.
Who's Will Rogers?
Take your basket and go, now. Please?
Sausage, let's go.
Did you do your pee? Are you fibbing?
Go pee.
Rachel?
Will you feed your sister, and don't let her fling it all over.
Timmy?
Tim?
Timothy!
MAN: Your mom and dad ever mention Eric Rudolph?
- Ever talk about seeing him... - HANNAH: Tim!
- ...helping him or anything? - Timothy!
Tim. Tim.
Inside. Go.
You're real tough, aren't you? Bullying a little second-grader?
Realistic toy gun without a visible orange muzzle-cap,
that's a violation...
Get the hell off my property!
- Now! - Ma'am, we're hunting for
a federal fugitive name of Eric Rudolph. I...
I don't give a shit who you are or what you're doing.
If you ever step foot across my property line again
or so much as look at my kids again,
it won't be a toy gun you're dealing with.
I promise you that.
- [bell jingles] - Bobi?
I'm Kathy Scruggs.
Ms. Jewell?
No, no, no. Please leave.
I have nothing to say to you.
I'll be out of here in two minutes.
I just wanted your help
understanding what's happening here.
It looks like Richard's returning
to the scene of the crime and then gloating about it.
That couldn't be right, could it?
This is my workplace.
I know, and I'm sorry.
But if someone was about to publish photos like those
of my son, I would be grateful for the opportunity
to clarify the record.
I have no comment. Leave me alone.
All this personal stuff is gonna come out.
About Richard's deadbeat dad,
about the psychological counseling
- he was ordered to undergo. - It is absolutely nobody's business.
I agree.
So-so help me tell a better story.
Something more newsworthy.
Like this big mysterious press conference
Richard and his lawyer scheduled.
What-what, what's it about? How do youfeel about it?
I have nothing to say to you.
C o me on, you must feel some way about whatever he's gonna say.
- Can't we just have a... - Is there a problem, Bobi? -No, sir.
This woman was just leaving. Goodbye, miss.
Have a good day.
When you change your mind
and want your side of the story heard, call me.
On July 27th, I spotted and reported a s--
- a suspicious... - WATSON: Come on, Richard!
- ...looking package... - Come on.
- ...at Cent Park... - Enunciate.
- ...Centennial Olympic Park. - Make eye contact!
Why can't you just stand up
and proclaim your innocence to the world?
Just why... why is that so hard for you?
[sighs]
- [door opens] - Uh, Bobi?
Bobi. Thank God, thank God.
Okay, I need you to, uh, decide on your outfit
for the press conference and look over the...
statement that I prepared.
And please, please, help me get through to your son.
Light a goddamn fire under his ass,
- because I can't get him to do... - BOBI: Get out, Watson.
I am not going to any press conference, and I'm not
- getting up in front of those cameras. - No-no-no-no-no.
- And I am not certainly saying a word to them. -You can't do this right now.
- Bobi. You can't do this. - I don't care what you say to me.
- This is a big deal. - I will not ask you again...
- This is a big deal! - ...to get the hell out of my home!
That reporter found me.
She came to my work.
Which reporter?
Here I am, trying to get back some normalcy,
and that reporter from the Journal-Constitution
c o mes waltzing right in, talking about your father
and your stepfather.
Every shameful cranny of our lives gonna be dug up
and smeared all over the papers,
a n d you're calling a press conference?
[panting]
I love you, Richard.
But you are damn gullible.
You... you let that lawyer talk you into something
singularly stupid.
God, you think the press is any different
from the FBI?
They are wolves!
All they want is to air our dirty laundry
to the world for entertainment.
They don't give a cuss about the truth!
And you're like some dumb, wounded buffalo
running into the middle of the pack,
expecting them not to bite.
Y o u think I want to go on camera?
I have no other option, Ma!
Sure you do!
You call Watson right now and you cancel that damn thing!
I can't do that.
And I won't do it.
I ' m sick and tired of acting guilty.
I know you want to turn back the clock.
But the only hope for me is to keep pushing forward
until I'm exonerated.
You don't have to go to my press conference,
but I do, even if it's futile, even if it's stupid.
I have to go.
You're right about one thing:
I don't have to go.
And I won't.
And I tell you, you do this,
press comes back, camps outside again?
Y o u're gonna be looking for a new place to live.
You know, Watson asked me why it's so hard for me
to speak up, and I realized it's because of you.
The whole reason I became a cop in the first place,
the whole reason that I...
went into law enforcement was to protect you.
I saw the way that my dad and my stepdad treated you,
and I thought I could grow up
and be the safety and security you never had.
And I did. And that's what kills me.
I saved those people's lives, but when I did that, I hurt you.
The one person I wanted to protect.
I did the right thing.
I saved those people.
Because it's how you taught me to act.
I just want you to be proud of me, Mom.
That's all I ever wanted.
♪ ♪
It's the same grade of steel. Same carbon ratio.
It's the same gauge of sheeting, cold-rolled, rotary-cut.
I mean, we could do more tests.
But I don't think it can get any more conclusive than this.
Well, those directional plates
are the only forensic evidence we have
that ties Eric Rudolph to the Olympic Park bombing.
Now, if we're gonna make that charge,
we have to be sure.
I mean weapons-grade sure.
Well, look, if you want to believe
this is just a coincidence,
you'd have to believe that two different bombers
both decided to create a quarter-inch steel plate.
B u t instead of using quarter-inch steel,
they both decided to cut out two identical eighth-inch plates
and stick them together.
A n d that they both got their eighth-inch steel
from the same manufacturer in the same grade.
And they bothdecided to cut them with
a carbide-tooth circular saw.
And then fuse them together with a TIG welder.
Not arc weld, not epoxy, not solder.
Not any other kind of fusion.
Which, right from the start, is insane.
So...
the only plausible counter-scenario
is that two separate bombers
used the same exact tools and resources?
And were both smart about bombs
- but dumb about steelworking, in the exact same way. -[chuckling]
- You're learning. - Yeah.
But I've been calling the FBI's Atlanta office
and the CENTBOM task force,
and nobody will give me the time of day.
They have their own lab analysis,
and they're sticking to it.
Y e ah, that happen to the best of us.
They're all tunnel vision on Richard Jewell.
They can't admit that they may be wrong.
But like Saint Paul says,
there is one body but many parts.
So there's a part that's investigating an innocent man,
but there's also the part that's chasing the guilty one.
And if one part won't let us in, we'll try the other way in.
So... start writing it up--
just the facts, ma'am--
and we'll take it to Nantahala.
No, whoa, 'ey.
We cannot go to Nantahala.
No.
Who said?
Our bosses say.
And the FBI.
Oh. [sniffs, sucks teeth]
Well, you tell them I forced you,
and I'll play dumb.
I'm good at that.
Come on, type it up. Type it up!
[sighs]
[hushed chatter]
♪ ♪
This one's clear!
Moving on.
[gunfire and shouting in distance]
- Do we have incoming fire? - Negative, negative!
I t was a snake! I got bit by a goddamn rattlesnake!
KNOX: Shit. Back up.
- [groaning] -Eyes on the ground! Look for that snake!
[snake rattling]
[grunts]
Goddamn it!
Get a tourniquet on him and call the medevac.
- Yes, ma'am. - Shit.
Well, sir, there's North Carolina,
and then there's Nantahala.
I t 's a half a million acres, and it's a fugitive's dream.
Impenetrable forests, steep ravines.
Double canopy makes aerial surveillance useless.
- Over 30,000 caves that we know of. - What do you got for me?
Eric Rudolph was trained in escape and evasion
at Army Ranger School.
And he grew up in Murphy.
He knows those woods in a way we never will.
These are not excuses. This is context.
[sighs]
We'll keep beating the bush, but our real strategy
is something I've termed "Circle the Mountain."
- Yeah? -We know that Rudolph hasn't left Nantahala
and we know he has approximately two weeks of provisions.
Meaning he can't survive in the woods for much longer.
He's going to have to come out.
And when he does, we'll be ready.
We've set up hidden cameras at all the trailheads
and along the major trails through the park.
These show the hidden cameras and where we stationed
undercover agents along the Appalachian Trail
and the main hunting trails.
I've also established checkpoints
on every road leading in and out of Nantahala.
Every single person is ID'd,
every single vehicle is searched.
Eric Rudolph is completely contained.
He has nowhere to go, and he can't survive for much longer.
Family? Friends?
Known associates? Any leverage there?
W e ll, Rudolph lived in Murphy as a boy.
He moved back there about five years ago.
No one there knows him as an adult.
His father is dead.
His mom and brothers are mostly in Florida now,
and they're refusing to talk.
They're rabid, anti-government types.
I'm keeping them surveilled and locked down 24/7.
I like "Circle the Mountain."
Catchy code name. Sounds strong, sounds active.
But the rest of it sounds
essentially like we're just waiting.
We need an active play here.
Take the initiative.
Sir, the FBI can only get so far alone.
These woods are full of hunters, hikers, backwoods types.
They know those woods.
And average income in Nantahala is less than 20K.
If we put Rudolph on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list
and offer a reward of $50,000,
that would buy a lot of eyes out here.
And remember UNABOM.
We only have to peel off one family member
and we'll have a way in.
That's what I'm talking about.
The union of the preventative and the active
is the essence of any successful large op.
Yes, sir. Thank you.
But I can't sell the White House on 50K.
Sounds soft.
Not after UNABOM was a million.
Uh, sir, [clears throat] I'm not sure
an influx of outside attention
is what this manhunt needs right now.
Uh, $50,000 buys local tips,
b u t a million dollars, it... it's a big can of worms, sir.
We're kind of in a "go big or go home" scenario.
Understood.
Then we go big. A million dollars it is.
G r eat. Make the announcement when you get back to Murphy.
Yes, sir. Thank you.
[horn honking]
[Thompson sighs]
I'm on my way to meet your boss.
- Pop your trunk, please. - [sighs]
- God. - [horns continue honking]
You assholes gonna do this every single day?
Get back in your vehicle, sir.
- Now. -No, I don't think I'm gonna do that.
Can't get over till you get back in your vehicle.
You want my help with him?
T h ese Dickerson boys can get pretty hot.
...until I get back to do my job,
- but I can't do that... - Oh, you're trying to do your job?
W e 're trying to do our job and you're blocking the damn road.
Why don't you get out of town?
- I-I just need you to get back in your car... -Jimmy. Jimmy.
Jimmy, just calm down.
- All right? - [music playing quietly]
You realize I'm on your side, right?
Move along, Sheriff.
- Okay, then, asshole. -You know what? This is ridiculous.
- AGENT: Yeah, it is kind of ridiculous. - You Feds, you come into town,
- you come into our town... - Everything was moving...
[arguing continues]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
You know, people around here are already pissed off
b e cause of your roadblocks and your knocking on doors
and your search parties.
They're already at the boiling point.
Y o u really think this million-dollar reward
is gonna help that?
I think someone might know where Eric Rudolph is right now.
Or will spot him when he comes down to scavenge for food.
I'm giving that person a million reasons to come forward.
Oh, come on.
You think because we don't wear suits and ties around here,
you think these folks aren't gonna do the right thing
and come forward?
Give us some credit.
Let me tell you what's gonna happen
if you put up this reward.
The media's gonna be all up in our ass
and you're gonna have every drug addict
f r om here to Manteo that's got a shotgun
and a bus ticket coming into this town causing trouble.
And these people are not gonna stand for it.
This is a small, peaceful town.
T h ey're gonna be pissed off, and they're gonna blame you.
I'm trying to catch a serial bomber,
not win Man of the Year from the Murphy Enquirer.
He's not wrong.
Wave a million bucks around,
y o u're gonna get a shitload of unintended consequences.
It's a big picture here.
The message from Washington is clear: "go big or go home."
Well, you tell Washington this is my home.
Good morning.
I am Supervisory Special Agent Jack Brennan,
head of the FBI's Eric Rudolph task force.
On behalf of FBI Director Louie Freeh
and Attorney General Janet Reno,
today I am authorized to offer a $1 million reward
for information that directly leads to the capture and arrest
- of federal fugitive... - "Unintended consequences."
We call upon you, the public...
Bounty hunters and reward seekers
have already started flocking...
- PAT: Are you seeing this, Dan? - ...to the normally quiet town
of Murphy, North Carolina...
- I'm gonna call them! - Don't you dare.
- ...intense scrutiny from the FBI. - PAT: You want Eric to get shot
by some tweaker?
...say there's only one bottom line:
- t he arrest...-I'm on hold.
T h ey are tapping my phone and they put me on hold!
Tell your friends
to answer their phones, dipshits!
...and to reach out with any information...
Come on.
Terrific. Eric's been spotted in Hanoi, Paris,
Dublin and "Eat-shit-istan."
Clever.
FBI Bomb Task Force. Could I have your name, please?
Mm-- Patricia who?
That kind of coverage, using each of these points
as your start. All clear?
- Yes, sir. - Th-- Thank you gentlemen.
[clears throat]
Agent Brennan?
Earl Embry, Joe Holliwell, ATF.
We spoke in Birmingham.
We've done our lab report and we concluded
that because the directional plate
that we found in Birmingham
shares so many of the same characteristics
with the plate that was found at Centennial Olympic Park,
they have to have been employed by the same bomber.
HOLLIWELL: This concerns Eric Rudolph,
but it's also about Richard Jewell.
He's an innocent man, and this proves it.
[laughs softly]
CENTBOM is Atlanta office now.
Take this to them.
We tried, but they wouldn't listen.
They're relying on the Livermore analysis,
which is-- which is flawed in a bunch of ways.
So they did listen.
They just thought you were wrong
and had the lab work to back it up.
We are happy to walk you through that report.
It's dense, I know it's dense...
- Stop. Stop. - ...but all the conclusions...
Look at what we're up against here.
You see this? Hmm?
I have one question.
Will this get me closer to catching Eric Rudolph?
Because if it will, I will sit down right now
and read the whole thing cover to cover.
But if this isn't going to help me put Rudolph in cuffs,
then it goes in my to-read pile.
I'll get to it when I can.
- Well, I know there's a relationship between... -I believe
that this report is essential, and I know it's accurate,
but no, it will not help you catch Eric Rudolph.
Thank you for your honesty.
You're welcome in this office any time
you have something that will.
What about Richard Jewell, huh?
We just leave him to twist in the wind?
[chuckles]
Look, I'm not going to unravel
two major FBI investigations on your say-so.
I said I'll read it.
I'll read it, when I can.
Thank you, Agents.
You know, if we're right,
and Eric Rudolph is the Centennial Olympic Park bomber,
you are dealing with an extremely cunning
and extremely ruthless man.
[chuckles]: And you need to be careful.
A hell of a lot more careful than you think.
Boss, you pack your swimsuit?
What?
We're going to Florida.
Pat Rudolph wants to talk.
It just seems crazy.
Just talk to the back row,
m a ke eye contact, it'll all be fine.
- Hmm... - This could be the day
that ends this whole nightmare.
- Confidence. - Okay.
Richard?
Well, I came.
I'm not saying a word to those cameras.
But I'm gonna be there.
Right by your side.
Show them all that... I'm proud of you.
- Don't muss my hair. - Okay.
A n d don't make me cry, you'll ruin my makeup.
All right, we-- it's showtime.
Okay. [clears throat]
Confidence.
Without Richard Jewell,
the headline of the 1996 Olympics would surely have been,
"Over 100 Dead in Olympic Park Bombing."
But in a cruel and savage twist of fate,
Richard Jewell has been wrongfully
and falsely accused of murder
by the two most powerful forces in the world today:
the U.S. government and the media.
Now, I'm gonna present all of you with indisputable proof
that Richard Jewell,
according to the FBI's own timeline,
could not have been the Olympic Park bomber.
But first, I'd like to introduce Richard Jewell
to tell you about his ordeal in his own words.
Richard.
[camera shutters clicking]
This is, uh--
T h is is the first time I have ever asked you
to turn your cameras on me.
My name is Richard Jewell,
and I am not the Olympic Park bomber.
Since, um...
Since July 30, I've lived every waking moment
afraid that I would be arrested for a horrible crime.
A crime I did not commit.
I n their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas,
the FBI and the media have almost destroyed me
and my mother.
On the evening of July 27, 1996,
I did not set out to be a hero.
I simply set out to do my job,
and to do it right.
A n d I stand here before you today
so you will know what I have always known.
That I'm an innocent man.
[clears throat]
Y'all have taken everything from my son
with no proof.
He is not just innocent of these crimes,
Richard is a hero.
He saved hundreds of lives.
So I am asking you, the media, and I'm asking the FBI
and anyone else who-who hears this
to clear my son's name.
Under your seats you'll find an info packet
that lays out the timeline of Richard's movements,
the bombing and the 911 call.
RICHARD: Do you think it worked?
No way to tell till we see it on the news,
but we sure as hell left it all on the field.
You can be very proud of yourself.
So we go home and we wait?
Heck no. I got all gussied up.
I'm going to Applebee's to celebrate.
A n d I invite you both, if you care to join me.
Okay. [chuckles]
LINDSAY: Wow, there's no way Jewell could have planted the bomb
and made the 911 call.
This is gonna change everything if it sticks.
Just be quiet and let me focus.
What would happen in a case like this?
Would the paper, like, print a retraction?
Would you have to apologize or something?
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
You look at this shit and-and think it means anything?
Th-This... this packet is a stack of papers.
It's not a story until we make it a story.
That's why we're journalists, and they're everybody else.
But don't the facts matter?
What is this, fourth grade?
Yes, facts matter... as raw material.
They presented a narrative that fit the facts.
So what? You really think it's your job
as a journalist to go into a press conference,
believe everything you're told, and then just rephrase it?
That's being a steno pad, not a reporter.
We have to get the truth.
What if that was the truth?
I mean, he seemed really genuine.
The other journalists thought so, too.
Because they're sheep.
We're gonna dig deeper.
I'll be right back.
Oh, hey, guys.
I n eed your help with something.
Room for one more?
[dog barking]
MAN [loudly]: No! Stay!
- All right. Yeah! - [dog whimpering]
Mrs. Rudolph, you-you've made a very brave,
very wise decision in reaching out to us.
In 90% of the cases like this, where the mother
collaborates with federal law enforcement,
we're able to end the manhunt peacefully.
I have raised all my sons to be very independent.
Eric is a very private individual.
If you think I can lead you
to some secret hideaway in Nantahala,
you got another think coming.
That's okay.
We'll work together to enlist local and national media
to encourage Eric to surrender.
Your presence beside us in Nantahala
w I ll be a powerful reassurance to Eric
t h at the FBI will provide safe passage into custody
and a fair trial.
You have misunderstood.
I'm not gonna help you capture my son.
What kind of idiot would do that?
Well... why did you call us then?
I need you to remove the million-dollar bounty
from my son's head.
Someone is gonna take that reward to mean dead or alive,
with no due process, no trial.
You are sentencing my son to death.
God alone gives life, and takes it.
You try to steal that power from God,
take it for yourself, that's the unforgivable sin.
B l asphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 12:31. Mark 3:28.
- Luke 12:10. - Thank you, honey.
Would-would you do me a favor
and get some more iced tea for us?
- Go on, baby. - [dog barking outside]
[quietly]: You are chasing the wrong man, anyway.
The Eric I have known his whole life,
I've never even heard him mention abortion once.
He doesn't even go to church for all I know.
The idea that he would run around bombing abortion clinics,
it's absurd.
Plus, he has a gay brother.
T h at's Jamie. You can see his pictures over there.
Eric has gone clubbing in New York City with him,
for Chrissake.
Which makes him an unlikely candidate
for the lesbian bombings, don't you think?
Oh. Is it possible he's developed
an extreme ideology recently?
That he's joined a group or sect
and kept it secret from you?
No. Eric is not a joiner.
He's too, uh...
- Supercilious. - Supercilious.
E r ic's dad died when he was 13.
He's had major authority issues ever since.
Plus, Eric just doesn't care.
The only think Eric cares about is getting stoned,
eating pizza and getting pussy.
That's about it.
- I'd blow up an abortion mill. - All right.
I'd blow up a bar of sodomites.
I'd blow up the FBI headquarters, too.
- Okay. - Okay.
[sighs]
You do the best you can
with the kids God gives you.
I mean, truth is Eric can be kind of a jerk,
but he is not a bomber.
Mrs. Rudolph, if Eric is innocent,
that makes your participation even more critical.
Imagine his situation. He's hiding in the woods
being sought for crimes he didn't commit.
He must be very confused and very, very scared.
Huh.
He might think his only way out is violence.
Or even suicide.
Eric needs to hear a voice he can totally trust.
He needs to hear his mother say,
"It's okay, son, come in safely
and the truth will set you free."
All right, there's something to that.
- There really is. - Stop talking to them, Ma.
All right. Of course,
I will need the million-dollar reward removed first.
I can definitely work on that.
I can't make any promises right now.
They think we're goddamn mongoloids.
Are you not hearing them, Ma?
They're saying you go on TV for them,
and they keep that target on Eric's back.
That's their offer.
I am speaking with these people.
- It's okay, Dan. - You're helping them
hunt down and kill your own son.
I told you not to call them, Ma.
What you're doing is wrong.
This is evil.
I warned you.
All these assholes will ever understand is action.
What are you doing, Dan?
This is for you.
This is for the FBI andthe media!
[Mrs. Rudolph screaming]
Oh, God! Oh, my God!
[all laughing]
Oh, Richard, sometimes you make me...
Look, it's about Richard. It's about Richard.
We finally got their attention.
REPORTER: I'm here withAtlanta Journal-Constitution reporter
Kathy Scruggs.
For the first time, the FBI is confirming
they believe Richard Jewell had a co-conspirator.
Sources inside the FBI are saying
the Olympic Park bombing is likely a two-man operation,
with Jewell working in collaboration
with an unidentified conspirator.
This co-conspirator helped him make the 911 call
that was carefully timed
to lure law enforcement closer to the bomb.
REPORTER: And do they have any leads on who it might have been?
KATHY: Well, all they have now is a voice.
I-It's a man's voice.
Sounds like someone in his 30s. Sounds...
I think we should just get the check
and get back home.
I'm not leaving.
What about, well, you know, people are looking and...
[ l oudly]: Screw 'em!
We gotta live our lives.
They can whisper and tittle
and say whatever they want about us.
But... we got everything we need.
Right here.
What the hell were you thinking?
It's obvious.
Matthew 5:30.
"If your right hand causes you to stumble,
cut it off and throw it from you."
They think they can pressure me into betraying Eric.
W e ll, I'd rather cut my hand off.
I sent the FBI and the media a message so clear,
nobody can ignore it.
Nobody understood it, honey.
Nobody got it. Not even me.
You want to send a message?
I will show you how to send a message.
W e need to get our agents out to interview the gay brother.
Tell them to be very cautious.
If one's a serial bomber
and the other would saw off his own hand...
What kind of a person does that?
[horns honking]
I h ave tried to cooperate, I have tried to be patient.
Every single day. This is a community, all right?
My daughter has to pee, okay?
I have to pee. I've been waiting in this line
for God knows how long, and I-- No.
- I've had enough. That's it. - Please.
Do not turn on the vehicle.
- [engine starts] - Ma'am, no.
Do not go-- Do not go!
[tires screeching]
This is it.
Yeah, come watch the son of a bitch be in that car.
[siren wailing, tires screech]
Kids, stay put.
- Get out of the goddamn car. - It's gonna be okay.
Get out-- ma'am, get out of the car.
- Stop resisting. - Get your hands off me.
[grunting] Let go of me.
[crowd shouting, jeering]
- Shit. -Get away from my kids, you goddamn Nazis!
It's clear.
- Let her go. - AGENT: Ma'am-- What?
Take off her cuffs. Let her go!
- CROWD: Come on, let her go! - [grunts]
Nobody can drive past an FBI checkpoint,
not for any reason.
It's a matter of not only federal law
but your own safety and that of your children.
Bullshit. You're terrorizing our children.
That's what you're doing.
- MAN: Come on! - WOMAN: Just go home!
You want us gone?
Help us find Eric Rudolph!
Until then, we'll continue doing our jobs,
enforcing the law!
I don't know Eric Rudolph from Adam,
but if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't help
- you assholes find him! - Okay...
- All right, folks! - I just need you to get back
- into your car. - Everything's under control now.
- She's safe, everybody's safe! - KNOX: Get back in your car.
- You hear me? Everybody! - KNOX: Please just get back...
N e ed to calm down, get off the street!
Everybody disperse, just calm down.
- Hell, baby?. - Calm down!
- Bullshit! -THOMPSON: Back up! Harold, back up.
T I mothy, take your brother and sister to Daddy's car.
You're okay. You're okay.
Well, you sure picked just the wrong woman to piss off.
T h at is Big John. He is the leader of the local militia,
the North Carolina Regulators,
a n d he carries a lot of weight in Murphy.
We've dealt with militia before.
[chuckles] Yeah. Not like this one.
HANNAH: Scared the shit out of my girl.
I'm driving my family home now.
When we get to the checkpoint
on Mountain View, we ain't gonna stop.
We ain't gonna show ID, you ain't gonna search my truck.
We're just gonna drive right though.
Y o u're gonna radio ahead and let them know that.
Under the circumstances, I'll allow it.
Come on, baby.
You okay to drive?
Yeah, I'm okay.
- I'll meet you at home. - Okay.
- Be safe. - Okay.
MAN: Yeah, now you know!
AGENT: Okay, back up.
WOMAN: Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
MAN 2: Way to go, John.
[camera shutter clicks]
All right, everybody, the show's over.
Show's over. Everybody's moving on.
Let's go! Step back.
[rain pattering]
[thunder rumbling]
[clatters]
Sir?
You better turn on the news.
Shocking footage from the town of Murphy, North Carolina,
where armed FBI agents assault a woman
and her young children in broad daylight.
Local activists are protesting what they call
government overreach in the manhunt
for bomber Eric Rudolph.
Get away from my kids, you goddamn Nazis!
ANCHOR: And in related news, explosive comments
from Eric Rudolph's mother.
Speaking to the media for the first time,
Patricia Rudolph called the FBI investigation a sham
and part of a wide-ranging government conspiracy.
The people of Nantahala got to wake up
to what's going on in this country.
W h o is the friend, who is the enemy.
I h ope they kick some FBI ****,
'cause I don't know what else can be done.
Unintended consequences.
[phone ringing in distance]
[knocking on door]
Uh, Director Freeh's on line one.
He said it's urgent.
[footsteps receding]
RADIO HOST: We got the mother of Eric Rudolph on the line.
Pat, your opinion?
PAT: Pose this question to yourself:
why is the government spending money
out the yin-yang on one man who supposedly killed
one man and hurt a nurse, for God's sake?
I m ean, does the government think we're all that dumb?
Y - You don't have to be a "Christian patriot"
o r a militia mobster or whatever the hell
they call them to know that something's
going on with this government.
I m ean, that's what the whole invasion
of western Carolina mountains is all about.
RADIO ANNOUNCER: We've got Hannah Gray on the line. She's gonna tell us
about how she dealt with the FBI.
HANNAH: I am a law-abiding citizen
trying to take my kids to a bathroom.
And the government storm troopers see fit
to throw me on the hood of my car? It ain't right.
I ' m telling you, it ain't right.
And people around here, we're not gonna keep lying down
while the Fascist Bureau of Intimidation walks all over us.
Y o u step on a snake, you're gonna get bit.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Y o u step on a snake, you're gonna get bit.
RADIO ANNOUNCER: Well, there is a lot of controversy going on there
in Murphy, North Carolina.
And the FBI's trying to take over? I don't know.
Is this your government? Give me a call.
[thunder crashes]