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Murphy: Nikola Tesla
was the greatest inventor

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in American history.

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A. C. Power, electric
motors, fluorescent lights,

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x-rays, wireless energy...

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Tesla paved the way for
all of these technologies.

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Prince: Tesla was taking
several of his inventions

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and putting them together
to become this superweapon.

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He called it the death ray.

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Did Tesla invent the
world's first weapon

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of mass destruction, and
was he murdered for it?

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Narrator: Now a military
investigator, a historian,

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and an engineer unlock
the mysteries behind

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what could be the greatest
cover-up of the 20th century.

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Prince: When Tesla died,
his nephew, sava kosanovic,

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broke in to the safe.

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Those documents
that were stolen?

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Nobody knows what those are.

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There is a strong
likelihood that kosanovic

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will make such information
available to the enemy.

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Now, who's the enemy in 1943?

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The Germans.

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There are rumors that
some of those documents

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may be about the death ray.

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We need to track down
where these documents went.

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If that leads to Serbia, then
that's where we need to go.

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We're looking for the missing
pieces of the death ray.

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Do you think they're
in the museum?

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Yes.

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Were there any other countries
that tried to buy the death ray

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other than Russia?

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Tesla had a lot of
offers from Germans.

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We're gonna build
Tesla's death ray.

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Oh, what the [bleep]

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We need to run some
structural tests on it.

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I think this is gonna hold.

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350.

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It scares the [bleep] out of me.

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Woman: This is
the Tesla archive.

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Getting access to the archive
is nothing short of a miracle.

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Have these documents
ever been published?

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- No.
- Is that the death ray?

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That's definitely a death ray.

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If Tesla's weapon was real,

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then we could have
found a possible motive

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for the murder of
an American hero.

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Captions by vitac...
www.Vitac.Com

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captions paid for by
discovery communications

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narrator: 1943... New York City.

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Nikola Tesla is found
dead in his hotel room.

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His safe is cracked and
his research is stolen.

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No suspects are ever questioned.

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But a few years earlier,

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Tesla tells the press of
an eerily similar crime.

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The inventor claims spies
broke into his apartment,

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searching for plans
to his death ray.

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Welcome back, gentlemen.

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Prince: We had a hell
of a time getting access

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to the archives
there at the museum,

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but we finally
got these things...

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Never-before-seen
formulas, drawings, notes...

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All about a previous or
early version of the death ray

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in Tesla's own hand.

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Wow.

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Prince: We have new
information from Serbia...

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Information to help
Aron finish the death ray.

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Schematics, drawings, formulas.

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This is a lot more than just
the physical design of the tower.

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This is him actually
working through

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the electronics,
the engineering.

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The fact that these
documents exist show

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that Tesla may very well
have actually built a death ray...

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I mean, he was pretty
far along in the design...

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And that leads us to believe
that he was murdered for them.

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The FBI documents
point to sava kosanovic

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as being the prime suspect.

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But when we were in
Serbia talking to [bleep]

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He brought up the prospect
that the Nazis were trying

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to find the death-ray designs.

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Man: Tesla had a lot
of offers from Germans

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before the second world war.

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When Tesla died, it was
the height of world war ii.

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The Nazis were
trying to gain an edge

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by infiltrating the American
scientific establishment.

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In the 1940s,

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they were infiltrating
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as well as sabotage cells.

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Some of them came
from the reichsfuhrer-s.S.,

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who was sort of the
elite intelligence network

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of Nazi Germany,

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and they sent people here
to try to steal potential secrets

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that could advance
the Nazi war effort.

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Narrator: 1943.

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The Nazis control most
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and Hitler eyes a new
target... The United States.

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Hitler's elite spy agency
infiltrates the U.S.,

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looking for weapons that
could help the third reich

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take over the world.

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It is rumored the Nazis have
Nikola Tesla and his death ray

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in their sights.

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A weapon like this
could have provided

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a massive
coastal-defense system.

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It could have eliminated the
nuclear threat in 1943 and 1944.

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That means this thing
works. Who wouldn't want it?

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It's enormously powerful.

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And at the time,
this would have been

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tremendously
intimidating to anybody.

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If the Nazis had been able
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it potentially could have
changed the course of the war.

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And the world.

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Any major superpower
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I think that, for sure,
Tesla was a lot further

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along than anyone
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With these plans,
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that Tesla was actually working
his way through the design,

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trying to figure out
technically how it would work.

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Here, take a look at this one.

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I'm interested what
your take is on it.

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It's not every day you get
to see a document like this.

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It's really impressive.

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You know, we've been
working on this thing

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pretty much blind
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and now we have
Tesla's handwritten notes

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filling in some gaps that
we weren't sure we had right.

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What do you take away
from the equations?

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It looks like he's
starting to work toward

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some of the wind-loading stuff.

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And so this is a
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Right.

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It looks like he's playing with
some relatively large loads.

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He's accounting for some
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Which you would have to
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this outside.

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That shows that he was
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the big picture.

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He was thinking of it as an
integrated defense system.

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It's really nice to see him
going into this level of detail.

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That's something that we
would have to apply to our design.

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Prince: Tesla's research
is extremely complicated.

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We're talking about formulas
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and maybe even written in code.

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This is what makes it so
hard to get into Tesla's head.

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Narrator: In his later years,

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Tesla grows
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Fearing people are trying
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he makes claims that
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only exists in his mind,

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and what he does put on
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Koscho: You know, I
build Tesla technology,

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but some of this stuff's
really hard to grasp.

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It'd be great to have another
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I know a guy named John Scott.

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He's a rocket engineer.
This is right up his alley.

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I'd like to go talk to him.

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That might be a place to start.

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Yep. I agree.

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I'm gonna go over them, as
well, see if there's anything

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I can pull out of them that
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In the meantime, I've been doing

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a little bit of
additional research,

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and there's this
one guy, Erik Orion...

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He claims that he has
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about the Nazis'
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and I'd like to
see where it leads.

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Is this seeming more
real to you now, Jack?

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This changes the nature
of our investigation.

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Murphy: If there's any chance
that the Nazis were involved

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in Tesla's death,

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that's something we
need to follow up on.

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Narrator: While Aron and
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on the large-scale death ray,

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Jack travels to New
York to meet Erik Orion...

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An informant with
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We just got back from Serbia

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and talking to some
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about Nikola Tesla's death ray.

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We had one of our
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that the Nazis were very
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and perhaps acquiring it, and
that's why I reached out to you.

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Yes, well, about 20 years
ago, I was dating a woman,

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and her elderly father,
he wasn't feeling well.

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She had asked me come visit him.

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I said sure.

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He said, "well, you
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I really want to tell you about.

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I've been meaning to
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and I want to get
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And he told me that he was
someone named Otto skorzeny.

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The famous Nazi commando.

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Yes.

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Hitler's most trusted s.S.
Commander is Otto skorzeny.

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Like the fuhrer, skorzeny
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and is quickly at the center
of Nazi-espionage operations.

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A gifted spy, skorzeny is tasked
with a number of high-profile,

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undercover missions,

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including freeing
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Benito Mussolini
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In 1943, skorzeny leads a failed
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which aims to assassinate
the so-called "big three"...

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Churchill,
Roosevelt, and Stalin.

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After the war, skorzeny narrowly
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and vanishes.

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The following years bring
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Ireland, and Argentina.

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But skorzeny evades
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[ All singing in German ]

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So you're saying he
actually faked his death.

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Yeah, he faked
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and he lived to be 92 years old.

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He made a deathbed
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that he and Reinhard gehlen
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after they stole
his best inventions.

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Including the death ray.

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Murphy: Eric's
theory is a little crazy,

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but there are all kinds of
crazy Tesla fringe theories.

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As an investigator, it's really
important to come at things

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from an unbiased perspective.

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You have to follow
up on every lead.

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And this is especially
true in this mystery,

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which is 100 years old.

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So, he claims Hitler
actually ordered

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the assassination of Tesla.

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Yes.

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He passed the order
down to gehlen and Otto,

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and sent them to
the United States?

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Yes.

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Otto skorzeny told me
they were pretending

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to be American o.S.S. Officers.

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They came to visit Nikola Tesla.

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He invited them in. He
made them some tea.

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Tesla turned his back,

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and gehlen held his
arms down by his side,

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and skorzeny actually
put a pillow in front of him

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and smothered him.

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So, they acquire
the death-ray plans,

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they assassinate Tesla.

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Is there any proof to
back any of this up?

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When he laid this
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I didn't know what to think.

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I thought maybe he
was losing his mind.

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Maybe he was senile,
or had dementia.

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But he came me a
shoe box full of 60 years'

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worth of photographs.

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And one by one, he went
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and he pointed out, "this is me.

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This is Reinhard gehlen."

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I was able to recognize
all the photos of the people

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who he claimed they were
based on my own research.

253
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Would you like to see it?

254
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Yeah, very much.

255
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Here's Otto skorzeny
at the age of 92.

256
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Here he is with the Nazi
war criminal Walter rauff.

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Walter rauff had
his fingers blown off

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by a Mossad letter bomb when
he was living in South America.

259
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Holy [bleep]

260
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There were Nazis
who faked their deaths

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or otherwise just disappeared.

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A lot of them were
wanted war criminals,

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just like Otto skorzeny.

264
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I need to prove two things...

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Is the person in
these photographs

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really Otto skorzeny?

267
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And two, did Otto really
kill Tesla on Hitler's order?

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If this story turns
out to be the truth

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and this photograph is
really of Otto skorzeny,

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then we've just solved the
mystery of Tesla's death.

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Prince: These are
real death-ray plans.

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This is missing.

273
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So he's got something
original in there

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that he's got pictures of.

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There's no figure
5. The money page.

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This is a pretty critical part.

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If we don't get this
right, we're not going

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to get a functional death ray.

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You can look at the ears.

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Murphy: These guys
are the same person.

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I mean, what percentage
would you rate this at?

282
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If we do this right,
we can move on

283
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and finish the rest
of this death ray.

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Three, two, one.

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♪♪

286
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Narrator: While Jack
chases down leads

287
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about a possible Nazi
connection to Nikola Tesla's death,

288
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Cameron is meeting
with a rocket scientist

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who can examine the
death-ray plans found in Serbia

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and help the team
understand them.

291
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Some of this is engineering
stuff that Aron understands,

292
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but a lot of it is
really complex notes

293
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in shorthand or code,

294
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so we've got to find
someone that can help us

295
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decipher this stuff.

296
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This is kind of cool.
This is all handwritten.

297
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This is fascinating.

298
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Max deflection. A little
rough surface here.

299
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Loading length.

300
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And there's the
moment of inertia.

301
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That's fascinating.

302
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So, this is more tower work.

303
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"Covering of the tower.

304
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Asbestos ebony sheet."

305
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So, it's some sort of
covering, an insulator.

306
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I would imagine... he's dealing
with large, large potentials,

307
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so he's probably making
some sort of insulating cover.

308
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Why do you think
that was important?

309
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Well, in my opinion,
what he's trying to do

310
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is essentially cover his tower

311
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so he does not jump the energy

312
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he's built up back to ground
or any objects nearby...

313
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Birds, people, cars.

314
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But what he's looking
at is insulating this tower

315
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so that all the
energy will go up

316
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to where he needs to use it.

317
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It'd be very, very dangerous
to be around, quite frankly.

318
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Narrator: These documents
appear to show Tesla carefully

319
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working through
a critical aspect

320
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of the death ray... insulation.

321
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Tesla plans to send
such large amounts

322
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of energy through the weapon,

323
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he is concerned
energy will escape

324
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before it is fired from the top.

325
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A strong insulator
could prevent a misfire,

326
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which could be deadly.

327
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What John says proves that
Aron was on the right track

328
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when it comes to the insulator.

329
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But I've got to let him
know all the precautions

330
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Tesla was taking
with the insulator,

331
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and to make sure it's
strong enough to hold

332
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and direct the potential
energy the way he wants it to.

333
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Otherwise it might not work.

334
00:14:47,456 --> 00:14:50,076
This is more of the
physics of what he's doing.

335
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"The references to figure 5
of my original communication,"

336
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and then...

337
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Is there a next page to this?

338
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- I'm not sure.
- Hmm.

339
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He's leading us someplace else.

340
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He said, "then the
velocity becomes..."

341
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And from the top, "from
the references to figure 5

342
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of my original communication."

343
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He's writing something in
addition to something else.

344
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So, it's clear
something's missing.

345
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The money page.

346
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According to their own
recently declassified files,

347
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on the night of
Nikola Tesla's death,

348
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the FBI allows 80 additional
trunks of Tesla's research

349
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to be confiscated by
a mysterious agency

350
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known as the office of
alien property custodian.

351
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The agency's authority
extends only to immigrants

352
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without legal status, but
Tesla is a U.S. citizen,

353
00:15:44,732 --> 00:15:46,731
which prompts outcry from many

354
00:15:46,732 --> 00:15:49,386
who claim this
seizure is illegal.

355
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His belongings are held
by the U.S. government

356
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for almost nine years.

357
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Finally, after repeated
protests from Serbia,

358
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Tesla's belongings are
sent to his home country.

359
00:16:00,663 --> 00:16:04,938
Rumors persist that key
documents are never shipped.

360
00:16:04,939 --> 00:16:06,283
Now, what you're
saying, clearly,

361
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we don't have all
the information.

362
00:16:09,249 --> 00:16:10,421
No, we don't.

363
00:16:10,422 --> 00:16:11,904
He's got something
original in there

364
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that he's got pictures of.

365
00:16:14,180 --> 00:16:16,145
It's not here.

366
00:16:16,146 --> 00:16:19,042
It looks like we
got pages missing.

367
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Tesla's own hand.

368
00:16:21,318 --> 00:16:25,559
Did the museum have them
and not give them to us?

369
00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,593
Did sava steal them?

370
00:16:27,594 --> 00:16:31,042
Did the missing pages
ever make it to Serbia?

371
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Either way, I have to find out.

372
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Narrator: In Texas,
Aron and his team

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are building a large
prototype of the death ray.

374
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If they can prove Tesla
created a revolutionary

375
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anti-aircraft weapon,

376
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it might show a motive
for Tesla's murder.

377
00:16:47,146 --> 00:16:49,731
Based on the death-ray
plans found in Serbia,

378
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Aron is re-designing
the insulator for the build.

379
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So, this is a
pretty critical part.

380
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I mean, because we
didn't have one of these,

381
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our first prototype failed.

382
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It did.

383
00:16:59,836 --> 00:17:00,836
The insulator worked
well on the second one.

384
00:17:00,837 --> 00:17:02,455
We got to go a lot larger now

385
00:17:02,456 --> 00:17:04,145
because the scale is larger.

386
00:17:04,146 --> 00:17:06,110
Koscho: We've got to make sure
that this insulator can stand off

387
00:17:06,111 --> 00:17:07,593
the very large voltages

388
00:17:07,594 --> 00:17:10,214
that this system is
going to be experiencing.

389
00:17:10,215 --> 00:17:12,973
Narrator: None of Tesla's
experiments with wireless energy

390
00:17:12,974 --> 00:17:16,800
are more mysterious
than the tunguska event.

391
00:17:16,801 --> 00:17:19,559
Siberia... 1908.

392
00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,766
A massive explosion destroys
more than 750 square miles

393
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in the Russian wilderness.

394
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It is never explained.

395
00:17:27,525 --> 00:17:31,076
Reports in the media insist the
damage is caused by a meteor,

396
00:17:31,077 --> 00:17:33,697
but many believe it was
a Tesla death-ray test

397
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gone horribly wrong.

398
00:17:38,353 --> 00:17:40,283
So, what are we
gonna make this out of?

399
00:17:40,284 --> 00:17:42,800
All right, so, we're gonna
make this out of cast nylon.

400
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These ridges here are
serving the same purpose

401
00:17:45,008 --> 00:17:46,421
as they did on
the other insulator.

402
00:17:46,422 --> 00:17:48,490
They're making it really
difficult for the high voltage

403
00:17:48,491 --> 00:17:50,145
to jump across all of them

404
00:17:50,146 --> 00:17:53,145
and escape out the side
where we don't want it, right.

405
00:17:53,146 --> 00:17:54,731
Koscho: Nylon's
an amazing material.

406
00:17:54,732 --> 00:17:57,593
But it's expensive, and
it's difficult to handle,

407
00:17:57,594 --> 00:18:00,421
so if you have to cut it
with any normal hand tools,

408
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it's pretty much impossible.

409
00:18:03,146 --> 00:18:05,179
Narrator: The insulator
needs to be the exact shape

410
00:18:05,180 --> 00:18:08,352
and dimensions as
the computer design.

411
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To fabricate the
part from cast nylon,

412
00:18:10,594 --> 00:18:14,559
the team will use a
state-of-the-art 3-d printer.

413
00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,697
They hope it will be enough
to keep the massive amount

414
00:18:16,698 --> 00:18:20,179
of energy from leaking
when the death ray is fired.

415
00:18:20,180 --> 00:18:22,007
Obviously, this could
be dangerous for anybody

416
00:18:22,008 --> 00:18:24,766
who is anywhere near this thing.

417
00:18:24,767 --> 00:18:27,352
Look at that.

418
00:18:27,353 --> 00:18:34,110
♪♪

419
00:18:34,111 --> 00:18:36,835
Narrator: Jack is investigating
a potential Nazi plot

420
00:18:36,836 --> 00:18:38,352
to kill Nikola Tesla.

421
00:18:38,353 --> 00:18:42,352
Informant Erik Orion claims
Nazi spy Otto skorzeny

422
00:18:42,353 --> 00:18:45,800
confessed to
assassinating Tesla.

423
00:18:45,801 --> 00:18:48,007
Now he meets
with Peter crutchley,

424
00:18:48,008 --> 00:18:53,283
a journalist who has studied
the Nazi spy ring extensively.

425
00:18:53,284 --> 00:18:55,007
I wanted to do a little
reality check with you,

426
00:18:55,008 --> 00:18:57,248
because I got some
information about Otto skorzeny.

427
00:18:57,249 --> 00:19:01,145
I know you've done some
research on him in the past.

428
00:19:01,146 --> 00:19:02,800
The investigation I'm working on

429
00:19:02,801 --> 00:19:05,076
is trying to determine
whether or not the death ray

430
00:19:05,077 --> 00:19:06,524
is something that
was actually real.

431
00:19:06,525 --> 00:19:07,938
Yeah.

432
00:19:07,939 --> 00:19:12,007
And part of that is to
identify who else was after it,

433
00:19:12,008 --> 00:19:13,938
what different parties
were interested in it.

434
00:19:13,939 --> 00:19:16,422
And one of them, as it turns
out, may have been the Nazis.

435
00:19:26,043 --> 00:19:28,973
I talked to one
contact, and he told me

436
00:19:28,974 --> 00:19:31,179
that Otto skorzeny was assigned

437
00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:35,559
to assassinate Tesla
here in New York.

438
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,835
And he told me that Otto
was actually living in Florida,

439
00:19:38,836 --> 00:19:41,524
and lived there up until
1997 when he passed away,

440
00:19:41,525 --> 00:19:43,283
and had an American family.

441
00:19:43,284 --> 00:19:45,766
And he laid all these
photographs on me

442
00:19:45,767 --> 00:19:48,594
that supposedly show Otto
living in the United States.

443
00:19:52,043 --> 00:19:53,524
Right.

444
00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:55,386
Erik claims that
Otto skorzeny died

445
00:19:55,387 --> 00:19:57,628
as a very old man in Florida.

446
00:19:57,629 --> 00:20:00,317
He lived to be 92 years old.

447
00:20:00,318 --> 00:20:02,559
He made a deathbed
confession to me.

448
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:03,938
However, the
history books tell us

449
00:20:03,939 --> 00:20:08,490
that Otto died in Madrid
in 1975, at the age of 67.

450
00:20:08,491 --> 00:20:10,697
But it's definitely possible

451
00:20:10,698 --> 00:20:13,214
that there were Nazis
who faked their deaths

452
00:20:13,215 --> 00:20:16,421
or otherwise just disappeared
to try to start a new

453
00:20:16,422 --> 00:20:18,491
and anonymous
life after the war.

454
00:20:20,629 --> 00:20:22,421
Tesla died in '43.

455
00:20:22,422 --> 00:20:23,697
Yeah.

456
00:20:23,698 --> 00:20:25,766
So I'm trying to
establish where Otto was

457
00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:27,352
during that time
frame... Specifically,

458
00:20:27,353 --> 00:20:29,077
January of 1943.

459
00:20:52,318 --> 00:20:56,697
Peter says that it's possible
that Otto left Europe in 1943,

460
00:20:56,698 --> 00:20:59,353
so maybe he did have a
hand in murdering Tesla.

461
00:21:07,836 --> 00:21:10,698
I mean, he was Hitler's
favorite commando.

462
00:21:20,629 --> 00:21:23,110
Right. Right.

463
00:21:23,111 --> 00:21:26,731
It sounds like Otto was Hitler's
tactical commander of choice.

464
00:21:26,732 --> 00:21:29,869
If they were to send a team of
assassins to the United States

465
00:21:29,870 --> 00:21:32,352
to conduct an
overseas operation,

466
00:21:32,353 --> 00:21:33,766
do you think Otto
is the type of person

467
00:21:33,767 --> 00:21:35,180
who would be in charge of that?

468
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,697
The reality that we don't
have an exact record

469
00:21:40,698 --> 00:21:45,524
of where Otto skorzeny was
in January of 1943 raises doubt.

470
00:21:45,525 --> 00:21:48,042
It means that we have to
pursue this thing all the way

471
00:21:48,043 --> 00:21:50,870
and establish who's
in these photographs.

472
00:22:00,456 --> 00:22:02,904
Narrator: After a visit with
an expert to look at the plans

473
00:22:02,905 --> 00:22:05,179
of Tesla's death
ray from Serbia...

474
00:22:05,180 --> 00:22:08,145
Loading length, and
there's the moment of inertia.

475
00:22:08,146 --> 00:22:10,869
Cameron discovers
key pages are missing.

476
00:22:10,870 --> 00:22:12,559
Is there a next page?

477
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,042
Something's missing.

478
00:22:14,043 --> 00:22:15,835
But finding the
missing pages will mean

479
00:22:15,836 --> 00:22:17,628
tracing the path
of the documents

480
00:22:17,629 --> 00:22:19,317
before they were
shipped to Serbia.

481
00:22:19,318 --> 00:22:21,110
We're gonna keep
looking, beating the bushes,

482
00:22:21,111 --> 00:22:22,455
and see what we
can come up with.

483
00:22:22,456 --> 00:22:24,455
We got a couple more leads.

484
00:22:24,456 --> 00:22:26,904
And I'll be in touch
if we find anything.

485
00:22:26,905 --> 00:22:32,835
♪♪

486
00:22:32,836 --> 00:22:35,317
While Cameron traces
the documents from Serbia,

487
00:22:35,318 --> 00:22:37,455
Jack is tracking down
a lead that suggests

488
00:22:37,456 --> 00:22:41,594
Tesla was murdered by a Nazi
spy on the order of Adolf Hitler.

489
00:22:48,008 --> 00:22:50,766
Using his background
as a military investigator,

490
00:22:50,767 --> 00:22:53,662
he finds a photo-forensics
expert who can help.

491
00:22:53,663 --> 00:22:55,800
I have some
photographs that I'd like

492
00:22:55,801 --> 00:22:58,455
to have some forensic
analysis done on

493
00:22:58,456 --> 00:23:01,042
that reportedly show
a fairly prominent Nazi

494
00:23:01,043 --> 00:23:02,869
named Otto skorzeny.

495
00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:05,697
We have some pictures
that are confirmed to be his,

496
00:23:05,698 --> 00:23:07,283
and then we have
some other pictures

497
00:23:07,284 --> 00:23:09,662
that are reported to be of him,

498
00:23:09,663 --> 00:23:11,248
and I'm wondering if you
could compare the two

499
00:23:11,249 --> 00:23:12,663
and tell me if
it's the same guy.

500
00:23:14,698 --> 00:23:17,214
No.

501
00:23:17,215 --> 00:23:19,455
One photographs, the
ones we know are authentic,

502
00:23:19,456 --> 00:23:22,662
he ranges from,
say, age 30 to 50.

503
00:23:22,663 --> 00:23:24,490
The ones that we're
trying to understand

504
00:23:24,491 --> 00:23:25,800
if it's the same person,

505
00:23:25,801 --> 00:23:28,043
the person appears to
be about 90 years old.

506
00:23:34,594 --> 00:23:36,076
That sounds great. Thank you.

507
00:23:36,077 --> 00:23:37,559
See you soon.

508
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:44,524
♪♪

509
00:23:44,525 --> 00:23:47,145
Hey, y'all. Get on over.

510
00:23:47,146 --> 00:23:49,179
Now that we've got our
insulator all taken care of

511
00:23:49,180 --> 00:23:51,800
and our sphere all
built, I think we've got it.

512
00:23:51,801 --> 00:23:55,110
If it can hold that weight,
then it's going to be able to deal

513
00:23:55,111 --> 00:23:56,766
with anything we throw at it.

514
00:23:56,767 --> 00:23:58,731
Next step is to move
on to the power source.

515
00:23:58,732 --> 00:23:59,869
And just like in our prototype,

516
00:23:59,870 --> 00:24:01,455
we're going to be
using capacitors.

517
00:24:01,456 --> 00:24:03,869
But we're talking about a
ton more energy this time.

518
00:24:03,870 --> 00:24:06,283
We're expecting our
beam to deliver around

519
00:24:06,284 --> 00:24:08,835
100 megawatts of
power to the target.

520
00:24:08,836 --> 00:24:11,455
That's enough power
to power 10,000 homes.

521
00:24:11,456 --> 00:24:13,766
So everybody's got to be
on the same page with this.

522
00:24:13,767 --> 00:24:15,904
So, we've got some
capacitor work to do.

523
00:24:15,905 --> 00:24:17,938
Those gray capacitors
that we started out

524
00:24:17,939 --> 00:24:19,938
with really did
do their job well.

525
00:24:19,939 --> 00:24:21,386
Yeah.

526
00:24:21,387 --> 00:24:22,869
But to get a good death ray,
to actually blow up a target,

527
00:24:22,870 --> 00:24:24,214
we're gonna need
a lot more energy,

528
00:24:24,215 --> 00:24:25,904
so I ordered some
larger capacitors.

529
00:24:25,905 --> 00:24:27,731
They're about four times
the size of the gray ones

530
00:24:27,732 --> 00:24:28,869
we used in the test.

531
00:24:28,870 --> 00:24:31,179
Going this size is gonna
be very dangerous.

532
00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:34,524
If something fails, it would
be a very spectacular failure.

533
00:24:34,525 --> 00:24:36,869
Narrator: Many of Tesla's
high-voltage experiments

534
00:24:36,870 --> 00:24:39,386
are at his wardenclyffe
lab on long island,

535
00:24:39,387 --> 00:24:41,973
where some thing he is
developing the death ray.

536
00:24:41,974 --> 00:24:44,490
Locals report night
after night of mysterious

537
00:24:44,491 --> 00:24:47,628
bright flashes like
lightning in the sky.

538
00:24:47,629 --> 00:24:49,559
Eventually, public
pressure forces

539
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,455
Tesla to abandon his
work at this location.

540
00:24:52,456 --> 00:24:53,904
Though he abandons the lab,

541
00:24:53,905 --> 00:24:57,179
historians believe he never
abandons the death ray.

542
00:24:57,180 --> 00:25:02,662
♪♪

543
00:25:02,663 --> 00:25:05,042
To get all of the energy
storage that we need

544
00:25:05,043 --> 00:25:06,524
to make this death ray work,

545
00:25:06,525 --> 00:25:08,179
we're gonna combine
eight of these capacitors

546
00:25:08,180 --> 00:25:10,352
to make one mega-capacitor.

547
00:25:10,353 --> 00:25:12,938
Narrator: One of the key
documents found in Serbia

548
00:25:12,939 --> 00:25:15,697
outlines Tesla's plans
to insulate his death ray

549
00:25:15,698 --> 00:25:18,731
in order to control the
weaponized energy.

550
00:25:18,732 --> 00:25:21,938
Aron's team will insulate
each capacitor separately.

551
00:25:21,939 --> 00:25:24,007
They will also add
additional insulation

552
00:25:24,008 --> 00:25:27,628
on all connection points
between the capacitors.

553
00:25:27,629 --> 00:25:30,421
The insulation is critical
to ensure the energy moves

554
00:25:30,422 --> 00:25:33,352
to the weaponized
portion of the death ray.

555
00:25:33,353 --> 00:25:37,248
If the insulator's fail, the
results could be deadly.

556
00:25:37,249 --> 00:25:44,283
♪♪

557
00:25:44,284 --> 00:25:47,110
Koscho: To prevent flashover,
we're going to use insulating

558
00:25:47,111 --> 00:25:48,973
plastic tubes in silicone.

559
00:25:48,974 --> 00:25:50,731
It's an extra
layer of insulation.

560
00:25:50,732 --> 00:25:54,455
Hays: Our only areas
between this connection

561
00:25:54,456 --> 00:25:56,283
and this connection
are highly stressed,

562
00:25:56,284 --> 00:25:58,421
and that high voltage just
wants to jump between these.

563
00:25:58,422 --> 00:26:01,421
And if it does, it blows
our project to pieces.

564
00:26:01,422 --> 00:26:02,559
Yeah.

565
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:03,904
So we cannot let that happen.

566
00:26:03,905 --> 00:26:05,869
And we do that with an 1/8-inch

567
00:26:05,870 --> 00:26:07,662
of polycarbonate
insulating material.

568
00:26:07,663 --> 00:26:11,248
So, we're pretty much
keeping that failure

569
00:26:11,249 --> 00:26:13,559
that the prototype did
from happening again.

570
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,835
Exactly.

571
00:26:14,836 --> 00:26:15,973
[ Loud bang ]

572
00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:17,559
[Bleep]

573
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:18,938
Let's see if it fits.

574
00:26:18,939 --> 00:26:20,628
Hey. Oh, yeah.

575
00:26:20,629 --> 00:26:22,697
- Hey.
- Nothing can happen to that.

576
00:26:22,698 --> 00:26:25,145
Man, this is looking good, dude.

577
00:26:25,146 --> 00:26:27,076
Yeah.

578
00:26:27,077 --> 00:26:32,559
♪♪

579
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,904
Murphy: It seems pretty
clear that someone like Hitler

580
00:26:34,905 --> 00:26:37,283
would have been interested
in Tesla's death ray.

581
00:26:37,284 --> 00:26:39,973
Man: Tesla had a lot
of offers from Germans

582
00:26:39,974 --> 00:26:41,938
before the second world war.

583
00:26:41,939 --> 00:26:44,731
But whether or not he
dispatched Nazis to New York

584
00:26:44,732 --> 00:26:46,524
to actually assassinate Tesla,

585
00:26:46,525 --> 00:26:48,317
that's a little bit
harder to prove.

586
00:26:48,318 --> 00:26:49,421
Otto skorzeny.

587
00:26:49,422 --> 00:26:50,835
The famous Nazi commando.

588
00:26:50,836 --> 00:26:52,662
He made a deathbed
confession to me

589
00:26:52,663 --> 00:26:55,490
that he and Reinhard
gehlen murdered Nikola Tesla

590
00:26:55,491 --> 00:26:57,214
after they stole
his best inventions.

591
00:26:57,215 --> 00:27:00,145
Here's Otto skorzeny
at the age of 92.

592
00:27:00,146 --> 00:27:03,352
By seeking out a
forensic photo expert,

593
00:27:03,353 --> 00:27:05,869
I'm hoping that they can
compare the facial features

594
00:27:05,870 --> 00:27:07,352
on these photographs

595
00:27:07,353 --> 00:27:09,662
and see if it's the
same person or not.

596
00:27:09,663 --> 00:27:11,662
I can look at it and
give an opinion,

597
00:27:11,663 --> 00:27:13,766
but this is somebody
who has actual training,

598
00:27:13,767 --> 00:27:17,835
and he'll be able to tell
us the real deal, I think.

599
00:27:17,836 --> 00:27:20,421
All right, well, let me
show you what I got.

600
00:27:20,422 --> 00:27:22,386
Yeah, what are
we looking at here?

601
00:27:22,387 --> 00:27:24,731
So, I have a whole bunch
of pictures that you gave me.

602
00:27:24,732 --> 00:27:25,904
Mm-hmm.

603
00:27:25,905 --> 00:27:27,283
I am putting them
up on the screen here.

604
00:27:27,284 --> 00:27:30,007
There's a couple from
the unknown person.

605
00:27:30,008 --> 00:27:31,386
That's Otto there in the middle.

606
00:27:31,387 --> 00:27:34,455
Right, back in like the '60s.
We know that's him for sure.

607
00:27:34,456 --> 00:27:38,800
What I need to know, though,
is this older gentleman this guy?

608
00:27:38,801 --> 00:27:39,973
Right.

609
00:27:39,974 --> 00:27:41,766
The process that we
call identifying somebody

610
00:27:41,767 --> 00:27:43,938
is actually called
individualization,

611
00:27:43,939 --> 00:27:46,007
and what that means is you want

612
00:27:46,008 --> 00:27:50,421
to find enough agreement
of characteristics and features

613
00:27:50,422 --> 00:27:51,938
that this is the same person.

614
00:27:51,939 --> 00:27:53,938
Not a person that
looks like them

615
00:27:53,939 --> 00:27:56,076
or has a lot of
features that match,

616
00:27:56,077 --> 00:27:58,145
but we're trying to say,
"this is the same person."

617
00:27:58,146 --> 00:28:00,110
And that's really hard to do,

618
00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:02,248
especially when
age is concerned.

619
00:28:02,249 --> 00:28:05,214
With age comes things
like your cartilage expands

620
00:28:05,215 --> 00:28:06,766
and starts to sag,

621
00:28:06,767 --> 00:28:08,317
and you have all
kinds of additional,

622
00:28:08,318 --> 00:28:11,283
like, wrinkles, and
time to grow moles

623
00:28:11,284 --> 00:28:12,662
that weren't there before.

624
00:28:12,663 --> 00:28:14,179
Now, when I got your photos,

625
00:28:14,180 --> 00:28:16,248
it was a little
bit more difficult.

626
00:28:16,249 --> 00:28:18,421
And the reason why is
because, with pictures like this,

627
00:28:18,422 --> 00:28:21,076
the angle and the lighting

628
00:28:21,077 --> 00:28:23,214
and the photo quality
and the perspective,

629
00:28:23,215 --> 00:28:26,455
all of those things they
don't match very well.

630
00:28:26,456 --> 00:28:29,800
However, that said, if you
look on the screen over here,

631
00:28:29,801 --> 00:28:32,042
the skull shape is similar,

632
00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:35,766
the nose shape is similar,
the hairline is similar.

633
00:28:35,767 --> 00:28:39,973
He's got moles
in similar places.

634
00:28:39,974 --> 00:28:41,766
It's kind of in the same place.

635
00:28:41,767 --> 00:28:45,593
Is it down here because
of time, has sagged, right?

636
00:28:45,594 --> 00:28:47,421
Or it could be a
completely new mole.

637
00:28:47,422 --> 00:28:48,869
You can see a similarity?

638
00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:50,904
Like I said, there
are some similarities.

639
00:28:50,905 --> 00:28:52,593
You know, his skull
shape is similar.

640
00:28:52,594 --> 00:28:54,386
Both appear to be
about the same height.

641
00:28:54,387 --> 00:28:55,559
Sure.

642
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,766
If you look at his
hairline, it goes up,

643
00:28:56,767 --> 00:28:58,042
he's got a widow's peak.

644
00:28:58,043 --> 00:29:00,421
It's similar. His hair
being slicked back.

645
00:29:00,422 --> 00:29:02,214
His face shape is similar.

646
00:29:02,215 --> 00:29:04,973
The slope of his forehead
appears to be similar.

647
00:29:04,974 --> 00:29:06,835
He's got wrinkles
in the right places.

648
00:29:06,836 --> 00:29:08,491
These might be the same person.

649
00:29:14,008 --> 00:29:16,179
Narrator: Jack investigates
a claim that Nazi spy

650
00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:18,628
Otto skorzeny made
a deathbed confession

651
00:29:18,629 --> 00:29:21,214
to the murder of Nikola Tesla.

652
00:29:21,215 --> 00:29:24,490
To prove this theory, Jack is
working with a forensic expert

653
00:29:24,491 --> 00:29:26,766
to compare known
photos of skorzeny...

654
00:29:26,767 --> 00:29:31,042
Combs: The skull shape is
similar, the nose shape is similar.

655
00:29:31,043 --> 00:29:32,179
With images of the man

656
00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:35,317
who allegedly
claimed to be skorzeny.

657
00:29:35,318 --> 00:29:38,662
These might be the same person.

658
00:29:38,663 --> 00:29:41,248
Can you walk me through,
then, some of the things you found

659
00:29:41,249 --> 00:29:43,490
that are different
between the two photos?

660
00:29:43,491 --> 00:29:44,800
Yeah.

661
00:29:44,801 --> 00:29:46,869
So, actually, one of the
things that you can do is,

662
00:29:46,870 --> 00:29:48,317
you can look at the ears.

663
00:29:48,318 --> 00:29:50,938
And this is one of the tools
that people are using as a way

664
00:29:50,939 --> 00:29:53,145
to identify people,
is from their ears.

665
00:29:53,146 --> 00:29:54,973
The ears are pretty consistent?

666
00:29:54,974 --> 00:29:58,662
Well, they still change, and
they do have differences,

667
00:29:58,663 --> 00:30:01,283
but the ears themselves
are a unique feature.

668
00:30:01,284 --> 00:30:02,593
Here's some of my things.

669
00:30:02,594 --> 00:30:05,283
In all of the unknown-person
pictures that I have,

670
00:30:05,284 --> 00:30:06,835
if you look at this one...

671
00:30:06,836 --> 00:30:09,007
Again, we got to
consider perspective

672
00:30:09,008 --> 00:30:11,042
and lighting and
angle and stuff like that,

673
00:30:11,043 --> 00:30:12,352
'cause there might
be distorted things.

674
00:30:12,353 --> 00:30:15,766
However, in every photo
of this man that we have,

675
00:30:15,767 --> 00:30:17,973
his left ear sticks
out from his head

676
00:30:17,974 --> 00:30:21,076
a little bit more than
all of the pictures of Otto

677
00:30:21,077 --> 00:30:22,490
that we have where that left ear

678
00:30:22,491 --> 00:30:24,248
is kind of plastered
back towards

679
00:30:24,249 --> 00:30:25,593
his head a little bit more.

680
00:30:25,594 --> 00:30:27,697
So, if you were to, like,
throw a percentage on this

681
00:30:27,698 --> 00:30:29,248
that these guys are
the same person,

682
00:30:29,249 --> 00:30:31,386
I mean, what percentage
would you rate this at?

683
00:30:31,387 --> 00:30:34,662
It's hard for forensic
analysis to say 100% anything.

684
00:30:34,663 --> 00:30:35,835
Right.

685
00:30:35,836 --> 00:30:37,007
However, I've picked
out enough things

686
00:30:37,008 --> 00:30:41,076
that I feel like it's
not the same person.

687
00:30:41,077 --> 00:30:44,421
Murphy: We can't prove that the
Nazis were involved in Tesla's murder

688
00:30:44,422 --> 00:30:46,766
or chasing after
him in New York City,

689
00:30:46,767 --> 00:30:49,628
but this doesn't mean the
Nazis were not interested

690
00:30:49,629 --> 00:30:51,697
in Tesla's death-ray plans.

691
00:30:51,698 --> 00:30:55,008
So we need to try to find
something to support that.

692
00:30:58,663 --> 00:31:01,145
I've been following
up on this Nazi theory.

693
00:31:01,146 --> 00:31:04,697
I went to talk to Allen who does
forensic photography analysis.

694
00:31:04,698 --> 00:31:09,386
From Allen's analysis,
he says that this gentleman

695
00:31:09,387 --> 00:31:12,317
is almost certainly
not Otto skorzeny.

696
00:31:12,318 --> 00:31:15,042
I think it's perfectly plausible
that the Nazis had a motive

697
00:31:15,043 --> 00:31:17,214
to try to acquire
Tesla's death-ray plans,

698
00:31:17,215 --> 00:31:18,869
and even kill him to get to it,

699
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:20,697
but the facts just don't add up.

700
00:31:20,698 --> 00:31:22,145
Yeah.

701
00:31:22,146 --> 00:31:24,662
We've got bigger suspects
that we need to look into.

702
00:31:24,663 --> 00:31:27,007
I went and spoke with
a guy named John Scott.

703
00:31:27,008 --> 00:31:30,248
First of all, he confirms
these are real death-ray plans.

704
00:31:30,249 --> 00:31:32,731
Scott: So, what he's looking
at is insulating this tower

705
00:31:32,732 --> 00:31:35,593
so that all the energy will go
up to where he needs to use it.

706
00:31:35,594 --> 00:31:38,386
It'd be very, very dangerous
to be around, quite frankly.

707
00:31:38,387 --> 00:31:41,593
The big takeaway, though,
is that they're incomplete.

708
00:31:41,594 --> 00:31:42,628
Really?

709
00:31:42,629 --> 00:31:45,248
Is there a next page to this?

710
00:31:45,249 --> 00:31:46,490
Something's missing.

711
00:31:46,491 --> 00:31:48,214
The one that
really had the meat,

712
00:31:48,215 --> 00:31:51,904
the technical specifications
of the weapon itself,

713
00:31:51,905 --> 00:31:53,697
that was a middle page.

714
00:31:53,698 --> 00:31:56,145
There was a previous page,
there was a subsequent page,

715
00:31:56,146 --> 00:31:58,628
and there was a
figure that was missing.

716
00:31:58,629 --> 00:32:01,386
The documents you've
got, there's no figure 5.

717
00:32:01,387 --> 00:32:02,835
It's not here.

718
00:32:02,836 --> 00:32:06,628
So, either that means sava
took it when he broke in the safe,

719
00:32:06,629 --> 00:32:10,904
or something happened
between the time it left the U.S.

720
00:32:10,905 --> 00:32:12,766
And it was established
in the museum.

721
00:32:12,767 --> 00:32:15,835
The big thing is, we
don't have everything.

722
00:32:15,836 --> 00:32:17,490
Narrator: The night
of Tesla's death,

723
00:32:17,491 --> 00:32:19,800
80 trunks of the
inventor's work is seized

724
00:32:19,801 --> 00:32:21,628
by the U.S. government.

725
00:32:21,629 --> 00:32:24,042
Nine years later, under
mounting pressure,

726
00:32:24,043 --> 00:32:26,248
the U.S. sends
these trunks to Serbia.

727
00:32:26,249 --> 00:32:28,904
But many historians
believe the archives shipped

728
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:30,593
are missing key documents.

729
00:32:30,594 --> 00:32:33,421
The newly declassified
file on Nikola Tesla

730
00:32:33,422 --> 00:32:36,076
show the FBI was
concerned these documents

731
00:32:36,077 --> 00:32:39,731
might fall into the hands of
the axis powers or the Soviets,

732
00:32:39,732 --> 00:32:41,973
giving them motive
to remove crucial plans

733
00:32:41,974 --> 00:32:43,662
related to the death ray.

734
00:32:43,663 --> 00:32:44,904
So, what's next?

735
00:32:44,905 --> 00:32:46,179
So, I did a lot of research,

736
00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:49,042
and I found a guy
who wrote an article

737
00:32:49,043 --> 00:32:51,973
saying that he was
the guy who inventoried

738
00:32:51,974 --> 00:32:53,593
and went through
Tesla's documents

739
00:32:53,594 --> 00:32:56,455
when they arrived
in Serbia in 1951.

740
00:32:56,456 --> 00:32:58,042
Holy [bleep]

741
00:32:58,043 --> 00:32:59,973
He wrote this article, and
he says here he's the guy

742
00:32:59,974 --> 00:33:03,904
who opened the trunks
of Tesla's archive.

743
00:33:03,905 --> 00:33:06,214
So he was the first
guy to lay his hands

744
00:33:06,215 --> 00:33:07,559
on the documents
when they arrived.

745
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,973
Yeah.

746
00:33:08,974 --> 00:33:10,731
If we can track him down,
he might be able to tell us

747
00:33:10,732 --> 00:33:13,766
what was in those trunks
when he opened them up,

748
00:33:13,767 --> 00:33:16,007
whether or not those
documents were missing

749
00:33:16,008 --> 00:33:17,524
when they arrived in Serbia

750
00:33:17,525 --> 00:33:20,214
or if they were
plucked out after.

751
00:33:20,215 --> 00:33:22,524
Let's track this dude down.

752
00:33:22,525 --> 00:33:25,043
Let's go.

753
00:33:27,801 --> 00:33:31,076
Armed with new information
from Tesla's death-ray plans,

754
00:33:31,077 --> 00:33:34,145
Aron and his team put the
final touches on insulation

755
00:33:34,146 --> 00:33:36,248
designed for the
high-voltage capacitors

756
00:33:36,249 --> 00:33:37,973
that will power the weapon.

757
00:33:37,974 --> 00:33:40,524
Hays: An 1/8-inch of
polycarbonate insulating material.

758
00:33:40,525 --> 00:33:44,283
Pritchard: So, we're pretty
much keeping that failure

759
00:33:44,284 --> 00:33:46,593
that the prototype did
from happening again.

760
00:33:46,594 --> 00:33:47,697
Exactly.

761
00:33:47,698 --> 00:33:49,386
Before attaching
their power source

762
00:33:49,387 --> 00:33:51,283
to their large-scale death ray,

763
00:33:51,284 --> 00:33:55,076
they will test their capacitor
bank on a small target.

764
00:33:55,077 --> 00:33:56,869
Hays: This will work for a test.

765
00:33:56,870 --> 00:33:59,179
I like how you have it set
up. This is pretty simple.

766
00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:00,455
Gonna blow that melon up?

767
00:34:00,456 --> 00:34:01,524
Yeah, man.

768
00:34:01,525 --> 00:34:02,697
So, as long as
our charging cable

769
00:34:02,698 --> 00:34:04,110
doesn't short out back there

770
00:34:04,111 --> 00:34:06,248
and we're safe on
the power-supply end,

771
00:34:06,249 --> 00:34:07,559
I think we're good to go.

772
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,800
If we do this right, then
we're gonna splatter

773
00:34:09,801 --> 00:34:11,248
melon all over the place.

774
00:34:11,249 --> 00:34:12,524
We're gonna know these work.

775
00:34:12,525 --> 00:34:14,662
We're gonna know
the power supply works.

776
00:34:14,663 --> 00:34:15,973
And then we can move on

777
00:34:15,974 --> 00:34:19,317
and finish the rest
of this death ray.

778
00:34:19,318 --> 00:34:22,283
So, this gives us a really
good idea of what this looks like,

779
00:34:22,284 --> 00:34:25,145
of what we can actually do
with the energy we store in here.

780
00:34:25,146 --> 00:34:26,283
Yeah, I mean, you
know, we are building

781
00:34:26,284 --> 00:34:27,421
a death ray here, right?

782
00:34:27,422 --> 00:34:29,835
And, I mean, this
is the death part.

783
00:34:29,836 --> 00:34:31,835
In this case, it's the
death of a watermelon.

784
00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:33,283
Hopefully, later on,
it's gonna be the death

785
00:34:33,284 --> 00:34:34,524
of something that flies.

786
00:34:34,525 --> 00:34:36,800
As soon as we
air-compressor fire that switch,

787
00:34:36,801 --> 00:34:39,835
it should blow this
thing to kingdom come.

788
00:34:39,836 --> 00:34:42,318
All right, man, let's start
charging these capacitors.

789
00:34:45,111 --> 00:34:46,628
All right.

790
00:34:46,629 --> 00:34:49,662
Okay.

791
00:34:49,663 --> 00:34:52,662
Going to start charging.

792
00:34:52,663 --> 00:34:55,007
All right.

793
00:34:55,008 --> 00:34:56,179
Y'all ready?

794
00:34:56,180 --> 00:34:57,869
- Yep. - Ready.
- All right.

795
00:34:57,870 --> 00:35:00,938
Three...

796
00:35:00,939 --> 00:35:03,662
Two...

797
00:35:03,663 --> 00:35:05,284
One!

798
00:35:09,456 --> 00:35:11,524
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! That worked.

799
00:35:11,525 --> 00:35:13,179
Yep. That worked.

800
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:14,766
[ Laughter ]

801
00:35:14,767 --> 00:35:16,352
That was so much energy.

802
00:35:16,353 --> 00:35:18,662
Imagine that going into
light when this thing fires.

803
00:35:18,663 --> 00:35:22,110
Oh, yeah.

804
00:35:22,111 --> 00:35:24,283
Now that we know our
power supply works,

805
00:35:24,284 --> 00:35:27,593
our sphere is
structurally sound,

806
00:35:27,594 --> 00:35:29,145
it's time to build a death ray.

807
00:35:29,146 --> 00:35:31,973
Every step from this
point on has to be perfect.

808
00:35:31,974 --> 00:35:33,593
There's no room for error here.

809
00:35:33,594 --> 00:35:35,766
It's almost time to
see if Tesla's death ray

810
00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:37,422
is fact or fiction.

811
00:35:42,525 --> 00:35:44,317
Narrator: Aron is
tackling the next step

812
00:35:44,318 --> 00:35:46,283
in his death-ray build...

813
00:35:46,284 --> 00:35:49,524
Where to assemble
and fire the weapon.

814
00:35:49,525 --> 00:35:51,973
Koscho: I figure this is
gonna be around 4 tons

815
00:35:51,974 --> 00:35:54,490
when it's complete.

816
00:35:54,491 --> 00:35:56,869
And that's a lot of [bleep]
blowing in the wind.

817
00:35:56,870 --> 00:35:58,145
If we don't get this right,

818
00:35:58,146 --> 00:36:01,628
we're not going to get
a functional death ray.

819
00:36:01,629 --> 00:36:03,317
This site has to be
completely leveled.

820
00:36:03,318 --> 00:36:05,697
We can't pour concrete
where it's not flat.

821
00:36:05,698 --> 00:36:08,662
I mean, if this slab is off by
a few degrees at the bottom,

822
00:36:08,663 --> 00:36:10,938
the top of the death ray
is gonna be off by a mile.

823
00:36:10,939 --> 00:36:12,869
So concrete's a
great option here.

824
00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:15,283
It's heavy. It's easy to set up.

825
00:36:15,284 --> 00:36:17,352
We can pour it where we
need it in the middle of the field.

826
00:36:17,353 --> 00:36:20,076
It also allows us to bolt
steel anchors in place

827
00:36:20,077 --> 00:36:21,731
and weld the structure to it.

828
00:36:21,732 --> 00:36:25,317
We can't forget that this
weapon is going to fire a beam.

829
00:36:25,318 --> 00:36:26,904
So wherever we're
putting our death ray,

830
00:36:26,905 --> 00:36:28,593
we need to make
sure this is flat.

831
00:36:28,594 --> 00:36:29,835
It allows us to predict

832
00:36:29,836 --> 00:36:31,731
exactly where the discharge

833
00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:33,662
from our death
ray is going to go.

834
00:36:33,663 --> 00:36:36,179
Without it, high voltage
would go in every direction.

835
00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:38,076
We would have no idea
how to aim this thing.

836
00:36:38,077 --> 00:36:40,525
It could be potentially fatal.

837
00:36:46,008 --> 00:36:47,421
Narrator: In their investigation

838
00:36:47,422 --> 00:36:49,490
of Nikola Tesla's
suspicious death,

839
00:36:49,491 --> 00:36:52,214
Jack and Cameron uncover
never-before-seen plans

840
00:36:52,215 --> 00:36:53,490
for his death ray,

841
00:36:53,491 --> 00:36:56,007
but the plans are
missing critical information.

842
00:36:56,008 --> 00:37:00,145
A former employee of the Tesla
archives could have the answers.

843
00:37:00,146 --> 00:37:01,766
I tracked down
this guy who worked

844
00:37:01,767 --> 00:37:03,835
for the Nikola Tesla institute.

845
00:37:03,836 --> 00:37:08,214
I found an article saying that
he was the guy who inventoried

846
00:37:08,215 --> 00:37:09,835
and went through
Tesla's documents

847
00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:12,697
when they arrived
in Serbia in 1951.

848
00:37:12,698 --> 00:37:14,214
Holy [bleep]

849
00:37:14,215 --> 00:37:17,007
Tesla's nephew
was sava kosanovic.

850
00:37:17,008 --> 00:37:18,869
This is sava sremac.

851
00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:22,145
He was one of the
persons to inventory

852
00:37:22,146 --> 00:37:24,145
and go through Tesla's documents

853
00:37:24,146 --> 00:37:26,938
when they came to Serbia
from the United States.

854
00:37:26,939 --> 00:37:28,214
You know, I want to know,

855
00:37:28,215 --> 00:37:30,455
how do they know
there was things missing?

856
00:37:30,456 --> 00:37:34,283
If anyone knows about
what's there, it's him.

857
00:37:34,284 --> 00:37:36,076
So, thanks for meeting us today.

858
00:37:36,077 --> 00:37:37,904
Sava brought his
daughter, Danielle,

859
00:37:37,905 --> 00:37:40,628
who's gonna help him kind
of work through some English.

860
00:37:40,629 --> 00:37:43,766
Cameron and I have been
conducting this investigation

861
00:37:43,767 --> 00:37:45,386
into Nikola Tesla

862
00:37:45,387 --> 00:37:50,110
and looking at whether or not
he may have been murdered.

863
00:37:50,111 --> 00:37:51,490
And we're just
hoping to get a little bit

864
00:37:51,491 --> 00:37:53,007
of added perspective from you.

865
00:37:53,008 --> 00:37:54,662
We just got back from Belgrade,

866
00:37:54,663 --> 00:37:56,697
shifting through
some documents there,

867
00:37:56,698 --> 00:38:00,248
and then we found out that
you were actually the first person

868
00:38:00,249 --> 00:38:03,387
to lay hands on the documents
when they arrived in Belgrade.

869
00:38:38,594 --> 00:38:40,145
So you're saying that pages

870
00:38:40,146 --> 00:38:42,938
were physically torn
out of the notebook?

871
00:38:42,939 --> 00:38:44,145
Did you get any impression

872
00:38:44,146 --> 00:38:46,111
of what those missing
papers might be?

873
00:38:58,146 --> 00:39:00,248
Prince: When sava
received the documents,

874
00:39:00,249 --> 00:39:03,007
he claims there were pages
ripped out of notebooks.

875
00:39:03,008 --> 00:39:05,214
I can't say for sure that
the U.S. government

876
00:39:05,215 --> 00:39:09,248
stole the documents, but
they had the opportunity,

877
00:39:09,249 --> 00:39:11,593
they had the means,
and they had the motive.

878
00:39:11,594 --> 00:39:14,352
This could change who
we potentially look at

879
00:39:14,353 --> 00:39:15,870
as a suspect.

880
00:39:31,422 --> 00:39:33,731
Based on your inspection
of the documents,

881
00:39:33,732 --> 00:39:35,766
do you think it's
possible that the FBI

882
00:39:35,767 --> 00:39:38,767
took some of Tesla's papers
before you received them?

883
00:39:40,387 --> 00:39:44,352
I think it's interesting we're
coming full circle around

884
00:39:44,353 --> 00:39:46,421
on this whole thing
with the documents.

885
00:39:46,422 --> 00:39:49,973
One thing he was sure about is
that there were pages missing.

886
00:39:49,974 --> 00:39:53,179
Yeah, that there were actual
pages ripped out of notebooks,

887
00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:55,317
which doesn't seem like
something Tesla would do.

888
00:39:55,318 --> 00:39:56,455
Right.

889
00:39:56,456 --> 00:39:57,662
That's the big
unanswered question.

890
00:39:57,663 --> 00:39:59,283
You can say, to be charitable,

891
00:39:59,284 --> 00:40:02,524
it's highly probably that
someone went in there

892
00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:05,042
and removed documents
out of these trunks.

893
00:40:05,043 --> 00:40:07,662
Now the most likely
suspect becomes the FBI

894
00:40:07,663 --> 00:40:10,179
or the U.S. government.

895
00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:13,835
They definitely had the means
and the opportunity to do so.

896
00:40:13,836 --> 00:40:16,490
I think the next step
for us is to figure out

897
00:40:16,491 --> 00:40:18,662
where these
documents landed after

898
00:40:18,663 --> 00:40:20,731
they were removed
from the trunks.

899
00:40:20,732 --> 00:40:23,869
They went somewhere.
They didn't just disappear.

900
00:40:23,870 --> 00:40:27,283
I think we should see if there's
any whispers of them out there.

901
00:40:27,284 --> 00:40:28,352
Well, we got some
homework to do.

902
00:40:28,353 --> 00:40:29,524
Let's get out of here.

903
00:40:29,525 --> 00:40:31,042
Yeah. I think you're right.

904
00:40:31,043 --> 00:40:38,559
♪♪

905
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,628
Murphy: We started
this whole investigation

906
00:40:40,629 --> 00:40:43,973
to build a death ray to prove
whether or not there could be

907
00:40:43,974 --> 00:40:46,007
a motive for Tesla's murder.

908
00:40:46,008 --> 00:40:48,973
You think we've
accomplished that?

909
00:40:48,974 --> 00:40:50,628
Roscho: Nobody
has tried to build this.

910
00:40:50,629 --> 00:40:51,869
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

911
00:40:51,870 --> 00:40:53,835
This is all ready
[Bleep] set up for failure.

912
00:40:53,836 --> 00:40:56,076
Tesla, he had a hell
of a vision for this.

913
00:40:56,077 --> 00:40:57,352
The whole thing's about to fall.

914
00:40:57,353 --> 00:40:58,973
There's nothing
safe about this thing,

915
00:40:58,974 --> 00:41:00,386
even when it's working right.

916
00:41:00,387 --> 00:41:01,869
Matter of fact, if
this works right,

917
00:41:01,870 --> 00:41:04,110
it's going to be very not safe.

918
00:41:04,111 --> 00:41:06,248
Murphy: Is it possible that
they had a team of scientists

919
00:41:06,249 --> 00:41:07,766
picking through those
documents to see

920
00:41:07,767 --> 00:41:10,490
if there's anything in there
of national-security value?

921
00:41:10,491 --> 00:41:13,214
Consequences are
that people will die.

922
00:41:13,215 --> 00:41:15,283
I think we're starting to
reach critical mass here.

923
00:41:15,284 --> 00:41:19,076
The only country that bought
his plans were the Russians.

924
00:41:19,077 --> 00:41:20,352
Holy [bleep]

925
00:41:20,353 --> 00:41:22,352
After all this time, I
think we've got our man.

926
00:41:22,353 --> 00:41:23,662
Whoa. What's that, there?

927
00:41:23,663 --> 00:41:26,593
- That's it, man. It's big.
- [Bleep]

928
00:41:26,594 --> 00:41:27,766
- What's up, man?
- Hey, man.

929
00:41:27,767 --> 00:41:28,835
- What's up, guys?
- Wow.

930
00:41:28,836 --> 00:41:30,800
This thing will
absolutely kill you.

931
00:41:30,801 --> 00:41:32,352
That's good.

932
00:41:32,353 --> 00:41:33,835
You get underneath this
and it arcs to you, you will die.

933
00:41:33,836 --> 00:41:35,421
Murphy: This is the moment
that we've been building

934
00:41:35,422 --> 00:41:37,076
up to for months now.

935
00:41:37,077 --> 00:41:40,663
Three, two, one!

936
00:41:40,836 --> 00:41:43,146
Whoa!
- [Bleep]