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Bruce,
where did you just go?

The
USA is in an understandable

state of anxiety.

This could
be related to terrorism.

Who knows where those bastards
are hiding out, just find them.

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

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

Happy to help.

We found that something
have been added to the spores.

How certain are you
about what that substance is?

Bentonite?

100%.

There's only one county we know
of that's added Bentonite to anthrax.

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

All the terrorists
who did all this?

So tell me more
about your lone wolf theory.

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

with scientific expertise,

most likely works in isolation,
suffers from mental illness.

I drew up this profile to send to the
American Society of Microbiology.

What if the
anthrax killer is one of us?

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

It's an honor, sir.

Things are good.

Boss, hey.

Jesus. Are you
already out running?

It's not even 6:00.
I was gonna leave a message.

Yeah, well I haven't
been getting much sleep lately.

Actually,
none of my team has.

I got them out swabbing mailboxes
all around the clock in Jersey.

I was calling to commend
you on this Bentonite thing.

Uh, Bentonite, what?

From
what I understand, Iraq is...

The only country that's
used it in producing anthrax.

Uh, yeah.

Well, that's what the inspection
team found after the war but.

Yeah, right well...

Your USAMRIID team
just found Bentonite

in the attack spores,
which gives...

Us a direct link
between the letters and Iraq.

Made some people
on the Hill very happy to be

finally getting some
traction on this case.

Did they send
over their results?

No, that's your department.

All I know
is Director Mueller

just assigned us
a major case number.

More teams coming on.

Investigation's
officially been dubbed Amerithrax.

Hey, Ryker...

This is a big win for us.

You've done the Bureau proud.

We're one step closer to getting
weapons of mass of destruction out

of the hands of terrorists.

Agent Ryker.

Excuse me, Colonel,
but your end run on the Hill

just sent us further down
a path to war with Iraq.

I wanna see this
Bentonite you say you found.

It wasn't me.

Bruce Ivins
is our top anthrax man.

You should've been dealing
with him from the start.

Then I wanna talk to him.

Where is he?

Bruce is never late.

Something must've come up,
but here's his findings.

You sent info to
the Hill based on one image?

Are you kidding!

It wasn't
just one scientist.

It was vetted.

It wasn't vetted by me.

This is the US Army,
we don't report to the FBI.

And none of us appreciate you
circulating a suspect profile.

Asking our microbiologists
to turn on each other.

Is that the
Bureau's idea of teamwork?

I see what could be
the presence of Bentonite.

But this photo isn't detailed
enough to show whether

the substance is covering
the spores or embedded in them.

Embedded means someone
took an existing sample out of a lab.

And coated means it was
intentionally manufactured to

be more airborne,

to be a weapon of
mass destruction.

That's what the inspectors
found in Iraq in '92.

But this photo, it's not conclusive
enough in either direction.

It's the best picture we can take
with the equipment with have.

Well, before our soldiers
go on a wild goose chase,

looking for
biological weapons,

I would like
to know for sure.

When the
President says go, look out,

it's hammer time.

We are gonna make
the world safer.

American
and coalition forces are in the

early stages of military
operations to disarm Iraq,

to free its people,

and to defend the world
from grave danger.

!!! Hope you enjoy the show !!!

This is not about a single person.

The President has declared war
on international terrorism

If we stick
to the President's course,

we're against
terrorists everywhere,

we're against any country
that supports them.

To go in to Iraq and
the suspicion about anthrax in Iraq,

and that this administration
doesn't wanna say the word Iraq

for fear of having to go in.

This administration
is not afraid of saying the word Iraq.

Iraq's been on the terrorist
list for, for years.

We've got to move
on to phase two and, in my opinion,

that's Saddam Hussein.

He, he hates us.

I have a feeling inside myself that he
may have had some connection to, uh,

September 11th and perhaps
this anthrax scare.

The reports that
the anthrax could have been, uh,

tampered with by this
Bentonite that is Iraqi based.

I know that
serious people are looking at

both of those
matters seriously.

Ryker.

You've got a lot of contacts
with counterterrorism.

Good morning.
Nice to see you.

I need to find
someone on the ground in Iraq

in the last five years.

Iraq?
That is a 180.

You're gonna bench
my lone wolf angle?

No, that's
not what I'm doing.

I'm not
pulling my profile.

I'm not asking you to.

Good, because we've
already got two hits,

one in Texas,
one in Seattle.

I've got field
agents interviewing.

Can you just,
just have a seat or

go get me a cup of
coffee or something?

Look, there's
a chance that the spores

have been weaponized
with Bentonite,

and if that's true, we're gonna
have to admit to the powers that

be that they know
something more than we do,

which is that Iraq is
harboring biological weapons.

And Al-Qaeda.

Okay, look let's just
say that, that it's true.

You told me that the Ames
strain came from the US.

It did, but it has been shipped to
labs around the world for research.

How many?

We're still trying
to figure that out exactly,

but who knows how
lax the security

is at any of them?

Some scientists could, could've been
recruited or even blackmailed by Al-Qaeda.

Who smuggled it
into the Iraq, weaponized it,

brought it into the US,

dropped it in the mail
in New Jersey, I mean,

that sounds, it
sounds a little messy.

I have no agenda.

It's my job just to
follow the science,

which I admit right
now is less than solid.

Okay. All right.

Well, what kind of "intellectual
asset" are we looking for exactly?

Anyone who was part of the UN
inspection team after Desert Storm.

Hi.

- You've seen it, right?
- Seen what?

The FBI profile,
the "Anthrax Killer?"

Apparently, they sent it to everybody
in the microbiology community.

Like we're crazy enough
to work with dry anthrax,

they think we have
a death wish or something.

This is poppycock.

They're treating us
like we're the enemy.

They shouldn't do that.

We're the heroes.
They even said that.

It's gonna make us
all suspicious of each other,

as if this place
isn't tense enough.

You know, Jody, if anyone tries
to tap our phones or computers,

turn this into
some witch-hunt,

there are ways to
protect ourselves.

Yeah, that is a good point,
but if you think about it...

Excuse me. Dr. Ruiz?

Gabriel. Please.

Dani spoke highly of you.

Uh, thank you
for taking the time.

She tells me that you were part
of an inspection team looking for

a bio and chem
weapons in Iraq.

I've been off the inspection
circuit for a few years,

but I'll give you
whatever help I can.

I appreciate that.

I've got USAMRIID
rattling cages in high places.

Uh, careful now,

I did train under
some of their guys.

Ah.

Well, there are just a few
quick triggers out there linking

the anthrax attack spores

to Iraq using a shaky
Bentonite connection.

Uh, we did find spores in the soil
less than an hour's drive from Baghdad.

And you can confirm that they used
Bentonite to aerosolize the powder?

Bacillus thuringiensis.

Claimed they coated
the anthrax with it

to make it easily
dispersible "Insecticide,"

but we all know that just
made it highly airborne,

deadly as hell.

Huh.

But Iraq never had
the Ames strain, right?

- Never.
- Okay.

So, then, what are the
chances that the Iraqis

somehow got their hands
on Ames and then,

used their aerosolizing
process to weaponize it?

I guess possible in theory, but the
obvious question is why would they

jump through all those hoops when
they already have their own strain?

The Vollum strain.

That's
what I was thinking.

The problem is none of that seems
to hold water with the suits on the Hill.

Any other details you can remember
about the spores you found over there?

I can do
better than that.

I brought back a
little souvenir from Iraq.

It's in the fridge.

All right.

Show time.

Spores from the
Leahy letter on the left,

Iraqi spores on the right.

The powders
are nothing alike.

Sir, the reports
USAMRIID were premature.

The anthrax in the attack
letters did not come from Iraq.

We need to get
this to the West Wing.

Uh, let's
touch base tomorrow.

Mat, you can't be serious.

It's blasted
all over the media.

An independent lab confirmed
it and I saw it with my own eyes.

This anthrax strain is
nothing like the one we saw

in Iraq after the war.

Well, if
not Iraq, then who?

I'm hearing a lot about who
didn't give anthrax to Al-Qaeda.

How about one lead on who did?

Look, there are probably reasons
above my pay grade to target Iraq.

Yeah, well... One being that
Hussein is a inhumane dictator.

Absolutely.

But if our troops are
gonna get shipped off to war.

Thin ice, Ryker.

It's not your neck
they'll be coming for

if you turn
out to be wrong.

30 years of crossing
every T, dotting every I...

Then let the
science speak for itself.

Send this up the chain.

I first met Bruce Ivins at
Chapel Hill 25 years ago.

We were doctoral students.

It didn't take me very long

to realize that there was
something different about him.

Hold.

Wow.

Hey, I'm Bruce.

Bruce Ivins.
What's your name?

And from that moment on,

Bruce was there to
greet me, every day.

So, he was an odd
duck who came on too strong.

That about right?

I got to say, none of these points
to Mr. Ivins being our anthrax killer.

It's just, I...

Uh, I don't know.

You
called us, remember?

There's
a side to Bruce.

It's, uh, it's not
easy for me to explain.

Um, but it's an unsettling side
that only a few women have seen.

But I learned to
keep my distance.

I started sneaking into the lab
through the basement to avoid him.

It didn't work.

Even after I was
married and moved away,

he would drive
by my house at night,

and then one day,

on my way to
work in the morning,

he left me a little surprise.

You don't know what
Bruce is capable of.

Bruce?

Andrew, come on.

Okay.

Amanda, breakfast.

Come on.

- Morning mom.
- Good morning.

Morning.

Hi.

Hi.

Good morning.

How do you know when you're
in the bathroom in France?

Euro-pean.

Oh, come on.

Did you hear about the
new book on anti-gravity?

- Oh, please dad.
- It's impossible...

Impossible to put down.

Yeah, I heard that.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, nothing yet?

Why don't
cannibals eat clowns?

Huh?

Because they...

Taste funny!

Oh, come on!

Oh, Bruce
broke the eggs.

Sorry, honey.

Another
late-night drive?

Who's hungry?

Do you think I'm
capable of hurting anyone?

Well, that is an
interesting question, Bruce.

Have you been experiencing
any aggressive urges?

Any violent thoughts?

What? No, no.

Gosh.

After
the events of 9/11,

you could, "Barely
contain your anger."

You told me that your job gave you
access to deadly materials such as,

"Cyanide, to poison
the neighbor's dog,"

and "Ammonium nitrate
to make a bomb."

You wrote that down?

Okay.

I, I wanted you to know how
much trust they put in me.

I wasn't saying
I'd do anything.

I mean...

Has this been
triggered by your suspicions regarding

the fellow scientist
that you saw?

No, no, no, no,
no, no, forget what I said.

It wasn't Simon Kurz.

He's just not the guy.

I was mistaken.

I think I was confused,

and I, I, I might have,

I had another one of
those out-of-body experiences.

Describe it for me.

Well, it was
the same as last time.

I get this tingling down
both of my arms, and I'm...

And I get a little dizzy,

and I have this
funny taste in my mouth.

Was it
metallic, the taste?

I found a poem
that I sent to a friend,

but I, I don't
remember writing it.

And the other day, I
was sitting at my desk,

but at the same time,

I was standing
a few feet away,

watching myself work.

It's like I'm a passenger on the
ride of my own life, you know?

Nothing like living in the
first-person singular and

the third-person singular,
am I right?

Dissociative
experiences are not unusual,

given your aggressive
regimen of medication.

I'm gonna recommend
that we adjust your dosage.

Okay?

Okay. Yeah.

Bruce, are you able to
confide these experiences to anyone?

Well, Jody and Mara.

Okay,
Jody is your co-worker?

We share a lab.

Mara was our third amigo.

Till she hot-footed
it off to medical school

and abandoned us.

I tell them things
I'd never tell anyone.

I'm blessed that way.

So, Ivins had
a thing for sorority girls?

He had a "thing" for the
women of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Bruce had been rejected by
one of my sorority sisters.

I don't know who.

Maybe she laughed at him or
maybe she was as nice as can be,

and simply not interested.

Bruce harbored a great
deal of anger toward Kappas.

Wouldn't be
the first college boy to

have crushes on
a house full of young women.

He was a grown man,

a doctoral student,

and he never grew
out of his obsession.

This wasn't
an innocent infatuation.

It was invasive.

Bruce was always pestering me with
questions about KKG initiation rituals.

He wanted to
get a cypher, he...

A what?

It's a secret
book with a decoding key

for all the KKG rituals.

That's a real thing?

I take it you never
joined a sorority, Agent?

Look, it was as if Bruce
wanted to be one of us.

I was always shocked by how
much he knew about our secret rituals,

and I never could figure out
where he got his information.

For someone who claims not to
have been close friends with him,

you sure know
a lot about Mr. Ivins.

He didn't
give me much of a choice.

Bruce can snap just like that,

into a darker
version of himself.

A Bruce that's prone to
secret acts of vengeance

with the most obscure reasons.

One day, my dissertation
notebook went missing.

All of my experiments,
my data for years,

all the work I desperately
needed to complete my doctorate.

Have you seen
my notebook right there?

It felt as if my life
had been stolen.

I ran from lab to lab
like a crazy person.

No one had seen my notebook.

And then suddenly,
I knew who had it.

- Hi.
- Hello.

My notebook is,
is, uh, missing...

Are you
asking if I took it?

No. No.

Uh, uh, have you seen it?

I would never
betray a KKG sister.

Of course.

Thanks.

Soon the clues
started to come.

One was an acrostic.

A poem in which the first letter of
every line spelled out a new message.

T, T, E, R.

Oh, I was right.

In this case,
there was a second acrostic

hidden within the first.

Writing down the opening
letters of each line and

then reading them
backward revealed the

"secret location"
of my missing notebook.

Ah, here's something.

Well, is this your notebook?

An anthrax expert,

secret codes,

a man who plays twisted games
with people using the US mail system?

Does that not
sound familiar to you?

It's positive.

Positive.

Agent Moore! It's positive!

Hey,
excuse me, please, stop.

We need to clear the area.

Just move across the
street here, people.

Just cross the street, please.

Thank you very much.

I don't
have knowledge of a direct link

of the anthrax incidents
to, uh, to the enemy.

But I wouldn't
put it past them.

"I wouldn't
put it past them."

He's talking about
the Bentonite in Iraq?

Who knows.

What about the
research you did with Ruiz?

Didn't you push
that up the ladder?

Copak passed it on,

but clearly, it didn't
get enough traction.

We can just put Ruiz in front of the
press here and prove them wrong.

No. See, the thing is, all the scientists
had to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Ryker.

We found the mailbox.

How sure are you
it's the one our killer used?

It's the only
one that tested positive.

Where is it?

Uh, 10 Nassau Street.

It's about a block from
the entrance to Princeton.

Any security
cameras on that street?

Uh-uh.

Yeah, there's a bunch all
over the campus, but not here.

The letters, they
have microscopic scratch marks

from the glass of the
photocopier that the sender used.

I know this is
daunting, but we need to find...

Every
photocopier in the area.

The libraries, Kinko's,

we can match the
scratches on the glass.

Start canvassing.

Look for any
professor with an axe to grind

who could have given
the spores to Al-Qaeda.

Got it.

Chris,
I gotta call you back.

The envelopes
that were used,

they were a pre-stamped
version that were

only sold in post offices.

Correct.

I'm sorry, I'm not following
your logic right now.

What if there were
microscopic printing irregularities

on the envelopes?

And what if we could match them
to the machines that made them,

and then track the
shipment logs to follow

where the batches
of envelopes with

those specific printing imperfections,
and where they were sent?

Okay. We could pinpoint
the place of sale.

We could look through
all the security footage.

And then track
credit card purchases.

Leading us to
the terrorist operative

who bought them.

Or the highly-educated
straight white Christian male

over 30 acting alone.

Okay, I'll load
these up on the truck.

And then we'll go
ahead and start decon.

The problem is,
she doesn't have any proof.

We just got her word that Ivins
defaced her property or took the notebook.

It could have been anybody.

She seemed
pretty credible to me.

Well,
maybe he stuck on her.

Maybe she led him on.

Maybe he was slow in
getting the message,

doesn't make him a killer.

What should
I do with the report?

It really seems like
there's something there.

Mark
the lead as covered.

Just file it.

Dearest Mara,

I hope you enjoyed my poem
about the two Bruces.

I have spoken to my therapist,

who posits my current
sensitivities may be

related to my medications.

I have never been able to
really confide in other people.

That's why you and
Jody mean so much to me.

Congratulations
on your soccer game.

Come to USAMRIID for a visit and
bring your anthrax strains with you.

Your devoted friend...

Saddam.

It's come to my attention that you
and Mara have been emailing each other

about me behind my back.

And I think it's
just plain mean.

- Bruce.
- It's hard to understand,

because I've never
spoken about her or

you other than
in glowing terms.

Thanks for
meeting us, Inspector.

Dust and debris collects
on the printing plates,

ink grows ever so
slightly fainter toward

the end of a print run.

Is it possible to use any
microscopic flaws in the envelopes to

track them back to
the place of purchase?

I suppose.

Blue Eagle envelopes
are sold in packs of 500.

Oh, you can eliminate any envelopes
printed before March 1st, 2001.

- Why is that?
- Postage?

Price
jumped by one cent.

Okay.

Any other
way to narrow it down?

The attack
envelopes used our new ink,

it's a brighter blue
in the eagle wing,

a more vibrant gray
in the denomination number.

That reduces the number of
envelopes in the runnings to roughly,

I'd say,

31 million?

To the naked eye,

all pre-stamped
envelopes look the same.

But if you look at the
printing imperfections here,

and here, and here,

these ink discrepancies,

they're all from an actual
envelope we have in evidence.

We recalled the envelopes from
the post offices that sold them,

but we ran into a roadblock.

Several had already sold out.

Then what
good does that do us?

If we replicate
the missing print runs,

the printer still has the
same plate, stock, even ink.

The same irregularity
should appear in a pattern,

and we can narrow down which
envelopes we're looking for,

which post offices
they were shipped to.

Basically, bring us right to
where the killer bought them.

I got approval for more Amerithrax
teams to come onboard and

you're honestly asking for

a quarter-million
to print some damn envelopes?

The White House
did say whatever we need

to catch this guy.

"Guy?"

Toretti got her
claws in you now?

Sir, we just learned earlier today
that the only labs outside the US

with Ames are in
the UK and Canada.

Now, we vetted every
single person in those labs,

whoever sent these letters got

their anthrax
from an American lab.

What's it called in
football, when the quarterback

throws a long forward
pass in desperation?

That's
not what this is.

If this
isn't a Hail Mary,

what would you call it?

It's a
controlled experiment.

Oh, okay.

You thought I was crazy for
seeing a code in the attack letters?

Just admit it.

You're out on a limb.

I'm impressed.

You don't
give up, do you?

There is no place for
you in the Bureau if you do.

I would wager every last penny

I have based on those
very tense jaw muscles,

this is a first
for you, summa cum laude.

I bet your credit
score is way over 800.

Okay, fine.

It shouldn't be any secret
that when you're the only kid

in school who
doesn't fit the pattern,

especially back
in the 70s, and now,

you're the only guy in your
department who breaks the mold, yeah,

you spend a lot
of useless energy

being the poster child
for following the rules.

But I'm guessing
you're familiar with that.

Working on holidays,
turning in every report early

while the title-jumper at the next
desk golfs with the boss on Fridays?

Yeah, maybe I do.

This is the first time I've
actually put my job on the line,

and I've never wanted anything
more than to catch these guys.

They said it's
gonna take all night, so.

I'm gonna
hang here for a while.

Yeah, suit yourself.

Um...

For what it's worth,

you are doing the
right thing here.

That only matters
if we find something.

Pass it
to me, let's go.

Oops.

Pass it, pass it.

Get them, Mara!

Woo!

Go, Mara, get them!

Get them, Mara! Woo!

Get in there, Mara.

You got it.

Get the ball, go, Mara!

Yeah, you got it.

That's you, Mara, woo!

Hey, it's me, oh.

Hey, she's wide open.

Wow.

Sorry. You okay?

Back it up,
give her room.

Back it up, guys.

Give her space.

They found an exact
match with the printing.

This is the post
office that sold the envelope?

Yeah.

You did it.

So, Jersey
is 200 miles away,

that's seven hours
by car round trip.

Okay.

It's far enough to
avoid immediate suspicion,

but it's an easy drive.

Mm-hmm.

We'll check the toll booths
for any cameras,

but our guy is pretty smart.

Avoiding the tollways would add
about an hour to his trip.

Mm-hmm.

If he leaves before midnight,
he's back home by morning.

Oh, boy, it's just
middle of nowhere Maryland.

This is an entirely
new area to canvass.

Maybe not.

I got something to show you.

Take a look at that building.

What is that?

That's USAMRIID.

One of the 16 labs in the
US that has the Ames strain.

So, if our guy
bought the envelopes here,

that means...

That the
anthrax came from

the most respected
Biodefense lab in the country.

Someone in that
building is our killer.

.