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Previously on The Hot Zone: Anthrax.

I just got a call from Florida,

they're tracking a
possible anthrax attack.

The last natural human
infection on American soil

was almost 30 years ago.

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

But what if I do this time?

And no one listens?

The results came back. It's Ames.

I didn't think it existed outside

- our high-security research labs.
- It doesn't.

I share the concern

about Iraq's biological weapons program.

Is Al-Qaeda even in Iraq?

Iraq's bioweapons capabilities
were shut down after the war.

As far as you and I have been told.

Anthrax spores do not die off.

They lie in wait.

What we are talking about
is a ticking time bomb.

Where might the letter
have been dropped off?

- One of our blue boxes?
- How many of those blue boxes

- are we talking?
- Over 600.

Bruce, we got some samples
coming in from Florida.

Do you suspect someone at
work is possibly involved?

NBC was not the only target.

Other news outlets
including The New York Post

were targeted as well.

But now, with multiple attacks
along the eastern seaboard

and no suspect yet identified,
our nation is gripped with fear.

We can only hope there
will be no more victims.

And from Capitol Hill,

the White House continues to gather
support to pass the Patriot Act,

which would expand the
government's surveillance powers.

Critics charged that it would
take away vital protections

for personal privacy.

The most contentious issues
revolve around removing

the FISA requirement that
the surveillance target

be a foreign national.

This means the government can gather

what they call foreign intelligence,

even if the target
involved is a US citizen.

The man with the task of
passing the controversial bill

is Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

Start over there with distribution.

Hold on, you got all the...

Morning. Here you go.

The White House is pushing

- for a Senate vote later this week.
- At least nobody calls you

- Samantha behind your back.
- But Daschle insisting his members

have adequate time to
debate the USA PATRIOT Act,

an acronym for

- "Uniting... "
- ALL: "Uniting and Strengthening

America by Providing Appropriate Tools

Required To Intercept
and Obstruct Terrorism."

Man, somebody got really excited

- when they came up with that one.
- Mm-hmm.

Oh. Shocker.

More hate mail.

Want me to drop it
off in Leahy's office?

Ooh.

Please, let it be cute drawings
instead of misspelled profanity.

Oh, my God.

Okay,

what did they say in the training?

No one move more than you have to.

Billy, call the Capitol Police.

Steve, the FBI?

Got it.

Close the door.

Toretti. Counterterrorism.

Okay.

I need a team at Capitol Hill right now.

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Toretti, Profiler with Counterterrorism.

Profiler? You're like
a shrink or something?

Yeah, if disco was still a thing.

Where's the letter?

I got a guard on it.

Forensics is on their way.

Listen, we've responded two
of these hoaxes already today.

There's no reason to think
this is any different.

Oh, there's a lot of reasons, actually.

I got a Hazmat team on their way.

You seal that contaminated
room until they decon it.

Get me somebody in facilities.

It could be pumping spores through
this entire building right now.

Shut this ventilation system down!

Tell Hazmat I need rapid
tests, swabs, and Cipro.

Are you the one that found it?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

Is it really anthrax?

We can't run it until the
letter's been swabbed for evidence.

But either way, we're gonna
start you on antibiotics.

So if you were exposed,
hammering it with Cipro

before symptoms appear
should knock it out.

It's what they did in New York.

- What about the others?
- It's the same protocol.

You gotta hit 'em before they hit you,

that's what my mom always says.

I got the South Dakota version.

Better to be cautious than sorry.

That's right. You'll be okay.

Hey, Matty, not sure if you're back yet.

Uh, don't forget Kari's
birthday party on the 17th.

Hope you can make it.

But just be forewarned,
Devon's been a bit of a handful

lately with his dad off the grid.

Miss you.

You've reached the end of your messages.

To repeat this message,

press one.

Ryker.

If you're thinking of
unpacking your suitcase,

gonna have to wait. Hill just got hit.

Anthrax letter.

- Where?
- Senator Daschle's office.

But there's already
an agent on the ground,

she caught the call when it came in.

I'm on my way in.

I need to see that letter.

Uh, Special Agent Ryker,

forensics is doing a sweep right now

on the Daschle letter for
hair, skin, any particles.

I know you didn't find anything
on the New York letters,

- but I thought...
- Worth a shot. Who are you?

Special Agent Toretti. Dani.

What division?

Counterterrorism. I lead a fly team.

Washington Field Office called us in.

- On Hazmat?
- Mm-hmm.

- So I'll take it from here.
- No,

that is not how this is gonna go.

I was first boots on the ground.

I read your briefings
on Florida and New York,

I've seen copies of the letters.

It's the same block handwriting,
slanted to the right.

- This sure as hell looks like the same guy to me.
- Guy?

- You mean Al-Qaeda?
- No, that would not be my first thought.

I would lean more towards a lone wolf.

Three weeks after
terrorists started a war?

- Not a chance.
- Here's the thing,

it was postmarked three weeks

after the New York letters.

After Bob Stevens?

Yeah, and after the entire
country saw it on TV.

So our sender knew
he had killed someone.

He wants more people to die.

And we've swabbed all the
interns in the room now,

I'm gonna order anthrax
tests for everybody

- that was in the Hart building today.
- We need a wider sweep.

I'd quarantine all the mail in the
Capitol until we can get it tested.

You wanna just shut down the
entire United States government?

The Hill anyway,

until we can get the staffers
tested in the office and deconned.

In a perfect world, I'd
set up a full BSL4 lab

- to handle that kind of volume.
- Daschle had the President on the phone

- and we've been offered all resources.
- Good,

I'll get someone scouting
locations to start the build.

Also,

we need to get the head
of pathology from USAMRIID

over here and take a
look at that letter,

send it back to the lab, and
see if it comes back positive.

Thanks. We'll take it from here.

Uh, the type of writing is the same,

but the powder is different
from the Brokaw and Post letters.

Take a look.

It's whiter, less clumpy, no debris.

I need to know if it's the same strain.

You'll notice something
different about this letter.

- A return address.
- Our guy is smart.

He knows that the anthrax
letters have been in the news,

people are nervous.

You see a letter with strange
handwriting, you're gonna chuck it.

- But from a bunch of kids.
- Yeah.

We have to track down the address

and get this to USAMRIID for testing.

Both the Brokaw and The Post letters

are postmarked here,

so our agents are gonna
swab all 600 plus mailboxes

that feed into this
facility, full hazmat gear.

This is gonna be tedious,

okay, but if we can
identify this specific box,

it's gonna help lead
us to the terrorists.

Excuse me.

Hey, it's Chris Moore.

Hey, put another agent on the boxes,

I need you on something else.

The Daschle letter has a return address.

It's an elementary
school in Franklin Park.

Franklin Park? That's,

that can't be more
than 20 miles from here.

That fed guy is up in
Quinton's office again.

Wonder what he got himself into.

Testing the sample is gonna
take me a few hours in the lab.

You got it.

I'll let him know
we're heading over now.

I can give him an ETA.

Is that from the Daschle letter?

Bruce. I didn't you were here.

Mind if I take a look?

Sure.

I've never seen anthrax so aerosolized.

It's far more lethal in this form.

Jody, what if the anthrax
killer is one of us?

I think you're letting
all this get to you.

Think about it, Jod.

The terrorists would
still need some patsy here

on the ground to help them carry it out.

Someone who has access to anthrax
and knows how to handle it.

I know there's been a flood
of new faces around here

with all with all the
added help for testing but

they were brought in after
the letters were found.

- Be careful pointing fingers.
- Maybe it's not someone new.

For shirts and giggles,
let's just say this person

was part of the old guard around here.

Someone we've been working
with on a daily basis.

Bruce, there's enough
division around here as it is,

science versus military,
old gen, new gen and

without creating more, I just..

I'm not sure I'm the one
you should be talking to.

I tell you everything.

I would never keep
something like this from you.

If you really have concerns, Bruce,

you should tell the Colonel.

I just think we have
a duty here, you know.

I mean, what if a person
could weasel their way

into a position where they could
impede the FBI's investigation,

maybe even destroy evidence?

It'd be up to us to
stop them, wouldn't it?

- Hey, Matt, I have to call you back.
- Where are you?

Not where I'm supposed to be.

Small Biz Committee
started three minutes ago.

On the Hill?

- Yeah, why?
- I want you to get out of the building.

What's going on?

The Hill's been attacked, it's anthrax.

- In a few minutes, every building's
- WILLIS: Oh, my God.

gonna be evacuated. Listen,

head to Constitution and Second.

There's three buses
arriving to take people

to Bethesda to get tested.

Get on the first bus, okay?

I'll call you later.

Matthew?

As the evacuation on
Capitol Hill continues,

FBI teams scour for evidence.

Growing sources insist

there is a direct link between

the New York and D.C.
mailings to terrorists,

and possibly Iraq.

So far, the FBI has declined to comment.

Move it along, please.

Okay, do you have a fever?

Take the next person out here.

Hi. Sheila Willis.

The FBI is quarantining
all mail on Capitol Hill.

And reportedly, the
Bureau is building a lab

as no labs on the East
Coast can handle the volume.

Vacuum seals capable of
sustaining directional airflow, uh,

self-closing doors,

- decontamination stations.
- You're building an entire BSL4 lab

in an unsecure, unsterile space?

Uh, it'll be both once we're done.

Daschle got a green light
directly from the White House.

With this splashed all over the news,

whole damn seaboard is
terrified to touch their mail.

Once we prove the rest of
the mail on the Hill is clean,

it'll put people's minds
at ease about their own.

Fine, the administration
is shelling out millions,

you better deliver more
than just another envelope

filled with white powder.

Hand them the connection to terrorists.

Look, I'll find the terrorists,

but I've been hearing all
the rumblings in the press,

and I don't know that
this came from Iraq.

You and I aren't cleared
for all classified intel.

Who knows where those
bastards are hiding out?

Just find them.

Chris, tell me you got
something at the school.

So, I hate to be the bearer of bad news,

but this return address is bogus.

There actually aren't any schools
called Greendale in Franklin Park.

The closest match we could find
was a Greenbrook Elementary,

it's in Kendall Park. But we've
been here since the doors opened,

there's nobody on any FBI Watchlist
associated with the school.

CIA's got nothing.

Students, faculty, no one from Iraq?

Uh, five students,

three staff from the Middle East.

But I mean, these people have
all been vetted since 9/11.

And there's none that
are of Iraqi descent.

There's nothing here, Matt.

Sorry.

Look, I don't wanna
overstep here, but...

Didn't you say Iraq
never had the Ames strain?

Yeah, we'll know more once we find out

where those letters were mailed.

In the meantime, get everyone up
there swabbing mailboxes, okay?

Okay.

Many US citizens have stopped

opening their mail, even
tossing it on the curb.

We now join a live conference

at the Brentwood Mail Facility in D.C.

Thank you for joining us here today

at the postal services
in Washington, D.C.

processing and distribution center.

As you know, one letter from among

the more than 3.5 million pieces of mail

handled here each day contained anthrax.

- And there is no...
- I don't know why they made you

stay after your shift and
sweep up round the sorters.

You can't even see them on the TV.

This afternoon, I am
announcing the offer

of a reward of up to $1
million for the information

leading to the arrest and conviction

of those responsible for
the mailing of the anthrax.

- You leavin'?
- There's enough smoke

being blown up certain
places around here.

And I'm feeling a
little run-down anyway.

Later.

How many others on the
Hill have been infected?

We got 28 new cases,
hundreds more to test.

And I've got three more right here.

Okay, let's pin 'em.

The green indicates where
infected people worked,

the red is where our hazmat
teams found spores, here,

high concentration
in Feingold's offices,

in the central atrium, and the courtyard

in front of Daschle's suite.

What about your three?

I got Alicia Herrera,

- works in Feingold's basement office.
- Okay.

Mike Wakefield,

uh, Capitol Police, first responders.

He was one of the first into the
Hart Building after the attack.

That'd be atrium.

And Peter Browning,

a contractor in the State Department...

Building.

Ryker?

We shut the Hill down too late.

Somebody opened another letter.

Mr. Browning, I just need to confirm,

you were nowhere near the Hart
Building this morning, correct?

I stay in the annex.

Keep my distance from the
senators and staffers, the egos.

How long have you had symptoms?

I've felt like crap for two days.

Well, you could have
been exposed days ago

from an entirely different letter.

We need to know when that letter arrived

and who might've been the target.

Mr. Browning,

think back, do you remember opening

any suspicious mail over the past week?

It would've likely look
similar to the anthrax letters

that you've seen on TV, with all
caps and childish handwriting.

I don't really see what
comes in or where it's going.

I'm a supervisor. I don't open mail.

Ever.

- Uh, give me a minute, okay?
- Yeah.

Hey.

Hey.

- How bad is this?
- I'm not really sure.

Are you okay?

Yeah. I'm still waiting to find out,

- and they're getting us Cipro.
- Mm-hmm.

- I'm trying not to freak out.
- Hey,

you're gonna be okay, all right?

The important thing is they
caught everyone on the Hill early.

Okay.

Um, I really gotta go.

- I'll check in with you later?
- Okay.

It's a little high, but not so bad.

- Flu's going around.
- It don't feel like the flu.

You know, Joe left after his shift.

Looked like hell.

Said he wasn't feeling good neither.

Joe said he hit the crab cake
buffet at Milton's yesterday.

Chances are it's food poisoning.

But they had me shut down number 17.

You don't think maybe it had
to do with what's happening

on the Hill with the anthrax mail?

They held a whole press conference here.

All the big wigs were down on the floor.

They wouldn't do that
if it weren't safe.

Look, just take a few
aspirin and finish up.

You don't wanna use a whole sick
day just 'cause you're feeling warm.

* Go tell it on the mountains *

* Over the hills and everywhere *

* Go tell it on the mountain *

* That Jesus Christ is born *

It is a blessing to see
so many faces here tonight.

I only wish it was
for different reasons,

but the atrocities of
9/11 have left us searching

for answers and comfort
in the house of our Lord.

* Go tell it on the mountain *

* Over the hills and everywhere *

Honey?

* Go tell it on the mountain *

- * That Jesus Christ is born *
- Joe, you okay?

What's going on?

* Go tell it on the mountain *

* Over the hills and everywhere *

Come in.

Colonel Charles, evening.

Sorry to barge in on you this late.

Not a problem, Dr. Ivins,

especially if you keep it quick.

- Wife's making pot roast tonight.
- Oh.

It's about the anthrax
investigation, sir.

I'd like to have a word
with you about Simon Kurz.

You have an issue with
how Kurz's running things?

I do, sir.

As you know I've spent my
whole career working on anthrax,

I pretty much wrote the book on it, uh,

at least a cornucopia of articles.

And Simon has not consulted
with me about the Daschle letter.

Not that strange, Bruce.

Situations like this always fall

- to the head of the department.
- With all due respect to Dr. Kurz, sir,

I'm the one here who's
worked on not one,

but two anthrax vaccines and I just...

I think something's amiss.

You think Kurz is
purposely keeping you out?

I don't want to speculate, sir.

I just want to help.

If I could have a couple of
hours with the Daschle letter,

there's some tests that
Simon hasn't run yet.

They're the same stock
as the attack envelopes?

Yes,

how can a person who didn't even
open the letter get infected?

I thought it took, like, 8,000 spores?

Do you know how they
got those estimates?

Tests on monkeys.

For humans, they don't know exactly.

Now, this cocoa powder is just about

the same particle size as the anthrax.

So last week in New York,
a woman from The Post,

said she was infected,

who swears she never opened an envelope.

- Like Browning?
- Exactly.

So I thought she just
couldn't remember opening it.

Then we found it, and it was sealed.

But how can even a few
spores escape an envelope

- that's been taped shut?
- I don't think they did.

This morning, we got a call
from Dr. Kurz over at USAMRIID.

He said that the second batch of spores

were the most refined he's ever seen.

Powder's not leaking from
the edges of the tape.

It's coming right through
the fibers of the envelope.

Which means that anyone
even in the vicinity

of the anthrax letters is at risk.

There could be a whole string of victims

we don't know anything about,

all the way back to Jersey
where the letters were mailed.

So we need to know each stop
that they made along the way.

- Shut it down!
- What, all of it?

There must be a dozen
DBCS machines down there.

Yes, you need to evacuate every employee

- and get them all on Cipro.
- We'd have mountains of mail.

It's a federal offense.

I've contacted the CDC

and you should be hearing
from the Governor any minute.

- This needs to happen right now!
- The Governor?

Your machines could be
spewing poison throughout...

the entire building.

We already know of three
letters full of anthrax

have passed through your equipment,

there could be more.

The anthrax is coming
through the envelopes.

One of your employees was
already admitted into St. Francis.

They found a lesion on her arm.

- Who?
- Angela Lowman.

We're checking in with another
employee who might also be infected.

I'm gonna have the floor
evacuated immediately.

Inspector, sorry to keep you waiting.

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

- Happy to help.
- Thank you.

We shut down the Hamilton
facility in New Jersey.

But what we need to know is
everywhere the letter went

between there and
Senator Daschle's office.

We need to test everyone along the way,

so we just wanna know
how precise we can get.

Well, you see those
series of hash marks?

It's actually an encoded time stamp.

It traces a letter's path,

marks every facility it went through.

- Huh.
- Oh, there we go.

Okay, on October 9th,

the envelope went through

the Automatic Flats
Canceling and Sorting machine

at Hamilton at 4:57 pm.

At 5:15, it was encoded
by a DBCS machine

according to its zip plus four,

and sorted into a mail bin that
was loaded onto Truck number 468.

The truck left Hamilton at
7:18 am the next morning,

and drove to Newark Airport,

where it was loaded on a USPS airliner.

We need to track down that driver,

the pilot, and the co-pilot,
and those baggage handlers.

Plane landed in D.C. on the
night of the October 10th,

and from there, the letter
went to its final USPS stop...

Brentwood.

Brentwood's one of the largest
mail facilities on the East Coast.

It employs almost 2,000 workers.

Can you trace the exact machines
that letter went through?

Just one.

DBCS machine number 17.

We need to get all those
workers out of there.

What the...

They didn't evacuate?

How can they just let
these employees come to work

in a contaminated space?

I'm looking for Jerry Reid.

- You found him.
- Special Agent Ryker, FBI.

This place should have
been evacuated hours ago.

We got your recommendation.

We shut down DBCS 17 and I
passed it on up the chain,

they said that was enough.

Letters filled with anthrax
came through here days ago.

We've had two positive cases

in a postal facility in
New Jersey. They shut down.

- Why haven't you?
- Hamilton is a fraction of our size.

We service the entire U.S. Government,

- every embassy and...
- You need to shut this place down.

FBI doesn't have carte
blanche jurisdiction.

Look, there's a whole chain of
heavy hitters above the two of us.

What part of this do
you guys not understand?

- People are dying!
- Not postal workers. They're all fine.

You don't understand
what we do, what we are.

Social Security checks, mortgages.

You don't let somebody's
house get foreclosed on,

'cause they missed a payment?

And what about the insulin
that's sitting in one of our carts

on its way to some diabetic?

People's lives rely
on the postal service.

We don't "shut down." Ever.

What you're looking at on that
floor is an essential service.

They're essential.

Don't you mean expendable?

I may not have the authority
to evacuate your employees,

but let's see how many
of them stick around

when they start seeing a
hazmat team sweeping through.

Rough pass first.

Get suited up.

What are they all doing here?

Excuse me?

Uh, can you tell us
what is going on here?

Is the floor contaminated or something?

We don't know yet, but I'm
gonna be honest with you.

There are probably a few
workers here in this facility

that have been exposed
to anthrax spores.

Now, I'm trying to track
down anyone who's been sick,

so we can get them help.

Are you feeling ill in any way?

Not, not me.

Somebody else then?

Their best chance is for us to
get to them as soon as possible.

A friend of mine, Louis Miller, he,

he's never left mid-shift
his whole life until today.

- I'll give you his number.
- Please, yes.

He wasn't home and he
isn't picking up his cell.

He wasn't at his HMO's
urgent care either.

I'm heading over to Central Hospital.

All right. I'll tell
you what I find out here.

I'm looking for a patient,

African-American male in his 40s.

Place of employment is the
Brentwood Mail Facility.

- I have his name and address right here.
- Is it Thomas Morris?

Qieth McQue? I've also
got a Joseph Curseen.

- These men all work at Brentwood?
- Yeah.

And they're all current patients?

Two of them are in the ICU,

but Joe is in Room 311.

Thank you.

Hi. I'm looking for a patient,
he's a middle-aged man,

African-American named Louis Miller.

He hasn't seen a doctor yet.
He's in the waiting area.

Okay, I need someone now.

Louis Miller?

Over here.

Mr. Miller?

From the Brentwood Mail Facility?

Yeah, what's, what's going on?

Are you experiencing flu-like symptoms?

Oh, something's not right.

I'm sorry, who are you?

Dani Toretti, FBI, we
believe you may have been

exposed to anthrax at Brentwood,

we just need to make sure.

Okay. Chest X-ray and a spinal tap.

It'll show that Mr. Miller has anthrax.

But first start him on Cipro, right now.

I'll get a doctor.

Once we have you on antibiotics,

- you should be okay.
- There are others, you know,

who've been sick all of a sudden.

Yeah. Yeah. We know.

Just give me one minute, okay?

Ryker, I found him. We
caught it just in time.

No, we didn't.

I just found Joe Curseen.

He works with Louis.

He passed out in church yesterday.

By the time he got to the hospital,

it was already too late.

He's dead.

All right, thanks.

My breathing is labored

and my chest feels constricted.

Uh, I am getting air,
but just to get up and

walk and what have you.

I feel like I might just pass out.

And you said you work
at the post office?

- Which one?
- The post office downtown,

Brentwood Road.

They never let us know if
that thing had anthrax or not.

The doctor thought it was
just a virus or something,

so I was taking aspirin
for the achiness.

But now there's the shortness of breath.

The person who called 911
was one of your employees.

Is he okay?

Thomas Morris,

he's dead.

So is Joe Curseen.

I don't know what to say.

Well, maybe there's a
reason the workers here

call this place "The Plantation."

Look, I shut the machines down

and started closing the
place up after you left here.

My heart goes out to
them, their families.

Your team knew there
could be anthrax here

multiple shifts ago.

We were assured it wasn't a problem.

I was following orders,

trusting the people who are
supposed to know more about this.

"Supposed to" doesn't mean anything

to the people who have lost someone.

Uh, it's pretty straightforward.

We examined the powder
from the Daschle letter

under an electron microscope
which can magnify up to 2,000 times

and identified the augmentation and

presence on a molecular level.

Layman's terms.

I'll have to spell it out for them.

We found that something had
been added to the spores.

And based on your expertise in anthrax,

how certain are you about
what that substance is?

Bentonite?

100%.

Will they know what that means?

They might not understand microbiology,

but they've read enough
intelligence briefings.

There's only one country we know of
that's added bentonite to anthrax.

Iraq.

You're not answering your phone.

I hadn't slept since New York.

I haven't eaten. Do you mind?

No, make yourself right at home.

Not exactly a meal.

This is cozy.

Well, I spend a lot of time on the road.

Sorry, I'm a little late. It's just,

I have a, a dinner date tonight and then

I have a family birthday thing
that totally slipped my mind,

kind of a two birds
with one stone situation.

Who's the lucky girl?

Is she the stone or one of the birds?

What are you doing here again?

They found a hot drum full of mail,

led them to another anthrax letter.

It's the one we think infected Browning.

Who was the target?

Senator Leahy.

Leahy.

Judiciary Committee.

Why wasn't it in the
mail from his office?

The postal machine misread
the handwritten zip code,

so it ended up unopened,

way down at the State
Department building.

Which is a very good
thing, because it had triple

the amount of powder
than the Daschle letter.

That's enough spores to
kill thousands of people.

No other hot spots?

No, not that they found so far.

So then why target Daschle and Leahy

and then no one else?

Two Democratic Senators

both needed to push
the Patriot Act through.

Since when does Al-Qaeda care
about our internal politics?

Is that what you're implying?

I'm not implying. It's just a fact.

This is the perfect storm for a copycat

after thousands of hoax letters
over the past few months.

Clumsily we're just throwing
the blame on Al-Qaeda.

Uncle Matty!

Oh, hello, you.

Happy birthday, girl! How are you?

- Good.
- Yeah? All right.

- Hey, I like you to meet my friend, Sheila.
- Hi.

Hi, happy birthday.

Look what I have.

Look what I have here

- for a special someone.
- Is it for me?

It is for you, would you like it now?

- Yes.
- All right. Go ahead. Take it.

Thank you.

Wow. Valedictorian and
debate captain, huh?

Yeah, welcome to our time capsule.

Oh, wow.

How long did your dad serve?

Uh, about six years.

He actually wanted to stay
longer, but he got sick.

- Oh.
- Chemical exposure, had to come home.

I'm sorry.

He looks really happy in this picture.

Ah, he was smiling for the photo.

- It's my Mattie!
- Hi, Mom.

Hello, sweetheart.

- Come on here, loser.
- Hey, you.

Uh, Jenny, Mom,

I would love you to meet Sheila Willis.

- Hi, Sheila.
- Hi, nice to meet you.

So nice to meet you.

Thank you for inviting me.

We just, uh, we're dropping
by on our way to dinner.

Oh, come on now, we have plenty of food.

Uh, actually, we have a reservation.

That's totally enough
time to get to know her.

Oh.

You'll have to come over for dinner.

Oh, um, I'd like that. Thank you.

So how long have you two

- been seeing each other?
- Hey, I have an idea.

How about we save the third
degree until after cake?

Come on back.

We're about to play
pin-the-tail-on-the Shrek.

- Okay.
- Which means copious amounts of wine.

- Oh.
- I like copious.

- Hey.
- Hey.

There are rumors circulating D.C.

about a possible war in...

Sorry I missed your game.

Didn't miss much. We got
our asses handed to us.

Dad thinks we need a new coach.

You heard from him this week?

Called from the base.

Said there's talk.

Maybe they're going to
get deployed to Iraq.

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

All the terrorists who did all this?

Your dad's gonna be okay.

Is that what they train you to tell us?

Two more victims have
died of anthrax exposure.

Ottilie Lundgren and Kathy Nguyen.

Their cases are particularly troubling

as they have no connection
to the media, politics,

or the U.S. Postal Service,

which have so far been the targets.

So you heard about Lundgren and Nguyen?

You're thinking cross contamination?

I just found out that
Lundgren had a letter that

went through the DBCS machine at
Brentwood 15 seconds after Leahy's.

Well, your hunch was right.

And that powder was so fine,

it just blasted itself
all through those machines,

so it makes sense.

So tell me more about
your lone wolf theory.

Finally coming to your senses?

My senses aren't in question.

- I'm just curious.
- Okay.

I've been working with
our handwriting analyst.

We believe that the
sender tried to disguise

his writing with this block lettering.

Now, this is a penmanship
style that was taught

to American schoolchildren from
the 1940s through the 1960s.

American, born and raised.

Next up is this "take penicillin" bit.

Somebody knows enough to
reference a specific antibiotic,

but they don't know how to spell it?

And why would Al-Qaeda
warn their victims anyways?

So "Allah is Great" was a misdirect,

to put the focus on foreigners?

Probably.

Yeah. All signs point to our perp

being a highly educated American
citizen with scientific expertise.

Most likely works in isolation,

suffers from mental illness.

Someone spurred by 9/11,

which is why the first
letters bore that date,

despite being mailed later.

I drew up this profile

to send to the American
Society of Microbiology.

I suspect one of their members knows

or is the anthrax mailer.

It's risky, tipping off a suspect.

Or it's a very smart
way to smoke him out.

- How many members are there?
- 30,000.

And if we get any hits,

we send field agents
out to do interviews.

The Bureau's interest is
squarely on terrorists, I doubt...

I sent it through my
own channels already.

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Evening, Colonel.

Got a call from the Hill to commend you.

Oh, I was just doing my job, sir.

Your name's come up for commendations.

I wouldn't be surprised to see
you decorated one of these days.

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

Oh.

Well, that means a lot
to me, sir. Thank you.

It's an honor, sir.

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