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( crowd clamoring
over rock music intro )

♪ Saturday night
I was downtown ♪

♪ Workin' for the FBI ♪

♪ Sittin' in a nest of bad men ♪

♪ Whiskey bottles
piling high... ♪

♪ Bootleggin' boozer
on the west side ♪

♪ Full of people
who are doin' wrong ♪

♪ Just about
to call up the D.A. man ♪

♪ When I heard this woman
singin' a song ♪

( crackling hiss )

♪ A pair of .45's made me
open my eyes ♪

♪ My temperature started
to rise ♪

♪ She was a long cool woman
in a black dress ♪

♪ Just a five-nine
beautiful tall ♪

♪ With just one look
I was a bad mess ♪

♪ 'Cause that long cool woman
had it all... ♪

I'm pretty sure there's an ATM
around here somewhere.

I don't want to
wander around downtown

at this time of night.

Don't worry. If we don't find
one here, we'll go back.

Ah, here's one.

You never listen to me.

( explosion, woman screams )

( sirens blaring,
indistinct radio transmission )

Hey, guys.
It's an Army recruiting office.

We had the victim
standing here at the ATM.

He died on the scene.

His wife's in shock,
but she's stable.

DAVID: Bomb looks to
be homemade.

We'll need the chem
work-up to know more.

MEGAN: It's an interesting
choice of targets.

High profile,
and low risk of casualties.

Antiwar protest?

Maybe just somebody with an
axe to grind against the Army.

Well, someone's definitely gonna
take responsibility for this.

MEGAN:
You were right.

This came in last night,
just before the bomb went off.

You having any luck
tracing this?

It's been routed
through so many servers,

I can't promise anything.

MEGAN: "This act is in
retaliation for an illegal war

begun at the behest
of U.S. imperialists..."

Wait. It's signed
the Weather Underground?

The protest group from the '70s?

Maybe somebody's
having a flashback.

Weather Underground were
radicals disguised as patriots.

They're willing to use any means
necessary to accomplish their ends.

Today, we call them terrorists.

Uh, Agent Thomas Lawson.

Retired.

Back in my day, uh,

all we had was a couple of
IBM Selectrics

and a telephone.

I'm sorry. Can we help you
with something?

Chief of Criminal Division
called me this morning.

MEGAN: Why is that?

You had a bombing
at a recruitment center.

We had an identical
bombing at an ROTC office

35 years ago to the day.

And you think
it's the same people?

Same person.

DON:
Matthew Stirling?

He was a member of a local
radical group from '69 to '71.

He was responsible
for three bombings,

including the one at the ROTC
which killed two people.

Where is he now?

Never apprehended.

His current whereabouts were
unknown until this morning.

We all use math every day,

to predict weather,

to tell time,

to handle money.

Math is more than formulas
and equations.

It's logic.

It's rationality.

It's using your mind to solve the
biggest mysteries that we know.

The e-mail is almost identical to
a letter received by the FBI in '71,

except instead of "Vietnam,"

the new letter
reads "Iraq."

DAVID: Bomb materials, composition
and placement are all similar.

I know you guys didn't use
math consultants back then, but

meet my brother Charlie.

He's going to do a statistical
assessment of crimes from back then.

Compare it to this one here.

Given the length of time
between these bombings,

this is going
to be a great challenge.

LAWSON:
Maybe.

If you were looking
for a different perpetrator.

We haven't ruled out the
possibility of a copycat yet.

LAWSON: You're wasting time.
Time you haven't got.

DON: We're gonna look
into Stirling as well as

some current groups with
similar profiles, so...

LAWSON: The day after Stirling
was questioned

about the ROTC bombing,
he went underground.

He abandoned a wife and baby.

The bomb he set killed
two people.

Thomas O'Keefe, 17.

Albert Whitetower, 16.

I was the one that had to knock
on their parents' door

to tell them their kid was dead.

Next time, it'll be you.

Somebody blew up a car.

That's an antiwar act?

A military vehicle,

parked outside
of an Army recruiting office

where somebody was killed.

WOMAN:
American Peace Movement?

You might want to round up some
of the local high school parents.

I understand a lot of them
aren't too happy

with the Army's on-campus
recruitment tactics.

Your organization called for
resistance against the United States.

The war on Iraq is illegal,

and any resistance is
protected by international law.

Vandalism and violence aren't.

We're gonna need to take
a look at all the e-mails

coming and going
into your office.

Then you're gonna need
a warrant.

Maybe.

Look, try to pull any of that
Patriot Act stuff,

and you'll get plenty of press.

I don't doubt it.

You're wasting your time.

We didn't have anything to do
with it.

Really? Cross your heart
and hope to die?

- Hey!
- So, what do you think of this?

Wow.

You got it done fast.

Yeah. I found it
in the original designs.

The people who owned the place
before us -- they tore them out.

Can't imagine why they did that.

Well, people did a lot
of stupid things in the '70s.

I take it you're not just
talking about home remodeling.

Here are the files
from the ROTC bombing.

Oh, great.

So you think this guy
Stirling was involved

with these recent bombings,
huh, after all these years?

ALAN:
Stirling?

You're talking
about Matt Stirling?

Yeah. Why?

Well, I knew him.
We worked together.

You did? At City Hall?

No. Californians for Peace.

We organized volunteers.

Matty worked
with the local colleges.

You were an antiwar protester?

I participated in peaceful
demonstrations, so did Matt.

Dad, Matt Stirling is the one
who blew up the ROTC Center.

He killed two innocent kids.

Matt Stirling's guilt was
never proven in a court of law.

Yeah, because he took off.

Look, I knew Matt Stirling.

He had a wife, he had a child.
What are you talking about?

- I'm talking about evidence.
- What evidence?

Those files right there,
to begin with!

Oh, come on. You guys probably
had twice that much on the man

you mistakenly accused
of the Madrid train bombings.

We're trying to stop someone
from killing innocent people here.

So were we.

- Hey.
- Hey.

I didn't know Dad was
so... active back then.

Yeah, well, I kind of forgot about
it until I was joining the bureau.

Came out in my background check.

Was he ever arrested?

- Oh, yeah. Twice.
- Twice?

Sit-ins.

I was, like, three.

Mom and Dad both took me
to a march.

LAPD hauls Dad off in cuffs.

Dad has an FBI file.

- Uh-huh.
- What's in it?

Well, that's the thing.
It's funny.

You know, I mean, I never wanted
to read it that closely.

By the time I was born,
the war was over.

Yeah. Well, lucky you.

All right, Don.

What about
this bomb investigation?

Well, I mean,
Stirling's our prime suspect,

but 35 years --
that's a long time.

You know, you've got a lot
of data here from the old case,

and I might be able to run an application
of math called social network analysis,

which analyzes
the structure of groups.

Might tell us how Stirling fit
in to Californians For Peace,

and who he worked with.

Could it tell if he was involved in
something like the Weather Underground?

- Oh, quite possibly.
- And if it was a copycat?

The analysis might very well
identify likely suspects.

Coming up empty with e-mails
and phone records.

There's nothing to indicate that
any of the local antiwar groups

are planning anything like this.

LAPD's anti-terrorist
surveillance indicates

these groups are organizing
demonstrations

to mark the start of the war
in the spring.

So we're back
to looking at a copycat.

Well, either that, or Lawson's right,
and Stirling's resurfaced.

It's possible. Serial bombers
often claim political motivations,

but it's a sociopathic drive.

It's the same as serial killers.

They can go underground
for years, and then return

to violence if circumstances
bring up old obsessions.

Circumstances like a new war,
new climate of protest?

You got it, but if it is him,
more than likely, he's gonna

contact somebody from his past.

Yeah, Matt and I were
very good friends back then.

But that was back then.

You worked together
in the peace movement.

And I admired Matt,
I really did.

But the things we did --

I don't believe in them anymore.

Are you saying you
were involved in violence?

No, no, none of us were.

No, just those protests,

when the troops needed
our support,

coming back from that hellhole.

That's something
I wish I'd never been a part of.

Dad. Hey, Wilkie's at
the Culver City site,

he says the concrete
hasn't shown up yet.

Agent Sinclair,
this is my son Adam.

Is everything all right?

Yeah, everything's fine.

They just have some questions
about a guy that I knew

a very long time ago.

Well, do you want to talk
to the foreman or...?

No, no. You can handle it.
I'll be right there.

My son.

Smart kid.
He's got a business degree.

Me -- I studied sociology.

Mr. Bennett, if you think
of anything

or if you hear from anyone,
give us a call.

DON:
Hey, Tom.

Hi.

Some of my old files.

I'm going through
and annotating them.

Look, I got to tell you,
we really appreciate all you're doing.

Somewhere in me,
I still think of this as my case.

Yeah. I understand.

I mean, they get
under your skin, huh?

Then maybe you'll understand if I
speak to you frankly about something.

Yeah, sure.

Are you sure you're the right guy
to be heading up this investigation?

You read my father's file.

I thought
your name sounded familiar.

Checked up on him.

Your father was a leader, Eppes.

He organized radical activities,

and he knew Matt Stirling.

I just want to be sure that
we're all in the same team here.

We just got the prelim
on the bomb.

Looks like a non-industrial
grade nitroglycerin.

It's probably homemade.

Back to basics -- sulfuric
and nitric acid, glycerin,

sodium carbonate.
Sawdust was the stabilizer.

Were there any
signature elements?

Yeah, there was one.

The sodium carbonate was sodium
carbonate decahydrate.

In other words, baking soda.

Stirling's bomb...
to the letter.

WOMAN: Why are you
asking me about Matt Stirling?

Because you were closely affiliated
during the antiwar movement,

and we had a bombing
at a recruitment center

on the anniversary of the
bombing at the ROTC center in '71.

Right. I remember.

The FBI blamed
that one on Matty.

You think he's come back
after 35 years to do it again?

We haven't come
to any conclusions yet.

Sounds like you have.

But you don't really know anything
about the ROTC bombing, do you?

I know that two young men
were killed in the explosion.

And 18-year-old boys were used
as cannon fodder

in a war we had
no business fighting.

Do you have any information on
Mathew Stirling's current whereabouts?

None.

Would you tell me if you did?

That's the same question
they asked me in 1971.

And what was your answer?

Over 2,000 troops are dead
in Iraq.

That's not an answer.

The point is, the more things change,
the more they stay the same.

WOMAN: Nearly 35
years later,

you're still chasing
the wrong man.

Mom, please, maybe they have
something they can tell us.

Trust me, they don't.

You don't know that.

Do either of you
know where he is?

MOTHER: We haven't seen
him since the day he disappeared.

You people hounded him,
and threatened him with jail.

Forced a loving husband
and father to leave his family,

or face prison
for a crime he didn't commit.

If he was innocent, why didn't
he stay and defend himself?

You were going to railroad him.

The government wanted
to discredit the peace effort,

what better way than indict
a local leader for murder.

The "effort," as you called it,
was riddled with terrorists,

people who hated this country.

DON: Look, there was a bombing
at an Army recruiting office recently.

You know anything about that?

Of course not.

Have you had any contact with your
husband since his disappearance?

No.

You realize he's probably
married again.

- ( Disgusted sigh )
- New wife, kids,

Probably has got some nice house
in the suburbs somewhere --

Tom. Tom, Tom, Tom.

My mother filed a
missing persons report.

Nobody ever did
anything about it.

- Okay.
- What if something happened to him?

What if he was hurt?
What if he needed help?

I want you... to leave.

- All right!
- Now. Both of you.

Get out of my house.

Agent Lawson? Hi.

I'm here looking for my brother,
they said he might be with you.

Nah, he just left.

We're taking a little break
from each other.

A little disagreement over methods
employed in this investigation.

- I can relate to that.
- Yeah.

My day, witness
refused to cooperate,

we didn't coddle them.

My brother coddled someone.

You sure we're talking about
Don Eppes here, right?

You know, you have
a lot of data here.

I investigated
Californians for Peace

and violent protest groups
for five years.

A lot of data.

That's actually
what I'm trying to verify

through social network analysis.

See... you know
when you're getting old.

I never heard of that.

Humans form social networks --

from bridge clubs and
church groups, to universities

and federal agencies.

Mathematically, we can analyze
these organizational structures

to reveal who
the true leaders are.

Now, these various antiwar groups
in 1971 were also social networks.

Now, using bipartite
network analysis,

I can identify
who the true connectors are.

See, in my day, we, uh...

we didn't work much
with college professors.

We didn't think
we could trust 'em.

I have National Security
clearance.

Well...

here's to you.

So what happened to your
social network analysis?

CHARLIE:
I'm still working on it.

But this e-mail the FBI received
promises more violence,

and Don would like me
to analyze past attacks

to see what can be expected.

So, we're working on
recurrence plots.

I mean, hundreds
of these events happened,

many happened here at CalSci.

Oh, the school had
defense contracts back then.

I mean, there were antiwar
demonstrations right here on campus.

Bad news is, three of those 12
events rank high as possible repeats.

Really?

Two were vandalisms that
destroyed research for defense work,

and the third was a fire
that damaged a sculpture

right out in front
of this building.

And they all happened
around this time in 1971.

LARRY:
1971.

You know, all these things
were in the headlines:

Pentagon Papers,
My Lai Massacre,

Charles Manson murders.

Do you have any idea
how little press

the Apollo 15 mission
was getting?

I need more current data.

LARRY:
You do have a problem.

You have one single recent event

with which to base
your comparisons.

Which means that you need
more bombings.

That's right.

The constant quandary
of crime analyses:

to get more data,
you need more crimes.

- ( clamoring )
- AMITA: Why is everyone running?

CHARLIE: Oh, my God,
they hit it again.

This same globe that
was burned in 1971.

Well, now you have more data.

DON: So the fire at CalSci
does in fact match a fire

that FBI linked to Stirling.

Linked it to him, because he
was the one that set it.

We have an e-mail
claiming responsibility

identical to a note
nailed to a tree back in 1971.

Reads, "There can be no peace
for the masters of war."

LAWSON: That's a reference
to a Bob Dylan song.

Stirling used
politics as an excuse.

Now with the antiwar
movement revived,

- he's back in his element.
- Based on the evidence,

we're not letting go of the
possibility that it was a copycat.

The sculpture burned due to
a creosote-based substance

that somebody put on it.

There's only about a dozen places
in the area where you can buy it.

All right, so why don't you
get a list of recent buyers,

run that against anyone
who bought chemicals

used in the recruitment
office bombing.

LAWSON: Wait a minute,
we've got a match.

The language in the letters.

The construction of the bomb.

The sculpture.

We need to quit chasing around
and drag in Stirling's wife, his daughter.

Anybody he's associated with.

These people all have careers;
they got mortgages.

Believe me, they'll talk to us.

Well, I disagree.

And I think our best shot is
following the leads from today, Tom,

not from 35 years ago.

All right, guys, let's just
continue with what we're doing.

This is exactly
what I was worried about.

Pardon me?

Divided loyalties.

"Subject is active in groups

"associated with the overthrow
of the U.S. government,

violent political unrest
and social agitation."

Uh-huh.
And your point?

Your commitment
to this investigation.

Your father knew Stirling,
he worked with him...

All right, look, let's just
clear this up right now.

Are you actually
suggesting that my father

had something to do
with these bombings?

Of course not.

But your father knew the people
that Stirling knew.

Your father's
a source of information.

A source which you are choosing
not to use.

( knocks )

Hi. Hi, can I help you?

I'm Laura Stirling.

My father was Matthew Stirling.

Your brother's working on
a case involving him.

Okay. I cannot discuss
my brother's work.

I did an internet search
on your brother

and I found out that sometimes
he works with you.

If you have questions,
if you have concerns,

you need to take them
directly to the FBI.

I know, but... my mother's
still angry with the FBI.

She'd never cooperate with them,

and she wouldn't want me
cooperating with them, either.

If I went to their offices,
she'd never forgive me.

I'm sorry,
then why are you here?

Um...

This hairbrush...

was my father's.

The FBI might be able
to match his DNA.

You understand...

that if they match this
to a crime scene,

it might prove that your father
was involved in these bombings.

It's a chance
I'm willing to take.

I barely got to know my father.

But if he's proved innocent,
then maybe, finally,

he can come home.

- Hey.
- Charlie's not here.

Actually, I came to see you.

Dad...

how well did you know
Matt Stirling?

Is this an official visit?

Come on.

- How'd you meet him?
- At a local church.

I was organizing voters.

You know, we had people
from all walks of life there.

We had students and teachers...

Dad, Matt Stirling.

Matt Stirling was a lawyer
devoted to non-violent protests.

And he was a good speaker, too.

That's what got him in trouble
with the FBI.

You see, he could speak
their language.

He could use it against them.

That's it, huh?

Am I a suspect, too?

Come on, don't be ridiculous.

It's just that Stirling got help
from someone, we think, and...

Oh, I see.

And I knew the people he knew...

Credit your mother --
she loved to organize things.

You know, keep records.

What's this?

Oh, that's called a phone tree.

Before e-mail, that's how
we organized things.

Each person was assigned
a list of people to call.

Schedules, committee rosters...

Oh, Dad, this is
definitely going to help.

You know, Donnie, I'd
hate to see anyone

found guilty by association.

Well, you can trust me.

It's not you I'm worried about.

Dad, I know a lot of the guys
who were in the Bureau in the '70s.

These are good people.

I mean, they truly believe what
they were doing was right, so...

Yeah? So did we.

You read my file, haven't you?

I mean, all that crap
they have in there about me?

Yeah, I read some of it.

Donnie, they said that my work

registering voters
in South Central

was part of a conspiracy
to instigate racial tensions.

Now, how can you defend that?

I don't have to.

I don't see stuff like that
going on today, Dad --

and I see a lot --
things have changed.

- I think you believe that.
- I do believe it.

I'm not sure that I do.

These are Alan Eppes'
records of the group --

names, committees...

Wow.

And these ones are
those sales records

of local chemical companies
from '69 to '71 --

everything we could
dig up, anyway.

A lot of them
don't exist anymore.

And I bet a lot of them didn't
use their real names.

That's why we been looking at
the street addresses.

Nothing there.

And they might be stolen.

Maybe the bomber didn't
buy the raw materials.

He had access to them,
through a job or something.

But what kind of companies would
have these materials on hand?

Lots of them
would have one or two,

but the only ones that actually
have all three of the chemicals

are companies that
specifically make explosives.

DAVID:
The bigger issue is,

most industrial uses
of nitric acid

only require a solution
that's between

52 and 68 percent concentrated.

For nitroglycerin,
you need over 86 percent.

Yeah, but if none of these people
had access to the chemicals...

Wait a minute, wait a minute.
There's always grain alcohol.

What...?

When we were in college,
my buddies and I would want

to make a grain alcohol punch,
and couldn't get our hands on some,

we talked to a pre-med student

and see if we could have him
swipe some pure lab alcohol.

DAVID: Pre-med students.
Let's take a look.

Here, take a look at...

Look who was pre-med
at UCLA in '71 --

Dr. Sarah Kemple.

She knew advanced chemistry.

And she'd have access
to a university lab.

She has everything.

She has motive,
she has knowledge,

and she has the materials.

Why didn't the Bureau put this
evidence together back then?

Because they were so
focused on Stirling,

they didn't bother
looking at anybody else.

Dr. Kemple?

You need to come with us.

It's all right.
I'm ready.

I've been waiting 35 years
for you.

Turn around for us.

Let's go.

I was pre-med.

I made the nitroglycerin myself.

Took what I needed
from the university labs.

The police and the FBI --

they never even questioned me.

And after Matty disappeared,

it was just so easy
to let it end there.

Well, it didn't.

The families of the kids you
killed couldn't let it end there.

MEGAN: Where were
you the night

of the bombing
at the recruitment center?

At a medical conference
in San Francisco.

I would never have set
another bomb.

Not after what happened.

Do you know
where Matthew Stirling is?

I told you, I have no idea.

He helped you plan
the ROTC bombing?

No, Matty didn't know anything
about it.

Then where did the idea
come from?

There was this one guy
in the group.

We called him Cisco.

I read some stuff he wrote.

He was charming, passionate.

Cisco was his first
or his last name?

I don't know.

I didn't really know him.

He was Matty's friend.

( voice breaking ):
I'm so very sorry.

She was covering for Stirling.

She was pretty specific
about the making of the bomb,

how it was planted...

She was out of town.

She couldn't have done
the second bombing.

How do you explain that?

A copycat. Tom...

Look, I'm telling you,
Stirling put her up to it in '71,

and he's the guy
behind the new ones.

Let me ask you this --
did you ever even look

at anybody else besides him?

Have you ever had a hunch?

Have you ever known deep
in your gut who the bad guy was?

What about Cisco?

You ever hear of that name?

I had a report.

Yeah, and what happened?

Drifter, outside agitator.

Operated locally
for a few months,

and we never heard anything
more about him.

- A nobody.
- Well, not to Sarah Kemple.

She claims she got the whole
idea for the bombing from him.

You know, Tom, I've had a few
wrong hunches in my time.

AMITA: This analysis says which
members of this group got along,

and which didn't,

and who linked up with people
in other antiwar groups.

Boy, you know,
people don't like to think

that their lives can be
tracked so accurately, but, uh,

human action isn't very
different than any other data, is it?

Network analysis
quantifies relationships.

It reveals substructures
in networks,

like cliques, romances,

even secret alliances.

However, there's something
odd here.

What?

Matt Stirling was a connector

between Californians for Peace
and another group,

but that group
wasn't the Weather Underground.

My SNA graph indicates
that that group was the FBI.

How can that be?

The FBI's investigation
into the group.

I mean, there are dates here.

Key steps into the investigation

which coincide with
the activities of this subset.

Only, look,
they predate the events.

But that means the the FBI
wasn't just investigating this group.

It was somehow inside it.

DON:
We now know unequivocally

that your husband wasn't
responsible for the ROTC bombing.

It was a woman...
named Sarah Kemple.

Sarah?!

Yeah.

I told you people Matty wasn't
capable of hurting anyone.

Well, can you tell me if you've
ever heard of a man named Cisco?

Are you actually
asking for my help?

Yes, Mrs. Stirling,
I'm asking for your help, okay?

A man died on Sunday.

I got two letters
promising more of the same.

These are innocent people
we're talking about here.

Cisco -- I never met him.

But you heard of him?

Matty was afraid of him.

Afraid of how far he might go.

But I told the FBI all of this.

But they wouldn't listen.

All right, well,
I'm listening now.

All I know is,

the night
that Matty disappeared,

- he was scared.
- Of what?

I don't know.

But because of it...

( sighs )

I've always thought that something
must have happened to him.

Only the FBI decided
that he was a fugitive.

- All right.
- And that was that.

Again, I'm sorry,

and I appreciate
you talking to me.

Thanks.

( sighs )

CHARLIE: Now, this seems
very strange to me,

although the analysis
is fairly definitive.

We've analyzed
patterns of meetings,

groupings, actions, and
we're seeing correlations

with the FBI's investigation
into this group.

What type of correlations?

It seems decisions that
were made by the Bureau

predate related activities
by the protest group.

So, I mean, it's almost as if

Californians for Peace
and the Bureau

were overlapping organizations.

I mean, that's not
possible, is it?

Suddenly a lot about this
case seems more possible.

Who was Cisco?

I told you, he was a drifter.

I think he was an undercover
agent who you put inside.

Those records are sealed.

In order to get at them, you'd
need a special court order,

and I think I still got enough
juice to keep you from doing that.

Why didn't you say something?

I told you, Sarah Kemple said
Cisco was the one

that convinced her
to plant the bomb.

Nonsense.

All right, fine; let's go
talk to her -- come on.

I don't need to talk to her.

What is your problem?
I mean, I can't figure you out.

Why are you such an ass?

I don't need to talk
to Sarah Kemple,

because she never ever spoke
to Cisco.

So, you knew about him
all along.

So, who else did he talk to?

Cisco's contact was Stirling.

What, that's the only person
he spoke to?

- How are you so sure about that?
- I'm certain of it.

Well, I want to talk to him.

You just did.

I was Cisco.

LAWSON:
I was operating under orders.

We believed that Stirling
and his group

- were capable of violence.
- DON: Based on what?

See, that's the thing
I'm not clear about.

It was the consensus
at the time.

Maybe you had to be there.

That's not good enough, Tom.

You said your undercover work
was mostly with Stirling, right?

I met him at a protest march,
got to know him.

We talked about the role
of violence in the movement.

- Who brought it up?
- I did. I was instructed to.

DAVID: Did you give anyone
in Stirling's group

instructions on bomb-making?

We talked about what kind of
chemicals were readily available;

we talked about the chemical
processes one could use.

DAVID: Did you
provide any materials?

No.

Was there even
the slightest concern

that innocent people
could get hurt?

We followed Stirling
day and night for months.

This guy was a lawyer.

In order to nail him,
we had to catch him in the act,

which I would have done,
except the press got involved.

Somebody blew the whistle, there
was an article in the Times,

and then I was ordered
off undercover.

Two months later,
the ROTC was bombed.

Which is
when Stirling disappeared.

Fled from prosecution.

You still think he's the bomber.

Maybe he put Kemple
up to it, but

he's involved.

You realize, without you,

there might not even have been
an ROTC bombing?

A person doesn't become violent
because you talk to him, Eppes.

You're either a terrorist

or you're not.

Something's been bothering me
about Sarah Kemple's bomb.

What's that?

These are her records from UCLA.

The quantity of chemicals
that was stolen from there

was enough to make about three
times the amount of explosives

that were used in the bombing
at the ROTC center in '71.

You're right.

So what happened
to the rest of it?

( people shouting )

DAVID: We got lucky --
no major injuries.

Well, it's the first bit of luck
we've had on this thing.

Prelim on the bomb indicates
it's the same composition

as the one used on the
recruitment office.

You know we got another e-mail.

Yeah. Similar wording,
more attacks to come.

Blah, blah, blah.

Here's the kicker.

Just came in from the
Bomb Data Center in D.C.

Confirms our initial thoughts.

These explosives have the
same chemical signature

as the '71 ROTC bomb.

So you tell me how two people,

35 years apart,
use the same process.

Not likely.

Don, they use the
same exact process.

Same amounts,

both used a commercially available
sodium carbonate -- baking soda.

Yeah, we know
it ain't Sarah Kemple.

Someone else has his formula.

Definitely, definitely.

You said you figured out the
formula for the bomb yourself.

That's right. I did.

That's not gonna fly, Sarah.

Someone else is using the same
process to make new bombs.

That's impossible.

You're a doctor.

You know that lab reports
don't lie.

Someone else had to be aware

of the chemical mix
that you used.

The book.

What book?

It was a copy
of "Essays on Revolution."

The formula was written
on the flyleaf.

I assumed it was Matty's.

But later, when I
asked him about it,

he didn't seem to know
what I was talking about.

Where's the book now?

( sighs )

I don't know.

I haven't seen it for 35 years.

And where are the rest
of the explosives?

I know you had more than
you used at the ROTC bombing.

I hid them in a shed behind a
weekend place my parents owned.

A few weeks later, I
went back to get them.

But they were gone.

They were gone.

And who else knew
they were there?

Matty was the only one.

HESTER: I've shown you every
book in the house.

I have never owned a copy
of "Essays on Revolution."

Okay, how about your husband?

I don't know.

We cleaned out his office.

I gave most of his stuff away.

What's so important
about this book?

Well, we believe
that it contained

the chemical signatures
for the explosives used in,

not only the '71 bombing,
but the one the other night.

- The chemical signatures?
- Yeah.

Mrs. Stirling, has your husband
ever mentioned anything

about explosives
he may have come across?

No, but if Matty had, he
certainly wouldn't have

brought them in the house and
exposed his family to danger.

And the night he disappeared,
you told the FBI he said

he was leaving to prevent a,
quote, "terrible mistake."

That's what he said.

Excuse me.

COLBY:
Swept the house.

There's no sign of any book;
no explosives.

Sarah Kemple said Stirling was the
only one who knew about the explosives.

30 years -- could be anywhere.

He said he was trying
to prevent a mistake.

Which, at the time, the FBI
assumed meant him being arrested.

So what if he was trying
to stop Sarah Kemple

from making another bomb?

You think he was going
after the explosives?

Sarah said, by the time
she got back here,

the explosives were gone.

Yeah, but how's he gonna
move nitro without...

Wait... so if he's out to stop
Kemple and he never leaves L.A.,

we should be looking at routes he
would have taken out of here, right?

I just found a bunch
of my old maps,

which should show us what
roads were not around in 1971.

Terrific.

AMITA:
I ran a preliminary analysis

to find the most likely route

between Stirling's home
and his destination.

You rock.

Okay, so we take
this information,

we run it against that map,

which shows areas
of dense vegetation...

The result should be
a short list of places

to find a man hidden
in plain sight.

COLBY:
Yeah, there's a wreck down here.

It's an old Volkswagen.

Can you tell what color it is?

Yeah, it's yellow.

A lot of damage, though.

That's Stirling's car.

I'm gonna come down
and take a look.

COLBY:
Okay.

Oh, yeah.

We got a human skull!

DAVID: Looks like the damage
came from the explosion inside the car.

I'd say he was driving
away from the cabin, right?

DAVID: That nitro was
pretty unstable.

So he's got a trunk
loaded with this stuff,

and then he hits a pothole.

That means all the explosive
material from '71 is gone.

And with Stirling dead,
that effectively eliminates him

as a suspect
in the current bombings.

MEGAN: Yeah, but our current
bomber is using the same recipe

and the same wording in all the
letters claiming responsibility.

We got a copycat
who got ahold of that book.

COLBY: The Revolution book's not
at Hester Sterling's house,

and it's not at Dr. Kemple's
home or her office.

All right, well, what about
Stirling's daughter?

- She's got a place, right?
- Yeah.

So check that out.

Bank records on that protest
group finally came through.

That American Peace Movement?

Guess who donated $1,000
last year?

Jack Bennett?

GOP poster boy.

Give money? Me?

To a bunch of radical
nutcases like that? No way.

You used to be
a radical nutcase yourself.

I learned my lesson.

I believe in this country.

I'm not looking to tear it down.

That's your company's name,
isn't it?

Yeah, but that's
got to be a forgery.

Look, you can check
my handwriting, right?

You have experts
who can do that?

Yeah, we got armies of them.

'Cause I'm telling you,
I would not give money

to an organization like that.

What about his company?

If they use explosives,

we might be able
to tie the bombings to him.

Bennett hires a contractor
for demolition work.

And those would be
commercially made explosives.

Yeah, and our bomber's
making his own.

Basic chemicals, we might
be able to tie them to him.

CHARLIE: Yeah, they'll need
more than ingredients.

They'll need a knowledge
of chemistry.

DAVID:
No luck.

Bennett flunked
high school chemistry.

There's three invoices
in this file.

Bennett's company from
a chemical wholesaler.

One of them's for sulfuric acid,
one's for nitric acid,

and the third one
is for glycerin.

Let me see those checks again.

Think he's right about the forgery
of his signature on these checks.

This handwriting doesn't match.

All right, so what
are we missing here?

What are we missing?

We're missing a dimension.

Hey, check this out.

Okay,

figure this
is our antiwar group,

just this, in 1971.

Now, we can analyze the
various connections and patterns

for just this social group,

for just that year,

but see, time creates
new connections,

the offspring
of the old network.

So we're looking
at the wrong generation?

Are you out of your minds?

- I'm a Republican!
- Hold on a second.

Just relax -- we're
not here for you...

MEGAN:
We're here for your son.

My son? All right,
this has gone far enough.

He's the one who forged
your name to buy chemicals

so he could make nitro...

No, I know my son!
This is absurd!

You can search my home.

You will not find anything!

- Actually, they will!
- Hey!

DAVID:
He's got blasting gelatin,

made with nitroglycerin.

That's right. And it's lot
more powerful than dynamite.

Shoot me and find out.

Clear the area -- everyone
with a hard hat, step back!

Get outta here!
Back off!

Adam, for God's sake, please.

ADAM:
What happened to you?

You used to believe
in something.

Now innocent kids are dying,

and all you can do
is keep voting

the same guys back to office
who send them off to war.

This is not an answer.

It worked once.

BENNETT:
The war went on for years!

Not this war, Dad,
not while I can still do...

Guess you do know
a little about explosives, huh?

Yeah, that's right.

Like blasting gel is a lot
more powerful than dynamite,

but it's a lot more stable, too.

MEGAN:
Where did you get this?

( sighs )

It was in a box of things
that belonged to my dad...

back when he was an activist.

Actually, it doesn't belong
to your father.

It belonged to someone else.

I don't know, Tom.

I'm having a hard time
getting my head around the fact

that you guys started
a chain reaction

that lasted through two wars.

Had no choice.
We had to be proactive.

Three people are dead.

And how many more are alive
because of what we do?

The formula for the bombs
are in here.

Is it your handwriting
in the margins?

We had to stop these people
from killing Americans.

When that happens, no
one cares how you do it.

Terrorists, bottom line.

Our job is to protect,
by any means.

I don't know about that, Tom.

At a certain point, there's
a cost -- there's got to be.

You know,
that's the kind of thing

that gives us a bad name
around the world,

and it comes back to haunt us...
just like it did.

Just like it did.

It seems that your father died

while attempting
to do a very good thing.

I'm not sure if knowing that
helps at all.

No, it does help, a lot.

I guess I probably knew
my father was dead,

but what I really couldn't face

would have been
if he was guilty.

You know, my father
was a peace activist,

and he knew your father.

He says that your father was a
man committed to helping people.

And he never believed

the charges against your father
were true.

Mm. That's good to hear.

Finally, after all these years,

we're going to have
a memorial service.

Maybe your father
would like to come

and you, too, if you want.

I think my father and I
would like that very much.

( softly ):
Good.

Dad?

Hi.

Charlie did a good job
on this, huh?

Yeah, I like it.

Look, you know, I'm aware

that the Bureau has
some bad history.

Is that an apology?

I'm just saying, it was
a different time, you know?

And I know that.

Donnie, I'm the same guy
I was then.

I still believe
in the same things.

Yeah, well, good.

( sighs )

You know, when you told me
you were going to join the FBI,

you know what the first thought
I had was?

"Where did I go wrong?"

Honestly, yes.

Because I thought you wanted

to do something as
different from Charlie

and the rest of us as possible.

No, I knew it was something
I was going to be good at.

And you are.

- Yeah.
- No, I mean it.

You are, Donnie.

Maybe it's because
your mother and I

brought you guys up
to do the kind of work

that really matters
in this world.

DON: And, you know, look,

I didn't have to read
the file, okay?

'Cause I knew that, ultimately,

I would respect anything that
you or Mom were involved with.

Commie.

G-Man.

( laughs )

All right, big shot,

where are you
gonna take me to dinner?

All right, well,
there's a new Italian place

that supposed to have great
steak pizzaiola.

Red meat, let's eat.

ALAN:
Hey, at least it's good to know,

when it comes to food you're
still both your father's sons.