1 00:00:04,964 --> 00:00:06,507 If you think that you 2 00:00:06,548 --> 00:00:09,343 and the group you came here with from San Diego, 3 00:00:09,384 --> 00:00:11,762 if you think you folks are happy now, 4 00:00:11,804 --> 00:00:14,222 wait until they open those doors. 5 00:00:14,264 --> 00:00:16,517 A new car! 6 00:00:32,449 --> 00:00:34,075 I hope... 7 00:00:34,117 --> 00:00:35,285 Hey, Kitty, you should rotate, 8 00:00:35,327 --> 00:00:36,954 or you're gonna get bedsores. 9 00:00:36,996 --> 00:00:38,622 Hey, I walked to the fridge and back 10 00:00:38,664 --> 00:00:39,874 twice today. 11 00:00:39,915 --> 00:00:43,002 Oh, twice. Big exercise. 12 00:00:43,042 --> 00:00:44,837 -Mwah! -So what's on the menu? 13 00:00:44,879 --> 00:00:46,254 Soup, I guess. 14 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:48,089 I just got back from the clinic about three minutes ago. 15 00:00:48,131 --> 00:00:50,175 -Ohh, that's a long day. -Right? 16 00:00:50,217 --> 00:00:52,678 Is that from Talbot's? 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,097 No. Uh, it's for Dad. It feels like a video. 18 00:00:56,139 --> 00:00:58,266 Well, people have been sending things 19 00:00:58,308 --> 00:00:59,935 since The Times article. 20 00:00:59,977 --> 00:01:01,102 Do I need to be worried about 21 00:01:01,144 --> 00:01:02,521 all this fan mail that you're getting? 22 00:01:02,563 --> 00:01:04,147 Well, that depends how the soup turns out. 23 00:01:04,189 --> 00:01:05,816 That's my guy. 24 00:01:05,858 --> 00:01:09,403 Ew. Are you seriously joking about having an affair? 25 00:01:09,444 --> 00:01:12,031 Hey, are you gonna watch this with me later? 26 00:01:12,072 --> 00:01:15,576 It's the Tournament of Champions. 27 00:01:15,617 --> 00:01:17,118 Dad? Dad? 28 00:01:18,370 --> 00:01:20,288 Charlie! 29 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:23,458 - Charlie! - Oh. 30 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:26,127 oh, no. No, no, no. 31 00:01:26,169 --> 00:01:28,380 You've built your connection. 32 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:30,632 He knows you can talk about his ideas, 33 00:01:30,674 --> 00:01:33,218 that you're his equal, that he made the right call 34 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:35,554 on asking to speak to you and only you. 35 00:01:35,596 --> 00:01:37,222 Now turn it. 36 00:01:37,264 --> 00:01:39,182 No more feelings, no more theories. 37 00:01:39,224 --> 00:01:41,142 Hit him hard with the facts. 38 00:01:41,184 --> 00:01:43,938 He's about to be buried under a mountain of hard evidence. 39 00:01:43,979 --> 00:01:45,188 Going to trial is suicide. 40 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:47,733 Control, he's desperate for control. 41 00:01:47,775 --> 00:01:49,902 He thinks going to trial will give him that control. 42 00:01:49,944 --> 00:01:52,905 Make him understand that we own the courtroom. 43 00:01:52,947 --> 00:01:55,156 The only thing that gives him wiggle room 44 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:56,742 is to plead guilty. 45 00:02:00,955 --> 00:02:02,539 He wants the control. 46 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:06,376 He loves the control. 47 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:14,718 Here we go. 48 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,178 You can do this, Fitz. 49 00:02:25,353 --> 00:02:29,316 You didn't happen to bring those stamps, did you? 50 00:02:29,357 --> 00:02:31,777 Do you ever think about what you leave behind 51 00:02:31,819 --> 00:02:33,821 as you move through this world? 52 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:35,196 Do you mean as in 53 00:02:35,238 --> 00:02:38,826 "leave your campsite cleaner than when you found it?" 54 00:02:38,867 --> 00:02:42,663 My dad, he made me join the Boy Scouts, 55 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:45,040 thought it might help me make friends. 56 00:02:45,082 --> 00:02:46,875 It didn't. But it did teach me 57 00:02:46,917 --> 00:02:49,210 to leave my campsite cleaner than when I found it. 58 00:02:49,252 --> 00:02:50,754 But what does that matter 59 00:02:50,796 --> 00:02:52,631 if, the next day, a logging company comes in 60 00:02:52,673 --> 00:02:55,009 and chops the whole forest down? 61 00:02:55,050 --> 00:02:56,343 I mean it literally -- 62 00:02:56,384 --> 00:02:58,219 like all that you leave behind, 63 00:02:58,261 --> 00:03:01,098 like at the Charles Epstein bombing site. 64 00:03:01,140 --> 00:03:04,559 You know, you hadn't sent a package in six years, 65 00:03:04,601 --> 00:03:07,813 and then, on June 22, 1993, 66 00:03:07,855 --> 00:03:11,692 man in Tiburon opens a brown padded envelope, and... 67 00:03:14,402 --> 00:03:16,697 ...his whole torso is ripped apart. 68 00:03:16,738 --> 00:03:20,367 I think I read about that one in the newspaper. 69 00:03:20,408 --> 00:03:23,537 -A geneticist, right? -Yeah. 70 00:03:24,830 --> 00:03:26,915 He had a daughter. 71 00:03:26,957 --> 00:03:29,126 When a man interacts with the world, 72 00:03:29,168 --> 00:03:30,293 he leaves traces everywhere. 73 00:03:30,335 --> 00:03:32,587 Now, every action, every step that you took, 74 00:03:32,629 --> 00:03:34,255 you've been shedding clues -- 75 00:03:34,297 --> 00:03:37,009 not one, not two, but hundreds, thousands. 76 00:03:37,051 --> 00:03:41,346 And they have a warehouse filled with evidence. 77 00:03:43,348 --> 00:03:45,851 This is a trigger switch. 78 00:03:45,893 --> 00:03:49,855 It's precise. It's unique. It's made by hand. 79 00:03:49,897 --> 00:03:55,276 Forensics found one virtually intact at the scene. 80 00:03:55,318 --> 00:03:58,279 They found an identical switch at your cabin. 81 00:03:58,321 --> 00:04:02,117 This is, uh, wire clippings, springs, 82 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:05,245 copper pipe, aluminum scraps -- 83 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:07,873 all matched. 84 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:12,335 Stamps. 85 00:04:12,377 --> 00:04:15,797 These are stamps from the Epstein package, 86 00:04:15,839 --> 00:04:18,050 and these are stamps from your cabin. 87 00:04:18,092 --> 00:04:20,928 You traveled three days from Lincoln, Montana, 88 00:04:20,969 --> 00:04:23,638 to mail the package in San Francisco. 89 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,307 You paid cash, you used disguises, 90 00:04:26,349 --> 00:04:29,310 which was smart, except, in your cabin, 91 00:04:29,352 --> 00:04:31,772 we found six pairs of sunglasses, 92 00:04:31,813 --> 00:04:33,648 some fake mustaches, 93 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:36,777 and then your journal entries logging your disguises. 94 00:04:37,236 --> 00:04:41,364 This is the chemical components of the explosive mixture 95 00:04:41,406 --> 00:04:45,202 and, um, the epoxy that was used in the box, 96 00:04:45,244 --> 00:04:49,248 your typewriter that was used for the address label, 97 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:52,876 carbon paper, and a receipt for the carbon paper. 98 00:04:52,918 --> 00:04:54,419 It just goes on and on, 99 00:04:54,461 --> 00:04:57,422 and, Ted, they have thousands of pieces of evidence 100 00:04:57,464 --> 00:04:59,340 that can link you to the Unabom, 101 00:04:59,382 --> 00:05:01,009 but they only need one to convict you. 102 00:05:01,051 --> 00:05:04,263 They're gonna bury you under a mountain of evidence, 103 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:06,347 and all your autonomy is gonna go out the window 104 00:05:06,389 --> 00:05:08,308 the first day of trial. 105 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:12,353 He's looking good. 106 00:05:12,395 --> 00:05:15,356 Now reel him in. 107 00:05:15,398 --> 00:05:17,776 I want you to change the world. 108 00:05:17,818 --> 00:05:20,361 I want you to start a revolution. 109 00:05:20,403 --> 00:05:24,074 But if you fight this -- 110 00:05:24,116 --> 00:05:26,868 if you fight this, 111 00:05:26,910 --> 00:05:29,621 you are gonna lose control of everything in your life. 112 00:05:29,663 --> 00:05:32,415 You're gonna be a helpless cog in the machine of justice 113 00:05:32,457 --> 00:05:35,335 until they strap you down to the electric chair. 114 00:05:36,377 --> 00:05:38,755 You have one option. 115 00:05:38,797 --> 00:05:41,382 It's gonna give you some bargaining power, 116 00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:43,384 but you got only one. 117 00:05:43,426 --> 00:05:46,387 Plead guilty. 118 00:05:46,429 --> 00:05:48,389 All of this is for one bomb. 119 00:05:48,431 --> 00:05:49,975 There were 15 others 120 00:05:50,017 --> 00:05:52,477 that we haven't even talked about. 121 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:56,355 So trust me. This is all there is. 122 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:05,364 All right. 123 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:11,370 If that's my only option, I'll do it. 124 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:18,712 -That's it, right? -That's it. 125 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:23,424 Can I ask you one question? 126 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:25,593 Anything. 127 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:27,637 Since you've been so helpful 128 00:06:27,679 --> 00:06:30,015 walking me through what evidence the F.B.I. has, 129 00:06:30,057 --> 00:06:32,684 I was hoping you might confirm for me 130 00:06:32,726 --> 00:06:35,020 something I've suspected for a long time 131 00:06:35,062 --> 00:06:37,480 but could never get a straight answer to. 132 00:06:37,522 --> 00:06:39,440 But it seems to me that 133 00:06:39,482 --> 00:06:42,443 there is no forensic evidence whatsoever 134 00:06:42,485 --> 00:06:44,571 tying me to these heinous crimes 135 00:06:44,612 --> 00:06:46,489 besides what you found in my cabin. 136 00:06:46,531 --> 00:06:49,326 Yeah, but they got so much evidence of every type. 137 00:06:49,368 --> 00:06:53,830 Imagine if you could throw out all that evidence. 138 00:06:53,872 --> 00:06:55,582 There'd be nothing left, right? 139 00:06:55,623 --> 00:06:57,458 Because it's all here on the table. 140 00:06:57,500 --> 00:06:59,920 You just laid it all out in front of me. 141 00:07:01,171 --> 00:07:02,505 Yeah. 142 00:07:03,506 --> 00:07:07,468 James, do you really not have any idea 143 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:09,930 why I brought you here? 144 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:14,434 Huh. 145 00:07:19,898 --> 00:07:22,817 This is your search warrant. 146 00:07:22,859 --> 00:07:26,071 It's based on your linguistic analysis. 147 00:07:26,113 --> 00:07:29,490 This is -- this is what got you into my cabin, 148 00:07:29,532 --> 00:07:32,869 and the prosecution's entire case 149 00:07:32,911 --> 00:07:37,707 rests on this one document, your -- your document. 150 00:07:37,749 --> 00:07:40,210 No, what -- what's he doing? 151 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:42,879 So I thought we could discuss something 152 00:07:42,921 --> 00:07:45,715 I learned about only recently called 153 00:07:45,757 --> 00:07:49,094 fruit of the poisonous tree. 154 00:07:49,136 --> 00:07:52,180 That's the option that you're neglecting to mention -- 155 00:07:52,222 --> 00:07:55,558 the option where I get all this evidence thrown out 156 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,896 and I walk away a free man. 157 00:07:59,938 --> 00:08:02,523 The only evidence connecting me to the Unabom attacks 158 00:08:02,565 --> 00:08:04,276 was found inside my cabin. 159 00:08:04,318 --> 00:08:05,526 The only reason the F.B.I. 160 00:08:05,568 --> 00:08:07,528 was legally allowed to search my cabin 161 00:08:07,570 --> 00:08:09,448 was because of your search warrant, 162 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:13,952 but if that search warrant was issued on false pretenses 163 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:16,830 or based on arguments that fail to meet the burden of proof, 164 00:08:16,871 --> 00:08:19,540 well, then all the evidence found at that location 165 00:08:19,582 --> 00:08:21,751 is deemed fruit of the poisonous tree. 166 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:24,545 It's tainted. It's inadmissible. 167 00:08:24,587 --> 00:08:25,630 It's got to be thrown out. 168 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:28,133 So if the search warrant goes, 169 00:08:28,175 --> 00:08:33,805 then all their mountains of evidence simply... 170 00:08:35,432 --> 00:08:37,934 ...disappear. 171 00:08:39,602 --> 00:08:41,938 Do you follow? 172 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,565 The whole case depends on the evidence from the cabin. 173 00:08:44,607 --> 00:08:47,027 The evidence from the cabin depends on the search warrant, 174 00:08:47,068 --> 00:08:49,488 but the search warrant depends on this thing 175 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:52,199 called forensic linguistics, 176 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,120 which is a field that you just invented, James R. Fitzgerald. 177 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:59,831 There is no precedent in all legal history 178 00:08:59,873 --> 00:09:03,001 for a search warrant based on linguistic analysis. 179 00:09:03,043 --> 00:09:06,587 So the question I then place before the court becomes, 180 00:09:06,629 --> 00:09:09,049 do we trust this man as so expert 181 00:09:09,090 --> 00:09:11,468 that we trust his invention? 182 00:09:11,510 --> 00:09:15,222 Where did you get your formal training in linguistics, 183 00:09:15,263 --> 00:09:17,724 your PhD, your Master's? 184 00:09:19,642 --> 00:09:22,603 As I hear it, the majority of your law enforcement career 185 00:09:22,645 --> 00:09:24,147 was spent on the graffiti squad 186 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:26,066 of a small-town police department. 187 00:09:26,107 --> 00:09:27,317 Is that right? 188 00:09:27,359 --> 00:09:28,609 Now, would you say that 189 00:09:28,651 --> 00:09:30,611 this time spent reading graffiti 190 00:09:30,653 --> 00:09:32,280 constitutes your linguistic training? 191 00:09:32,322 --> 00:09:34,157 By the way, we haven't even gotten to 192 00:09:34,199 --> 00:09:36,617 -the content of the warrant yet. -Oh, God. Oh. 193 00:09:36,659 --> 00:09:39,620 Perhaps I should leave you with my annotations. 194 00:09:39,662 --> 00:09:41,622 They're quite extensive. 195 00:09:41,664 --> 00:09:43,250 We got to get him out of there. 196 00:09:43,291 --> 00:09:45,168 I was right. 197 00:09:45,210 --> 00:09:48,629 Mm. Well, it doesn't really matter if you're right. 198 00:09:48,671 --> 00:09:50,631 It matters if they believe in you. 199 00:09:50,673 --> 00:09:51,883 And if they don't believe in you, 200 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:53,134 then they can't trust the warrant. 201 00:09:53,176 --> 00:09:55,636 And if they can't trust the warrant, 202 00:09:55,678 --> 00:09:57,847 then I walk out of here. 203 00:09:57,889 --> 00:10:00,350 Interview is over. Stop. Get him out of here. 204 00:10:00,392 --> 00:10:02,352 Everything you touched is tainted. 205 00:10:02,394 --> 00:10:03,644 You need look no further. 206 00:10:03,686 --> 00:10:04,979 Give me those. Those notes are privileged. 207 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:06,814 You are the poisonous tree. 208 00:10:06,856 --> 00:10:10,610 Get him out. Don't say anything else. 209 00:10:13,071 --> 00:10:14,281 Good chat. 210 00:10:39,722 --> 00:10:43,726 I found one. I found a mistake. 211 00:10:43,768 --> 00:10:47,730 Paragraph 185, "As for the negative consequences 212 00:10:47,772 --> 00:10:49,899 of eliminating industrial society, 213 00:10:49,941 --> 00:10:52,735 well, you can't eat your cake and have it, too." 214 00:10:53,861 --> 00:10:59,618 "Eat your cake and have it, too." 215 00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:01,702 It's backwards. 216 00:11:01,744 --> 00:11:05,706 It's backwards. 217 00:11:05,748 --> 00:11:08,042 Why aren't you cheering? I found a mistake. 218 00:11:08,084 --> 00:11:10,170 We're looking for mistakes. I found the first real mistake. 219 00:11:10,211 --> 00:11:12,839 Okay. Cool. But what does it tell us about the Unabomber? 220 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,716 We're looking for a wudder, right, 221 00:11:15,758 --> 00:11:17,718 something that tells us who he is, 222 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,304 -where he comes from. -Thank you. 223 00:11:19,346 --> 00:11:22,265 Thank you for quoting me telling you what to do. 224 00:11:22,307 --> 00:11:24,100 What crawled up your ass and died? 225 00:11:24,142 --> 00:11:26,978 Ackerman gave us an office and a team to comb the manifesto. 226 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:29,523 After two weeks, we got nothing. 227 00:11:29,564 --> 00:11:32,275 Well, I have something. 228 00:11:32,317 --> 00:11:34,277 Check it out, yo. 229 00:11:35,403 --> 00:11:37,947 Manifesto, paragraph 11. 230 00:11:45,539 --> 00:11:47,123 These aren't mistakes. 231 00:11:47,165 --> 00:11:49,501 Someone calls me a "broad," that's a mistake, 232 00:11:49,543 --> 00:11:51,586 one they would not make a second time. 233 00:11:51,628 --> 00:11:53,296 "Negro" will get your ass kicked. 234 00:11:53,338 --> 00:11:54,713 Ernie, you're a nerd. 235 00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:55,840 Want to test a Negro? 236 00:11:55,882 --> 00:11:57,716 Huh, broad? 237 00:11:57,758 --> 00:11:59,344 Okay. Let's go with this. 238 00:11:59,386 --> 00:12:01,846 Let's go with it, all right? What's it telling us? 239 00:12:01,888 --> 00:12:04,765 What's -- Who talks like this? 240 00:12:04,807 --> 00:12:06,309 Mm-hmm. 241 00:12:06,351 --> 00:12:10,813 My dad, Wally, he talked like this, but... 242 00:12:10,855 --> 00:12:13,107 It's generational. 243 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:14,651 It's generational. 244 00:12:14,693 --> 00:12:16,695 So no one 30 to 40 years old 245 00:12:16,735 --> 00:12:18,779 would use those words, right? 246 00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:20,781 -Right? -Correct. So what are we saying? 247 00:12:20,823 --> 00:12:22,783 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 248 00:12:22,825 --> 00:12:24,160 What -- what -- what else does it tell us? 249 00:12:24,202 --> 00:12:25,912 Well, well, also, if he used these words, 250 00:12:25,953 --> 00:12:27,788 then this is a guy who's never been around black folks... 251 00:12:27,830 --> 00:12:29,332 -Mm-hmm. -...or women. 252 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:30,791 -There you go. -And trust me. 253 00:12:30,833 --> 00:12:32,793 When you're pretty much the only black guy in the UTF, 254 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:34,795 you get lots of practice picking up on language clues. 255 00:12:34,837 --> 00:12:38,049 So with that, he wouldn't live in San Francisco proper, right? 256 00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:40,801 Except every letter and package was mailed from here. 257 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:44,180 Ooh. 258 00:12:44,222 --> 00:12:45,890 Okay. All right. 259 00:12:45,932 --> 00:12:48,518 Don't worry about it. Let's keep playing. 260 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:49,894 Maybe he does, 261 00:12:49,936 --> 00:12:54,524 'cause he lives in the suburbs within driving distance. 262 00:12:54,566 --> 00:12:56,526 Yes. Give me everything. 263 00:12:56,568 --> 00:12:57,818 Give me every language clue 264 00:12:57,860 --> 00:12:59,571 that we have found in the manifesto. 265 00:12:59,613 --> 00:13:01,822 Okay, well, um, "Negro," "chick," "broad," 266 00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:04,117 "eat your cake," though I don't know where that gets us. 267 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:05,826 Just keep going. Go on. Come on. 268 00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:08,455 Uh, the long sentences, the formal style -- 269 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:09,956 -trying to sound smart. -Okay. 270 00:13:09,997 --> 00:13:11,832 They're variant spellings, they're -- they're not wrong. 271 00:13:11,874 --> 00:13:13,710 They're just unusual, like "willful" with one L and... 272 00:13:13,752 --> 00:13:15,295 "Analyze" with the S, not a Z. 273 00:13:15,336 --> 00:13:17,838 Plus the numbered paragraphs, numbered end notes, 274 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,675 a corrections page, works-cited pages... 275 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:22,093 -Okay. -...it's a weird format. 276 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:23,886 Okay. Okay. So what does that tell us? 277 00:13:23,928 --> 00:13:26,264 -I don't know. It's formatted weird. -Aw, come on! 278 00:13:26,306 --> 00:13:27,848 Dude, what do you want? 279 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:30,101 We've been looking for wudder. There's no wudder. 280 00:13:30,143 --> 00:13:32,853 I mean, it's an awesome idea. We gave it a shot. 281 00:13:32,895 --> 00:13:34,897 But discretion is the better part of valor. 282 00:13:34,939 --> 00:13:36,691 I don't want to be the next stamp guy. 283 00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:38,777 I mean, he's off interviewing Eugene O'Neill's 284 00:13:38,817 --> 00:13:41,404 grandkids' dog walker, and his career is over 285 00:13:41,446 --> 00:13:43,864 because he didn't know when to say "uncle." 286 00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:59,756 Maybe we should call in the experts. 287 00:14:02,801 --> 00:14:04,761 Are you going to the, uh, San Diego thing? 288 00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:06,887 -I'm not going. -It's a good one. 289 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,890 Thank you all for coming, 290 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:11,892 for taking the time to read the manifesto. 291 00:14:11,934 --> 00:14:13,186 You've all been asked here today 292 00:14:13,227 --> 00:14:15,313 because you were either cited in the manifesto 293 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:17,898 or you work in a related academic field. 294 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,234 Look, I'm just -- I'm hoping that you 295 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:22,903 can shed some light on who the author is based on what you read. 296 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:25,323 Are there things that you recognize 297 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,908 in the ideas, in the language, you know, 298 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:29,118 from someone that you work with, 299 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,912 a colleague or former student maybe? 300 00:14:31,954 --> 00:14:33,956 If one of my students wrote this, 301 00:14:33,998 --> 00:14:35,542 he'd be out of the program. 302 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:37,918 There's no way this guy would pass peer review. 303 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,920 Eh, you could scrape by writing like this 304 00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:43,132 -in the hard sciences maybe. -Oh, please. 305 00:14:43,174 --> 00:14:45,926 The, uh, work coming out of your department 306 00:14:45,968 --> 00:14:48,179 hasn't been publishable in 20 years. 307 00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:50,765 -Oh, please. -I actually do have a question. 308 00:14:50,807 --> 00:14:52,642 Excuse me. 309 00:14:54,728 --> 00:14:56,229 Excuse me. 310 00:14:56,270 --> 00:14:59,899 Was there a corrections page appended to the front? 311 00:15:01,108 --> 00:15:04,821 -Yeah. -And is it called "Corrections" or "Errata"? 312 00:15:04,863 --> 00:15:06,906 Was it in English or Latin? 313 00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:09,701 Leave it to the comparative linguistics grad student 314 00:15:09,743 --> 00:15:11,536 to focus on what's relevant. 315 00:15:11,578 --> 00:15:13,830 You know, the Unabomber had one thing right. 316 00:15:13,872 --> 00:15:15,956 Did you all read paragraph 88? 317 00:15:15,998 --> 00:15:19,753 "Some scientific work has no conceivable relation 318 00:15:19,794 --> 00:15:21,962 to the welfare of the human race," 319 00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:25,258 comparative linguistics, for example. 320 00:15:25,299 --> 00:15:28,595 And you think your work is relevant? 321 00:15:34,016 --> 00:15:35,935 Oh, well, listen to the poli-sci... 322 00:15:37,978 --> 00:15:40,815 Time flies when you're having fun. Nope. 323 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:43,651 So, who do we see about our per diem? 324 00:15:43,693 --> 00:15:45,862 Front desk. 325 00:15:50,825 --> 00:15:53,994 Fitz, good stuff today? 326 00:15:54,036 --> 00:15:55,996 Fill me in first thing tomorrow. 327 00:15:56,038 --> 00:15:57,957 -Yeah. -Excuse me. 328 00:15:57,998 --> 00:15:59,793 You can get your per diem at the front desk. 329 00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:01,669 No, no. It's not that. I just... 330 00:16:01,711 --> 00:16:04,004 My question was never answered. 331 00:16:04,046 --> 00:16:07,091 Is it "Corrections" or "Errata"? 332 00:16:09,510 --> 00:16:11,679 It's, uh, "Corrections." 333 00:16:11,721 --> 00:16:13,013 Why? 334 00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:15,308 Come look at the format. 335 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:18,269 -It's weird. -Mm. To you, it's weird. 336 00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:21,021 To me, these numbered paragraphs, 337 00:16:21,063 --> 00:16:23,190 the numbered end notes, and the corrections page, 338 00:16:23,232 --> 00:16:25,276 I mean, this is a dissertation. 339 00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:27,445 This is standard formatting for a PhD. 340 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:30,030 -I asked everyone about the formatting. -Well, that's the thing. 341 00:16:30,072 --> 00:16:32,366 Modern dissertations look totally different now. 342 00:16:32,408 --> 00:16:34,285 The word processor changed everything. 343 00:16:34,327 --> 00:16:37,037 This is in the style of an older graduate thesis paper. 344 00:16:37,079 --> 00:16:38,832 I noticed these kind of things, 345 00:16:38,873 --> 00:16:43,043 and this style of end notes was only used before 1972-ish, 346 00:16:43,085 --> 00:16:45,171 -when they changed to footnotes. -The corrections page? 347 00:16:45,212 --> 00:16:48,800 It was called errata before 1967. 348 00:16:48,842 --> 00:16:52,470 Meaning he learned the formatting between '67 and '72. 349 00:16:52,512 --> 00:16:53,888 More than that. 350 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:55,723 Only PhD candidates used this style. 351 00:16:55,765 --> 00:16:58,351 So if he's still using this format 20 years later... 352 00:16:58,392 --> 00:17:00,060 He must have written a dissertation. 353 00:17:00,102 --> 00:17:01,228 He must have written a dissertation 354 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:04,064 -between '67 and '72. -And '72. 355 00:17:04,106 --> 00:17:06,734 -Very nice. -Comparative linguistics, 356 00:17:06,776 --> 00:17:10,488 not as useless as the Unabomber thinks. 357 00:17:11,781 --> 00:17:13,867 Do you have a minute? 358 00:17:17,286 --> 00:17:22,082 Technically, you're not supposed to see this, but... 359 00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:27,087 We've been analyzing the language of the manifesto, 360 00:17:27,129 --> 00:17:30,090 looking for clues as to who he is. 361 00:17:30,132 --> 00:17:31,759 Wow. 362 00:17:31,801 --> 00:17:34,512 We've been looking for mistakes on the theory that, 363 00:17:34,554 --> 00:17:36,890 well, like, I say "wudder" and, um... 364 00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:40,100 Idiolect. It's what we call the speech patterns 365 00:17:40,142 --> 00:17:41,769 of one specific person. 366 00:17:41,811 --> 00:17:44,146 Idiolect. Idiolect, right. 367 00:17:44,188 --> 00:17:47,901 Um, it's like a linguistic fingerprint. 368 00:17:47,942 --> 00:17:50,403 I mean, we'll work out who he is by... 369 00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:52,154 -Based on how he speaks. Yes. 370 00:17:52,196 --> 00:17:54,657 So you've been looking for mistakes. 371 00:17:54,699 --> 00:17:56,951 Right. We found these... 372 00:17:56,993 --> 00:17:59,328 -Except they're not mistakes. -...except they aren't mistakes. 373 00:17:59,370 --> 00:18:01,121 That's right. They're variant spellings. 374 00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,457 They're unusual, but they're technically correct. 375 00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:04,834 And is he consistent? 376 00:18:04,876 --> 00:18:06,878 He uses the same spellings every time? 377 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,464 Yeah, letters, manifesto -- it's the same unusual spelling. 378 00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:15,929 Is this totally amateur? Like, am I -- am I doing all right? 379 00:18:15,970 --> 00:18:19,139 -Am I? -Are you kidding? This is cutting-edge. 380 00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:21,141 Using language to solve crimes? 381 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,728 There's not even a name for what you're doing. 382 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:27,023 So if he's consistent, that suggests a style guide, 383 00:18:27,065 --> 00:18:30,317 you know, somewhere where he learned to spell this way, a newspaper, magazine, 384 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,612 somewhere that had a style guide for their editors 385 00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:35,406 that matches these spellings. 386 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:37,157 And if we can find that style guide... 387 00:18:37,199 --> 00:18:38,743 We're closer to finding his idiolect. 388 00:18:38,785 --> 00:18:40,745 And if we can find his idiolect... 389 00:18:40,787 --> 00:18:42,538 Then we find the Unabomber. 390 00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:44,206 Yes. 391 00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,125 No. 392 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:51,338 -That's it? -This is Berkeley. 393 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:53,925 The obsolete style guide sections are pretty thin. 394 00:18:53,967 --> 00:18:55,676 I could start hitting the local public libraries 395 00:18:55,718 --> 00:18:58,471 in Marin County today if you want to. 396 00:18:58,512 --> 00:19:00,723 Just keep reading. 397 00:19:00,765 --> 00:19:02,600 This is crazy, man. 398 00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:05,770 Needle in a haystack for what, a few spelling mistakes? 399 00:19:05,812 --> 00:19:08,355 It's not mistakes. It's idiolect. 400 00:19:10,483 --> 00:19:12,443 Who is that? 401 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:14,112 It's just Ackerman. 402 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:16,196 He wants us to brief him, but we got nothing to present. 403 00:19:16,238 --> 00:19:17,865 He'll be fine. 404 00:19:22,411 --> 00:19:24,455 -Hello? -Okay. 405 00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:27,207 Just tell him I'm on my way. 406 00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:29,376 Dude, it's some woman for you. 407 00:19:36,592 --> 00:19:37,927 Hey! 408 00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:39,428 I found it. 409 00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:41,221 The Chicago Tribune, 410 00:19:41,263 --> 00:19:42,890 it's their in-house style guide. 411 00:19:42,932 --> 00:19:44,642 Their publisher, Robert McCormick, 412 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:46,060 was this big proponent 413 00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:48,479 of this fringe simplified spelling movement. 414 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:50,648 In 1949, he forced it on his editors. 415 00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:52,066 In 1954, when he died, 416 00:19:52,108 --> 00:19:53,985 they switched back to standard spelling. 417 00:19:54,027 --> 00:19:57,488 -"Analyse." "Wilfuly." "Licence." -Yeah. 418 00:19:57,530 --> 00:19:59,657 Instalment with one L. He uses that in U-11. 419 00:19:59,699 --> 00:20:01,241 This is it. Can I keep this? 420 00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:04,244 Yes. 421 00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:05,872 Thank you. 422 00:20:06,288 --> 00:20:07,748 -Fitz? -Yeah? 423 00:20:07,790 --> 00:20:09,876 We're late. It started. 424 00:20:09,917 --> 00:20:12,670 So from that initial subject pool of 15 million, 425 00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:15,255 we put additional parameters on the M.P.P., 426 00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:18,342 which narrowed it to 2,500. 427 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:21,512 We're calling that our Tier 3 subject group. 428 00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:24,515 Tier 2 -- subjects with criminal records, 429 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:26,934 mechanical or explosives training, 430 00:20:26,976 --> 00:20:30,938 in a nexus between Salt Lake City and the Bay Area. 431 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:32,815 Tier 1 -- top 20. 432 00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:36,986 High level of confidence that one of these guys is our man. 433 00:20:37,028 --> 00:20:40,573 They're all under active surveillance, or they're at large, 434 00:20:40,614 --> 00:20:43,784 being sought by Special Operations Group. 435 00:20:43,826 --> 00:20:45,661 Excellent. 436 00:20:45,703 --> 00:20:50,624 Fitz, have you got, uh, anything from those nutty professors 437 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:53,293 that can move the needle? 438 00:20:53,335 --> 00:20:54,795 Actually, yes. 439 00:20:54,837 --> 00:20:56,589 We have solid linguistic evidence 440 00:20:56,630 --> 00:20:58,216 that he grew up in Chicago 441 00:20:58,257 --> 00:21:00,300 and that he learned his spelling and grammar 442 00:21:00,342 --> 00:21:02,302 from the Chicago Tribune. 443 00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:04,304 And how solid is this? 444 00:21:04,346 --> 00:21:06,306 Solid. 445 00:21:06,348 --> 00:21:08,601 You just made somebody very happy. 446 00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:12,980 Confirmed something that I've been saying. 447 00:21:13,022 --> 00:21:16,358 Leo Frederick Burt, born in Chicago. 448 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,445 Pass these around. 449 00:21:19,486 --> 00:21:22,322 Leo Burt, my pick for suspect number one. 450 00:21:22,364 --> 00:21:23,950 Born and raised in Chicago, 451 00:21:23,991 --> 00:21:26,326 flirted with S.D.S. and the Panthers 452 00:21:26,368 --> 00:21:27,661 before joining a radical 453 00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,956 weather underground splinter group, 454 00:21:29,997 --> 00:21:32,416 involved in a series of anti-establishment attacks 455 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,334 in the late '70s, 456 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:37,296 including -- drumroll, please -- 457 00:21:37,337 --> 00:21:39,548 three attempted bombings, 458 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:41,425 went into hiding around the same time 459 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:43,594 that the Unabomber started his attacks, 460 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,012 and, plus, as you can see, 461 00:21:45,054 --> 00:21:47,265 he's a dead ringer for the sketch. 462 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:49,349 You want to add anything to that, Fitz? 463 00:21:49,391 --> 00:21:51,018 Well, it's also likely 464 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:53,353 that he had a university affiliation, 465 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:55,439 you know, that the previous profile 466 00:21:55,481 --> 00:21:57,024 suggested little or no college -- 467 00:21:57,066 --> 00:21:58,776 Fitz, your voice is music to my ears today. 468 00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:00,820 He went to University of Wisconsin-Madison. 469 00:22:00,861 --> 00:22:03,530 That's where he got hooked up with the radical groups. 470 00:22:03,572 --> 00:22:06,366 All right. Let's alert S.O.G. 471 00:22:06,408 --> 00:22:09,328 and start re-interviewing all known associates. 472 00:22:09,369 --> 00:22:13,373 Let's see if we can drag Leo Burt out of hiding. 473 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:16,710 Awesome work, guys. Meet me upstairs. We'll talk through it. 474 00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:18,545 Get you involved in that Tier 1 squad. 475 00:22:18,587 --> 00:22:20,798 Just a second, before everyone goes. 476 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,383 -Um... -Is there something else? 477 00:22:23,425 --> 00:22:24,760 Fitz, leave it be. 478 00:22:24,802 --> 00:22:26,386 It's just a question. 479 00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:28,346 How old is Leo Burt? 480 00:22:29,431 --> 00:22:32,268 Forty-seven, born 1948. Why? 481 00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:34,770 He's too young. 482 00:22:34,812 --> 00:22:36,396 -He's possibly too young. -It's not possibly. 483 00:22:36,438 --> 00:22:38,983 He learned his spelling between '49 and -- and '54. 484 00:22:39,025 --> 00:22:42,444 He got a PhD between, you know, '67 and '72. 485 00:22:42,486 --> 00:22:45,865 So we're looking at someone who's minimum of 50 years old. 486 00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:48,408 Plus, if he's got an affiliation with the Black Panthers, 487 00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:49,910 then he wouldn't use the word "Negro." 488 00:22:49,952 --> 00:22:53,873 So it's not him. It's not Leo Burt. 489 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,419 I'm gonna take "college," and I'm gonna take "Chicago." 490 00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:01,255 -I'm gonna forget the rest. -Perfect. 491 00:23:01,297 --> 00:23:03,423 You can't do that. You can't pick and choose. He's over 50. 492 00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:05,801 That's three robust data points. 493 00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:07,261 Plus, the Unabomber got a doctorate. 494 00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:08,929 He didn't just spend a little time in college. 495 00:23:08,971 --> 00:23:10,430 He got a PhD. No, you can't do that! 496 00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:14,434 Okay! This meeting's over! 497 00:23:14,476 --> 00:23:16,270 That's it. 498 00:23:18,772 --> 00:23:20,191 What's this based on? 499 00:23:20,233 --> 00:23:23,027 The Unabomber's idiolect, his use of language, 500 00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:25,445 -the formatting, his spelling. -The spelling? 501 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:27,948 Goddamn spelling? I'm gonna kill this guy. 502 00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:31,493 Every serial bomber in history started between 18 and 21. 503 00:23:31,535 --> 00:23:34,330 That puts his age between 35 and 45. 504 00:23:34,372 --> 00:23:35,998 Well, maybe he's the exception to the rule. 505 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,291 Every profiler that we've had in here, including -- 506 00:23:37,333 --> 00:23:39,543 Go back to your desks, both of you! 507 00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:41,337 If you want a seat at this table, 508 00:23:41,379 --> 00:23:44,298 you put names on that board! That's your job! 509 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:47,218 Your job is not to tell me to burn a month's work 510 00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:49,011 over Goddamn spelling! 511 00:23:58,104 --> 00:23:59,646 What the hell is wrong with you? 512 00:23:59,688 --> 00:24:01,481 They're just so blinded, they can't see. 513 00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:03,234 They're blinded? Dude, you just turned a promotion 514 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:04,735 into a freaking Kamikaze mission. 515 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:06,404 No, no, no. I just saved the investigation. 516 00:24:06,444 --> 00:24:07,988 That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to save it. 517 00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:09,615 You know, they can run the M.P.P. all month long, 518 00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:10,991 but garbage in, garbage out. 519 00:24:11,033 --> 00:24:12,450 They got 2,000 subjects. They're all wrong. 520 00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:13,702 Well, how can you be so sure they're wrong? 521 00:24:13,744 --> 00:24:14,787 We don't even know what we're doing. 522 00:24:14,828 --> 00:24:16,163 We're making this up as we go. 523 00:24:16,205 --> 00:24:17,998 Yeah, yeah. We're breaking new ground. 524 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,375 -Maybe. -It's great. 525 00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:21,501 Maybe we're wrong. I mean, look at us. 526 00:24:21,543 --> 00:24:23,503 I mean, I'm flunking out of Intro to Psych. 527 00:24:23,545 --> 00:24:25,631 You have a night school degree in an unrelated field. 528 00:24:25,672 --> 00:24:28,968 -Doesn't mean that... -We don't even know what we don't know. 529 00:24:30,261 --> 00:24:31,929 I know that we're right. 530 00:24:31,971 --> 00:24:34,098 Okay. You want to stake your career on that? 531 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:36,892 You go ahead. You leave me the hell out of it. 532 00:24:43,232 --> 00:24:44,524 Seriously? 533 00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:47,194 They're sending me back to the lab. 534 00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:48,612 It's been real. 535 00:25:00,374 --> 00:25:02,542 Hello? 536 00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:04,544 Thanks for staying up. 537 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,546 Rough day, huh? 538 00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:08,466 Yeah. 539 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,180 There is a silver lining. 540 00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:16,974 Yeah. I, uh -- I found a dictionary of phrases, 541 00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:18,558 and I've been reading about 542 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,893 "eat your cake and have it, too." 543 00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:22,104 Have your cake and eat it, too. 544 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:24,106 Yeah. See, that's the thing. 545 00:25:24,148 --> 00:25:25,983 It is actually the other way around. 546 00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:27,985 Sometime in the 1500s, it got switched around. 547 00:25:28,027 --> 00:25:30,112 And we've been saying it wrong ever since. 548 00:25:31,447 --> 00:25:32,948 Wow. Yeah. 549 00:25:32,990 --> 00:25:36,576 So, why are you telling me this? 550 00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:39,497 How was today? 551 00:25:39,537 --> 00:25:41,915 " Doughnuts for Dad." 552 00:25:41,957 --> 00:25:45,585 Dan burned his tongue. Sean opted out. 553 00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,629 And you? 554 00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:49,089 I'm fine. 555 00:25:49,131 --> 00:25:53,593 I went. I stayed. I left. 556 00:25:53,635 --> 00:25:55,262 All right. 557 00:25:55,304 --> 00:25:59,308 Well, I love you. 558 00:25:59,350 --> 00:26:01,727 I love you. 559 00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:20,662 To eating your cake and having it, too, in that order. 560 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:27,585 There's something so tragic about him, isn't there? 561 00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:30,548 A guy who could write like that, think like that, 562 00:26:30,588 --> 00:26:32,632 so much insight and passion? 563 00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:34,385 And yet, somehow, his life turned out 564 00:26:34,427 --> 00:26:36,554 in such a way that he thinks the only way he can get people 565 00:26:36,594 --> 00:26:39,306 to hear what he has to say is by blowing people up? 566 00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:43,227 Well, if he was trapped, ignored, powerless... 567 00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,645 He thinks it's about being powerless, 568 00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:48,815 but, really, it's about being so terribly lonely. 569 00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,650 It's about having just one person 570 00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:52,736 that he can talk to who understands him, 571 00:26:52,778 --> 00:26:55,030 who respects him for who he is. 572 00:26:55,072 --> 00:26:58,200 That's what anyone wants, right? 573 00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:04,164 -There you go. -Thanks. 574 00:27:04,206 --> 00:27:06,666 This is the Venn diagram of nachos? 575 00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:11,505 You have the jalapeño zone to the North, 576 00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:14,508 the bean zone to the West, salsa zone to the East, 577 00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,802 and at the center, it's the Pripyat River Valley. 578 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,765 It's just some linguistics humor -- 579 00:27:21,807 --> 00:27:23,850 you know, the Slavic homeland. 580 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:26,395 -Huh? -Never mind. 581 00:27:26,437 --> 00:27:28,688 You know, it's just this weird, dorky thing. 582 00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:33,235 Go on. Go on. Tell me. 583 00:27:33,277 --> 00:27:35,028 Okay. 584 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:39,116 So, around the year 600, 585 00:27:39,158 --> 00:27:42,035 Slavic people suddenly appeared all over Europe -- 586 00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:44,204 you know, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Russia -- 587 00:27:44,246 --> 00:27:46,206 but nobody could figure out where they came from. 588 00:27:46,248 --> 00:27:47,707 -The Slavic homeland. -Right. 589 00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:49,585 It was this huge historical mystery 590 00:27:49,627 --> 00:27:52,838 until they started looking at language, 591 00:27:52,879 --> 00:27:55,466 and then they realized that Proto-Slavic 592 00:27:55,508 --> 00:27:57,884 was missing words for certain kinds of trees. 593 00:27:57,926 --> 00:27:59,470 You know, they had to borrow words 594 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:03,390 for oak and beech and pine and... 595 00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:10,481 The nachos are Europe. 596 00:28:10,523 --> 00:28:11,982 The Slavs are everywhere, 597 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,443 but they don't have a word for jalapeños. 598 00:28:14,485 --> 00:28:16,736 -So they can't come from here? -Exactly. 599 00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:20,366 And they have no word for beans or salsa or sour cream, 600 00:28:20,407 --> 00:28:24,411 which eliminates everywhere but here. 601 00:28:24,453 --> 00:28:26,121 The Pripyat River Valley in Ukraine. 602 00:28:26,163 --> 00:28:27,747 It's basically this huge swamp -- 603 00:28:27,789 --> 00:28:30,292 the one place in Europe where there are no trees. 604 00:28:30,334 --> 00:28:31,627 Right. 605 00:28:31,669 --> 00:28:34,087 It was brilliant because, up until then, 606 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:36,173 they had only been looking at the words that they had, 607 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:38,925 and the key was in the words that they didn't have. 608 00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,844 -What they didn't say... -Mm-hmm. 609 00:28:40,886 --> 00:28:43,055 ...what they didn't know how to say. 610 00:28:45,474 --> 00:28:48,268 What they didn't know how to say. 611 00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:51,063 Right. 612 00:28:51,104 --> 00:28:53,773 -Go. -It's the Slavic homeland. 613 00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:55,775 -Go. -Thank you. 614 00:28:55,817 --> 00:28:57,403 -Yeah. -Thank you. 615 00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:18,798 So what don't you talk about? 616 00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:27,933 Wife, children, family -- you don't talk about them. 617 00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,522 Work? 618 00:29:33,564 --> 00:29:36,816 Don't talk about a job, coworkers. 619 00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:39,194 Friends -- you don't have any friends. 620 00:29:39,236 --> 00:29:42,406 You got no one to talk to, no one to listen to. 621 00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:49,413 And no computer, TVs, no pop culture. 622 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:54,585 So, no IBM, G.E., G.M., Xerox, Dell -- 623 00:29:54,627 --> 00:29:56,836 you haven't heard of any of them. 624 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:01,841 You're cut off. 625 00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:10,350 No black people, no women. 626 00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:15,855 You had a phone. Call Nathan R. 627 00:30:15,897 --> 00:30:17,441 You wrote, "Call Nathan R." 628 00:30:20,736 --> 00:30:22,862 You are out there. 629 00:30:25,031 --> 00:30:26,950 You're somewhere beyond. 630 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:33,582 Isolated. 631 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:40,046 This is it. 632 00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:42,299 This is your homeland...here... 633 00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:48,430 ...where there's nobody, where there's nothing. 634 00:31:08,992 --> 00:31:10,994 Well, this is nice. 635 00:31:11,036 --> 00:31:13,455 You don't change, do you, Fitz? 636 00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:16,375 Just a little less subtle this time. 637 00:31:16,416 --> 00:31:18,418 Ted set me up 638 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,879 so he could attack the search warrant, 639 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,922 attack my forensic linguistics work. 640 00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:25,925 So what? Your work is solid, and it worked. 641 00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:27,927 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter 642 00:31:27,969 --> 00:31:29,471 'cause they're gonna put me on the stand. 643 00:31:29,513 --> 00:31:31,765 They're gonna tear me apart 'cause I don't have a PhD. 644 00:31:31,807 --> 00:31:33,933 I'm not gonna be humiliated in front of the whole bureau. 645 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:36,269 Stop with the self-pity. 646 00:31:36,311 --> 00:31:39,690 Who cares what the bureau thinks? 647 00:31:39,732 --> 00:31:40,940 They don't care about you 648 00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:42,942 unless they want something from you. 649 00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:46,405 What we had, what we discovered, 650 00:31:46,446 --> 00:31:52,035 the work, at least, was special, 651 00:31:52,077 --> 00:31:53,953 and it was right. 652 00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:58,876 You are more than this case, Fitz, 653 00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:02,003 even if you don't believe it, 654 00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:04,339 even if they never give you credit for it. 655 00:32:04,381 --> 00:32:09,469 That has to mean something, right? 656 00:32:09,511 --> 00:32:12,055 What was that about credit? 657 00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:15,100 Credit -- that is the way back in. Ted wants to be famous. 658 00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:17,519 He wants everyone to know how smart he is. 659 00:32:17,561 --> 00:32:20,313 The only way he's gonna get the credit is to plead guilty. 660 00:32:22,023 --> 00:32:24,025 You bet the farm once before that he'd need a trophy. 661 00:32:24,067 --> 00:32:25,944 -This is different. -Look how that turned out. 662 00:32:25,985 --> 00:32:27,362 This is different. You know that. 663 00:32:27,404 --> 00:32:28,988 You can convince me all night, 664 00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:31,533 but there's no way Cole will let you in there. 665 00:32:34,536 --> 00:32:35,995 I'll go on my own. 666 00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,540 Make the call. I'll go tonight. 667 00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:41,000 It'll be off the record, just me and Ted, face-to-face. 668 00:32:41,042 --> 00:32:43,086 I'll make -- I'll make it right. 669 00:32:43,128 --> 00:32:44,838 Make the call. 670 00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:47,716 Make the call. 671 00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:04,065 I'm off the case. 672 00:33:04,107 --> 00:33:06,276 I'm going home. 673 00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:09,863 I thought it best if you heard it from me. 674 00:33:09,905 --> 00:33:13,784 There's one thing I would like to ask you before I leave. 675 00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:24,043 Did you do all this because you wanted to make a difference in the world, 676 00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:25,170 to change things? 677 00:33:25,211 --> 00:33:28,047 That's what I admired about you. 678 00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:30,634 You know, I admired you so much, 679 00:33:30,676 --> 00:33:34,763 I gave up everything to live like you -- 680 00:33:34,805 --> 00:33:38,976 alone in the woods, manifesto under my bed. 681 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:41,269 Is that true? 682 00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:45,941 When you asked for me, I came, right? 683 00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:48,986 Yeah. You did, didn't you? 684 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:53,072 Not many men whose ideas can change the world. 685 00:33:53,114 --> 00:33:56,075 Now you're gonna throw it all away. 686 00:33:56,117 --> 00:33:59,162 I'm not throwing anything away. 687 00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:00,956 I'm beating the system at its own game. 688 00:34:00,998 --> 00:34:02,248 That's the whole point. 689 00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:04,083 Well, getting the search warrant tossed out 690 00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,669 is beating the system. 691 00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:07,086 But what about after? 692 00:34:07,128 --> 00:34:09,464 Oh, you mean after. 693 00:34:09,506 --> 00:34:13,886 Well, I -- I walk away a free man, 694 00:34:13,927 --> 00:34:15,762 vindicated as the victim 695 00:34:15,804 --> 00:34:18,598 of your sloppy and inexpert police work. 696 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,184 Aren't you forgetting a step? 697 00:34:21,226 --> 00:34:22,602 Before you walk free, 698 00:34:22,644 --> 00:34:25,022 you got to stand in front of a judge and say, 699 00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:27,524 "I'm not guilty. 700 00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:30,235 I'm not the Unabomber. I didn't write the manifesto, 701 00:34:30,276 --> 00:34:33,112 didn't elude the F.B.I. for two decades. 702 00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:36,658 I'm just a nobody who stands for nothing." 703 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:38,660 No. 704 00:34:38,702 --> 00:34:42,414 See, your -- your logic is flawed. 705 00:34:42,455 --> 00:34:44,583 I'm gonna be acquitted on a technicality, 706 00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,668 not on the merits of the case. 707 00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:50,129 I won't be saying that I'm not the Unabomber. 708 00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:53,800 You say that on TV, then people who admire you, like me, 709 00:34:53,842 --> 00:34:56,094 are just gonna think you're a hypocrite. 710 00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:58,764 You're just betraying your own principles to save your own skin. 711 00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:00,348 No, you got to stand up. 712 00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,392 You got to take ownership of what you wrote. 713 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,686 Otherwise, your legacy, the manifesto will vanish. 714 00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:06,229 The manifesto will not vanish 715 00:35:06,271 --> 00:35:08,273 because the manifesto has been published, 716 00:35:08,314 --> 00:35:09,566 and more importantly, 717 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:11,693 the manifesto happens to be right. 718 00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:13,152 Doesn't matter if it's right. 719 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:14,362 People don't believe in you, 720 00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:16,364 they won't believe in the manifesto. 721 00:35:16,406 --> 00:35:20,285 Are you, one man, doing it all alone, 722 00:35:20,326 --> 00:35:22,203 or are you a leader of men, 723 00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:24,497 a man who can change the world, 724 00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,834 who can make a difference and can leave a legacy behind? 725 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:31,546 Because you can't be both. 726 00:35:31,588 --> 00:35:34,591 Can't eat your cake and have it, too, Ted. 727 00:35:37,176 --> 00:35:39,679 What about you, Fitz? 728 00:35:39,721 --> 00:35:42,181 What's your legacy? 729 00:35:42,223 --> 00:35:44,476 What are you leaving behind? 730 00:35:44,517 --> 00:35:49,481 My family, my sons, they're my legacy. 731 00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:51,650 So they were out in the woods with you? 732 00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,152 -Mnh-mnh. No. They weren't. -No. They weren't. 733 00:35:54,193 --> 00:35:55,361 So why do you think you said that? 734 00:35:55,403 --> 00:35:57,196 Why do you think you're lying to me? 735 00:35:57,238 --> 00:35:58,698 I wasn't lying. It's complicated. 736 00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:00,366 It's not complicated. It's simple. 737 00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:03,411 They're not your legacy. I am. 738 00:36:03,453 --> 00:36:05,204 You're not my legacy. 739 00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:06,748 You're here because catching me 740 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:09,001 is the only meaningful thing you've ever accomplished. 741 00:36:09,042 --> 00:36:11,252 And now I'm gonna walk, you can feel it slipping away. 742 00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:14,464 If you walk, you will lose all respect. 743 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:17,509 Are you talking about me or you? 744 00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:22,221 Because, see, it's you that spent your whole life 745 00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:24,223 desperate for respect, desperate to prove 746 00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:26,143 that you're smarter than the people around you, 747 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:27,268 and for a brief moment, you were. 748 00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:29,813 You were the guy that caught the Unabomber. 749 00:36:29,855 --> 00:36:32,607 But I'm about to walk, and the whole world will see 750 00:36:32,649 --> 00:36:35,152 that you are just a knuckle-dragging beat cop, 751 00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,737 and the graffiti squad was where you belonged. 752 00:36:37,779 --> 00:36:41,867 You know, the thing I find most sad about you, James, 753 00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:44,619 is that you can run off and live in the woods, 754 00:36:44,661 --> 00:36:46,621 abandoning your wife and kids, 755 00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:49,041 study the manifesto down to the letter, 756 00:36:49,082 --> 00:36:53,461 but it will not make one jot of difference to anyone, 757 00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:57,256 and the best that you will ever be 758 00:36:57,298 --> 00:37:01,053 is a feeble imitation of me. 759 00:37:45,055 --> 00:37:47,473 I've got some concerns about Leo Burt. 760 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:51,811 He's our best suspect, but he's also our most elusive. 761 00:37:51,853 --> 00:37:54,480 Uh, Fitz, uh, you weren't on the list for this meeting, 762 00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:57,025 so if we need you, we will give you a buzz. 763 00:37:57,067 --> 00:38:00,237 This is a new profile. It's clean, no typos, solid. 764 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:01,821 Goodbye, Fitz. 765 00:38:04,365 --> 00:38:06,325 Just trying to help. 766 00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:07,953 This is based on what exactly? 767 00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:10,163 Forensics. It's grounded in forensics. 768 00:38:10,205 --> 00:38:12,331 -Forensics? -I've come up with an approach 769 00:38:12,373 --> 00:38:14,251 I'm calling forensic linguistics. 770 00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:15,835 Fingerprints are forensics. 771 00:38:15,877 --> 00:38:17,587 DNA is forensics. 772 00:38:17,629 --> 00:38:20,090 Spelling willfully with one L is not forensics. 773 00:38:20,132 --> 00:38:22,968 It's not just spelling. It's a comprehensive idiolectic profile. 774 00:38:23,009 --> 00:38:26,679 Fitz, we don't want a profile. We want a person. 775 00:38:26,721 --> 00:38:29,224 Can you get us a person that we can put on the board? 776 00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:31,851 -I think if you just read it... -I didn't think so. 777 00:38:31,893 --> 00:38:35,605 Give me a name that I can put on the board. 778 00:38:35,647 --> 00:38:38,984 Otherwise, shut the door behind you. 779 00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,329 Toss that thing. 780 00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:56,542 Okay. Where were we? 781 00:38:56,584 --> 00:38:59,712 We've got the top five, counting Leo Burt. 782 00:39:12,267 --> 00:39:14,560 Look at this obedient ship. 783 00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:17,856 Got to make them hear you. Got to make them listen. 784 00:39:37,458 --> 00:39:41,587 You're gonna make them listen. You're gonna make them hear you. 785 00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:48,220 How? 786 00:39:48,261 --> 00:39:49,428 How? 787 00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:54,976 -Who's my liaison? -Over here. 788 00:39:57,478 --> 00:39:59,438 Tell the lab to drop everything else. 789 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:00,690 This is all hands on deck. 790 00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:02,441 Copy that. We're on it. 791 00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,027 Get the originals down to forensics. 792 00:40:04,069 --> 00:40:05,278 Follow me. 793 00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:21,460 They're from him. They're all from him. 794 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,479 Jesus, I'm gonna go get him. 795 00:40:51,074 --> 00:40:53,826 Why didn't you answer my pages? You got to come in. 796 00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:56,495 We just got a bunch of new Unabom letters. 797 00:40:56,537 --> 00:41:00,750 He's written to The Times, the Washington Post, Penthouse. 798 00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,794 You're not gonna believe this. 799 00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:05,463 The Unabomber wants to make a deal. 800 00:41:21,062 --> 00:41:25,275 Well, what the hell do we do now?