Manhunt: Unabomber

The country's trash can's being dumped in our lap here,

and it's all worthless.

Your TDY with the Unabom Task Force is terminated.

Hey, it's me.

I don't want to, uh, upset you. I just...

Have you read the Unabomber manifesto yet?

What are we gonna do, David?

Uh, are you already assuming he's guilty?

'Cause, I mean, really, when you look at the evidence here...

Uh, no. I-i-I'm not... I'm not.

- I feel like you... - I'm not.

I'm not assuming he's guilty.

All I'm saying is that I see a connection

between that letter of Ted's and the Unabomber manifesto.

Well, when I look at it, I don't see the connection.

I don't see this. I don't. Maybe you're...

Have you considered your own personal feelings for Ted

might be getting in the way

of making an objective determination here?

- You're asking me that? - Well, you don't know Ted.

I mean, you've never met him. You've never even spoken to him.

Yes, he sent you a nasty letter. Yes, he's different.

But every family has its oddball.

I know Ted.

H-he was always good.

He was my hero.

Well, if you're right and he's innocent, then...

He's got nothing to worry about.

Well, that's not true. The...

Ted lives a very unconventional lifestyle.

He is paranoid. He has that hunting rifle.

I mean, those people on Ruby Ridge,

they were innocent, too.

And an FBI sniper shot them in the back.

If we accuse him and we are wrong...

...it'd be like...

Taking my own brother's life,

and I-i c... I can't.

I can't live with that.

But, David...

What if we're right?

Okay. Y-you came to me why exactly?

I mean, you could just mail it in.

I'll give you the address for the task force.

- W-well... - yeah, I mean, I-I deal

with law enforcement all day long

at the shelter where I work, and, you know,

once these poor kids get into the system,

it's impossible to extricate them again.

As soon as you get on the criminal justice system's radar,

you become a target, especially if you live an unconventional life.

All right. Here's what we'll do.

I will channel this directly to the Unabom Task Force.

It'll come from my office, but you and your brother

will remain completely anonymous.

I'll make it clear that this is not for distribution,

even internally within the UTF.

Tight chain of custody. Need only.

Now, they'll do a complete analysis and get us an opinion.

And if it's not a match, we can all sleep easy.

I think... yeah.

All right. I...

To be clear, our priority is...

Is... Ted's safety.

I mean, he...

Even if he is the Unabomber, he's a human being.

He has a soul.

And... and we need to...

We need to protect him.

Dear David, the only thing I've really respected in you

has been your life in the desert.

And now you're going to leave all that

just because this female has decided to permit you

to become her personal property.

I presume you will now be adopting

a conventional middle-class lifestyle,

become an accountant maybe.

Or why not sell out all the way and become a lawyer?

The reason you get me so upset

is that I do care about you, David.

You're still my little brother and you still have my loyalty.

- Hello? - David, Tony Bisceglie.

I just got word from my guy in the UTF.

They analyzed the letter,

and they're not moving forward with the lead.

It's the wrong typewriter.

So it's not him?

It's not him. Your brother's been cleared.

Thank you.

It's not him! It's not Ted!

Ted Kaczynski is not the Unabomber!

Oh, god. Oh.

Three months you've been back here.

Three months...

Of sleepwalking.

Half an eye on that manifesto there,

the other half on the fax machine.

You're like a teenage girl waiting for her ex to call.

He dumped you.

Move on.

Fitz...

You are capable of great things here,

but not until you let Unabom go.

I've been where you are right now.

I know.

I know that it seems like more than a case right now.

But it's just a case.

And I say, from experience, let it go.

Yeah.

There's nothing. There's nothing by him.

This is all you got?

I weeded out, like, the grocery lists and stuff.

Well, this is garbage. It's not here.

There's a million-dollar reward. You realize how much crap we get in?

Oh, I see. You're all gonna gang up on me.

You know that's not what this is about.

You have three parents now.

And we want to make sure we're all saying the same thing.

...To unpack.

My dream is for you to...

It's still okay if you want to come live with me.

- Hey, negro. - What up, brah?

Yo, look. A long-ass letter come across your desk?

Evidence slip says it's not a match.

I'm about to bag it up and send it back to the lawyer. Why?

It's the wrong typewriter. It's not from the Unabomber.

Hey. Ernie?

Can you put your headphones on

and look the other way for like 10 minutes?

That's "do not distribute." It can't leave this room.

If the boss catches you with that or finds out I let you...

Look. It's on me. You looked away. Please.

This goes into the safe at 3:00.

Thank you.

I'll get my daughter!

Do not try any kind of rescue.

Do you understand me?

You would jeopardize the lives of the vice president

and everyone else in the arena.

Believe me. We know what the hell we're doing.

Our agents are entering the arena.

- You stay where you are. - Excuse me.

We are gonna do this by the numbers.

- Where have you been? - It's later here. I'm at the movies.

There's a 23-page letter going through right now.

It's "do not distribute."

It was sitting in the fax machine tray at the B.A.U.

Shit, dude, if I get caught...

All right. I'm going there now.

Hey. Just gonna run to work. I'll be back before it's over.

- Okay. - Okay.

- You guys okay? - Yeah, we're fine.

Keep an eye on him.

"Human beings will become dependent... On technology..."

"...beginning of this already... Inability of people to avoid boredom..."

"Let us first consider the solution..."

Sketched by Perry London in his book 'behavior control.'

"this solution makes a convenient example."

"...disseminate it among the population at large.

People can then use this technology..."

"...disseminate it among the population at large.

People can then..."

"Continued scientific progress will inevitably result

in the extinction of individual Liberty."

"Technology," "freedom," "control."

It's him.

Are you sure? I-i wouldn't...

It's him. It's an outline of the manifesto.

It's the same ideas in the same order

and the way he writes, his intellect.

It is identical! It's identical!

S-so, what's his name? What's the name?!

I don't know. Some D.C. lawyer... anonymous.

Look, it's DND. You got to shred your copy.

- What lawyer?! - I don't know!

Okay? Just please let me go through the proper cha...

Just find out! I don't care how! 'Cause this is him!

This is him! This is the man!

And the man that wrote this letter, he is the Unabomber!

You hear me?!

Fitz? You there?

What's happening?

Fitz?

Why the hell would you abandon your children?

I was only gone one minute. I was coming right back.

What... how long have I been?

It's been 4 hours. Danny's in the car crying.

Are you coming?

You're seriously trying to argue

that the famously anti-technology Unabomber

has two similar but not identical typewriters?

Look. I know what forensics said,

but the language of that letter

is really similar to the manifesto.

The ideas are laid out in a similar way, and I really...

Yeah, I read it. Uh, I didn't see it.

You know something concrete that I missed?

Yeah, you got an "analyze" with an "s"

or a "willfully" with one "l",

one of your other special spellings?