He tells the troops he wants them to be low profile.
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Stan Cole dissuades the TAC squad from the frontal assaults often depicted in TV stories. The situation is tense, with the FBI wanting to avoid public embarrassment after Waco and Ruby Ridge. When the FBI agents show the judge those very same words in several of Ted’s writings, the judge signs the search warrant.Īgent Don Ackerman is in charge of more than a hundred agents dispatched to tiny Lincoln, Montana. The Unabomber repeatedly uses the phrase “eat your cake and have it too” rather than the more common and widely heard idiom “have your cake and eat it too.” Guess which one is the original correct usage? Yes, Ted Kaczynski with this 168 IQ had it right, of course. The magic words are the same ones teased so often in earlier episodes. This sets ‘Fitz’ and his team of analysts scuttling to find the magic words which will allow the FBI to bring the warrant request before a judge. An FBI lawyer thinks it’s untested, and too weak to bring before a judge. This use of comparative linguistics has never been used to obtain a warrant. The only thing that qualifies as ‘evidence’ is Jim Fitzgerald’s linguistic work on Kaczynski’s letters to his mother and his manifesto. The FBI has put the cart before the horse, so to speak.
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While FBI agents have moved a small army into the woods of Lincoln, there is a constitution provision against illegal search and seizure. SAC Don Ackerman is in constant anxiety that the FBI teams will blunder in some way and tip off Ted Kaczynski to their presence. FBI agents are busy installing surveillance teams in the woods near the Unabomber’s cabin. Profiler Jim Fitzgerald has convinced his fellow agents that he’s identified and located the Unabomber. “I think it was Harvard that really did me in,” says Ted of his experience as a human guinea pig in a mind control experiment for the CIA.Įpisode 7 begins in Lincoln, Montana in the year 1995. A voice-over narrator is accompanied by scenes beginning in Ted’s childhood, continuing through his brutal experiences at Harvard, and into adulthood.
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He’s angry to the core when he begins a letter to his brother David in an attempt to understand himself and to provide justification for his actions.
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He is in full retreat from industrial, mechanized, technologic civilization. Working from the future to his past life, we see Ted living a rugged existence in his lonely mountain cabin, bathing in creeks, tending a meager garden, hunting for food. Manhunt: Unabomber Lincoln Recap Season 1 Episode 7 – The previous episode of “Manhunt: Unabomber focused on the personal profile of Ted himself.