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Quotes
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Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : The Unabomber asked for me specifically?
Don Ackerman : Specifically for you, and only you.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Why me?
Stan Cole : He says he'll only talk to the person who actually caught him, and for some reason, he thinks that's you.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Well, that is me. You were chasing your tails for years before I came.
[seeing Andy]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : This guy. You got some nerve.
[to Don and Stan]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : I found him, I caught him, I put him in jail. You know what? I got my life back together. I'm just gonna stay right here. Tell Ted I'm busy.
Don Ackerman : Listen, we have enough evidence to convict Ted Kaczynski ten times over, but if this goes to trial, he's gonna make it a media circus. Then we would be giving the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, the biggest microphone in America, and his message is dangerous. We need him to plead guilty.
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Andy Genelli : Take a look at this letter. Tell me what you see.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : [glancing at the letter, he snickers] You're making fun of me. You're making fun of me, right? Right?
[handing something to his son]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Here, take these upstairs. How many times do I have to tell you?
[turning back to Andy]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : You talking about the emordnilap? "Dad, it is I"?
Andy Genelli : Explain.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Well, it's a word thing. It's like a palindrome, except it spells one thing forwards and another thing backwards.
[drawing on the letter]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : The first letter of each paragraph - D, A, D, I, T, I, S, I. Okay. D, A, D, I, T, I, S, I - "Dad, it is I." D, A, D, I, T, right? D, A, D, I, T, I, S, I - "Dad, it is I", "Is it I, dad?". It's pretty cool, right?
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Andy Genelli : McAlpine says you're the best profiler in his class. Maybe the best he's got. But you're ten years older than the rest of your classmates, and I look at your résumé, and I see you languishing for almost a decade as a beat cop, mostly on the graffiti squad. You piss somebody off? What happened?
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : No. I wrote a parking ticket. Chief asked me to make it go away 'cause it was for a friend of a friend, and I didn't.
Andy Genelli : So, what, you're like the Serpico of parking tickets? Some people would call that being overly literal.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Yeah, some people might.
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Andy Genelli : I'm Andy Genelli. I'm head of the Unabom Task Force.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : I thought the... I thought the Unabom case was over.
Frank McAlpine : Six years, not a peep. They thought he was dead, but now he's back.
Andy Genelli : Three new mail bombs, more deadly than before. The latest one yesterday, a timber lobbyist, Sacaramento. The news is gonna break on these tomorrow.
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Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : This here... this is from him, from the Unabomber?
Andy Genelli : His most recent letter. 50 FBI agents have been going over that with a fine-tooth comb day and night for two weeks. Not one of them saw the emordnilap, not even me. I've had profilers working on this thing for fifteen years, and we're right back to where we started. I need somebody that sees things differently, and like it or not, that's you.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : But I've been away for four months, and I just got back. I can't just up and go 'cause of him, so... I can't do that to Ellie and the kids. I can't... I can't do that to my family.
[handing the photos back]
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Here. Good luck.
Andy Genelli : [standing to leave] Good night. Sorry to intrude, Mrs. Fitzgerald.
Frank McAlpine : Do me a favor, Fitz.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Hmm?
Frank McAlpine : Fitz, think about it. Keep the photos. The guy with his face blown off, he had a wife and kids, too.
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Stan Cole : Look at you. You're living like an animal now, huh?
[laughing]
Stan Cole : Jesus. You kill those yourself?
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : What are you doing in my house, Cole?
Stan Cole : Well, I don't want to be here, believe me. But the boss needs you.
Don Ackerman : We need you to get into a room with Kaczynski, interrogate him, break him down, get him to plead guilty. We need someone who can speak the Unabomber's language; someone, uh, that he connects with. Besides, Ted asked for you.
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Tabby : You have that new-profiler smell. Tabby Milgrim.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : [shaking hands] Hi.
Tabby : I'm your new partner. Well, I'm the UTF's whole behavioral unit. Come on. Let's get you out of this craziness.
[cleaning out the front seat of her car]
Tabby : PB today. Sorry.
[putting Fitz's luggage in the trunk]
Tabby : Night school in psych sucks, but... plus, U San Raffaele is about a fart and a half away from losing its accreditation, but whatever. As long as I squeak out a master's degree before they go under, we're all good.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : So, you're a profiler. You trained at the BAU?
Tabby : Hell no, bruh. I'm just a street agent.
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Andy Genelli : You ever worked on a big op before?
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Some big bank robberies, and a D.A. homicide task force in Philly had, like, twenty full-time agents. It was pretty huge, pretty intense.
Andy Genelli : Hmm. Well, welcome to the Unabom Task Force.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : [seeing the bullpen] Whoa.
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Stan Cole : We are hunting the deadliest serial bomber in history: the Unabomber. For seventeen years, he's been planting and mailing bombs; sixteen bombs, three people killed, dozens injured, and we really have no friggin' clue who he is or why he's doing this. We call him the Unabomber because his early targets were universities and airlines: "UN" for "university", "A" for "airline", Unabom. He calls himself "F.C." for "Freedom Club"; it's how he signs all his letters. It's also how he signs his bombs. Seventeen years of bombs all signed by FC. He's a sick bastard. Northwestern, 1978, another one there in '79. November '79, nearly takes out American Airlines Flight 444. The bomb was sent via air mail rigged with an altimeter; 22 passengers injured. 1980, United Airlines president gets his face blown in. More university bombs, '81, '82; computer science professors, engineering professors, one poor secretary at Vanderbilt opened a package addressed to her boss. More universities in '82, '85, '85, Boeing in '85, two computer shops, '85 and '87. The second one, he got his first fatality. And this is where we get our first eyewitness. She gave us this now-famous sketch, and then nothing for six years. So we figured he was dead or maybe finally got laid.
[laughter]
Stan Cole : But then he is back; Epstein at U.C., Gelernter at Yale. In his hiatus, he developed much more powerful and sophisticated bombs, and they keep coming. Exxon Valdez's PR guy, Mosser, and just last week, Gil Murray in Sacramento. It took three body bags to collect the parts. Why these targets? Why now? No clue.
Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : So, what forensic leads do we have?
Stan Cole : Basically, we have no forensic leads. No DNA, no prints. But we did have a couple good ideas. We discovered that he gets his addresses out of one particular edition of "Who's Who", so we interviewed just about every librarian in the country; nothing. Makes his bombs out of junk, so we did a national junkyard canvass, no dice. But we figure eventually he is gonna screw up, and maybe he already did. Over the years, he's been mailing typed letters; nothing worth reading until this letter that he wrote to the New York Times. Now, the letter itself is blah, blah, blah, but forensics found this on the envelope: "Call Nathan R". We figure he wrote himself a Post-It note on top of the letter. And that is our first real lead. FBI agents are interviewing everyone called "Nathan R-something" in the country. Plan "B" is to find Nathans with "R" middle names.
Tabby : [whispering to Fitz] 10,000 Nathan R's.
Stan Cole : And that is it. Enjoy your afternoons. Don't forget to tip your driver.
