Synopsis
Manhunt (2017), Season 1 — also titled Manhunt: Unabomber — is a true-crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, eight episodes built around the FBI's long chase after the man who mailed homemade bombs for nearly twenty years.
Agent Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald joins the task force in 1995 carrying a method nobody trusts: catch the bomber by how he writes. While the rest of the unit hunts fingerprints and witnesses, Fitz takes the terrorist's manifesto apart word by word and starts seeing a person inside the prose. The season runs on two timelines — the mid-nineties pursuit and a 1997 interrogation room where a now-captured Ted Kaczynski threatens to get every piece of evidence thrown out. The closer it gets to the end, the harder it is to tell hunter from quarry.
Paul Bettany plays Kaczynski as a man with a conviction rather than a cartoon lunatic, which makes him worse. This is a crime story that leans on linguistics and psychology instead of shootouts — rare for the genre. Stream Manhunt Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1UNABOM
In 1995, FBI profiler Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald joins the Unabom Task Force. Fitz recommends new methods of profiling but finds no allies among the agents in charge. In 1997, Fitz is tasked with confronting Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
S1·E2Pure Wudder
When the elusive Unabomber threatens to blow up a jetliner, Fitz must determine if the threat is real. In 1997, Fitz confronts Ted for the first time.
S1·E3Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
Linguist Natalie Rogers helps Fitz find clues about the Unabomber's identity in the Manifesto, but their findings face skepticism at the UTF. In 1997, Ted claims he can invalidate all of the evidence against him.
S1·E4Publish or Perish
The Unabomber will stop bombing if his Manifesto is published. Fitz pushes for publication with S.A.C. Ackerman, who presents Fitz's argument to Attorney General Janet Reno.
S1·E5Abri
Fitz receives linguistic proof that Ted is the Unabomber. He tracks down Ted's brother David, who is astonished at the accuracy of Fitz's profile.
S1·E6Ted
In a letter to his brother, Ted recounts the key events from his past that informed his decision to engage in terrorist activities.
S1·E7Lincoln
Fitz races to find a linguistic connection that will secure an arrest warrant while the FBI closes in on Ted's cabin in Montana.
S1·E8USA vs. Theodore J. Kaczynski
When Ted fails to have the evidence against him invalidated, Fitz makes one last appeal to him to plead guilty.
2 seasons
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