The two begin to talk, but Kaczynski ends the conversation when Fitzgerald brings up a guilty plea like the FBI requested.įitzgerald and his team uncover distinctive language in the manifesto and hypothesize that he is older than the age range the FBI is targeting. Fitzgerald is asked to elicit a confession from Kaczynski to avoid the specter of a trial.

In 1997, on the way to interview Kaczynski, Rogers and Fitzgerald discuss what drove him from public life, which Rogers says began long before Fitzgerald joined the Unabomber investigation. Recalling a joke about his Philadelphia accent, he tasks them with finding a word or phrase that could reveal where the Unabomber is from. The next day, after a tense following of the successful airport reopening, Ackerman offers Fitzgerald his own team to examine the manifesto. Focusing on excessive soldering in a forensic report, he theorizes that the Unabomber is obsessed with his image and that the threat is a prank meant to maintain his power over the FBI and the public. When the FBI receives a second letter implying the threat is a prank, Fitzgerald is ordered to recommend if the threat is genuine. Departing for Stanford, he surprises his old colleague Natalie Rogers with the news of their offer.įitzgerald agitates to read the Unabomber manifesto as the FBI is provided a letter threatening to bomb a flight departing from Los Angeles.

That night, he begins to burn his files and media coverage of the case, pausing on his annotated copy of the Unabomber manifesto. In 1997, a reclusive Fitzgerald is approached by Ackerman and Cole about interrogating the Unabomber, who has asked for him directly, but he declines. Again ordered to fit Cole’s profile, Fitzgerald’s suspicions are proven correct when the FBI receives the Unabomber manifesto. Rebuffed, Fitzgerald visits the Sacramento bomb site and argues that the bombings are not random, but the targets are signals.

Fitzgerald disagrees with their assessment and requests to create an entirely new profile. Don Ackerman and Stan Cole request he build out a criminal profile for the Unabomber, who Cole believes is a low-educated airline mechanic based on the American Airlines Flight 444 bombing. Despite his initial reluctance to leave his family, he travels to San Francisco to join the FBI task force. In 1995, Jim Fitzgerald graduates from the FBI’s criminal profiler program and is approached by investigators from the Unabomber case after a recent bombing in Sacramento.

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