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in person about this.

Yeah.

I could work on this tonight.

Okay. All right.

Listen, hold on a second.

This project is taking forever.

Client can't seem to make up his mind.

- This the Reston Mall?

- Yeah. We're getting it on track.

I'm sorry, I have to--

- We'll see each other this weekend.

- Yes, the Junior Ds.

- Brady keeps talking about it.

- Yeah, he's gonna love it.

He's gonna make more friends

than he'll know what to do with.

They do camp outs, trips.

Give you the house to yourself...

every now and then.

You and Brooke, I mean.

- I thank you, neighbor.

- For what?

For having

a ten-year-old next door.

- What do you know about shopping malls?

- Huh?

Shopping malls. I was over at

the Langs', talking with Oliver.

He had this blueprint on his counter.

He said it was the Reston Mall.

- That's what he's workin' on.

- Yeah, but it wasn't.

- What do you mean?

- I looked.

It was a building.

It wasn't a mall.

- Right, it's an addition.

- No.

It was an office building.

It wasn't stores at all.

Oh, so, it's some other project

that he's working on.

Why would he tell me

it was a mall if it wasn't?

Why would he lie?

When you took engineering in college,

what kind of grades did you get?

I didn't take engineering.

What I saw was an office building.

Fourteen months ago

on a Monday in January...

over 60 federal employees

went to work like they always did...

at the Roosevelt Federal Building

in downtown St. Louis.

Except on that Monday

they didn't come home.

In a truck parked in front...

was hidden 50 pounds

of C-4 plastic explosive.

When it was detonated, it disintegrated

the street side of the building...

obliterating dozens

of government offices...

the building's day care center...

and the St. Louis branch

of the Internal Revenue Service...

which was ultimately determined

to be the target of the attack.

The truck was leased by

this 33-year-old electrician...

Dean Scobee.

Scobee had served some prison time

for tax evasion...

and surveillance videos showed

that he was inside the vehicle...

leaving him among the 63 dead.

Does anyone not remember this?

You all remember the results

of the investigation?

- They said Scobee acted alone.

- One man, no conspirators.

Right?

He cheated the IRS. They caught

him at it, so he blew 'em up.

This is a guy who people

described as average.

Friendly.

He'd been in the army,

but as a radio man.

He had very little experience

with munitions.

His parents considered him

a moderate conservative.

Two weeks prior to this, he received

a pay raise at his electrician's job.

Does that sound like a man who's

on the edge or a man who needed a push?

Huh?

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