Manhunt

Manhunt

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Spectrum Originals Ended Drama • Crime

2 Seasons · 18 Episodes · Premiered August 1, 2017 · Ended February 3, 2020

Manhunt explores how the FBI caught infamous criminal masterminds, with each closed-ended season following a different case.The show, heavily serialized and darkly psychological in the vein of True Detective, provides insight into the criminal and the case but also the psychological effects the cases have on the FBI agents assigned to hunt down the most dangerous criminals who often delve into a kind of madness of their own, becoming totally absorbed in the crimes and forced to live inside the darkest minds imaginable for years.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

8 episodes
E01
Unabom
Wed, Aug 2 2017 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
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.
E02
Pure Wudder
Wed, Aug 2 2017 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
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.
E03
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
Wed, Aug 9 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Linguist Natalie Rogers helps Fitz find clues about the Unabomber's identity in the Manifesto, but their findings face skepticism at the UTF; Ted claims he can invalidate all of the evidence against him.
E04
Publish or Perish
Wed, Aug 16 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
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.
E05
Abri
Wed, Aug 23 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Fitz receives linguistic proof that Ted is the Unabomber and tracks down Ted's brother David, who is astonished at the accuracy of Fitz's profile.
E06
Ted
Wed, Aug 30 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In a letter to his brother, Ted recounts the key events from his past that informed his decision to engage in terrorist activities.
E07
Lincoln
Wed, Sep 6 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
FBI profiler Jim Fitzgerald is under the gun to amass the evidence needed to secure a search warrant for Ted Kaczynski's cabin. Why the extreme sense of urgency? Because the plan was originally for a small surveillance team on the ground in Montana to build a case for a warrant over months, but after CBS News learns that the Unabomber has been identified, the FBI has just 24 hours until the network reports it. Now it's up to Fitz to find a linguistic "smoking gun" that will tie Kaczynski to the Manifesto in the eyes of a Federal judge.
E08
USA vs. Theodore J. Kaczynski
Wed, Sep 13 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When Ted fails to have the evidence against him invalidated, Fitz makes one last appeal to him to plead guilty.

Season 2

10 episodes
Gethin Anthony
Gethin Anthony as Jack Brennan
Arliss Howard
Arliss Howard as Earl Embry
Kelly Jenrette
Kelly Jenrette as Stacey Knox
Cameron Britton
Cameron Britton as Richard Jewell
Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski / Unabomber
Ness Bautista
Ness Bautista as Joe Holliwell
Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington as FBI Special Agent Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald
Chris Noth
Chris Noth as Don Ackerman
Jeremy Bobb
Jeremy Bobb as Stan
Jack Huston
Jack Huston as Eric Rudolph
Judith Light
Judith Light as Bobi Jewell
Desmond Harrington
Desmond Harrington as FBI Head Louis Freeh

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