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Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic,

here with the Slate Spoiler Special podcast on Blue Caprice. And joining me in the Slate studio is John Swansberg, the editorial director of Slate's movie critic, here with the Slate's spoiler special podcast on Blue Caprice. And joining

me in the Slate studio is John Swansberg, the editorial director of Slate. Hi, John. Hey, Dana. Thanks for

having me. Yeah, I'm glad to have you here. And I'm very happy to talk for this movie with you,

which in a way doesn't need spoiling because it's about a real event. Right. A movie based on a true story, about the Beltway sniper's so-called, the shootings that took

place in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002. Right. Although it has that effect, which is sometimes

disconcerting, which is it makes you realize how quickly you forget the recent history. Like,

as I was watching it last night and trying to, in my mind, figure out how accurate it was,

I had the realization that, in fact,

I didn't remember the details of the Beltway sniper story as well as I should have. Given that I

lived through it, my younger sister was actually a student at the University of Richmond at the time,

so not far from the area. So, you know, I was on edge when this was happening. Was there a lockdown

kind of effect on her campus? I think Richmond was far enough away that there wasn't a lockdown, but certainly it was, she was

close enough that it was scary, that I felt like I had family who was in the kind of radius

where the killings were happening.

And yeah, I just, you know, I couldn't remember exactly even how many people were shot

and fatally and not as I was watching the movie.

And that sort of was jarring.

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