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This episode originally aired in 2020. It's evening, even, in a steakhouse in San Francisco. The lights are low and the booths are crowded.

Glass is clink and chatter and music fills the air.

At a corner table, Patrick Webb slowly nurses a beer and waits patiently.

He gazes across the table and sees a row of empty bottles.

The other people sitting beside him seem to be drunk.

They're laughing and getting louder by the minute, but not Webb. He knows that tonight is not an occasion for heavy drinking.

He needs to remain sober and clear-headed because he's got an important task at hand and he's waiting for the right moment to strike.

Webb is a bomb expert with the FBI and right now he's sitting alongside three other

FBI agents. They are in town for a conference and while they

seem to be having a good time, Webb is in a foul mood because he just learned

that the FBI is planning to shut down the Unabomber case.

Webb understands why the Bureau has gotten so impatient.

It's been five long years since the FBI released a sketch of the

Unabomber to media outlets across the country.

Webb expected a breakthrough in a matter of weeks, but no

credible leads ever emerged. For Webb, who's given his life to this case, the sketch was just

another frustrating dead end.

And throughout this time, the Unabomber has gone quiet.

So the FBI decided this investigation is a waste of time and money.

But Webb isn't ready to give up, because he knows the Unabomber could still very well be out there.

If they shut down the case, Americans could still be at risk, and the Bureau will have thrown

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