Inside the Episode: S1E10

1865

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Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 10, while Mary Surratt’s life hangs in the balance, Stanton struggled to find her son and prove his conspiracy.

In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, hear director and co-producer Robert McCollum interview the writers and co-producers Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to 1865 Inside the Episode.
0:11.2	I'm Rob McCollum, one of the producers, and joining me for this episode 10 inside the
0:15.9	episode are writers Stephen Walters and Eric Archillo.
0:18.0	Good to see you both again.
0:19.5	Hey Rob, always a pleasure.
0:21.4	Welcome back guys.
0:23.1	So it is tense.
0:25.4	It is all happening now.
0:27.6	The attempt to prove this conspiracy, it's his last chance to do that.
0:32.0	And it is the story of how far Edwin Stanton is willing to go to prove this conspiracy.
0:36.8	To set that all up, we start with a flashback to Abraham Lincoln on the day that Stanton
0:42.5	tried to resign.
0:43.5	Now that really happened right there.
0:44.8	Yes.
0:45.8	That actually happened.
0:46.8	He tried to resign and it was about his health and Lincoln begged him to stay.
0:52.8	And this is actually from a letter that Stanton wrote to one of his friends.
0:55.5	He quoted what Lincoln said to him about that he needs Stanton to stay around and make
1:00.6	sure that the bag stays tied that Stanton's knots don't slip.
1:04.4	Yep.
1:05.4	Which is something that we allude to, I think, in episode four.
1:08.6	He says, he tells Langston, he says, you know, Lincoln said about me once that, you know,
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