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It's January 16, 1998 in Pentagon City, Virginia, inside a large mall hundreds of shoppers mill about.

Blan music plays over the speakers and the smell of corn dogs wafes out from the food court.

Outside a department store, Monica Lewinsky stands staring at a window display.

She gasps and eagerly claps her hands together as she gazes at the colorful throw pillows and oversized candles.

Anyone watching her would think she's enthralled by home decor.

But for Lewinsky, this is all a performance.

There are two FBI agents looming behind her, monitoring her every move.

And somehow she needs to distract them so she can find a payphone and make an urgent call.

The fate of the presidency depends on it.

As she turns from the window, Lewinsky glances at her own reflection.

She's only 24 years old, but her brown eyes look sunken and her skin pale.

It's no surprise why Lewinsky looks so exhausted.

She just spent five hours locked in a cramped hotel room across the street.

She was surrounded by federal agents and government lawyers, men who were pressuring her to betray her lover.

The man she calls Handsome, whereas the rest of the world knows him, President Bill Clinton.

But Lewinsky would never betray Clinton, and that's why she has to find a payphone.

She needs to warn him that prosecutors have proof of their affair.

The Republicans have been investigating Clinton for years, and tomorrow attorneys will ask him under oath whether he and Lewinsky

have had sexual relations.

If the president says no, he'll purge her himself and commit a felony.

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