XIII: The Conspiracy

Than kyou.

Today we honor the 25 million veterans

who have worn the uniform of

the United States of America.

I am especially thankful

to be back home

honoring two veterans

from my own family.

My father,

former Senator Henry Sheridan and,

of course, my brother Wally Sheridan,

Governor of this great state.

We observe Veteran's Day

on a special anniversary.

A day when war ended

and our nation was...

This morning I asked my Secretary

of Defence, Ellery Shipley,

to formulate a schedule

for the gradual withdrawal

of our troops from Afghanistan

and Iraq.

As Commander-in-Chief

it is my responsibility

to protect the protectors.

The men and women of the armed forces.

Our troops have served valiantly.

Now it is time to bring them home.

So on this Veterans' Day

let us give thanks to

all those men and women

who have fought to ensure our freedom.

May God bless them and their families.

May God bless

the United States of America.

Sally.

The President is down.

Again, we are still

waiting for confirmation,

but it appears that a shot

or some shots were fired.

Secret Service has mobilized

and is taking her to safety.

He's coming down.

Did you get him?

No.

A special meeting of Congress

has convened in Washington today...

...Congress... Intelligence...

Congress...

Pronto, find it! That a boy.

Yeah, that's a good boy.

Let's get somebody up there.

Jones, what happened?

The op went dead.

I can see that. How?

We had a one-hour window

once the call came in.

I placed snipers on site,

birds in the sky.

Satellite surveillance indicated it

was a manageable distance.

But as the guy approached on

the water it all went south.

C4 charges blew the wheelhouse

and created a cover smoke.

We lost sight of our agent.

Before we could respond they opened fire.

There, there, there and there.

Four units each one hit.

They knew exactly

where we'd be positioned.

Sounds like they knew our protocol.

Got to be a former agent.

Our current.

The preliminary ballistics report.

These guys didn't shop the gun

department at Walmart.

Government issue.

Amos is presenting to

the President at nine.

Get a description for the Coast Guard.

Sir, I think it's too late.

By now they've swapped vessels

or gone ashore.

I didn't mean

a description of the boat.

I meant a description of our man.

We need to identify the body.

I think if they wanted him dead

they would have killed him right here.

We have to assume that he's still alive.

Lauren...

I know.

I'm fine.

We want action. We want action.

We want action.

After our preliminary examination

we ran a full sweep of the area.

We were able to trace the line of fire

back to this office building.

The shooter's perch was wiped clean.

No prints, no hair, no fibres, nothing.

Power to the building was cut.

Security cameras were disabled.

The shooter walked into the building

using a hacked security card.

His exit, however,

did not go quite as smoothly.

As you know,

there were two security guards

in the parking garage.

They engaged the shooter

and between the two guards

fourteen rounds were fired.

We only recovered twelve slugs.

That means the shooter

was probably hit twice.

However, a lack of blood evidence

also suggests that the scene

was sanitized.

So who did the mop up?

We don't know.

It doesn't appear that the shooter

had any accomplices

in the parking garage,

but he did kill two guards

who managed to escape.

Tire treads indicate that he exited by

the south side of the building.

We also found glass fragments

spread throughout the scene.

Forensics was able to

match those fragments

to a GM vehicle manufactured

between 1996 and 2002.

Now my investigation

has identified every traffic

and security camera in a five-mile radius

of the office building.

I issued a blanket seizure warrant

and I have had agents working

around the clock

analyzing every frame of that footage.

This came from an ATM security camera

three miles away

from the office building.

Now the drive was corrupt so

it was forwarded to digital forensics.

It took a little bit of time

but they were able to

recover some of the data.

This is a Chevy lmpala, GM built.

You will notice that there

is no glare on the windshield.

That's because the glass

is spider-webbed

which is consistent

with bullet strikes.

Also there's no glass

in the driver's window.

Gentlemen, I believe we are looking at

the first image of our shooter.

Do we have an ID?

Not yet.

Colonel Amos, are you telling me

you've had all this time to investigate

and this is all we've got to go on?

Some grainy video,

a blurred photo of

what could be our shooter?

Mr. President, with all due respect,

you are failing to see

the significance of our findings.

You're fixated on the evidence

while it's the lack of evidence

that is most telling here.

I don't follow.

Our shooter got through

our security perimeter;

he hacked into the city power grid.

He disabled security cameras

for an entire city block

and he killed the President of

the United States

with a single shot fired from

over a mile away.

And he did not leave

a single shred of evidence.

This is a highly skilled,

highly trained professional.

Special Ops, perhaps.

This is the type of man

that is employed

by a foreign government or

a paramilitary organization.

This is not Oswald or Hinckley.

This is political.

Colonel, it's always political.

His pockets were empty.

No wallet. No ID.

His watch stopped at four fifteen.

Probably about the time

his plane crashed.

See his parachute got caught in a tree.

He must have bailed over the forest.

That terrain there's

nowhere to touch down.

And there are puncture wounds

probably from the branches.

But, this one here

had a bullet inside it.

He was shot?

Yeah. Twice.

The other one grazed his temple here see?

His head was bleeding pretty badly.

We're going to have to butterfly it.

Clean him up

and I'll take him to the hospital.

No, Abe.

I've seen what they do

to people like him.

No ID, no insurance.

He'd be lucky to end up

in a cot in a hallway.

Martha, he needs a doctor.

I am a doctor.

No, you were one.

They can't take care of him

the way I can.

Okay, Martha, okay.

Wait. Look at this.

Xlll.

What do you think it means?

I don't know. Could explain his luck.

Colonel Amos,

we have to find the killer now.

Mr. Wax.

This came off USNN this morning.

They've been running it all day.

Governor Sheridan, after taking over

the GOP nomination from Dean Barber,

your campaign has

made incredible inroads.

Carving out a six-point lead

in the latest polls.

Well, I think, the country has been

forced to re-evaluate its leadership.

I mean, in the months

since my sister's death

we have seen an unprecedented surge

in terrorist attacks on American soil.

The bombing of an electrical grid

in New Hampshire

that disrupted power across four states.

The tragic sarin gas attack

on Chicago's subways.

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