Manhunt (TV Series)

USA vs. Theodore J. Kaczynski (2017)

Paul Bettany: Ted Kaczynski

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• Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : This cabin used to be a symbol of moral courage, and now they're just gonna point it and say you've got to be insane to live this way.

  Ted Kaczynski : Well, they brought the cabin, but they didn't bring the forest. Or the rain. It was beautiful. It was very beautiful.

• Ted Kaczynski : The irony is they're gonna show this cabin as evidence that I'm crazy. But if everyone was content to live simply like this, we'd have no more war, no poverty, no pollution.

• Ted Kaczynski : [seeing his cabin sitting in an large hangar]  Well, this reeks of desperation. I can't even w-w, I-is this supposed to intimidate me? You'll not only lock me up, you'll lock my house up, as well? James, here's the thing you're not grasping. The outcome of the trial is nothing. The trial itself is everything. It's gonna give me the biggest microphone in the world. Before, I had to threaten violence to get one Manifesto published in the Post. Now I'm gonna be piped directly into every living room in the country. And if you put me in a jail cell, I will spend the rest of my life appealing. But if it's the worst case, the very worst case a person like you can possibly imagine, the death penalty, I promise you, I won't even blink.

  Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : There's one possibility you didn't think of. On the cabin? The prosecution didn't bring it. The defense did.

  Ted Kaczynski : Why?

  Jim 'Fitz' Fitzgerald : Why don't you know about it?

• Judy Clarke : Whether you approve of my strategic decisions or not, I have an ethical obligation in the system to do what I have to in order to save your life.

  Ted Kaczynski : You're not saving my life, Judy! You're saving my body, and you're saving my body by destroying my life's work!

  Judy Clarke : Ted, you mailed bombs to innocent people so you could get some half-baked ideas published in a newspaper. I will work around the clock to save your life. That's my obligation as your attorney. But if you're not mentally defective, I don't know who is.