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However, despite the alterations and omissions that The Hot Zone: Anthrax makes, it still is a great window into post-9/11 grief and fear. Leaving this shadow of doubt out of the season finale may make for a better conclusion, but is somewhat deceptive for a program attempting to detail the investigation in a serious, noteworthy event. While the report doesn’t state that the scientific evidence doesn’t dispute Ivins as the possible perpetrator in the anthrax attacks, it does say that scientific evidence can’t prove that he was guilty, and that the FBI “did not rule out other sources.” Even though the FBI announced in 2008 that Ivins was the sole perpetrator in Amerithrax, in scientific actuality, that’s not completely honest. Before the final credits on the second season roll, a few details about the suspects are given (such as the date of Ivin’s death and Hatfill’s exoneration, but leaves out the key 2011 report released by The National Academies that cast slight doubt on Ivin’s guiltiness.

#THE HOT ZONE SERIES#

While that may not be the case, and while no terrorist was never brought to judicial justice, these delays in the timeline may not be conducive to drama, but pushed science forward in a dark time.Īlthough this series covers most of the major events and findings that actually happened in the non-fictional world, the bow on this case isn't as perfect as The Hot Zone: Anthrax makes it seem. These new innovations seem to already exist in The Hot Zone.

The frustration with the Amerithrax investigations helped inspire new technologies to help finally prosecute a perpetrator. The Hot Zone poises the investigations as a race to catch the perpetrator when in actuality, law enforcement didn’t search their first person of interest’s (Steven Hatfill ) residence until 10 months after the first letters were sent.Īnd while Bruce Ivins likely took his own life due to the impending charges against him in the case (reported by the New York Times), this cascade of events didn’t occur until the summer of 2008. This isn’t the first time that a program has sped up the progression of a story – a fast story gives the characters high stakes and makes the experience more exciting and heart-pounding for the viewers. The series comes to the same conclusions that the Task Force did in 2010, but at a much faster pace. As the investigations provide a framing for the series, it’s much easier to guide the dramatized narrative through a character whose memory doesn’t need preserving versus characters like Ivins (Tony Goldwyn) who actually lived. The Hot Zone: Anthrax simplifies the investigation by following two main and ideologically opposing investigators, the aforementioned Ryker and Dani Toretti ( Dawn Olivieri). The Amerithrax Task Force included 25-30 agents from multiple law enforcement agencies, including hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours expended and saw 10,000 witness interviews over the course of the multi-year investigation. This isn’t surprising, considering that the FBI considers the Amerithrax investigations as “one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement.” When the casting news for The Hot Zone: Anthraxbroke to Deadline in early 2021, Kim’s character of Matthew Ryker was announced as a composite character, or an amalgamation of several individuals involved in the real-life investigations of Amerithrax.