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Can she spot an ally that easily, or does Stantons progressive reputation precede him?
This is another one.
But first, the trial has to go as planned.
Its there that Davis insists that the Confederacy is not dead.
In fact, he still plans to claim the White House for the South.
Whats more, Baker has intel from Conover (a.k.a.
Wallace), who wants to tell the truth now that hes been outed as a double agent.
This makes Conover the star witness, per Stantons logic.
He might need one, too.
Rather than walk away, Mary turns to her brother Milo (Antonio J.
Bell), who suffered mightily under Mudd.
Whats more, Mudd used to have visitors, such as John Surratt.
In frustration, she asks them to turn to another witness to back her up.
Thats Louis Weichmann, who needs a push from Mary to tell the whole story.
I just feel like theres something youre not saying much about, she tells him.
What that something is becomes apparent on the stand.
Weichmann was close to John Surratt, close enough to have seen him associate with all the other conspirators.
Whats more, they were more than friends.
Nor would going with Conovers story.
This clearly irks Stanton as he talks to reporters, but the conspirators hang anyway.
That leaves a couple of unanswered questions, however.
Why, Eckert and the National Archives would like to know, are eight pages missing from Booths diary?
So whatisup with that?
But hes currently using the chance to warn Stanton that Johnson is up to something.
That something is soon made clear.
And hes not going to be nice about it, either.
Whats more, hes going to pull Stantons men from the South and take over Reconstruction efforts.
Or he can at leasttryto remove Stanton.
We finish the work now, he says, almost certainly speaking to Lincoln.
But its those watching hes really speaking to.
Codes and Clues
So what about those missing pages?
We never really get an answer, which is, honestly, a bit odd.
All in all, this was a gripping and thoughtful series.
Or, as the flashbacks confirm, Hamish Linklater and Lili Taylor are both terrific as the Lincolns.
Or maybe put the focus on Betty Gabriels Elizabeth Keckley, a historical figure with a story worth telling.
This recap has been updated.
