(door clicking) (background people chattering)
- This morning, I woke up
with this funny feeling right here in my gut
and it took me some time to put a name on that sucker.
I thought I ate something bad, but that wasn't it.
(people laughing)
Then I realized what it was.
Joy.
(soft tense music)
But how could that be out here in the middle of nowhere,
no running water, no stuff,
in this rickety, old house
out here in the middle of the Texas plains, joy?
See, I don't know about you but I wasn't raised out of joy,
I didn't have much joy growing up.
But now, after all this time,
how is it a man could find joy here?
I'll tell you,
(soft melodic music)
joy doesn't come from having something or being something,
it comes from becoming,
becoming more than you are today.
All right, let's open them up.
(camera clicking) - "Sinful Messiah."
It's catchy.
"If you're a Branch Davidian,
Christ lives on a threadbare piece of land
10 miles east of Waco called Mount Carmel.
Married his legal wife when she was 14.
(camera clicking)
Enjoys a beer now and then, plays a mean guitar,
packs a nine millimeter Glock,
keeps an arsenal of military assault rifles
and willingly admits that he is a sinner without equal."
- You know, Messiah doesn't mean Jesus, right?
- What's that?
- Well, they're making him sound like David thinks
he's Jesus or something, you know what I mean?
- Oh, "David?" - Yeah, what?
- Is he getting in your head? - Okay.
- Shut up.
- See you back in a moment.
All right, so gentlemen, this raid is going down today.
Plans have changed, we need you to go in there
and make sure they don't know we're coming.
(gentle tense music)
- [Jacob] David.
- Jacob.
Come on in.
- So what you reading there?
- You know what I'm reading,
a bunch of lies.
(soft tense music)
(door clicking) - They know!
They know we're coming, we've gotta call it off!
Get Ed. - Ed, Vasquez.
- Ed, they know, they know we're coming,
you gotta call it off, man.
- Did you see any weapons? - No.
- Was there a call to arms?
- Not that I saw, Ed, you gotta call it off,
they know we're coming.
(tense melodic music)
Ed, Ed.
Ed, they know, Ed, they know, Ed.
(receiver clattering)
(tense melodic music)
(soft tense music)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down!
Please stop!
- Keep your hands in the air and get on the ground now!
- There are women and children in here!
- Get on the ground now!
(guns firing)
(glass shattering)
(guns firing) (officers shouting)
Hold your fire, hold your fire!
(guns firing)
- Earlier today, the ATF was ambushed
as we tried to serve a routine search warrant
to what we believe to be a dangerous cult,
who were illegally modifying weapons
for an end of day's assault.
We had an undercover agent,
who had infiltrated their compound,
but unfortunately he didn't warn us,
that the cult was planning an attack.
We also now believe that he might have been
compromised by the group. (soft orchestral music)
The ATF will be investigating that matter further
in the days to come.
Negotiations have since been turned over to the FBI,
Special Agent Tony Prince is here with me
to let you know where things currently stand.
- God has instructed me to stay here
and wait for his sign before I go out there
and whoever wants to leave, you're free to go.
But those thinking of going, I want you to ask yourself,
why did you sacrifice all the comforts you had to come here?
Know it or not, you came here to be tested
and this is a test.
(tank rumbling) (wood clattering)
- What's happening?
- I don't know.
(tank rumbling) (objects clattering)
(soft tense music)
- [David] Everything you tell me is a lie, Gary.
- No, everything I tell you is not a lie.
I'm not the one who drove that vehicle
onto your property, David.
- I don't wanna hear it, we aren't afraid of the government.
Big Brother wants to come in here and fight,
we will fight back, I think we've proven that before
and as long as our flag is still flying,
I'm gonna defend it as an American citizen.
Anyone that steps on my property,
anyone that destroys my property
is gonna get their ass whooped.
- Look, I would feel exactly the same way,
if I was in your position, but the thing is,
these guys are frustrated too and they don't wanna be here
any more than you want them here,
but try as I might, I cannot get them to understand
somebody waiting for a sign from God,
it's just not part of their world view.
(phone ringing)
- Hello.
- [Tony] David?
- Yes.
- This is Tony Prince, Special Agent in charge for the FBI.
If you don't come out of there by morning,
certain actions will be taken against you and your people.
That's not a threat, it's a promise.
(receiver clattering)
(lights clanking) - What's happening?
- Light them up, boys.
- Go! (lights clanking)
- It's okay, it's okay.
It's okay.
(alarms blaring) (static hissing)
(feedback whining) (horns blasting)
- No, no, I'm sorry, please don't put words in my mouth,
the FBI has no comment at this time.
Next question. (journalists shouting)
- Is there a consideration to use psychological warfare?
Have you discussed it at all?
- I don't even know what psychological warfare is.
(phone ringing)
- [Walter] Gary!
- Shit!
(clears throat) Hello?
Hello, hello.
- [David] Gary.
- Oh, David, I have to say,
I've missed the sound of your voice, brother.
What's going on?
- Something special happened today, Gary,
something I can't see as anything short of a miracle.
- What are you saying?
- I got my sign from God, Gary,
we're coming out.
(soft tense music)
But first I wanna protect the message,
that we have going on in here,
so when I go to jail, I can spend all my time
answering the stupid questions like,
"Why do you have so many wives in there
and why are you torturing babies?"
Because once I finish writing those Seven Seals,
I will personally walk out that front door
and you can throw me in the jailhouse
and come on down and feed me bananas for all you want.
- [Gary] I'll come and feed you anything you like,
how long will it take you to write it?
- Oh, I'm thinking a week, a week or so.
- Are you telling me that once you have reduced
your version of the Seven Seals to written form,
that you and all your people are coming outta there?
- I have no reason to draw this out any longer, Gary.
- Please answer the question definitively,
are you coming out as soon as you're done?
- Gary, I'm going to fulfill my commitment to God.
Now, if you were to allow me to show you
what's been pre-written by the prophets,
you'll have a way better understanding
of what's going on in here.
- I am asking you a very simple question, David, I need-
- And I'm gonna give you a very simple answer,
yes, yes, yes.
We have no intention of dying in here, Gary.
- Okay, David, well, I'm gonna let you get to work,
because frankly, I am eagerly awaiting that manuscript.
There are barrels of CS gas out there.
- This thing needs to be brought to a logical conclusion.
- CS gas is banned by the Geneva Convention.
It would be a war crime to use CS gas on a terrorist
and you think it's a logical conclusion
to use it on American women and children?
- You've had almost two months to work this out
and you failed.
- What do you mean I failed? We have a deal for surrender.
- Yeah, I know.
(alarms blaring) (monkeys screeching)
- David.
David, wake up. - Hm?
- They're gonna gas us.
- What, gas us?
- [Steve] I mean, they're coming with gas.
- All right, well, get Walter back on the phone.
- No, we're cut off.
- Cut off, what do you mean cut off?
- I got mad and I ripped out the phone.
- Why would you do that, Steve?
- They're done talking.
- Okay, then men in the chapel, women in the vault,
we need to wet the blankets
to protect the children from the gas, okay?
- No, no, we gotta get outta here.
- They're trying to stop me from getting the message out,
okay, I need more time.
- David, we gotta leave.
- Stay with me, okay, stay with me.
Let's keep moving. (tense melodic music)
- I need to use that PA!
- I can't authorize that. - I'm authorizing it!
(tense melodic music)
This is not an assault, the siege is over now.
The gas you will be smelling is a non-lethal tear gas.
Exit the compound now, you will not be harmed.
This is not an assault.
- Michele, Michele!
Get to the vault, go, go, go, go, go!
(object thudding loudly)
(people screaming)
- [Walter] I repeat, this is not an assault.
(gas hissing) (muffled Walter speaking)
(vehicles rumbling)
- Heat signature shows people gathering in the vault,
gas isn't penetrating there.
- Gas the vault, I need you to gas the vault.
(object thudding loudly) (people screaming)
(gas hissing)
(people shrieking in panic)
(object thudding loudly) (debris clattering)
(hands thudding) - Open up, open up!
(soft tense music)
- No, no, damn it! (debris clattering)
No!
(people shrieking in panic)
- Why isn't anyone coming out, they should be coming out?
Why aren't they coming out?
(solemn orchestral music)
(fire roaring)
- Uh! (window shattering)
- Hit the floor! - Come on, come on, come on!
- Raise your hands, hands up!
- Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm unarmed!
- On the ground! - It's okay, it's okay, okay.
(solemn orchestral music)
Michele!
(fire roaring) (debris clattering)
(explosion booming)
(gentle orchestral music)
(gentle orchestral music continues)