Anachron - 05

Anachron Field Log: Sequence 2

 A young professional who worked in the Burnett Building helped sneak his aspiring journalist girlfriend into the building to get a unique shot of the President's speech.  The two hoped to get footage that they could sell to the media for big bucks.  Instead they inadvertently captured the last few moments of the Presidents life before he was crushed to death by a partial building collapse that the young couple themselves set off.

Shortly after entering the elevator to ride up to the 6th floor office where the young professionals worked the elevator stopped running.  Gun shots could be heard in the lobby of the Burnett Building thirty four seconds prior to the explosion that would rock the building.  The couple scrambled up and out of the top of the elevator just after the explosion went off.  They were on the 3rd floor, the power was out in the building, and smoke was filling the elevator lobby they were in.  They rushed back into the shattered office space adjacent to Burnett Plaza in hopes of getting footage of the explosion aftermath.

Upon reaching what was left of the building that overlooked the plaza they saw the shredded remnants of the tent that the President had been addressing the public from.  The tent was covered in rubble and the side of the building looked like a landslide of steel reinforcing and concrete had erupted and poured out into the plaza.  Through the smoke, fire, and dust the journalist could make out a moving figure.  She crept to the edge of the broken floor slab to get a good shot.  Her weight set off a small collapse that sent her and her boyfriend tumbling down into the landslide below.  As the journalist shook off the fall and grabbed her camera, a man covered from head to toe in dust stumbled up towards her and her boyfriend.  He was feasibly calling out "Mr. President?"  It was a Secret Service man who was looking for the President in the debris.

The last shot the journalist saw through the lens of her camera was the Secret Service man unknowingly stepping over the barely conscious body of the President who lay in the rubble.  The Presidnet was still alive, when the second collapse happened.  The young couple, the Secret Service and the President were all crushed to death and the camera was found a few feet from all 4 bodies.
  
4am - On the 14th floor of the IRS Building after the Anachron run: 

The Anachron Team presented their findings to Chief Weiss and his staff.  Chief Weiss was skeptical of the findings at first.  Particularly the fact that the team was able to witness the death of the president and that they had been able to guide their retrieval team to uncover the camera from the journalist in the rubble.

A member of Weiss's staff, from the FBI, halted the Anachron Team's presentation once they showed the profile sketch of the hijacker and the surveillance footage of the same man entering the Burnett parking garage just minutes before the explosion.  Nobody from the Anachron Team recognized the hijacker as Bradley Cane, the military man who had recently killed 28 Iranians in Iran, but the FBI agent recognized him immediately. The FBI agent had been working Cane's case prior to the assassination, and explained to everyone at the presentation that it was impossible for Cane to be at Burnett Plaza because he was under military custody in Kansas.

The Anachron Team insisted that someone call the facility that was holding Cane because they were sure that Cane had been in the cab with them on their first Anachron run.  The FBI agent left to double check.  When he returned he was white faced.  He had discovered that Cane had escaped during an undocumented prisoner transfer sometime around five in the morning the same day the explosion happened.  The military didn't realize he was missing for almost 16 hours because there were no records indicating that Cane had been ordered to be moved.  According to the military the two military police (MP) who were transporting Cane were overtaken and killed.

The Anachron Team immediately put in the request for the release of the bodies of the two MP.  The military confirmed the request and told them to expect the bodies to arrive in Fort Worth in 7 hours.