Episode 331 - By Any Means, Onslaught, Fall 2: Deadpoint, Finding Emily
Sep 10, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
Have a request for an upcoming segment? Send me a Text Message! The summer movie season winds down with new movies including BY ANY MEANS…
Sep 10, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
Have a request for an upcoming segment? Send me a Text Message! The summer movie season winds down with new movies including BY ANY MEANS…
Agent Strider, why did you join the Bureau?
I believe in justice, and I believe that Negroes have to be a part in getting it.
Case after case, unsolved.
Unsolved.
Unsolved.
I can do more than sit behind a
desk.
Not willingly, that is.
So what do you want to do? Something unorthodox.
You will be partnered with someone tied to organized crime.
Set in 1966 Mississippi, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays a young FBI agent named Wayne Strider, who moved to the south from Chicago with his wife Allison, played by Nicole Bahari.
He joins federal efforts during the peak of the civil rights movement, where he befriends voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
Dahmer is encouraging every black citizen to vote in the upcoming election, even telling them if they can't afford the poll tax that was conveniently placed on them, he will cover the cost.
Well, this pisses off the local KKK, which organizes a fatal firebombing on his home.
When Strider tries to investigate the crime, he runs into some serious headwinds from the local authorities, who have little to no interest in seeing this crime solved, especially since some of them were involved.
And any witnesses are scared to death to speak for fear that they will be next.
In order to get results, FBI leadership pairs Strider with Greg Scarpa, played by Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg.
Scarpa is a notorious Brooklyn hitman for the mob, and Strider is assigned to be his handler.
but finds it difficult to take when Scarpa's brutally violent methods cause Strider to have a crisis of conscience.
He believes in due process and constitutional justice, and Scarpa believes in just beating the shit out of people, so that the truth will eventually come out.
As Scarpa's brutal methods force informants to talk, the pair uncovers evidence directly linking the murder to White Knights KKK leader Sam Bowers and his inner circle.
It is information that puts both men in danger.
Agent Strider, why did you join the Bureau?
I believe in justice, and I believe that Negroes have to be a part in getting it.
Case after case, unsolved.
Unsolved.
Unsolved.
I can do more than sit behind a
desk.
Not willingly, that is.
So what do you want to do? Something unorthodox.
You will be partnered with someone tied to organized crime.
Set in 1966 Mississippi, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays a young FBI agent named Wayne Strider, who moved to the south from Chicago with his wife Allison, played by Nicole Bahari.
He joins federal efforts during the peak of the civil rights movement, where he befriends voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
Dahmer is encouraging every black citizen to vote in the upcoming election, even telling them if they can't afford the poll tax that was conveniently placed on them, he will cover the cost.
Well, this pisses off the local KKK, which organizes a fatal firebombing on his home.
When Strider tries to investigate the crime, he runs into some serious headwinds from the local authorities, who have little to no interest in seeing this crime solved, especially since some of them were involved.
And any witnesses are scared to death to speak for fear that they will be next.
In order to get results, FBI leadership pairs Strider with Greg Scarpa, played by Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg.
Scarpa is a notorious Brooklyn hitman for the mob, and Strider is assigned to be his handler.
but finds it difficult to take when Scarpa's brutally violent methods cause Strider to have a crisis of conscience.
He believes in due process and constitutional justice, and Scarpa believes in just beating the shit out of people, so that the truth will eventually come out.
As Scarpa's brutal methods force informants to talk, the pair uncovers evidence directly linking the murder to White Knights KKK leader Sam Bowers and his inner circle.
It is information that puts both men in danger.
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