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Most people picture Jason Bourne, but the real climb from nervous applicant to Director of the FBI costs everything you have.
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VIDEO TOPICS/TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Applicant
2:47 The Trainee
5:55 The Special Agent
8:46 The Undercover Agent
11:24 The Supervisory Special Agent
14:25 The Assistant Special Agent In Charge
16:58 The Special Agent In Charge
19:35 The Assistant Director
22:07 The Deputy Director
24:52 The Director
Every episode takes a lot of research and writing. Drop your next video idea in the comments. I read them all.
Subscribe so you don't miss the next one! 🔔
VIDEO TOPICS/TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Applicant
2:47 The Trainee
5:55 The Special Agent
8:46 The Undercover Agent
11:24 The Supervisory Special Agent
14:25 The Assistant Special Agent In Charge
16:58 The Special Agent In Charge
19:35 The Assistant Director
22:07 The Deputy Director
24:52 The Director
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00:00Level 1. The Applicant
00:01You are 24 years old. You have a degree in accounting.
00:05You spent two years at a regional bank counting other people's money.
00:09You are bored out of your mind. You want something that matters.
00:13One night you find a posting on the FBI website.
00:17Special Agent
00:18You read the requirements three times.
00:20A bachelor's degree
00:22Three years of work experience
00:24You qualify, but only just.
00:27You fill out the application after midnight.
00:30Your hands shake a little when you hit submit.
00:32Then you wait.
00:33The waiting is the first test.
00:35Weeks pass. Then a month.
00:38Then three months.
00:39An email finally arrives.
00:41You pass the first screening.
00:43They want you to take the Phase 1 exam.
00:45You drive to a testing center two hours away.
00:48You answer questions about logic and judgment.
00:51A scenario describes a co-worker stealing from the company.
00:54What do you do?
00:56You pick the honest answer.
00:57You always pick the honest answer.
01:00You pass.
01:01They schedule the Phase 2 interview.
01:04Three agents sit across a table from you.
01:06They ask about a time you failed.
01:08They ask about a time you led.
01:10They write notes you cannot read upside down.
01:13Then comes the physical fitness test.
01:15Push-ups.
01:17Sit-ups.
01:17A 300-meter sprint.
01:19A mile and a half run.
01:21You train at 5 in the morning before work.
01:24You run until the sun comes up.
01:26You train for six months in your apartment gym.
01:29You pass with room to spare.
01:31Then the background investigation begins.
01:33They call your old roommates.
01:35They call an ex-girlfriend you would rather forget.
01:38They call a teacher from your high school.
01:40They ask if you ever used drugs.
01:42They ask if you ever stole anything.
01:44They ask if you can be trusted with secrets.
01:47They want to give you a top-secret clearance.
01:50That kind of trust takes a long time to verify.
01:53Then comes the polygraph.
01:55You sit in a small, windowless room.
01:57Sensors wrap around your chest and your fingers.
02:00A cuff squeezes your arm.
02:02A wire rests on your fingertips.
02:04The examiner is calm and unreadable.
02:07He asks if you lied on your application.
02:09You say no.
02:10The machine watches your heartbeat climb.
02:13You sweat anyway.
02:15Everyone sweats.
02:16The machine cannot actually read your mind.
02:19It can only read your fear.
02:20You have plenty of fear to spare.
02:23You tell the truth because the truth is easier to hold.
02:27Your girlfriend, Sarah, asks if you are really sure about this.
02:30You tell her you are.
02:31You are not sure of anything.
02:34Months later, a thick envelope arrives in the mail.
02:36You are going to Quantico.
02:38You read the letter to Sarah out loud.
02:40She cries.
02:42You cannot tell if it is joy or fear.
02:44It is probably both.
02:46Level 2.
02:48The Trainee
02:48They send you to Quantico, Virginia.
02:51The FBI Academy sits on a Marine Corps base deep in the woods.
02:55Tall pines.
02:56Brick buildings.
02:58Fences.
02:58And guards at every gate.
03:00For the next 20 weeks, this place is your whole life.
03:04You wake before the sun.
03:06You run until your lungs burn.
03:08Then you run some more.
03:10You share a dorm room with another trainee.
03:12He was a street cop in Detroit for nine years.
03:16He has seen things you have only read about in files.
03:19You sit in classrooms learning federal law.
03:22Search and seizure.
03:23Chain of custody.
03:24The difference between probable cause and a hunch.
03:27You learn that a sloppy case falls apart in court.
03:31A guilty man walks free because an agent cut one corner.
03:35You promise yourself you will never cut the corner.
03:39You learn to shoot.
03:41A Glock pistol slowly becomes part of your hand.
03:44You fire thousands of rounds on the range.
03:46Your ears ring for weeks.
03:48You learn to clear a room with a team beside you.
03:52You learn where to point the muzzle and where never to.
03:56Then they send you into Hogan's Alley.
03:58It is a fake town built only for training.
04:02Storefronts.
04:02A bank.
04:03A motel with a working neon sign.
04:06Actors play robbers and hostages and innocent bystanders.
04:10You make arrests.
04:12You make mistakes.
04:14The first time, you shoot a man who is reaching for his wallet.
04:17Your instructor freezes the scene and stares at you in silence.
04:22You learn what hesitation costs and what panic costs.
04:26You learn defensive tactics on padded blue mats.
04:30You learn to handcuff a man twice your size.
04:33You learn to take a punch and keep thinking clearly.
04:36You study for legal exams until your eyes blur.
04:40You learn evidence rules that lawyers spend years mastering.
04:44You learn how to write a report that survives a defense attorney.
04:48You learn to drive a car at high speed and not panic.
04:51You spin out on the wet track more than once.
04:55You learn how to track a suspect without being seen.
04:58You learn how to know when you yourself are being followed.
05:02The washout rate is real.
05:04Some trainees quit in the first month.
05:07Some get cut for failing the legal exams.
05:10Some cannot shoot straight when the pressure climbs.
05:13The ones who make it are not the strongest.
05:16They are the ones who stay calm when everything goes loud.
05:20Sarah drives down one weekend to visit you.
05:23You walk her around the cold base in your gray sweatshirt.
05:26You propose to her by a frozen pond near the dorms.
05:30She says yes before you finish the question.
05:3320 weeks later, you graduate near the top of your class.
05:37They hand you a badge, a gun, and a credential.
05:41Sarah pins the badge to your chest at the ceremony.
05:44Your mother flies in and beams from the crowd.
05:47You are now a special agent of the FBI.
05:51Your real education is about to begin.
05:55Level 3.
05:56The special agent.
05:58Your first office is in Phoenix.
06:00It was not your first choice.
06:03Nobody gets their first choice.
06:05You and Sarah pack everything into a rental truck.
06:08You drive across the country in three long days.
06:12You are a probationary agent now.
06:14That means everyone is watching everything you do.
06:18You are assigned to a white-collar squad.
06:21Fraud.
06:22Embezzlement.
06:23Money that walked out of accounts it did not belong in.
06:26Your accounting degree finally earns its keep.
06:29You read spreadsheets the way other agents read suspects.
06:33You find the patterns hidden in the numbers.
06:36A church treasurer skimming the building fund for years.
06:39A contractor billing the city for work that never happened.
06:42A broker running a scheme that quietly eats his clients alive.
06:46A car dealer hiding income in offshore accounts.
06:50You learn that most crime is just math and greed.
06:53You knock on doors at 6 in the morning.
06:56You serve subpoenas to men in expensive suits.
06:59You sit in interview rooms across from people who lie smoothly.
07:03You learn to let the silence do the heavy work.
07:06Most people cannot stand silence.
07:08They fill it with a confession they meant to hold back.
07:11You learn to read a man's hands and his eyes.
07:14You learn when a lie is coming before he speaks it.
07:18You spend a year tracing one fraud through a maze of shell companies.
07:22You follow the money through six banks in three states.
07:26The numbers always tell the truth, even when people do not.
07:29You build the case slowly, brick by careful brick.
07:34You marry Sarah in a small ceremony that summer.
07:37Her parents fly in from Ohio for the weekend.
07:40Your mother cries in the front row the whole time.
07:43You dance with Sarah under string lights in a rented hall.
07:47For one night, the job feels a thousand miles away.
07:50Within a year, Sarah tells you she is pregnant.
07:53Your son is born on a Tuesday in early spring.
07:57You name him after your late father.
07:59You hold him in the hospital and something shifts inside you.
08:03The job stops being an adventure that night.
08:06It becomes the thing that feeds your family.
08:09You close your first big case later that year.
08:12A man stole four million dollars from elderly investors.
08:16He goes to prison for 11 years.
08:18You watch the verdict from the back of the courtroom.
08:21The victims thank you in the hallway afterward.
08:24An old woman holds your hand and will not let go.
08:28That night, you finally understand why you did all of this.
08:32You are good at this work.
08:33Your supervisor notices that you are good at it.
08:36He starts handing you the cases nobody else can crack.
08:39You are no longer the new guy in the office.
08:42You are becoming someone the whole squad relies on.
08:46Level 4.
08:47The Undercover Agent
08:48A supervisor pulls you aside one afternoon in the break room.
08:52He has read your files closely.
08:55He thinks you have a rare and useful quality.
08:57You can lie and people believe you completely.
09:00He asks if you want to go undercover.
09:03He warns you that the work changes people.
09:06You say yes anyway.
09:07You always say yes.
09:09They send you to a special school just for this.
09:12You learn how to build a legend.
09:14That is the FBI word for a false identity.
09:17A new name.
09:18A fake job that does not exist.
09:20A fake apartment.
09:22A fake car with fake registration.
09:24A fake history that holds up under hard questioning.
09:27You memorize the life of a man who was never born.
09:30Then you become him.
09:32Your first operation targets a drug pipeline in Arizona.
09:36You pose as a money launderer with cartel connections.
09:39You wear a wire you can never reach up to touch.
09:42One nervous adjustment and you are a dead man.
09:45You meet people who kill other people for being late.
09:48You shake their hands and smile and order another round.
09:52One night a man pulls a gun on you over a missing shipment.
09:55You talk him down with a calm you do not feel inside.
09:58Your heart is hammering, but your voice stays flat and steady.
10:02That calm is the only thing keeping you alive.
10:06You go home to Sarah at night and cannot tell her anything.
10:09She knows the work is dangerous.
10:11She does not know exactly how dangerous it has become.
10:15She is pregnant again during the worst of it.
10:17Your daughter is born while you are deep in the operation.
10:20You miss the delivery by nine hours.
10:23You hold her in the hospital and lie about a work trip.
10:26The lying does not stop when you leave the job.
10:29It follows you all the way home.
10:31That is what the supervisor warned you about.
10:34The operation runs for 18 long months.
10:37You build enough evidence to take down the entire network.
10:40On the morning of the takedown, 40 arrests happen at once.
10:44You stand in the command post and watch it all unfold.
10:47The cartel never learns that it was you.
10:50Your real face never appears in any report they can reach.
10:53You testify behind a screen with your voice disguised.
10:56The man you befriended for a year gets 30 years.
11:00He searches the courtroom for your eyes.
11:02He never finds them.
11:05You go home and try to remember who you actually are.
11:08Sarah says you have been a stranger for months.
11:10You tell her it is just stress from work.
11:13It is not just stress.
11:15You finally ask to come in from the cold.
11:18They bring you back to a desk and a normal life.
11:21You are grateful and a little hollow.
11:24Level 5.
11:25The Supervisory Special Agent
11:27After the undercover years, they promote you.
11:30You are now a supervisory special agent.
11:33You run a squad of your own.
11:3512 agents who look to you for every answer.
11:37You transfer to the Chicago field office.
11:40You move Sarah and the kids into a house in the suburbs.
11:43Your son starts 2nd grade in a brand new school.
11:46Your daughter learns to walk in a new living room.
11:49You run a violent crime squad now.
11:52Bank robberies.
11:53Kidnappings.
11:54Fugitives who cross state lines and think they vanished.
11:58You stop being the one who kicks down the door.
12:00You become the one who decides when the door gets kicked.
12:04That is a harder job than it sounds from below.
12:07You sign off on operations that could get your agents killed.
12:11You read the surveillance reports late into the night.
12:14You weigh the risk against the reward.
12:16You make the call and then you cannot sleep.
12:20A child is kidnapped on your watch one cold November.
12:24You run the case for 72 hours without going home.
12:28You coordinate the search, the tip line, the negotiators.
12:32You find the boy alive in a basement on the third day.
12:35You carry him out yourself, wrapped in your own coat.
12:39His mother collapses into your arms in the driveway.
12:42She does not let go for a long time.
12:46You do not sleep for two more nights after that.
12:49But the boy is alive.
12:50And that is the whole point.
12:53One of your agents takes a bullet during a different raid.
12:56He lives, but he never works the field again.
13:00You visit him in the hospital every day for a week.
13:03You blame yourself, even though the plan was sound.
13:06You learn that command means owning the outcome.
13:10The good outcomes and the terrible ones alike.
13:13You manage personalities as much as you manage cases.
13:17One agent drinks too much after his shifts.
13:19One is grinding through an ugly and bitter divorce.
13:22One is a young star who thinks the rules are optional.
13:26You handle all of it before it reaches the front office.
13:30You learn that leading people is harder than chasing criminals.
13:34You cannot fire them easily.
13:36And you cannot replace their trust.
13:38All you have is respect and the example you set.
13:42You write performance reviews for people you respect.
13:45You sit through budget meetings that bore you to death.
13:48You miss the field more than you ever expected to.
13:52You miss being the one standing in the doorway.
13:55But your squad closes cases at a rate that gets noticed.
13:59You bring in a fugitive who eluded the bureau for six years.
14:02The arrest makes the local evening news.
14:05Your name is nowhere in the story.
14:08That is how you know you did it right.
14:11Headquarters slowly starts to learn your name.
14:14A bigger chair is waiting for you in Washington.
14:17You are not sure you actually want it.
14:21You take it anyway.
14:22Because that is what you do.
14:25Level 6.
14:26The Assistant Special Agent in Charge.
14:29They make you an ASAC.
14:30That stands for Assistant Special Agent in Charge.
14:34You oversee several squads now, not just one.
14:37You are 38 years old.
14:39Your son is 10.
14:40Your daughter is 6.
14:42You barely see either of them awake during the week.
14:45You transfer the family to the Washington field office.
14:47The cases are bigger and stranger here.
14:51Public corruption.
14:53Counterintelligence.
14:54Foreign spies operating quietly on American soil.
14:57You stop thinking about single cases.
15:00You think about programs and priorities and politics.
15:04You manage agents who manage other agents.
15:07You answer to the special agent in charge above you.
15:10You shield your people from the worst of the bureaucracy.
15:14You fight for resources that never seem to be enough.
15:18You learn that the higher you climb, the less you touch the work.
15:21You read summaries of summaries of summaries.
15:25You sign documents you do not have time to fully read.
15:29You trust your supervisors and pray that trust is earned.
15:33A counterintelligence case lands hard on your desk.
15:36A government employee has been selling secrets to a foreign service.
15:40You coordinate the surveillance for eight tense months.
15:43You read his emails, his calls, his bank statements.
15:48You learn his routine better than his own wife knows it.
15:51You watch a trader live an ordinary life.
15:55He coaches his kid's soccer team on the weekends.
15:57He betrays his country during the week.
16:00He smiles at his neighbors every morning.
16:03He never suspects a thing.
16:05The arrest happens in a parking garage at dawn.
16:08He does not resist when your agents close in.
16:11He just looks tired and almost relieved.
16:14You feel no triumph, only a strange and heavy sadness.
16:20Sarah asks why you came home so quiet again.
16:23You tell her it was simply a long day.
16:26Every day is a long day now.
16:29Your marriage is strained but somehow still standing.
16:32You promise her that things will slow down soon.
16:35You both know it is a lie you need to believe.
16:39The director's office sends a quiet note about your performance.
16:42They are watching you for much bigger things.
16:45You know you should feel proud of that.
16:48Mostly, you just feel the weight of it pressing down.
16:51You are climbing higher than you ever dreamed.
16:54The view from up here is colder than you expected.
16:58Level 7.
16:59The Special Agent in Charge.
17:01They finally give you your own field office.
17:04You are now the SAC.
17:06The Special Agent in Charge of an entire region.
17:09You run the Los Angeles Field Office.
17:12Hundreds of agents report up the chain to you.
17:15Analysts.
17:15Surveillance teams.
17:17Technical specialists.
17:18A budget that runs into the hundreds of millions.
17:22You are 43 years old now.
17:24Your hair is going gray at the temples.
17:26You moved your family one more time for the job.
17:29Your son is now a teenager who barely speaks to you.
17:33Your daughter still hugs you when you walk in the door.
17:35You hold on to that small thing tightly.
17:38Your son slams his bedroom door more often than not.
17:41You missed his championship game for a hostage standoff.
17:45You tell yourself he will understand it one day.
17:47You are not sure you believe that yourself.
17:50You are the face of the Bureau in your city.
17:52You meet with the mayor.
17:54You meet with the police chief.
17:56You meet with reporters who want answers you cannot give.
17:59Every major case in the region crosses your desk.
18:02A terror cell planning an attack on a packed stadium.
18:06A corruption ring buried deep inside City Hall.
18:09A serial kidnapper the public does not yet know about.
18:12You decide which cases get the full resources.
18:15You decide which ones have to wait their turn.
18:18You catch the kidnapper after a manhunt that lasts six weeks.
18:22Your agents find three more victims he had hidden away.
18:26Two of them are still alive when the doors come down.
18:29You make that arrest the lead story without ever appearing in it.
18:33Every choice has a cost, measured in lives or careers.
18:38You stop a stadium attack two days before it happens.
18:4140,000 people never learn how close they came to dying.
18:45You cannot tell them.
18:46You will never be thanked by the people you saved.
18:50That is simply the job you signed up for.
18:53You testify before a congressional committee about your office.
18:56You give answers that are true, but very carefully shaped.
19:00You learn to speak for an hour without saying too much.
19:03You learn which questions to answer and which to deflect.
19:07You learn that a careful silence can be an answer, too.
19:11You learn that politics is now half of your real work.
19:14You are good at it, which honestly surprises you.
19:18Part of you misses the man who knocked on doors in Phoenix.
19:21He feels like a different person you used to know.
19:24Maybe he really was a different person.
19:27Headquarters calls you on a Friday afternoon.
19:30They want you back in Washington.
19:32They want you at the very top.
19:35Level 8.
19:36The Assistant Director.
19:37You move to FBI headquarters in Washington.
19:40The building is named after J. Edgar Hoover himself.
19:44You walk past his stern portrait every single morning.
19:48You are now an assistant director.
19:50You run an entire division of the Bureau.
19:52Maybe it is the Criminal Investigative Division.
19:55Maybe it is the Counterterrorism Division.
19:58Thousands of agents fall under your authority.
20:01You are 48 years old.
20:02Your son is away at college now.
20:05He studies engineering and rarely calls home.
20:08Your daughter is in high school and growing up fast.
20:11Sarah has her own career now and her own friends.
20:15You are partners who pass each other in the kitchen.
20:17You no longer investigate anything yourself.
20:20You set the strategy for how thousands of others investigate.
20:24You brief the director on threats facing the country.
20:27You decide where to point the entire Bureau's attention.
20:31Terrorism.
20:32Cyber attacks on banks and hospitals.
20:34Foreign intelligence digging into American companies.
20:38You sit in rooms with the heads of other agencies.
20:41The CIA.
20:42The NSA.
20:43Homeland Security.
20:45The Secret Service.
20:46Military intelligence officers in plain clothes.
20:49You share what you can and hold back what you must.
20:53Everyone in the room is doing exactly the same thing.
20:56You learn to trust no one fully and work with everyone.
21:00The man across the table was your rival last year.
21:03This year, you need each other to stop a war.
21:06You manage crises that never reach the public at all.
21:09A cyber attack on the power grid is stopped quietly.
21:12Hackers in another country try to shut off a city's water.
21:15Your people trace them and quietly slam the door shut.
21:19A plot against a federal building is dismantled in silence.
21:23The country sleeps and never knows what you prevented.
21:26You testify in closed sessions with no cameras present.
21:30The senators ask hard and pointed questions.
21:33You give honest answers within very careful limits.
21:36You learn that secrets are their own kind of currency.
21:39You spend them carefully and never all at once.
21:42You think about the old woman in the Phoenix courthouse.
21:46She held your hand and thanked you with tears.
21:49No one holds your hand anymore.
21:51The work is too big and too quiet for that.
21:54You wonder if you traded something important to get here.
21:57You probably did somewhere along the way.
22:00The deputy director is retiring at the end of the year.
22:04Your name sits near the top of the shortlist.
22:07Level 9.
22:08The deputy director.
22:09They name you deputy director of the FBI.
22:13You are the highest ranking career agent in the Bureau.
22:16The number two in the entire organization.
22:19Everything operational flows up through you.
22:23You are 52 years old.
22:25Your body remembers every hard year of it.
22:27A knee that aches from a takedown back in Chicago.
22:30A shoulder that never healed right after a raid.
22:33A ringing in your ears from 10,000 rounds at Quantico.
22:37A back that stiffens on cold mornings.
22:40A scar on your hand you never explain.
22:43You feel far older than the calendar says.
22:46You run the daily operations of 35,000 employees.
22:5056 field offices answer to your chain of command.
22:54Offices in dozens of foreign countries report back to you.
22:58You arrive before dawn and leave long after dark.
23:01You read intelligence briefings that would terrify the public.
23:05Threats against the homeland.
23:07Spies hidden inside the government itself.
23:10Networks that want to do unimaginable harm to innocent people.
23:14Some days the list never seems to end.
23:17Some nights you stare at the ceiling and count the dangers.
23:20You decide what reaches the director and what you handle alone.
23:24You sit in the situation room at the White House.
23:28You advise the president on threats facing the nation.
23:31You recommend actions that will never be made public.
23:34You authorize operations across the entire country.
23:38Every decision carries a weight you can feel in your chest.
23:42A domestic terror plot surfaces in a quiet Midwestern town.
23:46You move agents into place over a single sleepless night.
23:49The arrests happen at dawn, before a single shot is fired.
23:54You exhale only when the last suspect is in cuffs.
23:58You think often about the agents out in the field.
24:01The ones knocking on doors at dawn like you once did.
24:04You remember being that young and hungry man.
24:07You remember the fear and the purpose tangled together.
24:10You try to protect those agents from the politics above you.
24:14Sometimes you succeed in doing that.
24:16Sometimes you simply cannot.
24:19Your marriage to Sarah holds, worn thin but unbroken.
24:23She has stayed through every move and every long silence.
24:27You honestly do not know how she did it.
24:29You testify before Congress more than you investigate now.
24:33You manage the press, the politicians, and the leaks.
24:37You handle scandals that could break the whole bureau.
24:40You are the steady hand when everything around you shakes.
24:44The director steps down at the end of the year.
24:46The president asks to see you privately.
24:49You already know what the meeting is about.
24:52Level 10.
24:53The director.
24:55The Senate confirms you after a long and bruising hearing.
24:58You raise your right hand and take the oath of office.
25:01You are the director of the FBI.
25:04You are 56 years old.
25:06The job comes with a 10-year term.
25:09You sit at the very top of 35,000 lives.
25:12Your signature alone can open an investigation into almost anyone.
25:17Your decisions quietly shape the safety of an entire country.
25:21The weight of that lands on you the very first morning.
25:24You walk past Hoover's portrait, and you understand the man a little better now.
25:29You brief the president in the Oval Office.
25:31You sit before Congress and choose every single word with care.
25:35You answer to the law and to history at the same time.
25:38You steer the Bureau through scandals, through threats, and through quiet victories no one
25:44will ever celebrate.
25:45You stop attacks the public will never hear a word about.
25:49You catch spies whose names stay classified for decades.
25:53You make calls that keep millions of strangers safe in their beds, and not one of them will
25:58ever know your name.
25:59That is how it has always worked, and how it always will.
26:03Your son finally calls one Sunday and says he is proud of you.
26:07You sit alone in your office and cry for the first time in years.
26:11Your daughter graduates from college that spring.
26:14You almost miss it for a national security crisis.
26:18You go anyway, because some things matter more than the job.
26:21Sarah holds your hand in the audience.
26:24After 32 years, she is somehow still right there beside you.
26:29You think about the bored young man who hit submit at midnight.
26:32He had no idea what he was signing up for.
26:35He had no idea what it would truly cost him.
26:39The marriage that strained almost to breaking and somehow held.
26:43The kids who grew up in pieces while you were always at work.
26:46The birthdays you missed.
26:48The dinners that went cold.
26:49The friends who took bullets.
26:52And the ones who never came home.
26:54The lies you told for the country.
26:56And the truths you can never share with anyone.
27:00Your ten years finally end, and you walk out the front door for the last time.
27:05There is no ceremony grand enough to hold everything you did.
27:08You move to a quiet house far from the city and its noise.
27:12You sleep poorly.
27:14The nights are long out here.
27:16The phone no longer rings at three in the morning.
27:19You almost miss the sound of it.
27:21You still walk the perimeter of your yard at three in the morning, out of pure habit.
27:26You carry every secret with you, and you always will.
27:30Somewhere tonight, a bored young man at a regional bank is browsing a website after midnight.
27:35He finds a posting that simply says, special agent.
27:39He reads the requirements three times.
27:42He has no idea what he is about to become.
27:45He hits submit.
27:47The cycle continues.
27:48The cycle continues.
27:49The cycle continues.
27:51The cycle continues.
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