Summary
A quest for worldwide fame ignites one of the biggest manhunts in American history in a seven-part conspiracy thriller based on the best-selling non-fiction book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer. A few days after the Confederate surrender in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) is fatally shot at the theatre, in front of his wife Mary (Lili Taylor), by stage actor John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). Around 1500 people in the audience witness the callous crime yet Booth manages to escape. U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) spearheads the manhunt to capture Booth and bring him to justice, whatever the personal cost.
