The Long Fuse · Season One · Trailer · 1 min
Trailer: The Long Fuse
August 6, 2001: a briefing whose title you already know. But the fuse was lit long before that summer. The Long Fuse is the story of how the September 11 plot was built, and how close the people trying to stop it came. Nobody's side. Dramatized from the public record; voices are AI-generated.
Disclaimer: a dramatization based on public records, including The 9/11 Commission Report, court filings and trial testimony. Some scenes and dialogue are reconstructed or composited. Voices are AI-generated and are not intended to resemble any real person. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any person or agency depicted. Allegations in court filings are unproven claims. No private victim is named beyond the public record, and people the Commission identified only by pseudonym keep those pseudonyms.
Chapters
Sources
- The 9/11 Commission Report (2004), chapters 2, 3, 8 and 11: https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/index.htm
- Moments in this trailer are drawn from Season One episodes (especially Episodes 2, 3, 4 and 5); see each episode's sources.
Full transcript
The Long Fuse - Trailer - transcript
[00:02] Host: August sixth, two thousand one. The President's Daily Brief carried a title that became infamous.
[00:10] Commission: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US."
[00:13] Host: That summer, the Commission wrote, the system was blinking red. The warnings were loud. They pointed overseas.
[00:24] Host: In Langley, an analyst found a cable that had sat unread for seventeen months.
[00:31] Analyst: Seventeen months. Sitting in the traffic.
[00:36] Host: In Minneapolis, agents held a laptop they were not allowed to open.
[00:41] Agent: We have it. We still can't open it.
[00:44] Host: But the fuse was lit long before that summer. In a college town in Colorado — nineteen forty-nine. Overseas — in the mountains of Afghanistan. And later — in a garage under the World Trade Center.
[01:00] Radio: Priority traffic. All stations.
[01:02] Host: This is the story of how the plot was built — and how close the people trying to stop it came. Nobody's side. Dramatized from the public record.
[01:14] Host: From Will Sigmon Media. The Long Fuse. Season One — wherever you get podcasts.