I concur with the other 1-star reviewer here, that a television show like this one should not engage in the type of propaganda that would paint a simplistic, gung-ho lie on a potent and sensitive political situation. Leonard Peltier is most likely innocent and was framed by an angry FBI after two of their young agents (Ron Williams and Jack Coler) were killed execution style following an intense gun battle. Also, these agents were not investigating a robbery, as stated in this episode; the FBI's cover story is that they were trying to serve a warrant in a matter regarding a stolen pair of boots; and what these agents were probably doing all along was spying on the nearby American Indian Movement's (AIM) camp, because AIM was hording guns--not to invade anyone or anyplace, but because martial law had been declared on that Indian Reservation, and AIM was protecting themselves and the women and children in harm's way. The United States Government now admits that there were about 80 unsolved murders on the Reservation, although it does not admit that the most likely suspects are the tribal police force that the FBI backed. Actually, it was more like 200 unsolved murders. AIM also circulated a lame cover story that a red pick-up truck delivering dynamite was being followed by the agents when the gun battle broke out. Before Peltier's trial, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler were acquitted of the murders based on self-defense. Robideau admits he fired the shot that ricocheted in a strange way and shredded Agent Coler's arm, which would have killed him. When Peltier was finally extradited, new evidence pinned the executions on him, and the evidence that supported self-defense in the Robideau/Butler trial was not allowed into the Peltier trial. Peltier will probably die in prison while the rest of the world sees him as an American version of Nelson Mandela. How embarrassing that this injustice must go on for so many decades.
Review of Alchemy
