Manhunt episode 2, “Post Mortem,” begins with a slow-motion scene of Abraham Lincoln’s (Hamish Linklater) murder. But as John Wilkes Booth’s (Anthony Boyle) gun closes in on the back of Lincoln’s head, Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) appears from nowhere to stop the assassination. As Stanton punches Booth, though, he just laughs in his face and calls him a failure.
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