Much like one of its secondary characters, "Manhunt" is a peculiar kind of double agent. Initially, it progresses as advertised: a conspiracy thriller that launches with one of American history’s most famous crimes. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) at Ford's Theatre is, like his biography, a tale often told.
Most of these works depict Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle), as a bit player in a great man’s story, with an exception being Stephen Sondheim’s "Assassins."
