Consider The Elephant

-In this episode: Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis.

-In this episode: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett

-In this episode: Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac.

-In this episode: Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg

-In this episode: The assassination

-In this episode: Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations.

-In this episode: Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have to escape to Canada.

-In this episode: As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - despondent - disbands his crew. But the Rebel plan is thwarted, and Mary Surratt asks Wilkes to assassinate th

-In this episode: Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated.

-In this episode: Wilkes takes his crew to a play at Ford's Theater. An attempt to snatch the President on the Seventh Street Road fails when Lincoln doesn't show.

-In this episode: Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event.

-In this episode: Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there.

-In this episode: Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell.

-In this episode: Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington.

-In this episode: While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar", Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters.

-In this episode: Lincoln is re-elected, and Wilkes meets Dr. Samuel Mudd.

-In this episode: Wilkes tells Asia of the Lincoln kidnap plot.Wilkes meets Patrick Martin in Montreal, makes his first contacts on the route he plans to use to take the kidnapped President to Richmond, and gets details on Lincoln's routine.

-In this episode: In Boston, Wilkes meets with Confederate agents from Canada and signs on to a plot to kidnap President Lincoln.

-In this episode: Lincoln is nominated for a second term, and Wilkes prospects for oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

-In this episode: Sick and exhausted, Wilkes tours Southern towns under Union occupation while General Grant cuts a swath through Virginia. In New Orleans, Wilkes hears the story of how his father died.