The show's second season follows the hunt for Eric Rudolph, who was the perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, after suspicion initially fell on security guard Richard Jewell.

[4] In 1995, Jim Fitzgerald graduates from the FBI's criminal profiler program and is approached by investigators from the Unabomber case after a recent bombing in Sacramento.

Focusing on excessive soldering in a forensic report, he theorizes that the Unabomber is obsessed with his image and that the threat is a prank meant to maintain his power over the FBI and the public.

At a roundtable with academics, he meets linguistics graduate student Natalie Rogers, who identifies the manifesto's formatting as standard for a doctoral dissertation written between 1967 and 1972.

Based on these discoveries, Fitzgerald vehemently disagrees with Cole's identification of Leo Burt as prime suspect, causing his team to be disbanded.

Inspired by Rogers's story about the evolution of language in early Europe, Fitzgerald fleshes out a full profile of the Unabomber, who he identifies as a highly educated, tech-avoiding loner.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Engrossing and affecting, Manhunt: Unabomber uses a taut, meticulously constructed narrative to uncover the facts behind the oft-exaggerated true story.