Slow Burn

Martha Mitchell, wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell, makes a discovery that changes her life and threatens to take down a sitting president. She will be the first of many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.

In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead straight to the White House. What follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse.

A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case. Mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Richard M. Nixon’s bid for reelection.

The first televised soap-opera debuts, but it’s Congressional hearings. As the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges, and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.

In episode five, Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield, deputy assistant to the president, drops a bombshell.

Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.