With the manhunt for Booth underway and martial law secure, Stanton strikes a compromise to preserve Lincoln’s agenda, but a dark revelation threatens to upend his progress.

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Starring Jeremy Schwartz as Edwin Stanton.

Also featuring (In Order of Appearance):

Ian Ferguson (Major Thomas Eckert)

Steven Walters (Robert Lincoln)

Jessica Renee Russell (Lucy Hale)

R. Bruce Elliott (President Andrew Johnson)

J. Michael Tatum (Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles)

William Jackson Harper (John Mercer Langston)

Reed Birney (Senator John P. Hale)

Created by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla

Directed by Robert McCollum

Written by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla

Executive Producer: Lindsay Graham

Co-executive Producers: Erik Archilla, Robert McCollum and Steven Walters

Music and Sound Design by Lindsay Graham

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