The order came from the Oval Office. The weapon was hiding in the bathroom.

Washington D.C., August 1960. The Cold War is heating up, and patience is running out. In a secret meeting at the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower utters a sentence that will echo through history, wishing for Patrice Lumumba to simply "fall into a river full of crocodiles." The directive is clear: elimination.

But the CIA doesn't send a sniper. They send a scientist.

In Episode 2: The Chemist and the Crocodile, meet "Joe from Paris"—Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA’s club-footed master of mind control and poisons. He arrives in the Congo not with a gun, but with a diplomatic pouch containing a terrifyingly domestic assassination kit: rubber gloves, a syringe, and a tube of toothpaste laced with a lethal biological ...