Before his name was tied to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Terry Nichols was a shy, book-smart Michigan farm boy who cared for injured animals, dreamed of becoming a doctor, and later lived as a stay-at-home dad who loved gardening and baking bread. This episode maps the painfully ordinary steps that led from that life to becoming a domestic terrorist.

Presented as an investigation into the anatomy of radicalization rather than an endorsement of any viewpoint, we trace his drifting identity, financial collapse, embrace of sovereign-citizen beliefs, and pivotal army friendship with Timothy McVeigh. We follow the meticulous bomb preparation, his absence on the day of the attack, and two separate trials.

• A lifelong pattern of bouncing between careers that left him without a strong core identity
• $40,000 in credit card debt a ...