Aftermath With William Shatner Episode Guide, Season 2

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Ed Smart: Bringing Home Elizabeth
The night of Smart's kidnapping, her younger sister Mary Katherine had pretended to be asleep in the other bed while silently attempting to observe her sister's kidnapper in the dark. After several months, it suddenly occurred to Mary Katherine that the kidnapper resembled a man who had once worked on their home as a handyman and who had called himself Immanuel. Police discovered that Immanuel was a man named Brian David Mitchell, and in February 2003 America's Most Wanted aired his photograph. Finally, on March 12, 2003, a passerby recognized Mitchell walking with Smart - who was veiled and wearing a wig and sunglasses. Authorities arrested Mitchell and his wife and returned Smart to her family that evening.

Baby Jessica: Robbie & Casey O' Donnell
Baby Jessica was trapped in a well, 22 feet below ground, for the next 58 hours, while frantic rescue crews attempted to save her life and the entire nation watched transfixed as the drama played out on television. Because she had fallen so deep into the earth???beneath layers of rock harder than granite???and because the diameter of the well was so narrow, the rescue mission was extraordinarily difficult. Using a large rat-hole rig, a machine normally used to plant telephone poles in the ground, rescue teams drilled a 30-inch wide, 29-foot deep hole parallel to the well. They then began the difficult process of drilling a horizontal tunnel between the two wells about two feet below where Baby Jessica was trapped.

The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
When defense expert Daniel Ellsberg worked on a secret government study in 1969 about the Vietnam War, he realized that American leaders were lying to the public--they knew it was not a winnable war. Ellsberg decided to secretly copy the study and give it the nation's top newspapers. The "Pentagon Papers" became a national scandal. Ellsberg talks to William Shatner about his reasons for breaching top-secret confidentialities, and the remarkable aftermath of the groundbreaking media and legal battles over the "Pentagon Papers."

Chilean Miner Rescuer: Jeff Hart
When 33 miners were trapped in a Chilean mine, a desperate call went out to Jeff Hart, asking him to assemble a team and fly 10,000 miles to Chile to save the men. Hart and his crew had spent their entire working lives drilling for oil and water, but now they were drilling to save lives. Hart talks to William Shatner about his nerve-wracking assignment, and how he often faced failure in his struggle to bring the men to safety.

The Mayflower Madam: Sydney Biddle Barrows
It was the most notorious sex scandal of the 1980s: the arrest of Sydney Biddle Barrows - a blue-blood debutante, a descendant of the Mayflower, a name in the Social Register... and a Madam of a high-priced call girl service. William Shatner talks with Ms. Barrows to find out how a high-society dame found herself working the underground sex scene... How she beat the rap... And how she turned her unique entrepreneurial experience into a new career as a high-priced business consultant.

The Insider: Jeffrey Wigand
He's been called "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, a top scientist for a top tobacco company, who became the first insider who blew the whistle on Big Tobacco: what they knew about the deadly addictiveness of nicotine, and how many millions of dollars they spent covering that information up. But Dr. Wigand paid a heavy price for his honesty - his career was ruined, and his family torn apart. William Shatner talks to Jeffrey Wigand to find out how and why he did what he did, and what surprising directions his life has taken since becoming the nation's most famous whistle-blower.