Awesome / Manhunt (2024)

• After Booth kills Lincoln and flees the theater, a Badass Bystander chases him out of the theater and down the alley even after Booth mounts his horse. You also have Major Rathbone, who attacks Booth after he shoots Lincoln.
• Many of the detective moments in which Stanton and his allies gain insights into pursuing the fugitives are decently impressive.
  • Stanton realizes that John Suratt Jr.'s shoe size is in an employment record he made, and they can use that to see if he was the one who made tracks outside Stanton's house.
  • A black soldier realizes where they can find a map of Confederate Secret Service routes in an old office, leading to a large raid where his unit smashes into a Confederate office and then finds a hidden cabinet after a search.
• When budding President Evil Johnson shows no interest in hunting down Booth, Stanton threatens to publicly circulate the conspiracy theories that he is involved in the assassination if he tries to stand in their way. Earlier, he also pointedly refuses to call Johnson "Mr. President" before hs official swearing-in.
• In one flashback scene, a group of slave catchers abducting runaways up North is temporarily driven away by a defiant mob that includes two gun-toting freedwomen, the uncle of the little girl they're after, and even some nearby white abolitionists.
• In multiple scenes, Booth and his black guide, Swann, trade barbs or negotiate. Swann proves more than willing to threaten Booth at gunpoint, refuse to be humiliated, and raise his price whenever Booth does anything petty.
• After Dr. Mudd gets one too many Mean Boss moments, Mary defiantly reminds him that she isn't his slave anymore and quits his service, telling him to do his own cleaning.
• After two episodes of watching pro-Confederate businessman George Sanders being a Hate Sink who flaunts his power, political views, and potential ties to the conspiracy, it is satisfying to see him get arrested, with a similar feeling occurring during Dr. Mudd's arrest in the next episode.
• After five episodes of basking in glory during their (admittedly few) encounters with other Confederates, Booth and Herold meet a Confederate veteran who survived the entire war, sees through their soldier disguises with a Sherlock Scan, and coldly calls Booth a coward and a disgrace.
• Stanton orders that Booth's body be examined by a coroner to confirm his death against any conspiracy theories and then dump his body in a swamp so no one can make his grave into a Confederate monument.
• Stanton manages to convince Johnson to have Jefferson Davis indicted as a suspected member of the conspiracy (although concerns about the amount of evidence they have quickly weaken the resolve to try him).
• Swann's refusal to testify against the surviving conspirators has some opportunism and hypocrisy to it, but he also gets in a cold dig about how he doesn't owe the federal government anything while they still only consider him 3/5ths of a human.