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Casualties inside the compound, including david koresh. >> at this hour fbi agents are negotiating with the cult leader. he reportedly believes he is jesus christ. >> mr. koresh, how are you doing? >> fair to middling. >> i understand you've been wounded. will you describe your position? >> weakening. >> are you shot, sir? >> yes, i am. >> well, communications opened up pretty quickly. he loved to talk. he loved to hear himself talk. >> how is god going to talk to me in the latter days? so there will be no excuse. >> so there was no lack of communication. there was a lack of productive communi...

Quickly. >> after the attorneys went in, there was -- david said that he was going to write his manuscript of the meanings of the seven seals. >> supposedly the manuscript will be koresh's proof that he is the lamb of god. at first koresh says it will take him two days to write about each seal. then it becomes two weeks, and then he says it will take a year. >> had there been serious preparation of the manuscripts, we would have waited. but there was none. >> on the 49th day of the siege, attorney general janet reno approves the bureau's plan for a tactical solution. the insertion of tear gas ...

>> clive doyle is a branch davidian survivor, and to this day a believer in david koresh. >> david was constantly talking to god. god told me to do this. god told me to do that. we accepted that. >> god speaks to me. i have a message to present. >> to outsiders koresh soon transformed the davidian church into a cult. >> the most important element of the cult is the leader. and they always describe the same way as being charismatic. >> i mean, there are some things that god has concealed in his written word that are to be brought to do right before the end of time. >> koresh preached end of day...

Minutes of fame. it's time to leave the building. >> we banked on the fact that a parent if they found their children exposed to that kind of discomfort would move heaven and earth to get them to a position of safety. we were wrong. >> the beginning of the end comes just after 12:00 noon. a wisp of smoke floats from a compound window. >> my instructions over the loudspeakers went from instructions to, please, david, don't do this. >> david, don't do this. >> all of a sudden you see bursts of flames. i'm, like, my god, i hope they allowed the children to leave. >> this is not the way to end thi...

>> he indicated that david didn't think it was necessary, so i said, wait a minute, you don't want to come out or david doesn't want you to come out? he says, well, david doesn't think it's necessary. >> for agent sage, a heated phone conversation that follows provokes a crucial realization about koresh. >> at one point he is talking about my salvation and i said, david, i am absolutely confident in my salvation as a christian. and you, partner, are not in a position to judge me. now, that was a very calculated move because stop and think about it. if this individual was delusional and thought...