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Another child comes out of the compound with a note pinned to her jacket. it says, "once the children are out, the adults will die." >> we never got another child out. we got a total of 21, and i will be eternally grateful for the fact that we were able to accomplish that. >> 27 children remained inside the compound. >> we continued to press david on that. david finally became very upset with the negotiator, and he stopped and yelled at them. he said, hey, you don't understand. the rest of these children are my children. they're not coming out. the battle of armageddon was on. but when we star...

Gas into the building. >> i learned of the gas that day. i didn't know that they were going to do that. and i thought, wow, well, they're going to gas them out. >> exit the compound now. submit to the proper authority, david. you are under arrest. this standoff is over. >> i don't think we, the fbi, atf, anybody else ever had any control over how this was going end. i think the only control we truly had was when it was going to end. >> koresh had his playbook already decided in advance. that he would destroy his followers rather than to give up to the evil armies of the federal government. >> ...

Negotiators are stymied. there's still no progress. in a concession to davidian leader david koresh the fbi lets him speak to his attorney from inside the compound. >> i'm hopeful that this is some real progress and that we can bring this thing to an end real 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 ...

Accepted him as having a message from god. >> 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're always described 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...

>> koresh had his playbook already decided in advance. that he would destroy his followers rather than to give up to the evil armies of the federal government. >> believe me, it will not get any better. it will only get worse. david, you have had your 15 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 in...