of caught on camera. all the world may be a stage, but there's no telling when life will radically douepa from the script. a man is trampled by a horse. and a fourth of july celebration goes expleasively off course. whilic at thatting off in a jet turns into a flight between life and death. and falling from 9,000 feet. two skydivers struggle to free themselves before it's too late. >> you have to do something or you're going to die. >> sometimes the best laid plans

can take a turn for the weird. caught on camera. what went wrong. welcome to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. sometimes all it takes is for one tiny detail to be off. and in a split second, a routine event can escalate into a life or death drama leaving folks to wonder what went wrong. it can happen at work or play or as these people found out during a leisurely day during a horse show. an official at a horse competition gets tramped by an out of control horse. may 2nd, 2001. springfield, illinois. at the arabian breed regionals, drivers move their horses into a ring to compete in a class called country pleasure driving.

individual yog refer is there to capture the driving. >> it's supposed to be a pleasure. it should look like a pleasure to drive. >> one of the drivers to tweet on this day is paul heimen. >> you sit on the horse in the saddle and reins. you control the horse with your legs and arms. it's much easier to control him that way. when you drive, you only have reins. and the horse is way up in front, so you really don't control as much as when you are riding. >> the competition begins as planned when paul drives his horse into the ring with the others. but then his horse begins to speed up. >> all of a sudden he started to canter. and that's a big sign that something is wrong. >> he pulls the reins to stop,

but it's no use. >> i hit the other cart. i got thrown out. and he was on his own. he really freaked out. >> the horse went into total panic, because he had a loose cart behind him just banging and turning unside down. >> veteran horse trainers chuck and his son matt trained paul's horse for the event. the tipped cart panics the horse even more. paul and the others scramble to the center to avoid the 1 ton animal. the buggy finally shakes loose, but paul's horse still won't stop. >> there's nothing scarier he than a horse that has totally lost his mental capabilities. he didn't care what he did or who he ran over. >> the stampeding horse nearly runs over a man. then another man tries to grab the loose reins, but that only makes matters worse. paul's horse crashes into a

second horse. his horse falls down. then gets back up and bolts again. >> the horse was scared to death. no one was going to stop him unless they grabbed his head and pulled him to the ground. >> everyone's shocked by what happens next. >> as the horse comes underneath my camera location. one of the ring men threw himself in front of the horse. that's a ton of animal coming at you. that was a brave act. he was doing what he could as a ring man to save the rest of the class. >> uncle bob. all the horseman loved him to death. he had just had open heart surgery that spring. so we were concerned it was the end of bob. fortunately, it was not. >> uncle bob is okay. but paul's horse is still completely out of control. it runs straight at a horse whose driver is disabled and can't exit the buggy. but a judge scares it off by tossing papers at it.

>> all horses are hurt animals. when they're in a panicked situation they want comfort in another animal or person. a horse that is running free, he want the to get near another horse and have the comfort of that. >> shouts and screams by onlookers spook the horse even more. it makes another run at the same horse and this time it slams right into it and its disabled driver. a judge grabs paul's horse, finally stopping him and chuck's son matthew frees the disabled driver just as the horse bolts and continues the med lamb. >> he had the instinct to go and grab her out of the cart before that horse took off or that could have been a light threatening situation. >> watching this unfold, it's surrealistic. and the one horse charges into another horse and stops.

and the second horse takes off. my mind was like oh, good, a fresh horse. that's all we need. >> the startled animal runs over paul's discarded buggy. ring officials try to keep it away from people in the center. >> one of the horses go through the center ring, we could have some major serious injuries. >> horse avoids the center but then moves back around. it knocks a man over and narrowly misses the disabled driver. >> what goes through someone's mind at that time, first of all, total panic. you say oh, my goodness, and then a lot of blaprayer, becaus you doesn't know what the outcome's going to be. >> the buggy tips, helping slow the horse just enough to allow a few mother animals to be removed

from the ring. but this horse shows no signs of stopping. moments later, ring men ready lass owes to harness it. when the buggy jolts off, the exhausted animal trips and goes down. if the horse is critically injured, it will have to be put down. fortunately, it's not hurt. >> the horse was absolutely fine. he went on the end of that year was national champion country horse under saddle. he was fine after that. just exhausted and terrified. >> meiraculously, no people are critically injured either. so what went wrong to initiate all this chaos? it wasn't driver error since paul is an expert horseman.

and paul's horse has plenty of experience in competition, too. turns out, it was something small that chuck noticed in the ring only after it was too late. stinging bees. >> that particular day, as the horses entered the ring on the far side, several of them were irritated by something. personally, i think it was some kind of bees that were in there, and paul came through there and his horse panicked and took off at a full, dead run. >> after this happened, my trainer recommended that i stop driving that horse, and if i want to keep driving i should get a different horse. and i bought his brother. >> this is lucky. because he brings me luck. >> lucky also brought luck to matt, the trainer who saves the disabled woman in this video. at the 2011 nationals, matt and the horse take the ribbon.

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mithe stakes are high for skydivers attempting a world record. but the risks climb even higher when two skydivers find themselves in a life threatening downward spiral. october 1994, 18,000 feet above

davis, california. a group of skydivers is determined to make it into the record books. their goal, build a 46 parachute diamond or canopy and separate and land safely. it will hold eight more skydivers than the world's best of 38. after three years of planning, this morning is their last test before the next day's big jump. skydiving cameraman bryan scott tapes the practice session. the skydivers will use the tape later to analyze the jump. >> canopy formation is multiple parachutes plying nogt formation. the person on the top will grab the nylon of the pair shoot that comes to dock on him. he'll put a foot on the line and he'll hold that parachute while someone comes and joins the formation and you'll build up a diamond of parachutes.

>> a risky jump, but veteran mike lewis engages the challenge. >> canopy formation is a very is fragile formation. the very idea of somebody grabbing ahold of your parachute scares experienced jumpers even more than new jumpers. if they get statangled up, you can't land. >> even the smallest miss cue can mean the dip between success and disaster. >> it's very much like corps graphing a dance. you have to take ahold of the canopy, you have to have your hand and your feet in the right place. you have to plan out the entire jump and then the challenge is to go up and do it in the air. >> lewis assembles the best in the field. all seems to be going smoothly

until something catches the cameraman's eye. >> there was a left row, six wing that had docked and he had fallen off the formation. and that kind of sent a little underlation through the formation. and this went to the opposite side of the forlation. sure enough, as the skydiver attempts to join the right side of the formation, the wave reaches him. he manages to hold stiet at another team member approaches from below. the man beneath should help stabilize the right side. >> you want to see the man come in underneath the wind dock otherwise it's just a free-floating parachute. >> before the skydivers on the right can stabilize, the man on the left re-approaches row six. as he joins, he pulls down on the formation, amplifying the wave again. >> they come forward, the

parachutes start collapsing, they start folding up. that's when several people let go on that right row. the right row six wing was so far forward that when at the let go of him, his parachute turned back into the formation, as it came across the front, his parachute did a 90 degree left turn and came right into the formation. >> the entire pyramid collapses and two skydivers end up in a treacherous tangle. the unlucky man who gets wrapped up is his friend. >> that was allen. and he's one of my best friends in the world. i got right on it, and i started spiraling two of them. it looked like a biplane, it was two parachutes like this together. >> chutes that are tangled can't function properly. now they spin out of control 9,000 feet above the ground. and allen has another problem. the lines of the other his

neck. >> in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped around you, they need to pull their release handle and go in free fall and that takes the tension off. >> the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free, but his parachute remains behind, its lines still wrapped around allen's knack. >> the parachute lines are wrapped around allen twice. the tension stayed on allen. the parachute was still partially open. the parachute was pulling those lines tight. it's like a chinese finger trap. it just sticks to you. >> with time running out and his neck constricted allen has only one option, cut the other skydiver's chute lines, but as he does that, it leads to

another problem. >> once allen cut other lean, the parachute went nuts. it started spinning because it was no longer in a might have configuration. it just got spinning more and more. now it's wrapping allen's lines up into a coil. it was tying a rope. >> allen is spinning out of control and time is running out. >> i didn't know if allen was going to make it. i'd never seen anything that violent or -- i knew we were getting pretty low. and we were right over the airport. so i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he bawas going to go . that's really the way i felt as i was watching him. >> with the lines twisted so thick and tight, allen's problem goes from bad to worse. his knife breaks. allen reaches for a second knife, which he wouldn't have been carrying that day if it hadn't been for his friend bryan scott. >> the day before i went to the pro shop and bought him a metal

hook knife. and i think allen had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here, but it was plastic. and i bought him a better knife. it was just a present to my buddy the day before. >> with his new knife, allen finally frees himself of both chutes. now in free fall, he has fewer than ten secok seconds until im. >> that was it. >> with little time to spare, allen coasts to a landing completely unscathed. luckily his reserve chute deployed, even though he was so close to the ground. >> we all gathered at the ground and he was just laughing and carrying on. and he was back up in the air that day. allen's just my hero. he never gave up for one second. >> the very next day, the team breaks the world record for canopy formation.

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a factory worker clings to life hoping rescuers can reap him before it's too late. january 2003, the west pharmaceutical factory, manufacturer for rubber stoppers for syringes blows sky high. calls pour in to 911. some callers report that a plane struck the building. kinston firefighter witnesses the blaze from miles away. >> i thought it was a plane crash into the building. i figured there'd be a lot of

casualties. i'd never been in any incident of that size before. >> the county fire marshal is also called in that day. >> we're rural eastern north carolina, and it took every resource for our county. >> potential casualties could be high with 130 employees on site at the time of the incident. but officials quickly rule out the possibility that an airplane's to blame. >> no evidence of any plane striking the building was seen. so we ruled out a plane going into the building fairly early. >> officer woody spencer is assigned to document the scene on video. >> it was total chaos. i mean there was trucks and people running all over the

place and flames and smoke billowing from thele building. there was a piece of wood in front of me that was impailed into the ground. is the doors on the loading docks were bull nled out. so the concussion from the explosion was immense. >> they believe dozens of employees may still be trapped inside. firefighters search desperately in the thick black smoke. then a worker manages to climb out of the devastation. firefighters help the badly burned man down from the hot roof. with other workers still missing, rescuers have to jump right back in. >> we're still searching for people that weren't accounted for. so we're going to stay until the job gets done. >> there were rumors everywhere, that there were all sorts of

people inside trapped and dead. >> one hour after the start of the fire, authorities know the prospects of finding survivors is fwrichlt and that's when they see a sight they can hardly believe. >> the wind kind of shifted and started pushing the smoke a different direction. then all of a sudden he appeared out of the smoke. everybody was speechless. >> i've been a shooter for 20 something years. and that right there was as helpless i've ever felt in my life. there was nothing i could do. all i could do was shoot him from a distance. >> he's perched just above the ep center of the fire and appears severely burned on his arms and legs. now officials have to figure out how to pull him from the inferno. >> he'd already been up there for a while. we knew time wasn't in his favor. >> with time running out, rescuers must quickly device a safe way in and out.

>> something of that magnitude, you're just not sure what's going to happen walking on the roof or inside the building with all the structure collapsed. you doesn't know how sound it is. you get in there and one little thing could fall and create a domino effect. >> the man is there for 20 more minutes before firefighters reach him and pull him to safety. he is machinist jim edwards, and he survives. >> i feel wonderful. i said thank god i'm safe now. he said i'm with you, jim. relax. everything will be fine. i'm going to be right with you. nothing's going to happen to you. >> edwards is burned over 60% of his body. trapped inside the blaze, he'd wondered if his team had come. >> the fear and everything was about 10 foot away from me. and with all that heat and everything was eating me alive. and i just couldn't go nowhere. it was scary, and i was just wondering if i was ever going to see the next day or not. i figured this was the end.

>> over the next three year, edwards undergoes a dozen surgeries, along the way, he con tracts a the infection that claims his eyesight. but he remains positive. >> the good lord felt like it was not my time to go. i feel like i still got something to offer to give to people. i'm blessed still to be here today. i talk to people about how important it is to not take anything for granted, because you can lose everything in a flash. >> in all, six people died in the fire. what went wrong to start this deadly braze in the first place? turns out, it's something that went unnoticed. accumulating for years. dust, polyethylene dust, a non-stick coating applied to the raw rubber in the factory. >> it's like a real, fine powdery, like the texture of a

talcum powder. when it's suspended and hanging in the air, it's very volatile and flammable. if it accumulates over time in an attic, in a crawlspace, in a dropped ceiling, it takes something very minor to make that dust airborne, and once it finds an ignition source, it's going to blow. >> like a natural gas leak, any number of sources could have ignited the dust. but authorities are never able to confirm the source in this case. after this incident, north carolina passes stricter fire regulations to allow inspectors access to examine confined areas where dust can accumulate. the aim is to safeguard the lives of workers and first responders. with west pharmaceuticals now rebuilt nearby, jim edwards expects the new rules will help avoid pew tour catastrophes. >> i feel what happened that day was a tragedy for everybody, and

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at least one person is dead now because of record setting heat in the west and southwest. the heat wave is expected to last through tuesday. phoenix topped out at 119 degrees saturday. no fire works at some the military bases. and gay pride parades took place today. police lined the streets for the 44th annual gathering. welcome back to caught on camera, i'm contessa brower.

when you attend a fourth of july fireworks des play, you expect to see fireworks, just not like this. spectators were left scared. a holiday celebration goes from festive to fear some in the blink of an eye. july 4, 2010. the town of palmyra is celebrating. they are celebrating their hometown's big birthday. lifelong residents look forward to the evening's festivities. >> we were celebrating the 250th anniversary. it was a big deal for the community. they had vendors set up, rides

set up, things fort kids to do and the adults to do. >> the night will be topped off by a fireworks display. >> her teenage son didn't want to miss it. the lawn is scattered with spectators. hundreds of people grab seats on the bleachers behind the fence to get a view from farther away. >> about 10:00, the fireworks started going off. it was beautiful. >> me and my girlfriend were laying down in the grass looking up. it was cool, because we could watch them going right over head. >> from the bleachers, spectators record the show with their video cameras and phones. about 20 minutes into the show,

the finale begins. but no one is prepared for what happens next. >> fireworks started going off at ground level the they started shooting sideways. they were coming out towards the crowd, towards the people. >> they started going off really quickly and in all kinds of directions and a few towards us. >> the crowd begins to panic. >> it happened so quickly, that there was really not time to react or even realize what was going on around us. you could hear the screams and people yelling and crying. and everything in total chaos. >> sitting in the open grass to the left, she and her kids and scores of others are more exposed than those in the bleachers. so the errant fireballs reach them first along with a mortar box filled with a lit shell. >> the box was rolling end over end towards us.

and it landed two feet from my son's leg. for a split second, i thought we're okay. >> but then a shock. tyler takes a direct hit from a 3,000 degree shell launched out of the mortar box lying next to him. >> i wasn't sure quite what happened. it just felt like i got hit really hard in the back of the leg. i heard my girlfriend running away screaming. i wasn't sure anything was wrong with me yet. i wanted to make sure she was all right. it was only after the paramedics checked her out, that i was like hey, something's wrong with my leg. >> his summer clothes expose his leg to the full force of the blast. >> i have my shorts right here. and then down at the bottom, you can see they're all shredded up from where the fire work blew up next to my leg. >> tyler's injuries are more severe on the back of his left

leg. he sustains third-degree burns and the shrapnel forms a gaping hole in his leg. >> he has other burns town his calf, bad cuts on his ankle and foot and up the back of his leg. >> so why did a summer evening of family celebrating turn to horror? what went wrong? a state police investigation reveals that a shed explodes nsaid its launch tube setting off a chain reaction, blasting a mortar box straight toward tyler and his family. federal labor regulators fine the fireworks company $3700. the company did not return our calls for comment. with such powerful shells fired by the company, the federal report insists they should have used sturdier steel mortar boxes

instead of the weaker wooden ones. ten others get hurt that night, but tyler's injuries are the worst. he endures several surgeries and months of therapy to restore his legs. >> i don't want to get near them. coming up. a single bird causes a lot of chaos. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject, and i was not looking forward to doing it. and later, a building dips but doesn't tip. when caught on camera continues. 130 calories 7 grams of protein the new fiber one caramel nut protein bar.

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air force captain has flown for more than two decades. he's among canada's best. >> i actually was an instructor for instructors. >> at the canadian nato flight training center, instructors fly with students in the hawk 155. this is a one engine, two seat aircraft. the student flies in the front seat and instructors fly in the back seat. >> when we sign the airplane out, the instructor pilot is the pilot in command, and he's responsible for the airplane. we have a tape in the airplane to see how the student is flying. >> among the maneuvers they practice is the touch and go.

that's when a pilot touches wheels down briefly and returns to the air in one fell swoop without stopping. for fighter pilots, the maneuver is routine, one that can save their rielives if a landing muse an aborted. >> in may of 2000, he supervises a british pilot. >> he was getting a familiarization for the aircraft before he went on to some phase training. >> once the british pilot competes the touch and go, he takes over. >> i say okay, he's been flying for an hour and a half. i've got to have a minute on the stick. and that's when i put the wheels up after the touch and go. >> but then, both pie plots are rocked by what happens next. a single bird gets sucked into the jet's engine.

>> when you have the landing gear up and no runway from front of you, the option of putting the aircraft back down with no thus is gone. >> he has only one option. >> when that bird went into the engine, i knew i had to eject, and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system, it's designed to get your little pink body away from the crash site. you're not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. it's a very voi length thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have been ejected out of the same plane, at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally. >> he takes advantage. speed he has to tilt nose up and gain altitude. that could increase their chances for survival. their parachutes will have more time to deploy. he has one other thing going for him. >> the fuel state was low, so

the aircraft was light. i had that advantage. >> with altitude gained, he tries restarting the engine. and now though have another problem. they've lost too much speed. >> i was basically trying to keep the airplane flying. if the airplanes fly too slow they stall. >> a stalled plane has no lift and falls out of control. to prevent that is correct he drops his right wing, trading altitude for airspeed. the jet's computer voice warns their gear is not down for landing. with the ground approaching rapidly, he must level the aircraft before ejection. >> what peace paramount, it's important to be wings level. if you put any bank on the airplane, it lessens, especially in a low level environment.

so all i was making sure was we were wings level before we ejected. >> the pilots try to row start one last time. with time running out, hutt prepares to eject. his last task is to aim the jet where it will do the least harm when it crashes. >> i took a quick look around, straight ahead looked good. set the throttle back to idle. we ready, and the ground was starting to come up pretty fast. so it was time to go. >> it's an explosive situation. you're literally sitting on a rocket. >> the jet is completely

destroyed. but both pie plots survive the violent ejection process. >> this has a miniature detonating cord above you which literally explodes the canopy above your head so the seat can go through faster. i remember one of the biggest memories of the whole event was this big white flash right in my face. it felt like i exploded myself. then that seat goes up through, up to 20 g acceleration. the ejection force itself, i really remembered a strong pain in the small of my back. and when the chute opened up again, that was to reconfirm the pain if my back. i hit the ground pretty hard, and i did further damage to myself. i broke my femur. the femur shattered on contact. >> the brit earn pilot escapes with only minor injuries. and captain hutt cheats death by the slimmest margin. >> i was doing 33 feet per

second when i hit the fwrountd. and all the data says anything more than 35 feet per second is fatal. >> so what went wrong? investigators find the wing of a small bird in the wreckage. it's a franklin's gull, common to the airfield, but generally too small to do this much dam. so it makes sense when investigate ares find that the gull isn't the whoem thing that the engine has ingested. >> as the bird came down this side, it actually hit the probe before it ended up going in the engine. >> and the metal probe broke off and chewed up the inside of the engine. the smallest creatures can do the most damage. coming up, 11 stories become

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at just over 200 feet, the zip tower feed mill in south dakota stood as the tallest building for 50 years. but in 2005, it becomes the tallest leaning building. this sioux falls native has something in common with the record holding tower. >> born in 1955, the year this was built on the site.

at the time it was built, was supposedly the largest feed manufacturing plant in all of the united states. there's still a lot of pride in it. >> over the years, hundreds of sioux falls residents worked there. but by 2000, the work moved on and that's when the building closed. jeff saw an opportunity for his company. >> i'm a long time sioux falls resident. i'm dedicated to my community. i needed more space for my growing business and i started looking for available properties. >> the zip tower mill land on the east of the sioux river fits the bill. in 2005, jeff purchases the property, determined to demolish the 11-story landmark. >> we were looking at bids for exploding it and for bids for just taking it down the old-fashioned way with the ball and chain. >> but the zip is one story taller than the highest wrecking crane in the state. so it must be taken down with explosives. jeff ceases the opportunity to raise funds for a cause dear to his heart.

>> about three months prior to this, my youngest daughter at 19 had been diagnosed with ms, multiple sclerosis. all of a sudden i said i'm going to turn this into a fundraiser. >> a rookie reporter at the time jumps at the time to cover the event. >> we knew it was for a great cause. the tallest building in south dakota is coming down and you want to be here for there. >> so we went out and sold tickets for the person who pushes the button. >> they call the event boom and print thousands of raffle tickets to sell. >> in a little less than six weeks' time, we sold 50,000 tickets. at a dollar a piece. it just became just bigger than life. >> they were expecting thousands and thousands of people. how exactly are they going to do this, to blow up the biggest building in south dakota? is anybody going to get hurt? >> to protect the public, authorities set up a wide

perimeter, because so much vacant land surrounds the building, the plan is to tip the zip over like a tree, rather than implode it straight down. that way, fewer explosives are required, according to demolition site manager, eric schuller. >> it was a very solid structure. so to install enough explosives to crumble the building upon itself would have been a pretty big feat. to tip it over, it was a lot easier method. the explosive experts removed concrete in between the columns and then installed explosives in those columns. the plan was then to remove that support structure similar to falling a tree, creating a wedge for the structure to fall down to the east. >> on december 6th, 2005, with tens of thousands watching in person and on tv, the zip's time has come. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -- >> whoa. >> the zip dips but it doesn't

tip. >> instead of going over like i knew it was supposed to, it fell into this hole. a story and a half was blown out of it and there was really only one metal pipe that broke off. otherwise, the entire structure stood. had the contractor said, what's going on? we said, we don't know. we're not sure why it didn't go down. it may still fall. so we've got to be real careful. >> so why did the building tip but not topple? when the blast knocks out the lower floor, the remaining floors rush down and crush a foundation softened by years of standing water. once in the hole, the zip just sticks. >> this has been great because it says, i'm not going down without a fight. >> there was a 15-foot deep basement under the structure

that was actually blasted into quartzite. quartzite is like granite, very solid. it came down and sat in that footprint. >> people were still just kind of dumbfounded by the whole situation. i don't really think they knew what to do or how to react as opposed to just laugh at it. well, we'll see what they do now. can they blow it up again? can they bring any more dynamite? can they bring in more explosives? how long is it going to stay like this? will it be the leaning tower of sioux falls? no one knew. >> things did not go quite according to plan on saturday, now sioux falls has its own leaning tower. >> the explosion shortened approximately 40 feet in mere seconds. so the building went from 205 feet to roughtly 160 feet tall, so the wrecking ball could reach the top of the building and bring the top of it down. >> it takes three weels to finish the job. during that time, the leaning tower of zip makes national news. and thousands more visit in the holiday season, making donations

to the ms foundation, totalling more than $150,000. >> i would say another 20, 30% came in after the fact because of the way this thing all turned out. >> if it had just fallen over, okay, it's over. it's what we expected. it was the blooper of it all. >> the initial demolition may have been a bust but that blooper led to something quite progressive. the zip's soft concrete is crushed, recycled, and laid into the foundation of the new building. >> it's not the tallest building in south dakota anymore, but it's still there. it's still part of south dakota. >> the zip may be down, but it's legend has only grown. and that's physical proof that the best laid schemes of mice and men often go askew. we will give credit to poet robert burns, who wrote that in 1785 in scotland. so it's probably safe to assume that what went wrong is a concept that is both universal and timeless. i'm contessa brewer.

that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. angry inmates express their rage by flooding the segregation unit. the targets of the discontent include the prison's sex offenders. >> it's not the neighborhood that's so bad, it's the neighbors. >> it's my duty to put the fear of god into this man. >> the special response team is called into action. and another inmate nears the end of his sentence.