lapoint was waiting too.ee days had passed since he sent out brigita's samples as she was in pain the whole time, finally, the lab results came back and just as suspected it was thallium, a lot of it. brigita's husband and young son seemed to be clear of the toxic metal but she was in serious danger. >> her levels were off the charts. >> yeah they were really high. >> more than 1,000 times the acceptable level. >> wow. that's unbelievable. >> a hospital staffer had driven through the night to get hold of prussian blue pills. the doctor started brigita on them immediately. but with so much thallium in brigita's system dr. lapoint worried prussian blue wouldn't be enough to save her. he also put her on dialysis to filter her blood. it was a slow process when special agent arrived to question her brigita was still desperately ill. >> how would you describe her condition at that point in time? >> very serious, she struggled with answering simple questions. >> sick as she was he knew couldn't wait. >> she looked v

mark lapointe reenacts with a 28th, massachusetts and we have a member of the 28th, massachusetts in the audience so that this is recorded in the forever he is from massachusetts reenacting a union soldier is partly about connecting to his regional identity. mark says quote. i'm from the north. that's where i grew up so i can relate to the history the people that lived there at the time and i can get to know their stories. you know, my heritage is northern. he continued. i'm a huge abraham lincoln fan. so i think it would be a disservice to his memory to fight for the confederacy. i don't believe or condone slavery in any way and i'd hope that if i were alive during that period i would feel the same way. mark sloan is also a northerner from pennsylvania. but he chooses to enact as a confederate soldier. for he feels himself to be quote southern at heart. he is here second from right? with a 21st, georgia in manassas made up mostly of men from new york. mark red voraciously about the civil war and the more he read the more he was drawn to the southern side. he told me mark said quote