the osage, and molly burkehart, begged for justice. a great deal of corruption, in 1923, after 24 osage had been killed, a tribal resolution, known as the bureau investigation, we would later know it as the fbi to come in and investigate. this case falls to the bureau. the bureau was a rag tag operation back then. and badly bungled the case initially. they got an outlaw out of jail, thinking they will use him as an informant. he robs a bank and kills a police officer. and j. edgar hoover is worried about his power. he is worried about his security. and he eventually recruits and brings in an old field agent, tom white, to take over the case, they launch an undercover operation. what is most interesting, among those undercover operatives is a native american. they need to adopt the criminal techniqu techniques, fingerprinting, handwriting analysis. >> how successful was hoover? >> the agents, tom white, they deserve more of the credit than hoover. they are able to, by finding the money to catch one of the masterminds and some of his hen