mt. carmel.ooking for a prophet. >> he taught that it was time to act, be passionate, be a soldier for god. >>> my mother and my father were seventh day adventists. i was there from the beginning of my life, i was born into it, i was there long before vernon was ever known. >> i was basically from the age of 5 raised as a branch davidian. unlike my wife, deborah, i was raised in california. so when i graduated high school, i ended up moving to mt. carmel where i met my wife, and that's when i first started living with the group. the full name is branch davidian seventh day adventist. adventist meaning they believe in the second coming of christ. this all comes down to the book of revelation, which is pretty clear there is going to be a final end, the final judgment. so, yeah, it was important stuff for david koresh. >> heart broken and confused, vernon howell makes his way to mt. carmel in search of a living prophet. he finds the branch davidian leader, nearly 70-year-old lois roden. >> lois rode

mt. carmel, five branch davidians are mortally wounded and several are injured. including david koresh. >> his blood pressure was terribly low because of the loss of blood. he refused medication, antibiotics, aspirin, anything. he said, the lord is going to decide this. >> so you can know -- >> koresh doesn't die. he treats the wound himself and makes the decision that he and his followers will remain inside the compound. >> no one is going to expect me, when they come busting in on my door with guns drawn and pointed in the air and someone fire at me that i'm going to lay down and die for anybody. it just ain't going to happen in this country. >> in just a few hours, the raid that was supposed to go off without incident, is deemed a complete disaster. >> there was an absolute lack of plan b, and all the team leaders i talked to say my only regret in my career in my life was that i didn't stop it. >> by the early afternoon, the atf calls in the fbi to handle negotiations. marking the beginning of what will become one of the longest standoffs in law enforcement hi

mt. carmel with the branch davidians. >> this fire is really rolling now. >> -- and that it was necessary back in, say, the fashion of john brown and harper's ferry. >> he had to know that there were children in that building, and i cannot imagine anybody committing that kind of act against another human being. >> at times, he said he knew there was a day care center there. at other times, he appeared to avoid that. i think that the death of the children was very uncomfortable for him. on one hand, he sought to rationalize it. on the other hand, it was beyond rationalization, and even tim mcveigh knew that. i think the first time he said he just looked at me and he said, children also died at waco. he assigned almost all responsibility to himself. i did this, i did that. terry nichols helped me with this or that, but he played down the role of terry, played down the role of anyone else. i think he expected to be found guilty. >> we got him. >> he was not surprised by the return of the verdict finding him guilty, nor was he surprised that the jury voted death. as i recall, we simply exchan