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Profiles the two suspects in the criminal sniper case in the Washington D.C. area, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. Relationship between the two men; Views from criminologist James Alan Fox; How Muhammad needed control in his life; Consideration of how Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam; Evidence that Malvo entered the U.S. illegally.

Discusses the shootings by a criminal sniper in the Washington, D.C. area. Description of the attack on a 13-year-old at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland; Efforts to find the sniper; Description of the victims, including program analyst Jim Martin, landscaper James 'Sonny' Buchanan, cab driver Premkumar Walekar, Salvadoran immigrant Sarah Ramos, nanny Lori Lewis Rivera, retired carpenter Pascal Charlot, and an unidentified woman at a Michaels crafts store near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Discusses the social atmosphere in Kensington, Maryland, which is where a serial sniper killed his fifth victim, a woman at a gas station. Statements from residents who are scared to go shopping; Description of other victims; How people have transformed the way they run their lives; Lack of pedestrians on the streets; Security at an elementary school; Decline of business at retail establishments.

In January 2003, three months after the 35-year-old Maryland bus driver, Conrad Johnson, died in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks, his wife Denise Johnson filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the rifle used to kill Conrad, and the Tacoma, Washington, gun store that carried it. When the House of Representatives passed a bill last month banning virtually all civil suits against the gun industry--hers likely among them--Johnson took her case to Capitol Hill. Battling the powerful National Rifle Association, she has met with senators and held press conferences, sharing her painful story to ensure that the bill doesn't turn into law. Johnson has been asking the same question since last year, when she turned on the television news at 6:30 a.m. and saw a Montgomery County Transit bus surrounded by police cars. The bill would protect the gun industry from product liability in all but the rarest cases of egregious negligence--say, if a gun dealer sells a 9-mm pistol to a buyer who has announced that he plans to shoot someone and he does.

Discusses the role of Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief Charles Moose in the investigation and capture of the alleged criminal snipers in the Washington D.C. area. Criticism of Moose by criminology experts; Use of dialogue and communication with the killer; Moose's career in law enforcement; His work to involve the community with the efforts of police officers; Relationship with his wife Sandy. INSET: THE HUNTERS.

Between 6 p.m. on Oct. 2 and 9:58 a.m. on the 3rd, someone gunned down five citizens in Montgomery County, Md. It was the beginning of a horrifying three-week killing spree that would leave 10 dead and 3 wounded in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Was it terrorism? A crazed gunman? A team of shooters out for kicks?

Reports on the use of a sniper theme in the movie and television industries in time for the controversial sniper attacks in the U.S. as of November 1, 2002.