After spending weeks of my life looking for this man, in a journey that had
led me to countless homes, libraries, bookshops, chess tournaments,
stakeouts, police stations, restaurants, bowling alleys and health spas, I finally had him in my sights, and I simply could not bring myself to reach out a hand to shake his.
We see them using the then - new techniques of wiretapping,
stakeouts and coordinating national investigations, before Hoover orders Purvis to «Take the white gloves off,»
leading to the violent questioning that Billie is subjected to.