Epilogue:

"Caputo! Let's go. Front and center!" came the booming voice of the guard.

"What time is it?

"It's zero four hundred" the guard replied. "Get your ass out of bed, Caputo!"

"I'm not supposed to be in court for another two weeks," he complained groggily.

"Good thing you ain't going to court then, ain't it?" The guard raked his billy club across the bars. "Now let's go!"

Once he'd woken up and gotten dressed, Tony had been told to gather his belongings. "Where am I going?" He followed the guards down the short corridor where they signed him out.

"You got a first-class ticket to Sing Sing, My Friend." Off his surprised look, the guard continued, "I don't know who you pissed off, but you'll be awaiting trial in New York's Sing Sing prison."

Caputo gulped in some air. "Why . . . why can't I stay here?" Panic started to settle in.

"Like I said, you must have pissed in someone's Cheerios. Sing Sing, Man." He whistled. "They don't mess around there." The guard shook his head.

"You better have eyes in the back of your head," the other guard warned as they approached the van he would be traveling in. He pushed Caputo's head down, "Watch your head."

Tony fell into the seat, "I want to talk to my lawyer! He won't let this happen," he yelled. The guards continued to lock his chains in place along the floor of the vehicle. "According to this, your lawyer signed off on the transfer last night." He shoved the clipboard in front of Caputo's face.

Just then, the van door slid shut and the lone inmate startled. He could only watch as they pulled away from his comfortable surroundings. "Stetson," he whispered sharply.

The End

Author's Note:

Thank you for reading and possibly reviewing my little story. I hope it gave you a little place to escape to for even just a short time.

So, the Weathermen were not a figment of my imagination. I did some research (see some of it below – special thanks to Wikipedia, PBS and the documentary "The Weather Underground" by Green and Siegel in 2002,) but I definitely took artistic license on some of the dates. Speaking of fudging some dates, the FBI did not start training at Quantico until 1972, but for this story, I needed it to be a bit earlier. What's a couple of years?

The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was a radical left militant organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. It was originally called Weatherman and later became known colloquially as the Weathermen. The WUO organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society largely composed of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Beginning in 1974, the organization's express political goal was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow what it viewed as American imperialism.

It took its name from Bob Dylan's lyric, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", from the song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (1965).

The FBI classified the WUO as a domestic terrorist group, with revolutionary positions characterized by black power and opposition to the Vietnam War. The WUO took part in domestic attacks such as the jailbreak of Timothy Leary in 1970. In 1970, the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government under the name "Weather Underground Organization."

In the 1970s, the WUO conducted a bombing campaign targeting government buildings and several banks. Some attacks were preceded by evacuation warnings, along with threats identifying the particular matter that the attack was intended to protest. Three members of the group were killed in an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, but none were killed in any of the terrorist attacks. The WUO communiqué issued in connection with the bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971 indicated that it was "in protest of the U.S. invasion of Laos". The WUO asserted that its May 19, 1972 bombing of the Pentagon was "in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi". The WUO announced that its January 29, 1975 bombing of the United States Department of State building was "in response to the escalation in Vietnam".

The WUO began to disintegrate after the United States reached a peace accord in Vietnam in 1973, and it was defunct by 1977.