Watching the Detectives

july 29, 2003  01:25 am
Watching the Detectives
Steven Hatfill has been hounded by G-men 24-7 since becoming the FBI's only known "person of interest" in the anthrax attacks. They wait for him in surveillance vans outside his girlfriend's apartment, they follow him to the store when he goes for ice cream, they snap photos when a friend hands him a bag containing homemade soup. They use all kinds of cars: Durangos, Pontiacs, Buicks, Saturns. And after midnight, they patrol the area surrounding his apartment on foot. And if he slips out the back door? Agents will be there. Jason Cherkis hangs out with Hatfill in the backseat of his friend's Plymouth as they drive around D.C. trying to shake the tail.