"Monday morning I was playing a guy who was alive, and Monday after lunch I was playing a guy who was dead," muses Tim Daly, sucking on a cigarette in the film's clone of Koresh's bedroom, a dumpy second-story chamber cluttered with Guns & Ammo magazines and heavy-metal posters. "That day I filmed a scene where I'm giving one of Koresh's sermons-they called them lessons-and I was asking my congregation if they'd be willing to die for me." He puffs pensively. "Movie sets are strange places." Since the film ends almost two months before the compound was destroyed, no last-minute alterations were needed in the script. Of course, the final, infernal chapter of the real Waco story could still have a major effect on Ambush. Morbid curiosity may make it the most-watched TV movie of the month, even beating out the other NBC docudramas scheduled for May-Hurricane Andrew and the World Trade Center bombing movie, Without Warning. Is third-place NBC concerned that this spate of instant disaster movies might further sully its besieged reputation? Hard to say, since NBC execs didn't return phone calls. But here's a hint: There have been reports that the network is considering a Waco sequel, this one complete with an explosive finish.
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