Marty Neil was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He attended the FBI Academy in Quantico and was in a class with Dana Scully and Tom Colton. Marty Neil was known as "J. Edgar, Jr." by his peers and graduated from the Academy in 1991. In 1993, he had a successful hunch regarding the World Trade Center bombing. He was consequently promoted to the rank of Supervisory Special Agent and recruited into Foreign Counter Intelligence at the New York City Bureau, only two years after his graduation from the Academy.