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promoting downstairs? When do they open?

That's a bluff.

We haven't sold any spot

to these companies.

Welcome to the Hyatt Jeddah.

Salaam alaikum?

Yousef...

- I think I'm having a stroke or something.

- Alan?

Mr. Clay, don't sleep.

Look at me.

Have you been drinking?

Speak to me.

You'll be okay.

As I said, you're stuck

with your stupid good health.

Are you kidding?

What happened

to me?

I couldn't breathe.

It was scary.

I think it was the scare

that triggered the whole thing.

How do you mean?

Those symptoms

are usually indicators

of what we call

an anxiety attack,

which often leads

to a physical breakdown,

and what with your jet lag

and I'm sure this didn't help.

- Am I going to jail?

- No, nobody saw it. I think.

- You did.

- Yes.

Aren't you obliged to report I'm in

possession of illicit beverages?

No, but I don't think

you should drink this stuff.

It's bad for you.

We have better booze in Jeddah.

- I have a question.

- Yes?

- What are you doing here?

- You called me.

- I did?

- Yes, I was on a late shift.

I had just finished

an operation.

Thank you.

Alan! Alan.

Yousef.

- Salaam alaikum.

- Alaikum salaam.

- Oh, God, I called you, too.

- You worried me.

I'm sorry. Yousef,

this is Dr. Hakem.

- Oh, thank God.

- You get some rest.

- Try to relax over the weekend.

- Thank you, I will.

- What's going on?

- What do you mean?

What's this Saudi woman doing here

with you in the middle of the night?

Well, she's my doctor.

You know,

that's absurd, no?

You and

the Saudi woman doctor.

- What are you talking about?

- She might be married.

- For sure she has kids.

- Yousef!

There's a lot at stake

for a woman like her.

Yousef, stop it.

What is wrong with you?

I'm not having

an affair with my doctor.

I'm sorry, Alan.

- I'm sorry.

- Are you okay?

I heard some noises

outside my house.

I got out of bed. I saw three

men standing at the window.

I nearly crapped my pants.

- The husband?

- And his henchmen, yes.

They just stood there.

That was it.

- I have to leave town.

- Leave? Where to?

To my father's place in the mountains.

They won't go there.

That's my home village.

Everyone there will look out for me.

We have guns

and all that.

I'm sorry about

what I said before.

How long

is the drive?

- You like Rashed Al-Majed?

- Not bad.

It's my nephew, Salem.

He is coming, too.

- This is my nephew, Salem.

- Hey. Salaam.

- He's the grandson of my father's second wife.

- Ah.

- What are you?

- I'm the third son of his third.

My father

has four wives.

Welcome to the KSA.

Ah, I forgot about that.

Oh, sorry.

You know who.

What does that mean,

"Exit non-Muslims"?

Huh?

Yousef?

- What?

- Oh, sh*t.

- What's going on?

- I missed the exit back there.

Stop it.

Hey, stop it!

What's happening?

You're not allowed

to enter Mecca.

It's holy ground.

It's for Muslims only.

- What?

- I forgot, you know?

It's routine.

I always go this way.

Hey, want to get smuggled

through the holy city?

We can put you

in a thobe, you'll pass.

If we get stopped, just quote your

favorite verse from the Koran.

- So that's the famous mosque?

- Al-Haram, yes.

Al-Haram.

Wow.

Actually, would you mind

not looking at it?

Oh, sure, yeah.

Yeah, sorry.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Ah, sh*t.

What does it mean

when you do that?

- Point up like that?

- That means "God will provide."

- And that works?

- It ends the discussion.

Cops.

- Salaam alaikum.

- Alan.

Alan.

- Hello.

- Want to come?

No, I'll take

a look around, okay?

- Salaam.

- Salaam.

- You need a ride?

- No, no, thank you.

I'm just out

for a walk.

Taking some pictures?

Yeah, it's

a beautiful place.

I was watching you

from above.

- You take a lot of pictures.

- Yeah, I guess.

- American?

- Yeah.

All these pictures.

You work for CIA or something?

Just a little

freelance work.

Nothing full-time.

- Alan!

- Sorry.

Sorry.

- We thought you'd been kidnapped.

- No. I was...

It was so beautiful,

I kept exploring.

What's with these rifles?

Ah, what I wanted

to show you, actually.

This one belonged

to my grandfather.

- Oh, that's beautiful.

- Yeah.

Hmm.

See, I thought you'd know

something about rifles.

I used to be a decent

marksman in my time.

Tonight, you want to hunt

some wolves with us?

- Wolves?

- Yeah.

Where? Here?

Yeah, apparently there's

some wolves killing sheep lately

and they're organizing

a hunt.

Looking for anyone

who can shoot.

Did you tell this guy

you're with the CIA?

Oh, he asked me

if I worked for the CIA.

I said I just did some part-time

freelance work for them.

Why would you

say this?

Well, it was a joke.

I was joking.

- He asked me... it was a ludicrous question.

- It's not ludicrous to him.

Now I have to convince him you're

not with the CIA. How do I do this?

Well, if I was from the CIA, I wouldn't

tell the first person who asked me.

- Shake his hand.

- What?

Shake his hand.

Shake his hand.

- You shouldn't have said that.

- I know.

- People don't like jokes like that.

- I knew as soon as I said it.

It's like joking you have a bomb

when you're in airport security.

That's the analogy

I had in mind, yeah.

Let's go hunting, huh?

That's where the sheep

was taken last.

- Were you ever in the army?

- No.

My dad was.

- Where?

- He volunteered in Korea.

- But you didn't want to join the army?

- Me? No.

- Why not? No good wars?

- Exactly.

But you would

have fought in WW2?

I would have gone, would've

tried to avoid the Pacific.

- And if you were young now?

- Yousef, why all these questions?

Are you thinking

of joining the army?

- Maybe.

- No, don't. Don't.

- Why not?

- No, you should go to college

and finish and give

yourself some options.

- There are no options here, Alan. You know that.

- Well, then leave.

I prefer to stay here

and have things be different.

It's nothing. It's just the sheep.

Hey, Alan.

Would you fight for us?

Fight for you how?

No one's going to invade

Saudi Arabia.

No, I know. I'm curious.

Just about individuals.

Probably. I think

we have a lot of people

willing to fight to support

people who want to be free.

And Americans

love a cause.

So if I start a democratic revolution here,

you would support me?

- Oh, is this your plan?

- No, I'm just asking. Would you?

- Of course.

- How?

- Well, I don't know.

- You would send troops?

- Me personally?

- No, you know what I mean. The US.

Send troops?

Not a chance.

- Air support?

- Nope. No.

- Shock and awe?

- Here? No way.

What about personally?

Would you personally come to support me?

- Yeah.

- That was quick.

- Well, I'm sure.

- You're crazy.

I'll be back.

Welcome

to the Hyatt Jeddah.

You'll... you'll wait

here for me?

So, you wait, right?

Mr. Clay?

- Yes?

- Come in.

Please.

I'm confused.

Am I not meeting Dr. Hakem?

Oh, no.

She's not in today.

But I've got these results

here from your biopsy.

- Please, have a seat.

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