A Mighty Heart Page #3

Synopsis: On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
Production: Paramount Vantage
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 17 nominations.
 
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Year:
2007
108 min
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of helping Danny or nobody finds him?

Maybe nobody finds him because

you won't give the f***ing name!

Yeah, hello?

Hello, Paracha, this is Masud.

I'm with Mariane Pearl.

They want to talk to you.

You gave them my name?

Hello? Can you tell me anything

that you know about Arif?

I met Arif at Harkut-ul-Mujahideen.

He's just a Jihadi.

But what's his full name?

I don't know. I don't know

anything about him personally.

A few weeks ago

they were having this organization legal

but now they've all gone underground.

Okay, look,

I don't need a political speech.

Can you just give me some information?

He had short hair, skinny

and was wearing glasses.

We found one person.

I told Danny

not to contact Bashir directly.

-Can you describe Bashir for us?

-I can try.

-What is your name?

-Aqeel Nawaz.

We've brought you something.

It was the best we could find in Karachi.

I'm Randall Bennett.

-It's nice to meet you at last.

-Nice to meet you.

-This is Philippe Scaerou.

-Hello.

And Veronique Laurent

from the French Embassy.

And from the FBI

we have Maureen Platt...

Mrs. Pearl, we're gonna need

to look at Daniel's computer.

These gentlemen

need to copy the hard drive.

Hello.

If you need anything, don't hesitate.

Goodbye, Mariane, be brave.

-How are you?

-Captain.

I haven't been introduced

to this gentleman here.

Javed Habib, Chief of CID.

He's leading the investigation

on the Pakistani side.

Interesting. Thank you.

-Agent Platt.

-Excuse me.

We have been discussing

how important it is

that everybody shares information.

-Of course.

-Bennett.

-Yes?

-It's kind of a private call.

Do you think

you can you clear the room?

All right. Come on, gentlemen. Today.

Let's go. Let's move it out.

Thank you, gentlemen.

This is for you.

It's as much

as I could get together in 24 hours.

There's a lot about Gilani

and some other people

that are beginning to appear.

Why have we not heard

from the kidnappers?

Well, they're gonna wanna get Danny to

a safe place before they make contact.

And we've got

the police doing everything they can

to make it difficult.

I want you to know that they consider

Danny a high-value hostage

and they'll wanna keep him alive.

Gilani.

Akbar.

Reid going to Boston.

And then we tally the number.

So now we have one piece of news.

-Finally we have found the taxi driver.

-What did he say?

He took Danny

to the Village Restaurant for 7:00.

Danny received a phone call

and then he told taxi driver he could go.

I'm gonna let you go, okay? Thank you.

Yeah, but do we believe that story?

Waiters at the restaurant

corroborate his story.

Okay. Right.

And no luck so far with Gilani.

-Or Bashir or Siddique?

-No.

And what about Masud?

What's happening with him?

He's here.

We are sending him back

to Islamabad tonight.

He has to look for Arif.

He's here with his brother-in-law,

who's a journalist.

He's a journalist? He's here?

He works for Takbeer.

A Jihadi newspaper. Very anti-US.

-What? Where is he?

-He's outside.

What is this? Who are these people?

Why are you bringing them

to my house?

-Why is there a journalist in my home?

-This guy is torturing me.

He's a torturer.

He's going to go with me to Islamabad.

-What is this?

-Help me.

It's not true. It's not true at all.

You need to find Arif

and you need to find Bashir.

And don't bring people to my house

that don't like Americans.

Danny's American.

-And don't write sh*t.

-Sorry for that.

Come on, get them in the car.

Go on, move it.

Make sure nothing goes wrong.

We're conducting

a proper investigation.

How long have you been here?

One year, sir.

How many children do you have?

Sir, only one child.

-Only one?

-Yes.

No, but just tell me.

That's what I'm saying.

The ISI came to my parents and asked,

where did this girl come from?

From India?

I understand but you know

I'm not involved in any of that.

I know that but...

He won't come back.

His family will never let him come back.

Some lntelligence guys

went over to his house,

said I was some kind of an Indian spy

and that they'd make a big scandal

for his family.

He's afraid of his family?

Connect those lines.

Mariane. Hi.

-How are you?

-I'm all right.

-Any news? No.

-No.

How was the honeymoon?

It was good, yeah. It was good.

I brought loads of stuff,

a computer, printer, phones.

How many lines are you getting us?

Six lines.

Where are they coming from?

We're cutting off

the neighbors' phone lines.

What will happen to their phones?

They'll have to use yours.

Hasan, this is Steve.

Hello.

You speak Urdu?

Steve and Danny

worked together in Islamabad.

Okay. You knew Mr. Pearl?

So, they still need to find Arif,

the go-between,

Bashir in Rawalpindi,

Imtiaz Siddique here in Karachi

and Gilani, wherever he is.

And Danny.

And Danny.

Check everybody's ID

before you let them through.

My mother is here and she wants me to

marry someone who I really don't know.

-What, like an arranged marriage?

-It is, 100%.

Have you seen this article

from The Independent?

What's that?

The Journal's bureau in London

sent it through.

It's about a British Pakistani,

Omar Saeed Sheikh.

It claims that he wired $100,000

to Mohammed Atta just before 9/11.

How does that connect to Danny?

Well, he's based in Rawalpindi

and he specializes

in kidnapping Westerners.

-Can I see it?

-Yeah.

-Do you know him?

-I know him only by reputation.

-Hello.

-It's John Bussey.

Let me talk to Mariane, please.

Hello?

-Hey, Mariane. It's John. How are you?

-Hello.

I need you to come here.

I'm thinking maybe the best thing

for me to do is to go to Islamabad first.

No, no, to Karachi.

To make the diplomatic rounds with us.

Okay. No, that makes sense to me.

-Soon, yeah?

-Yeah, very soon. Very, very soon.

-All right.

-We pretty much can write him off.

Captain, can I talk to you?

Danny is not a religious man.

But...

But he's Jewish, by birth.

Okay.

Who else knows this?

He didn't advertise it

but he would never deny

if somebody asked him.

Okay.

But don't tell anybody.

I won't.

-Look at this.

-What does it say?

It says Danny is suspected

of being a Mossad agent

and of having relations

with India's Intelligence Agency.

Give it to me.

-Who was it I gave that picture to?

-Military Intelligence.

They think he's Mossad,

they're going to kill him.

What is everybody doing?

What the f*** is everybody doing?

Very silly.

Is this the address?

Hello?

Hello?

Yeah. Yeah, I got it.

Okay, yeah, I've got it.

I've got it. Thanks.

-What?

-There's an e-mail from the kidnappers.

"The National Movement for the

Restoration of Pakistan Sovereignty

"has captured CIA officer Daniel Pearl

"who has been posing as a journalist

of the Wall Street Journal.

"Unfortunately he is at present being

kept in very inhuman circumstances

"quite similar, in fact, to the way

"that Pakistanis and nationals

of other sovereign countries

"have been kept in Cuba

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