Body of Lies Page #5

She is glad he is no longer mixed up

with the radicals.

[SPEAKING IN ARABIC]

[IN ARABIC]

You are God's blessing to your mother,

Mustafa.

You have done none of these things for her.

But you should have.

A mother is worth more

than anything they have told you.

You know, you will be better in the future

because we have sent her many gifts...

...and we have told her these gifts come

from her son.

[IN ARABIC]

HANI:

Continue your life with your brothers

in al Qaeda.

We will devise a way to talk. Come.

Come. No, no, no. Come, come, come.

Up, up, up.

Go.

And so we throw him back into the sea,

to swim where he naturally swims...

...to learn what he naturally learns...

...and see how long he remembers

my benevolence.

And what if he forgets?

If he forgets, I remind him that I have

the power of life and death over him...

...because, you see, any time I wish,

I can let them know he works for me.

Hm.

FERRIS:

Ed?

HOFFMAN [ON PHONE]:

So tell me about Hani's guy.

- Who?

- Karami, the guy on the bike.

What do you think I do in my spare time,

play tennis?

- I look like a tennis player to you?

- It's not gonna happen, Ed.

Buddy, we're a results-oriented

organization, and we need results now...

... because otherwise I will be unhappy.

FERRIS:

You'll be unhappy, and he'll say, "Insa."

HOFFMAN:

What does that mean?

Means "too f***ing bad,"

is what it means.

Too f***ing bad?

Europe is getting hammered, boy. All right?

Nobody knows where the next bomb

is going off.

There's 75 dead in Amsterdam.

You can call me sentimental

if you want to, buddy...

Ed, listen, Hani does not trust you.

Arabs will only help you if they trust you.

We need to earn that trust,

you understand?

What are you, moving here?

I don't care about cultural insecurity issues.

I don't care if Hani trusts me or not.

What he will do is he will thank me

in the long run. F***.

Hold on. Hold on.

Buddy, you're home.

Jesus Christ, Ed,

you scared the sh*t out of me.

They say that you should

never drink red wine in the desert.

That's what did in the Babylonians, right?

Well, a couple of bottles of that

and we'll be speaking Babylonian.

So how was your flight?

Oh, it was fine. It was fine.

Yeah. I watched that Poseidon.

I see you've made yourself at home.

In the words of the great Sam Snead:

"If you're not thinking about p*ssy,

you're just not concentrating."

My dear.

FERRIS:

Jesus Christ. Come on.

Hani Pasha.

Thank you for your time.

Please.

I'm gonna need a piece of this guy you got

here in this Amman cell.

Don't look at buddy.

Buddy didn't say nothing.

These jihadists might not use their cell

phones, Hani, but you do use yours, right?

Please.

HOFFMAN:

Now, don't say no before I say anything.

Just let me say

what I've come here to say.

Thank you. You have done an incredible job

developing this guy Karoobi.

Katoomi.

- Karami.

HOFFMAN:
Karami.

Now, we develop these assets

to use them as needed.

And I have a need.

No.

[CHUCKLES]

- I'm just gonna get all frustrated here.

- Why are you frustrated, Edward?

Because we have a partnership.

You have something that I need

that will help me...

...and you won't allow that to happen.

And I'm trying to impress upon you

a sense of urgency.

Urgency does not call for changing methods

that work for methods that do not work.

Now, who pays the bills around here?

I would hate to have to have my president

call your king.

Because that's just gonna

be embarrassing for all of us.

In matters of intelligence, Edward,

you are speaking to the king.

- Is that right?

- Mm.

Well, Your Highness, I want control.

- As a favor to the United States.

- You can't have it.

I could tell you we will run him jointly,

but it would not be the truth.

Real intelligence operations,

they remain secret forever.

You Americans, you are incapable

of secrecy because you are a democracy.

Now, I know my business.

I have never failed you, have I?

No, you have not. Are you sure

you wanna make this the first time?

HANI:

Edward, you're missing the point.

Karami, he doesn't know anything.

That is not the way

the organization operates.

I will ask him what he knows

when it is time.

- Now, are you happy?

- I'm getting there.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Now, you guys

might have invented algebra...

...but we're the guys

that found out how to use it.

I presume you know who that is?

It's a recent photograph of Al-Saleem.

You didn't have that one, did you?

Well, that's yours.

You can keep that because we're partners.

All right? Now, I'm fulfilling my side

of the bargain, okay?

Now's the time for some reciprocity.

You need to give me Karami.

Insa.

- That's, "Too f***ing bad."

- I know what that means.

Well, that was

f***ing embarrassing, hm?

You still thinking about p*ssy, Ed?

Don't be a smart aleck.

Thing about that Hani, he's bright.

But he's also arrogant.

That's gonna be his undoing.

You're talking about him, right?

Just flow with me, buddy.

Jesus Christ. You have a recent photograph

of Al-Saleem.

Don't you think I could've used intel

like that, Ed?

What the hell else

are you holding back from me?

What do you wanna know?

Well, for one thing, what's his real name?

Kareem Al-Shams.

His birthplace?

Syria. Hama.

Background?

Well, his loving middle-class family

got killed by Hafez Assad...

... so he moved to Saudi Arabia.

Studied physics and engineering in Riyadh,

then here in Amman.

Post-graduate study at the University of

North Carolina. He's a Tar Heel like you.

Now, he prides himself on his humility

and not having to take the credit.

Yet this is the same man who will go

on videotape with his brothers...

... describing what he's done

and what's gonna come.

His is a false humility.

It's a false modesty.

His ego is more powerful than his beliefs,

more dangerous.

And that is his weakness.

Now, all we got to do, Ferris,

is just get that f***er on the phone.

FERRIS:

Ed?

Yeah.

Don't do anything about Karami, huh?

Don't try to flip him or anything like that.

Hani will throw me out.

I promise you that.

This operation will be over.

You cannot trust Hani. Am I clear?

You're clear.

Good. You and I gotta get drunk

because I need to sleep on the plane.

I have to take the kids

to The Lion King. Again.

Never have kids.

- Ed, did you hear what I said, right?

- Oh, yeah.

- Don't... Don't touch Karami.

- All right.

Never.

[KIDS CHATTERING IN ARABIC]

[POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

[SPEAKING IN ARABIC]

That's Karami. We're on. Get the van.

[VAN BEEPING]

SKIP:

Move the f***ing van!

Go! Go, go, go!

F***!

[BOTH SPEAK IN ARABIC]

I thought I told you

you could get this at any clinic.

And you should have had

your injection yesterday.

You weren't on duty yesterday.

Besides, when you find a good doctor,

you don't change, right?

I'm not a doctor.

[IN ARABIC]

The same thing. You don't change.

[SPEAKS IN ARABIC]

Wife.

Well, I don't have a ring.

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