Prisoner X Page #4

- I see.

So what can you tell me

about your leader Abraham?

- He's the smartest...

The most tenacious

man I've ever met.

Also the most ruthless.

No one knows exactly where

he's from but he was born

into one of the richest

families in the world.

He used his entire inheritance

preparing for this mission.

- Wait. It's the future.

- Pardon me?

- That's how the

machine was tested.

If an object is

sent to the past,

it lands up in a new reality,

there's no way of retrieving it.

But if it's sent into

the future, it remains

in the same

timeline, doesn't it?

Because the future

hasn't occurred yet,

there aren't any

paradoxes, am I right?

- The test object was sent a

few minutes into the future.

And there it appeared.

Just out of thin air.

- Which makes me wonder.

What would happen if you

threw small lumps of uranium

ahead in time

and aimed them to appear

at the exact same place,

at the exact same moment?

All that nuclear material pumped

into the same tiny volume.

What kind of boom

would that make?

What kind of boom

would that make?

- Abraham was constructing

a portable time-machine.

- Well now we know

why he was hiding from us.

- Why tell us now?

I mean, if Ramiro

hadn't have shown us,

we never would have guessed

what that device was for.

Have you considered

the possibility

that his accident was staged?

That he was sent

here on purpose...

- no.

- That he remains

here by choice.

- Nonsense.

- Okay, there's 329 nano

devices in that guy's body.

For all we know, he could walk

through the f***ing walls.

- Then why would he

undermine his mission

with all this intel?

It was perfectly credible.

Wherever he sent us

we found hard-evidence

that Abraham and his

men has been there.

In some cases, only a few

days before we showed up.

Okay, it would be

terrific if we could

get a hold of one

of Ramiro's buddies

and corroborate his story

but until that happens...

- Ll what about the

woman that I found?

From Baghdad. She talked, right?

- She talked, she sang.

The interrogation

she was put through,

she told us exactly

what we needed to hear.

- Are you suggesting

that she wasn't real?

- They told her

apart, cell-by-cell.

Not one nano device,

not one extra gene

was found in her body.

- The sec-def, are you sure?

- Positive.

Jefferson sent those

messages directly to him,

bypassing his chief of staff.

- The secretary of defense.

- And, I

discovered something else.

Over the past year

we've had a few glitches

with our video recorders.

On five separate occasions

the same software error

caused entire interrogation

sessions to be erased.

- Do you think that

was done on purpose?

- Now I know it was.

On Jefferson's orders.

- Why didn't you tell me about

the secret interrogations?

- What secret interrogations?

- Don't f*** with me, Jefferson.

- They were Fischer's

idea and I okayed them.

- Why?

- Look, I don't think I need

to remind you, agent Reese,

that I have full

authority to do so.

- So do I, commander Jefferson,

to demand an explanation.

- Some of things that

Ramiro were telling us

were damn-right scary.

The kind of things that

are best kept off the grid.

- What kind of things?

- Ramiro suspected that

another country,

an enemy of ours,

has also captured

one of Abraham's men.

- Based on what?

- His intuition.

Which psychological tests have

shown is highly-developed.

- Wow. His intuition.

He didn't happen to say

which country, did he?

- No.

- And what about the last

time Fischer went in?

- I had nothing to do

with that and you know it.

Ripping cables off a camera

is no way of keeping a secret.

- Fischer didn't care.

He knew Ramiro was gonna

tell him something so scary

he didn't wanna take a risk

and Ramiro didn't disappoint.

And then his mysterious

visitor appeared,

and whatever transpired next,

drained away any hope Fischer

had of saving the situation.

As far as he was concerned,

it was game over.

- What did Ramiro tell him?

- I wish I knew.

- Maybe he revealed the

identity of Abraham's agent.

- That's an interesting thought.

- But then, why would

Fischer kill himself, right?

I mean, wouldn't he just

tell me like he always did

after every single session?

- I don't know. You tell me.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Violence in the

Chinese province of Hunan.

An overnight raid by Muslim

separatists on an army barrack

resulted in the death

of four pla soldiers.

Meanwhile, the foreign

ministry announced that

the Chinese premier will

travel to Russia next week.

The talks are aimed at

increasing cooperation to combat

the growing Islamic insurgencies

in the two countries.

A U.S. military build up in

the Indian ocean continues.

Today, two aircraft

carrier battle...

- but what's that

got to do with any of this?

- What if Abraham is

arming the separatists?

They seem to be gaining

ground both in Russia

and in China.

- I still don't see why

we shouldn't strike India.

- Because we don't even

know if he's there.

- Well last time you

seemed pretty sure.

- Iraq turned out

to be a handful

and India is no Iraq.

- We're a lot wise

now, agent Reese.

We know exactly what

to do this time.

- Well don't you think

we should wait for some

positive intel?

- How can we wait when the

weapon we're up against

is time itself?

Yes?

What do they want?

What the hell?

- Kashmir. It's

a gorgeous place.

But your arrival site

is even more impressive.

It's like a passing

god has sneezed.

Circle 50-feet-across

has been swept clear.

And after all these years,

the soil still

remains magnetized.

But you know what

surprises me, Ramiro?

Is that the local villagers

didn't see any strangers

in the area.

Not even one.

- We travelled in small groups.

Over the mountains towards

Pakistan and at night only.

- But still, there

was 100 of you.

So you made your way

to Canada via Europe.

- The rest were

to slip into Iraq.

That was the plan.

- They lied to you.

I don't think anyone from your

group stepped foot in Iraq.

- But you said you found a girl.

- It was a bluff.

I wanted to see how you'd react.

But when Iraq turned up

empty, people panicked.

I mean, there was a lot of

other U.S.-hating dictators

for Abraham to arm,

not to mention Isis

but you insisted on

Iran and Pakistan.

Countries that you knew

we would have no chance

of orchestrating a

popular revolution.

- That's precisely why I

thought Abraham might be there.

- Precisely.

- Not my fault that things

turned out the way they did.

You people rushed to war.

- Iran maybe, but

Pakistan was a no-brainer.

I mean, if they could shelter

bin laden for so many years,

they bloody-well

could do Abraham.

- And now it's India's turn.

- How did you know about that?

- Well you found the device.

- I didn't tell you the

device was in India.

- I hear the guards talking.

- The guards know nothing.

- Then I must have

another source.

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