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if you were attached to a lie detector?

- Yes.

- And you'd answer every question?

- Yes.

- What if I gave you truth serum?

- Truth serum?

- Inject you with truth serum.

OK. Go ahead.

We believe your friend x

is involved in terrorist activities.

- You're wrong.

- Why would you protect him?

Why would a decent person protect someone

who's planning the deaths of innocent people?

- He's not...

- I'm what you might call old school.

To stop crime, you threaten criminals with

physical punishment, imprisonment, death.

But these suicide bombers, they've already

chosen to die, they're not afraid of prosecution.

So we have to stop them before they act,

we have to keep them alive.

That's their punishment.

Make the bastards wish they were dead.

Humiliate them.

Or make them aware that if they die in here,

alone,

that their deaths will have no meaning,

no resonance,

no effect on anyone whatsoever.

Turn around.

Put your hands on the wall.

Palms flat.

Spread your legs.

Turn around.

Put your hands against the wall.

Palms flat.

Spread your legs.

I have to tell you this is my least favorite part.

I took the test,

went through the academy, for what?

Thought I'd be out in the field,

doing good, saving lives.

Instead I spend my days

with my hand up other people's asses.

Might as well have gone to medical school.

Become a gynecologist.

Or a... What's the word for a colon specialist?

Stop talking and just do it.

What? I didn't hear you.

You heard me.

I know what you're up to. I'm not an idiot.

So do whatever you want.

I'm gonna stare at this wall,

I'm gonna focus on this wall,

memorize this wall.

I will own this wall.

What you should be focusing on...

...is the children.

Orphaned children.

Traumatized children.

You see, unlike you, I have a child, a boy.

I want him to live in a world that's safe.

Where he feels safe.

I want him...

to live...

in a world that's safe,

where he feels safe.

Doing this, what kind of role model are you,

what kind of legacy

are you handing down to him?

Safe...

but not free.

Alive but not human.

It is not my fault

that we don't live in a perfect world.

(Clash)

It's not my fault

that we don't live in a perfect world.

I'm going to do this every day, all day...

until it becomes as natural as breathing,

you will come to need it like air.

And the best part is

I didn't have to touch you.

(Takes deep breath)

So let me ask you again...

do you know these men?

- (Sobs)

- Do you?

Do you?

OK.

That's it.

Someone else will be in to talk to you.

(Door slams and locks)

We're going to do this every day,

all day...

until it becomes as natural as breathing.

Yes.

You will come to need it...

like air.

The best part is...

I didn't have to touch you.

So... let me ask you again...

do you know these men?

Do you?

Yeah.

OK.

That's it.

(Beeping)

Someone else will be in to talk to you.

Ah.

(Knock at door)

(Speaks Chinese)

(Muffled screams)

(Lift bell)

(Man) Say, theoretically,

that the government of the United States

could rid the world of terrorism forever...

but only if for a single day you gave up

all your rights as an American citizen.

Would you do it?

Would you give up your rights for a week?

A month?

A year?

Ten years?

Forever?

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