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found her on the street.

Multiple foster homes. Six different schools.

She broke her teacher's arm when she was 15.

Suspected he was touching her classmates.

- He was.

- Mmm. Born a bloodhound.

The cops on her case got her

into the Police Athletic League.

Three years later, she had a full

athletic scholarship to Northwestern.

Now we recruited her because she

scored off the charts on the Kolbe Index

and Special Activities needed interrogators.

What's the rocky part?

ROMLEY:
The mastermind of the 2012

bridge bombing was her interrogation.

She broke him, too late to stop it.

The death toll was a fraction

of the 2015 attacks but she took it hard.

She tried to quit after that,

but her chief at the time

talked both her and the agency

into a transfer

to a cover job in East London

in a jihad-prominent community.

Which is why we didn't consider her.

It's been two years since

she's been in the booth,

and just wasn't enough time

to knock the rust off.

But given the circumstances,

do you have a better idea?

Anyone?

MAN:
Alice?

Frank Sutter, London station.

Some good reading in there.

Page 12.

SUTTER:
The courier's Moroccan.

Some trips to Frankfurt in 2014

for terror training.

The Germans picked him up once, but they

considered him low value and let him go.

No English. Speaks tribal Moroccan Darija.

I got an interpreter for you.

He won't know the meet site

until Mercer pings him,

so focus on getting the recognition protocol.

That's what we're counting on from you.

Problem?

You do know my history, right?

If you want me to say you

were HQ's first choice...

I don't.

That's the point, I don't wanna

be anyone's choice.

Except that's not how it works, is it?

You're being called up.

Now your reluctance is noted,

but this is priority red.

And the chief of Europe division

has made his call.

It's not a request.

- (DOOR UNLOCKING)

- SUTTER:
All right.

(TREMBLING)

(SOBBING)

Can you make this thicker?

The kind of file that says

that the US Government

has been on your ass since you were a foetus.

SUTTER:
Of course. Get on that.

And take the camera out.

- Are you sure?

- ALICE:
Yeah.

It's a trust deterrent.

Hello, Lateef. I'm Alice.

English?

Alarabiyah?

Deutsch?

How about your native Darija?

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

- Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

- (CONTINUES SPEAKING)

I don't understand. I don't understand.

I'll be back with an interpreter.

(SIGHS)

You just responded to something

I said in English.

Twice.

ALICE:
You can send your interpreter home.

- He's British born.

- Oh.

Can I have the key for his cuffs, please?

(LATEEF EXCLAIMS)

ALICE:
What do your parents think of you?

I don't know. Why don't you ask them?

(SIGHS)

My mum died and my dad pissed off

when I was young.

What were you doing in Frankfurt?

- I was working for a charity.

- Hmm.

Servants of God.

Something wrong with the charities in the UK?

No. God called me there.

- Mmm.

- I found a pure Muslim life there.

Lateef...

...you still haven't asked me

why you're here.

Yeah, tell me.

When prisoners don't ask,

it's because they already know.

(LATEEF BREATHES HEAVILY)

He's just sitting in there, on his own.

Time is not our friend right now.

Why don't you use it?

I am using it.

ALICE:
So this is

what a pure Muslim life looks like?

No. This is not Islam.

(SNIFFLES) I would never do this.

The news said that the engine caught fire.

That made you angry, didn't it?

- No.

- Not getting the credit.

Wh... why would I be angry? No!

Have you ever met this man?

- LATEEF:
No.

- No?

No.

He's an imam. So what?

He was arrested yesterday.

He's been charged with plotting

the Sea Empress attack.

Three members of his mosque carried it out.

- What's that gotta do with me?

- You tell me.

Fine, nothing.

You should know that we have two

other members of his mosque in custody.

And like you, they learned

bombmaking in Frankfurt.

Bombmaking? No. Not like me.

And like you, they have a long,

dark plane ride in their future.

That's their business. It's up to them.

I don't know these people

you're talking about.

Okay. Okay, listen. I can explain these.

I know what you're thinking.

I can prove this.

- Relax. Relax. We already know.

- Please.

Your imam found out that Scotland Yard

had tied him to the Sea Empress

- and he was sending you away.

- No, no, that's not what this is.

Just like he was sending

your two friends away.

No, I'm supposed to deliver

a message for him. That's all.

- Good soldiers, all of you...

- No.

...but disposable as Kleenex

for a man like Khaleel.

No, no, no. You're not listening to me!

I'm just supposed to deliver

a message for him, that's all!

Okay, listen. Wait, I've... I've got proof.

I can prove it.

What proof?

Now...

If you talk to me,

I can guarantee your safety.

What proof?

I always go to the mosque

with my friend every Friday.

And his uncle owns a Moroccan cafe.

He said one day, "Oh, come along..."

- This quote, it's a fatwa.

- Mmm-hmm.

Sort of like a spoken rule.

But a fatwa can be about anything,

not just jihad.

Uh-huh. And this one by Ali

is all Lateef needs

to verify his identity to Mercer?

Mmm-hmm. Plus the collection it came from.

What do you mean, collection?

Well, many authors recorded Ali's

words, in different collections.

Which collection matters,

especially to an imam.

Well, I don't see that here.

It's a quite famous one.

I'll write it down for you.

SUTTER:
Did he mention the meet?

He hasn't got it yet. He'll get a text.

(MOBILE PHONE RINGING)

Would you excuse me for a second?

Important?

Just my personal life.

(LINE RINGING)

Alice, Ed Romley.

Hey, sir, this is not a secure line.

And under any other circumstances,

I wouldn't be using it.

But we've been trying to reach you for hours.

We need you for an emergency

assignment in London.

We've got a prisoner waiting.

Well, I'm already on it.

London station brought me in.

What the hell are you talking about?

We haven't informed London station.

Sir...

Does your prisoner happen to be

a 19-year-old British national

of Moroccan descent?

Yes.

What the f*** is going on?

I'll call you back.

SUTTER:
Alice?

We were talking about fatwa collections.

About which one David Mercer is expecting.

Can you write it down for me, please?

Sure.

(CHUCKLES)

Except, now, I'm wondering about something.

Wondering what?

That the kid gave it up too easily.

They are trained to bait us.

You think that's what he's doing?

(STAMMERS) I just think I should, um...

Run his story again and see if I can

produce any cracks.

Unless you prefer they turn up

at your meet with Mercer.

I'd prefer for you to hurry.

We're on a serious clock here.

I do understand that, sir.

Lateef, I have a few more questions

about Frankfurt.

LATEEF:

Are you serious? You said we was done!

You promised me!

I want you to take a look at this photo.

I've seen this on the TV. It's just a trick.

Lateef, I need you to work with me.

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