Zero Dark Thirty Page #4

- Yeah.

Huh?

"What they say is true. The Shaolin

and the Wu-Tang could be dangerous. "

What do you like to be called?

"Faraj", "Fareej", "Buzzie"?

C'mon, dude, what do you

like? You like a bit of, uh...

You guys like a bit of Bob

Marley, with the Reggae?

Kick back, take it easy after

you've blown some sh*t up?

Huh?

No?

Got some Libyan music you like?

You did the UK bombings, right?

Well, you're the second "Number

Can I be honest with you?

I'm bad f***in' news.

I'm not your friend.

Not gonna help you.

I'm gonna break you.

Any questions?

No?

All right, you haven't eaten in 18

hours. We need to keep your energy up.

You hungry?

A lot of brothers told us,

Abu Ahmed was Bin Laden's courier, and

that he worked very closely with you.

You are thinking of Abu Khaled.

- Who?

- al-Baluchi, my courier for the "Sheik"

Okay, so you're telling me, all

the other brothers are wrong.

And there's some famous "Baluchi"

guy, working for you and bin Laden,

that I've never even heard of.

- Why should you have heard of him?

- What does this Baluchi guy look like?

Tall. Long white beard.

- Thin. He uses a cane.

- Kinda like Gandalf.

Who?

When was the last time you saw him?

A month ago, in Karachi.

But I don't know where he is now.

Sometimes, I wouldn't even see him.

He would just tell me,

where to leave the messages.

You're not being fulsome in your replies

You cannot force me to tell

you something I don't know.

You do realize this is not a normal

prison? You determine how you're treated

And your life is gonna be

very uncomfortable, until...

you give me the information I need!

Where exactly is Abu

Ahmed living at the moment?

Faraj is completely

denying knowing Abu Ahmed.

That's using every measure we have.

Well, he's either gonna keep withholding

or he's gonna die from the

presssure you're putting on him.

Hey, you wanna take a run at him?

No.

No?

- No.

- Since when? No.

You know, I was meaning to tell

you, I'm getting outta here.

- You okay?

- Yeah, I'm fine, I'm just...

You know, I think I've

seen too many guys naked.

It's gotta be over a f***ing

hundred at this point.

I need to go and do

something normal for a while.

Like what?

I'll go to Washington, do the dance,

see how that environment works.

You should come with me.

Yeah, be my number two. You're

looking a little strung out yourself.

I'm not gonna find Abu Ahmed from DC.

They killed my monkeys.

Some bullshit about escaping,

you f***ing believe that?

Sorry, Dan.

Look, Maya, you gotta be real

careful with the detainees now.

Okay, politics are changing,

and you don't wanna be...

the last one holding a dog collar,

when the Oversight Committee comes.

- I know.

- Yeah?

And watch your back when you get back to

Pakistan. Everyone knows you there now.

Sorry. F***ing checkpoints.

- Maya?

- Yeah?

We're socializing. Be social.

Okay.

Look, I know Abu Ahmed is your baby,

but it is time to cut the umbilical cord

- No, it's not.

- So Faraj went south on you, it happens

There are still cells

in London and Spain,

who are planning the

next round of attacks.

I could work on it at the same time.

Plus, I think it's a good thing he lied.

No, not at the expense of

protecting the homeland, you can't...

Wait a minute. Why is it a good thing?

You sound just like Bradley. He

doesn't believe in my lead either.

It's a good thing,

because the fact that Faraj withheld

on Abu Ahmed is very revealing.

The only other thing Faraj lied about,

was the location of bin Laden himself.

That means Faraj thinks Abu Ahmed's just

as important to protect as bin Laden.

- That confirms my lead.

- Or it's confirmation bias.

Mmm...

We're just worried about you,

okay? Is that okay to say?

I mean, look how run-down you are.

Where's Jack?

Probably stuck in some

checkpoint, somewhere.

You two hooked up yet?

Hello, I work with him. I'm not that

girl that fucks. It's unbecoming.

So, a little fooling

around wouldn't hurt you.

Hmph...

- So, no boyfriend?

- Mm-mm.

You got any friends at all?

That's Jack.

Hey.

That's okay.

Come on!

Come on!

Go!

Come on, over here!

The blast left a crater, 10 meters or

Police tell CNN, the driver of the

truck bomb tried to talk his way pass...

the hotel's steel security

gate. When armed guards said no,

police said, the driver detonated

more than 2,000 pounds of explosives.

The Marriott, one of the most popular

destinations for locals and westerners..

in Islamabad, now destroyed.

The Jords have a mole.

What?

He made this video to

prove his bona fides.

Shut up.

Humam Khalil al-Balawi.

He's a Jordanian doctor.

He's right there in the inner circle.

I don't buy it. Didn't you tell me

yourself, nobody turns on al-Qaeda?

The Jordans have worked him for a year,

dinners, money. They convinced him...

it's his patriotic duty to turn

on al-Qaeda, and get rich doing it.

- Yeah, well, so the Jords say.

- Yeah, you're right.

We can't rely on this or the Jords.

We've gotta evaluate him face-to-face.

He may not be that smart,

he may be full of sh*t.

But we have to talk to him and find out.

The key is to meet him,

so we can figure out for

ourselves what he can actually do.

He really asked for a dialysis machine?

Maybe we can fill the

damn thing with poison.

The meeting with Balawi is

off. He can't come to Islamabad.

- Can't or won't?

- He's not gonna travel. Security risk.

...and, uh, I've said repeatedly,

that America doesn't torture.

And I'm gonna make sure that we don't

torture. Those are part and parcel of...

an-an effort to regain, uh,

America's moral stature in the world.

Can you give us some sense

of when you might start...

He... wants us to go to him.

He'll meet us in Maidan

Shar with the Tribals.

He knows you're white,

we'd get kidnapped there.

Could we do it somewhere else? Germany?

in the UK? He's got a clean passport.

He's not gonna travel

out of al-Qaeda territory.

- And you're not going to him.

- I'm not, believe me.

We're stuck.

What about Camp Chapman...

Afghanistan? That can be safe territory.

This may be going overboard,

but I baked him a cake.

Muslims don't celebrate with cake.

Don't be so literal, everyone likes cake

It's not too late for you to

come, you know, it'll be fun.

No, I don't want to be a straphanger.

It's your show. You were the

first to see the potential in this.

Oh, come on, we've got lots of wine.

Cool, bring me back a bottle.

That, I will do.

Not to get technical,

but this guy is actually the first

big break we've had since 9/11.

To big breaks, and the little

people that make 'em happen.

So far, everything he's said, we've

cross-checked, and it's proved legit.

And I think the money is persuasive.

That buy's a new life.

Do you think he might be

exaggerating his access?

Possibly.

But, al-Qaeda needs doctors, and

they are short-staffed, and...

that could explain his rise.

In six months to a year,

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