Zero Dark Thirty Page #6

Why I should help you?

Because we're friends.

You say we are friend.

How come you only call

me when you need help?

But when I need something, you

are too busy to pick up the phone.

- I don't think we are friends.

- All right, fair enough.

How about a V10 Lamborghini?

How's that for friendship?

Poor f***er had to get out of bed.

Hey.

- As-salam alaykum.

- Wa-alaykum salam.

- Thank you very much for this.

- You're welcome.

Appreciate it.

All right.

- Ooh, is this a Balboni?

- Yeah.

F*** me dead.

It's nice, really nice.

What are you thinking?

Huh? Maybe a convertible? Get a

little bit of wind in the hair?

huh? Put the top down?

I think I will choose this one.

Give us a minute? Thank you.

That's a nice choice, my friend.

Speed yellow, go big or go home, huh?

Nice choice.

Sayeed.

- Who is it?

- Who do you think?

Guy's a terrorist.

His mother lives here.

I just need her phone number.

There will be no repercussions in Kuwait

I mean, somebody might die,

at some point, in Pakistan.

We got a deal?

Hey, Jack.

Sayeed family call in progress,

but you're not gonna like this.

The ground branch guys

are dragging their heels,

there's no team deployed right now.

F***.

He hasn't said anything incriminating,

but he's at the Rawal

call center in Rawalpindi.

Hey!

Why haven't you deployed a

team to stay in Rawalpindi?

For one thing, it's dangerous.

For another, the area is too

congested for us to be effective,

- without some predictive intelligence.

- Yeah, but that's why...

you should forward deploy, so

you can shorten the response time.

- It still wouldn't work.

- Why?

The guy never stays on

the phone long enough.

- You haven't tried.

- Look, I don't have the personnel.

- That's bullshit, man.

- Yeah?

As it is, my guys don't get any sleep,

tracking the threats within Pakistan.

Right, I understand.

But, you know, I don't really

care if your guys get sleep or not.

This guy you are obsessed with.

What's his name again?

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti

is the nom de guerre.

His true name, we

think, is Ibrahim Sayeed.

Family lives in Kuwait. We've

been listening in on their calls.

Wasn't it,

like, eight brothers and a

million cousins that we know about?

- Anyone could be calling home.

- I know.

I mean, it's not like he's saying,

"Hey, Mom, it's me, the terrorist. "

Yeah, I know. But, look,

over the course of two months,

He's called from six different payphones

from two different cities,

never using the same phone twice.

And when his mother asked

him where he was, he lied.

He said that he was in a place in

the country with bad cell reception,

implying he was in the Tribals. When,

in fact, he was in a market in Peshawar.

I'm sorry but that's not normal

guy behavior, that's tradecraft.

Or maybe he just doesn't like his Mum.

Look, if he talks about an operation or

refers to anything remotely

fishy, I'll get on him, okay?

No, no, not okay, look.

Abu Ahmed is too smart to tip his

hand, by talking about ops on the phone.

He works for bin Laden.

The guys that talk about ops

on the phone don't get that job.

A lot of my friends have

died, trying to do this.

I believe I was spared,

so I could finish the job.

It is in surveillance video and pictures

like this of the explosive-laden vehicle

just moments before it was parked,

that police hope to find the man,

who wanted so badly last night, to

leave a body count in Times Square.

There are some people around the world,

that find our freedom so threatening,

that they're willing to

kill themselves and others,

to prevent us from enjoying it, but

we're not gonna let that happen...

Hey, I really need to talk to you...

about beefing up our surveillance

operation on the caller.

We don't have a surveillance

operation on the caller.

Someone just tried to blow up Times

Square and you're talking to me about...

some facilitator, who some

detainee, seven years ago, said,

- might have been working with al-Qaeda?

- He's the key to bin Laden.

I don't f***ing care about bin

Laden, I care about the next attack.

You're gonna start working on

the American al-Qaeda cells.

Protect the homeland.

Bin Laden is the one who keeps

telling them to attack the homeland.

If it wasn't for him, al-Qaeda would

still be focused on overseas targets.

If you really wanna protect the

homeland, you need to get bin Laden.

This guy never met bin Laden.

This guy's a freelancer working

off the f***ing internet.

No one's even talked to bin Laden

in four years. He's out of the game.

He may well even be dead. He

might as well be f***ing dead.

But you know what you're doing?

You're chasing a ghost while the whole

f***ing network grows all around you.

You just want me to nail some

low-level molar-cracker-doler,

so you can check that box

on your resume that says,

while you were in Pakistan,

you got a real terrorist.

But the truth is, you don't understand

Pakistan, and you don't know al-Qaeda!

Either give me the team I

need, to follow this lead,

or that other thing you're

gonna have on your resume,

is being the first station chief to be

called before Congressional Committee,

for subverting the efforts

to capture or kill bin Laden!

You're f***ing out of your mind.

I need four techs and a

safe house in Rawalpindi.

Four techs and a safe house in Peshawar.

Either send them out,

or send me back to DC, and explain

to the director why you didn't.

I've been looking for you.

But more importantly,

he's been looking for you.

Yesterday, your caller

bought himself a cell phone.

And every time his phone rings,

this phone will ring.

Did I hook you up? Did I?

My guess is that he lives close

to where he's making the calls.

And it makes sense he'd

be living in Rawalpindi,

because there's an Al

Jazeera office there.

It'd be convenient for

him to drop the tapes off,

if he's messengering, either from

Bin Laden, or to an intermediary.

So, when he wants to make a call,

he leaves the house, walks a few

blocks, then switches on the phone.

We need to keep canvassing the

neighborhood until we find him.

We got a shooter.

We're blocked.

Let me talk to them.

They said whites faces don't belong here

If they don't move, shoot them.

He's still on?

- He's east of us, try the market.

- Okay, heading east.

F***.

We got a signal on Tipu

Road for ten minutes.

Then he went to Umar Road for 5 minutes,

NoGaza Road, Darya Abad,

that's in the Umar Road area.

In Rawalpindi,

Haider Road.

Roomi Road.

He went to the Convoy Road, which

is near the hospital, all right?

So that's Haider, Roomi

Road, Zahid, NoGaza, Taimur.

He made a call from Hapur

Street. That's the Spice District.

Lahore Street, which is also in Pesh

- 30 minutes.

Wazir Bagh Road - 5.

Nishtarabad - 5.

Phandu Road - 5 minutes.

The Grand Trunk Road - 45 seconds.

There's no pattern.

Sometimes, he calls every two

weeks, sometimes, every three.

There's no consistency.

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