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Kingdom, The (2007)
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NARRATOR 1: After capturing most of the Arabian Peninsula with the help of the Wahhabi Islamic warriors, Ibn Saud establishes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NARRATOR 2: The Wahhabis were fiercely anti-Western. They want to go back in time to a pure Islam that wasn't threatened by the West. SAUDI RULER: It was by chance that we discovered oil. We were looking for water. NARRATOR 3: Despite criticism of foreign presence in the Kingdom, the King allows commercial oil production to begin. FEMALE NARRATOR 1: The result is the first union between Saudi Arabia and the United States. NARRATOR 4: To accommodate the workforce the first Western housing compounds are created. NEWSCASTER 1: The strict Islamic laws enforced outside of these walls do not apply inside. NEWSCASTER 2: West and East came together in Egypt when President Roosevelt and Ibn Saud, King of Arabia... JAMES BAKER: They want America present there in the kingdom because we are their security. NARRATOR 5: The Saudi elite became notorious big spenders and lost credibility and respect among religious conservatives. NARRATOR 6: In response to the U.S. Support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli War, Wahhabi Muslims pressured the Saudi monarchy to stop pumping oil. NARRATOR 7: Those who control the flow of oil hold the Western world hostage. FEMALE NARRATOR 2: Prices quadruple. NARRATOR 8: Oil was an American national security priority. NARRATOR 9: The embargo redefined the balance of power between the oil consumers and oil producers. REPORTER 1: Iraq's battle-trained army swept across Kuwait's borders at first light. REPORTER 2: As a Saudi national, Osama bin Laden offered his services to the Royals. REPORTER 3: He told them he could bring his army from Afghanistan to repel the Iraqi invaders from Kuwait. NARRATOR 10: But the Saudis had a better offer. A half-million troops from the United States. His offer rejected, Osama took to the streets and mosques to denounce the U.S. , the Royal Family and their unholy alliance. FEMALE REPORTER: Osama bin Laden this week again lashed out at the Saudi Royal Family. SAUDI OFFICIAL: We were tracking bin Laden since the early '90s. We stripped him of his citizenship. (SIRENS WAILING) MAN: When it became clear that 15 of the 19 were Saudis, that was a disaster. A total disaster. Because bin Laden, at that moment, had made, in the minds of Americans, Saudi Arabia into an enemy. We are with you to get to... The perpetrators of this cowardly attack. How dare they say they are Muslim! NARRATOR 11: This is a nation where tradition and modernity are in violent collision. REPORTER 4: The Al Qaeda is thought to have been behind the bombing. A team of F.B.I. Agents prepare to investigate the attack in Saudi Arabia. FEMALE NARRATOR 3: The latest terrorist attacks showcase the great division between the pro-U.S. Monarchy and the extremist Wahhabi militants within the kingdom. (MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO) WOMAN: Yeah, come on! Come on! PLAYER 1: Here we go. MAN 1: Let's go! Here you go, man. Hey, thanks. (CHEERING) PLAYER 1: Yeah! MAN 2: Hey, guys, you might want to move back! MAN 3: Is this what you're looking at? WOMAN: Easy. CROWD: Out! PLAYER 2: Give it up! Come on, move it! We need a hit. Come on! Here we go. No-hitter. No-hitter. Come on. Do your worst. Hello. How are you today, Sergeant? Sun is shining. Wind is blowing. How bad can I be doing? (MAN SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) KEVIN: And this is the skateboard that my Grandma Ruth gave to me. This is my fish Jaws. And he's a really neat fish. And this is the day that my daddy says is the happiest day of his life. Can you tell us about that day, Mr. Fleury? Yeah. You guys want to hear it? You want to hear the story? (KIDS SHOUTING IN AGREEMENT) Do you want to hear about that day? Well, I'll tell you what. This is December 4 and we were at the hospital all day and most of the night. And we was waiting on this little man to come out. And then all of a sudden the doctor showed up and said, 'He's not coming out.' (KIDS GASPING) 'We got to go in and get him.' Like a search team, right? So what she did was... You sure I can tell this story? Yeah, go ahead. So what happened was, is they took a tiny little knife then cut right underneath the belly button, and they opened her up and then took her hands and stuck them all the way in her belly and disappeared. And she was in there just rustling and rumbling and looking for something. Then she started pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling and she was pulling, and all of a sudden she stopped! Then she looked at me and said, 'Mr. Fleury, are you ready 'to have your world rocked?' And I said, 'Well, I guess so.' And so she starts pulling and pulling and all of a sudden a head popped out. And I looked down and I said, 'Kevin!' And then he looked back at me and he said... Daddy! Daddy! Yeah. And that was... That was the happiest day of my life. GIRL: Say that again! (CHEERING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (MEN CLAMORING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SCREAMING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) Roddy! (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SHOUTING) Please do not panic, everything okay. Come. Follow me, please. Come with me. Come. Follow me, please. Come with me. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (EXPLOSION) (BABY CRYING) (CAR ALARM BEEPING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (CELL PHONE RINGING) Fran? Are you getting this yet? Slow down. I'm at Kevin's school. What's going on? Riyadh. We got a lot of bodies down here, Ronnie. Hold on, I'm going outside. I can't hear you. Where exactly? The Al Rahmah Western Housing Compound. Oil company employees. They hit the compound picnic. How? Broad fucking daylight. They blew up a goddamn softball game, Ronnie. I mean, kids and everything. You understand? When? An hour ago. Get them away from there! An hour ago. One bomber. Shooter crew for diversion. (WOMAN SCREAMING) Over there! Jesus Christ. Fran, you okay? (SHOUTING) Get them on the far side. Yeah, I'm fine. Listen to me, Ronnie. You got to get out here. Do you understand me? You got to get out here. Don't take no for an answer. FLEURY: All right, I hear you. I hear you. They're not gonna say no. Good. All right. Hey. Look, Daddy's got to go to work. All right? We're gonna do ceramics. We're gonna do what? Ceramics? Well, we'll do ceramics when I get back, okay? Who was that? That was Uncle Fran. Uncle Fran? What happened? Some bad things happened. A lot of bad people out there? Yeah. But you are not one of them. (CLAMORING) (AMBULANCE SIRENS WAILING) Hey, Rex? How old were you when your hat was that small? (SIGHS) Come on, buddy. You got to get up. We got work to do. Well, we got to clear out this perimeter. We got to... I got... We got to preserve some of this evidence. Get Jack and Steve to cover on the far side. (EXPLOSION) REPORTER 1: The initial attack, involving a suicide bomber and at least two gunmen... ...was apparently designed to lure... REPORTER 2:...in and around the Al Rahmah... ...first responders to the scene... ...Western housing complex near Riyadh. ...followed by a massive secondary explosion. FLEURY: Numbers so far, 100 plus killed, 200 plus injured. Target was a softball game. The killers wore Saudi police uniforms. Special... Special Agent Fran Manner was killed. (GASPING) (CRYING) (CLEARS THROAT) Grant? Take a stab at the bomb sizes. (CLEARING THROAT) From the craters it looks like they used a high explosive, possibly military grade. Twenty, thirty pounds of P.E.T.N. That's something that they have. Semtex or C-4 if they could get it. That there. God knows. That crater looks like a plane dropped a 500-pounder. Sir? I, already know the answer to this, but is there any chance in hell we get to go over there and use our hands? If you already know the answer, why ask the question? Just thought I'd ask. SYKES: Look, we're not seeing this kind of planning and execution anywhere else, are we? No. I mean, these ain't hot-wired artillery shells waiting for Humvees to roll by. These hits are coordinated. The planning, timing in big, broad-daylight, balls-out ugly. So fucking greedy. Do we know if they used the uniforms in the other two attacks? No, as far as I know this is the first time for that. Then you're saying now they got access to Saudi uniforms? SYKES: I mean, baby Jesus! Is anybody taking credit? Anybody seen anything on the web? Haven't heard anything. Tom, you got anything? We haven't found anything yet. How do we know it's not Saudi on Saudi? Could be. If it's Saudi, then it's quite probably the work of Abu Hamza. Osama wannabe. Lived in Iraq. Afghanistan. Sir, not to beat a dead horse, but if there was ever a time for us to put boots on Saudi sand, I mean, don't you think this is it? There's no way, Adam. They will never allow it. Then let's just ask. The Saudi Royal Family cannot appear as if they're losing control. If they lose control of their country, lose control of the people, they risk losing control of the oil. And that is not gonna happen. State Department. 'We are in agreement with the Saudi security assessment 'that any additional American presence on kingdom soil represents reckless risk.' AGENT: Oh, come on, risk? FLEURY: Yeah. What's that? That's not a reckless risk? Fuck it. You hang tight. I'm gonna go get access. Keep your bags packed. Keep your phones on. Some of you are gonna get some calls. (WHIPPING) (MAN GRUNTING) (GASPING) (GRUNTS) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (GASPING) Everyone's terrified, so nothing moves. You and your team aren't going anywhere and this meeting's just a circle jerk, Ronnie. Attorney General Young is gonna go through the motions because protocol says we get an appeal. We'll be on record, but you expect nothing more. I met with Prince Thamer at Saudi Embassy 15 minutes after hearing this morning's news. And after speaking with Thamer, I advised withholding additional U.S. Personnel, because a large part of the religious justification for these bombs is the presence of current U.S. Personnel. More boots on Saudi soil is only gonna make an already combustible situation that much more so. CANAVESIO: My two cents. The Saudis have not asked for F.B.I. Help. They've done the opposite. This is just going to further complicate an already deteriorating situation with one of our few remaining allies in the Middle East. Rock solid logic. Well, we would like to be on the record as saying the F.B.I. Would like an Evidence Response on the ground in Riyadh now. Doesn't your team in that country represent exactly the kind of target that these masters would die for? They'd trade 10 of their own for one of you. Not to go after criminals because they might try to harm you is really not a policy of the F.B.I. See, we try not to say uncle. We try. Let me put it to you another way. Al Qaeda lost the first phase of this war. And they know it. So a new zero-sum phase has begun. 'If you're a Westerner or a moderate Arab 'and you won't join us, we will let loose the truly talented murderers.' Men like Abu Hamza. These are operational commanders who plan, organize, train, brainwash, preach extreme violence. These are the men we're fighting. Duly noted. YOUNG: Anything else? Now, as far as the public's concerned let's try to view this through F.B.I. Agents' eyes. Is that clear? Sir, how do you suppose this is viewed through F.B.I. Agents' eyes? Pardon me? I said, in this situation, how do you feel this is viewed through our eyes? It's a variation of vengeance. When one of your own is killed, agents lose their analytical skills. Kind of like a... Thirty-six hours. We don't do it in 36 hours, we can forget it. Agent Fleury, Agent Mayes, I appreciate your passion. Quite spirited. If you were running the F.B.I. , you might turn it into Patton's Third Army. Might be a good idea, I don't know. My daddy used to fly a helicopter up in Saudi Arabia. Is that right? Now, where would he sit? Would he sit either here, or would he sit over there? No, he used to sit right here. And you want to know a secret? What? My daddy died in Saudi Arabia. Yeah. Your daddy died in Saudi Arabia. You know your daddy was my friend, right? Yeah. So that means that now you're my friend. Yeah. So, since we're friends you promise to take me flying when you know how to fly this helicopter? Yeah. Good. Good. What sound does it make when it takes off? (IMITATING HELICOPTER WHIRRING) Yeah. What about... (IMITATING HELICOPTER WHIRRING) Yeah, like that, huh? That's when it's coming in. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) How hard you gonna hit the Royal Family tomorrow in your column? I'm gonna hit them with a fucking sledgehammer. The bombings or other things? What's other than the bombings? I know you've been tracking our investigation on Al-Haramain, right? Yeah. Royal Family's donations that end up blowing shit up. Yeah. Seat's taken. I need a favor. I don't do favors, Ronnie. Listen, Elaine, when this thing breaks and it's gonna be real, I'm gonna bring it to you first. I'm listening. I need you to call Thamer at the Embassy, tell him that the F.B.I. Is getting ready to lay out major Saudi VIP indictments dealing with charity financing out of this Boston investment firm. We're gonna freeze a lot of Saudi cash and roll out some hardcore embarrassment. And you tell them I'm heading up the investigation. And I'm not the nicest kid on the block. That's accurate. And all I need is 15 minutes tonight. Tonight? Come on. Exclusive. I know you like exclusives. I'll see what I can do. Your Excellency, Special Agent Ronald Fleury. Listen, can we talk inside? Sure. There's too many people in there that know both me and you. I would like to keep this as discreet as possible. I know you have a busy schedule. It's just, so many people in there. Why don't we pull up here and talk? I had an interesting conversation with a reporter from the Post. She exaggerates a lot of things. Me, I consider myself a friend. A friend of Saudi Arabia. I just need a little cooperation, that's all. What kind of cooperation? Like clearance to land on the Prince Sultan's airport tomorrow. One month would be as soon as we could. One month. This is gonna go down one of two ways. One, the F.B.I. Has evidence that two Royal Family wives donated $10 million to three Arab-American cultural centers right outside of Boston, and that some of that money got to Jakarta and these mosques, and they have training camps right next to them. It's just weird to see little kids playing and then not-so-little kids playing with guns right next door. It's just odd. Don't you think? You have no proof of this. How do you know? It's gonna be big. It's gonna be a big story. I mean, it's not just gonna be in the metro papers. It's gonna be in the Omaha Herald, places like the Terrell Tribune. You, you ever been to Terrell, Texas? Good chili. What is your point? I want in immediately. Define immediately. Right the fuck now immediately. So, what was Fran Manner to her? He taught her how to shoot. She introduced him to his wife. And he got her into the Bureau. They celebrated her graduation at the IHOP until some townie called Janet something. I don't know, something not very nice. So the townie didn't see Fran coming out of the head, but he definitely felt Fran's uppercut shatter his jaw. Really? And he didn't get bounced for that? No. No, Fleury took care of it. Yeah, I do know the post in Riyadh was part of the deal Fleury cut to save Fran's career. Thank you. Janet, what did Fleury whisper to you this morning? Grant's age is a liability. (EXCLAIMS) FLEURY: Hey. LEAVITT: Hello, sir. Thanks for volunteering. Yeah, actually I didn't. Well, thank you, anyway. LEAVITT: We're going to Riyadh? Is that right? SYKES: State Department said yes? FLEURY: Nope. LEAVITT: White House? FLEURY: Nope. We bringing security? No. This is really gonna suck, I think. LEAVITT: All right, well that's very questionable. MAYES: Dog giving birth. 'Whelp.' W-H-E-L-P-S? Whelps? Yeah. Bitch giving birth. Whelp. Next word. A dog giving birth. SYKES: Right on. Is that what you thought it meant? I know what it means. That's why I played it. And you didn't think it was a hit and a scream. Like a 'welt' and a 'yelp'? Yeah. I don't have much here, don't worry about it. Hey, what are four people supposed to do over there in five days, anyway? Aren't you the one that practically demanded we go this morning? I didn't say 'I.' I said 'F.B.I.' Let's go. LEAVITT: I got it, I got it! Here it comes. False alarm. What's it like over there on the ground? It's a bit like Mars. Mars? Yeah. Sounds like I didn't pack right. Well, I will be looked at with disdain for pretty much the entire time we're on the ground. Kind of like South Virginia. Hey. Go easy on my kin. (CHUCKLES) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) Man, it feels like you got a beast in there, Fleury. What is it? You don't think I'm okay? I think you're not entirely clear right now. (SIGHS) Look, you want to go? We go. I got you. But you got to check yourself. I'm checked. Okay. I'm just checking that you're checked. You know, I got 15 ties in my closet from Fran. Every Christmas, he'd give me these ties. My God. Fran sent you ties? He sent me ties, too. Ties, yeah. Really? At least 12, 13 of them. Some of the ugliest ties I've ever seen in... Hey, good-looking ties. What? Very colorful. I go fishing with those ties. I'll take you shopping with me sometime. I'll show you style. You'll show me style? You gotta get your L.L. Bean on. You got to? You probably buy your car batteries and your shirts in the same place. (CHUCKLES) That's good. That's good. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (MEN SPEAKING ARABIC) Colonel Al Ghazi. Special Agent Ronald Fleury. Special Agent Mayes. Special Agent Sykes. Special Agent Leavitt. You have your vests? Excuse me? Vests. You know, stop bullets. The vests. Bullet-proof vests. Yeah, we, we brought them. We're good, thanks. Good. I will ask for your passports and weapons. Sykes. What? Fuck. (SPEAKING ARABIC) There is an Israeli stamp in here. Is that a problem? (SPEAKING ARABIC) LEAVITT: I've been to Israel three times. Got a grandma there. Is that all right? It's okay. I'm very sorry for your loss. Your two fallen comrades. If you please go to the second vehicle. It's like 150 miles an hour. You, like, doing like a breathing thing? Like a yoga technique or something? Do you have a problem with this? Take the iPod. Yeah, I have a problem. I wish that I was as calm as you are. I like it. If somebody was tailing us, they'd stick out. Standard operation speed. Hey, explain to the driver I get carsick. You've got to shut up. You ever been to the U.S., Colonel? Yeah, I have been there once. I spent four days in Quantico. I also saw Michael Jordan play for the Washington Wizards. Hey, Colonel, your people got portable lights on the scene? AL GHAZl: Portable lights? SYKES: So we can work at night. See what we're doing. Lights, yes. We have portable lights. But your team cannot work at night. Why? We only got seven days. We work around the clock. Five, Mister. You have five days, and you're not safe at night. We're safe during the day, huh? Listen, were the uniformed bombers brother soldiers? AL GHAZl: I don't know. Driver, are we late or something? Is there a... Abu Hamza. You think he was responsible for these attacks? I don't know. You don't know the source of the blast. You don't know if there was uniformed officers. Listen, Mister, Special Agent Fleury. Forty-seven of my men were blown into hundreds of pieces. That will take months to collect them. Eighty thousands of officers across all the country. Thousands of people that can forge identity. I apologize. I'm very sorry I don't have definitive answers. (TIRES SCREECHING) LEAVITT: Hey, driver, driver, driver! (AL GHAZI SPEAKING ARABIC) AL GHAZl: It's a camel. That's, well, it's good practice, huh? Maybe slower, next time we'll recognize livestock. Okay. The bathroom through that door. We tried to give you some privacy. Actually, I want to put you in the bathroom, but if it's okay with you this. So... And we try to find something pink but I wish it will make the job. Okay, tomorrow we will start working. I will come in the morning. See you tomorrow. Al Ghazi. Yeah? Exactly what time are you coming tomorrow? Sunrise. Okay. What time is sunrise? Excuse me! What time is sunrise? When I open this door. Good night. (LOCKING DOOR) That's against fire code. MAYES: They don't have fire codes here, Sykes. You're in the jungle now, baby. Look sharp. Axl, do you have any more lollipops? Blood sugar's a little low. Don't cross this pink line. Stay back. You're real butch after a long flight. YOUNG: 'Contrary to the State Department policy, 'the F.B.I. Has sent an investigative team 'to Saudi Arabia. In so doing, I have come before this committee 'with a painful admission. I've lost all confidence in the F.B.I. 'Especially its uppermost echelon.' That's you, baby. 'Entrenched and outmoded, the leadership has shown itself fearful 'of the pioneering thoughts this committee and I have tried to imbue. 'It is thus an agency at contretemps hindering our every effort.' And by 'committee,' I mean the fucking Senate Select Committee on Terror. So you're going before the Senate Select Committee and not to the President who appointed you. Why is that? I bet the President wasn't the audience you thought he'd be. I'll bet the President realized that you can't have voters asking why the second longest-serving F.B.I. Director got fired for doing his job. For sending agents to Saudi Arabia just seven months before mid-term elections. So you want to bet? Mister Attorney General, I obviously already have. I bet my job. I'm gonna bury you. You know, Westmoreland made all of us officers write our own obituaries during Tet. When we thought the Cong were gonna end it all right there. And once we clued in to the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what. The only thing that matters is how do you want to go out? On your feet or on your knees? I bring that lesson to this job. I act knowing that someday this job will end, no matter what. You should do the same. (HELICOPTER WHIRRING) Which one of you is Ronald Fleury? Damon Schmidt, State Department. I'm here to make sure that you get out of here okay. Is this your team right here? Yes. All three of them. Hey, everybody, you're gonna need these. Electrolytes. Good to see you. Some electrolytes for you. Take that. You don't want to drop in this heat. Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in? My boss hates you. He's furious. When you get back home, you're done. If you make it back home. Now here comes the Prince. You hold onto his hand and you make sure you don't let go of it until he does, okay? That's good. We got to dial down the boobies. We need to cover these situations. No verbal response. All right, everybody, here we go. Your Excellency, Special Agent Fleury of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and his colleagues. (SPEAKING ARABIC) You will honor me with your presence tomorrow at my home. I'll tell you why this is a win. You documented it and you're still alive. I got a plane. It's fueled up, it's ready to go, it's got your name on it. You guys want to go, let's do it. You talk a lot. A little too much. You wearing a vest? You got nothing. You got nothing, big boy. You want to tighten up the Kevlar. Okay? All right. Offer still stands. I'm always ready to go. So what'd the Prince say? That there are more rules than just not working at night. Rules? What rules? It's a slow roll. This whole trip's gonna be like deep sea fishing in Florida. We need more security here before we go on. Are you fucking kidding me? You got a fucking army. I'm not kidding you, okay? And don't talk to me with this language. You pay 700 bucks for a boat, sit on your can out in the ocean. Crew jumps around, screams, points, throws out fish bait, you catch nothing. Okay, let's go inside now, please. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (MUEZZIN RECITING PRAYERS O VER PA) This is the kind of radical circumstance that could have seriously upped Shaq's free throw percentages. I mean, you take a man, you ship him off to Riyadh. Grant. MAYES: No cell phones, no girls, no booze. LEAVITT: Look at this website. Nothing but being locked in a gym. He could have been shooting, what, 70, 80 percent? Lakers would still be together. Kobe and Shaq, lovers forever. I don't know about that part. Kobe's a hater. LEAVITT: Fleury, come here and look at this. It's a website that went up about a half hour ago, Al Saha dot something. They so love to flaunt their work. Time to go. You won't need your gear. Not yet. That's what I thought. AL GHAZl: The remaining rules. You cannot touch evidence, please leave it. You cannot question anyone without me present, touch a dead Muslim, or leave my sight at any time. Your safety is my primary concern. I thought your primary concern would be the investigation. And you would be mistaken. I think this is one of those 'something happens to us, 'his head comes off' kind of deals. You're our babysitter, right? We call that a babysitter. Yeah. Who's running the investigation? General Abdulmalik. He has given us permission to walk through the crime scene. Walk through? Shit. MAYES: Walk through? You kidding me? Where are you going, Mr. Fleury? FLEURY: You're not in charge. I'm gonna go find somebody that's in charge, so I can get some clarification on what's going on. Okay, there is nothing to clarify. Yes, the hell there is! You think I flew over here for 18 hours, and you gonna tell us we can walk through? I don't know what kind of game you playing. I'm not that guy! Listen. This is not a game show, Mr. Fleury. And definitely there are no deals made here. There is me telling you what you may or may not do. And there is you doing it. That's it. You gonna tell me what to do. You will be permitted to walk through the crime scene when we determine it is safe, that's it. Any questions? By the way, I don't like your jokes. What about witnesses? The witnesses? So you haven't interviewed the witnesses? Not yet. Can we do that? We didn't really see anything. It was so fast and so loud. So nobody saw anything? I hit the deck. The place was going Rambo. Guns, guns, guns. We went into our safe room. Safe room, what's that? That room right there. Earl got an allowance of about $15,000 when we moved here to build it. We stayed in here, till we heard the screams. Yeah, those kids were screaming, all right. That's what got me out of the house. Them kids. FLEURY: Which kids are those? Tracy Jackson. She lived next door. She was murdered looking out of her own window, in front of her children. Jacksons didn't have a safe room. (KNOCKING) Mr. Jackson? (KNOCKING) Mr. Jackson. Aaron Jackson? Yeah. You keep him away from me! Hold on, hold on. Special Agent F.B.I. Ronald Fleury. You know what? That's... Whoa, whoa. They're the ones that attacked us. We don't know that just yet. That's what I'm here for. I just need to ask the boys some questions about maybe something that they saw the other night. What do you want to ask my boys about the other night? I told you... What do you want to ask them about? You want to ask them about watching their mother bleed to death? Is that what you want to ask my boys? JACKSON: My 5-year-old boy, when I got home, had a box of Band-Aids and he was trying to put his mama's mouth back on. Is this what Mohammed the prophet... Oh, come on, man, let's not have a fight. Is this what Allah wants? You know that, this isn't... This isn't gonna bring your wife back. Does Allah love your kids more than he does mine? Does Allah love your wife more than he does mine? Leave me the fuck alone and do not come back to my house! I'll leave you alone, but just... I should have went home a long goddamn time ago! AL GHAZl: This is the big explosion. About one hour into the rescue. LEAVITT: Where did the water come from? They hit a water main? AL GHAZl: Water main? Yeah, where'd the water come from? From a water pipe? They break one? No, it's from the tanks of this fire engine. This is the water that didn't, how you say it, evaporate in the blast. This truck used to be here? We think so. This hole is the case. Your men are contaminating this. You understand evidence? Little things that are clues. Clues can be very helpful to a fellow trying to solve a crime. You want to go into the hole? Yeah! Absolutely. No. All right. Who was running security? Security here is a combination of police and National Guards of... (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) Mr. Sykes! Please come back. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Please. AL GHAZl: This vehicle was stolen. A team outside the blast radius, shooting at anything, everyone. Sergeant Haytham ended this part. Were any of the shooters your men? Real Saudi police? No, they weren't. (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) Nice work. There were two officers in the car. Both of them were executed. And those were your men. I'm sorry. Car was parked here, backed in? Yes. They were attacked from the front, so they must have assumed they were fellow officers. These guys been identified yet? Not yet. It's likely that the four men prayed in the same mosque. That's enough to identify them? If it's in Suweidi, yes. LEAVITT: Suweidi? MAYES: Suweidi's a known militant stronghold. Al Qaeda could recruit from the storefronts. Is there any way we can check out those surrounding buildings. Like especially that one right there. AL GHAZl: Why? From the posting on the Internet the attack was filmed from a high vantage point and that building right there looks over the whole crime scene. It's outside the walls. Come on now, this is damn insane. We got enough security to invade North Korea and Suweidi... You don't know what you are talking about. Can we just ask? Okay. All right. We'll be in the Community Center. LEAVITT: How many virgins will be available to you upon entry into the afterlife here, if you follow what the zealots follow in this stuff? Seventy. That's incorrect. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) FLEURY: Hey, buddy, how you doing? I'm in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, you remember where I showed you on the map? Well, right now I'm sitting in the gym-slash-hotel. (CHUCKLES) What? Yeah, Fran is, Fran's around. We, we... Yeah, I saw him. He is... He's, he's tall as ever. Yeah, and we're looking for the bad guy. And I'm gonna get some sleep. Yeah, I'm gonna go to bed. I love you, too. All right, bye. We have permission. Really? Yeah. (SIRENS WAILING) FLEURY: There's the building. That's the rooftop. Yeah. We have a problem. What's the problem? (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) Hey! Hey! Hey! All right, easy, easy, easy. Fleury, stop Fleury. Careful. Leave it! (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) FLEURY: Fuck! Al Ghazi! Tell me he didn't blow out my eardrum. Is it fucking bleeding? It's all right. There's no blood. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Come on, you okay? Let's get up. Janet, you okay? Let's get up. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Are you okay? Come on, Janet. Are you okay? No, are you okay? He slapped you. I'm good. I'm good. Thanks. You sure? Let me look at you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Come on, let's go up. (GRUNTS) LEAVITT: Fleury, look at this. There's the front gate, the police car and the bomb site. And look. That's about the same angle, right? Yeah. Al Ghazi, have you seen the video on Al Saha? Look. Look right through there. Same exact thing. This is too pretty of a plan to be hatched in just one day. He had to come here a couple of times. This man is a Saudi. See, if foreigners were here, someone would say something. So maybe Abu Hamza? Could be. Yeah. Then we should ask around. Get out of here and some people... They won't tell you anything. Why not? He's like Robin Hood to you. People feel sympathy to him. FLEURY: Well, we know two things. We know he was Saudi, we know he was here. That's two big answers in two minutes. Imagine if we had a couple of days. General Malik, he's got his heart in the right place, but he is clearly not an investigator. Now listen. Let me help you. AL GHAZl: It's a detonator. Where you... Yeah, it's a gift from us to you. We found it at the bomb site. Run with that. Leavitt! Yeah? Hey, where, where are you going? You got a lot of evidence here. We'd like to bag it. No, no we have five minutes... Fucking bullshit. We're here to collect evidence. Why you say this bad word? We're not fucking tourists here, all right. Why you say these bad words? I'm getting the kit. Fleury, talk to this guy. I would bring a soap and wash your mouth! What do you think? (CHUCKLES) Leavitt! LEAVITT: Yeah, it's Leavitt, not Livette. I'm not a goddamn French-Canadian. Tonight we have the dinner in the palace. Miss Mayes, she can't be there. It's only men. Only men? Yeah, you know, tradition. That's gonna be boring. No women? No. Just men. No women allowed. All right. Only men. Yeah. You wait. No. Janet. He wants to tell you something. What? How's your ear? It is good? It's the right one or the left? How many princes are there? AL GHAZl: Over 5,000. Does every prince get a palace this big? Some get bigger. LEAVITT: And who pays for all this? SYKES: Exxon? Chevron? Shell? AL GHAZl: Serious now, the Prince will talk to you like subjects. If he gives you to hold his raptor, do not flinch. It is a compliment. LEAVITT: His what? Hold his rapture? His talons slice bones. That right? That's my most prolific hunter. I try to teach his friend over there, but I fear it is something you are born with or not. PRINCE: You agree, Mr. Ronald? Innate or not at all? I do. PRINCE: What have you seen so far in our kingdom? I know that I can arrange a safari for you and your colleagues. Safari? Well... I'll tell you what I've seen. I've seen... I've seen that the man that planned the worst crime in your kingdom's history is without a doubt Saudi. If you walk three kilometers from the compound, you will find the rooftop where the attacks were planned. I've seen a person in this room who's 'born with it.' Colonel Al Ghazi. Everything that I'm telling you Mr. Al Ghazi told us while he was observing the crime scenes and protecting us. He wasn't even on duty. So I agree with you that instincts like this cannot be taught. Not to falcons, and definitely not to SANG generals. I know you want him caught. We want him caught. So let us help you. America's not perfect, not at all, I'll be the first to say that, but we are good at this. Allow us to help your men go catch this criminal. AL GHAZl: The rules for tonight still stand, but tomorrow is a new day. SYKES: All right, Ghazi. Look at you Mr. Al Ghazi. Coming through. You feeling your power, huh? Yeah, of course. You feel his power? He's real powerful. AL GHAZl: We made a success tonight, correct or not? We need to party. Okay. (MEN CHATTERING) (LEAVITT TRILLING) Okay. Give him half, you keep half. Tell him pass them out around the compound, see if they recognize anything. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Let's go. Need a little check? Huh? You big queer. I can... Never mind. Gonna have to get a little dirty, people. Yeah, you got to get dirty. Nasty, filthy! (LAUGHING) All right, fellows, what we need to do is get this water out of here. So we can see what's really going on down here. You understand? See, something drivable blew up. Let's dry up this hole to see if we can't figure out what she was. All right? Who's got a pump? Pump? Yeah, a pump. Pump out the water. (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) You cannot touch any Muslim. So tell me what to do, I'll do it. Yeah, come over here then. Take this. This finger also? I push it? Yes, please. Really clean on the... That's what's important. Okay. Good. The non-Muslim bodies, where are they? (SPEAKING ARABIC) HAYTHAM: We have them in the next tent. I need to see them. FLEURY: Just take a look at these and see if you recognize any of them please. Oh, those are horrible. No, I'm sorry, I don't recognize either of them. You know, that chair outside looks like it gets a lot of wear. It looks comfortable. (CHUCKLING) Yeah, it is. That's my mom's chair. FLEURY: She spends a lot of time out there? Yeah, all day. All day, huh? Where is she? She's sleeping now. Then let's wake her up. MADDY: I've seen him. When? Like a week ago. Twice, I've seen him watering with the garden crews. And I thought that was funny. FLEURY: Funny how? He was a Saudi, I'm pretty sure. The gardener. Yeah? Well, Saudis, like Americans don't do manual labor. Blowing leaves is beneath them. The gardener. We know who he is. I want to take you somewhere. Where? Someone who can lead us to catch the big dogs. More like the big fish. AL GHAZl: Big fish? Yeah, big fish. A dog... A dog is more bigger than a fish. Yeah, I don't... I didn't make it up. (SYKES SINGING) Don't count on me To do the things I've done before So why'd you get into this, Al Ghazi? Into what? Being a cop. Why'd you get into being a cop? I mean, with all this violence and chaos, it seems so crazy. It's because of... The Green Beast. The what? The Green Beast. What the hell is the Green Beast? It's a TV show when I was kid. You know, a man who turns green when he's very angry, he turns green and... Oh, oh, oh, yeah, the Hulk. Yeah, you know. He was killing just bad people, because they did wrong. Yeah. Yeah, 'Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.' Ah, you know also Steve Austin? Yeah, Six Million Dollar Man! FLEURY: Now, that's my shit. That's my shit. What? You need bathroom, you mean? No, no, no. I can stop here if you want. No, no, no. (SYKES SINGING) Cause when those lights go on at night And light up the playgrounds then (SPEAKING ARABIC) (MAYES SPEAKING ARABIC) Sir? Thank you. Something cooking. That's a gurney. Son of a bitch. (CHUCKLING) Oh, God. You know what those sons of bitches did? They blew up an ambulance. Oh, man. Now that is nasty! Low-down. I'm 42 years old. I have two daughters and a son. Beautiful son. And I find myself in a place where I no longer care about why we are attacked. I only care that 100 people woke up a few mornings ago, had no idea it was their last. When we catch the man who murdered these people, I don't care to ask even one question. I want to kill him. Do you understand? Yes, I do. So, is your first name Colonel? What? Your first name. What's your first name? Faris. Faris. Yeah. Officer Faris. Friend, hold up! Shit. Give me that shovel. Oh, we got something good, man. That grapple? Get the keys to it. I need it down here. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Thanks, bud. AL GHAZl: See that man, through the window? FLEURY: Yeah. Izz Al Din. He joined bin Laden when Al Qaeda brought the fight to the Royal Family. Does he know where bin Laden is? No, no, no, no, no. 'Cause that'd be a real big promotion for me, if I could get that one. He turned himself in last year during an amnesty. He's now part of a new government effort, to balance the experience of Saudi youth. Oh, he's doing community service. Yes. Okay. Yes. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (GREETING IN ARABIC) (MEN SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) The man who made war on Al Rahmah is someone his age. A man who can plan mass murder of women and children and then go home and sleep soundly, that kind of man is supremely difficult to catch. How does he know he slept soundly? (SPEAKING ARABIC) Because he hasn't stopped. You stop only when dead faces don't let you sleep. Is that why you quit? Seventeen days without sleep will make you quit anything. (BOY SPEAKING ARABIC) American military detonator. Yeah. How would they get it? There are several ways to get this military equipment. But not everyone can get it. Could Abu Hamza get 'em? Absolutely, yes. Then ask him if he knows where I can find Abu Hamza. Did you say something funny? 'Cause I didn't say something funny. Abu Hamza, he is like ghost. Abu Hamza like a ghost. Yeah, I got that. I understood that. You need... Yeah, prayers, luck and... Handshakes. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Every bomb maker at some point gets bitten by his own work. Okay, chief. HAYTHAM: It's hospital identification. SYKES: You know it? Yes. Call it in. LEAVITT: Look who got the big clue! It's some pretty soft skin, I'll bet you, too. You know, that mud looked pretty good. Hey, hey, come on, that's my only shirt, Grant! (SPEAKING ARABIC) The ambulance was stolen from King Fahd Hospital, three days before the bombing. Okay. I got 20 men that rotated shifts on the stolen ambulance. One of them is very important. He's in our interest. His name is Muaath Al Abdullah. This is Fahd Al Abdullah, his brother. The one that Haytham shot. So where's Muaath? We are going now there. Let's go. Bring your vests. (MACHINES WHIRRING) (MAN SHOUTING IN ARABIC) (MEN CLAMORING) (GUNS FIRING) Fingerprints are on the other side. I'm not looking for fingerprints. Then what are you doing? AL GHAZl: Fingers. (PRAYING IN ARABIC) (PRAYING IN ARABIC) Pictures of the compound. American Embassy. (SIREN WAILING) AL GHAZl: Japan. It's the Coalition. All these countries have troops in Iraq. This is meaningless, man. This is pointless. (SPEAKING ARABIC) What he say? The Prince. Fuck. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Ghazi. Was anyone hurt? No, nothing. Everything under control. Relax. Were there any pictures taken? No picture. Nothing, the team was safe. Everything good. I'm taking them out of here. They're getting on a plane as soon as the Prince leaves, all right? Where are they right now? They are inside. Are they? (CELL PHONE RINGING) Hello. Yes, sir, everybody's safe. No, I'm next to the corpses right now, but I don't think this is the end of this, sir. To me this doesn't feel anything like senior leadership. Yeah. Yes, sir, I do. I do. SCHMIDT: Fleury! Hey. (COUGHING) Schmidt, you all right? Yeah. You sure? Mmm-hmm. All right. Don't throw up on your tie. Want some water? No, I'm fine. You sure? Yes! You lucky bastard, Fleury. Congratulations. You won the hand on the river card. Schmidt, we didn't win anything. These are just teenagers. Kids. Insignificant. I'm looking at one, two, three, four bad guys, a whole lot of guns. This is good stuff. You did good. Pack up. Revel in the fact that when you get home, for a few weeks, your shit's not gonna stink. All right? Turn those frowns upside-down, people. This will be pitched as a stunning Saudi-only counterpunch, killing those responsible for Al Rahmah. The Al Jazeera is gonna play up the fact that there's an F.B.I. Presence here. Hello. Put that down. Put it down. Yeah. You got it. It's time to go home. The four of you are on a plane now. Four vehicles will be left behind when the Prince and the press leave. You'll convoy straight to B.A. Flights into Dulles. Last-minute fares come out of all your pockets. I tried to get you an upgrade. Doesn't look good. Check at the counter. All right? You guys are heroes. Fly safe. I'm going straight to Diamond Dan's and I'm gonna order six P.B.R.'s. Pabst, Sykes? Really? Yeah, first thing. Best beer on the planet. MAYES: Is that how you get laid? You go and you take a couple Pi-Phi's and you... (LAUGHING) So, Al Ghazi, what do you think? What's going on in that head of yours? LEAVITT: Haytham, you guys drink that stuff, Pabst? Amateurs. HAYTHAM: What is it? AL GHAZl: It's a small win. LEAVITT: It's beer. FLEURY: Reminds me of when they hit the towers, first time, in '93. You remember how they caught the cell? Car bomb. Yeah. He went back to get his deposit on the rental car. $400. Stupidity. Then nine years later they come back. I got a feeling I'm coming back too. Yes, you will. Yes, you will. I didn't even know you could still buy that. MAYES: It only comes in keg form, doesn't it? SYKES: Oh, Schlitz, Pabst, sure. LEAVITT: Do you think they just hand that blue ribbon out? Do you? LEAVITT: It's not just some cute little name. It was just Pabst. And then they won a ribbon. And now it's Pabst Blue Ribbon. You ever have canned beer when you're doing sensitive work? LEAVITT: Haytham? You guys have Pabst Blue Ribbon out here? Oh, you don't even have beer out there. SYKES: No, you can't drink beer. MAYES: They don't have beer. HAYTHAM: No pork, no beer. MAYES: Yeah, I used to do keg stands in college. LEAVITT: Oh, yeah? Well, what, does that mean that you don't like things that are awarded the blue... FLEURY: Brake! (GROANING) (MEN SHOUTING IN ARABIC) LEAVITT: I'm still locked in. Get me out. FLEURY: What are they doing? Hold onto him! MAYES: You gotta take that. FLEURY: Hey, Leavitt, hold on! Don't do it! MAYES: Hold on! Hold on! FLEURY: Come on, Leavitt, hold on, baby. LEAVITT: Fuck you! MAYES: I got you! FLEURY: Shit! (SHOUTING) LEAVITT: Fleury! Fleury! Fleury! MAYES: There's more of them! LEAVITT: Fleury! Fleury! (GUN FIRING) Leavitt! We gotta move! (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) Al Ghazi, you've gotta put your foot in this motherfucker. Let's go! I put it! I putting foot! Motherfuckers! I'm gonna fucking kill them! FLEURY: We cannot lose him, you understand? We can't lose him. If we lose him, he's dead. (SHOUTING) (GASPING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) Give me a MAC. Give me a MAC. AL GHAZl: I see it! FLEURY: There he is right there, let's go! Yes, yes. Let's move. Let's move. Take the left, take the left, take the left. FLEURY: Let's go, let's go, let's move. SYKES: Come on, faster. You've lost him! Damn it, you lost him! I have not lost him! I see him! He is in front! There he is, there he is! Punch it! Punch it, Al Ghazi! (MAN SHOUTING IN ARABIC) MAYES: Watch it, he just turned, he just turned. He's up there. He's right there, don't lose him. Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out! (SPEAKING ARABIC) Khaled! Khaled! MAYES: He went to the left! FLEURY: Take a left! You're gonna lose him! Do not fucking lose him! (SHOUTING) AL GHAZl: No, no, it's Suweidi. This is not good area. We shouldn't be here. We shouldn't be here! Suburban to the right. Mercedes. Mercedes straight ahead. All right. We're in it, we're in it, we're in it. FLEURY: You got it. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Reverse! Reverse! Move, move, move. (GASPS) Grenade! SYKES: Cover! (GUNS FIRING) (WOMEN SCREAMING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) Move, Al Ghazi! You good? I'm good. Go! (GROANS) (MAN SHOUTING IN ARABIC) Cover me! There's a blood trail! There's a blood trail going into the building! (SPEAKING ARABIC) (READING SPEECH IN ARABIC) (PANTING) (FIRING) Are you good? Yeah, yeah, fine. We gotta get backup. AL GHAZl: Look, we don't have time. We need two to backup here. The other three go inside. Haytham. Okay. You good, Sykes? Yeah, I got backup! MAYES: Go, go. FLEURY: Let's go. AL GHAZl: Go, go, go, go, go! This is very bad neighborhood. Yeah, no shit. (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) (HISSES) (WHISTLES) Which side of the door you think Allah is on? We are about to find out. (SHOUTING IN ARABIC) (MEN SHOUTING IN ARABIC) Fuck! (BABY CRYING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) It's okay! Malesh! Malesh! Stay here! Malesh! Malesh. Stay here! Stay here! (PANTING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) (MUFFLED GRUNTS) (SCREAMING) (GRUNTING) Leavitt! You okay? Haytham! I got this! Go inside and see how they're doing. (BABY CRYING) (SPEAKING ARABIC) You okay? Oh, I have something. (SPEAKING ARABIC) Abu Hamza. Get out! Put it down! Put it down! You put that fucking gun down! MAYES: Put it down. Put that gun down. Put it down! Put that fucking gun down! Put the fucking gun down right now! Put the gun down! (WOMEN SCREAM) Ali. Fuck. (SHOUTING) Go, go, go, go. Hold on. Fuck. Hold on, buddy. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Breathe, breathe, breathe, fucking breathe. It's okay. God, he's just a kid. He's just a kid. It's all right, I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you. I got you. I got you. Just calm down. Relax. Relax, relax. Gotta breathe. You gotta breathe, you gotta breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe. Relax, relax. You gotta breathe. You gotta breathe. Let's get a fucking ambulance! We got 'em. We got 'em. We got 'em. We got 'em, okay? We got 'em all. Just relax. Relax, baby. Come on, you gotta stay with us. You gotta stay with us. You gotta... Faris! Faris! Yeah. We got 'em, baby. We got 'em. My condolences. Thank you. HAYTHAM: This is his son, Sultan. Sultan. Hey. Tell him that his father was a very brave man. (SPEAKING ARABIC) (SPEAKING ARABIC) He asks if you know his father. Yeah. I knew your father, your father was a good friend of mine. (HAYTHAM SPEAKING ARABIC) All right. Thank you, Sergeant Haytham. Thank you. Thank you, man. This is to keep away your worries. Thanks, man. We testify next Tuesday. Fleury goes first. But I'm gonna go through it with each of you one-on-one, in advance, just to make sure we're all on the same page. If they ask you, if we've talked about any of this, the answer is unequivocally no, okay? You did outstanding work over there. You hold your heads high. Fleury. Tell me what you whispered to Janet, in the briefing, to get her to stop crying about Fran, you know, before all this, before we even got airborne. What'd you say to her? (SPEAKING ARABIC) You remember? I told her we were gonna kill them all. (SPEAKING ARABIC) |
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