The Border (2008) s01e01 Episode Script

[Radio conversation]
[Flight announcements]
- Just a minute, please, sir.
- Kessler, I.C.S.
- Ma'am?
- Has the plane
docked yet?
- Jetway doors
are opening as we speak. Hm!
I need those Haddad photos,
and I need them 5 minutes ago.
[Mumbling]
- And we're sure it's Haddad?
- Damascus confirmed.
- Agent Slade?
- Yes, uh Here's the photo
he's using on the passport,
and, uh, here's the photo
of Haddad taken two days ago
in Syria by Mossad.
I'm going to try and get
into airport security.
Just feed me anything you think
might be helpful to me here
C'mon! C'mon, just, just show me
a little love here, please
- Passenger's about to get off.
Williams, Lepinsky, you there?
- On our way down
to the Customs Hall.
CBSA is setting up
alternate clearing areas.
- [Good. Keep me informed.]
- C'mon
Yes! I got it! I got it! Hey!
I got airport security
feeding live, okay?
Good, that was good. Did you
see that? It was fantastic,
like we were dancing.
- I've got 2 agents
in the jetway.
- Okay.
- Okay, there he is.
There he is, boss.
- Here they come. Positions
- Wasn't Tariq Haddad at some
secret lab in the Philippines?
- Word is he's developed some
new gel explosive.
- We're on.
- Do you believe that shit?
I remember when Polaroids were
goddamn miracles of technology.
[Speed-dialling]
- Okay, track Haddad
as far as the escalator,
then divert the rest
of the passengers to Area C.
Slade, can you identify
Haddad's companion?
Haddad just handed him a note.
- M-m-maybe they, uh
Maybe they traveled together?
I don't know. I'm going to
check up the seating plan.
Bring up the airplane
seating plan for me.
Okay, um Karim.
Nizar Karim. I'm going
to cross-reference that
with the passport registry.
Got it. Nizar Karim.
He's a Canadian
citizen, traveling
on a Canadian passport.
- Enhance the image.
- No, uh, it's fixed-lens -
I don't think - oh, my God
Hold on, just hold on
a second here, boss.
Let me back this thing up.
Do you see this?
Does that does that look off
to you? He looks off to me.
Wh- what is that
around his waist?
- Too much Syrian food?
- [No, boss, do you see that?]
- Haddad could be strapped.
It might be a money belt,
or scanner-proof explosives.
- Copy that.
- [The man with Haddad]
is Nizar Karim. Nothing on file,
but keep him for questioning.
Sergeant Hourani. Stay with him.
- [Roger. Tracking Karim
as second target.]
- Immigration and Customs
Security! May I have
your attention!
We need you to move quickly
but calmly out of this area.
[Background reactions]
- Right here, sir. Yes.
- Right now, we need you
to clear the area.
- Suspect is approaching
the escalator.
It's showtime here
- Ah, I'm sorry.
Did I hit ya? Long flight.
My feet are like watermelons.
All right, off you go then
[Conversation in Arabic]
- Habibi.
[Background conversation]
- [Target is clear
on the escalator.]
[Screaming]
- Shove the bag!
- Freeze!
[Passengers screaming in panic]
- Hold your fire! Hold you fire!
- He's wired!
- Guys, somebody tell me
what's happening down there?
- We appear to have a standoff.
- If you surrender, you live.
Anything else is suicide.
- Perhaps. But
I won't die alone.
- This is not good.
This is not a good situation.
[Suspenseful music]
- Aah!
- Check his shirt!
Check his shirt!
Definitely packing.
- Thank you, Major.
We'll take it from here.
- I wasn't aware
we'd notified CSIS.
- Hand over the
prisoner, Major.
- What's U.S. Homeland Security
doing here? Are we extraditing?
- That information's classified.
- Haddad blew up
a Canadian embassy.
- What rock did he
crawl out from under?
- I am not a terrorist.
- Can I see your
passport, please?
- You can't think I'm
involved in this!
- If you're innocent, you
have nothing to worry about.
- All I did was sit next to him!
I don't even know his name.
- Tariq Haddad.
- The embassy bomber?
Oh, my God!
- Why were you in
Syria, Mr. Karim?
- I was attending my
grandmother's funeral.
- Mr. Haddad was seen
handing you a note.
- What?
- He wrote on the back
of a business card.
- You mean this? Here.
Take it.
- Who is Donald McTavish?
- An orthodontist.
I told him my
son needs braces.
- I'm sorry, sir. I'm going
to have to detain you while
we check out your story.
- But my wife - she's waiting!
I'm a Canadian citizen!
- If you're telling the truth,
you should be home by supper
- Where's Daddy?
[Reply in Arabic]
- Any moment now, I'm sure
- How did you find out
about Haddad? Have you
been spying on us, Mannering?
- CSIS spying?
- He entered the country
illegally. I want time with him.
- Write out a list of questions,
and I'll see they get to Gitmo.
- ICS does not take
orders from CSIS.
- No, but we both take orders
from the Deputy Minister.
Would you care
to talk to him?
- Release the prisoner.
- Ah!
- Who have we here?
- Nobody.
I teach high school.
- So far he checks out.
- Karim! Karim!
[Speaking in Arabic]
- He wants Mr. Karim
to call his lawyer.
- That's interesting.
- Please, I
- Mr. Karim is not under arrest.
As far as we know, all he did
was sit next to Haddad
on the plane.
- Haddad did write
him a note.
- I think you better
leave Mr. Karim with us.
[Chuckling]
Don't worry.
We'll take good care of him.
- You've had quite a day,
Sergeant Hourani.
- Sir, I had no idea--
- Haddad made you,
he saw your weapon.
Now you condemned a
possibly innocent man
to his worst nightmare.
- Karim was sitting beside him--
- You're new to the
unit, Sergeant,
so I'll say this just
once: you work for me.
Not CSIS, not the RCMP.
Don't ever undercut
me like that again.
[Message from the loudspeakers
in the background]
[Woman whispering]
- Watch, watch.
Here we go. Ah, he's here.
[Electronic beeps]
Here, I take it back. There,
there. See that? Right there.
- Shit, he was right!
Haddad saw my gun.
- Oh, you're hyper-emotional.
Are you in the post-luteal phase
of your cycle right now?
- What?
- Haddad blew up a Canadian
embassy. He was active here!
- [Let's review, shall we?]
Immigration and Customs Security
- that would be you -
polices our borders
and arrests evildoers.
CSIS gathers intelligence
[and interrogates
said evildoers.]
- But Haddad--
- And you both report to me.
- Fine, take Haddad.
But Nizar Karim could be
an innocent bystander.
- Well, some additional evidence
has, uh, surfaced -
[not that it's
any of your concern.]
- Do I have to remind you what
Mannering's mistakes have
cost us in the past?
- [We haven't forgotten Bosnia.]
But in the current climate,
a man like Mannering
is invaluable.
- A man of no conscience.
- [A man with no self-doubt.]
You did good work catching
Haddad - congratulate
your men for me.
[Ceremonious music,
bells tolling]
- Don't worry about the boss.
He just likes a clean chain of
command. It's a JTF2 thing.
- JTF2?
- Elite commandos flown around
the world on special ops?
- I know what JTF2 is. What did
Kessler have to do with it?
- He ran it.
- Chocolate brownie?
You kids need to fatten up.
- Hey! Uh, my BMI
is actually 20.3,
which is well within the normal
range, I'll have you know.
- Carbs, huh.
- Hey!
- Run it again.
- K-A-R-I-M.
No, Syria. All flights
in or out of Damascus.
- C'mon, man. I got four
fake passports with your
prints all over them.
- So, four liars
showed me their documents.
I touch a lot of things.
- I'm watching you, Frankie.
Sooner or later,
you're mine.
- So what, I'm supposed
to be scared or something?
- Kick him loose.
- CSIS won't talk
about Nizar Karim.
And they've taken over
the Tariq Haddad file.
- Sweet.
- You mean they
grabbed credit for the arrest.
- Haddad's been developing
a gel explosive that can get
past airport security.
This is a dry run.
- Cocky bastard!
- Nizar Karim is a wild card,
so I've opened
an investigation. Slade?
- Uh, so far,
he looks squeaky clean.
He's got joint Canadian
citizenship, no criminal record,
a good credit rating.
Taught at the same high school
for eight years, um,
doesn't appear on any lists even
remotely connected to Jammaa
at-Takfir wal Hijra
or Al-Qaeda.
- Why was he in Damascus?
- His grandmother really did
die. Her funeral was 3 days ago.
- And the orthodontist?
- A 62-year-old Scotsman
who spends most of his time
growing prize-winning roses.
"Rosa Mary McTavish,"
named after his mother.
- Aw
- Check this out!
It was just posted.
- In a stunning arrest
this afternoon at Toronto's
Pearson International Airport,
the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service
apprehended Tariq Haddad, 5th
on the FBI's most-wanted list.
According to CSIS,
Haddad is a leading figure
in Jammaa at-Takfir
and wanted in connection
with the 2003 bombing
of the Canadian embassy
in Ethiopia.
A biochemist,
Haddad is also believed
to have been developing
a new generation
of gel-based explosives,
that would bypass airport
- Williams, Lepinsky,
look into Jammaa
at-Takfir wal Hijra.
See if it leads back to Karim.
Gray, you and Hourani
check out Karim's
acquaintances and colleagues.
- Um, shouldn't we
start with his home?
- I'm sure Mannering
has horsemen
combing through his underwear
drawer as we speak.
Maggie, we'll
take the family.
- They'll be some
glad to see us.
- See you outside?
- There's this geek
I knew in CSIS -
total whack job,
lives on Reese's Pieces,
um, speaks Klingon.
He was so far out of
the loop - I'm talking
his own time zone here -
he might not know
we're in the dark.
- Oh, that's good.
- I'll give you the info.
- Thank you.
- So how do you like it so far?
- Why did Kessler leave JTF2?
- Some Bosnian op went south.
Civilians died.
There was a cover-up.
Slade can tell you.
He was JTF2.
- Mr. Social Skills?
- Slade's the best
geek in the business.
JTF2 couldn't handle him -
he found out everything.
- You were Customs
and Revenue, right?
Something about 10 Hell's
Angels and bear repellent?
- Six. It was pepper spray.
You were RCMP, and you
know like, 6 languages?
- Seven.
- Plus you're a..
- I'm what? Muslim?
- We all know Muslim agents
are in high demand.
I'm not saying it's the only
reason Kessler picked you.
Come on, Layla,
help me out here.
- Sergeant Hourani.
- Zoe?
- Hey, Daddy.
- What are you doing here?
- Got my car towed.
Can I crash
at your place?
[Honking goodbye]
- Have you been drinking?
- A little.
- How did you get here?
- This guy dropped me.
- What guy?
- Some guy from the club.
- Does this guy have a name?
- Duh!
- He just dumped you here
in the middle of the night?
- I walked part of the way.
- What?
- He got weird.
- What, he assaulted you?
- No!
Jesus, stop interrogating me!
I'm not a terrorist!
- Zoe
I'll drive you to your mother's.
- If I go home without my car,
she'll freak.
I'm giving you a shot at some
quality time with your kid.
- It doesn't get much
better than this
- There was a quarter bottle of
Scotch when I went to bed.
This morning, empty.
- What is she now, eighteen?
- Nineteen, which means
she can legally be a drunk.
And she started smoking,
and that has got to stop.
- Oh yeah? Good luck with that.
[Knocking on door]
- You were there.
I saw you.
Where is my husband? What have
you done with my husband?
Why have you come here?
Did you find something
in Nizar's notebooks?
- Notebooks?
- Your men, they
came, they took everything.
Our computer, my wedding photos,
even Amir's videotapes,
for heaven's sake!
- Those were CSIS agents who
searched through your house.
We're from Immigration
and Customs Security.
- Is there a difference?
Where is Nizar?
Where is he?
I can't bear not knowing.
[Thunder and rain pouring]
- Sorry, I can't tell you that.
It's a matter of
national security.
- At least tell me if he's safe.
You read such
awful things
- We're sorry, ma'am. This
must be very hard for you.
[Bell ringing]
- Nearly half the
students are Muslim.
Before September 11th,
this was never a problem.
- How do the students
like Nizar Karim?
- What's not to like?
He's a good teacher, fair,
works hard for the kids.
One of his chemistry
students took first prize
at the Toronto Science Fair.
- Chemistry? As in, like,
anthrax and pipe bombs?
- He used light-
activated chemicals
as a source of
alternate energy.
Asif Kamil. Nizar's
taken him under his wing.
He thinks he's brilliant.
- Where do we find this genius?
- Room 223,
just up the hall.
He's running the science lab
until Nizar gets back.
Nizar will
come back, right?
I mean, this is
all a mistake.
Oh, Jeez!
We We just painted out
the last batch!
[Bell ringing]
- So what were you in high
school? Jock, nerd, or freak?
- School slut.
- I see what you mean.
- No girl should have to hide
her head under a scarf.
- Some girls prefer the hijab.
It makes them feel protected.
- Oh yeah? Did
you wear one?
- Please!
I was deep into grunge.
[Background conversations]
- Mr. Karim's okay. He put me up
for a scholarship at MIT.
- MIT, I'm impressed.
You ever see him socially?
- I'm a little too
busy to socialize.
- What's this?
- Hey!
- Don't touch a federal agent.
- Sorry
- That's an
interesting bookmark.
- Dar-al-Khaawarij.
That's a Wahabi mosque.
Are you Wahabi?
- I thought the Constitution
granted freedom of religion.
- Is that a yes?
- What about Mr. Karim?
Did he attend this mosque?
- Look, why don't you ask him?
You've got him, don't you?
- You can answer
back at headquarters.
- Yes.
Yes. He took me
himself a few times.
[Speed-dialling and
ringing at other end]
- Check the MIT story.
And talk to the Imam
at the Dar-al-Khaawarij.
Mrs. Karim, would
you say your husband
is a religious man?
- Why do you ask me this?
- We understand
he attended
the Dar-al-Khaawarij mosque,
known to have produced
several terrorists.
- Nizar went only for that boy,
to keep him out of trouble.
- Asif Kamil?
- Nizar says he has
the kind of mind
a teacher finds only
once in a lifetime.
He worried that Asif
would meet the wrong
people at this mosque.
- And did he?
- This I don't know.
But Nizar did not
like it there.
He said the people
were full of hate.
- Thank you, Mrs. Karim.
You've been very cooperative.
- Wait. Please
I want you to have this.
- I'm sorry, I can't
- No, no, please. It's
worth nothing. Pennies.
It belonged to my father.
It's why I keep it.
He was a very wise man,
and he loved Nizar.
- Mrs. Karim,
I don't know the truth yet,
but I promise you this:
if your husband is innocent,
I'll bring him home myself.
- [Whispering]: Yeah,
I'll be there.
- Thank you.
[Computer beeps]
- Yeah! I'm in! Ha! Yes!
[Typing frantically]
Slade here.
Your geek came through.
I got Nizar Karim's CSIS file.
He took out a
third-party car loan
from the Financial Trust
of Syria, and get this,
his signature was witnessed
by none other than Abdul Tabet,
known member of the Jammaa
at-Takfir wal Hijra.
- So, Nizar Karim's car loan was
witnessed by a known terrorist.
- Tabet's like what,
3rd on the terrorist watch list?
- Second.
- The lot belongs to
Abdul Tabet's brother,
probably a front to launder
money for Jammaa at-Takfir.
- Nice. Turns out I'm in
the market for a new ride.
- That old junker you drive
finally give it up?
[Chuckling]
- The 98 Mercury Sable
is a classic, my friend.
Ooh baby, come to papa!
- God, you're predictable.
- You can't see me in this?
- You have three kids and a dog.
- They ride on the roof.
- A lease buyback.
Only 46,000 kilometres.
- Heated mirrors?
- Of course, the works!
Sharif Assad, at your service.
- Immigration and
Customs Security.
- Ah! Well, then you can use
the car for tailing evildoers.
- We'd get made.
[Assad laughing politely]
- Is your boss around?
- Don't tell me you
lost him already.
- Excuse me?
- Two federal agents came
this morning and took him away,
along with
all the computers.
They were very rude.
- Must have been CSIS.
Uh, ICS is a lot
more, uh, polite.
- Ah
- We're interested in the sale
of a car to this man last May.
Nizar Karim.
- Ah, yes.
2004 white Infiniti.
Only 12,000K.
The engine still had
the factory grease on it.
He had a very
attractive wife. Come.
- I guess CSIS don't
bother with hard copy.
- Here it is - May 27th.
- Do you know if Nizar Karim
was a friend of Abdul Tabet?
- I doubt it -
Abdul is not friendly.
- Did he work
here, for his brother?
- No, Abdul was too big a shot.
Every morning he came here
for his coffee and to pick
up his car for the day.
Everyday he drove something new.
- Sweet deal.
- He must have witnessed
hundreds of signatures.
You see, a salesman can't
legally witness, nor a spouse.
Abdul was always around.
- What's it gonna cost to
get my car out? Fifty? Sixty?
- Try 170.
- The car's only worth eight.
- I got it.
- You look like shit.
Tough day?
- Yeah.
- You can't talk about it.
Believe me, I know.
- Zoe
- What?
- Never mind.
- Morning, Mike.
I'm looking for you.
- What's this?
- That is a notice
of my complaint
to the Security and
Intelligence Review Committee,
re the "disappearing"
of Nizar Karim.
- You're Karim's lawyer?
- I certainly am.
You know, Mike, until this
morning, I didn't realize
this country used "disappear"
as a transitive verb.
- What am I supposed
to do with this?
- Well, prepare your testimony.
I'll be calling you as a witness
since, according to Mrs. Karim,
you were there at the airport.
- Are you sure you
got the right agency?
- If you mean CSIS, yeah,
they deny Karim ever set
foot on Canadian soil.
Despite the fact that 13
of his friends and relatives
waved goodbye to him
3 days ago in Damascus.
- I'll see this gets to
the appropriate people.
Now, if you'll excuse me
- What is going on, Mike?
Huh? What have you
got us into here?
- Boss
You better come look at this.
- 12 people were killed
yesterday in Taliban-
related violence.
Reporters Without Borders
is claiming that Canadian
citizen Nizar Karim
has entered the notorious
Tadmor Prison near Damascus
in Syria.
Karim was apparently
detained in connection
with wanted terrorist
Tariq Haddad,
whose whereabouts
we're unable to confirm.
It is not known at this time
what role was played
by Nizar Karim, or indeed,
whether he was apprehended
by Canadian or American
security authorities.
- Torture by proxy -
a Syrian growth industry.
Why do I sense the
Americans are involved?
- This is a
classified area.
- Are the Americans involved?
- Get out, Miss Castle, before
you're forcibly ejected.
- Fine, I'm leaving. God knows
I got plenty of work to do.
- Jesus. And I told him
he'd be home for supper.
Didn't they learn anything
from Aram al-Qir?
- Mm! Aram al-Qir? Right, right.
The piano teacher that CSIS
fingered to Homeland Security.
Didn't he do, like,
18 months in Tadmor?
- CSIS must have more on Karim
than a signature on a car loan.
- Not if his computer's
any indication.
[Typing]
- You've seen his computer?
- Mm-hm. Yeah, Darnell's geek
let me in. It's right here.
- What have you found so far?
- Pagh.
That's Klingon
for dick-all.
Hard drive is squeaky clean.
There's, um,
Arab translation software,
kids' games, some, uh,
learning stuff
oh, these frogs that teach
the alphabet, very cool.
Emails to a Syrian aunt
with kids pics. That's it.
- Accounting software?
- Yep. Twenty grand in RSPs,
a mortgage schedule.
No income outside of
their teacher salaries.
- Browser history?
- It's pathetic!
No religious sites, no political
sites, not even any porn!
It's a woefully underutilized
piece of technology here.
- Can you access his deleted
files from here?
- No, but my buddy can
[Typing]
- "QaDhcid hgap?"
- Yeah, reverse Klingon.
Makes for an excellent code.
Okay, here we go, here we go!
Oh
Shit! Oh, shit!
Shit! Shit!
Who are these people?
- Mannering.
- A random seat assignment,
a referral from an orthodontist,
and a signature witnessed
by a car dealer's brother
If you've got any real
evidence, show me.
- Let it go, Mike.
- You know, I'm a bit confused
about the Syrians. Are they our
enemies or friends this week?
- Foreign policy never
was your strong point.
- Does it mean nothing to you
that Karim could be innocent?
- Worst case, one little fish
gets caught in the shark cage.
What are we to do, open the door
and let the sharks swim free?
- Karim's wife is
filing a complaint
with the Security
Intelligence Review.
I'm not covering
up for you.
I did that once before, and
that's more than I can stomach.
- If you ask me,
your stomach's a little too
delicate for this kind of work.
- Yeah, maybe. But if I quit,
who's going to keep
bastards like you from running
away with the country?
- I spoke to the
Deputy Minister.
He's officially relieving ICS
of all responsibilities
in this matter.
- We're in the middle
of an investigation.
- Well, you have 24
hours to wind it up.
And those are Ottawa's
direct orders.
Excuse me.
[Muezzin calling]
- You gotta be kidding me.
- It's a Wahabi mosque.
There are rules.
- Immigration and
Customs Security.
[Hourani translating in Arabic]
- Come in.
[Speaking to her in Arabic]
- Traitors aren't welcome.
- Sergeant Hourani
is a federal agent.
- It's okay. I'll wait here.
- Shoes, please.
Surely your agency must
have better things to do
than to harass people
at their prayers.
- Do you know this guy?
Nizar Karim?
- I've seen him once or twice.
Is that why you
sent him to Syria?
For worshipping in our mosque?
- And how about this guy?
- Asif Kamil - a fine young
mind. He hasn't joined
our youth circle yet
But there is always hope.
- Yeah, I'll bet there is.
[Action music]
- Aah!
- Kelbah!
[Police siren sounding]
- What have we here?
Nice work, Sergeant.
[Police sirens]
- Come on.
- Hel-lo!
This guy look familiar to you?
- Asif Kamil, Karim's protégé.
- Bastard lied to us.
- I'll drive.
[Cell phone ringing]
- Yvonne Castle.
No, no. June 2002.
Okay, well if it's not
under A for al-Qir, try Q.
Yeah, okay, thanks.
- Aram al-Qir?
- Yeah.
I represented
his family.
We kept a list of Tadmor guards
we could bribe, just to make
his life a little less wretched.
And I thought maybe we could
use him to help Karim.
- Wasn't there supposed to be
a big inquiry into his arrest?
- He cracked before it could
happen. He spent 18 months
in a dark 4-by-4 cell,
being tortured daily,
unable to confess
because he hadn't done
anything wrong, and when
he got out, there were
CSIS debriefings, reporters,
death threats,
pressure from the
Muslim community
- So he settled out of court.
- Yep. For pennies.
He packed up his family
and moved to Barrie.
- CSIS must've thought
it was Christmas.
- Oh, yeah. Not to mention the
RCMP, the PMO, 3 Ministries,
the Attorney General's Office.
[Cell phone ringing]
You wouldn't believe
the bullshit we uncovered.
[Phone still ringing]
- Kessler.
Yeah, okay. I'll
be right there.
[Whispering]: Sorry.
[Kessler sighing]
I'll see ya.
- I want a lawyer.
- Under current laws,
I can deny you one for 48 hours.
By then, your lawyer might be
visiting you in Gitmo.
Unless, of course,
you cooperate.
- Cooperate how? What is it
you think I've done?
- Frankie Ahmad says
you paid him six grand
to set your picture into the
passport of, uh, Adam Tzara.
- What? Maybe it looks like me.
- See these cut lines?
It's a good fake,
but it's a fake.
- Why do you need
a false passport, Asif?
Are you planning a trip?
To Pakistan maybe?
Training grounds of al-Qaeda?
- Do I look like a
commando to you?
Can I examine it, please?
- Maybe Frankie was lying,
and someone gave him the money.
Somebody who was big plans
for you, like Imam Rajab.
- I make my own plans.
- I'm glad to hear that.
It tells me there's still hope.
- Where did they
find my picture?
- Maybe your teacher
gave it to them.
- Mr. Karim?
You guys just
don't get it, do you?
He's on your side.
He thinks we should all be
grateful to live in this
wonderful country.
I wonder how grateful
he's feeling now.
- The United States Department
of Homeland Security
is proceeding with plans to
build a high-tech virtual fence
across the Canada-US border.
- With all due respect,
sir, I believe the kid.
He'd be lucky to scrape together
600, let alone 6,000 dollars.
I think Karim was trying to keep
him on the straight and nar
No, you listen to me!
Karim is innocent, Goddamn it!
He's a patriot and
[Other side hanging up]
[TV news playing
in the background]
- [On TV]: There have also been
confirmed reports of torture
at the American-run Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq
and the American detention camp
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- They don't match.
Maybe we can dust again
- Or just give 'em--
- Williams, Lepinsky.
Good morning.
Take a drive out to Barrie
and pick up Aram al-Qir.
- Aram al-Qir?
- Yeah, I think he can
help us in our investigation.
- He's not going to be
too happy to see us.
- Treat him well.
Make sure you don't
cuff him unless you have to.
- CSIS, the RCMP,
hell, the CIA spent months
investigating this guy.
He was cleared of any
connection to terrorism.
- You might want
to suggest to Mrs. al-Qir
that she calls her
lawyer and any contacts
that she has in the media.
And uh, oh Take the scenic
route back, will ya?
[Phone ringing]
- I'd like to know what Aram al-
Qir has to do with Nizar Karim.
- Probably nothing.
- But in the Muslim community,
al-Qir is like a martyr.
He represents all
the mistreatment and
racism since 9/11.
- I'm not surprised.
- With all due respect, sir,
you might as well put up
recruiting posters for al-Qaeda!
- Will that be all, Sergeant?
- You're dismissing me.
- I'll take your
input under advisement.
[Phone ringing]
- Looks like he
got the word out.
[Background conversations]
- Come on, back up.
Give him a little room here,
will ya? Come on, back up.
- Sir, back. Back up.
[Journalists all asking
questions at the same time]
Let him through. Back it up.
Let him through.
- Right this way, sir.
- Did you find us
some lunch menus?
- I'm on it.
- I want your stay to be as
brief and painless as possible.
I got phone, magazines,
refreshments
- Why are you doing this? Is it
some kind of a political game?
- If you need anything
else, you just ask.
- Our government inflicted
unspeakable horrors
on Aram al-Qir.
They delivered an
innocent Canadian
into the hands of sadists
who spent 18 months
trying to break his body
and shatter his soul,
and now they've done
it again to Nizar Karim.
- My cell was 6 feet long
and 3 feet wide.
There was room
to lie down, no more.
And when I tried to sleep
I could hear the screams
of the other prisoners.
Every morning the guards would
come and take me to the room
they used for torture.
I told them whatever
they wanted to hear.
- If ICS wants to poke at old
wounds, that is fine with us.
Mr. Al-Qir's innocence was
proven beyond all doubt
and Nizar Karim's will be too.
We can press for the public
inquiry we were promised.
Canadians can hear all about
the bungling, ineptitude,
and infighting in our
so-called security forces.
Ah, speak of the devil.
Why don't you ask
Major Kessler why he's
persecuting an innocent man?
- Ms. Castle.
[Journalists asking questions]
Mr. al-Qir is assisting in
the case against Tariq Haddad.
As you know, CSIS is
handling this case.
And as luck would have it,
here's Agent Mannering now.
[Journalists all asking
questions at the same time]
- Please. Thank you.
- You took information I gave
you during what passes for
an intimate moment between us,
used it to torment the poor man?
- I was helping--
- Save it!
You played me, Mike.
Don't ever do it again.
[Background conversations]
[Phone ringing]
- Kessler.
- [What the hell is Aram al-Qir
doing in ICS headquarters?]
- Mannering's in your office.
And he's pissed.
- Oh, I believe
he's eating lunch.
- Are you having some sort
of psychotic break?
- [Possibly.]
- You were given direct orders.
- I was told to wind up the
case, which is precisely
what I'm doing.
- Aram al-Qir has nothing
to do with your case.
- I have the authority to detain
whomever I deem necessary.
- We have a bigger problem:
the Americans aren't happy.
- I'm sorry, sir. I have to go.
- [Not yet, you don't.]
Homeland Security is sending up
some hotshot agent who'll--
[Hanging up at other end]
- Who the hell
do you think you are?
You're deliberately trying to
humiliate your own government.
- Just CSIS.
- It's the same thing!
- Not yet, it's not.
- Oh, that's what this puerile
display is about, huh?
Moving your little empire
up the food chain.
- It's about accountability.
It's about an innocent man
being tortured in prison
while people like you
cover their asses while
they sit there to rot!
- Is this really what
you want? All-out war?
- Like the man said:
bring it on.
- We have lift-off.
[Sighing]
- lying on its way in from
Kandahar, killing two Canadian
soldiers and wounding another.
This just in.
Foreign Affairs Minister
Catherine Dussault says
she's doing everything possible
to negotiate the speedy release
of Canadian Nizar Karim.
She calls the incident
extremely regrettable,
and says there is no evidence
Mr. Karim ever engaged
in terrorist activities.
In other news,
the United States
[News in the background]
- Congratulations, sir.
- What was the, um, project
Asif Kamil won the science
fair with again?
- Light-sensitive
chemicals.
- Scotland Yard
just raided
a lab in East London
and found liquid explosives
triggered by
camera flashes.
And check this out.
- Maintain surveillance.
[Words without sound]
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