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Synopsis: In the aftermath of the September, 11th, in China, the American student Linda Sykes is interrogated by the military Liu Tsung-Yuan. In New York, the Arab student Sharif Bin Said is interrogated by the FBI agent Karen Moore. The psychological methods of interrogation are the same, amicable in the beginning and brutal in the end; but there is no evidence that the students are terrorists. Must security and safety of the State come at the price of freedom?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: Levinson-Fontana Company
 
IMDB:
6.4
NOT RATED
Year:
2004
120 min
379 Views


A frightened little girl.

Stop.

That a sensitive area for you?

I don't like being touched.

- Being touched there or anywhere?

- Stop!

Careful! You don't want to hit me!

That's what you remind me of right now,

a frightened little girl.

Stop.

- I don't... Stop!

- Is that a sensitive area for you?

- I don't like people touching me.

- Touching you there or anywhere?

Stop!

Careful. You don't want to hit me.

The consequences would be dire.

Aargh! Aargh!

Oh.

Tell me about your girlfriend.

I didn't say I had a girlfriend.

There are references to her in your emails.

Is there any part of my life

you haven't picked through?

Was she the great love of your life?

Why did she leave?

There is nothing in my emails

about her leaving.

How do you know she left?

I can see the pain in your eyes.

Why did she walk out on you?

I don't know. Why does anybody walk out?

Look familiar?

That's her.

Yes.

Gorgeous.

By the way,

she's our witness.

She's going to testify against you.

No.

She wouldn't.

She wouldn't do that.

(Cries)

Settle down.

So why did she walk out on you?

I don't know.

Why does anybody walk out?

Look familiar?

- That's her.

- Yes.

Gorgeous.

By the way,

she's our witness.

She's gonna testify against you.

No!

She wouldn't.

- She wouldn't do that!

- Settle down.

We found these photos

in your apartment.

Airports, bridges.

A tunnel.

Dam.

I'm a tourist. I photograph things.

If you looked, you also saw...

mountains, sunsets, children playing.

A week ago, you rented a car.

Ah, no, I just signed the forms for a friend.

We found trace elements of TN in the trunk of that car.

- What?

- Granted they're only molecules,

but why was there TN in the trunk of the car you rented?

I told you, I didn't rent the car for myself.

A friend asked me as a favor.

Which friend? What's the name?

I'm not gonna tell you.

I'm not guilty of anything and neither is he.

You harbored a terrorist.

- No.

- You financed a terrorist.

- No!

- You aided and abetted a terrorist.

No!

Would you still say that

if you were attached to a lie detector?

- Yes.

- And you'd answer every question?

- Yes.

- What if I gave you truth serum?

- Truth serum?

- Inject you with truth serum.

OK. Go ahead.

We believe your friend x

is involved in terrorist activities.

- You're wrong.

- Why would you protect him?

Why would a decent person protect someone

who's planning the deaths of innocent people?

- He's not...

- I'm what you might call old school.

To stop crime, you threaten criminals with

physical punishment, imprisonment, death.

But these suicide bombers, they've already

chosen to die, they're not afraid of prosecution.

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Tom Fontana

Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951 in Buffalo, New York) is an American writer and producer. An Emmy winner, Fontana created NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and HBO's Oz. more…

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