Unlocked Page #3

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Some good reading in there.

Page 12.

SUTTER:
The courier's Moroccan.

Some trips to Frankfurt in 2014

for terror training.

The Germans picked him up once, but they

considered him low value and let him go.

No English. Speaks tribal Moroccan Darija.

I got an interpreter for you.

He won't know the meet site

until Mercer pings him,

so focus on getting the recognition protocol.

That's what we're counting on from you.

Problem?

You do know my history, right?

If you want me to say you

were HQ's first choice...

I don't.

That's the point, I don't wanna

be anyone's choice.

Except that's not how it works, is it?

You're being called up.

Now your reluctance is noted,

but this is priority red.

And the chief of Europe division

has made his call.

It's not a request.

- (DOOR UNLOCKING)

- SUTTER:
All right.

(TREMBLING)

(SOBBING)

Can you make this thicker?

The kind of file that says

that the US Government

has been on your ass since you were a foetus.

SUTTER:
Of course. Get on that.

And take the camera out.

- Are you sure?

- ALICE:
Yeah.

It's a trust deterrent.

Hello, Lateef. I'm Alice.

English?

Alarabiyah?

Deutsch?

How about your native Darija?

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

- Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

- (CONTINUES SPEAKING)

I don't understand. I don't understand.

I'll be back with an interpreter.

(SIGHS)

You just responded to something

I said in English.

Twice.

ALICE:
You can send your interpreter home.

- He's British born.

- Oh.

Can I have the key for his cuffs, please?

(LATEEF EXCLAIMS)

ALICE:
What do your parents think of you?

I don't know. Why don't you ask them?

(SIGHS)

My mum died and my dad pissed off

when I was young.

What were you doing in Frankfurt?

- I was working for a charity.

- Hmm.

Servants of God.

Something wrong with the charities in the UK?

No. God called me there.

- Mmm.

- I found a pure Muslim life there.

Lateef...

...you still haven't asked me

why you're here.

Yeah, tell me.

When prisoners don't ask,

it's because they already know.

(LATEEF BREATHES HEAVILY)

He's just sitting in there, on his own.

Time is not our friend right now.

Why don't you use it?

I am using it.

ALICE:
So this is

what a pure Muslim life looks like?

No. This is not Islam.

(SNIFFLES) I would never do this.

The news said that the engine caught fire.

That made you angry, didn't it?

- No.

- Not getting the credit.

Wh... why would I be angry? No!

Have you ever met this man?

- LATEEF:
No.

- No?

No.

He's an imam. So what?

He was arrested yesterday.

He's been charged with plotting

the Sea Empress attack.

Three members of his mosque carried it out.

- What's that gotta do with me?

- You tell me.

Fine, nothing.

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