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Yes, so this is it.

Here have we machine for filter coffee,

this white one.

And then we have this espresso cooker.

Here, if you like.

This is a bit far from town, so some people maybe not like,

but you are our first Airbnb guest.

This is perfect.

Why are you here? - I'm a journalist.

I just ask because

I heard that American people are in love to talk.

And I heard Finnish people don't like to talk at all,

which is why I'm here.

Oh. Are you married?

Could I have the keys, please? - Yes, of course. Sorry.

Hey, enjoy, enjoy. Call me any time.

Thank you.

Aren't you a big boy?

Excuse me? Sorry, I can't find the gun section.

I need to purchase a gun.

Nothing special, just a hand gun, some ammo.

You can't buy guns in markets in Finland.

What?

Well, there's a special store for them,

but even then, you can't buy a gun.

Unless you are a long-time member of the shooting club

or a hunting club, you know like for sports.

This is just a short stay. - I'm so sorry.

No, you don't understand. I really, really need a gun.

There must be somewhere!

No. You're better off without a gun, lady.

This is a safe country, and even if it wasn't,

this is the only protection you really need.

Professor Assad? - That would be me.

We need you to come with us. - Oh, great.

I didn't know that somebody will come pick me up.

Do you work for the conference? - No.

We're from the Finnish police.

Okay. What's going on? - This way.

Where are we going?

I try to be as good a Muslim as I can.

What do you mean by that?

Quran was written in different times.

It's hard to understand it sometimes.

Have you been contacting anyone in United States lately?

A lot. Goes with the job.

We astrophysicists, we keep contact with each other.

Space is our true home country

and mathematics is the language we use to describe it.

Do you have any close friends or relatives living there in US?

Close friends, no, relatives, yes.

Any of them living in Washington?

Not to my knowledge.

What is this about? Why am I here?

You have been arrested several times

by the Lebanese security police and also imprisoned.

I was arrested because of my...

Fiancé.

My boyfriend.

Oh.

It's against the law to be homosexual in Lebanon.

True.

But the law hasn't been carried out for many years.

I was arrested and imprisoned not because I'm gay,

but because my boyfriend is Israeli.

Professor Granqvist, you didn't pick up our calls.

I can't talk now,

the conference kicks off tomorrow.

You know and I also heard

that you two arrested one of our attendees,

Professor Assad. That's...

That's what we do when we believe

that someone is withholding information from us.

So, please, have a seat.

Would you two give us a couple of minutes, please?

Was there something you didn't tell us last time?

About the comet or about this conference.

Something important you left out?

Why do you ask?

You probably heard about the 24 dead people

at the local retirement home.

Yes, I... It's a ghastly accident.

No, it wasn't. They were murdered.

And the people who did it are still on the loose.

But everyone said it was an accident.

Yeah.

If you promise to keep our secret,

we promise to keep yours.

The mass murder, it was religiously motivated.

And it connects directly to your comet.

24 dead people.

Please. What are you not telling us?

Is the comet somehow related to Christianity? Help us.

Comet D/24 UN302 is the star of Betlehem.

What? - It's the star of Betlehem.

Yeah, the light in the night sky

that guided the wise men of the Bible

to find the infant Jesus,

that is if you believe in such things.

What's that? - Nothing.

When the comet was discovered 1.5 years ago here in Ivalo,

we calculated when it had visited

our solar system the previous time.

And that was in the year 4 BC.

Now, in that year,

from February until April, it shone bright in the sky.

Definitely in Judea, too.

The historians today,

they date the birth of historic Jesus

to be somewhere between 7 - 2 BC. So...

So you published false data about the comet's last visit?

Why didn't you go public

about the tragedy in the retirement home

as a mass murder, I mean, that's pretty important.

Because nobody except you had any use for that fact.

Right?

And we also worried that people would react too strongly

and in too many unpredictable ways if they knew

that the star that witnessed Christ's birth

was back in the sky.

So we decided not to risk it.

It was not an easy decision to make.

And why are you guys meeting now?

To discuss how and when to reveal the truth

about the previous visit of the comet.

And also how to explain away our earlier miscalculations.