All language subtitles for Law & Order s20e03 Great Satan.eng

In the criminal justice system,

The people are represented

By two separate
yet equally important groups--

The police
who investigate crime

And the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

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Hey, how many times
I got to tell you?

Stay out of my garbage.
What do you care, man?

Were you gonna read it?

Just get out of here, or
I'll call the cops, all right?

Go ahead, call them.

One, two, three, lift.

come on, come on.

Is he gonna make it?

Uh, not
if we stand here chatting.

He's got a bullet in his chest.
He could be bleeding out.

Let's go.

The victim's I.D. Says
James Caruso, 23 years old.

All right,
did anybody see anything?

I mean, it's the middle
of the day.

That guy.
He called it in.

Sir?
Hey, buddy.

So what happened?

The kid was in front
of my store five minutes before.

He's a curb shopper.

He goes through garbage
looking for treasures.

He was poking through this one
when the guy came up.

A guy?

Tall, gray hair,
suit pants, white shirt.

The kid was reaching
for something in the can.

The guy ran up to him
and pulled a gun.

- This can here?
- Mm-hmm.

The guy started yelling.
The kid freaked and pushed him.

And the guy just shot him.

Then he just stood there
like he was surprised

The gun even went off.

Then he saw me looking,
and he just took off.

All right, did you hear
what he was yelling about?

No, I was too far away.

Maybe this--

Hundred-dollar bills,
nice and crisp

And a credit card receipt,
today's date--

Three cheeseburgers.

And extra lettuce.

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Your name's
on the receipt, Randy.

It's Randall.
Randy's an adjective,

Which only sometimes
describes me.

Do you own a gun,
Randall?

No, I don't own a gun,

And I didn't go across town
to throw my cheeseburger bag

Into a garbage can with--
how much did you say?

$10,000, new bills.

We're thinking drug deal
or gambling debt.

Who would I owe,
the sanitation department?

I walked away from my car
for ten minutes.

I left here, I walked
to the burger place there.

I came back to pick up my ceo

And drive him
to the tennis club.

What'd you do with the bag?

I ate the burgers on
the way back, and I tossed it.

You tossed it? Where?

In the park.

So I littered.

Anybody could have
picked it up.

Yeah...

Maybe somebody
coming out of there.

Fresh hundred-dollar bills.

Let's see who made
a withdrawal.

Just tell them what happened.

- They said not to.
- No, we don't have a choice.

Darlene!

My husband shot somebody.

Okay, sir, turn around.
Turn around.

- Where's the gun, hmm?
- Top drawer.

Please. My husband's
not a criminal.

He didn't mean to do it.

Ma'am, please stand
over there.

All right, turn around.

And why don't you tell me
what you didn't mean to do?

Our daughter was kidnapped.

I just wanted him
to tell me where she is.

Okay, I think you need
to start at the beginning.

We got a call
from her cell phone.

I could hear her crying
in the background.

A man said to put $10,000
in a fast-food bag

And put it in a garbage can,
or he'd kill her.

We called her school,
and they said

That she'd gone off campus
for lunch and didn't come back.

They--they can't find her.

So you went to the bank,
you got the money,

And you found a fast-food bag.

And I put it
in the garbage can.

But I waited to see
who picked it up.

Waited with a gun.

I wanted to make him tell me
where my daughter is!

Please, I--
is he still alive?

Did he say anything?

Mr. Sorenson,
that might've been just some kid

Scavenging
through the garbage.

No.

Please,
you've got to help us.

Actually, you've got
to come with us.

- No.
- What if they call back?

We've been trying to call them
to explain.

Dad...

What's going on?

Oh, my God!
Jill!

Jill!

A-a-are you--are you all right?
Did--did they hurt you?

Who?
I was with Amanda.

- Amanda?
- W-we cut class.

Where's your cell phone?

I-I don't know.
I lost it.

So my dad shot someone

Because he thought
I'd been kidnapped?

Uh, yeah,

Which, for the record,
you hadn't been, correct?

No, I was in times square
with a friend.

We just went to see a movie.

This is my fault.

No, it's not.

They hang out
at the theaters.

Spot a well-dressed kid,
steal her cell phone,

And then call parents
and tell them

She's been kidnapped,

With an accomplice screaming
for daddy in the background.

Virtual kidnapping--
simple, low risk,

And there's no actual hostage
to lock up and feed.

Very simple
except for james caruso--

The kid who got shot.

Yeah, he's the neighborhood
dumpster diver--

Wrong can, wrong time.

The guy who was supposed
to pick up the money

Was probably a few feet away.

Then he took off
when the shooting started.

So what are you gonna do
about the shooter--

Mr. Sorenson?

Well, caruso's gonna live,

And sorenson's paying
the hospital bill.

So if his story checks out,
probably assault one.

Yeah.

- Thanks.
- See you.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

It's the girl's
cell phone records.

All right, she texted
her boyfriend at 11:14,

Then the phone was stolen.

Here's the call to her parents
at 11:58.

Hmm, there's one call
international, 35 minutes.

Country code 967.

- Yeah, that's Yemen.
- That's interesting.

Uh, I'm gonna be out
for a while.

Uh, if this breaks,
you'll let me know?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

You didn't have to come.
It's just an I.V.

Chemotherapy.

Right.

I'm getting better
already.

Mom, I wanted to be here.

So what are you gonna do,

Just sit there
and stare at me for an hour?

Yes.
Then take you home.

So where were you when
I needed my kitchen painted?

I was scared
my first time too.

Well, then, I--

I hope I can be
just as brave as you are.

Hey...
You're off-duty.

I'm glad you're here, son.

Yemen.

Yeah, some of
the al qaeda guys

Tired of dodging predator drones
in Pakistan

Have found a new home there.

I heard,
so I was thinking maybe...

The number the guys
who stole the cell phone called

Is a landline in sa'dah.

That's not a number
we're monitoring.

It's not.

You think virtual kidnappings
could be fund raising

For terrorists?

They smuggle drugs,
counterfeit money,

Sell fake DVDs.

Can you find out
if the number in Yemen

Made any calls to the U.S.?

You want me to find out
officially or unofficially?

Officially.

The virtual kidnapper
called a phone in Yemen.

That phone makes regular calls
to one person in New York--

Sameer Ahmed,

23, born in Syria,
moved to Brooklyn

With his parents
when he was four,

Became a U.S. Citizen
six months ago.

And he celebrates by
fake-kidnapping teenage girls?

Land of opportunity.

He has a brother in Yemen

Supposedly studying
to be an engineer.

You know, this isn't

Even enough to arrest the guy
in Brooklyn

For the virtual kidnapping.

We can't prove
he made the call.

What about a wiretap?

Maybe we catch him
doing it again.

Yeah, and if you happen
to hear him talking

Some kind of terror plot...

That'd be okay too.

All right, all right,
don't worry about it.

I'm telling you, man,
bigger ain't better.

This ain't 1995.

You want to go small,
low profile.

Okay, okay.
I just want the best ones.

Dude, come on,
I'll get you the best ones.

It's just
not gonna be big, okay?

I'll call you later.

Six hours
on stereo equipment.

Don't we have interns?

Oh, what is that...

Lo mein?

Hey, Lupo, we have
any more granola bars left?

Last one.

Hello?

Sameer, I got tired
of waiting on you,

So I found one on my own.

She just went into the theater.
I already called her parents.

Green garbage can,
northwest corner, 26th and 2nd.

2:00.
Don't screw it up this time.

Okay.

2:00?
That's less than an hour.

Let's go screw it up.

Sameer.

What's in the bag?

police! Freeze!

Hey, what--
what's going on?

- What do you got here?
- They're hamburgers.

Oh, yeah?
Hamburgers?

What's this, then,
a happy-meal prize?

That's mine.
The bag's a disguise,

You know,
so I don't get mugged.

Turn around.

Put your hands on the car.

What do you got here,
the whole cop army?

Possible terrorist connection,
we don't take chances.

Terrorist?
No, no, no, you got it wrong.

You have the right
to remain silent...

I'm not a terrorist.

Look, I'm just trying
to raise some cash

To open a store--
stereo equipment.

Yeah, what about
your brother in Yemen?

I'm not a terrorist.

What kind of store
is he running?

You can't arrest me.

We already did.

Look, hold on. My partner--
he and his friends,

They're gonna do something
to hurt America.

- Hey, do what?
- Let me go. I can help you.

I love America.
I'm a citizen.

Help us how, Sameer?

Hey, call me sam, all right?

I can find out
what they're doing.

They're waiting for me.

If I don't get back
in a half hour,

They'll know something's wrong.

I can help you.

Everything went smooth
this time.

You took your cut?

I did.

Good. Enjoy it.

Wait.

I want in.
In on what?

You, ali, Joe--

I've heard you talking.

We weren't talking
to you, stereo man.

Hey, this stuff
this country's been doing...

Somebody got to pay.

I know electronics.

That could come in
handy, right?

You really
want to do something?

Yeah.

Don't you?

Come to my place tomorrow.
We'll talk.

That's crappy sound.
You hear that feedback?

I ought to sell you guys
some decent equipment.

We'll try to do better
next time.

So what have these guys
been talking about?

Justice, jihad,

Blowing things up.

Where?

Here in New York.

All right, who's who?

That's Charles Cole.
He converted in prison.

Hard-core guy--

He was up for armed robbery,
I think, and rape.

These two?

Ali Hossam and Joe Darwish.

They're egyptian,
but Joe was born in Brooklyn.

They used to go
to the same mosque as me.

And they were talking jihad
all the while

You were shaking
rich girls' daddies down

To open up a stereo store?

And never once did you mention
this to the police

Before you got busted.

They're Scary guys, man.

They say Cole killed somebody.

But I'm sorry.
I should have told you.

I love this country.

What he loves
is not going to jail.

Yeah, that too.

Offer probation on extortion
for the virtual kidnapping

In exchange for his cooperation,
which you'll monitor.

- I'll draft the agreement.
- This is our area.

Fbi or at least
a joint task force.

It's our case.

Do your people have
any experience

In this kind of thing?

Detective Lupo spent
four years overseas

With NYPD intel.

Doing what?

You're not cleared.

We can detach detectives
Lupo and Bernard to jttf.

That was easy.

There are guidelines.

We've developed rapport
with Mr. Ahmed.

It stays with us.
We'll keep you in the loop.

U.S. Attorney
may feel different.

He has my number.

Lieutenant?

Damn feds.

They send their anti-terror
dollars to schenectady,

Then want to run cases
in New York.

How are you doing?

Fine.

Are you currently involved
in any criminal activity,

Outside of the virtual
kidnapping?

No.

Are you currently a defendant
in an ongoing criminal trial?

No. Come on, already.
Where do I sign?

This is not
a get-out-of-jail-free card.

You do not break the law

Unless you're instructed
to do so by us.

Mm-hmm.

If you do get arrested,
you call us.

If you can't reach us,
you call lieutenant van buren.

If my erection lasts
more than four hours,

Call my doctor.

You think
this is funny, Sameer?

- No. Sam.
- I forget.

You're yankee doodle dandy,
right?

You were born here. You don't
appreciate this country.

My father in Syria,

He was locked up and tortured
for three years--

No explanation, no charges,
no nice contract, nothing.

He got out and ran for his life.
This country took him in.

I'm pretty sure
he'd be proud

To know what you've been
up to lately.

No, he wouldn't.
Starting now he will.

He's combing his hair.

You're gonna love it.

Collateral damage,
my ass, man.

It's genocide against muslims.

- That's Cole.
- In Afghanistan, Pakistan,

Who have those bombs
been hitting?

It's a crusade.
Bush said it.

He used the word.

One jew gets killed
in Palestine,

It's front page
on the New York times.

That's Hossam.

Meanwhile, abu ghraib...

We're just supposed
to forget that.

That's me.
Thank you.

What about Darwish,
the other guy, was he there?

Yeah. He was just
kind of quiet.

He doesn't talk much.

That's not what the imam
on Atlantic avenue says.

That guy? He's so busy
going to interfaith breakfasts

With rabbis--
they bought him off.

What do you want to do?

There's a synagogue
in Washington Heights.

- I know that place.
- Boom.

Oh, that's Darwish.

Blow them to hell--

Just take a little C-4
or something like that.

I think I know someone
who can get us some.

Who do you know?

You.

You sure we can trust
this guy?

Don't worry about it.
You'll see.

Salaam alaikum.

Alaikum as-salaam.

How do I know
this guy isn't a cop?

I've told you, I know him
from the mosque.

Plus, we've been running
some stuff.

Hmm...
Fake kidnappings.

So now he suddenly wants
to do something righteous?

If Allah is willing.

I sympathize.

But I'm gonna need $8,000.

What have you got?

C-4.

Enough to bring down
a building.

Where'd you get this?

I'm in the national guard--

Two deployments to Iraq.

So I've seen what my country
is capable of.

So when I got home,

I borrowed this.

Are we good?

How do I know this isn't just
silly putty, man?

Because silly putty...

Doesn't...

Do this.

It doesn't explode
from a flame.

It just burns.

We used to cook over this stuff
in the field.

I'm not going on
no camping trip, my brother.

Well, then
you're gonna need these.

Detonators.

Test one if you like.

Oh, we will.

Just don't hold it
in your hand,

That's if you want
to keep your hand.

That's the storage locker
they rented.

With our money.

You did get the $8,000
they paid me

For the silly putty, right?

Here they come.

Are you sure
this is safe?

Allah will protect us.

We gave you guys
five detonators.

I only see four.

Our guy and Cole,

They went to the Woods
to test it.

You're missing a terrorist
too, aren't you?

Yeah, that would be Darwish.

He tends to be
a little late.

Not on top.
Put them in the middle.

Like this?

Run the wires all together.

- You get a power source?
- Right here.

The remote control
sets it off.

Did you get a car yet?

It will be here by 9:00.

What's the plan
after that?

Uh, they load the bomb
in the trunk,

Drive to the synagogue--
another car pulls up.

They all get in,
drive a block away,

Push the remote control,
and blow up the building.

Or not.

Back up, back up!

Put your hands on your heads!

Now!

Put your hands on your head
where I can see them!

Let me see those hands!

Blow it.

We're too close.

- We'll be martyrs.
- I don't want to be a martyr.

Open the door!

With your left hand,
slowly open the door.

Hands on your head!

Open the car door slowly!

Hey! Get out!
Get it.

Kneel!
On your knees, now!

Lie down, face first!

- You...
- Yeah.

I sold you a dud, bro.

Call it in!

What the hell was that?

Four blocks away
from the gang we rounded up.

Did we maybe miss
a connection there?

The cops were all over
the people we were watching.

There was never a hint.

Either they fooled us,
or we were wasting our time

On a nonexistent bomb plot
while actual bombers

Were blowing up
an actual building.

It's our dumb luck
nobody was injured.

The plot we stopped
wasn't nonexistent.

These people fully intended
to blow up a synagogue.

And I intend to walk
on the moon.

All I need is a nice policeman
to give me a rocket ship.

Do we know anything
about the bomb that did blow up?

We didn't have an informant
in that group.

Maybe they had an informant
in our group--this man Ahmed.

Are we sure he didn't play us
all for fools?

I didn't know, I swear.

Same night, same neighborhood,
same kind of target?

There's more than
three angry muslims around.

You never mentioned
anyone else.

I'm not the king of jihad.

I'm--I'm a stereo salesman,

Who brought you the guys
I knew.

Maybe they spoke
to someone else,

Maybe planned a little sideshow
to go with the main event.

Hossam, Darwish?

I don't know.
What about Cole?

He seemed pretty damned
enthusiastic.

He converted in prison.

Some of those guys
are the worst.

This is how it works.

We track down your friends
from prison.

And if any of them were
involved, then so are you.

Unless you want to save us
the trouble.

Oh, that's what I want to do--
save you trouble.

We have you on video
assembling a terrorist bomb.

That's life, without parole.

Except it wasn't actually
a bomb.

He thought it was.

What if Mr. Cole
could give you the name

Of the ringleader
of the other bombing?

If it pans out,
attempted arson.

Jail time?

12 years.

12 years?
But nothing happened.

I knew a man from attica.

He told me he was planning
something big

To wake this country up.

He told me I could help
do some odd jobs,

Like I was his errand boy.

Did he tell you
what he was planning?

A bomb.

I told him if he really wanted
to hear some noise,

He'd listen in
Washington heights, inshalla

You told him where you were
gonna set off your bomb?

I told him where and when...

So that when it happened,
he knew it came from me.

This person obviously wanted
to go at the same time.

So his own explosion
would have a bigger impact.

His name is Arthur Jackson.

Police picked him up last night
with two associates.

They found C-4 residue
and maps marking the location

Of the synagogue they bombed,

Also plans to shoot down
military planes

With stinger missiles.

Where do things stand
with your informant's bunch?

The only defendants left
are a couple of followers--

Ali Hossam and Joe Darwish.

Yeah, they didn't do
or say very much on the tapes.

Nail them down.

I want everybody to go away.

We thought that you should see
Mr. Darwish's apartment

For yourself.

- God!
- Yeah.

Yeah, there's some expired
antidepressant medication

In the bathroom

And a raw duck
on top of the refrigerator.

What's this?

We thought maybe
an explosive chemical too.

It's urine.
The guy's a wack job.

There's something else.

We found some speed,

Methamphetamine,
in the bedroom...

In this envelope
with a handwritten note.

"hope this helps.
Be strong. Sameer."

The guy was missing meetings,
planning sessions.

He could barely drag himself
out of his apartment.

So you gave him an illegal
drug to keep his energy up?

He just needed a little help
to get out of bed.

We said no illegal activity.

I didn't sell him the meth.
I just gave it to him.

Come on, I did what you wanted.
What we wanted?

I said "jihad,"
and you started to drool.

You drugged someone
into joining the conspiracy.

He had a headache.
I gave him an aspirin.

You wanted him
and people like him,

And I delivered.

Mr. Darwish was diagnosed
with unipolar depression

Last year.

He could go
for a mental-incapacity defense.

Not to mention pointing out
that he was drugged

By our informant.

And Mr. Hossam
is a dishwasher

Who was just along
for the ride.

Defense may claim
they were entrapped.

Just because we gave them
the bomb, the detonators,

The power supply,
the remote control,

And motivational drugs?

We might want to drop
the charges against Hossam

And Darwish.

No.

They went to that synagogue

With what they thought
was a bomb, correct?

Yes.

A synagogue that hosts

A nondenominational shelter
for abused women,

Some of whom were sleeping there
when the bomb car arrived?

Yes.

I think the city will be safer
if those two are locked away.

It'll be a tough case
to make,

Especially with the other bomb
case on people's minds.

So combine them.

Charge a single conspiracy.

They're connected, aren't they?
Barely.

All we know is that Charles Cole
from the first group

Had one conversation with
the leader of the other group.

That's all you need.

This is an outrageous abuse
of prosecutorial discretion.

The case against my clients
is weak and embarrassing,

So the district attorney
is attempting to bolster it

By combining it
with a stronger case,

With which it has
no actual connection.

It's no coincidence
that both bombs were set

To explode on the same night.

But Mr. Hossam and Mr. Darwish
had no knowledge

Of the other bombing plot.

Event he district attorney
doesn't claim that they did.

They didn't need to.

They were already conspiring
with Mr. Cole.

And Mr. Cole in turn conspired
with the other bombers?

Yes. We can bring him in
to testify.

It's a Daisy chain.

We're gonna end up connecting
my clients to Kevin bacon.

I'll hear the witness.
Notify the other defendants.

They'll need to be present
as well.

Mr. Cole, do you recognize
the men at that table?

Yeah, I know Jackson,

Arthur Jackson.

Did you and Mr. Jackson
ever have a conversation

About setting off bombs
in New York City?

Yes, we did.

I told him about my plans
to blow up a jewish temple

With those two.

Let the record reflect
that he is pointing

To defendants Hossam
and Darwish.

And did you tell Mr. Jackson
when you and your associates

Planned to set off
your bomb?

I gave them the date
and the place.

In case he wanted to coordinate,
which he did.

Mr. Cole, did you ever mention
this alleged conversation

To Mr. Hossam or Mr. Darwish?

No.

So their only connection
to Mr. Jackson

Was through you.

And even you were
barely connected

To anything Mr. Jackson did.

Oh, I told him everything
we were doing

So he could set his bomb off
at the same time

We were setting ours off.

But that had nothing
to do with you, did it?

- I wouldn't say that.
- Why not?

Mr. Jackson had a real bomb.
You had a fake one.

He knew what he was ing.

you clearly had no idea.

He was operating independently.

You were operating

Under the control
of a police informant.

He didn't even have
everything.

He didn't need you.

He didn't even tell you
what he was doing.

There was no connection
between you

Or these defendants

And what his group
accomplished.

I gave him a detonator.

The man forgot to get himself
a detonator.

I mean, I was more prepared
than he was.

And where did you get
this detonator, Mr. Cole?

From the police, turns out.

I was supposed to test it,
but never got around to that.

The bomb that destroyed
congregation Beth sinai...

Was triggered by a detonator

Supplied not by any
of these defendants,

But by
the New York City police?

Yeah, I guess.

I'm telling you,
Cole told me

He tested a detonator
in the meadowlands.

Yes, and you told us
you saw him do it.

I didn't think it matters.
I believed him.

You were supposed to be
on top of things.

I'm sorry.
I was embarrassed.

Embarrassed?

That I lost track
of things.

I was trying to do
a good job.

you were trying
to save your own neck!

No.
I hate those people.

I hate them.

How do we know you weren't in
on the other plot?

Keeping us busy
with three bozos

While you were arranging
the real thing.

Don't you know me?

You know me.

I don't know
if we do, Sameer.

Sam.

He was embarrassed?
How do you two feel?

Do you realize
how this looks?

The NYPD,
district attorney's office--

We supplied the detonator
for the real bomb.

Hey, we didn't supply
the explosives.

Those guys
built the bomb themselves.

The defense is gonna argue
this entire plot

Was manufactured by the police.

Hey, you know
what might save my case?

Indicting him and the two of you
as co-conspirators.

You supplied
more material support

For the actual bombing

Than the two losers
I just did indict.

He's kidding, right?

Get ready to testify.

What do you want to do?

There's a synagogue
in Washington Heights.

- I know that place.
- Boom.

Yeah, blow them to hell--

Just take a little C-4
or something like that.

Detective, was this
the only occasion

When you heard Mr. Hossam
and Mr. Darwish

Express a desire
to set off a bomb in Manhattan?

No, for them,

It was a-a pretty regular topic
of conversation.

Thank you.

Detective,
in that recording,

It was Mr. Cole
who pointed out the existence

Of the synagogue and said,
"blow it to hell," wasn't it?

Yes. Yes, and it was
your client, Mr. Darwish,

That said, "boom."

Oh, wow, that was very
colorful of him, wasn't it?

And Mr. Cole
is a cooperating witness

For the police, isn't he?

He wasn't at the time
of the recording.

- But Mr. Ahmed was?
- Yes.

Well, let's listen
to a little more.

You guys have been talking
about doing something, right?

It's a duty.

That's not what the imam
on Atlantic avenue says.

That guy? He's so busy
going to interfaith breakfasts

With rabbis.

They bought him off.
What do you want to do?

So who said that
his spiritual leader advised him

That blowing things up
was not a religious duty?

Mr. Hossam.

And who told him that
that spiritual leader

Had been bought off
by jews?

Mr. Ahmed.

- Your informant?
- Yes.

Arguing Mr. Hossam
into joining the plan.

He did not put a gun
to his head.

Mr. Hossam was willing
and ready.

He just needed
a little encouragement, right?

I didn't have to talk anybody
into anything.

They were always angry
at America,

Always talking
about ways to hurt it.

And how did you feel
about that?

I didn't like it.
I'm an American citizen.

The day I pledged allegiance,

It was the greatest day
of my life.

This is the best country
in the world.

But you didn't report them
immediately.

No.

I was involved with one of them
in a little scheme.

I needed money for a business
I was starting.

An illegal scheme.

Yes. But it had nothing to do
with terrorism,

Nothing to do with bombs.

That was all them.

I may have helped them
get stuff they wanted,

But it was stuff they wanted.

Thank you.

Isn't there another reason
you didn't report

The so-called conspiracy,
Mr. Ahmed?

Yeah.

I was afraid Cole
would kill me.

Yeah, another reason...

Isn't it a fact
that you didn't report them,

Because, well,
there was nothing to report?

They weren't doing anything.
They were just talking.

Talking like, "let's blow up
the empire state building."

And how would they have ever
have done that?

Wasn't it foolish talk--
even evil talk--

But really just talk
until you got involved?

They could have met someone
else who got them a real bomb.

It's lucky I was there first.

Lucky for you.

Tell me, what would have
happened to you

If you hadn't discovered
this so-called plot?

I would have gone to jail.

So you had strong motivation
to discover a terrorist cell,

Even one that didn't exist.

- I didn't make anything up.
- You pushed things along.

You gave Mr. Darwish drugs,
without which

He would have never left
his apartment.

Those drugs didn't make him
hate America.

He's always been talking
that way.

I've known him a long time.

A long time?
Since 2007?

At least.

Did you see him
around Christmas that year?

I don't know.

Maybe.

You don't remember seeing him
around Christmas 2007

And conducting some business
with him?

I...
I don't know.

Are you sure
he was anti-american

As long ago as that?

Maybe not.

Was he ever really
anti-american at all?

I, uh...

Maybe he wasn't.

Was he, or wasn't he?

No, he wasn't.

So a few minutes ago
you were exaggerating?

Yes, I was.

Speak up, Mr. Ahmed.

Yes, I was.

Maybe you were exaggerating
about some other things as well.

What role did Mr. Darwish
and Mr. Hossam play

In this alleged conspiracy?

- Not much.
- Anything at all?

Not really. I just kind of
pulled them to it.

I didn't want to go to jail.

So I made it happen.

I told the police
what they wanted to hear.

What the hell just happened?

Christmas day, 2007--

She mentioned that,
and he flipped.

She blackmailed him
in open court.

Blackmailed him with what?

My mother used to bring me
here when I was little.

She would buy me
an orange soda,

And we'd sit
and look at the tall buildings.

Yeah,
the guys watching you,

They tell me you like
to come here.

- Are you here to arrest me?
- Not yet.

Cutter, he wants to call you
for redirect tomorrow.

Tell him not to bother.

How long would I go to jail
for the fake kidnappings?

On December 21, 2007,

Someone burglarized
an electronics warehouse

In Flatbush.

They drove off with a vanload
of stereo equipment.

The thief was never identified
or caught.

Now, there's a question
on form n-400--

The application
for citizenship--

That asks have you ever
committed a crime or an offense

For which
you were not arrested?

Do you know what happens

If immigration service
finds out you lied?

They take away
your citizenship.

You get arrested,
then jailed, then deported.

Any crime committed
after you're a citizen,

You just go to jail.

But if you committed one
in 2007...

Darwish, he knows about this,

And he somehow managed
to remember,

And he told his lawyer.

Do you know what happens to me
if I get deported to Syria?

Arrested, prison, tortured,

No future, no life.

I can't tell you
what to do, sam.

But I do know a tight spot
when I see one.

Do you know
what paradise is?

This is paradise.

When your mother brought you
here when you were a kid...

World trade center.

It was right over there.

I have redirect
for Mr. Ahmed.

You're still under oath, sir.

Do you understand?

I do.

Yesterday you told us
two different stories.

First, that defendants Darwish
and Hossam

Were eager participants
in a bombing conspiracy.

And then...

That they weren't.

Can you explain to us
why you changed your mind?

It's complicated.

Try.

I, uh...

I encouraged them
to take action.

I gave them the bomb,

And I bought other supplies.

And I gave drugs
to Darwish.

And I did all that

Because they wanted me to.

They want to kill Americans,

Blow up buildings,
hurt America.

If I hadn't helped them,

They would have found
somebody else,

Some other way.

But because
they found me first,

They were stopped.

If they had found
somebody else,

You would be picking body parts
out of a gutter...

And they would be celebrating.

Then why did you say
otherwise?

Because they knew
about a crime I committed--

Burglary.

That will mean I will lose
my American citizenship.

And I'll get deported
to a terrible place.

I lied because
I want to stay here,

Because this is the place
I love.

But when I became a citizen,
I took an oath.

I will support and defend
the United States of America

Against all enemies,

Foreign and domestic.

And that's
what I'm doing now...

Even if it means
I will stop being a citizen

And be sent away...

And America will go on...

Without me.

Guilty, all of them.

Where's your informant?

Locked up,
waiting to be deported.

You want to help him?

I'd like to kick his ass
back to Syria myself.

I may have to go with him.
Have you seen the editorials?

"synagogue snafu--
who's to blame?"

Hey, about Mr. Ahmed,
there's a case--

Gorbach v Reno

It limits the authority
of the I.N.S.

To revoke citizenship
based on certain technicalities.

It's not exactly current.

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