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[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.

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