All language subtitles for Law and order S15E10 - Enemy

NARRATOR:
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.

Seriously, he got a friend
that works at the Garden.

Eighth row tickets?
For real?

Yeah.

I gotta ask my mom.

So ask her.
She home?

You crazy, Benicio? She ain't
gonna let me go out with you.

Don't worry. I'll tell her
I'm going with Letti.

Okay. That's cool.

That's cool too.

(GUNSHOTS)

(MEN SHOUTING)

0h. my God!

(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(CHATTERING OVER POLICE RADIO)

Whoever it was came
in hard and fast.

Found what's left of a
kilo in the back bedroom.

Two vics here,
five more in the back.

Stash house.

Looks like a shotgun
blast over here.

I guess these two
were watching the door.

Any idea who they are?

No lD's. We'll get a
hit on the prints.

Any more drugs?
Cash?

Cleaned them out.

There's an empty floor trap
in the bedroom closet.

Damn.

My God!

Looks like this is
where the party was.

EMS found one still breathing.
Another teenage girl.

Shot?
OD'd.

She was covered in blood, but it
turned out to be somebody else's.

Is she gonna make it?

Medics said
she's touch and go.

Sabina Montgomery.
Harpswood.

The prep school?

OFFICER: They all went there.

Melinda McKenzie,

Brittany Walker,

Maria Alvarez.

Looks like Park Avenue is giving
Washington Heights a bad name.

The doctor said
all we can do is wait.

This must be very tough.

Did you know where
your daughter was,

what she was doing?
Who she was with?

She told us that she was going
to a friend's house to study.

Did you know that your
daughter was using drugs?

She doesn't use drugs.

She's into sports. Swimming.
She does the butterfly.

I didn't say she was
an addict, ma'am.

Maybe this was the first
time she used drugs.

Maybe...
Sabina has a 4.0 GPA.

She's going to
Princeton in the fall.

Sir, excuse me
for saying this,

but those girls
were snorting heroin.

Your daughter is being
treated for a drug overdose.

Three of her friends
are in the morgue.

This is all since she started hanging
around with that Hispanic girl.

What Hispanic girl?

Maria Alvarez.

CALVIN: A scholarship student.

Is that a bad thing?

It's just a different world.

You know what I mean,
with different norms.

She's from that
neighborhood.

She must've taken them
to that awful place.

I'll tell you what.

When we go up to that
awful neighborhood

to tell Mr. Alvarez that his daughter
actually died, I'll ask him.

I'm gonna wait
in the car, all right?

I hope your daughter
makes it, I really do.

RICARDO: You asking
did Maria take them there?

I don't think so,

but I also don't think that
Maria did drugs, either.

So you didn't know?

Maria was the last person
I would have suspected.

Look, I lost ayounger
brother tojunk, okay?

My boy, Javier, every day
the drug dealers hassle him.

When Maria got into
this fancy prep school,

lthought, "Hey, maybe this
is our ticket out of this."

But no.

No. Our Mayor
says crime is down.

Well, he doesn't
live up here.

You're free to look around.

She was a good girl.
A really good girl.

The only thing that
she was guilty of

was trying too hard to fit
in with her new friends.

Too much money, too
many things, no limits.

I thought that they
were a fast crowd.

Much faster
than my Maria.

God.

We searched this girl's computer,
her cell phone, her diary.

There's nothing
that connects her

to those four dealers
in that apartment.

Prints come back yet?

They all had sheets.
Burglary, robbery, assault.

A couple of them
were pinched a few years back

for taking off a stash house
in the 34.

What about the heroin
at the scene?

Southwest Asian.
Probably Afghani.

Super high grade,
95% pure.

Shoot it, smoke it,
snort it.

When I was in Narcotics the stuff
on the street was Columbian

and 50% pure at best.
You had to shoot it.

Kept the casual user away,
but these days...

Prep school girls and
stockbrokers, chasing the dragon.

Globalization.

You know, I'd like to know
how our prep school girls

hooked up
with these lowlifes.

How's that girl
in the hospital?

She's still out of it.

And honestly, I don't know what she's
gonna be able to tell us anyway.

We were just on our way to her school
to talk to a few friends of hers.

All right,
I'll call the headmaster.

Give him a heads up
that you'll be dropping by.

Felicia? We wanted to ask
you a couple of questions.

About Sabina?

Just trying to figure out what
happened to your friends.

I don't know anything.
I swear.

All right, Felicia. If you don't,
you don't, and that's fine with us.

But if you do, that's between
you and your conscience.

You were friends with
Maria Alvarez too, right?

Do you know what people
are saying about her?

That this is somehow her fault
because she lives uptown.

I was supposed to
go with them.

But I chickened out. I said
I wasn't feeling well.

Where did you
meet these guys?

At a rave.
Down in Chelsea.

We went there
every Friday night.

We'd hook up with
them there and party.

These guys, were they
from Maria's neighborhood?

She never saw
those guys before.

We just hung out with them
at the rave, you know?

So what happened
last night?

They said they
had some H.

Really good stuff.

(SIGHING) Said we should
come over and try it.

The other girls wanted
to, but it scared me.

And where is this rave?

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

Why you busting my balls? All we're
doing is having a little fun.

You know how fast we can
close this hellhole down?

We go back in there and we
see people doing drugs,

all we gotta do is
make one phone call

and this place
is gone for good.

Okay, okay. Hey, I didn't
say I wouldn't help you.

What do you want?

These guys I know.
Tino, Eddie.

Last names?

I don't know
anybody's last name.

You're gonna have to be a
little bit more helpful, Hugo.

(sums)

They run with Sammy Santiago
from uptown. Part of his crew.

So what's he into?

Sammy deals H.
Moves a lot of it.

But not here, though, I swear. He
knows this place is off-limits.

Is he in there right now? We should
go look and see if he's in there.

Hey, hey, hey.
He never showed up.

Must be getting lucky
someplace else.

Where do we find him?
(SIGHS)

Where do we find him?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Nobody's home.

So what do you wanna do?

Oh, as long
as we're here.

What do you know?

Something don't
smell so good.

Oh.

RODGERS: It's a well
documented torture technique.

You beat someone
long enough,

the muscle tissue
starts to break down.

Rhabdomyalysis.

The toxins build up in the bloodstream,
cause the kidneys to fail.

Is that what killed him?

It would have, but I guess
they were in a hurry.

Restraint abrasions.

(SIGHING) After they got tired
of beating him he was strangled.

Petechial hemorrhaging,
ligature marks on his neck.

So how about
a time of death?

(GROANS) About 24 hours,
give or take.

That's about the same time they
ripped off the stash house.

What about these
cigarette butts?

RODGERS: Oh,
we bagged one of those.

Didn't look American.
Maybe a European brand?

I'll have the lab
let you know.

FONTANA: Thanks.

No forced entry.

Maybe Santiago was
expecting somebody.

Well, this guy doesn't strike me
as the type you just drop in on.

Well, it is rude
just to show up

at a drug dealer's
doorstep unannounced.

We pull the LUDS
on his phone,

maybe we can figure out
who visited him.

What can I do
for you, detectives?

A call was made to Sammy
Santiago's cell phone from here.

Is this Sammy Santiago

in the concrete business?

Actually, he's in
the heroin business.

Heroin?

I sell sand and gravel.

You did a stretch
for assault

a little while back,
didn't you?

When I was young
and stupid.

I'm a businessman now.

I control my temper.

But I will let you gentleman
know if I find out

who made this call to this
dead heroin dealer. Yes?

The old country?

I am. Yes.

I'm from Chicago.

Lot of Albanians
in Chicago.

Some of them
are in the Outfit.

You call it the Mob
around these parts.

I sell gravel.

Have you ever heard of
torturing a guy to death,

by beating him on the
soles of his feet?

No.

It sounds painful.

I don't want that to happen to me.
Or you.

Or to you.

You should consider quitting.
Those things'll kill you.

Have a good day,
detectives.

What do you say we stop by the crime
lab on the way to the hospital?

We didn't think
it was that bad.

It wasn't like we were
shooting up or anything.

You know, I'm really
surprised at you.

A smart girl
such as yourself,

going to Princeton
and all.

I guess I made a mistake.

I guess you did.

Are you gonna
send me to jail?

You know what? Wejust
might send you to jail,

unless you promise
to tell us the truth

about everything
you remember that night,

you stay in school and get
yourself some drug counseling.

I promise.

Okay!

Sabina, I'm going to show
you some photos, all right?

I want you to see if
you recognize anybody.

If you do,
tell me from where.

I was kind of out of it.

I don't know
if I got a good look.

Just take a look. All right?
Take your time.

No. Sorry.

How about this one?

(WHISPERING) Bardha.

Where do you know him from?

That place. Where I...

Where my friends
got killed.

When did you see him?

I was nodding off.

There was a lot of noise
coming from the other room.

Shouting...
I guess gunshots.

Then a man
came into the room.

That man.

What did he do?

He started shooting...

Everyone.

We have a witness
that identifies him

as one of the shooters at the
Washington Heights massacre.

We can also tie him to the
murder of Sammy Santiago.

We have DNA evidence that
puts him at the crime scene.

And how do you come to find Mr.
Bardha's DNA?

Well, let's just say that Mr.
Bardha enjoys a smoke

while he's torturing
somebody to death.

So what happened? Sammy
Santiago ripped you off?

You took down
his stash house,

then you found Sammy and gave him
a little a foot massage, huh?

How's he doing?

You're wasting your time, fellas.
Are we?

We're gonna get
search warrants

for his house and for
his place of business.

And you know what
we're gonna find?

We're gonna find heroin

that matches exactly the heroin
that we found in that stash house.

Afghani heroin!

ED: And maybe a shotgun
and a Tech-9

that we can also tie
to the scene of the crime.

We got you for Santiago and we're
gonna nail you for those other seven.

It was not my heroin.

CARRANO: Arten.
Let him talk.

He gets a deal,
you get a name.

He is the suspect
in eight homicides.

What kind of deal do you
think he's gonna get?

Hydar Raheem.
From Bombay.

He is in the heroin business.

Afghani heroin?

He needs somebody to distribute
his product in this country.

He talks to Santiago.

Santiago says
he's interested.

He asks for time
to think about it.

Then he rips off
Raheem instead.

So Raheem's pissed.

(CHUCKLES) He is so pissed.
He calls me.

And you pay Sammy a visit.

We had a discussion.

He tells me where
Raheem's heroin is.

So I go to the stash house
and get it back.

You killed seven people,
including three teenage girls.

We did not know
those girls should be there.

The other four,
they are soldiers.

They choose this life.

Does Bardha's
story check out?

Well, Raheem does have an import
store at Broadway and 11th.

It's wholesale,
to the trade only.

What does he import?

Antiques and sacred objects. Now, Customs
is reluctant to search religious items,

so it's a pretty clever
way to smuggle junk.

Does Raheem have a sheet?
No. He's clean.

Bardha says that Raheem's got
a shipment of Afghan heroin

coming in in the
next couple of days.

All right, let's track it and see if
we could catch Raheem taking delivery.

Who do we have
coming in now?

Flight 227 from London.

(CHATTERING OVER PA)

Another young
Indian couple.

(PHONE RINGING)

Yeah... Got it.

I need to take
a look at your bags.

Random check, ma'am.

Of course.

They sure look
nervous as hell.

Okay, let's see
what we got.

Look at these screws.

You got three Phillips-head,
and one straight-edge.

Messing with this religious
stuff could get you sued.

That's all right,
we're authorized.

ED: Look at that.

We should pack this stuff back up and
let them go where they're going.

May I help you?

Yeah, you can
stay out of our way.

What's going on here?

You're under arrest.

For what?
Drug trafficking.

Oh, my God,
we didn't know.

Be quiet!
Where is your warrant?

We don't need a warrant.

We saw these two people walk
into this establishment

carrying a suitcase with an
unknown quantity of heroin in it.

What... What heroin?

I sell religious
pictures, icons.

Save it for later, bro'.

Don't say anything.
I'll get you a lawyer.

ED: Let me read you
your rights, first.

Yeah, please do.

He didn't know the picture
frames contained heroin?

So, those couriers just
brought it in on their own?

And then just happened to take
it directly to his store?

Can you prove otherwise?

We're going to search his
store, his other properties,

and his warehouse.

I've got a feeling we're
gonna find a whole lot more

than statuettes
and knick-knacks.

And somehow, I get the
feeling that the, uh,

"I didn't know the heroin was in
the statue of the Lord Vishnu"

defense isn't gonna work.

We'd like to talk
to the District Attorney.

(FONTANA LAUGHING)

He's a little busy
this time of day, man.

I think they're going to want to
hear what my client has to say.

Well, why don't you
give us a little preview?

Maybe we can get
somebody on the phone.

Qaadar Khaleel.

Who's that?

One of the biggest
drug lords in Afghanistan.

And you got
your dope from him?

He is the man I work for.

(SCOFFS) The only
problem with that is,

is that Afghanistan is
halfway around the world,

and a little out
of our jurisdiction.

He is here. Khaleel is here.
In New York.

He arrived last night.
He comes once a month.

On business?
And pleasure.

He fancies blondes.

There are not so many of
them back in Afghanistan.

Raheem is going to
meet him tomorrow.

What do you think?

Fancies blonds, huh.

Don't even go there.

Raheem's got a deal if he
agrees to wear a wire.

I want this drug lord's
confession on tape.

This dude
travels in style.

Khaleel's car just pulled up.
Black Town Car.

OFFICER ON RADIO:
Copy that. Black Town Car.

Did you see that?
Zoom in on those plates?

Those are diplomatic plates.

Yeah. Raheem's in. One other
passenger and a driver.

Khaleel a diplomat?

Raheem didn't mention that.

Well, it doesn't matter. We
wired the guy, not the car.

They're on the move. They're
heading south on Broadway.

Red, white, blue
diplomatic plates.

Adam-Frank-one-zero-two-one.

We got the eyeball.

Don't know about you,
but! am famished.

(SPEAKING URDU)

Parwana's on 12th Street.

They're going to Parwana's
restaurant on 12th Street.

Three blocks from here between
Broadway and University Place.

It's between Broadway
and University Place.

I have some news
about Santiago.

Everything's been
taken care of?

As you instructed.

I called Bardha and told him
this was a serious problem.

And?

We have
our product back.

Santiago
and his friends?

Bardha took care
of them.

(SIGHING) Excellent.

Did he just give it up?

That's the best
we're gonna get.

We're gonna take him in
front of the restaurant.

OFFICER: Ten-four.
Back-up is flying.

(SIREN BLARES)

ED: Qaadar Khaleel?

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)

Yes?
You're under arrest.

I have
diplomatic immunity.

For murder and narcotics
trafficking? I doubt it.

Good work.
Excellent work.

He's a Judas, Raheem is. He set
you up and he sold you out.

"Docket number 48102.
People v. Qaadar Khaleel. "

Charge is eight counts of
conspiracy to commit murder.

Eight counts of murder
in the first degree.

That's a lot of counts.

How does he plead,
Mr. Rems?

Not guilty, Your Honor.

Ms. Southerlyn?

The defendant
is a drug lord.

He's an international
narcotics trafficker.

Alleged.

My client has no criminal
record whatsoever.

Who ordered the Washington
Heights massacre.

He's an Afghan national

with access to unlimited
amounts of drug money.

He's clearly
a flight risk.

The People's entire case is built
on the word of a narco-trafficker

who's complicit
in these murders

and who'll say anything
to reduce his jail time.

We have a video recording
of the defendant discussing

how he ordered
these murders.

We dispute it was
an admission.

And in any event
it was illegally obtained.

You can argue
your suppression issue

before the trial
judge, Mr. Rems.

I'm not granting bail to anyone
connected to this blood bath.

The defendant
is remanded.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

So what's wrong with the
statement, Mr. Rems?

The police eavesdrop
on a diplomatic car

and invaded the sanctity of a foreign
nation's consular territory.

Please. Are you trying to tell me
that your client is a diplomat?

I don't think the Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations

makes that distinction.

Mr. Khaleel is a very
important man in Afghanistan.

But I checked.

He's not with
your consulate here.

Mr. Khaleel
is a businessman.

What was he doing
in your Consul's car?

Mr. Khaleel calls me
when he comes to New York.

I drive him,
show him the City.

Please, do not
involve me in this.

My brother is one of his captains,
in Paktika, in Afghanistan.

I don't understand.

Are you saying your brother's
a police or military officer?

No, no, no. Khaleel has his own
army, militia, about 500 men.

He's awarlord.

Khaleel keeps my province safe
from outlaws and terrorists.

He keeps the Taliban
from coming back.

He feeds
my brother's children.

When he asks me to do this,
I cannot say no.

Khaleel isn't part of the
Afghanistan diplomatic mission.

It doesn't change the
diplomatic status of the car.

The Vienna Convention
of 1961 states that

the premises of a country's
diplomatic missions,

as well as its means of transport,
are immune from search.

The defense claims
that a drug dealer

has an expectation
of privacy in that vehicle?

Even if it's used
on a lark?

That's right.

Well, I don't think
that bird'll fly.

Let's see what this State
Department fella has to say.

Mr. Branch!
Edwin Blitzer.

What can I do
for you, Mr. Blitzer?

Well, we understand you have
Qaadar Khaleel in custody.

He's been charged
as a principal

in the Washington
Heights massacre.

He's been in the country
less than 24 hours.

What could he possibly
have to do with that?

Mr. Khaleel is an international
narco-trafficker.

He's importing Afghan
heroin into New York.

You have evidence
of this?

Plenty.

Do you want to see it?

Khaleel is an ally
of our...

Our interests over there.

He has been a staunch
opponent of the Taliban.

Well, the one thing you
could say about the Taliban

is they didn't
tolerate drug trade.

The threat in Afghanistan
wasn't about opium.

Not then,
but what about now?

Isn't the country in danger of
becoming the next Colombia?

We're cognizant of the threats
to the new government

and the conflict in
Afghanistan is far from over.

Khaleel has helped us capture
a dozen al Qaeda operatives

over the past two years.

The man is an
indispensable resource.

He's a drug lord. It's like
dealing with Pablo Escobar.

We have to prioritize.

First the Taliban
and al Qaeda.

And after the drug lords and
warlords have helped Karzai do that,

we help Karzai deal with the
drug lords and war lords.

The enemy of my enemy
is my friend.

That's how it works
in that part of the world.

You can't be picky
on who you work with.

You can see how sensitive this
matter is for the State Department.

This case could be
a huge embarrassment

to the United States
and President Karzai.

Well, when they see
the crime scene photos

of the Washington
Heights apartment,

I'm sure they'll
get over that.

I understand you have both the
man who gave the direct order

and the man who did the
actual killing, in custody.

Mr. Raheem and Mr. Bardha.

And they've both agreed to plead guilty?
Isn't that enough?

Mr. Raheem will testify that Mr.
Bardha carried out these killings

at the behest
of your erstwhile ally.

Anything you could do
to help us, Mr. Branch,

would be greatly
appreciated.

We'll thank Mr. Khaleel for his
past assistance to America

in fighting terrorism.

But, he's gone onto drug
dealing and mass murder.

And if I have anything
to say about it,

he'll spend the rest
of his natural life

in a New York
correctional facility.

The Vienna Convention makes it clear
you can't search a diplomatic car.

Except that the diplomatic protection
the defendant seeks to invoke

applies only to
a physical search.

What message do we
send to the world

when we allow the police
to place wired agents

into diplomatically
protected areas?

Mr. Khaleel can't
shield his conversations

simply by holding them
in diplomatic car.

The Supreme Court has
held that a person has

no constitutionally
justified expectation

that someone he talks to will not
reveal that conversation to the police.

The informant wore awire.
Audio and video.

And the Supreme Court has also held
that an orally reported conversation

is no different
than a wire transmission.

US v. White.

Mr. McCoy's analysis
is correct.

The Vienna Convention
didn't prevent Mr. Raheem

from relaying the substance
of his conversation

with Mr. Khaleel
after the fact.

It doesn't prevent him
from recording it either.

Your Honor...

I'm allowing Mr. Khaleel's recorded
statement to be introduced at trial.

Eight murder counts,
Mr. Rems.

I suggest your client might want
to think about a plea bargain.

The best I can do
is 50 to life, Mr. Rems.

You want that,
Mr. Khaleel?

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

So, I can tell
Judge Mizener

that I at least
made an effort.

Notice that I'll be introducing a
public authority defense at trial.

Which applies when an
informant or a hostage

is forced to do
something illegal.

Like when a Cl handles
drugs to keep his cover.

Exactly.

That isn't a recognized
defense, Mr. Rems.

And which government authorized Mr.
Khaleel to murder eight people?

The United States. It enlisted his
help in the war in Afghanistan.

I didn't realize American
teenagers in Washington Heights

were enemy combatants.

My client poses as a
friend to the insurgents

who are eager to do business
with drug traffickers

in an effort to fund
their terrorist activities.

I still don't see what it
has to do with this case.

In order to continue
to assist the US,

he has to run
his drug business.

Which requires him to
behave like a drug lord.

So if someone
steals his drugs,

he's authorized to slaughter
them to keep his cover?

He didn't authorize
the slaughter of anyone.

He merely asked
an overzealous subordinate

to retrieve
his stolen property.

This is one of the most outrageous
claims I've ever heard.

Maybe so.

But if Mr. Khaleel
is going down for this,

he's taking his handlers
down with him.

So is the military
corroborating his story?

I don't know that
they have any choice.

The US Government
knows exactly

what Mr. Khaleel
has been doing.

This is Khaleel's handler, Captain
Clark Wallace. Army Special Forces.

And here's a letter
from Captain Wallace

confirming the shipment of M-16s to Mr.
Khaleel in Gardez.

"March 2nd, 2002."

A photograph
and an old letter

aren't gonna make
your case, Mr. Rems.

Check the arrest report.

You'll notice his first
call wasn't to me.

It was to
Captain Wallace.

The letter and photograph
are authentic.

Khaleel's one of our best
sources in Eastern Afghanistan.

According to Interpol,
he's a huge importer

of heroin into
Western Europe.

And now he's trying to
establish himself in New York.

Things on the ground
aren't black and white.

Especially in a place
like Afghanistan.

You make friends with
whoever you need to.

Not so different
than being a prosecutor.

Except that we don't allow the
people we make deals with

to expand the scope of
their criminal activities.

That's here.

We're talking
about over there.

I'm not.

I've got eight murders to
prosecute in New York City.

Why did Khaleel call you the
night that he was arrested?

To get him
the hell out of there.

What could you
have done for him?

Who do you think called
the State Department?

I heard they sent somebody
to spring Khaleel.

The only way that's going
to happen, Captain Wallace,

is ifajury acquits him.

I'm just stating
the facts, Mr. McCoy.

The fallout from this
is going to hit people

much higher up on the
chain of command than me.

HYDAR: I have worked for Qaadar
Khaleel for over 10 years.

Supervising poppy crops
in Afghanistan

and shipping the raw opium to
Pakistan for processing into heroin.

What other work
did you perform

for the defendant,
Mr. Raheem?

I oversaw the transport of that
heroin into nearby countries,

like India, Turkey, Iran, for
sale in Europe and Russia.

Were you responsible

for importing the defendant's
heroin into the United States?

Yes, I was.

JACK: And where did
you store this heroin?

In stores, homes, what
we call "stash houses."

Did you reveal
the location

of one of these stash
houses to Sammy Santiago?

Yes.

For what reason?

Well, we wanted to sell our
heroin, here in New York.

So we contacted
Mr. Santiago,

hoping he and his associates would
be interested in helping us.

Did they?
They robbed us instead.

What happened
as a result?

Mr. Khaleel asked me
to get our heroin back.

And to have Santiago
and his crew killed.

JACK: Nothing further.

Let's get one thing straight
to start, Mr. Raheem.

You hired Arten Bardha
to kill these people?

Yes.

And in exchange
for leniency,

you made a deal
with the District Attorney

to testify
against my client.

Yes.

Did my client ever
tell you explicitly

to have Sammy Santiago
and his crew killed?

No. But I knew
what he wanted done.

Are you aware, Mr. Raheem, that the
production of heroin in Afghanistan

has grown by 2000%

since the United States
overthrew the Taliban regime?

That 85% of the world's heroin
now comes from Afghanistan?

I am not a bookkeeper.

But, yes, there is much,
much more now.

In fact, that was the reason
you were sent here, wasn't it?

To find a market for my
client's surplus heroin?

Yes, it was.

Did the United States
military allow my client

to do business
as a drug trafficker?

I know that US soldiers drove
by his poppy fields every day.

So, at the very least,
they were aware

that he was in
the heroin business?

They had to.
Unless they were idiots.

So it's quite possible

that Qaadar Khaleel
was authorized

by the United States
government

to come to this country to
further his business interests

in order to support his
identity as a drug lord?

Objection to what's possible.

Sustained.

No further questions.

My name is Clark Wallace.

I hold a commission as a captain in the
United States Army, Special Forces.

REMS: And what was
your last assignment?

I served in Afghanistan.

How were you deployed?

I commanded a military intelligence
and reconnaissance unit

composed of native Afghans
in Paktika province.

Meaning you weren't working
with the regular Afghan Army?

Correct.

Why were you commanding a local
civilian force, Captain Wallace?

The provinces are controlled
by the local tribesmen.

If you're in an area
like Paktika,

where you require knowledge
of the terrain, routes,

who the good guys are and
who the bad guys are,

you engage local people in order
to carry out your mission.

What was your mission,
Captain Wallace?

To capture Taliban
and al Qaeda operatives

hiding along the Pakistani
border, in the tribal areas.

Mr. Khaleel was one
of the tribal leaders

you engaged to
help you do this?

He controlled a large area
of the Paktika province.

And how exactly
did he help you?

He provided intelligence,
vehicles, personnel.

Personnel?
What does that mean?

He provided men.
Soldiers. Troops.

To fight?

If necessary.

And who paid these men,
the Afghan government?

The fighters I worked with weren't
paid by the central government.

They were paid by...

Mr. Khaleel.

He had a standing
militia of 1,500 men.

And where did Mr. Khaleel

come up with the money to pay and
equip 1,500 full-time fighters?

I wouldn't know.

Are you saying you had no knowledge that
Mr. Khaleel was in the heroin business?

Correct, sir.

You never saw
his poppy fields?

None I could identify
as Khaleel's.

And you never asked him
how he funded his militia?

I don't ask questions I
don't need the answers to.

Captain, you're testifying
under oath.

I understand that.

May We approach?

This man is
perjuring himself.

He's your witness,
Mr. Rems.

If you have evidence
he's lying, let's see it.

Rems had his head in the
clouds if he thought that

a captain in the Special
Forces was going to

openly acknowledge that he'd
consorted with a heroin trafficker.

I don't know
what's worse,

them pretending it didn't
happen or just admitting it.

You know, Rems is
corroborating our case

by conceding that
Khaleel's a dealer.

But it's also tending
to support it.

At the very least, the military
acquiesced to his opium business.

At the very least?

Are you suggesting that they
may have facilitated it?

Possibly.

At most they may have
ignored it, in Afghanistan.

But Khaleel's not being
charged with drug felonies.

He's charged with murder,
in New York State.

And there's not
a snowball's chance in hell

that our government
acquiesced to that.

Didn't the CIA help run
drugs for the Contras?

That's a left-wing myth
from a lunatic fringe.

Don't be too sure
this is a lock, Arthur.

These days, half the country

thinks everything the government
says is Orwellian double-speak.

And the other half have absolute
faith in what we're doing.

So try to make the jury
see it that way.

I don't want them buying any
paranoid conspiracy theories

about the federal government.

I have received money,
rifles for my men.

And up until now,
plenty of thanks

from the United States Government
for the work that I did.

As confirmed in this letter
from Captain Wallace?

Yes.

Where was this
photograph taken?

Near Jalalabad.

We had apprehended
some Taliban.

We were actually
celebrating.

How did that happen,
Mr. Khaleel?

We believed they might
be with al Qaeda,

and we had heard they were interested
in doing business with me.

What kind of business?

They were offering to transport
some of my opium into Pakistan.

Was Captain Wallace
aware you were doing this?

He encouraged it.

He wanted to capture some of
these men and question them

about their terrorist activities.
Which is what we did.

Did he ever request that you stop
your drug trafficking activities?

(SCOFFS)

Captain Wallace
is a smart man.

He knows that without opium,
Afghanistan would crumble.

The poppy seed crop represents
half of my country's economy.

Maybe more.

So American forces have done nothing
to stop your drug business?

It is not their
business to do so.

It is the Afghan
government's.

And they haven't done anything
to interdict your activities?

Under the Taliban,
opium was forbidden.

Now it is flourishing.

Which is why we have
come to America.

To look for new markets
for our products.

Like New York?

One of the biggest.
The sky is the limit.

Mr. Khaleel,

did you authorize Hydar Raheem
to murder your business rivals?

Absolutely not.

I asked him to retrieve the
heroin that was stolen from me.

That's all.

Everything's been
taken care of?

As you instructed.
I called Bardha.

I told him this was
a serious problem.

And?

We have
our product back.

Santiago and his friends?

Bardha took care of them.

Excellent.

That's you talking
to Mr. Raheem, sir?

Yes.

Gloating over the murders
of your rival drug dealers?

Listen to the videotape. I did not
say I did anything like that.

But Mr. Raheem did
in fact work for you?

From time to time.
The man is not my puppet.

So which is it,
Mr. Khaleel,

you deny ordering
the murders

or the United States
authorized you to do so

to protect your identity
as a drug dealer?

I don't understand
your question.

Of course you do. Make a
choice in front of this jury.

You ordered the murders
or you had no hand in them?

Every day in my part
of the world,

the United States drops a bomb or fires
a missile in order to kill terrorists.

Do other people
die as a result?

Yes, regrettably.

But for the greater good.

I ordered no murders.

I simply dispatched
a subordinate

to retrieve the product
that was stolen from me.

Using any means necessary?

I don't know
how to answer that.

I believe you just
did, Mr. Khaleel.

JUDGE: Has the jury
reached a verdict?

Yes, we have, Your Honor.

How do you find?

We find the defendant,
Qaadar Khaleel,

guilty of eight counts of
murder in the first degree.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

It's basic physics. For every
action there is a reaction.

We arm the mujahideen
to fight the Soviet Union,

they turned on us.

They'll attack us
at home and abroad.

9/11,
we invade Afghanistan,

topple the Taliban, and the world
is flooded with cheap heroin.

And I've got eight dead
bodies in New York City

and more to come.

It's called "blowback."

Unintended consequences.

Something tells me
Khaleel won't be

the last unintended consequence
to show up on our doorstep.