(car door opens)
*
(phone ringing)
Hey.
(chuckles)
Tomorrow.
After the interview.
It will all be done by then, and...
we can go on as planned.
Now, do they know I'm here?
(man grunts)
(blade tinging)
(both grunting)
MAN (over phone): Hello? Saida?
Saida?
Saida? Saida?!
(emitting static)
DON: Oh! Test that man for steroid use.
Dad, analysis of classic Sudoku
has revealed six and a half sextillion
possible completed grids, and five and a half billion
essentially different grids.
but none of that is gonna help me
with this particular problem I have.
Well, you could also save time
by using a program to solve the puzzle.
Charlie, the object of doing the puzzle
is to relax by wasting time.
Using a solution program is relaxing for some people.
Charlie, are we still on for lunch tomorrow?
I was meaning to tell you, I need to cancel,
'cause I have an appointment tomorrow.
Well, not necessarily an appointment.
Might we say a date?
Susan Berry is in town.
Ah.
So, uh, we'll just reschedule,
-all right? -Okay.
DON: Susan Berry?
Wait, she lives in London, right.
She does; she's a neuroscientist there.
-(phone rings) -ALAN: So what's she doing
in Los Angeles?
She's here on her book tour.
Book's called The Neurology of Ecstasy.
-Eppes. -Oh, the old nucleus accumbens, eh?
CHARLIE: That's right,
and she's invited me to a reading on campus.
On my way.
Guys, I got to go to work,
so say hi to Susan for me.
You got it.
I'll see you guys later.
-Make sure you tell me the score. -Okay.
-Dad, later. -Bye.
Sounds like you're still carrying a torch for this woman.
Not at all-- you know, we're talking years ago.
I mean, I know...
I don't... we're talking...
What are we talking?
What happened?
Uh...
Careers, long distance.
It'll be great seeing her again.
Definitely...
nine, nine, nine.
Back off, Rainman.
Hey.
Victim's an Iraqi national.
She's a lawyer named Saida Kafaji.
She was here in L.A. participating
in a documentary about women's rights
in Muslim countries.
Got boot prints in the dirt over here.
He must have jumped out right as she was coming around.
(indistinct radio transmission)
-(camera clicks) -No sign of the weapon yet.
(camera clicks)
She fought him.
Well, not for long.
Throat was cut right to the spine.
No hesitation marks, looks professional.
-It ain't wrong place, wrong time, huh? -No, I think
somebody just didn't want her making that documentary.
I want you to cover her body.
Don, this is Nasreen Kafaji.
the victim's cousin.
She lives here, victim was staying with her.
Listen...
Please, cover her body!
I have been asking for an hour!
Okay, okay, Ms. Kafaji,
we need to collect evidence.
Now, are you the one who found her here?
A neighbor's dog found her.
(indistinct radio transmission)
Oh, God.
-I'm terribly sorry for your loss... -(sniffles)
...but we need to interview you.
Not until you cover her body!
She's been avoiding our questions since we got here.
Well, make sure she doesn't go anywhere.
All right.
Tommy, let's get a sheet over her, huh?!
We all use math every day,
to predict weather,
to tell time,
to handle money.
Math is more than formulas and equations.
It's logic...
rationality.
It's using your mind
to solve the biggest mysteries we know.
MEGAN: The victim was an Iraqi citizen
here on a work visa
sponsored by the Women For Peace and Justice.
They're making a documentary.
-She was an activist? -Definitely.
There were death threats against her
by an extremist cleric in Baghdad.
-A fatwa? -Not officially.
The cleric who threatened her is so extreme
the other ayatollahs want nothing to do with him.
Officially, maybe, they want nothing to do with him,
but unofficially...
WOMAN (over TV): If you can imagine, women had more rights
under Saddam than with these extremist clerics.
Iraq is a modern nation.
I am a Muslim, a lawyer, a feminist,
and a patriot for Iraq-- should I be beaten
because of a dress code?
Stoned to death for saying what I think?
DON: That was taped yesterday
in Altadena two hours
before she was killed.
Saida Kafaji was organizing Muslim women internationally,
-gaining political momentum. -COLBY: In other words,
becoming a threat.
DON: Guys, meet Agent Allawi
from Immigration and Customs.
ALLAWI: Or as we like to call it-- ICE.
Now, your victim had an ongoing fight in the press
with radical Shiite cleric,
Mustapha al-Badr.
Wouldn't it be more convenient
to kill her over there?
I mean, why do it in the United States?
It's possible she was fleeing, and they pursued her.
MEGAN: Or they wanted to send a message
that the West isn't safe for women.
-Mm-hmm. -And there's a mosque
right here in L.A., and the sheik here on the left
has a strong connection to al-Badr and Islamic radicals
living in California,
but there's no way
of knowing who's capable of murder.
I may very well
be able to determine who's ready to commit murder.
Logistic regression models,
they can be used to estimate the probabilities
of things like lightning striking,
and I can apply them to these circumstances.
Charlie, just break it down for the guy.
(clears throat): For a bolt of lightning...
clouds must have certain internal conditions--
moisture, turbulence, negative electrical charges.
Similarly, an individual's internal conditions--
violent tendencies, religious extremism,
and history with women can be quantified.
Now, I cross that inner data with external conditions--
loyalty to a radical cleric, geographic location,
and financial pressure, and we see
- where the lightning strikes. -(thunder rumbles)
What I need is data on Islamic radicals living in California,
as well as on the recent arrivals.
-ALLAWI: What kindof data? -Colby.
Data on attacks by radicals in the Unites States,
and well as in other countries.
I also need
public information, like arrests, age, ethnicity,
religion, length of time
in the United States.
Good.
I'll interview the cousin-- you speak Arabic?
So why don't you try leaning
-on that sheik you told us about? -Why don't I do it?
Let's see how he responds to a woman.
Yeah, all right, that's a good idea.
You can do that together.
I'll set up surveillance.
Actually, ICE has him under surveillance.
Get me those tapes, and we'll check them
against anything Charlie comes up with.
And, Colby, why don't you take the cell phone
and the boot prints, all right?
Yeah, you got it, Don.
That's a lot of poetry.
I'm a professor of Arabic poetry at UCLA.
I need my cousin's body back.
In Islam, we bury our dead within two days.
We have to do an autopsy; there's no way around it.
I can promise you this:
I'll get her back to you as soon as possible.
Can you tell me a little about her?
I don't know.
She was out to change the world.
The death threats just spurred her on.
She was fearless, even as a kid.
-You two grew up together? -Yeah, my family left Iraq
during the first Gulf War.
We were like sisters as kids.
You think her enemies in Iraq are responsible?
I don't know who is responsible.
She provoked a lot of people.
Can you give me a few names?
MEGAN: So, you're sure this Imam
has connections to Iraq?
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria...
Islamic radicalism in Southern California
pretty much runs through this mosque.
ALLAWI: Imam, assalamu alaikum.
Alaikum assalamu.
(continues in Arabic)
I'm Special Agent Reeves,
with the FBI.
We've come to speak with you about Saida Kafaji.
Do you know who she is?
I do... a reckless young woman.
So you condoned the death threats against her?
I know nothing about that.
But you do have followers
of Mustapha al-Badr in this mosque?
Any sincere Muslim can come here.
Saida Kafaji was a sincere Muslim.
Do you feel any obligation
towards her?
Why do you assume
I know anything about her killing?
I know of no hatred aimed toward Saida.
Would you tell me if you did?
(speaking Arabic)
Assalamu alaikum.
ALLAWI: Alaikum assalamu.
Yeah.
Give me some good, old-fashioned redneck chauvinism any day.
CHARLIE: Well, it actually ends up being a great logistics problem
for the students to work on.
Yeah, we obviously just won't give them
any of the classified information.
Okay, well, I'll get volunteers.
Thanks, Amita, and, uh... yeah, I'll be back in like a...
like a half hour, okay?
Okay.
"The nucleus accumbens,
"a tiny speck deep in the middle of the brain,
"is the epicenter of ecstasy, so the insight
"of the neurology of ecstasy is that the high of heroin,
"the rapture of orgasm, the smell of money,
"are ultimately nothing but trickles of a chemical
"deep inside the...
"...brain onto a tiny speck
"so ancient that we share its basic circuitry
with every living creature."
So for a good time, buy my book.
(laughter)
Excuse me one moment.
I will be back to sign books and chat.
Just one minute.
-Hello. -Hey.
-How's it going? -Hi.
You look exactly the same.
(chuckles)
You look no different.
How's that at all possible?
Are you defying certain laws of physics?
No, no.
-No. You sure? -Look at you--
all hip and distinguished,
Dr. Eppes.
Driving these undergrads mad?
Sure. It's a constant struggle.
Mm.
I have to work this crowd, and then
I have to do an interview,
and then I have dinner with my publishers.
-Can we get a drink after that? -Yeah.
-You're gonna lose people. We got to go. -Okay.
I was thinking dinner tomorrow night.
I'll cook something for you.
You'll cook?
Yeah.
I'll clear the schedule.
-It's great seeing you. -It's nice to see you, too.
Go to go. I've missed you.
(laughs)
SUSAN: Hi.
-Don. -Hey.
Anything with the cell phone?
Yeah, it looks like she was on a call when she was killed.
We traced it to a motel in Hermosa Beach,
but it was a dead end.
All right. I got some names
from the cousin-- people who spoke out
against Kafaji's organization.
-I could use help running those down. -Okay.
Listen, Don, we found a knife in a storm drain
about a block and a half away from the crime scene.
Sent it off for a blood
and a DNA match, but the size of the blade,
the shape of it--
I'm pretty sure we have the murder weapon here.
All right, so?
Here's the thing.
Boot prints from the scene
and now this knife--
they're both military issue...
American military issue.
You're kidding.
Same stuff we used in Afghanistan.
Same thing that's being used in Iraq right now.
But the thing is, you can also buy it
in any Army surplus store.
The American military would never do this.
Yeah, these are crazy times, Colby.
Does Saida have any connections to the American military?
I don't know.
Really?
She had a whole life in Iraq,
a life I didn't know anything about.
Nasreen, look, I think there's something you're not telling me.
You don't understand.
What I don't understand is why would you
withhold information that would help us capture
the guy that killed her?
Why would you do that?
She was killed right here in my garden.
Okay, all right.
I'll put a 24-hour guard on your door,
I will give you an escort wherever you go.
We can protect you.
Now, I know she was a radical.
I just don't know what she had to do
with our military.
She was helping to prosecute cases in Basra.
She was working with the Americans.
A few weeks ago...
she sent me this.
What does it say?
It says that an American soldier
is going to accompany her from Basra
on March 27.
Colby, where are you?
I'm over here at Los Alamitos.
I got a buddy from Afghanistan
who works Criminal Investigations here.
Saida Kafaji had an Army escort
when she left Basra, March 27.
See if you can find out who her contact was there, would you?
Okay, sure.
Yeah, I'll see what I can do, Don.
Look like crap in a suit, C.G.
Should have stayed in the man's Army, wear camis to work.
Yeah, well, while you're out here in the middle of nowhere,
I work in civilization.
Did you get a chance to look into Saida Kafaji for me?
She was a piece of work.
Spoke out against pretty much everybody.
Player?
Hard to say.
Why?
File's classified.
She has a military intelligence file?
And it's classified.
Well, you can get into it, right?
Uh-uh.
FBI wants to see it, you got to do it officially.
Look, I have U.S. Army boot prints at the crime scene.
The murder weapon was a six-inch battle knife.
You really want me to get into this officially?
Anybody can buy a knife like that.
That's what I thought, too,
till I heard she had a classified file.
I can give you a list
of CID personnel she worked with in Basra.
But that is all
I can give you.
-It's a start. -Come on,
let's go choke down some of my coffee.
The military aspect complicates the politics
and therefore the math, doesn't it?
More information, the better, a problem like this.
So we'll have these results in a couple of hours.
Great. I'm gonna need to cross-reference my findings
with the list you all come up with.
Okay, well, you'll input, and then we'll recalculate.
Great. That's great.
(knocking)
Hey.
What's going...
I'm sorry to interrupt.
You know, we're meeting later tonight?
I do. This is the thing.
I have back-to-back interviews all evening
with the L.A. Times Book Review
and, um, Syzygy.
I don't know. One's for sales,
-one's for street cred. -Look at you.
So I was wondering
if you could get away now.
Actually, I can't.
But you know what?
Just come with me.
-Okay. -Yeah.
No, not at all.
Did she said "street cred"?
Who is that?
My hunch is, that's the old girlfriend, Susan Berry.
(laughs)
I've heard of her.
Yeah, they lived together
for nearly two years.
His very own Berry's Phase.
She's pretty.
All right, where were we?
You didn't want to go with her?
Huh? No, we're meeting later tonight.
And I've got to work on these boot prints.
Yeah, boot prints.
Charlie, are you familiar with the work of Petr Hlavacek?
Mm.
He's this obsessed Czech,
and from a shoe or shoe print,
he can read a person's height, weight, physical ailments.
-Physical ailments? -Yeah.
He diagnosed syphilis in Albrecht von Wallenstein
from his boots alone.
(helicopter blades thumping)
We need official contact with the Army.
Get this: they have a classified file on Saida Kafaji.
We can't get into it any other way.
All right. I'll talk to Don.
And what about her cases?
We need higher clearance for that, too.
All I have so far is a list
of CI officers that were in Basra.
One of them, Lieutenant Joseph Karnes, he left Iraq
in a military transport the same day as our victim.
And where is he now?
Check this out.
He's AWOL.
He's been AWOL since the day of her murder.
Looks like we have ourselves a suspect.
Karnes left Basra on March 27.
He was due back yesterday, and nobody's heard from him.
He's been in Iraq for 18 months,
and he works in Criminal Investigations.
He could be a witness in one of Saida Kafaji's cases,
or he could have been sent here to investigate her.
All I know is that whatever he was doing for the Army,
he's not doing it anymore.
Maybe they put him in the wind for a job well done.
If they want to drop him off the map,
they wouldn't designate him AWOL.
That means they're looking for him, too.
Well, I'm not getting any cooperation from them.
They want to know what we got.
My buddy was surprised
when he heard about the boot prints and the knife.
I don't think he knew
-what to make of it. -Somebody does.
Can your buddy help us any more?
No. They shut him down.
Well, then, Megan,
you should get with Allawi
before they shut him down, too.
We want to know if any Iraqis in California
are involved in her case--
witnesses to war crimes,
fugitives from prosecution, that sort of thing, right?
On my way.
Can we get this information to Charlie?
Where is Charlie anyway?
Was delicious.
CHARLIE: Thank you.
You're a good cook, Charlie. When did that happen?
I'm glad you liked it.
It's steak. It's pretty simple.
Still, it's good.
Look at you, living in this house.
-I own this house. -Okay.
Yeah, let's make that distinction, I own it.
Isn't it weird how we're suddenly just grownups?
Age has never really meant much to me.
I don't know.
I don't feel any different than when I was...
Twenty-one.
I actually have been meaning to mention something to you.
I've been working on something
called Cognitive Emergence Theory.
And it's the math of neurons creating...
well, creating consciousness.
That's amazing.
You think so?
Yeah, yeah, that's amazing, Charlie.
Where are you getting your data from?
-Professor Quartz in Neuroscience here. -Yeah.
-You remember? -Uh-huh.
And I'm wondering, how do you quantify
this state of grace you so vividly describe in the book?
E.E.G.'s...
testimony, observation.
Observation and testimony.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, the patient describes his or her experience.
So the brain biochemistry releases
simultaneous feelings of fear
and joy and loss of self--
or at least a blurring of the boundaries
between self and other.
Which, in turn, results in a kind of awe.
I can see that.
(door opens)
ALAN: Oh, I'm sorry.
I, uh...
Alan?
ALAN: My game got canceled.
I, uh, I didn't realize...
Remember Susan?
Hi, nice to see you again.
You, too, yeah.
Hi. Okay, great.
I'll be in there.
Actually, up there.
See you later.
ALAN: Okay.
So, um, okay.
(chuckles)
I haven't aged much since 21.
You live with your dad.
-He lives with me. -Uh-huh.
-No, seriously. -Whatever.
-(laughs) -I can't kick him out, you know?
LARRY: Something is missing.
According to the crime report,
the killer took four steps to the west,
he pivots, he takes three steps to the east.
He was pacing.
He was pacing, then he hears her approach...
She was on a cell phone, so he waited for her to pass.
Right, right.
And then he just, he leaps from his lair.
Larry...
I don't think he leapt from a lair.
And certainly, his knife was not in the air like this.
He pulled her into the bushes from behind and cut her throat
in and out like that.
Okay.
They teach you that at Quantico?
Your taxpayer dollars at work.
If I could, please.
Do we know how tall this guy was?
Yeah, he was six-one, 190 pounds with a shoe size of 11,
which matches the prints we found at the scene.
Well, now, that's very interesting,
and I'll tell you why.
Because these boot prints were lifted
from the gardening soil behind the bushes.
And given the depth of this,
I'd say we're looking at somebody
who's less than 190.
170, perhaps.
Could Karnes have lost weight?
I guess, yeah.
And given the distance between these steps...
No, this is a person
maybe five-nine
with a hip width of, I'm gonna say, 16 inches.
Well, how accurate do you think this thing is?
My math? It's very accurate.
But nevertheless, something liminal hovers,
which I cannot quite...
No.
It's just one of those.
It will not be forced.
If you'll excuse me,
my brain requires a change of environment.
I'm just gonna go ahead and use your phone,
if you have one in here.
Colby, I just located Allawi.
Let me call you back in a few minutes.
Hey, I'm sorry to pull you out of the symphony.
You kidding me?
My wife drags me to this stuff.
I'm more of a Radiohead kind of guy.
(laughs)
So what's up?
Saida Kafaji was working for the U.S. military
in Basra as a lawyer.
Any idea what kind of cases
she'd be working on?
What do you mean "working with the military"?
I don't really know. They won't say.
Maybe something for the War Tribunal,
involving Republican Guard war atrocities?
I mean, those bastards are hiding out all over the world.
I mean, what kind of information
could she have stumbled upon
that the army would want to keep her quiet?
What do you have?
I have a military issued weapon, and a boot print on the scene,
and her army handler who arrived the same day
is now AWOL.
She could have stumbled onto something
she wasn't supposed to see.
Now, my guys have access,
we can run down her military cases,
see what she was up to.
I got some Radiohead in the car.
(crickets chirping)
Eureka.
Oh, my word, eureka!
Archimedes.
It's Archimedes all over again!
Archimedes!
Gold is denser than silver,
and thusly Archimedes proved
the crown was a fake in the bathtub.
Let me call you right back.
But don't be fooled... because this fraud has nothing to do
with the Principle of Buoyancy or the Law of Levers.
No, it's simply a poetic leap, a moment of insight.
"Eureka."
Precisely.
You know, since water is so conducive to thinking,
it's a wonder we don't have classes in swimming pools.
What's a fraud?
Leg length discrepancy.
But, to demonstrate,
I'm going to have to put on the boots.
Oh, water, such a magical element.
Now, the person who made these prints
has one leg slightly shorter than the other.
Not really noticeable,
but just enough to cause him to supinate with his right leg--
which puts pressure on the outside of the print--
and to pronate with his left foot, the longer limb,
which puts pressure on the insi of the print.
Wait a minute, he'd never get into the military.
This is not Joe Karnes.
He's being framed.
Good job, doc.
I'm actually feeling a little chilly.
Now where have I left my clothing?
(door opening)
-Yeah? -Yeah, it's an amazing view.
-Wow. -Come on in.
-Yeah, this is a really nice view. -Beautiful, right?
Yeah.
-It's not bad. -(drops bag)
*
Ooh, it's funny.
What is?
How familiar you feel.
*
It's unexpected.
Disconcerting.
Why did we break up?
I, uh...
I don't remember.
Oh!
I have missed you.
*
What are you doing here?
The man who accompanied Saida to America
is named Joseph Karnes,
he's a lieutenant in Criminal Investigations.
I need to know specifically what she was working on
and who she was investigating, and I need to know now!
Okay, will you please keep your voice down? Come in.
You said she told you everything.
What, there was no mention of him?
It's not what you think.
What, you had something to do with her death?
-No, why would you say that? -(tea kettle whistling)
Because you have been holding something from me
from the get-go, all right?
I know it, I can tell!
Now, people's lives could be in danger here, Nasreen,
anyone who helped her,
anyone who gave her information!
They met while they were working together.
Yeah?
They fell in love.
What?
Joe and Saida were married.
They were married?
No one was supposed to know.
He wasn't a Muslim,
our family would never approve.
Saida knew that.
So, what, some sort of...
Honor killing? I don't know.
So your family...
Saida and I were progressive, our families are not.
They would kill their own daughter?
It is deeply ingrained in our culture.
Her father, her mother, her brothers--
all of them would be shunned because of her actions.
I tracked the family, and they weren't in the States.
There are surrogates.
Our families have many friends.
MEGAN: Married to a non-Muslim.
Put her life in danger.
Well, it's perceived as a disgrace to the family.
I mean, it changes everything.
Where are we on locating Karnes?
I talked with the people at the motel in Hermosa,
they recognized the photo, but they said
he left two days ago,
so we're sweeping the room for DNA
and fingerprints.
We're pretty sure he was on the phone with her
when she was killed.
He heard his wife being killed.
Which means he's not our assailant.
And yet now he's gone.
Someone's trying to set him up, you know?
Which means they obviously knew about the relationship.
So our murderer can still be linked
to the fatwa or the legal cases.
Yeah, I mean people that worked with them
would know they're a couple.
It's hard to keep that secret.
Who's motivated to frame him?
Her family, to restore honor.
Or somebody she was prosecuting.
Both of which could have accomplices
-in Southern California. -So we're back to
hundreds of suspects again.
Well, no.
Because I took the 112 names we came up with yesterday,
and applied social image typology
to generate a more targeted list.
(computer chirping)
A list of possible murderers.
Now we pose the question:
"Who's most likely to commit fraud?"
Fundamentalists believe that God is behind them;
they're not going to shift blame, so we can eliminate them.
This ain't no religious killing.
Can you be sure about that?
The most likely group are career criminals.
See, because she was killed here
and not in Iraq,
this is an opportunity for someone who lives here.
She was prosecuting war criminals hiding outside Iraq.
And, you know, that's been bothering me all along.
That, you know, why would...
why would anyone go through all the trouble
to set up an international murder
when you don't have to?
Some of these names are
in her legal cases-- the ex-Baathists, Saddam's men.
Professional criminals with something personal
to gain from her death.
There's 18 names on this list,
that's still a lot.
So we're going to leave Karnes
to the army.
KARNES: Saida?
(thunder cracks)
Wait.
We know that Karnes is innocent.
And he's been gone since the murder.
I'm going to posit that he's probably
out to avenge the murder of his wife.
And if I'm Karnes and I'm trying to track the killer
but avoid the army, I'm going to need cover,
a place to work out of...
A sympathetic ally.
(knocking)
Daniel Ratchet?
Who's asking?
I'm Special Agent Granger, this is Agent Johnson,
we're from the FBI.
You and Joe Karnes, you enlisted together and served in Iraq,
-am I right? -Yeah. So?
Have you heard from him in the last few days?
No.
Okay, look, man, I just want to talk to the guy.
I don't care that he's AWOL.
What do you want, man?
I haven't seen him.
All right, look, I served in Afghanistan,
CID, the same as Joe.
I just want to help him.
Sure you do.
We know that Joe is innocent.
We're trying to find
Saida's killer.
We want the same thing Joe does,
but I need to talk to him
before he does something crazy.
If Joe kills somebody, I can't help him.
Now, that bag, is that really yours?
All the way up there?
How do you know he's innocent?
You mind if I come in?
(glass shattering)
-Hey, go around the back! -What the hell are you doing?
RATCHET: Joe, run!
I just want to talk to you, man!
Get out of the way, out of the way, FBI!
Look, I just want to talk to you, okay?
Who are you, man?
(both men grunting and groaning)
Just calm down, man.
I just want to talk.
They killed my wife.
MEGAN: Who did?
Her family?
Was it them?
An honor killing because she married a non-Muslim?
An honor killing, maybe.
Not because of me.
They never knew we were married.
So what do you mean then?
Saddam's son had his men go to schools
to pick up girls for sex.
They raped hundreds of girls.
Everybody knew about it,
they were just too terrified to speak up.
Except Saida.
She was one of the girls.
She was going to testify...
against the man who raped her.
For the War Tribunal.
That's why we came here,
so she could give a deposition.
He slit her throat because of it.
Just tell us who he is.
She was my wife, I will
handle this!
We're not going to let you just
go out and murder someone.
I have to do this. You know I do.
You are making stupid decisions
right now because you're emotional.
Look, I'm just gonna lay out
your best option for you.
You work with our team, we find this ass
and put him in jail,
and we'll do everything we can
to help straighten out things between you and the Army
and get you back to your life.
I don't have a life.
Think about this for a minute.
You are AWOL, which means you are going to jail,
and while you're sitting there, the guy
who did this to Saida-- he's gonna be getting away.
Ask yourself
what she would want you to do.
Um, can you square it with the Army so that I...
I can go to her funeral?
Yeah, I'll try.
(sighs)
But I need to know who was she testifying against.
A Republican Guard named Qari Qassim
who worked for Saddam's son.
He raped her when she was 15.
Qari is in Iraq,
but his cousin, Sami Qassim, he is here.
It was Sami who did this.
Sami Qassim, who was on Charlie's list.
Baathist war criminal,
Republican Guard, missing since 2003.
We haven't been able to locate him.
Well, we have hair and DNA samples
from the crime scene.
If we can find him, we can match it.
Yeah, but this guy was able
to hide himself in his own community.
Well, there's a pretty good chance no one really knows
-who he is. -MEGAN: Or they do,
and they support him anyway.
You think it's worth
reaching out to the Imam again?
There's no way he's gonna turn in Qassim.
Unless we can prove Qassim isn't a sincere Muslim.
But how are we gonna do that?
Nasreen said she and her cousin were like sisters
when they were kids.
My guess is, if she were raped,
I mean, Nasreen would know, right?
And she could tell Saida's story to the Imam?
What happened to Saida disgraced her family.
No one cares about what happened to her.
The Imam may even hold her responsible.
Yeah? How do you know that?
I grew up in this culture.
The Imam will never deliver this man to you,
not on the word of a woman.
But I think I can.
I think I can make him come out of hiding.
What do you mean?
What if we had a memorial service for Saida,
and let it be known that I'm going to name Qassim in public?
You know, shame him.
No, I don't know about that.
He is evil.
I am tired of being afraid.
My entire life, I have been afraid of men like him.
Look, how do you know you can even get the word out to him?
The Imam.
They will send an E-mail to the community
letting them know about the service, and saying
that I'm going to speak out, name names.
The Imam will want Qassim to know that I am accusing him.
CHARLIE: So what time's your flight?
-SUSAN: 4:00. -4:00?
Yeah, and I should run.
But I wanted to see you before I left.
You know, I have a standing invitation
to lecture at Cambridge.
And I'm thinking of taking them up on that offer.
Then we can really see each other as often as we like.
Oh! Charlie...
Oh, you know I adore you.
I just...
This has been lovely.
I see.
Okay.
Wow.
Oh, I know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You're not married, are you?
No.
And you're not engaged?
No, not really.
Not really?
Yeah.
Well, I, uh...
Started seeing each other a few months ago, and...
He has children,
whom I like, amazingly.
I probably shouldn't have... with you.
It just... You know, it felt right.
I have no regrets.
-No. -None.
No, nor do I.
I just hope I didn't mislead you.
You know? I-I...
I do adore you. I...
Let's get you to the airport.
Sami Qassim.
He was a leader in the Republican Guard under Saddam.
This guy is brutal.
And he's got nothing to lose, so we want to stop him
before he even makes it into the mosque.
Now remember, our first
priority is to protect Nasreen Kafaji.
No matter what goes down, you stay with her.
Qassim could have accomplices we don't know about.
All right, let's do this.
All right, guys, let's go.
Let's hurry it up.
(Islamic Call to Prayer over loudspeaker)
(Call to Prayer continues)
We're about two minutes out. How you doing?
There's no sign of him yet, Don.
We got guys in the surrounding buildings,
on the ground, and two agents
by the entrance to the mosque
to escort her in when she arrives.
DON: Right.
And we swept the mosque for bombs. It's clean inside.
Copy that. See you in a minute. Heads up.
So, when we pull up, two of my guys
are going to escort you inside.
Just let them guide you, okay?
Don't go off into the crowd,
even if you see someone you know.
Okay. I'm scared.
Oh, you'll be fine.
We've got agents all over the place.
You with me?
(crowd chatter)
All right, here we go.
Here we go.
Copy that.
Everyone in position.
We're good to go.
(man laughing)
(women laughing)
(indistinct chatter)
Keep those people back.
They're getting too close. Keep 'em back.
(people speaking foreign language)
(gunshots, screaming)
Shots fired. Primary hit.
Lock this place down. Shut it up.
FBI. Everybody, get down, get down.
DON: Eyes on the perimeter.
Get on the ground!
They've gone inside the mosque. Give me a code four.
(man speaking foreign language)
Sierra Team leader, do we have eyes on the shooter?
Eyes on the perimeter.
Does anybody have eyes
-on the shooter? -Go inside the mosque.
Colby!
On the right side in the grass! That's him!
Get down!
(grunts)
(panting)
What's his status?
He's dead.
DON: You okay?
Did we get him?
Yeah, we got him. Are you all right?
You sure?
She's gonna be sore, but she's gonna be okay.
I'm so sorry.
No. No apologies.
You saved my life.
Well...
The man who raped Saida--
he's still there.
He's still going on with his life,
and doing God knows what
to who.
I'm going back to Iraq.
That's pretty brave.
I won't be alone.
Saida will be there with me.
ALAN: What happened?
-(TV plays in the background) -Huh? Oh.
-Uh, I don't know. -What do you mean, you don't know?
You're sitting right here.
Oh, Dad, those look good.
Yeah, well, next time, you're the cook.
Well, that's not a good idea, you know that.
What are you moping around here all night?
-What's going on? -What do you want from me?
Leave me alone. I'm watching the game.
All of a sudden, you're interested in the game?
-Hey, Don, what's happening? -Hey, Chuck.
Where's Susan?
Oh, she flew back to England.
You know, if I were you,
I'd make up some excuse to go see her,
because that girl was worth pursuing.
You know what? I don't want her to get the wrong idea, you know?
What do you mean? What's the wrong idea?
I'm really not that serious about her.
I'm sorry.
What the hell does it take for you to be interested?
Amita is beautiful, this girl's a stunner.
-What do you need? -DON: I think he just wants
to be the cutest in bed.
Shut up.
You got a neuroscientist with a body like that.
Who's winning?
I don't know.
Apparently, not us.
Well, speak for yourself.
-I've got a date tomorrow night. -Oh, yeah?
-With who? -With whom.
All right, with whom?
-I'm not saying. -The caterer.
I'm not saying.
I don't want to jinx it.
And you guys have the worst luck with the opposite sex.
I'm not gonna jinx it.
I resent that. I don't have bad luck.
You have been on a pretty bad losing streak.
What do you mean, Charlie? Look at you.
Me? I got them coming out of the woodwork.
All I want to know is when do I get grandchildren?
I mean, you try doing my job and having a relationship.
-You try. -Woe is Don.