[indistinct chatter]
[door shuts]
[indistinct whispering]
[street noise]
♪
MOTHER: [speaking Kurdish]
[indistinct chatter]
[car honk]
[pop music playing]
[rattling]
[chatter continues, laughter]
[music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
[laughs]
[music continues]
[crying]
[Sarya sobs]
[crying]
[tea pouring]
[puts down kettle]
[speaking French]
[speaking Kurdish]
[speaking French]
[speaking Kurdish]
[speaking French]
[scoffs] [speaking Kurdish]
[speaking French]
♪
‐ [heavy breathing] ‐ [crying]
SARYA: [speaking Kurdish]
[crying]
[street noise, chatter]
SARYA:
[speaking French]
[chuckles]
ABU YASSER [on video]: [speaking Arabic]
IYAD: This is brilliant.
Man, you gotta check this out.
[giggling] Look at that! ‐ Fuck off, man.
PAUL: How about you take it easy with the Captagon, yeah?
IYAD: You know what they call it here?
Abu Hilalain. ‐ Alright.
Well, take it easy on the Abu Hilalain.
‐ Go see your missus.
It's late. ‐ No, she'll wait for me.
No matter what, she'll wait. ABU YASSER: [speaking Arabic]
‐ Uh...
[speaking Arabic]
[truck starts]
‐ You see, Alex was transferred to some foster family, yeah?
So, someone in the community submitted a request.
Once it's approved,
man, they're gonna bring him here.
‐ Wait a second. You were part of this?
‐ Yeah. Spoke to the Sheikh about it, but I, like,
I wanted it to be a surprise.
Are you happy, Paul?
♪
[door creaks shut]
[heavy breathing]
[sighs]
[unzipping]
[mouthing]
[street chatter]
EVA: Hey, guys. You ready for your trip?
WOODY: Man, can you believe this guy?
Just started to get to know him,
and he's already leaving.
We're gonna miss you, Antoine.
‐ Can still join me, you know.
‐ Commander Gilia is gathering all the forces in the area.
We're gonna take back our villages‐‐ SARYA: Alice, we have to go.
‐ Hey! You're riding with the chickens.
[chickens clucking]
SARYA: [speaking French]
[chickens clucking]
♪
WOMAN [on radio]: [speaking Kurdish]
[rumbling]
GILIA [on radio]: [speaking Kurdish]
♪ tense music playing ♪
♪
WOMAN [on radio]:
GILIA [on radio]:
WOMAN [on radio]:
[gunfire, static‐filled shouting]
MAN [on radio]: [speaking Kurdish]
♪
[women wailing]
[wailing continues]
[wailing] ‐ [men shouting in Arabic]
[wailing continues]
♪
[Arabic chatter]
[speaking Arabic]
[loud chatter]
[phones ringing]
[indistinct chatter]
‐ [phones ringing] ‐ [office chatter]
[opens door]
[typing, clicking]
[laughs]
It is an honor to meet you. ‐ [door shuts]
I'm Abu Osama, director of media.
‐ You're American?
‐ Allah have mercy, of course not. I...
I am faithful soldier of the Caliphate.
ABU YASSER: [speaking Arabic on video] ‐ This footage is priceless.
‐ [Abu Yasser continues] ISIS FIGHTERS: Allahu akbar!
‐ It's gonna be the most powerful video we've got out of the last offensive.
ISIS FIGHTERS [on video]: Allahu akbar!
‐ I like your voice.
It's reserved, deep.
‐ Thank you. ‐ [click]
‐ It's a good thing your face is covered.
I want to record you...
‐ Uh‐‐ ‐ s‐saying a few words in English
and add it to the video.
It'll look like you said it on the spot right after the offensive.
‐ I‐I don't think that's a good idea.
‐ Well, it'll have a powerful impact, brother,
both on the infidels' TV networks
and on the Muslim men who hear you say it.
It may help inspiring them to come over here and join us.
‐ Yeah, well, if you use my voice, it'll expose me, won't it?
‐ So? You're here, protected with us.
‐ What if I wanna go back to Europe,
to strike the Kuffar from within their own cities.
Have you thought about that?
Or do you only care about how many fucking likes your videos get, huh?
‐ There's no reason to be disrespectful, Abu Musab.
There are many ways to support the jihad.
‐ Yeah, I'm sorry, brother. Sorry. ‐ [pats shoulder]
I get very passionate about the cause, you know?
‐ Yeah. ‐ Yeah. [clears throat]
Listen, I know how important these videos are, but...
I'd really appreciate if you could find someone else's voice.
‐ [sighs] ‐ Is that cool?
‐ Okay. Yeah. ‐ [speaking Arabic]
[sighs]
[office chatter]
[Arabic video playing]
♪
‐ [office chatter] ‐ [phones ringing]
[indistinct]
YOUNG MAN:
[knocking]
[door creaks]
NASSER:
ABU YASSER:
[door shuts]
[tea pouring]
[puts down tray]
[speaking Arabic]
♪
[rumbling]
‐ [radio beeps] MAN: [speaking Kurdish on radio]
[gunfire, shouting over radio]
[rumbling]
GILIA: [speaking Kurdish on radio]
SARYA: [speaking French]
[shuts off radio]
SARYA: [speaking Kurdish]
[rumbling]
SARYA: [speaking French]
‐ [struggling] ‐ [metal clangs]
‐ There it is. Open. See? It's easy.
[clanging continues]
Well?
‐ They made me a member of their military council.
‐ Fuck off. I don't believe it.
PAUL: You, uh...
you gonna stay with us?
‐ No.
They're transferring me to Ar‐Raqqah.
‐ Brilliant.
Uh, what for?
‐ Want me to plan the purging of villages
in the Deir ez‐Zor area
to guarantee control over the oil fields, so...
‐ Man.
Sick, but you have to take us with you, man.
Honestly 'cause I wanna be there
when we snuff village after village. ‐ [cocks gun]
[giggling] Ain't that right, boy, yeah?
[incoherent singing]
NASSER: Just go easy on the Captagon.
‐ [metal rattling] ‐ [continues singing]
You know you gotta pack these and take these downstairs, yeah?
And they're heavy as well.
[sighs] These pins.
Never do them properly.
These fucking pin holes... ‐ [kicks boxes]
‐ Oi. Oi.
Oi, you gotta shake this off, man.
Whatever this is, you've gotta shake it off right now.
‐ Last week,
you wanted to leave.
And now,
you want Alex to come here?
What's that about? ‐ [scoffs]
Mate, I fucked up his life.
I need a chance to fix that, and right now,
him being here is the least worst option for him.
Come on, you know he's gonna have all the love in the world from me here.
From you, from Iyad.
Most importantly, he's gonna have a fucking family here.
And he's not gonna grow up feeling like some kind of... loser,
with doors slamming in his face like we did.
Okay, he's gonna be part of something important here, man.
‐ Yeah, yeah, I see that, but ask yourself this question, yeah?
What do you think are the chances of him surviving‐‐
‐ I don't know.
But I will do my best to look after him.
And failing that, I will go to heaven with him.
‐ Yeah?
‐ Yeah.
[struggling]
♪
[door creaks open]
SARYA: [speaking Kurdish]
[speaking French]
[tapping]
SARYA: [speaking Kurdish]
ANTOINE:
♪
[beep, radio static]
[speaking Arabic on video]
Allahu akbar!
ABU YASSER [on video]:
ALL [on video]:
[chanting continues]
Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!
[indistinct chatter on video]
‐ Hey. Wake up.
‐ Oh fuck. What's going‐‐ ‐ It's just me.
It's just me.
‐ [sighs] What the fuck?
[sighs] What's happening?
‐ Alex deserves to be with you,
his dad.
But he doesn't deserve to be here,
and you know that.
I'm gonna get us out of here.
‐ Hey, what the fuck are you talking about?
You know there's no way out of here, right?
I've thought about all of this‐‐ ‐ No, there is a way.
Will you come?
‐ Yeah. ‐ [sighs] Yes, bro.
‐ [slaps hand] Good man.
[sighs]
But listen,
don't say nothing to Iyad just yet. Alright?
‐ Yeah.
‐ Gotta get a few things sorted out first.
Then we'll go talk to him. ‐ He...
Iyad's not gonna come. You've seen how he is.
He's in way too deep.
‐ No.
I ain't leaving him behind.
[sighs]
[insects chirping]
[speaking French]
SARYA: [speaking French]
[sighs]
[sobs]
[radio beep]
[crying]
[sighs]
[crying]
♪
[heavy breathing]
[gasping]
♪
[children shouting]
[Father laughs] [men speaking Kurdish]
[speaking Kurdish]
WOMAN:
[Kurdish chatter]
FATHER:
WOMAN:
[Kurdish chatter]
MAN:
‐ [pans rattling] ‐ [radio playing]
[kitchen chatter]
WOMAN:
WOMEN:
‐ [laughter, Kurdish chatter] ‐ [radio playing]
[quiet chatter]
[wooden thud]
‐ [car approaching] ‐ [chickens cluck]
[applause, giggling]
CHILDREN:
[cheering]
[chicken clucking]
♪
[women speaking Kurdish]
[Kurdish chatter continues]
ADAR:
WOMEN:
MAN:
[chatter continues]
[children laughing]
[laughter]
[Kurdish chatter]
[speaking French]
[chuckles]
ANTOINE:
[laughs]
[sighs]
♪
[chickens clucking]
[thud]
♪
[cuts engine, sets parking brake]
‐ Shouldn't be meeting like this, Nasser.
It's too dangerous for you. ‐ Yeah, well,
it's all falling apart.
I had to kill some woman,
and then, they made me cut off her head
‐ Oh... ‐ 'cause she's European.
‐ Oh...
[sighs] Look, we have, um, we have psychologists‐‐
‐ Fucking psychologist. What the fuck you talking about, man?
They're moving me to Ar‐Raqqah.
Want me to work with some Libyan psychopath.
‐ Abu Rida al‐Libi? ‐ Yeah.
[chuckles]
‐ Oh fuck. [laughs]
That's... That is fucking brilliant.
Can't believe it.
He's head of the military council in Ar‐Raqqah. I mean,
I knew you were a fucking star.
I had no idea that they'd pay attention to you quite so quickly.
‐ Do you even understand what this means? Yeah?
Now, all the massacres, all the mass executions,
they're gonna be on me now.
‐ Yeah. Yeah, of course. Of course, I understand.
But y‐you have to understand something, too, eh?
This Libyan, he will know about
all of their operations. Not just here, in Syria,
but all around the world.
If they're planning another 9/11, another 7/7,
now, he will be involved.
This is exactly the kind of information we need.
‐ No, fuck that. I'm out. ‐ What?
‐ Yeah. I'm taking Paul and Iyad,
and we're going to Sulaymaniyah,
and then we're gonna fly home from there. Fuck this.
‐ Hey, look‐‐ No. Hey. Come on, seriously.
Let's talk about this‐‐ ‐ Get the fuck off me, man.
Gimme the fucking keys. ‐ No. I'm not‐‐
‐ Gimme the fucking keys! GUARD: Hey!
‐ Whoa, whoa! Stand down! Stand down! GUARD: Your fucking hands!
‐ No! Lower your weapon!
GUARD: Your fucking hands! ‐ Stand down!
GUARD: Show me your fucking hands! ‐ Just put your hands...
Put your hands on the dash.
Okay?
Yeah? On the dash.
[sighs]
[drops gun]
Now, will you fuck off and let us talk?
[sighs]
Look.
If you go back to London now,
it is more than likely
that you will be detained at immigration.
‐ I'll tell them I work for you.
If they got any questions, they can direct them to the MI6.
‐ I'm not with...
MI6, Nasser.
‐ Brilliant. Can I go now?
‐ I‐I never said I was.
You brain just...
filled in the blanks in the way it wanted to...
fill in the blanks.
But, I never claimed to be with MI6.
♪
‐ Don't fuck with me, Stanley.
Who are you?
[Stanley sighs]
Who the fuck are you?
Answer me.
‐ I'm Mossad.
I work for Israel.
[Nasser sighs]
‐ Bullshit. You're British. ‐ I was...
I was born in London, obviously, but...
but I'm Israeli, and I do work for the Mossad.
I'm sorry.
♪
I expect you're feeling...
betrayed right now.
And the very worst thing you can do
at this moment is go back home.
I'm sure this is gonna sound fucking crazy, but...
you are gonna have to trust me again.
Like you always did.
[Stanley sighs]
[shuts door]
[walks away]
[car starts]
♪
[rumbling]
[rattling]
[gears grinding, struggling]
SARYA: [speaking French]
[cuts engine]
[donkey braying]
[speaking Arabic]
DRIVER: [speaking Arabic]
DRIVER:
PATROLMAN 1:
[rattling]
[chickens clucking]
[rattling]
DRIVER:
PATROLMAN 1:
DRIVER:
[safety clicks]
SARYA: [speaking Arabic]
[chickens clucking]
PATROLMAN 1:
[clucking] DRIVER:
[rumbling]
♪
[heavy breathing]
[shouts]
‐ [grunts] ‐ [gasps]
‐ [gunfire] ‐ [indistinct]
[gunfire]
♪
[gunshots]
[gasping]
[Sarya breathing heavily]
♪
[panting]
[panting continues]
[heavy breathing]
[both panting]
SARYA: [speaking French]
♪