truck. However, the three young men inside become aware of the threat and calmly and casually blow themselves (and some unfortunate counter-terrorist team members) up. Chaos reigns in the streets.
Samarra, Iraq. Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) sleeps, dreaming of a torture/interrogation he witnessed. As he wakes up and prepares for the day, we see CIA veteran and family man Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) in Langley, Virginia, impressing upon some of the CIA top brass of how the enemy (read, terrorists) now knows that the US is a much easier target and how they must be suppressed.
Ferris and his Iraqi contact/friend, Bassam (Oscar Isaac), prepare for a mission. Bassam tells Ferris about a man named Nizar, who wants to meet him. So they drive into the desert (somewhere close to Tikrit) and in a small shanty-town, they meet Nizar. They are under the watchful eye of the CIA, via satellite. Ferris gets a phone call from his lawyer in the States about what his soon-to-be ex-wife is trying to take from him. Right in the middle of a highly-sensitive mission, Ferris is in no mood to worry about his impending divorce and hangs up the phone. He notices a glint in the sky and continues talking into his phone, knowing the CIA is listening in, for them to back off, lest they be discovered. The satellite is withdrawn.
Nizar tells them his story. He is a Ph.D. in Linguistics, who knows too much of the terrorists' plans and so they want to "martyr" him. He gives Ferris a CD of the head terrorist, Al Saleem ("The White Whale" to the Americans). Ferris reports this to Hoffman. While happy about the CD, Hoffman tells him that they can't be responsible for Nizar. He tells him to cut him loose, despite Ferris' objections that Nizar will be killed. Ferris keeps up the charade that they are trying to protect Nizar. However, in Samarra, Nizar is grabbed by terrorists on the street. As they drag him towards a waiting van, Ferris (almost mercifully) discreetly shoots him in the head. He angrily reports this to Hoffman, who couldn't care less about a guy like Nizar.
Ferris and Bassam travel back to the shanty-town where they met Nizar. They see some other Arabs here, burning CDs, papers and stuff. While Bassam takes up a sniping position, Ferris acts as an Arab (he is fluent in Arabic) and speaks to one of the men. The man calls out another, while Ferris notices others around. Bassam, seeing the other man going for his gun, opens fire, killing him. Ferris and he kill the others. Bassam gets in the jeep and calls for backup. The CIA immediately dispatches a couple of attack helicopters their way. Ferris meanwhile runs into a shack and sees a man preparing to blow himself up. Killing him, he runs and narrowly misses the explosion. Collecting some "intelligence" from the fire, he and Bassam burn rubber away from there.
However, they have a couple of jeeps, filled with terrorists on their tail. As Bassam drives, Ferris sits in the back, firing on the terrorists. The helicopters come to their rescue and blow one jeep to smithereens. Just before the next terrorist jeep is blown up, a terrorist fires an RPG at Ferris and Bassam's jeep. The grenade hits the jeep where Bassam sits, obliterating him. The Marines get out of the helo and get Ferris and the "intel" from the wreckage and load them on the helo. Ferris is badly injured. When he wakes up, he's in a hospital in a US Base in Qatar, with a doctor removing Bassam's bone fragments from his skin. Hoffman calls him, telling him that he's being relocated as station chief in Amman, Jordan. He is to meet Hani Salaam, the head of the General Intelligence Department (GID), Jordan's intelligence agency.
In Amman, Ferris speaks to the director of operations and basically kicks him out of the place. He goes to meet with Hani Salaam and offers to work more closely with him. Hani takes a liking to the young man and calls him "My Dear". However, Hani has one rule - he should never be lied to. Ferris accepts and hands him a folder of possible and known people involved with Al Saleem.
Ferris finds out about a terrorist safehouse in a downtown Amman. He and his Jordanian contact, Skip (Vince Colosimo) go to scope it out. However, one of their Palestinian contacts (sent by Hoffman) meets with one of the terrorists and blows the operation. The man runs with Hani's men and Ferris and Skip after him. He and Ferris have a fight, with Ferris taking a few cuts to the hand, courtesy of the man's knife. But Ferris manages to kill him. However, a couple of "diseased dogs" bite Ferris quite badly, before he can get away. Ferris is furious at Hoffman f
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wtf
bucketheadfn 2 years ago
I don't understand
WayTooFastR1 2 years ago
Ah, got it.
Shit
Yoursongsux 2 years ago
the fuck?
dlangables 2 years ago