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The Looming Tower Season 1 Episode 5

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00:00Al-Qaeda isn't a normal enemy force.
00:13It's not going to be like executing a crime boss.
00:16Fire!
00:17You can't just look at the head of the snake.
00:20It's more pervasive.
00:30We've been babysitting this guy in witness protection for three friggin' years.
00:33He was with the UBL in Sudan, one country north.
00:36He's got no leads for us?
00:37He's got nothing.
00:38Are you implying that there is some degradation here at the agency?
00:41No, sir, but at times there may be a lack of momentum.
00:44As I see it, you're leading Alex Station into a wild goose chase of absurdity.
00:48Well, you can't fire me, Leonard.
00:49You can move me to the broom closet.
00:50You can make me process meaningless cables all day.
00:53But you cannot fire me.
00:54The Bureau simply can't cover what you're spending.
00:57Also, you happen to be in serious debt.
00:59Are you going through my fucking credit cards?
01:01I definitely want us to be more than buddies.
01:05I want to take you home.
01:07To my place.
01:08Right now, I'm here with you.
01:10And I will keep coming to see you, and I'll bring you news of our progress.
01:15Talk to me.
01:16Boss, I got nothing.
01:18They fucking close the blinds every time I walk by the conference room.
01:21What about Tony Ann?
01:22Same situation.
01:23They treat us like we're their friggin' hostages.
01:29How old is she now?
01:50Old enough to think she can party her little ass off in Times Square for Y2K.
01:56Young enough that she needs Mommy to buy her the damn plane ticket.
02:00Like I didn't spend enough this Christmas.
02:05Talking about her little boyfriend is going with her so she'll be safe.
02:09I told her she ain't grown.
02:13And I got to work that night.
02:16So I'll be damned if...
02:19I can't.
02:20You need backup down here immediately.
02:48You have a suspicious individual with possible bomb-making supplies.
02:52He just tried to flee the premises.
02:54Security's enhanced and on alert.
03:07Airports, malls, amusement parks, power plants, water supplies.
03:11And I want to lock down the embassies in Abuja, Tehran, Sana'a, and Ashgabat.
03:15Evacuate them?
03:16No, but I do want to shudder Tripoli, Rabat, Tunis, Islamabad, and Damascus.
03:20We've been on the holidays.
03:22And we'll reassess.
03:23And give me that report on what the hell you guys are proposing if Y2K blows the energy grid.
03:27Yes, sir.
03:28This afternoon.
03:29You got it.
03:30Anything to add, George?
03:33No.
03:34I'd like to say that covers it, but when can we ever say that?
03:37Well, we never can say that, which is why we keep working.
03:56Transit office lost or found?
03:58Down to the right.
03:59Thanks.
03:59Here it is.
04:22I had that palm pile of some expensive shit to leave lying around.
04:25You got kids?
04:32Yeah, two girls.
04:33Oh, man, that's nice.
04:35I love my little man, but it's just something about my daughter.
04:38They're special, right?
04:39Yeah, they are.
04:40Listen, anyone else share this office with you?
04:42Nobody comes in here without me.
04:45You legit FBI, huh?
04:46Like, for real, for real.
04:48Yeah.
04:49This Y2K shit keeping you guys crazy like us around here?
04:52You bet.
04:53Anybody else handle this device besides you?
04:56After we spoke, I just locked it up in my stuff.
04:58And nobody touched it?
04:59I said I locked it up, man.
05:00Okay, okay.
05:02It's all good.
05:04Here.
05:06Buy your daughter something nice.
05:10You're telling me he gave all that up in one interrogation?
05:34I wish I could tell you I put my best people on this, but this guy must have been dying to confess.
05:39He was petrified at first, and then he started singing.
05:43Un-fucking-believable.
05:44The way he cracked, there's no fucking way he was working alone.
05:47I haven't even given you the best news yet.
05:51We got a number.
05:53A Brooklyn number.
05:54We found it in Rassam's car.
05:56The press knows nothing about this.
05:58718-134-6827.
06:02Abdul Ghani Muschini.
06:07Muschini.
06:07All right.
06:12Officials with the Clinton administration say they are quite concerned that terrorist financier Osama bin Laden
06:18has stepped up his efforts to attack Americans around the world.
06:22The State Department recently warned Americans to stay away from large gatherings and millennium celebrations abroad.
06:28But with preparations now underway for big New Year's parties in major U.S. cities,
06:33the White House today extended the Y2K warning to American soil.
06:37Occupy.
06:42What do you know about a guy named Muschini?
06:47Muschini.
06:47Abdul Ghani Muschini.
06:49Ah, Muschini.
06:51Him, I remember.
06:52Uh, Algerian maybe.
06:54Yes, definitely Algerian.
06:56Can you think of any reason why Rassam would have been in touch with him?
06:59Does he make bombs?
07:02Could be.
07:03The fuck does that mean?
07:04Junior, we need to know if he was helping Rassam plan the attack on LAX.
07:07Or if there's another possible millennium plot underway, like in New York City, we need to find out right fucking now.
07:12You have me here, alone, now over four years.
07:17It's not to complain.
07:18No, I'm not complaining either.
07:19But I'm, uh, not sure the American people are getting their fucking money's worth yet.
07:24You got the royal treatment here.
07:25Maybe that's the problem.
07:27What do you think, Floyd?
07:28Uh, you think maybe a week in Rikers will help jog his memory?
07:32I know some people who know some people.
07:34Okay, okay, okay.
07:35Muschini is in New York a long time now.
07:38And I can remember, he was good.
07:41Special guy.
07:42Good with, uh, making the connections.
07:45Good with money.
07:46A resourceful guy with connections in New York.
07:49So what, he's, uh, he's, uh, an accountant for the organization?
07:54Could be.
07:55Not sure.
07:57But, uh, I have different idea.
08:01Maybe you want to hear?
08:02You mean maybe we want to hear something other than could be?
08:05Yes, Junior, please.
08:07I'm thinking that he is here, uh, making the money move around.
08:12You think he's funneling Al-Qaeda money from Brooklyn?
08:19I think.
08:42The hotel, the hotel, the hotel, the hotel.
08:44Not sure.
08:45It's not the hotel.
08:46I'm going to travel from Dubai to Kuala Lamboor.
08:51Yes.
08:58From Dubai to Kuala Lamboor.
09:00But I'm going to travel from Yemen.
09:04Yes, I'm Saudi.
09:07No, no, it doesn't have a port of the Shoe.
09:10It doesn't have a port of the Shoe.
09:12When are you going to travel?
09:14I'm not going to travel from Yemen to the Shoe.
09:16But there are people who are waiting for me in Kuala Lamboor.
09:30Hello.
09:33Hello.
09:44I'm going to ask you when you come back.
09:49I brought my daughter a lot.
09:52You're my daughter.
09:55You're my daughter.
09:57My daughter?
09:59And the people who are with you,
10:02are they going?
10:04You're the one who came from me?
10:07There's nothing to do with you, Khalid.
10:10I was just hoping that you didn't get it.
10:15Everything is for me.
10:40You're the one who came from me.
10:43You're the one who came from me.
10:45You're the one who came from me.
10:48Our friends over at Saudi Intelligence
10:51have been keeping an eye on Madhar because he's a citizen,
10:54and he was flagged as being a member of Al-Qaeda,
10:57which is why our other friends at the NSA
11:00sent this little gift over.
11:04We know now that he's Hada's son-in-law,
11:07and he and his wife are expecting their second child.
11:11And we know that he's currently headed for a hotel in Dubai.
11:16Okay, but to me the question is,
11:19where is he headed after Dubai and Malaysia?
11:23Diane?
11:26He has just turned 8-1 minutes to come into NT.
11:30Right now I have the嗎 and Layla in the UK
11:32I have to escape.
11:33Alright, let's go now,
11:38now we are running for the connected community,
11:41and how are you through?
11:43That puesto of the living room...
11:46practicality are working beingyan now,
11:49and how do you get in the universe?
11:51No, no.
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13:25My ass is numb.
13:39I have not had a home-cooked meal in three days, and I saw ten roaches in the bathroom the last time I pissed.
13:46Rough times, I know.
13:48I thought I couldn't get no worse until I started to smell what just came out of your mouth.
13:52Yes.
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14:58I'm missing an H.
15:17N-I-H-D-H-A-R.
15:28The U.S. visa ain't gonna mean shit in a minute.
15:38It'll be all over him before he can get a foot off the plane.
15:41I know Neil, it'll be before he can even get out of Malaysia,
15:44especially with all this Y2K shit going on.
15:47Why don't you think it'll take Diane to give us the OK to share?
15:50She'll read it as soon as you let me send.
15:54Any more problems, Captain Spellcheck?
15:58It looks good.
16:28Let's go.
16:29Let's go.
16:32How did you do it?
16:33Let's go.
16:35I'm feeling a little bit.
16:36Let's go.
16:37Let's go.
16:38Let's go.
16:39Let's go.
16:40Okay.
16:41Hurry.
16:42Oh,?
16:43filteringed.
16:44I've learned a lot of things, and it can be seen in some of those who were
16:53dangerous.
16:54Ready to run?
16:56Yeah.
17:28New Year's is fucking tomorrow night.
17:43Good to know everyone's taking this shit seriously.
17:51Yeah.
17:51Hey, where's this fucker going?
18:14What are you doing?
18:16It's noon prayers.
18:18I think I'll go to the mosque.
18:20Hey, we don't need you to be a hero.
18:23You don't just break protocol.
18:24We got Murphy and O'Sullivan on the street.
18:27Two white boys?
18:28That's who we got on this guy?
18:29What has that got to do with anything?
18:31We're not chasing Italian mobsters anymore.
18:34You think I don't know that?
18:35I think you don't.
18:36Most of you don't get it.
18:37But you do.
18:38Wasn't born white.
18:39Wasn't raised Catholic.
18:40But I can't keep watching this guy on TV.
18:45We can do better.
18:46We can do better.
18:52We don't know.
18:53We don't know.
19:06We don't know.
19:07We don't know.
19:09What's up?
20:09Allah-u-akbar, Allah-u-akbar.
20:12La ilahe illallah.
20:18Allah-u-akbar.
20:22Allah-u-akbar.
20:24Allah-u-akbar.
20:28Allah-u-akbar.
20:30Allah-u-akbar.
20:38Allah-u-akbar.
20:42Allah-u-akbar.
20:44Allah-u-akbar.
21:14Allah-u-akbar.
21:22Allah-u-akbar.
22:26Fifty-fucking-three, that's a fuck.
22:35Hey, I need you to come look at something right now.
22:37Listen, I promised my therapist I would heat my breakfast hot one day this week before doing any work.
22:43Tony, the mid-air cable.
22:44Vince, if you don't let me finish this ham and cheese croissant while it's still hot, I promise I will lose my shit.
22:50I need you to come look at it.
23:21And Diane won't answer ours?
23:23There's got to be a reason.
23:25They sent a fucking cable saying that this guy is coming into our country, that he has a Saudi passport and a U.S. visa.
23:33Fifty-three people from the CIA have read it.
23:35We're not sharing this yet?
23:37Vince, you've got to trust the process.
23:39Diane will tell us when we can share.
23:40I'm calling O'Neal.
23:46There's a reason for the wall.
23:47There is a reason.
23:49We do not just share this information.
23:50That's not our job.
23:52You want to get fired?
23:53You want to get me fired?
23:54I'm so convinced.
23:56Alex Station isn't busy looking out for Alex Station.
23:58What do you really think Diane gives a shit about working with O'Neal and I-49?
24:02Why else would they have stationed us here then?
24:04That's exactly what I'm starting to wonder.
24:06Why the fuck did they...
24:07Why the fuck did they bring us here?
24:13George Tenet has testified that this cable simply fell through the cracks.
24:24He told us under oath that no one read it and that he wasn't aware of it.
24:33How do you make sense of that?
24:35I don't have to make sense of the director's claims.
24:37I know for a fact that 50 to 60 people read the cable.
24:45Think about what that means.
24:4850 to 60 people and I was never told.
24:53And John O'Neal was never told.
24:56Why?
24:58There is little doubt in my mind.
25:01This had to go all the way up.
25:03Welcome to Los Angeles International Airport.
25:10Please have your passport and decoration form ready as you enter the customs area.
25:33Welcome to America, sir.
25:41Next.
27:03Mr. Director.
27:17Mr. Ambassador.
27:22Figs.
27:23For you and Stephanie.
27:25They're from Saudi?
27:26Of course.
27:27In the desert, we grow the sweetest fruits.
27:29So, Mr. Director, I asked for the privilege of your company so as to inform you that a resolution has been reached.
27:41That problem we recently discussed?
27:44Yes.
27:44Yes.
27:44Our problem.
27:46It's being taken care of.
27:48Good man.
27:49I had no doubt a solution would present itself.
27:52My grandfather used to tell me,
27:55make distance between yourself and every dirtiness.
28:00Important advice for men like us.
28:03My grandfather carried a handkerchief.
28:05I hope your wife enjoys the fix.
28:11I hope your wife enjoys the fix.
28:11Where's my guy?
28:30Okay.
28:31Your guy left his assigned position.
28:34Must have had a good reason.
28:35I figured you'd say that.
28:39After all, what's agency protocol when you can just play cowboys and Indians?
28:43Pretty sure Mr. Skinny's from Algeria.
28:46Best two of you.
29:04By the way, that open slot heading up the New York office,
29:08I just found out Louis Fries DC guy got the job.
29:15Yeah.
29:16He's a good guy.
29:18Sanchez.
29:20One of the best.
29:27Tell Sufran to come see me.
29:29If you find him.
29:30If you find him.
29:48Alla salam alaikum.
29:49Assalamu alaikum.
30:02Waalaikum salam.
30:07Hey.
30:19I think the house is a shoe.
30:24I don't know.
30:27How to check.
30:28You're going to check that.
30:31I'm not sure.
30:32I'm not sure.
30:33I'm not sure.
30:35I'm not okay.
30:37I'm not okay.
30:39Kind of.
30:44I don't know.
30:45I'm not okay.
30:46I'm not okay.
30:49Peace be upon you.
30:50Peace be upon you.
30:51Peace be upon you.
30:52I want to talk to you.
30:54No, let me see you.
30:56Let me see you.
30:58Let me see you.
31:00Let me see you.
31:02Let me see you.
31:04I want to talk to you, brother.
31:09Who is your brother?
31:12No, my brother.
31:15You know what I mean?
31:18You told me your brother.
31:19I've been here for you.
31:20You would please stand for help.
31:21Peace be upon you.
31:26Do you want me to�?
31:28Peace be upon you...
31:29Peace be upon you.
31:30Peace be upon you.
31:31Peace be upon you.
31:32Peace be upon you.
31:33Peace be upon you.
31:34Dear Lord.
31:35Peace be upon you.
31:40Meanwhile father.
31:42Peace be upon you.
31:44with two million expected here before the night is done it appears police are doing everything
31:59they can to be accommodated but the 8,000 cops on duty are not taking any chances
32:04NYPD helicopters have been buzzing the square all day police say security will be tight even
32:10after the ball drops at midnight the party here does not end until just after six o'clock tomorrow
32:15morning hey hey man so far get in here
32:40with everything I got going on everyone on my ass you broke protocol by going into a mosque
32:55I went in there to pray you left your post yesterday because you had a sudden urge to
33:01do something I've never seen you do before pray this may come as a shock to you boss
33:06but I'm a Muslim it was afternoon prayers I went inside took off my shoes and I prayed
33:15and yeah I saw my skinny while I was in there but if you really have a problem with me going
33:20inside of a mosque to pray maybe it's because you never had to think about the fact that I'm an
33:25actual Muslim maybe that's the problem don't you dare this is about working the case the right way
33:30in the very limited fucking time that we have which means you cannot do this cannot do what pray
33:37every day five times a day over a billion Muslims pray together but you don't want me to do that
33:43ever okay Ali okay I'm not doing this with you right now okay pray whenever the fuck you want
33:48in the meantime we have to make a move I saw enough to know that this guy mischini knows the whole
33:54community that he's a mover and he's got to be high up there maybe a direct connection to the
33:59wadi is collecting money for them how do you know that because I saw you saw I introduced myself you
34:08what I'm not by name I listen we're on the right track but there's got to be so much more to this guy
34:16that we don't know I just need a few days to figure out exactly where he fits in you know this is the
34:23tip of the iceberg one of the guys that you want to follow could just be about ready to pull another
34:29Rassam except he'll be successful and he'll be at the biggest most fucking congested party in the
34:35world so that's it fuck the big picture you know we've got 14 goddamn hours to stop these guys if
34:44they're gonna do something we're not gonna get them your way not in time get out of my office
34:51fuck
35:04fuck
35:18all right kids clocks run out on our brooklyn friends arrest everybody we got leads on
35:27connected to muskini or not we're shutting this the fuck down today
35:31suffan make the arrests and you can sit tonight out
35:38FBI let me see your head put your hands up up against the wall turn around turn around
35:51don't try anything
35:54FBI
35:56stay out
35:58sit down
36:00FBI
36:01FBI
36:02let's go
36:03let's go
36:04let's go
36:05come on
36:07FBI
36:08stay out
36:09I need your sit down
36:11go
36:12go
36:13go
36:14go
36:15go
36:18Ahhhhhhh!
36:20Ahhhhhhh!
36:22No! No! No!
36:24Do it! Do it!
36:26Come on!
36:48Do it!
36:52Double L, baby.
36:53Double L!
36:55Yes we are!
36:57Roark from now...
39:01It's gross.
39:02Ew.
39:03Except you get to, like, smoke and be naked inside.
39:07You're here.
39:08Why didn't you come find me?
39:10Hey.
39:11You look like you need rescuing.
39:14Yeah.
39:15Hey, you know I like you, but, uh, I'm not sure about your friends.
39:18Hey.
39:19Hey, you know I like you, but, uh, I'm not sure about your friends.
39:30Hey.
39:31Yeah.
39:32Those are my neighbors, not my friends.
39:35And they smoke way too much weed.
39:37I noticed.
39:38I noticed that you said you liked me.
39:41When did that happen?
39:43Some time between Ursualdo and, uh, that thing you did the other night.
39:49What thing?
39:50Uh, you know what thing.
39:52Oh, that thing.
39:53Happy New Year.
39:54Happy New Year.
39:55Happy New Year, beautiful.
40:00Hi, hi, hi.
40:01Hi, hey, hi, hi.
40:02Happy New Year, beautiful.
40:06Hey, hi, hi, hi.
40:15Cheers.
40:16Cheers.
40:17To you.
40:18Happy New Year, Bart.
40:19Happy New Year.
40:20Did Susha fall off?
40:24I think, I think I'm gonna be in my prime this year.
40:27Oh, really?
40:28Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:29Really polite, do you think that?
40:30I think, I think...
40:31You think that? Yeah.
40:33You guys can get on out of here.
40:35Welcome to a new century, fellas.
40:40All right, boss.
40:42Hey, Vince, you need a ride out of town?
40:45Uh, no, I'm gonna hang here for a minute.
40:49All right?
40:51Happy New Year, y'all.
40:53Yeah, Happy New Year.
40:55Take care, Floyd.
40:58Hey, boss, I think there's something you should know.
41:06I was gonna say...
41:16You can relax now.
41:20The bad guy's lost tonight.
41:24Vince, tell me honestly.
41:28What is it we did here?
41:30What are you talking about?
41:32We stopped him.
41:34We won.
41:35We won.
41:36We won.
41:41I'm telling you, it's like whack-a-mole.
41:47They're here.
41:49They're here in America.
41:51They're in London.
41:52They're in Afghanistan.
41:53They're in Kenya.
41:54They're in Tanzania.
41:56And we...
41:59We have no idea what we're up against.
42:05Well, our broadcast is coming to an end.
42:15I should remind you that if you want to see more of it, and some of it has been fantastic from around the world, Sam Donaldson will be on duty at 8 o'clock Eastern Time.
42:25I was tempted to say tomorrow, but I really mean today from Washington for a broadcast called Dawn of a New Era, and he will have all of the great highlights that we've seen in the last few minutes from around the world.
42:35I just want to leave some absolutely unplanned, unrehearsed comments.
42:36I feel a little bit, as I think a lot of us do, like the people who were entering the 20th century a hundred years ago with great fascination that we were on the edge of the unknown, and because there was so much yet to be known, a real hunger to know more, and a certain trepidation that we were on the edge of the unknown, and because there was so much yet to be known, a real hunger to know more, and a certain trepidation.
43:04And a certain trepidation.
43:05They were coming into the technological age, and we now go into a new technological age.
43:10There'll be lots of time in the days ahead to revisit all of the commentary that has been offered up about the millennium in the last several days, and weeks, and months.
43:19I remind myself of only one thing at the end of this thing, and it's what one of our great futurists, we do have futurists, you know, at the end of the 20th century said.
43:28Remember, when you put the known and the unknown into a computer, the unpredictable always outweighs the predictable.
43:35So the future is exciting, and it is uncertain.
44:15Don't nobody know my trouble with God
44:19Don't nobody know my trouble with God
44:23Went down to him all the day
44:28Sold God happy him, they don't be
44:32Went down to him all the day
44:37Sold God happy him, they don't be
44:41Ooh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
44:46Ooh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
44:50Don't nobody know my trouble with God
44:54Don't nobody know my trouble with God
44:59Ooh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
45:03Ooh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
45:08Don't nobody know my troubles are gone
45:12Don't nobody know my troubles are gone
45:16When he knew, didn't stay long
45:21Looked on the bed and brother was dead
45:25When he knew, didn't stay long
45:30Looked on the bed and brother was dead
45:38Oh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
45:56Oh, Lord, ain't my trouble so hard
46:00Don't nobody know my troubles are gone
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