[projector whirring]
[suspicious orchestral music]
♪ ♪
[mellow bass-heavy music]
" [Singing in Urdu]
- [speaking Urdu] Bravo, son!
- Uncle, your medicine.
- Damn good bootlegger, yeah?
- This divine music...
[indistinct conversation]
[musical crescendo]
- Don't hurt him!
♪ ♪
[screaming]
Is there anyone to help me?
[men speaking Urdu]
[musical crescendo]
- All okay, son? - Absolutely.
[indistinct conversation]
[children shouting indistinctly]
- Jamal, salaam.
[paper rustling]
' [sighs]
Alissa?
It's Bobby calling from Lahore.
Listen...
Something's happened.
[dramatic music]
- Cooper...
- [clears throat]
[wheezing]
Please, don't kill me.
Please, don't-
- Let's do our own checking at the university.
They sent a tape.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[languid music]
[Pakistani music playing over radio]
- Well, you have waited a very long time
- Do you mind if I record?
Oh, I loved your early work.
- Stay calm.
- What's this? - Shall we take them in?
Enough.
- Catch that boy!
- They seem a little edgy.
Do you think he's still alive?
- So tell me, Bobby,
- You know, the answer to that question
Do I have your word?
[electronic beep]
I am a lover of America.
Although I was raised to feel very Pakistani.
After all, the blood of princes runs in my veins.
Perhaps that's an exaggeration.
We attended the same schools...
Lived in the same neighborhoods.
But all of a sudden, there were new princes in town.
- Your Bina madam's waiting.
[upbeat music]
- Bond!
- He fusses over you because he loves you.
- Poems don't buy generators.
- God bless America, indeed.
- Changes, take a seat.
You have 20 minutes to convince me
- Are you on financial aid?
- Yes, I am.
- Yeah, I did.
I know you're seeing a lot of people today, so...
Your friends here don't even know, do they?
That's interesting.
In America, I get an equal chance to win.
- Good fucking answer.
- Thank you, God!
- You got skylines like that back home?
_ Okay"
- So that's as per the third quarter.
Changez,
- Care to clarify?
- Real-world assignments come in on Monday.
Almost everybody.
[jazzy rock music]
♪ Uh-huh, yeah, yeah ♪
Anyone want a soda?
Wow.
- Ooh! Whoa!
What the hell was that?
- That was Herman.
- Do-do that again?
- Yeah, sure.
I don't know your name.
- Is there a way I can...
- Wainwright.
Here I am rambling on,
- I think I'm growing on him.
- Students...
- Presenting the militant academic.
- I can't speak for the American authorities,
- Look, Changez,
- Some things are heating up.
- I know nothing. - Give us their names!
- I must warn you, Bobby,
- "Your nest is not atop the dome of a royal palace.
- I've picked some up.
[indistinct conversation]
[cheery jazz music playing]
- Oh, my God.
- Actually, Erica,
- My William Tell.
- Bring your friend if you like.
[mellow guitar music]
♪ So this is... ♪
- Your father is a poet.
- Who was that guy jumping in your painting?
- [clears throat]
- He died 23 weeks ago.
We grew up together.
- Wow. I'm sorry.
- My friends keep saying, you know, "Turn the page."
I wish it was that easy.
- People back home have this thing called iddat.
- It's okay to turn the corner.
I don't mean to be flippant.
[gentle percussive music]
- You have a very healthy self-esteem.
- [snickers]
- You know...
After you told me stories about Lahore,
It sounds all tinny and fake,
- You sound real to me.
♪ ♪
[sighing] Oh, God...
- Should we stop?
♪ ♪
- Oh, I want to.
- Pretend I'm him.
♪ ♪
- [breathing heavily]
[airplane whooshing]
[dramatic music]
- Welcome. - Good morning.
- Let me get this straight.
You're saying that they can effectively lose
- Okay, so this entire sector
- Boy, that's brutal.
- I want to put together a team of consultants-
' [sighs]
I have a theory about those who have the gift.
You're hungry like that too.
So...
I'd like to be a managing director
Why not 27?
We'll start laying down the groundwork
Until then,
Let's eat.
[mellow music]
- [laughing]
♪ ♪
- Um, I-I don't know which tower it hit,
- In that moment, I should have felt sorrow or anger,
I'm sorry if my reaction to the attacks
- And you ask me why they're harassing your family?
Lets just cut the bullshit, okay?
[suspicious music]
If you're just an innocent bystander, Changez,
Only guilty people hide.
See, all this rhetoric such as,
Classes on revolution are taught at Duke.
I did attend a meeting at the Jamia Madrasah.
- A few days after my house was raided-
These are the people who tore my office apart.
[suspenseful music]
I recognized you from your column.
' [sighs]
- Shit.
Fuck.
- Is there someplace private we can talk?
- [chuckles]
- BObby!
Lincoln!
[man speaking Urdu]
- [exhales]
- Fuck!
[tense music]
We got surveillance on the roof?
- Did you go to them, or did they come to you?
- Look, Changez-
Did you go to them, or did they come to you?
- They came to me.
- How does that happen?
And that's when I realized I'd been wrong.
We did need to be here.
So I picked a side.
Look.
- Are we still having a conversation?
You may be a spook.
But if anyone can help me, it's you.
You picked a side after 9/11.
- All unattended bags
- Note to self:
- U.S. citizen or foreign national?
Step over here, sir. - Sorry, is there a problem?
- Come on. Let's go.
[indistinct chatter]
[door clicks open]
I'll take your belongings.
I need you to remove all of your outerwear
- So you want me to strip?
[rubber glove snaps]
- Who did you stay with?
- Arms out. Face this way.
Arms down.
[rustling]
Put your clothes on.
[grim music]
- So what happened? They actually made you strip?
How does that happen?
- What makes you think I'd know?
- Nothing. You-
Sorry, Changez.
- All I'm saying is,
- I watched as American patriotism
- It's bad times, man.
Not a problem for you, eh?
- Give him his tea. - No, no, please.
I might have been suited and booted,
Them was only one place I felt safe...
VWth her.
- Okay, so there's ishq.
Mohabbat.
I can't believe they're not there.
♪ ♪
- It's crazy.
It was a time of uncertainty.
It wasn't long before the economic laws of nature
Some stakeholders are obviously you people right here.
- He's young. - I've worked here 25 years.
- Hi, stranger.
- Fuck you, Osama.
- A tiny slice of violence
What was soft inside ma fall away.
[electronic beeping]
- Talk to me, Bobby. What's going on?
- What did Massoud do to members of his force
- He slit their throats.
Do you want that to happen to me, Bobby?
- Careful.
Brother...
Huff)'-
- Each moment is precious, Bobby.
- Hello?
My prince.
- I made your mom and dad something for the wedding.
- [laughs]
- Do you ever think about kids?
- Um...
I did before,
- My parents never said it out loud,
- You have a sense of filial duty.
- Yeah, I guess I'm old-fashioned like that.
- It's nice.
- So does that mean you're persuadable?
- I don't know.
[sighs]
' [Yawns]
- HEY-
Erica...
- Ah.
I can't believe I'm talking about having kids
- Honey, it was just talking.
[sobs]
[crying]
Chris- he didn't have any family.
Oh, God.
I killed him.
[sighs] Oh, God.
[sniffles]
- Me too.
- Following the Parliament attack in New Delhi,
- They never stop girls.
- Pakistan was born into violence 50 years ago.
- Here comes the groom!
- Really?
[laughing]
- Not about your girlfriend?
[man singing melancholy tune in Urdu]
- Your turn next, Nasreen, hmm?
- Find me a guy now.
- Lovely girl, and from a good family.
But you can't consider her
What exactly do you do at the Underwood?
We help companies to figure out how much they're worth,
I'm a fruit seller.
So two fruit sellers become one,
- In the tent, the supervisor will fire him.
- You tell yourself what you want to.
- [humming]
[indistinct conversation]
If I told you the amount your Ammi had to work with,
- Well, she had some assistance.
- Excuse me. - No, no, Abu.
- My wisest ally, and I'd cut him to the quick.
The agency has discretionary funds
- Bobby, you promised to listen to me, didn't you?
Did you not hear a word I just said?
When I returned to America,
- HEY-
What? It reminds me of where I come from.
[door opens]
[keys clatter]
[electronic beep]
[bottle opener clatters]
- Happy Eid.
[morose orchestral music]
I want you to get me two glasses of the crystal...
So we've got to evaluate a prestige publisher
Although, I do believe appearances are important.
- Underwood, Samson,
Motherfucker.
- [speaking Urdu]
I'm not going to take medication!
- Ow, man!
- Wait right here.
[door buzzes]
- I'm Special Agent Ford.
- Are you refusing to talk to us?
- I work at Underwood Samson.
- You ever had any combat training in Afghanistan?
- Of course I've never had combat training,
- Have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization?
- How do you feel about the United States of America?
- Agent Ford,
- Hey, baby, I can't wait to see you
[police siren wailing]
- I'm alone.
- Ladies and gentlemen, a reminder?
- I want to forget.
- Never leave your baggage unattended.
- Hors d'oeuvres? - Oh, no, I'm vegan.
- I had a Pakistani once...
I'm glad- I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I'm so happy you're here.
It's about us.
You're the one goddamn person I trusted in this city,
Hmm? - I don't-
Is that it? You're just gonna walk away?
Please, just take a breath.
[sobs]
Oh, I didn't know-
- Well...
[indistinct conversation]
[dramatic music]
- The holding company acquired
Nazmi Kemal will not be happy to see us.
- For 42 years,
And through this press,
And you've come here to render me obsolete.
- I have great respect for the work of publishers.
- Are you qualified to value me?
- [chuckles]
- Well, no one can put a value
My father is a poet.
You are a keeper of our culture in this part of the world.
- Your father is a poet?
I think you should be ashamed of yourself,
- Right.
- The accounts you asked for.
- Last two years.
Take these figures,
- Zero.
- I'll call London.
[melancholy music]
[man chanting]
♪ ♪
[birds calling]
- Changez.
Look what I found.
Part of an anthology
Your father is Ajmal Khan, correct?
- [scoffs softly]
I didn't realize he'd been translated into Turkish.
- Thank you very much.
- Would you care to join me for lunch?
- Sure.
- Have you heard of the Janissaries?
- No.
- They were Christian boys
When they came of age,
How old were you when you went to America?
- I was 18.
The Janissaries were always taken in childhood.
And when they became men,
- I apologize for my demeanor.
Young men don't make good mercenaries.
May I?
Mm.
When you determine where you stand,
I'm not so hopeful about the color returning to mine.
[children singing indistinctly]
[melancholy music]
- HEY-
- I'll do it.
I imagined those Janissary boys, uprooted,
You're deluding yourself that you have this role here.
- Go home?
Do you have any fucking idea
- Brothers, please listen!
Who's been here so long
- You're playing a dangerous game, Changez.
Some truths take their time.
I was just coming to see you.
- I know I've let you down, Jim,
- Do you want to be an insurance salesman, Changez,
- It's not my job anymore.
[brooding rock music]
- What's he gonna do?
Is this about me beating you in basketball?
You're gonna be a great analyst, Wainwright.
- What are you gonna be?
♪ Hear me out, O Lord ♪
Hey. - Hi.
Ah, you're- you're moving.
- Yeah.
[sighs]
- I should have told you what I'd been working on.
I wanted to let you in more than I did.
- It's okay. I understand.
I'm sorry about what I said.
You're going back to Pakistan?
You want to come?
- Yes.
But my iddat isn't over yet.
[rueful flute music]
[man singing in Urdu]
[glass shatters]
[brooding rock music]
- You haven't eaten in two days.
- Good to see you, Mr. Khan.
- So two months ago,
So now I'm back.
One that doesn't involve emigrating.
It seems we-
- Would you like to join us at one of our meetings?
- If you look at the stats,
- I'd like to introduce Mustafa Fazil.
[buzzing continues]
- Talk to me, Bobby. What's going on?
- Sir, are you all right? - Yeah-
- Everything okay?
- We need to talk...
Alone.
[tense music]
- Are the police cooperating?
Go!
- We need to talk about Anse Rainier.
Bobby, what do you think
Who is Anse Rainier?
The only way the government-
- Salaam.
- I felt angry.
- Yeah, Americans speak of equality,
You have an office in the faculty building.
Many Muslims can sympathize passively.
There are items,
Yeah.
A wise and effective mujahid
He hides behind masks.
Wear this mask for us, Changez.
I'm asking you to join the fight.
- I was his for the taking.
- We do that by focusing on the fundamentals.
[solemn ethereal music]
These young men were engaged in their own valuation,
Yes, I'm a Pakistani.
And I've never taken up arms, and I never will,
[glass shatters, man shouts]
[indistinct police radio transmission]
- Listen! - I've said all I had to say.
I'm tired of taking sides too.
Just tell me the truth!
No, wait! Wait, Changez.
[conflicted orchestral music]
- There's a butcher's shop near Sheranwala Gate.
Now call them off.
- Thank you.
You did the right thing.
I'm calling it in. Don't move.
[pounding at door]
- Stay calm!
- At Sheran- hello?
[people shouting in Urdu]
- Everything's okay. Sit down.
[people shouting]
- Who were you texting?
- Put your hands on the counter.
Get back!
- What the fuck are you doing, Bobby?
Why, Changez?
Kept us nice and busy
Get back!
- Let's go, real slow.
- Professor Khan is in danger!
- You're gonna get us both killed, Bobby.
All: Professor! Professor!
Step back!
- We're with you, brother!
- Sameer!
- [screaming]
[people shouting]
_ Go, go, go, go, go, go!
_pqmQ
[mournful music]
- Come on!
What the fuck happened?
- [gasps]
[crying]
[people shouting]
[bicycle bell chimes]
[rueful music]
- [chanting in Urdu]
- Sameefs pamnts wish me to addmss you.
Emotions give us courage.
I have another message from his family.
He would fully agree.
They ask us not to cry for their son.
They ask us not to take revenge in their son's name.
Too much blood has flowed into that river.
They ask us not to curse fate.
Allah holds our son in His embrace.
[woman singing mournfully]
VWpe your tears!
And pray for a future
Free of all invaders.
Would you please listen to the whole story,
I am a lover of America.
[bright guitar music]
[man singing in Urdu]
[sentimental music]
[ethereal music]
- ♪ If they come to restrain you ♪
[gentle music]
- ♪ Let the crows call ♪