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WOMAN:
This is the Persian empire...

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...known today as Iran.

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For 2500 years, this land was ruled
by a series of kings...

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...known as shahs.

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In 1950, the people of Iran elected
Mohammad Mosaddegh...

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...a secular democrat, as prime minister.

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He nationalized British and U.S.
petroleum holdings...

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...returning Iran's oil to its people.

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But in 1953...

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...the U.S. and Great Britain engineered
a coup d'état that deposed Mosaddegh...

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...and installed Reza Pahlavi as shah.

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The young shah was known
for opulence and excess.

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His wife was rumored to bathe in milk...

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...while the shah had his lunches
flown in by Concorde from Paris.

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The people starved.

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The shah kept power through his ruthless
internal police:

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The SAVAK.

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An era of torture and fear began.

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He then began a campaign
to westernize Iran...

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...enraging a mostly traditional Shiite
population.

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In 1979, the people of Iran
overthrew the shah.

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The exiled cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini,
returned to rule Iran.

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It descended into score-settling,
death squads and chaos.

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Dying of cancer,
the shah was given asylum in the U. S.

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The Iranian people took to the streets
outside the U.S. embassy...

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...demanding that the shah be returned...

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...tried...

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...and hanged.

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Based on a true story.

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U.S. Embassy, Iran - November 4, 1979

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The carnival's a little bigger today, huh?

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Windows are supposed to be
bulletproof, right?

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Well, they've never been tested.

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CORA: You just need to finish
filling out this section here.

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We can process your visa.

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We need some security.
Yes, it's your responsibility.

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They're over the walls.

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We should all split.
I'm gonna close up my office.

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ANN:
Oh, my God.

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Marines to Number One. Fall back.

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- Can anyone hear me? We need help.
- I need police right now. Right now, goddamn it!

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- Jesus.
CORA: Can anybody hear me?

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SCOTT:
There was a breach.

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Just burn everything! Burn it now!

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All right, burn everything!
All the files, file cabinet, safe.

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Let's get a cart over here. Burn it all.
Come on.

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DAUGHERTY: Burn everything!
Burn the classifieds! Everything!

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GOLACINSKI: Don't fucking shoot anybody.

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You don't wanna be the son of a bitch
who started a war.

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They need an hour to burn the classified.

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I need you to hold.

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If you shoot one person, they're gonna kill
every single one of us in here.

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I'm telling you,
if we're going to go, we need to go now.

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- Okay, we need to make a decision...
- Can we wait until the Iranian police come?

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No, the police aren't coming.
It's been 45 minutes.

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- How do you know?
- The police have abandoned their posts.

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If the police are not coming,
then the army's gonna come.

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The prime minister won't let
the embassy be taken over.

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The prime minister may
come tomorrow, but the

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Komiteh are here today.
So we have to evacuate.

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Look at me. No one is coming.

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AHERN: Get the desk drawers. Everything.
Don't sort it.

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Get it down to the incinerator
in the vault! Go, now!

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Tear gas as a last resort only.

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(OVER RADIO) I repeat: only
if your life is under threat.

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In here, we are in America right now.
Outside, we are in Iran.

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STAFFORD: It's on American soil...
- I'm not going out into that.

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CORA:
They're not safe here.

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If they get caught applying for visas
to the U.S.?

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Mark, we are in the only building
with direct access to the street.

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- If we're going to go, then we need to go now.
- Yeah, I'm in.

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- Yeah.
- Yeah, let's go.

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- I'm going outside.
- Why?

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To reason with them.

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Open the door!

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Open the fucking door!

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You said you wanted to see the world,
right, Tom?

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GOLACINSKI:
Let me in! Let me in!

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DAUGHERTY:
Burn it all. Come on.

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Get the safe, get the filing cabinets,
get it all.

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ANDERS: All four drawers,
I want them shredded right now.

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STAFFORD:
Not gonna shred fast enough.

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ANDERS:
Grab the visa plates!

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All four! And anything else
you see out there.

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When in doubt, just shred it!

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We got 10 minutes!
Let's go, let's go, let's go! Everything!

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Get the shredder.

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ANN:
There are no police.

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ANDERS:
Jesus.

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STAFFORD: (IN FARSI)
Leave the building, go now.

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Iranians go first.

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Now, hurry!

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Who has made this?!

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It's done. They're in.

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Okay, come on.
We gotta get off the streets.

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This way. Up here to the left.

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- These fucks hit us, we can't hit them back?
- Mosaddegh, we did it to them first.

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These fucks hit us,
we can't hit them back?

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Mosaddegh, we did it to them first.

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You think the Soviets would put up with this shit?
They'd invade. STATE DEPARTMENT - 7TH FLOOR

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You think the Soviets would put up
with this shit? They'd invade.

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We helped the guy torture
and de-ball an entire population.

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- How many were there?
- At least 50. We're not sure.

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- Schafer!
GENCO: You still haven't found Schafer?

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No, I was screaming his name
because I was fucking him.

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CANADIAN AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, TEHRAN

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VANCE: Come in.
CANADIAN AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, TEHRAN

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BATES:
It's confirmed, sir. Six escaped.

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VANCE: I was told five.
BATES: No, sir, apparently it's six.

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VANCE: What happened?
- Not clear. We know they escaped.

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VANCE: What happened? -Not clear. We know they escaped.
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE

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VANCE: Where are they? -The
Canadian ambassador's house.

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VANCE: Where are they?
- The Canadian ambassador’s house.

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- Do they stay put? Are we attempting rescue?
- Hold for the Secretary of State.

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Yes. ls White House joining?

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They claim the embassy
was a den of espionage.

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We wish it was.

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We wish it was.

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CI's got three people over
there, they don't see a

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revolution coming?
WHITE HOUSE, CHIEF OF STAFF'S OFFICE

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- Call it something other than intelligence.
- Hold for the chief of staff.

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- Hodding.
- I'll call him back.

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BUTLER: They're sticking.
No release till we expel the shah.

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- Put him on a plane, then. Fuck him.
- He's half-dead and he's in chemo.

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We took him in. He's ours now.

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Great, so we'll take in any prick
as long as he's got cancer?

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JORDAN:
No, just the pricks on our side.

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So all our other pricks on their prick thrones
know when they get thrown out on a rail...

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...they won't get their fucking spleens
taken out by some camel vet in Sinai.

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What about the six
who are with the Canadians?

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We've got 60 in the embassy with guns
to their heads right now.

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The whole world is watching the embassy.
They're safer than the six on the street.

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Banisadr's saying it'll be over
in 24 hours.

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We leave the six where they are.
I'll go brief the president.

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All right, let's get to it.

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KOPPEL: So far official comments about the
incident have been a model of restraint.

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69 DAYS LATER

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard
has rounded up a gang of terrorists...

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...blamed for one murder of a half-dozen
followers of Ayatollah Khomeini.

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It says security at Khomeini's home
now has been tightened.

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This, by the way, is the 69th day that the
American hostages have been held in Tehran.

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There is no change reported
in the hostage situation.

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In this country, George Meany died
last night. He was 85 years old.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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What?

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WALLACE: (ON RADIO)
To begin with, of course...

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...we wanted to learn about the hostages
held in the American embassy compound.

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REYNOLDS: They may not understand what
their ordeal means to their countrymen.

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But this nation, their nation, is outraged.

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And we cannot really know what it is like
inside the prison that was once our embassy.

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And we cannot really know what
it is like inside the prison

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that was once our embassy.
C.I.A. HEADQUARTERS, VIRGINIA

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CARTER: (ON TV) Actions of Iran
have shocked the civilized world.

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Our embassy has been seized...

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...and more than 60 American citizens
continue to be held as hostages.

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PAULEY: The situation in Iran this morning
is unchanged in regard to the hostages.

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NBC's situation in Iran has changed,
however.

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- Is he back there?
- Office.

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TONY:
What happened?

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The six of them went out a back exit.

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Brits turned them away,
Kiwis turned them away.

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Canadians took them in.

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Traffic calls them "The Houseguests."

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They haven't left the Canadian
ambassador's house since it happened.

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- Why didn't we get them 10 weeks ago?
- Too dangerous.

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You got Revolutionary Guards going
door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Half of them think that Khomeini's been
too lenient on the ones in the embassy.

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What about the White House?

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Carter's shitting enough bricks
to build the pyramids.

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The Canadians are done.

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They say they're bearing
too much risk. Their

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foreign secretary corners
Vance in Brussels...

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...and told him she wants
the six of them out.

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- Who else knows?
- Just the families.

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Meanwhile, some genius in our embassy
was keeping a mug book...

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...on everybody who worked there.
- Jesus Christ.

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O'DONNELL: We think it got shredded
before they got in.

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But now the bastards are using sweatshop
kids to reassemble the shreds.

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And once they reassemble that book
they'll know six Americans got out.

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And they'll know what they look like.

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Standing room only
for beheadings in the square.

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- Who's handling?
- State is coordinating in-house.

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State?

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- They don't do exfils.
- They do now.

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They want to run it by us,
strictly as consultants.

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Engell says it's a lose-lose.

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These people die, they die badly. Publicly.

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State wants the blame,
we'll give it to them.

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What does he want me here for?

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So he can tell State
he ran it by his best exfil guy.

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ENGELL:
Okay.

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This is Bob Pender from State O.S.

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He's been talking to Morgan at ExtAff.

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- Bob?
- Thank you.

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All right.

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Mark and Cora Lijek.

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Twenty-nine and 25. He's a consular
officer, she's an assistant.

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Newlyweds. They only just got there
a couple months ago.

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No language skills or in-country knowledge.

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Henry Lee Schatz.
Agricultural attaché from Idaho.

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A bit of an oddball, apparently.

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He was there to sell
U.S. tractors to Iranian agro.

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Joe Stafford. Late 20s.

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He's smart and a climber.

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Speaks Farsi.

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He arranged the hire of his wife, Kathy.

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Embassy was understaffed,
so the faculty wives were the typing pool.

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And Bob Anders. Senior consular officer...

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...oldest of the group
and most likely to be group leader.

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They're in hiding at the Canadian
ambassador's residence.

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Fortunately, we do not believe the Iranians
are aware the six have escaped.

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So, what we like for this are bicycles.

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We've identified back roads
from the Shemiran district.

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A couple of rat lines
through the mountains...

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...to the crossing near Tabriz.

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Cars are off the table
because of the roadblocks.

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We wait till the weather clears up...

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...then deliver the six bikes, provide them
with maps to the Turkish border.

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PENDER: We have intelligence
they can ride bicycles.

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Or we're prepared to send in
somebody to teach them.

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Or you could just send in training wheels
and meet them at the border with Gatorade.

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O'DONNELL:
Tony.

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It's 300 miles to the Turkish border.

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They'd need a support team
following them with a tire pump.

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ENGELL:
We were just asked to sharpshoot this.

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State is handling the op.

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I'm sorry, who is this?

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00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:46,904
Tony's an exfil spesh. He got a lot
of the shah's people out after the fall.

231
00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:49,660
Sir, if these people can read or add...

232
00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:52,868
...pretty soon they're gonna figure out
they're six short of a full deck.

233
00:17:53,030 --> 00:17:55,073
It's winter. You can't
afford to wait around till

234
00:17:55,099 --> 00:17:57,060
spring so it's nice enough
to take a bike ride.

235
00:17:57,201 --> 00:18:00,796
The only way out of that city is the airport.
Build new cover identities for them...

236
00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:03,925
...you send in a Moses,
he takes them out on a commercial flight.

237
00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:06,927
- We've explored those options. ENGELL:
They'll never get past airport control.

238
00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,635
- Komiteh own the place.
BATES: They could pose as reporters.

239
00:18:09,797 --> 00:18:11,958
- The government issued 70-something...
- Seventy-four.

240
00:18:12,008 --> 00:18:13,601
...visas for American journalists.

241
00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:15,761
The Revolutionary Guards
keep them on 74 leashes.

242
00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:17,807
If they're caught with
fake journalist creds,

243
00:18:17,833 --> 00:18:19,833
it's Peter Jennings' head
in a noose in an hour.

244
00:18:19,974 --> 00:18:22,102
North American accents
gives us limited options.

245
00:18:22,268 --> 00:18:24,270
So we get the Canadians
to issue them passports.

246
00:18:24,437 --> 00:18:26,860
What about English teachers
at the international school?

247
00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:29,697
It's a good idea, but that school's been
closed for eight months.

248
00:18:29,859 --> 00:18:31,486
BATES:
Okay, so how about the do-gooders?

249
00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:34,847
Six Canadians have been
over there inspecting

250
00:18:34,873 --> 00:18:36,816
crops, making sure the
kids get enough to eat.

251
00:18:36,949 --> 00:18:39,498
We give them creds,
makes them look like Ag NGOs.

252
00:18:40,077 --> 00:18:42,796
It's a Feed the Kids thing. Okay?

253
00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,628
Those kids are black.

254
00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:46,504
Those are African kids.

255
00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:49,887
- We get ethnically appropriate kids.
LAMONT: Are there starving kids in Iran?

256
00:18:50,046 --> 00:18:52,720
I'm sure there's some skinny kids
in Iran, so...

257
00:18:52,882 --> 00:18:55,726
LAMONT: What about missionaries?
- A logo with seeds. Call it "Seeds of Hope."

258
00:18:55,885 --> 00:18:56,932
Hold on.

259
00:18:57,094 --> 00:19:00,644
Sir, do you have this newspaper in front
of you? Would you mind taking a look at it?

260
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,897
What's in this picture?

261
00:19:04,060 --> 00:19:06,313
- Tehran.
TONY: Right. What's on the ground?

262
00:19:08,731 --> 00:19:10,153
- Snow.
TONY: Right.

263
00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:13,570
So, what crops are the do-gooders
inspecting under Frosty?

264
00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:19,333
Sir, exfils are like abortions.

265
00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:21,165
You don't wanna need one...

266
00:19:21,327 --> 00:19:24,171
...but when you do, you
don't do it yourself.

267
00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:30,761
You have a better plan?

268
00:19:31,754 --> 00:19:33,176
No, sir.

269
00:19:36,550 --> 00:19:39,350
REYNOLDS: (ON RADIO) Whatever
the conflicting signals from Iran today...

270
00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:40,910
...and for that matter, every day...

271
00:19:41,055 --> 00:19:44,104
...about whether the hostages will
or will not be tried as spies...

272
00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:47,987
...the government of the United States
has not deviated from its basic demand:

273
00:19:48,145 --> 00:19:50,273
The hostages must be freed.

274
00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:53,283
...claims to defend human rights,
it not only does not defend them...

275
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:56,195
...it violates them for all nations.

276
00:19:56,362 --> 00:19:57,577
We demand extradition...

277
00:19:57,578 --> 00:19:58,195
We demand extradition...

278
00:19:58,367 --> 00:20:00,476
...of a man who, for more
than 37 years, with the

279
00:20:00,502 --> 00:20:02,458
United States' support...
U.S. EMBASSY, TEHRAN

280
00:20:02,459 --> 00:20:02,747
...of a man who, for more than 37 years,
with the United States' support...

281
00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:06,505
...has killed months-old babies
in the arms of their mothers.

282
00:20:06,664 --> 00:20:10,385
MAN 1: He said if the Americans try
military force to rescue the hostages...

283
00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:14,264
...the students will kill them all
and blow up the embassy.

284
00:20:14,964 --> 00:20:18,389
MAN 2: Americans were outraged at Iran
and anyone Iranian.

285
00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:21,551
MAN 3: Before that decision was taken,
there was a demonstration in Houston.

286
00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:23,306
An Iranian flag was burned...

287
00:20:23,472 --> 00:20:27,318
...when anti-Iranian demonstrators
gathered near the Iranian consulate.

288
00:20:27,476 --> 00:20:30,730
MAN 4: ... also is what led to a decision
to scrutinize the visas of Iranians...

289
00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:33,775
They knew exactly what was going to happen.
They knew.

290
00:20:33,941 --> 00:20:36,444
But I don't understand
what they should do now.

291
00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:39,204
Send him back,
just to be tortured and killed?

292
00:20:39,363 --> 00:20:41,741
I don't think that justice
is the worst thing.

293
00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:44,706
When did people first tell you that torture
was going on in Iran?

294
00:20:44,869 --> 00:20:48,794
They would never come to me and say,
"Well, sir, we have tortured this fellow. "

295
00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:52,711
WALLACE: (ON TV) President Sadat of Egypt,
he calls you, Imam...

296
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:55,221
Forgive me, his words, not mine.

297
00:20:55,379 --> 00:20:56,551
...a lunatic.

298
00:20:56,714 --> 00:20:59,718
Why didn't he have a choice?
Why do you think he didn't have a choice?

299
00:20:59,884 --> 00:21:01,227
TAYLOR: He would've been
referred to as a barbarian.

300
00:21:01,385 --> 00:21:04,104
ANDERS: That's why they're saying
that their current regime...

301
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:05,824
The shah did more for women's rights...

302
00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:09,019
TAYLOR: I think you'd better...
Please, everyone, get into the crawlspace.

303
00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:11,771
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

304
00:21:26,410 --> 00:21:29,414
NEWSCASTER 1: (ON TV) At one point,
the mob cornered one of the Iranians.

305
00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:33,005
When he tried to protect himself,
this is what happened.

306
00:21:33,584 --> 00:21:34,961
DEMONSTRATOR:
Just hit him again!

307
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:38,631
We're not gonna take it any more!
We're sick of it!

308
00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:41,058
America!

309
00:21:41,217 --> 00:21:46,849
MAN: Even in our little community here, I mean,
people are drawn up tight, they're tense.

310
00:21:47,181 --> 00:21:51,061
They shouldn't even let those students
in that embassy there.

311
00:21:51,227 --> 00:21:54,447
Just shoot a couple of them,
show them we mean business.

312
00:21:54,772 --> 00:21:57,776
NEWSCASTER 2: Men who served in Vietnam
for what they believed was right are angry.

313
00:21:57,942 --> 00:21:59,034
I'm mad as hell.

314
00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:03,949
I'm like the guy screaming on that movie
program in Network, you know? I've had it.

315
00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:07,709
And if need be, I'll bear arms again.

316
00:22:07,868 --> 00:22:11,498
CRONKITE: And that's the way it is
Wednesday, January 16th, 1980.

317
00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:15,919
The 74th day of captivity
for 50 Americans in Iran.

318
00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:26,436
- Hello?
TONY: (OVER PHONE) Buddy man.

319
00:22:26,595 --> 00:22:28,063
IAN:
I'll get Mom.

320
00:22:28,222 --> 00:22:29,724
I'm looking for you.

321
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,193
Did you do your homework tonight?

322
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:36,105
- Yeah, it was easy.
- Excellent. What are we watching?

323
00:22:36,272 --> 00:22:38,366
Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

324
00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:39,867
Tell me, what channel is it on?

325
00:22:40,109 --> 00:22:41,281
Five.

326
00:22:45,322 --> 00:22:46,369
All right.

327
00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:51,545
- What'd you do at school today?
- Nothing. I don't know. Nothing.

328
00:22:53,414 --> 00:22:55,963
Can't be nothing.
Something must've happened.

329
00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:57,968
After school I got some baseball cards.

330
00:22:58,127 --> 00:22:59,549
- Mm-hm.
- That was fun.

331
00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:19,027
TONY: Okay, you know those
science-fiction movies?

332
00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:21,817
Star Trek, Star Wars.
They need an exotic location to shoot.

333
00:23:21,984 --> 00:23:24,453
Moonscape, Mars, desert, you know.

334
00:23:24,612 --> 00:23:25,909
Now, imagine this:

335
00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:31,332
They're a Canadian film crew on a location
scout for a science-fiction movie.

336
00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:32,996
We put it out there...

337
00:23:33,162 --> 00:23:34,960
The Canadian producers put it out there.

338
00:23:35,122 --> 00:23:36,762
...That we're looking at Egypt, Istanbul.

339
00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:42,429
Then we go to the consulate and say,
"Hey, we wanna look at Iran too."

340
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:47,139
I fly into Tehran, we all fly out together
as a film crew. Done.

341
00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:50,517
Flamboyant cover identities should be avoided,
as it increases operational visibility.

342
00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:53,728
This is more plausible than foreigners
who wanna go be teachers in Iran.

343
00:23:53,891 --> 00:23:56,394
You wanna blend in with the population,
you don't look like a rodeo clown.

344
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,279
Just gonna wake up tomorrow morning
and be in the movie business?

345
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:01,281
We already have credentials
for the teachers.

346
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,320
- No, sir, we have a contact in L.A.
- Chambers.

347
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,528
John Chambers.
He's a Hollywood prosthetics guy.

348
00:24:05,694 --> 00:24:07,784
He's got an Oscar, he did
Planet of the Apes. Did

349
00:24:07,810 --> 00:24:09,690
a bunch of contract work
for us in the past.

350
00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:13,453
I go see him, he sets us up.
One, two days, make it look real.

351
00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:32,642
I went outside for 30 seconds. Could you give me a break?
I can't breathe in this house.

352
00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:35,966
- I need some fresh air. I can't breathe.
SCHATZ: Stay inside the fucking house.

353
00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:38,819
- Who saw me go outside? I'm just curious.
- That's not the point, Bob.

354
00:24:38,978 --> 00:24:41,231
- It doesn't matter who saw you go out.
- Did you see me?

355
00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:43,741
- No.
- I did, okay? I saw you.

356
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:46,903
Bob, it only takes one second
for them to spot you.

357
00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:53,917
KHALKALI: (IN FARSI)
Some Americans are missing.

358
00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,249
Look at the repaired list
of embassy employees.

359
00:24:57,746 --> 00:24:59,339
The numbers don't match.

360
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:02,422
Finish assembling the
pictures from the embassy.

361
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:05,133
All I need is their faces
and I will find them.

362
00:25:05,295 --> 00:25:07,047
(IN FARSI)
Yes, sir, it will be done.

363
00:25:19,309 --> 00:25:20,777
We want you to go to L.A.

364
00:25:20,936 --> 00:25:24,406
If you can make the movie thing credible,
we'll take you to the director.

365
00:25:25,232 --> 00:25:26,279
Don't fuck up.

366
00:25:26,859 --> 00:25:28,907
The whole country is watching you.

367
00:25:29,445 --> 00:25:31,163
They just don't know it.

368
00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:39,587
WOMAN 1:
My creation.

369
00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:42,754
My creation.

370
00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:50,098
What the fuck, Brian?

371
00:25:50,257 --> 00:25:51,474
- Cut.
MAN: We're cutting.

372
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:53,852
WOMAN 2: What an idiot.
WOMAN 1: It really hurt.

373
00:25:54,011 --> 00:25:55,228
BRIAN:
I'm sorry.

374
00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:58,357
Chambers. John Chambers, makeup!

375
00:25:59,641 --> 00:26:04,317
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 19, 1980

376
00:26:10,152 --> 00:26:14,077
He says the Minotaur prosthetic
is too tight, so he can't act.

377
00:26:14,364 --> 00:26:16,992
If he could act, he wouldn't
be playing the Minotaur.

378
00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:24,587
MAN:
Mr. Chambers?

379
00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:26,669
Kevin Harkins.

380
00:26:28,504 --> 00:26:29,972
Hey, Tony.

381
00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:55,280
JOHN:
Watch your head.

382
00:26:55,823 --> 00:26:57,370
TONY:
What are you shooting?

383
00:26:57,699 --> 00:26:59,417
JOHN:
Monster movie.

384
00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:01,582
TONY:
Yeah? Any good?

385
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:05,040
Target audience will hate it.

386
00:27:05,207 --> 00:27:06,709
Who's the target audience?

387
00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:08,464
People with eyes.

388
00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:12,382
Talk to me.

389
00:27:14,341 --> 00:27:15,718
It's an exfil.

390
00:27:15,884 --> 00:27:17,056
From where?

391
00:27:18,220 --> 00:27:19,642
Worst place you can think of.

392
00:27:19,805 --> 00:27:21,182
Universal City.

393
00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:29,732
How are you gonna get into the embassy?

394
00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:33,240
They're not in the embassy.
During the takeover, six people escaped.

395
00:27:33,443 --> 00:27:35,241
They're hiding out in Tehran.

396
00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:38,703
- And that's who I'm gonna go get.
- What am I making?

397
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:41,577
I need you to help me make a fake movie.

398
00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:44,246
Heh. You came to the right place.

399
00:27:44,413 --> 00:27:47,587
I wanna set up a production company
and build a cover around making a movie.

400
00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:49,751
- That we're not gonna make.
- No.

401
00:27:50,335 --> 00:27:52,679
So you wanna come to Hollywood
and act like a big shot?

402
00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:54,806
- Without actually doing anything?
- No.

403
00:27:54,965 --> 00:27:56,558
You'll fit right in.

404
00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:03,940
JOHN:
Let's see.

405
00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:07,983
Well, this one's got an M.A. in English.
She should be your screenwriter.

406
00:28:08,145 --> 00:28:11,069
Sometimes they go along on scouts
because they want the free meals.

407
00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:12,949
Here's your director.

408
00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:15,281
Can you teach somebody
to be a director in a day?

409
00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:17,783
You can teach a rhesus monkey
to be a director in a day.

410
00:28:18,572 --> 00:28:21,792
Look, if you're gonna do this,
you gotta do it.

411
00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:24,248
The Kho-maniacs are Froot Loops,
but they got cousins...

412
00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:26,630
...who sell prayer rugs
and eight-tracks on La Brea.

413
00:28:27,456 --> 00:28:30,756
You can't build cover stories
around a movie that doesn't exist.

414
00:28:30,918 --> 00:28:33,091
You need a script. You need a producer.

415
00:28:33,253 --> 00:28:34,425
- Make me a producer.
- No.

416
00:28:34,588 --> 00:28:37,933
You're an associate producer at best.

417
00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:41,641
If you're gonna do a $20 million
Star Wars rip-off...

418
00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:45,649
...you need somebody who's a somebody
to put their name on it.

419
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:47,730
Somebody respectable.

420
00:28:48,936 --> 00:28:50,153
With credits.

421
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,820
Who you can trust
with classified information.

422
00:28:54,816 --> 00:28:57,035
Who'll produce a fake movie.

423
00:28:57,653 --> 00:28:59,075
For free.

424
00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:16,175
Hi. I only got a couple of minutes.
I'm getting a lifetime achievement award.

425
00:29:16,338 --> 00:29:17,931
- Mazel tov, Lester.
LESTER: Ah.

426
00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:20,593
I'd rather stay home and count
the wrinkles on my dog's balls.

427
00:29:21,593 --> 00:29:25,848
Okay, you got six people hiding out
in a town of, what, 4 million people...

428
00:29:26,014 --> 00:29:29,689
...all of whom chant "Death to America"
all the livelong day.

429
00:29:29,851 --> 00:29:31,444
You want to set up a movie in a week.

430
00:29:31,603 --> 00:29:35,028
You want to lie to Hollywood,
a town where everybody lies for a living.

431
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:37,693
Then you're gonna sneak 007 over here...

432
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:41,363
...into a country that wants CIA blood
on their breakfast cereal...

433
00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:45,034
...and you're gonna walk the Brady Bunch
out of the most watched city in the world.

434
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,953
Past about a hundred militia
at the airport. That's right.

435
00:29:49,496 --> 00:29:50,873
Right.

436
00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:54,376
Look, I gotta tell you.

437
00:29:54,543 --> 00:29:58,514
We did suicide missions in the Army
that had better odds than this.

438
00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:00,140
Sir, the car is here.

439
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:10,813
JOHN: You ever think, Lester,
how this is all for the cameras?

440
00:30:10,976 --> 00:30:14,025
Well, they're getting the ratings,
I'll say that for...

441
00:30:25,907 --> 00:30:27,830
We're gonna need a script.

442
00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,929
Here, come on, come on, come on.

443
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:40,259
- No, it's fine.
- Stop.

444
00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:47,600
Okay.

445
00:30:57,773 --> 00:30:58,865
KATHY:
I love you.

446
00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:10,786
PAT: (IN FARSI)
Sahar, how are you doing?

447
00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:13,255
SAHAR: (IN FARSI)
Fine, thank you.

448
00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:16,712
Your friends from Canada, ma'am.

449
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:20,550
All this time. They never go out.

450
00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:35,652
PAT: (IN ENGLISH)
Sahar knows.

451
00:31:39,272 --> 00:31:41,445
JOHN:
How about The Horses of Achilles?

452
00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:44,077
No good. Nobody does Westerns any more.

453
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:48,412
- It's ancient Troy.
- If it's got horses in it, it's a Western.

454
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:49,620
Hey, Kenny, please.

455
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:52,160
Yeah, it's John Chambers,
about the office space.

456
00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:54,796
It doesn't matter. It's a fake movie.

457
00:31:54,955 --> 00:31:58,459
If I'm doing a fake movie,
it's gonna be a fake hit.

458
00:31:58,625 --> 00:32:02,255
O'DONNELL: (OVER PHONE) The cardinal wants all
cover options on his desk Friday morning.

459
00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:05,675
Engell's prepping the bikes option,
the teachers option.

460
00:32:05,841 --> 00:32:09,141
You have 72 hours to make yours better.

461
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:10,853
Fine.

462
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:39,466
Hey, is A006 still on the open list?

463
00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:41,130
Yeah, I'll hold.

464
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:45,631
"Fade in on a starship landing.
An exotic, Middle Eastern vibe.

465
00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:49,552
Women gather, offering ecstatic
libations to the sky gods.

466
00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:53,184
Argo. A science-fantasy adventure."

467
00:32:53,346 --> 00:32:56,566
- it's in turnaround. It's dog shit.
- It's a space movie in the Middle East.

468
00:32:56,725 --> 00:32:58,365
- Does it matter?
- Can we get the option?

469
00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:01,025
Why do we need the option?

470
00:33:01,188 --> 00:33:05,068
You're worried about the Ayatollah?
Try the WGA.

471
00:33:06,902 --> 00:33:08,324
LESTER:
Just let me do the talking.

472
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:11,741
I've known this guy for 25 years.
He's full of shit and he comes on hard...

473
00:33:11,907 --> 00:33:13,580
...but I can handle him.

474
00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:18,038
You want to go into production
with this in one month?

475
00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:19,832
Up like a carny ride.

476
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,045
One month, yeah.

477
00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:23,586
- Who are you again?
- Kevin Harkins. Studio Six Films.

478
00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:25,129
He's the money.

479
00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:30,392
Look, what do you say 15 thou
and let's close on this?

480
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:34,100
You want me to be honest with you, Les?

481
00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:36,731
LESTER:
No. I would like you to bullshit me, Max.

482
00:33:36,890 --> 00:33:38,392
All right.

483
00:33:38,808 --> 00:33:41,277
I enjoyed your films. The early ones.

484
00:33:41,436 --> 00:33:45,566
I took this meeting out of respect,
because I wanted to say no to your face.

485
00:33:46,816 --> 00:33:48,614
Thank you. Very respectful.

486
00:33:48,944 --> 00:33:50,287
You're finished, Lester.

487
00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:52,697
Get your cataracts fixed, read the trades.

488
00:33:53,907 --> 00:33:56,456
MGM just capitalized for six new films.

489
00:33:56,618 --> 00:33:59,087
They're screaming for sci-fi.

490
00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:02,458
They're offering me four times
what you guys are offering me.

491
00:34:03,959 --> 00:34:07,429
Well, what can I say?

492
00:34:07,629 --> 00:34:09,222
Congratulations.

493
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:13,935
But, see, it kind of worries me,
what you said, and let me tell you why.

494
00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:18,850
Couple of weeks ago, I was sitting at
Trader Vic's, I was enjoying a Mai Tai...

495
00:34:19,015 --> 00:34:20,733
...when my pal Warren Beatty comes in.

496
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:22,986
He wishes me well, we had a little chat.

497
00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:26,448
Seems he was attached
to star in Zulu Empire...

498
00:34:26,606 --> 00:34:28,825
...which was gonna anchor that MGM slate.

499
00:34:28,984 --> 00:34:32,079
But Warren confided in me
that the picture's gone over budget...

500
00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:35,161
...because the Zulu extras wanna unionize.

501
00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:37,917
They may be cannibals,
but they want health and dental...

502
00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:39,373
...so the movie's kaput.

503
00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:42,756
Which means that the MGM deal
ain't gonna happen...

504
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,758
...and your script ain't worth
the buffalo shit on a nickel.

505
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:48,170
So the way it looks to me...

506
00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:50,176
Through the cataracts, I grant you.

507
00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:52,132
...Is that you can either sign here...

508
00:34:52,299 --> 00:34:55,303
...and take $10,000
for your toilet paper script...

509
00:34:55,468 --> 00:34:57,687
...or you can go fuck yourself.

510
00:34:58,513 --> 00:35:00,607
With all due respect.

511
00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:08,443
You really know Warren Beatty?

512
00:35:08,607 --> 00:35:12,362
Yes, I do. I took a leak next to him
once at the Golden Globes.

513
00:35:13,028 --> 00:35:14,325
Taco?

514
00:35:32,672 --> 00:35:33,844
Got any kids, Lester?

515
00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:37,052
Yeah. I have two daughters.

516
00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:39,722
You see them much?

517
00:35:40,347 --> 00:35:41,815
I talk to them once a year.

518
00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:44,939
- Maybe.
- Why is that?

519
00:35:48,438 --> 00:35:50,440
I was a terrible father.

520
00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:55,533
The bullshit business,
it's like coal mining.

521
00:35:55,695 --> 00:35:58,995
You come home to your wife and kids,
you can't wash it off.

522
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,251
You?

523
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,080
Yeah, I got a son.

524
00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:08,459
He lives in Virginia with his mother.

525
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,047
You're divorced?

526
00:36:14,255 --> 00:36:16,053
Taking time off.

527
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:20,270
He needs to be, you know...

528
00:36:20,428 --> 00:36:21,475
...where he is.

529
00:36:23,932 --> 00:36:25,934
Kids need the mother.

530
00:36:34,567 --> 00:36:37,527
They caught the shah's chief of security
trying to get on a plane to Paris.

531
00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:41,453
Listen.

532
00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:44,995
Since the incident, the number of guards
at the airport has doubled.

533
00:36:45,161 --> 00:36:48,085
Thorough background examinations
should be expected.

534
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:51,468
The movie cover isn't strong enough yet.
I need another week, Jack.

535
00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:53,761
You don't have it.

536
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:56,802
TONY:
We got an office.

537
00:36:57,799 --> 00:36:59,893
We got business cards.

538
00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:01,894
We got a poster.

539
00:37:02,804 --> 00:37:06,104
If I'm the Revolutionary Guard, that's
nothing we couldn't have made at home.

540
00:37:06,307 --> 00:37:08,230
Six people's lives depend on this.

541
00:37:09,644 --> 00:37:13,649
It's not enough. If we're gonna fool
these people, it has to be big.

542
00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:16,819
And it has to have something
that says it's authentic.

543
00:37:17,777 --> 00:37:20,997
I did a movie with Rock Hudson one time.

544
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:24,292
If you wanna sell a lie...

545
00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:27,829
You get the press to sell it for you.

546
00:37:28,788 --> 00:37:32,543
No, no, no. Press event and then
they're gonna read through the script.

547
00:37:32,709 --> 00:37:36,680
Well, they got a bunch of actors,
they're gonna read from beginning to end.

548
00:37:36,838 --> 00:37:38,681
They have costumes and everything.

549
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,595
No, no, no, I can't.
Variety has an exclusive on that.

550
00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:45,935
Is there any way to make this
more Middle Eastern?

551
00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:48,191
Mesopotamia? Egypt?

552
00:37:48,349 --> 00:37:49,441
Iran.

553
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:53,196
LESTER: Look, I can get you in, but you're
gonna have to promise me at least half a page.

554
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:56,483
No, no, this thing's an event.
It's gonna be a spectacle.

555
00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:02,174
NINA: Lester?
- Nina. You look fabulous.

556
00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:03,432
You're doing the reading?

557
00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:05,761
I'm playing Serksi, the Galactic Witch.

558
00:39:05,927 --> 00:39:07,895
Great. I'll call you.

559
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,941
Keep that fucking space witch
away from me.

560
00:39:12,141 --> 00:39:14,439
- You know her?
- I was married to her.

561
00:39:14,644 --> 00:39:16,271
Oh, my God, Iraq is amazing.

562
00:39:16,437 --> 00:39:17,563
Oh, we're shooting in Iran.

563
00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:19,152
Iran with an N?

564
00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:20,908
Yeah. We're very excited.

565
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:22,364
You ever watch the news?

566
00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:24,279
What does the title refer to?

567
00:39:25,029 --> 00:39:27,623
The Argo. You know, it's the thing.

568
00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:29,534
Like Jason and the Golden Fleece,
or what?

569
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,624
No, no. It's the ship. It's the spaceship.

570
00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:36,633
It goes everywhere.
It goes all throughout space.

571
00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:38,422
So it's the Argonaut.

572
00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:40,090
No.

573
00:39:40,253 --> 00:39:42,381
- What does "Argo" mean?
- I don't know.

574
00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:43,639
You don't know?

575
00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:46,267
It means "Argo fuck yourself."

576
00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:51,105
JOHN: Excuse me. May I have
your attention, ladies and gentlemen?

577
00:39:51,264 --> 00:39:55,815
If our artists could settle in. We're
just about ready to begin the reading.

578
00:39:55,977 --> 00:39:59,732
Argo, by Mary Ann Boyd.

579
00:39:59,898 --> 00:40:02,117
"Fade in on starship landing.

580
00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:03,822
Exterior, bazaar.

581
00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:06,829
An exotic, Middle Eastern vibe."

582
00:40:14,495 --> 00:40:17,669
TEHRAN MARY: (ON TV)
The people working here are not diplomats.

583
00:40:17,832 --> 00:40:20,301
In fact, as Imam Khomeini said...

584
00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:24,340
...we have found no evidence that proves
that these people are diplomats.

585
00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:29,011
All evidence proves
that these people are spies.

586
00:40:29,177 --> 00:40:32,852
In the name of God,
the beneficent, the merciful...

587
00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:35,642
...our message to the awakened peoples
of the world:

588
00:40:35,808 --> 00:40:38,527
At this time we want
to expose the hateful acts...

589
00:40:38,686 --> 00:40:40,859
NINA:
Our world has changed.

590
00:40:41,314 --> 00:40:44,284
The fire of hope stopped burning
in this galaxy long ago.

591
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:46,528
The ship is turning around.

592
00:40:46,736 --> 00:40:48,204
Fire the thrusters!

593
00:40:48,363 --> 00:40:50,923
NINA: He says a gravitational field
that strong will kill anyone.

594
00:40:50,949 --> 00:40:53,327
CARTER: (ON TV)
- -Were completely unjustified.

595
00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:55,166
They and all others must know...

596
00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:58,874
...that the United States of America
will not yield...

597
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,759
...to international
terrorism or to blackmail.

598
00:41:01,918 --> 00:41:05,639
DROID: Sir! We'll be crushed!
There's not enough time!

599
00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,892
TEHRAN MARY:... are controlled by
capitalists and large oil companies.

600
00:41:09,050 --> 00:41:12,554
The United States government considers
revolutionaries as terrorists...

601
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:17,567
...but itself and its CIA are the most
terrorizing organization of all time.

602
00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:20,520
JOHN: "The story was told,
but there are infinitely more.

603
00:41:20,687 --> 00:41:23,566
Three setting suns.
The princess's robes fall from her body."

604
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:26,575
ALEPPA: If we find his ship
we will find our chance.

605
00:41:27,568 --> 00:41:31,368
Aboard the Argo lies
my hope, my hero, my husband.

606
00:41:31,531 --> 00:41:34,910
We will begin the trials
and carry out the sentences.

607
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:38,954
CRONKITE: You wonder where and how this
seemingly endless parade of hatred will end.

608
00:41:38,955 --> 00:41:39,003
CRONKITE: You wonder where
and how this seemingly

609
00:41:39,029 --> 00:41:39,053
endless parade of hatred will end.

610
00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:42,286
What do they want? They say the question
should be not "what?" but "who?"

611
00:41:43,046 --> 00:41:43,713
What do they want? They say the question
should be not "what?" but "who?"

612
00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:46,550
The answer to that is clear.
They want their former shah.

613
00:41:46,713 --> 00:41:49,993
TEHRAN MARY: ... Carter and his administration
shameful to talk about human rights.

614
00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:54,346
Carter and his government have given
asylum to the worst criminal of all.

615
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:55,559
For life?

616
00:41:55,722 --> 00:41:59,101
TRANSLATOR: They will remain
until the shah is returned.

617
00:41:59,392 --> 00:42:02,896
CRONKITE: But if the exiled shah,
now in a New York City hospital...

618
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:06,236
...leaves the United States
for any place other than Iran...

619
00:42:06,399 --> 00:42:08,618
...harsher decisions will be taken
against the hostages.

620
00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:17,535
JOHN: "We cut outside
to the Shidoori Dome...

621
00:42:17,702 --> 00:42:19,545
...holding on a single red flower...

622
00:42:19,704 --> 00:42:23,129
...as it grows from the ruins
of a starship in the desert.

623
00:42:23,291 --> 00:42:26,921
Fade to black." The end.

624
00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:34,932
LESTER:
There is it. What'd I tell you?

625
00:42:35,303 --> 00:42:37,055
First shot of the picture.

626
00:42:41,350 --> 00:42:42,647
Argo fuck yourself.

627
00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:45,229
BOTH:
Argo fuck yourself.

628
00:43:08,843 --> 00:43:10,763
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
JANUARY 25, 1980

629
00:43:22,183 --> 00:43:26,780
Brace yourself. It's like talking to
those two old fucks on The Muppets.

630
00:43:30,316 --> 00:43:31,533
TURNER:
Aliens and robots?

631
00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,449
Yes, sir.

632
00:43:34,987 --> 00:43:38,332
You're telling me that there is a movie
company in Hollywood right now...

633
00:43:38,491 --> 00:43:40,289
...that is funded by the CIA?

634
00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:42,082
Yes, sir.

635
00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:47,007
- What's wrong with the bikes again?
- We tried to get the message upstairs, sir.

636
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:49,794
You think this is more plausible
than teachers?

637
00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:53,340
Yes, we do. One, there are no
more foreign teachers in Iran.

638
00:43:53,506 --> 00:43:55,725
And we think everybody
knows Hollywood people.

639
00:43:55,925 --> 00:44:00,431
Everybody knows they'd shoot in Stalingrad with
Pol Pot directing if it would sell tickets.

640
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,891
There are only bad options.

641
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:04,559
It's about finding the best one.

642
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,562
You don't have a better bad idea than this?

643
00:44:07,728 --> 00:44:10,481
This is the best bad idea we have, sir.

644
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:11,695
By far.

645
00:44:19,991 --> 00:44:23,996
The United States government has just
sanctioned your science-fiction movie.

646
00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:26,168
Thank you, sir.

647
00:45:02,617 --> 00:45:07,544
I'm required to remind you that if you are
detained, the agency will not claim you.

648
00:45:09,207 --> 00:45:10,379
Barely claim me as it is.

649
00:45:12,585 --> 00:45:14,303
Your "in case of's" good?

650
00:45:15,379 --> 00:45:16,881
It's just Christine.

651
00:45:19,759 --> 00:45:21,761
I should've brought some books
to read in prison.

652
00:45:21,928 --> 00:45:22,975
No.

653
00:45:23,638 --> 00:45:25,640
They'll kill you long before prison.

654
00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:28,814
- Thanks for the ride.
- Yeah.

655
00:45:39,111 --> 00:45:40,158
Studio Six.

656
00:45:40,321 --> 00:45:43,575
We got a green light. Keep the office
running until you hear otherwise.

657
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:45,167
Argo fuck yourself.

658
00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:47,040
Argo fuck yourself.

659
00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:07,519
WOMAN: (OVER PA)
Your attention, please.

660
00:46:07,682 --> 00:46:11,186
This is the final boarding call
for British Airways Flight 87.

661
00:46:43,551 --> 00:46:45,224
STAFFORD:
"We are a nation of 35 million.

662
00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:50,395
And many of these people are looking
forward to martyrdom."

663
00:46:53,561 --> 00:46:55,905
- Hey.
- Hey.

664
00:46:56,605 --> 00:46:57,982
Come to bed.

665
00:46:58,983 --> 00:47:00,155
In five minutes.

666
00:47:11,996 --> 00:47:14,374
You know, she pleaded with me.

667
00:47:15,041 --> 00:47:18,386
When it started in the streets
nine months ago...

668
00:47:19,420 --> 00:47:21,923
...she begged for us to leave.

669
00:47:23,007 --> 00:47:25,931
She packed our bags, and I said:

670
00:47:26,093 --> 00:47:29,267
"You know what?
You know, just a little bit longer."

671
00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:33,693
And all I was thinking was:

672
00:47:35,853 --> 00:47:37,400
"Stay..

673
00:47:38,397 --> 00:47:40,195
This is good for me.

674
00:47:41,317 --> 00:47:42,785
Stay.

675
00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:47,448
Show Newsom you got the balls."

676
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:56,131
I can't believe I put
Kathy in this position.

677
00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:07,051
I think we're gonna die here.

678
00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:38,132
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - JANUARY 27, 1980

679
00:48:56,559 --> 00:49:00,985
NICHOLLS: "Iran is 100 percent
not in a prerevolutionary state."

680
00:49:01,147 --> 00:49:04,196
CIA brief, November 1st, 1979.

681
00:49:04,358 --> 00:49:06,360
Can't be right all the time.

682
00:49:06,861 --> 00:49:08,033
Kevin.

683
00:49:08,529 --> 00:49:09,746
When'd you get back?

684
00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:13,167
NICHOLLS:
The shah escaped in a 747...

685
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:16,712
...so laden with gold bars,
it nearly didn't make it off the runway.

686
00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:17,918
But you kept busy.

687
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:23,132
Ferrying out the torture apparatus
of our friend's fallen dictatorship.

688
00:49:23,586 --> 00:49:25,088
It's getting worse.

689
00:49:25,254 --> 00:49:28,224
Everyone who lands at Mehrabad
now fills in one of these.

690
00:49:29,383 --> 00:49:33,263
That slip makes a copy to the one underneath.
Passenger keeps yellow, airport keeps white.

691
00:49:33,429 --> 00:49:34,976
When you leave, they match them up...

692
00:49:35,139 --> 00:49:37,517
...to verify you came into the country
when you say you did.

693
00:49:37,683 --> 00:49:41,654
So if they look, they'll see I didn't come
into the country with six people.

694
00:49:42,396 --> 00:49:44,148
If they look.

695
00:49:46,192 --> 00:49:51,198
When you land, you should go straight to the
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance...

696
00:49:51,405 --> 00:49:52,827
...to kiss the ring.

697
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:56,210
Get on record as having applied
for a film permit.

698
00:49:56,535 --> 00:50:00,130
If they catch you later, at least they'll
be confused while they're torturing you.

699
00:50:04,084 --> 00:50:08,055
IRANIAN CONSULATE - TURKEY

700
00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:19,976
What will be the purpose
of your visit to Iran?

701
00:50:20,351 --> 00:50:23,480
Uh, film production. Business.

702
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:28,655
Why didn't you get your visa in Canada?

703
00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:33,873
I would've loved to, except my boss
didn't send a telex till I got here.

704
00:50:34,532 --> 00:50:38,127
Guy had an intelligent thought in his head,
it would die of loneliness.

705
00:50:59,098 --> 00:51:01,817
The Times and AP found out six escaped.

706
00:51:01,976 --> 00:51:05,321
They know who they are and they know
they're hiding out with the Canadians.

707
00:51:05,479 --> 00:51:07,277
Somebody with one of the families talked.

708
00:51:07,481 --> 00:51:08,824
Mother of God.

709
00:51:08,983 --> 00:51:11,782
Yeah, I just put Vance on a plane
to take the editors to Le Cirque.

710
00:51:11,944 --> 00:51:14,413
He thinks he can
get them to sit on it, for now.

711
00:51:15,406 --> 00:51:17,374
Your guy better get them...

712
00:51:18,033 --> 00:51:19,910
...and get the hell out.

713
00:51:20,703 --> 00:51:23,673
WOMAN: (OVER PA) The captain has informed
us that we have entered Iranian airspace.

714
00:51:23,831 --> 00:51:28,337
We'll be coming through to collect
any remaining alcoholic beverages.

715
00:54:06,535 --> 00:54:08,208
This film crew is just yourself?

716
00:54:08,746 --> 00:54:11,716
No, we have six more from Canada
meeting us today.

717
00:54:11,874 --> 00:54:13,717
You like to film at the bazaar?

718
00:54:14,209 --> 00:54:16,052
The bazaar, maybe the palace.

719
00:54:16,879 --> 00:54:18,506
Landmark sites.

720
00:54:18,714 --> 00:54:20,307
I see.

721
00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:22,968
The exotic Orient.

722
00:54:23,385 --> 00:54:26,764
Snake charmers, flying carpets.

723
00:54:27,681 --> 00:54:30,560
You came to us at a complicated time.

724
00:54:30,726 --> 00:54:34,731
Before the revolution, 40 percent of the movie
theaters in Tehran were showing pornography.

725
00:54:35,898 --> 00:54:37,150
I understand.

726
00:54:37,316 --> 00:54:40,490
The function of this
office is purification...

727
00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:43,948
...as well as promotion for the arts.

728
00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:47,834
I'll review this for the minister.

729
00:54:48,577 --> 00:54:49,999
Okay. Thank you.

730
00:54:58,420 --> 00:55:01,219
Lester, you're working late.

731
00:55:01,381 --> 00:55:03,304
Till the dawn's early light.

732
00:55:03,467 --> 00:55:07,347
You got stamina, Lester. I wanna be you.

733
00:55:07,554 --> 00:55:10,398
Well, I'm 150 years old,
so you wouldn't be me for long.

734
00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:22,490
TONY: Mr. Ambassador.
- Ken Taylor.

735
00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:24,155
Thank you for what you're doing.

736
00:55:24,947 --> 00:55:27,791
I was expecting more of a G-man look.

737
00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:30,869
I think you're thinking of the FBI, sir.

738
00:55:31,662 --> 00:55:34,006
Ah. This way.

739
00:55:46,134 --> 00:55:49,855
- These are blank, you know. Stamps...
- Yeah, I'll take care of this.

740
00:55:52,057 --> 00:55:53,183
TAYLOR:
How long?

741
00:55:53,392 --> 00:55:56,191
A day, prep their covers.
Two if they need it.

742
00:55:56,353 --> 00:55:57,696
And you'll fly out with them?

743
00:55:58,105 --> 00:55:59,732
Yeah.

744
00:55:59,898 --> 00:56:01,571
There's something you should know.

745
00:56:01,775 --> 00:56:05,029
We think our housekeeper
has figured out who they are.

746
00:56:05,571 --> 00:56:10,042
We don't know if we can trust her,
so sooner is better.

747
00:56:59,917 --> 00:57:01,214
Hi.

748
00:57:01,376 --> 00:57:03,253
My name's Kevin Harkins...

749
00:57:04,338 --> 00:57:05,931
...and I'm gonna get you home.

750
00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:10,010
These are the screenplays
for your cover identities.

751
00:57:11,637 --> 00:57:14,106
It's theater of the absurd.

752
00:57:14,264 --> 00:57:16,858
- What are our chances?
- Your chances are good.

753
00:57:17,017 --> 00:57:20,146
"Good“? Well, what's the number value
of "good"?

754
00:57:20,354 --> 00:57:23,073
Thirty percent chance
of being publicly executed?

755
00:57:23,231 --> 00:57:26,781
Can you tell me what the objection was
to normal cover identities?

756
00:57:26,944 --> 00:57:29,185
There are no Canadians in the country
for normal reasons.

757
00:57:29,321 --> 00:57:30,868
- They'll sniff us out regardless.
LIJEK: The Swedish Consul?

758
00:57:31,031 --> 00:57:34,706
They accused him of being an American
at the airport. They held him for an hour.

759
00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:37,917
We can't hold up under that. We don't
know what the hell movie people do.

760
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,206
That's why I'm here.

761
00:57:39,373 --> 00:57:42,877
I'm gonna help you. I'll be with you
the whole way. This is what I do.

762
00:57:43,043 --> 00:57:45,091
Have you gotten people out
this way before?

763
00:57:46,421 --> 00:57:47,923
This would be a first.

764
00:57:49,424 --> 00:57:53,019
Do you know that every day they catch
another friend of the shah at the airport?

765
00:57:53,178 --> 00:57:55,681
Kangaroo trials and then firing squads...

766
00:57:55,889 --> 00:57:58,608
...just for having American names
in their phone books.

767
00:57:58,767 --> 00:58:00,235
You've been here an hour.

768
00:58:00,394 --> 00:58:02,817
And you're asking us to trust you
with our lives, Mr...?

769
00:58:02,980 --> 00:58:04,323
Harkins.

770
00:58:04,523 --> 00:58:06,321
That's your real name?

771
00:58:06,984 --> 00:58:08,156
No.

772
00:58:11,113 --> 00:58:14,913
I know there are risks involved.
Serious risks.

773
00:58:15,409 --> 00:58:17,127
But it is time to go.

774
00:58:19,579 --> 00:58:23,209
We've got orders to close the embassy and go back.
There's nowhere for them to stay.

775
00:58:25,711 --> 00:58:29,432
We will never make it through
immigration at the airport. I'm serious.

776
00:58:29,589 --> 00:58:33,514
No, no, no, this is what, the part when we
say this is so crazy it might actually work?

777
00:58:33,677 --> 00:58:35,520
Joe, I saw it in Burma.
They get people out.

778
00:58:35,679 --> 00:58:38,933
Snitches in banana republics? They get
them over the border after the coup.

779
00:58:39,099 --> 00:58:40,146
That's your opinion, Joe.

780
00:58:40,308 --> 00:58:42,481
You know, his opinion got us out
in the first place.

781
00:58:42,978 --> 00:58:47,108
If we go out there with fake passports,
we are spies, period. That's execution.

782
00:58:47,274 --> 00:58:49,823
- You got a problem lying, Joe?
- Point is, we can't stay here.

783
00:58:50,485 --> 00:58:54,115
If we get caught, you and Pat go on trial
for harboring the enemy, you know that?

784
00:58:54,281 --> 00:58:56,875
Pat and I have discussed it.
It's the risk we took.

785
00:58:57,659 --> 00:59:00,583
STAFFORD: That man out there
has got bad cards and he is going to lose.

786
00:59:00,746 --> 00:59:04,046
And if he loses, it's our lives.

787
00:59:05,333 --> 00:59:07,335
And his life too.

788
00:59:08,754 --> 00:59:10,677
ANDERS:
Look, we don't have any alternatives.

789
00:59:10,839 --> 00:59:12,056
We gotta go.

790
00:59:18,555 --> 00:59:22,025
TONY: These cover identities were created
specifically for each one of you.

791
00:59:22,184 --> 00:59:24,733
What you need to do is memorize
everything that's inside.

792
00:59:24,895 --> 00:59:27,819
Who you are, what you are,
where you've been. Complete bio.

793
00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:29,073
And then add to that.

794
00:59:29,232 --> 00:59:32,657
Where do you vacation? What are your
allergies? Who'd you have an affair with?

795
00:59:32,819 --> 00:59:33,991
The only way this works...

796
00:59:34,154 --> 00:59:37,829
...is if you believe that you're these
people so much that you dream like them.

797
00:59:38,784 --> 00:59:40,502
Get started tonight.

798
00:59:41,203 --> 00:59:44,207
I'll be back tomorrow.
We'll get going. Good luck.

799
00:59:49,795 --> 00:59:51,513
SCHATZ:
Well, my guy kind of sucks.

800
00:59:51,671 --> 00:59:53,048
KATHY:
What's your name?

801
00:59:53,757 --> 00:59:56,055
Mike McEwan, eh? Heh.

802
00:59:57,010 --> 00:59:58,057
LIJEK:
That was convincing.

803
00:59:58,220 --> 00:59:59,893
CORA:
Kathy, what's your name?

804
01:00:27,874 --> 01:00:31,094
ANNOUNCER: (ON TV) The Love Boat
will be seen 15 minutes from now.

805
01:00:31,253 --> 01:00:35,053
The State Department insisted today
that the crisis in Afghanistan...

806
01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:39,311
...will not divert the attention of the United
States from the plight of the hostages.

807
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:42,188
- -is perceived to be if not impotent,
then at least reluctant...

808
01:00:42,347 --> 01:00:46,853
Now the United States finds itself in such
bitter confrontation with the Soviet Union...

809
01:00:47,018 --> 01:00:49,862
...over that country's invasion
of Afghanistan...

810
01:00:50,063 --> 01:00:52,486
The United States
is now moving toward a decision...

811
01:00:52,649 --> 01:00:54,697
...to boycott the Summer Olympics
in Moscow...

812
01:00:55,861 --> 01:00:59,081
Bad news, bad news.
Even when it's good news, it's bad news.

813
01:00:59,447 --> 01:01:03,577
John Wayne's in the ground six months,
this is what's left of America.

814
01:01:18,717 --> 01:01:19,934
(KNOCK ON DOOR)

815
01:01:32,105 --> 01:01:35,735
TONY: "The Minister of Culture and Guidance
has approved your location scout.

816
01:01:35,901 --> 01:01:37,824
He will send his representative to meet
you and your crew...

817
01:01:37,986 --> 01:01:41,581
...at the Khayyam entrance
to the Grand Bazaar tomorrow at 3 p.m."

818
01:01:42,449 --> 01:01:43,621
They called your bluff.

819
01:01:43,783 --> 01:01:46,377
- Maybe they're cooperating.
- Absolutely not.

820
01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:51,166
Seven Americans walking the bazaar
is asking for a riot. It's the hive.

821
01:01:51,333 --> 01:01:52,676
Seven Canadians, Jack.

822
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:55,963
Never give them multiple shots at a cover.

823
01:01:56,671 --> 01:01:57,968
Are they even ready?

824
01:01:58,131 --> 01:01:59,383
They're getting there.

825
01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:01,096
There's no prize for "Most improved."

826
01:02:01,259 --> 01:02:03,978
I don't have a choice.
We say no, they show up at the residence...

827
01:02:04,137 --> 01:02:06,858
...and drag everyone out.
You think their covers are gonna hold up...

828
01:02:06,932 --> 01:02:09,012
...when they're getting their fingernails
pulled out?

829
01:02:29,537 --> 01:02:32,791
You want us to go to the Grand Bazaar
at 3:00 in the afternoon?

830
01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:36,879
You said a day to learn our covers,
then straight to the airport.

831
01:02:37,045 --> 01:02:38,672
They suspect something?

832
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:41,591
What I know is,
we need to pretend to be a movie crew.

833
01:02:41,758 --> 01:02:45,183
We go to the bazaar today,
we fly out from the airport tomorrow.

834
01:02:47,264 --> 01:02:48,686
We won't do it.

835
01:02:50,475 --> 01:02:53,194
He told them that there were six of us.
So they're expecting six.

836
01:02:53,353 --> 01:02:55,572
It would be suspicious
not to show up at this point.

837
01:02:55,730 --> 01:02:57,858
What else do we have to do, all right?

838
01:02:58,024 --> 01:03:00,573
STAFFORD: He's about to show them
the only cards that we're holding...

839
01:03:00,735 --> 01:03:04,410
...which is that they don't know we're here!
- That's the ball game, okay?

840
01:03:04,572 --> 01:03:06,700
Look, we don't have any other choice!

841
01:03:06,866 --> 01:03:09,210
Who says that we'll know our covers
well enough?

842
01:03:09,369 --> 01:03:11,121
We're not in the CIA.

843
01:03:12,247 --> 01:03:13,874
It's suicide.

844
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,134
I'm asking you to trust me.

845
01:03:17,544 --> 01:03:18,716
I don't trust you.

846
01:03:21,256 --> 01:03:23,805
This is the game, Joe.
What world are you living in?

847
01:03:23,967 --> 01:03:27,597
The one where they're hanging people
from construction cranes, Bob.

848
01:03:28,388 --> 01:03:30,857
It's too dangerous.
I won't bring my wife into the bazaar.

849
01:03:32,934 --> 01:03:34,277
ANDERS:
Joe?

850
01:03:40,984 --> 01:03:42,827
So we'll see you at 2.

851
01:04:05,675 --> 01:04:10,772
CORA: So don't be recognizable
but look exactly like your passport photo.

852
01:04:12,015 --> 01:04:14,484
I haven't been this nervous
since our wedding.

853
01:04:16,269 --> 01:04:18,363
Only this isn't a huge mistake, hopefully.

854
01:04:19,814 --> 01:04:21,691
PAT:
Sorry. Okay.

855
01:04:24,444 --> 01:04:25,787
Hello?

856
01:04:28,531 --> 01:04:29,953
Hello?

857
01:04:30,658 --> 01:04:31,784
Hello?

858
01:04:38,666 --> 01:04:39,963
Who was that?

859
01:04:43,296 --> 01:04:45,014
- Mark?
- Yeah?

860
01:04:47,300 --> 01:04:48,893
I'm scared.

861
01:04:51,221 --> 01:04:52,473
It's okay.

862
01:05:40,353 --> 01:05:41,525
Where are they?

863
01:05:41,688 --> 01:05:43,031
In the kitchen.

864
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:03,426
This is what I do. I get people out.

865
01:06:04,919 --> 01:06:07,763
And I've never left anyone behind.

866
01:06:09,466 --> 01:06:11,810
I wish I could believe you, Mr. Harkins.

867
01:06:16,931 --> 01:06:20,231
My name is Tony Mendez.
I'm from New York.

868
01:06:20,393 --> 01:06:23,146
My father worked construction.
My mother teaches elementary school.

869
01:06:23,313 --> 01:06:25,691
I have a wife and a 10-year-old son.

870
01:06:28,109 --> 01:06:32,785
You play along with me today,
I promise you, I will get you out tomorrow.

871
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,878
Fuck.

872
01:07:19,452 --> 01:07:21,329
Shit.

873
01:07:48,356 --> 01:07:49,858
Hang on.

874
01:08:38,031 --> 01:08:39,658
You all right?

875
01:08:44,912 --> 01:08:47,085
Okay. Tell me who you are.

876
01:08:47,790 --> 01:08:50,043
Mike McEwan, cameraman.

877
01:08:50,585 --> 01:08:52,804
Robert Baker, director.

878
01:08:53,254 --> 01:08:55,256
Timothy Harris, location manager.

879
01:08:55,423 --> 01:08:57,425
Mary Ann Boyd, screenwriter.

880
01:08:57,592 --> 01:08:59,344
Rachel Dewart, production designer.

881
01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:01,270
Sean Bissett, associate producer.

882
01:09:01,429 --> 01:09:03,978
All right. Let's go make a movie.

883
01:09:17,278 --> 01:09:19,280
Welcome, welcome.
My name is Reza Bolhani.

884
01:09:19,447 --> 01:09:21,825
- Kevin Harkins. I'm the producer.
- Nice to meet you.

885
01:09:21,991 --> 01:09:23,618
This is Mike McEwan, our cameraman.

886
01:09:23,785 --> 01:09:26,004
This is Tim.
This is Mary, our screenwriter.

887
01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:27,664
And this is our director, Bob Baker.

888
01:09:27,830 --> 01:09:29,582
- You are the director?
- Yes.

889
01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:32,218
Is this film a foreign-bride film?

890
01:09:33,127 --> 01:09:34,424
Sorry?

891
01:09:34,587 --> 01:09:37,056
A film where a foreign
bride comes to Iran...

892
01:09:37,215 --> 01:09:40,765
...but she doesn't understand the language
or the customs...

893
01:09:40,927 --> 01:09:43,476
...and there is misunderstandings
and laughs.

894
01:09:43,638 --> 01:09:45,106
Oh, no.

895
01:09:50,311 --> 01:09:55,784
REZA: The bazaar in Tehran
is one of the largest in the world.

896
01:09:56,359 --> 01:10:00,535
This bazaar has been on this spot
for over 8000 years.

897
01:10:00,697 --> 01:10:04,918
You can find many items
such as paper, spices...

898
01:10:05,118 --> 01:10:07,621
...precious metals, all right here.

899
01:10:07,787 --> 01:10:09,004
Right this way, please.

900
01:10:14,377 --> 01:10:15,754
This way.

901
01:10:30,852 --> 01:10:32,149
TONY: Uh, Mike?
SCHATZ: Yeah.

902
01:10:32,311 --> 01:10:36,487
If I was to say you're looking through the wrong
end of that viewfinder, would I be right?

903
01:10:38,776 --> 01:10:40,369
Yup.

904
01:10:47,577 --> 01:10:48,703
REZA:
Just a little further.

905
01:11:18,691 --> 01:11:21,945
REZA:
Please wait here. Let's stay together.

906
01:11:38,753 --> 01:11:40,505
He wants the photograph you took.

907
01:11:40,671 --> 01:11:43,766
It's okay, it's her job to take photographs.
She's the production designer.

908
01:11:43,925 --> 01:11:47,179
He says he did not give you permission
to take a photograph of his store.

909
01:11:47,345 --> 01:11:50,019
That's okay. You can
tell him he can have it.

910
01:11:51,307 --> 01:11:53,401
Please, please, just take the photograph.

911
01:12:03,194 --> 01:12:04,354
(IN FARSI) Peace be upon you.

912
01:12:04,403 --> 01:12:05,780
SAHAR: (IN FARSI)
And upon you, sir. Welcome.

913
01:12:05,947 --> 01:12:07,199
I hope you are well.

914
01:12:07,365 --> 01:12:09,038
Thank you very much. How are you?

915
01:12:09,242 --> 01:12:11,620
I'm very well. What's your name?

916
01:12:11,786 --> 01:12:12,958
Sahar.

917
01:12:23,965 --> 01:12:27,139
He's saying that the shah killed his son
with an American gun.

918
01:12:36,811 --> 01:12:39,189
No, no, no! No! Canada!

919
01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:40,402
Canada!

920
01:12:40,565 --> 01:12:42,863
I would like to suggest
that we end our visit.

921
01:12:52,201 --> 01:12:53,293
You know, sister...

922
01:12:53,452 --> 01:12:57,457
...those who are with him, Rasool of Allah,
we are tender among ourselves.

923
01:12:57,623 --> 01:12:59,170
But stern against the Kufar.

924
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:01,214
As God wills it.

925
01:13:02,837 --> 01:13:06,057
But those who sit silently have sinned.

926
01:13:07,508 --> 01:13:09,510
How else may I help, sir?

927
01:13:09,677 --> 01:13:12,021
No, no, just one thing.

928
01:13:13,890 --> 01:13:15,517
How long have they been here?

929
01:13:16,767 --> 01:13:17,814
Pardon?

930
01:13:19,145 --> 01:13:20,861
The guests of the Ambassador.

931
01:13:20,862 --> 01:13:23,182
The guests of the Ambassador.
How long have they been here?

932
01:13:25,109 --> 01:13:26,702
They arrived two days ago.

933
01:13:27,486 --> 01:13:32,208
Forgive my intrusion, one must be vigilant.

934
01:13:33,492 --> 01:13:36,371
Everyone in this house is a friend of Iran.

935
01:14:10,905 --> 01:14:12,373
TAYLOR:
How'd it go?

936
01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:15,618
What about tomorrow?

937
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:18,500
Tomorrow they'll be ready.

938
01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:24,714
NEWSCASTER: (ON TV)
For Kennedy, a stunning turnaround...

939
01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:26,925
...one week after humiliation in Illinois.

940
01:14:27,088 --> 01:14:28,385
KENNEDY:
I love New York.

941
01:14:29,757 --> 01:14:32,306
And I love Connecticut too.

942
01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:35,096
NEWSCASTER:
How did he win here? Well, he had help.

943
01:14:35,262 --> 01:14:39,893
CARTER: I'm responsible for anything
that goes wrong in this government.

944
01:14:40,059 --> 01:14:44,109
A man in Scranton is placing a flag
in his lawn for every day of captivity.

945
01:14:45,106 --> 01:14:48,235
When he runs out of lawn,
Kennedy wins the primary.

946
01:14:48,776 --> 01:14:51,199
The six with the Canadians
are coming out.

947
01:15:02,248 --> 01:15:03,841
Who signed off on this?

948
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,799
- You. Where was your passport issued?
- Vancouver.

949
01:15:06,961 --> 01:15:08,258
- Where were you born?
- Toronto.

950
01:15:08,421 --> 01:15:10,423
"Torono." Canadians don't pronounce the T.

951
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:13,012
Some Komiteh guard
is actually gonna know that?

952
01:15:13,175 --> 01:15:16,975
If you're detained for questioning, they
will bring in someone who knows that. Yes.

953
01:15:17,138 --> 01:15:20,358
Mary, who were the last three
prime ministers of Canada?

954
01:15:20,808 --> 01:15:23,311
Trudeau, Pearson and Diefenbaker.

955
01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:25,150
- What's your father's name?
- Howard.

956
01:15:25,312 --> 01:15:27,064
- What's his occupation?
CORA: Fisherman.

957
01:15:27,231 --> 01:15:29,484
TONY: Where were you born?
- Halifax, Nova Scotia.

958
01:15:29,650 --> 01:15:31,402
What's your date of birth?

959
01:15:31,569 --> 01:15:33,742
February 21st, 1952.

960
01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:35,869
- Good. What's your job on the movie?
STAFFORD: Producer.

961
01:15:36,032 --> 01:15:38,785
TONY: Associate. Last movie you produced?
- High and Dry.

962
01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:40,453
- Who paid for that?
- CFDC.

963
01:15:40,619 --> 01:15:42,963
What's your middle name?
What's your middle name?

964
01:15:43,122 --> 01:15:44,840
- Leon?
- Shoot him. He's an American spy.

965
01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:50,297
Look, they're gonna try to break you, okay?
By trying to get you agitated.

966
01:15:50,463 --> 01:15:52,591
You have to know your résumé
back to front.

967
01:15:52,757 --> 01:15:57,103
You really believe your little story's gonna make
a difference when there's a gun to our heads?

968
01:15:58,012 --> 01:16:01,186
I think my story's the only thing
between you and a gun to your head.

969
01:16:04,518 --> 01:16:05,565
Okay.

970
01:16:10,775 --> 01:16:13,745
Hey, they made it through
the location scout.

971
01:16:25,998 --> 01:16:27,375
You have a call.

972
01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:39,349
What is it?

973
01:16:39,512 --> 01:16:40,604
Go to black on green.

974
01:16:43,307 --> 01:16:44,399
Go.

975
01:16:44,558 --> 01:16:46,026
- It all just changed.
- What?

976
01:16:46,185 --> 01:16:48,779
- They're calling the game. You gotta come back.
- What?

977
01:16:48,938 --> 01:16:51,657
Joint Chiefs are planning
a military rescue of the hostages.

978
01:16:51,816 --> 01:16:54,365
Delta Force has started training
to storm the grounds.

979
01:16:54,527 --> 01:16:56,404
So if the six of them...

980
01:16:56,570 --> 01:17:00,200
...are brought down there,
they won't be held for long.

981
01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:04,754
Fuck. Goddamn it. I never would have exposed
them if I wasn't authorized to get them out.

982
01:17:04,912 --> 01:17:07,631
- It's over, Tony.
- If they stay here, they will be taken.

983
01:17:07,790 --> 01:17:12,546
- Probably not alive.
- Listen to me. The thinking has changed.

984
01:17:12,711 --> 01:17:16,386
Six Americans get pulled out of a
Canadian diplomat's house and executed...

985
01:17:16,549 --> 01:17:18,472
...it's a world outrage.

986
01:17:18,634 --> 01:17:21,604
Six Americans get caught playing
movie make-believe...

987
01:17:21,762 --> 01:17:24,436
...with the CIA at the
airport and executed?

988
01:17:24,598 --> 01:17:29,479
It's a national embarrassment.
They are calling the operation.

989
01:17:31,730 --> 01:17:34,279
We're responsible for these people.

990
01:17:35,276 --> 01:17:38,075
What we are is required to follow orders.

991
01:17:38,946 --> 01:17:40,323
I'm sorry.

992
01:17:49,707 --> 01:17:51,084
Fuck!

993
01:17:57,923 --> 01:17:58,970
Come in.

994
01:18:00,593 --> 01:18:02,186
Ready to try again.

995
01:18:04,430 --> 01:18:07,183
You're ready. You worked hard.

996
01:18:08,350 --> 01:18:11,229
Probably the best thing to do for you
right now would be...

997
01:18:12,104 --> 01:18:13,526
...just to relax.

998
01:18:14,356 --> 01:18:15,403
Okay.

999
01:18:15,941 --> 01:18:17,409
You did good.

1000
01:18:18,319 --> 01:18:19,616
Thanks.

1001
01:18:31,999 --> 01:18:35,299
Scorched-earth policy tonight.

1002
01:18:37,004 --> 01:18:38,847
Nothing gets left.

1003
01:18:45,971 --> 01:18:47,393
So you know.

1004
01:18:49,183 --> 01:18:52,983
ExtAff wants you to burn the passports
before you leave.

1005
01:18:55,147 --> 01:18:59,152
If we tell them now, they'll panic.
I think it's best if you just don't show.

1006
01:19:01,654 --> 01:19:03,702
It was always a fucked mission.

1007
01:19:04,365 --> 01:19:06,663
You came closer than anybody else.

1008
01:19:10,621 --> 01:19:15,621
If it keeps on rainin'
Levee's goin' to break

1009
01:19:24,343 --> 01:19:30,021
When the levee breaks
I'll have no place to stay

1010
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:39,988
Ahem. It's off.
They want us to pack up the office.

1011
01:21:41,688 --> 01:21:43,816
This can wait. Let's go get a drink.

1012
01:22:09,133 --> 01:22:11,056
He's late.

1013
01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:25,528
O'Donnell.

1014
01:22:25,691 --> 01:22:26,943
TONY:
Somebody's responsible...

1015
01:22:27,109 --> 01:22:28,952
...when things happen, Jack.

1016
01:22:29,611 --> 01:22:31,158
I'm responsible.

1017
01:22:31,363 --> 01:22:33,957
- I'm taking them through.
- Tony?

1018
01:22:43,876 --> 01:22:48,302
Alan. Alan. We need to confirm those
seven tickets out of Tehran on Swissair.

1019
01:22:48,464 --> 01:22:50,762
- N.E. shut that down.
- I say it's back on.

1020
01:22:50,924 --> 01:22:53,677
- I can't do it. It's backstopped.
- Hey, wait a minute.

1021
01:22:53,844 --> 01:22:56,848
What the hell you talking about, backstopped?
What the hell's that mean?

1022
01:22:57,014 --> 01:22:59,813
Carter's gotta say yes for us
to get the tickets.

1023
01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:10,827
It's time to go.

1024
01:23:21,163 --> 01:23:22,210
All right.

1025
01:23:23,957 --> 01:23:26,756
- Where's Engell?
- He's in a meeting.

1026
01:23:26,919 --> 01:23:29,843
- Pull him out.
- Uh...

1027
01:23:30,005 --> 01:23:31,177
Pull him out!

1028
01:23:31,340 --> 01:23:33,260
LIJEK:
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

1029
01:23:33,759 --> 01:23:35,432
TONY: Thank you.
TAYLOR: See you soon.

1030
01:23:35,594 --> 01:23:37,517
- Sahar's on a bus.
TONY: Great.

1031
01:23:37,679 --> 01:23:39,101
Sahar will be fine.

1032
01:23:39,264 --> 01:23:41,016
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1033
01:23:41,266 --> 01:23:44,520
- You two leave right now, right?
- We'll be on a train in half an hour.

1034
01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:45,778
TONY:
Good.

1035
01:23:49,358 --> 01:23:50,575
ENGELL:
N.E. said no.

1036
01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:55,410
This is not a long leasher, and it never
has been, and you don't decide if it goes!

1037
01:23:55,572 --> 01:23:56,789
It is going!

1038
01:23:56,949 --> 01:23:58,951
Jack, you are this close.

1039
01:23:59,117 --> 01:24:00,994
Am I? Am I really that close?

1040
01:24:01,161 --> 01:24:03,129
You are this goddamn close to the line
with me.

1041
01:24:03,288 --> 01:24:06,838
I am not gonna leave him at the airport
with six people and his dick in his hand.

1042
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,470
You tell the director to call the White House.
Do your fucking job!

1043
01:24:19,096 --> 01:24:20,188
Get to your plane, Claude.

1044
01:24:27,187 --> 01:24:30,657
First time anyone's gonna ask you
a question is at the first checkpoint.

1045
01:24:31,316 --> 01:24:33,819
The first checkpoint is just
to get a look at your passports.

1046
01:24:34,194 --> 01:24:37,994
Passports came straight from Ottawa
last week. They're clean.

1047
01:24:38,407 --> 01:24:40,250
O'DONNELL:
Find the White House chief of staff.

1048
01:24:40,409 --> 01:24:41,501
How would I find him?

1049
01:24:41,660 --> 01:24:44,664
We're a fucking spy agency! Find him!

1050
01:24:45,414 --> 01:24:48,759
The second checkpoint is immigration.

1051
01:24:48,917 --> 01:24:50,669
You're each gonna hand them one of these.

1052
01:24:50,836 --> 01:24:53,430
It says that you landed in the country
two days ago.

1053
01:24:54,172 --> 01:24:57,016
They'll look for the matching white one,
which doesn't exist.

1054
01:24:57,175 --> 01:24:58,973
You'll say you don't know what happened.

1055
01:24:59,136 --> 01:25:01,059
And if you believe they
lost the white slip...

1056
01:25:02,306 --> 01:25:03,398
...they'll believe it too.

1057
01:25:04,266 --> 01:25:07,361
Jordan's in the West Wing.
He's not taking calls.

1058
01:25:08,854 --> 01:25:10,356
Where are his kids?

1059
01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:11,569
MALI NOV:
What?

1060
01:25:11,732 --> 01:25:13,279
Where do his kids go to school?

1061
01:25:20,365 --> 01:25:21,787
Thank you, thank you.

1062
01:25:21,950 --> 01:25:24,203
Pace Academy, Buckhead, Georgia.

1063
01:25:27,581 --> 01:25:28,628
White House.

1064
01:25:28,790 --> 01:25:33,387
Yes, this is Mr. Murphy from Pace Academy
calling for Mr. Jordan.

1065
01:25:33,545 --> 01:25:35,889
Yeah, I'm afraid it is an emergency.

1066
01:25:36,048 --> 01:25:38,267
Hold for the chief of staff's office.

1067
01:25:38,467 --> 01:25:41,016
TONY:
The third checkpoint is the trap.

1068
01:25:41,178 --> 01:25:42,805
It's manned by the Revolutionary Guard.

1069
01:25:43,430 --> 01:25:45,683
Most of them were educated
in the U.S. or Europe.

1070
01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:49,103
And all of whom are looking for Americans.

1071
01:26:00,947 --> 01:26:01,994
Hello?

1072
01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:03,955
O'DONNELL: Jack O'Donnell, from C. I.
- Wait, wait, who?

1073
01:26:04,117 --> 01:26:07,917
Tehran Houseguest operation is ready now.
We don't have the president's go-ahead.

1074
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,174
They are going to be captured.

1075
01:26:10,332 --> 01:26:11,458
David, pick up!

1076
01:26:25,597 --> 01:26:27,474
(SQUAWKS)

1077
01:26:29,101 --> 01:26:31,650
TONY:
Zurich. It's under Harkins.

1078
01:26:39,820 --> 01:26:42,494
I'm sorry, sir, I don't seem
to have these reservations.

1079
01:26:46,034 --> 01:26:47,957
Telex on flash.

1080
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:50,964
Would you mind checking again, please?

1081
01:26:59,631 --> 01:27:02,384
Copy D.S. Confirm the tickets! Go!

1082
01:27:15,897 --> 01:27:17,490
My apologies. It just came through.

1083
01:27:25,157 --> 01:27:26,875
Swissair says they picked up the tickets.

1084
01:27:27,033 --> 01:27:29,707
Get the L.A. office,
tell them to be ready in case they call.

1085
01:27:29,870 --> 01:27:31,998
We told them to shut that down.

1086
01:28:03,111 --> 01:28:04,533
ANDERS:
There you go.

1087
01:28:21,379 --> 01:28:22,801
Not here.

1088
01:29:26,027 --> 01:29:27,779
When did you come to Iran?

1089
01:29:28,321 --> 01:29:30,119
Two days ago.

1090
01:29:30,282 --> 01:29:31,955
What was the purpose of your visit?

1091
01:29:33,034 --> 01:29:35,628
We are looking for locations for a film.

1092
01:29:42,419 --> 01:29:43,511
We have a...

1093
01:29:43,670 --> 01:29:48,551
Oh, yeah. I've got a letter
from the Ministry of Culture.

1094
01:29:49,467 --> 01:29:51,720
If you want to take a look at that.
All right?

1095
01:30:11,907 --> 01:30:13,955
ANDERS: Ahem.
- You can go.

1096
01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:25,174
Come on, come on.

1097
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:42,154
WOMAN: (OVER PA) Swissair Flight 363
is now boarding Rows 18 to 35.

1098
01:31:16,554 --> 01:31:18,807
We're going to...

1099
01:31:47,335 --> 01:31:51,056
We're together, yes.
The six of us, we're from Canada.

1100
01:31:52,549 --> 01:31:54,643
Purser's telling Swissair
they're not on the plane.

1101
01:31:54,801 --> 01:31:56,303
They should have boarded already.

1102
01:31:56,469 --> 01:31:58,062
Still no answer in L.A.

1103
01:32:23,121 --> 01:32:24,293
Sir.

1104
01:32:34,299 --> 01:32:37,803
STAFFORD: (IN FARSI) Yes, it's a fantasy
story about a war in another world.

1105
01:32:37,969 --> 01:32:39,687
Here you can see our notices.

1106
01:32:43,975 --> 01:32:45,852
STAFFORD:
Of course I speak Farsi.

1107
01:32:46,019 --> 01:32:48,238
I wish to make a film in Iran.

1108
01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:08,466
CORA:
No, I'm the writer.

1109
01:33:08,666 --> 01:33:10,543
(IN ENGLISH)
Kevin, give me the storyboards.

1110
01:33:11,127 --> 01:33:15,177
(IN FARSI) These are the drawings that show
what we will film for the movie.

1111
01:33:15,340 --> 01:33:18,014
Alien villains have taken
over the hero's planet.

1112
01:33:18,176 --> 01:33:21,350
They fight for their families and
take back the city.

1113
01:33:21,513 --> 01:33:27,862
The villains know he is the chosen one,
so they kidnap his son in the spice market.

1114
01:33:29,395 --> 01:33:32,023
So he and his wife storm the castle.

1115
01:33:32,190 --> 01:33:36,382
The people... hold that... the
people are inspired to join him.

1116
01:33:36,408 --> 01:33:39,224
They are farmers, but
they learn to fight.

1117
01:33:42,951 --> 01:33:44,749
They shoot weapons at their enemies.

1118
01:33:48,957 --> 01:33:52,211
And the king of the aliens is destroyed
when the people find their courage.

1119
01:34:01,386 --> 01:34:03,514
(IN ENGLISH)
You don't go until we verify.

1120
01:34:08,059 --> 01:34:10,107
(IN ENGLISH) I understand.

1121
01:34:10,270 --> 01:34:12,443
Sir, you can call our office.

1122
01:34:12,605 --> 01:34:13,948
They'll verify.

1123
01:34:39,215 --> 01:34:42,095
- It'd go all the way throughout the '30s.
MAN: We're shooting right now.

1124
01:34:42,218 --> 01:34:46,098
- We're just going to the Producers Building.
- Yeah, I understand. We're shooting right now.

1125
01:35:20,131 --> 01:35:23,852
WOMAN: (OVER PA) Swissair announces
final boarding for Flight 363 to Zurich.

1126
01:35:31,809 --> 01:35:33,561
WOMAN:
Reset! We're back to one.

1127
01:35:33,728 --> 01:35:35,696
MAN 1: All right, reset.
MAN 2: We're going again!

1128
01:35:35,855 --> 01:35:38,859
- We're just right at the Producers...
- Right away, everyone! And rolling!

1129
01:35:39,025 --> 01:35:41,323
- We're going to the Producers Building.
- We're rolling.

1130
01:36:17,647 --> 01:36:20,617
Sorry, pal. We're gonna be in the movie.
Call my agent.

1131
01:36:20,817 --> 01:36:22,114
Sir!

1132
01:36:34,038 --> 01:36:36,040
Studio Six Productions.

1133
01:36:36,958 --> 01:36:39,381
May I speak to a Mr. Kevin Harkins?

1134
01:36:39,544 --> 01:36:43,720
I'm sorry, Mr. Harkins is out of country
on a location scout. May I take a message?

1135
01:37:01,357 --> 01:37:04,782
Doors are closing for Flight 363 to Zurich.

1136
01:37:13,036 --> 01:37:14,253
We can go.

1137
01:37:23,463 --> 01:37:25,636
You keep these. It's a gift.

1138
01:37:53,117 --> 01:37:54,289
WOMAN:
Miss.

1139
01:39:58,910 --> 01:40:00,912
Swissair 363, clearance for taxi?

1140
01:40:04,081 --> 01:40:07,585
Swissair 363,
you are number two for departure.

1141
01:40:14,926 --> 01:40:18,772
PILOT: (OVER PA) Ladies and gentlemen, from the
flight deck, we are number two for takeoff.

1142
01:40:55,967 --> 01:40:58,891
Swissair 363, you are cleared for takeoff.

1143
01:41:02,974 --> 01:41:04,851
Swissair 363, cleared for takeoff.

1144
01:42:10,166 --> 01:42:11,213
We got wheels up.

1145
01:42:11,751 --> 01:42:12,798
Wait.

1146
01:42:28,392 --> 01:42:31,066
STEWARDESS: Ladies and gentlemen,
it is our pleasure to announce...

1147
01:42:31,228 --> 01:42:34,949
...that alcoholic beverages are now available
as we have cleared Iranian airspace.

1148
01:42:39,945 --> 01:42:41,447
(MOUTHS) I love you.

1149
01:43:23,489 --> 01:43:25,787
They're clear. Ha-ha-ha!

1150
01:43:25,950 --> 01:43:27,452
Yes! Yes!

1151
01:43:28,327 --> 01:43:30,455
LAMONT: Yeah!
MALINOV: Yes!

1152
01:43:30,621 --> 01:43:31,793
LAMONT:
Yeah, man.

1153
01:43:32,248 --> 01:43:33,966
They're out!

1154
01:43:34,125 --> 01:43:37,345
- They're out! They're out!
- We got them out!

1155
01:43:40,673 --> 01:43:41,799
They're out!

1156
01:43:46,178 --> 01:43:47,805
MALINOV:
Yes!

1157
01:43:47,972 --> 01:43:50,145
Great work, boys.

1158
01:43:50,307 --> 01:43:51,308
JOHN:
We did it!

1159
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:06,494
(IN ARABIC)
You are admitted to the Republic of Iraq.

1160
01:44:51,035 --> 01:44:52,878
LESTER:
We made history tonight.

1161
01:44:54,038 --> 01:44:57,383
History starts out as farce
and ends up as tragedy.

1162
01:44:57,917 --> 01:44:59,544
Quote's the other way around.

1163
01:45:00,211 --> 01:45:02,714
- Yeah, who said it?
- Marx.

1164
01:45:03,631 --> 01:45:04,678
Groucho said that?

1165
01:45:09,220 --> 01:45:11,723
LAMONT: Call the Times, nail
it to the goddamn door.

1166
01:45:11,889 --> 01:45:13,607
CIA are the good guys.

1167
01:45:13,766 --> 01:45:15,609
The Canadians are the good guys.

1168
01:45:15,768 --> 01:45:17,486
LAMONT:
Yeah, we're not greedy. Them too.

1169
01:45:18,229 --> 01:45:22,735
Only. Canada takes the credit,
or they retaliate against the hostages.

1170
01:45:23,567 --> 01:45:25,410
Great Satan wasn't involved.

1171
01:45:26,153 --> 01:45:28,155
No CIA.

1172
01:45:28,364 --> 01:45:29,911
LAMONT:
Is that right, Jack?

1173
01:45:32,076 --> 01:45:33,794
Involved in what?

1174
01:45:34,787 --> 01:45:37,290
We were as surprised as anybody.

1175
01:45:40,251 --> 01:45:41,969
Thank you, Canada.

1176
01:45:42,169 --> 01:45:44,843
MacDONALD: (ON TV)
We knew that each day they stayed there...

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01:45:45,005 --> 01:45:47,679
...the danger was becoming greater.

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01:45:47,883 --> 01:45:49,908
We had been looking for
a solution to have them

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01:45:49,934 --> 01:45:51,958
leave the country during
the past three months.

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01:45:52,096 --> 01:45:54,770
Day 87, and finally a sliver
of really good news.

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01:45:54,932 --> 01:45:58,732
The U.S. Department of State
hereby honors Joe Stafford...

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01:46:00,229 --> 01:46:01,651
...Kathy Stafford...

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01:46:02,940 --> 01:46:04,658
...Mark Lijek...

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01:46:05,276 --> 01:46:10,498
We Americans will be forever grateful to
our great friend and ally to the north...

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01:46:10,656 --> 01:46:14,911
...for the protection and the safe passage
provided for our diplomats.

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01:46:15,077 --> 01:46:16,329
UNDERSECRETARY:
Bob Anders.

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01:46:16,495 --> 01:46:19,214
GHOTBZADEH:
Here, or anywhere in the world...

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01:46:19,373 --> 01:46:20,966
...Canada will pay...

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01:46:22,293 --> 01:46:26,298
...for this violation
of the sovereignty of Iran.

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01:46:26,463 --> 01:46:30,684
WOMAN: Thank you to Pat and Ken Taylor
and the great nation of Canada.

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01:46:34,513 --> 01:46:37,234
LESTER: So I'm sitting in Jerry's
this morning, I'm having breakfast.

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01:46:37,391 --> 01:46:40,486
Waitress comes over to me,
she's waving a newspaper, and she says:

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01:46:40,644 --> 01:46:44,023
"You see what those Canadians pulled off?
Why can't we do something like that?"

1194
01:46:44,815 --> 01:46:46,658
And I said to her... Do
you know what I said?

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01:46:47,067 --> 01:46:48,193
No, what?

1196
01:46:48,736 --> 01:46:50,204
"Argo fuck yourself."

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01:47:18,974 --> 01:47:20,021
All set.

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01:47:20,976 --> 01:47:22,353
Thanks a lot.

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01:47:33,489 --> 01:47:34,490
Ha!

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01:47:35,866 --> 01:47:39,370
Heh. And I left my autograph book at home.

1201
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:46,718
His Eminence called me.

1202
01:47:46,877 --> 01:47:48,094
He wants to see you.

1203
01:47:48,587 --> 01:47:50,305
Probably wants to fire me himself.

1204
01:47:51,423 --> 01:47:53,767
He wants to give you the Intelligence Star.

1205
01:47:54,969 --> 01:47:56,812
You're getting the highest
award of merit...

1206
01:47:57,012 --> 01:48:00,357
...of the Clandestine Services
of these United States.

1207
01:48:01,308 --> 01:48:03,231
Ceremony's on the 14th.

1208
01:48:03,394 --> 01:48:06,568
If they push it a week, I can bring Ian.
That's his winter break.

1209
01:48:08,065 --> 01:48:12,411
The op was classified,
so the ceremony's classified.

1210
01:48:12,569 --> 01:48:15,618
He can't know about it.
Nobody can know about it.

1211
01:48:17,157 --> 01:48:20,252
So they're just gonna give me an award
and then they're gonna take it back.

1212
01:48:20,828 --> 01:48:21,875
That's right.

1213
01:48:23,747 --> 01:48:26,091
If we wanted applause,
we would've joined the circus.

1214
01:48:27,793 --> 01:48:29,921
- I thought we did.
- Ha.

1215
01:48:30,587 --> 01:48:33,386
Carter said you were a great American.

1216
01:48:34,091 --> 01:48:35,764
Great American what?

1217
01:48:36,301 --> 01:48:37,769
O'DONNELL:
He didn't say.

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01:48:51,108 --> 01:48:52,360
What happened to your picture?

1219
01:48:53,986 --> 01:48:55,203
It's in turnaround.

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01:49:37,488 --> 01:49:39,081
Can I come in?

1221
01:50:25,077 --> 01:50:27,421
The Iran Hostage Crisis ended
on January 20, 1981, when all

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01:50:27,447 --> 01:50:30,102
remaining hostages were released.
They spent 444 days in captivity.

1223
01:50:37,422 --> 01:50:38,690
The involvement of the C.l.A.
complemented efforts of

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01:50:38,716 --> 01:50:40,004
the Canadian embassy in freeing
the six held in Tehran.

1225
01:50:40,030 --> 01:50:41,250
To this day, this story
stands as an enduring model

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01:50:41,276 --> 01:50:43,236
for international cooperation
between governments.

1227
01:50:48,976 --> 01:50:55,404
All of the Houseguests returned to the U.S.
Foreign Service after their ordeal in Iran.

1228
01:50:56,942 --> 01:51:02,072
Oscar-winning makeup artist John Chambers was
awarded the C.I.A.'s Intelligence Medal, its

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01:51:02,098 --> 01:51:06,945
highest civilian honor. He and Mendez remained
friends until Chambers' death in 2001.

1230
01:51:08,704 --> 01:51:12,135
Tony Mendez's Intelligence Star
was returned to him in 1997,

1231
01:51:12,161 --> 01:51:15,704
when the Argo operation was
declassified by President Clinton.

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01:51:25,721 --> 01:51:33,697
He lives in rural Maryland with his family.

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01:53:26,133 --> 01:53:31,139
CARTER: They went in, as you know, under the
guise of creating a motion-picture film.

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01:53:31,346 --> 01:53:35,977
But that it had a very high possibility
of failure.

1235
01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:38,441
And after it was successful, of course...

1236
01:53:38,603 --> 01:53:41,402
...it was a great temptation
to reveal all the stories...

1237
01:53:41,565 --> 01:53:44,990
...so maybe I could take a little bit
of credit for it, since I was president...

1238
01:53:45,152 --> 01:53:49,749
...but we had to keep it secret.
Tony Mendez has gone down in CIA history...

1239
01:53:49,906 --> 01:53:51,783
...after his retirement...

1240
01:53:51,950 --> 01:53:58,799
...as one of the 50 most important
CIA operatives of all time.

1241
01:53:59,416 --> 01:54:04,798
Eventually we got every hostage
back home, safe and sound...

1242
01:54:04,963 --> 01:54:08,968
...and we upheld the integrity of our
country, and we did it peacefully.

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01:54:08,993 --> 01:55:08,993