Tyrant (2014–2016): Season 3, Episode 8 - Ask for the Earth - full transcript

Previously on Tyrant...

Marry Mahdiya.

You like her, no?

God has sent me a message.

My path is revenge.

Nothing else.

I understand.

I want to know what really happened

when you met with Ihab bin Rashid.

I thought I could convince him

that we both want the same thing



for Abuddin.

The offer you made Ihab,

I'm offering you the same thing.

A partnership between us.

I will be the president

and you will be my prime minister.

One day after announcement
of a coalition

with Sheik Al-Qadi, Leila Al Fayeed

has pulled ahead of Fauzi Nidal.

If she gets to be president,

you've amputated your own revolution!

What are the chances of them holding

a coalition like this together?

Unless you overwhelm
them from the start,



you're gonna fight them
to a draw at best,

which means they win.

And you've got one chance
to get it right.

The president of Abuddin

and his American bombs
have murdered Sheik Abdullah

leaving me the leader of the Caliphate.

For the first time,
we both have an army.

Let's finish this once and for all.

There's an in-patient treatment
center in Germany.

I need to go get better.

You can get better here.

I can't be here anymore.

You want to know what you
can do for me, Barry?

You can let me go.

Bassam...

Welcome to Dresden.

You're here for the conference, I see.

That's right. Two nights.

First time in our city?

It is.

And I'm looking forward to being

a tourist in-between terrorism panels.

Just so you're aware,

the opening dinner
in the Leibniz Ballroom

has been moved to
9:00 p.m. to accommodate

late-arriving guests.

One key or two?

Two, please.

Have a wonderful stay.

Thank you.

Leila Al Fayeed.

Welcome to Dresden, ma'am.

Thank you.

Where's Cogswell, General?

I want to talk to you both.

NATO Terrorism conference.

Right, of course.

General?

I need to know if we're
ready to send our army into Syria.

Sir, are you asking me if we're prepared

to go to war today?

That's what I'm asking.

Yes.

Good.

I'm tired of waiting.

We need Ihab to give us an excuse,

any reason to march,

and when it comes, we move.

I have news I wanted to share with you.

Okay.

I volunteered

to become a martyr.

To bring jihad to their backyard.

It's a great honor.

To-to be a martyr.

To go to paradise for our cause.

I know.

I hope to meet you there someday.

That would be nice.

Since we weren't destined
to share a path in this world,

I would like to see you in the next.

Mom?

Sammy.

Mom.

Oh, God.

I missed you so much.

Oh, me, too.

Are you okay?

I'm okay.

So, the doctors, they...?

- They were on board.
- Oh, okay.

I didn't run away.

Molly?

I'm home.

I can see that.

Uh... I had no idea.

You-you said don't call.

I didn't call. I know.

You were so good.

I-I, I know that was hard.

Uh, I, I gave the house staff a warning.

I'm sorry I couldn't tell you.

I just, I never would've been able

to answer all your questions.

It doesn't matter now.

You happy to see me?

You have no idea.

I got one already.

Two might be more than we need. Well,

we're never gonna know unless we try.

I like taking you
to bed in the afternoon

in a country where
no one knows who we are.

We don't have to hide.

That's funny, I was just thinking...

we've done this so many times.

Why is it so different this time?

It's because this is
what normal people do.

They take a holiday.

A very short holiday.

The real world is
right outside that window.

A thousand miles more.

Are you gonna come see my panel?

Oh, well, that depends.

Is it...

Is it about what to do
in Dresden in the afternoon?

Then, yeah.

I believe it's titled
"Neighboring States

and the Spreading Infection
of the Caliphate."

That's just not funny.

Oh, that hurts.

That's what I was going for.

I'm gonna come see your panel.

So I know two months
from now what I have in store

when I'm president.

No comment.

No comment?

You are such a model
of discretion, aren't you?

Yeah, well,

you're the one that makes noise, not me.

You're a French national?

Welcome to Germany.

Put it on.

You can pass through a metal detector.

Nothing will trigger.

Okay.

Once it is turned on,

you detonate it by making a phone call.

Any phone call.

Press number, press call.

We spent months preparing for this.

Hundreds of people; important people.

They're trusting you with this.

You understand the plan, yes?

Yes.

I'm smart that way.

I know it's a, uh,

a big, general question.

How are you?

I'm better.

Um... I'm different,

but better.

I don't want to die anymore.

That feeling's gone.

That's good.

Yeah.

When I was alone

away from this place,

I figured some things out.

All of those children.

It was...

whatever you want to call it...

A-a loss of innocence?

I mourn that.

Not as much as I mourned Emma,

but still,

a loss of me.

Of course.

But it's useless.

I have blood on my hands now

that I can never wash off.

No amount of feeling guilty
can change that.

I'm of this place now, Barry.

I'm stained by the ugliness

of this place.

So...

that's how it is.

Fine, I'm not gonna lose
another night's sleep over it.

Right.

All I care about is finishing the job.

You understand?

Ihab is still alive.

We killed the sheik, but...
- But

Ihab is still alive months later.

I'm going to war to fix that.

We are going to war for our daughter.

And everything else we stayed
here to accomplish.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I'm done with forgiveness.

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I had no idea she
was coming back. I, um...

I hadn't heard a word
from her since she left.

Molly.

You can call her by her name.

Molly.

Your wife.

Molly.

My wife.

I can't...
- You can't what, leave her?

Of course you can't.

I didn't fall into your
bed to end your marriage.

I did it because I thought
your marriage might be over.

I hoped so.

Isn't that awful?

No.

I don't think it is.

Of course it is.

This is the right thing.

And what you and I did
while your wife was gone...

was not.

I love you.

Oh, I love you, too.

Good-bye, dearest.

Last time.

I'm so sorry.

Why?

For what?

For wanting to die.

You don't have to apologize.

Everyone understands.
- No, I do.

I owe you an apology, you.

I behaved like being
your mother wasn't enough.

And it is.

I'm gonna try not to hold
onto you too tight, okay?

Even though you're the thing
that I love most in the world.

Is that too big a burden?

No.

Feels good.

What?

Nothing. Just, um...

You seem so...

All the pieces put back together again.

I do?

Well, that's good. I'm glad.

I don't want to scare you anymore.

You're not losing me.

You're not.

I'm here.

Hello?

Hello?

Mahdiya.

Hey. How are you?

I'm fine.

It's good to hear your voice.

I called to wish you a happy birthday.

It's not my
birthday till next Wednesday.

I know. I just...

I worried that I might forget.

And I had a minute.

That's... okay.

Thank you.

Are you okay, Mahdiya?

What? Yes.

I can't...

I'm not really supposed to talk.

I shouldn't talk.

I just wanted to call for a minute.

I have to go.

Bye, Hanif.

Ah, I didn't know anything
about this place.

It's wonderful.

It was all rebuilt after the war.

They recreated the whole thing again.

This is an exact replica
of a beautiful city.

That's a little bit
cynical, don't you think?

The point is they rebuilt.

Mmm.

It's a lesson of human resilience.

That's one way of looking at it.

How would you prefer to think of it?

As a monument to our ability
to paint things over

as if they never happened.

So that we can make the same
mistakes all over again.

What's happened to you?
You're an American.

I thought you people
are all rah-rah idealism.

We are not a young country anymore.

Well, I'm from
Abuddin. We are a young country.

So I prefer hope.

What are you doing?

I asked the staff to
make up another room for me.

Another room?

A separate bedroom?

I need some space.

So you don't want to sleep
in the same bed with me? Don't.

Just... let it be.

No, I'm not gonna do
that. Please don't make me talk

about things I don't want to talk about.

What does that mean?

We have to talk about everything.

Fine.

Did you sleep with her when I was gone?

Wow.

That was quick.

You think I didn't have a sense?

The way you looked at her.

The way she looked at me.

Not telling me she was in the capital.

You were gone. I was alone.

I didn't know if you
were ever coming back.

I don't need to hear your reasons.

I don't care, Barry.

I don't care who you sleep with.

I'm trying to figure
out how you think now.

Wh-What it is you're feeling.

I'm not in love with you anymore.

Okay.

You asked me before I left

if I blame you for Emma's death.

I do.

And that may not be fair, but I do.

I blame myself, too.

It doesn't matter.

Whatever we had...

I'm not even sure what we had anymore...

It's gone.

I think that happens
when people lose a child.

I read that somewhere.

No. I do not accept that.

- We can't just give up.
- Barry,

don't fight for this
just because you think

it's the right thing to do.

We both feel the same way.

So let's just be adults, yeah?

I'm your partner, and you're mine.

We still have a child
together, and we still have a job to do.

Together.

That's why I'm here.

The death toll now
stands at 31, with 86 injured,

many of them critical.

German police have reported

the attack was the work
of a single suicide bomber,

a woman whose name has not been
released but is known to have...

- Yes?
- Just tell me how you are.

I was far away.

At the other end of the lobby.

Just a few cuts
and bruises... That's it.

You can't imagine

what a bomb could do to a human body.

I understand they've tied
it back to Abuddin.

It'll be interesting
to see how Bassam reacts.

The election's six weeks away.

This is the problem
of the new government.

This is our problem.

The Caliphate officially claimed
responsibility in a post

just a few minutes ago.

They identified Mahdiya Kattan
as the suicide bomber.

The UN Security Council is
convening in the next few hours

to discuss the spread
of violence into Europe.

"And the ripple effect of the
Caliphate-Abuddin conflict,

which has now begun to infect
the rest of the world."

Okay, I'm gonna see our UN ambassador

and the secretary general

- if I can.
- Yes, sir.

Ihab's done his part.

Tell Maloof I'm going on
television this afternoon.

I need more than
your silent acquiescence,

I need your vocal support on this.

This is a war for both our daughters.

What do you think Leila will do?

Well, this is why her
alliance with Al-Qadi is so dangerous.

She'd be on my side otherwise.

She'll find some reason to
object, something procedural.

She can't just say yes.

But I don't think she has much
room to take me on either.

She knows as well as you and I do

that at this point, the Caliphate will
never allow democracy in Abuddin.

They will battle us
until either we're destroyed,

or they are.

Yes, I agree.

My fellow Abuddinians,

the Caliphate attack in Dresden

was the latest in a series
of violent assaults

on our way of life
and on freedom itself.

We will not wait for them

to attack us again. When we respond,

and we will respond,

it will be with decisive

and with deadly force.

I pledge to you

to eliminate their capacity to harm us

or any of our allies.

Therefore, as of this moment,

a state of war exists

between Abuddin

and the so-called Caliphate.

Are you aware that while you
were on route back to Abuddin,

President Al Fayeed has declared war

on the Caliphate?

No comment.

Mrs. Al Fayeed.

I urge calm and cool heads

until Sheik Al-Qadi and
I have the chance to meet

- interim President Al Fayeed.
- Are you saying that you might

object to any declaration of war?

No comment.

He's in a meeting with
Mrs. Al Fayeed and the sheik.

Give him a message...
tell him I'd like to speak to him

- when he's done.
- Is that necessary?

Well, I already know
what you're going to say.

You're... you're one of those commanders

who's never quite willing
to pull the trigger.

One more day, one more tank.

How many wars have you
fought in, General?

How many battles?

We outnumber them in men,

in tanks, in guns.

They cannot defeat us.

They don't need to defeat you.

You're going to be on their turf.

All they have to do is
keep you from defeating them.

They're going to draw you in,
they're going to wear you out,

and they're gonna force you
to fight block by block,

house by house. Call me
in a year and tell me

about your will to fight. You know what?

I don't think I'm going to do that.

I don't know what
your plans are, Maloof.

I don't know what grand political dreams

are floating around in there.

But I wouldn't get ahead of yourself.

Costly stalemates usually aren't

the stepping stones to greatness.

Are you denying my authority?

You're an interim unelected president.

Yes, I'm denying your authority

to declare war on your last
month of presidency, Bassam.

I'll declare war

in the last month, on
the last day, if I have to.

Keeping this country safe
doesn't wait for politics.

I know Bin Rashid.

This is what he wants.

Everything he's done
is-is to this purpose.

He's goading you to attack him.

I know that.

But wanting war
doesn't keep him safe from me.

We both want the same thing,
so war is what he's gonna get.

Bassam, for God's sake,

we're a small country.

And this is the whole world's fight.

Even if we have the
United States at our side,

we don't have the power
to kill all our enemies.

And there will always be more.

I'm not debating this with you.

You lived in the palace for 20 years,

how can you not have learned?

- I have learned.
- Then you learned

the wrong thing.

Jamal was right. Tariq was right.

If you let these people live,

they come back to kill you
tomorrow, and they did.

They killed my daughter.

I'm gonna wipe them out.

Every last one. And if you
wouldn't have the courage

to pull the trigger yourself,
then it's a good thing

it's my job and not yours.
And as for this man...

You're confusing wisdom with treason.

I'm about to send our
troops into harm's way.

Our men, our boys.

Be very careful what you say
against me, against the cause

for which some of them are gonna die,

because I will not hesitate

to call you out for giving
comfort to the enemy,

and that's treason, Sheik Al-Qadi.

President Bassam Al Fayeed

is our interim president.

He's in office solely to transition

to a democratically chosen
leader of Abuddin.

As such, he has no constitutional

or moral authority

to take our country to war.

I want to be very clear.

I believe the
Caliphate is evil and our enemy.

If I'm elected your president,

I will immediately withdraw our troops

from a war we should not be fighting.

That I do not believe we can win.

What exactly is it
that you're asking, sir?

How long?
I'm asking you how long it will take.

To finish?

Well, you know I can't answer that.

General?

It's not a month, not two, not three,

even if we move tomorrow.

Okay, what happens
in the first six weeks?

Will we have victories by then?

Will we have enough success
to prove them wrong?

To make it politically impossible

for the next president
to withdraw our troops?

Some victories,
maybe. Maybe some defeats.

But where the war will
be when you leave office,

whether your troops
will be on the offensive

or bogged down... Impossible to say.

Leila Al Fayeed has
given them a strategy.

The Caliphate won't engage with us

unless they have the upper hand.

They have no reason to take chances.

All they need to do now

is wait six weeks.

Mr. President,

I know you don't want to hear
this, but as a soldier,

I have to tell you that it would
be dangerous and reckless

to send men to die in a war
that will only end in retreat.

That is not courage in the face of odds.

That's murder.

I need to go to sleep, I'm tired.

- Molly...
- What?

Is there something
you need to hear from me

that you don't already know?

There was no way I could've known,

when I made the decision, that
I would have this job to do,

and that I would run out of time.

- We always said...
- Not we... you.

You always said.

Your intellectual,

ideological fucking hedge.

I want democracy in Abuddin,
but it can't be me.

You can vote, but not
for me. An Al Fayeed

can't replace an Al Fayeed.

You know what the joke is?

An Al Fayeed is still gonna
be the next president,

and it's not gonna be you.

The people would've...

elected you in a minute.

Everything you did.

Truth and reconciliation?

Jesus Christ, what a farce.

You want to do a job,

do it yourself, Barry.

Don't leave it for someone else.

You want to kill the man
who murdered your daughter?

You have to do it yourself.

You've seen the polls.

She's gonna be the next president.

I can't make a war in a month,

and I cannot send our troops
in to die for nothing.

Right.

So I spend the next six weeks
bombing Caliphate territory.

But how many more
innocent people will die?

How many more children?

I don't see those
children's faces anymore.

I just see hers.

Emma's.

In a constant loop inside my head.

"Mommy," she said.

"Mommy, help me."

But I can't.

I can't.

That's Daddy's job.

Citizens of Abuddin,

no one is a greater
champion of democracy

than I am.

The right of the people
to decide their own fate

was at the heart of our revolution.

But democracy is not
something we can simply will into being

while we hope for the best.

It has to be fought for.

Sometimes died for,

as so many did when the Caliphate

was driven from our territory,

and the old regime was ended.

I look forward to elections in Abuddin.

But now is not the time.

First there is a job to be done.

To rid ourselves of a
persistent enemy at our borders

who is determined to see us fail.

Once they have been defeated,
and only then,

can we safely hope for our
young democracy to survive.

I am, therefore,
postponing... Not cancelling...

But postponing our Presidential
elections

until we can be certain

that the so-called Caliphate

has been destroyed once and for all.

Madam?

I told you, remember?

That he would turn out to be
the same as the rest of them.

Not better.

You did.

I'm sorry.

For what?

I'm going to be President.

Bassam.

I need to see you.

And I know that's not okay,

not anymore.

But I have to talk to you.

You told me that you trusted me

more than anyone.

You have to trust me on this.

You can't do this.

You can't.

I know how much pressure you're under.

How much it hurts.

But this undoes everything.

And I can't... I
can't be silent if you...

Please, call me back.

Please.

I came all the way from Ma'an.

I would like to see him.

I'm afraid that's not
possible at the moment.

- Are you protecting him? Is that it?
- I'll see myself out.

Did you see him?

No.

He's busy. In meetings.

For you, too? I can't seem
to get past this man.

Why don't we just
wait here? The two of us.

We'll wait as long as is necessary.

I can't let you do that.

Unless you have an appointment.

I'm Bassam's oldest friend.

And this man here,

he was at his side, his right hand,

- throughout the revolution.
- Are you really going

to turn us away?

Today? Yes.

The problem of Abuddin

is not across our borders.

It's right here at home.

It's the corrupting influence of power.

And it infects all of those
who take up residence

in that isolated, golden palace.

First Khaled Al Fayeed.

Then Jamal Al Fayeed.

And now President Bassam Al Fayeed.

I am no longer an Al Fayeed.

I am Leila Haddad.

And if I am elected president, I will

shut down that palace and
turn it back to a people's park.

And the president of Abuddin
will live right here,

in a humble home. With you.

Among you.

For you.

Exley, it's Cogswell. Listen,

until I get orders to the contrary,

I am still preparing Bassam's army

for the ground war in Syria.

I had believed he
had support for this war

until yesterday.

But things are about to
get ugly in Abuddin.

So I suggest you get on
the next plane out here.

Have a future worth fighting for.

Raise doctors and engineers,

scientists and poets.

The path to paradise is here.

You tell 'em.

You have no new messages.

We cannot claim to come to terms

with the sins of our past

at the same time as we
are intent on repeating them.

The promise of the revolution
was the promise

that the people's voice would be heard.

Not just when it is convenient.

Not only when those in
power agree with it.

Always.

Democracy is not a sometimes thing.

It is important that these
words are repeated,

again and again,

until they ring out
not just in the streets

but in the palace itself,

that the promise of the
revolution was the promise that

people's voice will be heard.

So said Daliyah Al-Yazbek,

the great heroine of our revolution,

the mother of our democracy.

Not just when it is convenient.

Not only when those in
power agree with it.

Always.

Democracy is not a sometimes thing.

Not only when those in
power agree with it.

Always.

Whatever you have to say
to me,

you should be saying
to the whole country.

This is not between you and me.

It is,

between you and me.

You have to stop speaking
out against me.

Daliyah.

You have no right to ask me that.
- Daliyah,

this is me.

What's that supposed to mean?

Do I owe you something?

Because I slept with you?

- Because I love you?
- No,

- of course not...
- I pleaded with you

not to give me this power.

Right here, in this room.

I told you I was afraid.

I begged you.

But you said no.

You insisted.

Why did you have to go...
- Daliyah, it doesn't matter.

You don't have to do this.

This is not the business

of The Truth and Dignity Commission.

This is politics.

The crimes of the last 25 years

include the crimes of yesterday...

and of an hour ago.

- You think this is a crime?
- It is a crime.

My daughter's death is a crime.

Of a different kind.

I'm sorry if that upsets you.

But you gave me a voice,

and I have to use it.

If I don't,
then who am I?

I'm nothing.

I'm less than you are.

You're doing what you
believe in, at least.

You should go.

I need you to go.

I love you.

How does that matter now?

What does it have to do with anything?

Anyway,

you're married, so.

You are the closest person
in the world to me.

I love nothing else
the way that I love you.

I'm begging you.

You said your piece.

You did your job.

But stay silent now.

Call me as the first witness.

I'll testify.

Are you afraid?

No. I'm heartbroken.

Thank you.

Okay.

Close the doors.

There are troops stationed
outside this room,

outside those doors.

I wish I could say that they are here

to protect us, and our right to speak,

but they are not.

They are here to intimidate
us from speaking.

To remind us that,

at least in the short run,

a bullet can silence a voice.

But they will not succeed.

The Truth and Dignity
Commission has always been about bravery,

about facing the facts about ourselves

with courage and...

Shame on you.

This is the people's meeting.

The Truth and Dignity Commission

has been disbanded.

On order of the President,

this meeting is over.

Get up.

Get out.

Get up.

Just-just step aside.

Let's not make a scene.

Ahmed, what are you doing?
I'm going in there to see my parents.

- They're in a meeting with General Cogswell.
- So what?

What, you're their errand boy
now, just watching the door?

Have you not heard what's going on?

What he did at the Truth
and Dignity Commission today?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. That's all you have to say?

Listen, they've lost their minds
in there, out of grief.

And they won't listen to anyone

except people who tell them
what they want to hear.

So, someone has to wake
them up and tell them the truth.

They're doing what has to be done, okay?

And you're not helping.

You should go. Go away, calm down.

Who are you to say that to me?

You're just some
junior officer in the army.

We have a lot to talk about, you and me.

I'm not concerned.

The people of Abuddin
are used to the government

telling them what to do.
The anger will pass.

Pretty soon it'll feel like

the same old normal.

Once the war is over...
in six months or a year...

Once you've declared
elections again, this will all

be remembered as
nothing more than a blip.

General Maloof, your orders.

With Cogswell's support,
your army is instructed

to do everything necessary
to maintain the peace.

There is now a curfew in place in Ma'an.

Mr. President.

You are in violation of curfew!

Run! Run!

Return to your homes!

Off the streets now!

We have the right to be here!

We have to be very careful.

More careful than before.

This is a dangerous time.

I understand that.

And we shouldn't do this again.

Meet. Here.

Not until this passes.

If it ever passes.

I just need to know what side you're on.

Oh, please don't ask me that.

I am asking.

I am an officer of the United
States government.

I have no private point of view.

I take orders.

And, at the moment,
until something changes...

I'm here to support
the president of Abuddin.

Right.

It's not personal.

Play it back for me again.

The American president
of Abuddin has declared

his intention to
make war on the Caliphate.

When he and his army of unbelievers

invade Muslim soil,

we will be ready.

Until then, he seems content

to make war on his own people.

God has been good to us today.

Precisely Synchronized by srjanapala