Are You Going To Talk To Us

Spann squats down on the edge of the blanket, facing Walker, who is wearing loose black trousers and a black tunic that reaches down to his calves.

SPANN: Where are you from? You believe in what you’re doing here that much, you’re willing to be killed here? How were you recruited to come here? Who brought you here? Hey!

SPANN: What’s your name? Hey. Who brought you here? Wake up! Who brought you here to Afghanistan? How did you get here?

SPANN: What, are you puzzled?

SPANN: Put your head up. Don’t make me have to get them to hold your head up. Push your hair back. Push your hair back so I can see your face.

SPANN: You got to talk to me. All I want to do is talk to you and find out what your story is. I know you speak English.

DAVE: Mike!

SPANN: Yeah, he won’t talk to me.

DAVE: OK, all right. We explained what the deal is to him.

SPANN: I was explaining to the guy we just want to talk to him, find out what his story is.

DAVE:… Well, he’s a Muslim, you know.

DAVE:… The problem is he needs to decide if he wants to live or die, and die here. If he don’t want to die here, he’s gonna die here. We’re just going to leave him, and he’s going to f—ing sit in prison the rest of his f—ing short life. It’s his decision, man. We can only help the guys who want to talk to us. We can only get the Red Cross to help so many guys. If they don’t talk to us we can’t…

SPANN: Do you know the people here you’re working with are terrorists, and killed other Muslims? There were several hundred Muslims killed in the bombing in New York City. Is that what the Quran teaches? I don’t think so. Are you going to talk to us?

DAVE: That’s all right, man. Gotta give him a chance, he got his chance.

SPANN: Did you get a chance to look at any of the passports?

DAVE: There’s a couple of Saudis, and I didn’t see the others.

SPANN: I wonder what this guy’s got.