Episode Report Card M. Giant: B | 248 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Framed in Vain
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2009.05.04
At 4:32:07, the Faux-yer is watching a playback of Jibraan's statement. Tony gets off his cell hone and tells her, "Station teams are ready and waiting." She asks for two minutes to upload. Tony says to Jibraan, "I need you to talk to your brother. Tell him what we discussed." Jibraan asks how he knows they won't kill Hamid anyway. "Because we need him to tell the police that his brother's a terrorist," Tony shrugs. Oh, all right then. "Believe me, you're saving his life by doing this." If Jibraan has figured out that this doesn't exactly bode well for his chances of seeing the sun come up again, he's too worried about his brother to show it.
Over in the other room, a goon with some smelling salts wakes Hamid up with a start. Jibraan sits down next to him and tells him to be cool. "Sorry we had to do it this way," he says. Hamid is confused, not least by Jibraan's use of the non-royal we. He asks who Tony is, and Jibraan claims he's a friend. "I've kept him from you," he says. "I'm not the person you think I am. I hate what this country has done to our people. And I'm working with these men. They're going to help me strike back against the evil that has been done to us." He's referring to the fact that their parents were killed in an American air strike. By now, the Faux-yer is packing up and wiping her prints off Jibraan's computer keyboard. Hamid doesn't buy what Jibraan is trying to sell him, and asks Tony what they did to him, but Jibraan doesn't need any help for what he's doing. "When they ask you why I did what I did, I want you to tell them. Then no one will blame you for anything, you'll have done nothing wrong." Yes, until the authorities find all the weapons and explosives in the dresser drawers. Those might be difficult to explain. Jibraan says Hamid will understand one day, and tells him he loves him. He bends to kiss him on the head, and Hamid spits in his face. "You said today it was a bad day to be a Muslim. Well it's an even worse day to be your brother." Ooh, burn! Tony calls a halt to this, and gives the order to move out, leaving one man behind to watch Hamid. On their way out, the Faux-yer asks if Hamid was convinced. Tony says, "Even if he wasn't, once the attack happens he will be." Sounds like a solid plan. It's 4:35:56.