Angelina Jolie credited as playing...
Mariane
- Mariane Pearl: And kidnappers - their point is to terrorize people. But *I* am not terrorized, and *you* can't be terrorized.
- Mariane Pearl: [looking at a picture of her husband smiling while having a gun to his head] He says "fuck you" to them.
- [first lines]
- Mariane Pearl: [narrating] The day after 9-11, Danny and I flew to Pakistan. He was the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, and I was working for French Public Radio. Thousands of journalist from all over the world arrived in Islamabad to cover the war in neighboring Afghanistan. On the 7th October, bombing began.
- Mariane Pearl: It is not just a group of extremist Pakistani. It is a vast and international network of terrorists. And where ever there is misery, they find people. And there is misery in lots of parts of the world.
- Male Guest: What abut the CIA agent, man?
- Mariane Pearl: How do you mean?
- Male Guest: All the American journalists are CIA agents, aren't they?
- Asra: Sure. I mean, I work for the Wall Street Journal, so does that make me a CIA agent?
- Male Guest: What do Americans really know about Pakistan, you know? I mean what do they know Afghanistan? A part from bombing all the time.
- Asra: That's why I am a journalists, to let people know.