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The Torturer (2008)

Mahsa Masoudi: Ayesha

The Torturer

Mahsa Masoudi credited as playing...

Ayesha

Quotes5

  • [showing the prisoner a photograph of a Geiger counter]
  • Rick: Do you recognize this?
  • Ayesha: Yes.
  • Rick: Was this device in your possession when you were arrested?
  • Ayesha: How would I know if I've been arrested? Have I been arrested or have I been kidnapped? Someone put a bag over my head and I woke up in this place. If I am under arrest, I know my rights. Under Article 11 of the new Iraqi constitution, I have the right to legal defense at all stages of investigation.and trial. I demand to speak to my lawyer.
  • Rick: Ayesha, you have to understand the extraterritorial nature of your criminal activities. First of all, you've been rendered to foreign soil. You are no longer in Iraq.
  • Ayesha: What do you mean I'm not in Iraq?
  • Rick: You fall under President Bush's Detainee Treatment Act which means you are being held as an unlawful enemy combatant. You have no rights.
  • [Rick has bound Ayesha to a chair, filled a bucket with water and has started throwing it in her face]
  • Ayesha: Are you really in the military?
  • Rick: I never said I was in the military.
  • Ayesha: Who are you? Just some psycho who likes to rape and torture women?
  • Rick: I promise you... that's one thing you're going to find out.
  • [Rick places Ayesha's head in a plastic bag]
  • Rick: There's a bomb set to go off in a major American city! Which city?
  • Ayesha: No! What are you doing? NO!
  • Rick: I am utilizing the force to which I am legally entitled!
  • [Rick begins to waterboard Ayesha]
  • [reflecting on his torture of Ayesha during interrogation]
  • Rick: Still it doesn't seem right.
  • Ayesha: She was a terrorist, Rick.
  • Rick: But does it make it *right*?
  • Ayesha: It makes it excusable.
  • Rick: You need to go.
  • Ayesha: You should come.
  • Rick: It's Stockholm Syndrome. You don't feel anything. You don't get forgiven for what I've done.
  • Ayesha: God can forgive anyone for anything. That's what makes him God.

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