The Torturer (2008)

Mahsa Masoudi: Ayesha

Quotes 

• [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.