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Tending his wounds in hospital, Ferris meets a nurse named Aisha (Golshifteh Farahani). Hani covers up the killing by passing it off as a robbery and Ferris accuses Hoffman of running 'side operations', telling Hoffman to lay off. As the terrorist takes off, running, and intent on releasing the information that the safehouse has been compromised, Ferris makes chase: bitten by dogs in the run, Ferris ultimately kills the runner. Skip botches the operation, blowing his cover by divulging compromising information to a terrorist from the safehouse. Simultaneously, he organises another operative Skip (Vince Colosimo) to conduct an operation without Ferris's consent.

Hoffman finds an Al-Saleem safehouse in Jordan and orders Ferris to conduct a surveillance operation on it covertly. Salaam demands one thing of Ferris - never lie to him. Salaam is deeply aware that whatever he thinks of Ferris, his duty is to his country, while Ferris acts for the CIA, whose interests cannot intersect with those of Jordan. Salaam and Ferris form a fragile and complex bond. In Jordan, Ferris tosses the ineffectual Station Chief out of his office before meeting Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), head of the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID). Hoffman is more Machiavellian, and keeps tabs on Ferris via a Sikorsky Cypher UAV. Ferris and his handler Hoffman are strongly contrasting characters: Ferris acts on the human scale, relying heavily on trust and human intelligence.

Body of lies movie fact of fiction series#

Meanwhile, unknown terrorists plan to follow up an offscreen series of bus bombings in Sheffield, with more attacks in Manchester but blow themselves up when the police find their cell. facility in Qatar before he is sent to Jordan to run down some intelligence he recovered in Iraq. Ferris recovers from his injuries at a U.S. While following a lead, Ferris's asset (with whom he has become good friends) is killed during a car chase involving terrorists, rocket-propelled grenades and two missile-firing U.S. He is in Iraq trying to track down a terrorist called Al-Saleem. Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is a CIA paramilitary operations officer. This terrorist retreat into the stone age paradoxically makes the strengths Hoffman has to deploy worthless and increases his dependence on Ferris and his human intelligence. He explains to them how terrorists are turning their back on technology by throwing away their phones and computers and using old methods of communicating face-to-face and with written messages.

Towards the start of the movie Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), speaks to his CIA superiors.

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