009 - In Extremis
Summary
Dr. Anwar Samir, a third year medical intern originally from Saudi Arabia, disappears. By all accounts he’s a great doctor with nothing suspicious in his background, and yet… is he a terrorist? He goes from “respected doctor to suspected terrorist in the space of a 5-minute conversation.” Ah, assumptions.
Rating
A good story, but a little too much feeding on 9/11. I didn’t see this when originally aired, about 14 months after 9/11, and I might have received it better then. Or maybe I would have found it even more exploitative. Still, I give it three out of four stars because it’s a good story. So I guess you could say I have mixed feelings. But a good story. Really.
Discussion
Notes
Samantha gets snippy with Martin when he calls her Sam and says no one calls her that but Jack (which is ridiculously untrue, but I guess she didn’t have anything else to be snippy about just then).
Quotes
Martin: Hmm, very functional.
Samantha: Reminds me of a dorm room at Quantico.
Martin: Good old club Quantico.
Samantha: Neurology, toxicology, virology.
Martin: The study of viruses.
Samantha: Well that’s not odd considering he’s a doctor.
Martin: Here’s some light reading. Dirty Democracy. “How the U.S. sentences blasphemers to death, why terrorists keep picking on the U.S., how the U.S. has perverted dozens of foreign elections, and much, much more.”
Samantha: By Colin Blume. From Boston.
Martin: A bit inflammatory, no?
Samantha: Last time I checked we still had freedom of the press.
Martin: Look, I’m not condoning censorship, but we’ve got a profile.
Samantha: Yeah, of a Saudi Arabian doctor. That’s all we have.
Martin: Look, profiles aren’t flawless, but they exist for a reason. I mean, come on, we use them every day.
Samantha: Oh, look. Pediatrics. Maybe he’s a pedophile.