Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Jessica Chastain: Maya

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• Maya : [to Navy SEALs]  Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn't there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you're going to kill him for me.

• C.I.A. Director : What's this - this cluster of buildings down here?

  George : The PMA - it's the Pakistani Military Academy.

  C.I.A. Director : [looks at him incredulously] 

  George : It's their West Point.

  C.I.A. Director : And how close is it to the house?

  George : About a mile.

  Maya : Four thousand, two hundred, twenty one feet; it's closer to eight-tenths of a mile.

  C.I.A. Director : Who are you?

  Maya : I'm the motherfucker that found this place. Sir.

• Maya : So, you agree with me now, this is important?

  Tim - Station Chief : No, I just learned from my predecessor that life is better when I don't disagree with you.

• Maya : [slightly irritated]  So what does this Baluchi guy look like?

  Abu Faraj al-Libbi : Tall, long white beard, thin, walks with a cane.

  Maya : [smirks]  Kinda like Gandalf.

  Abu Faraj al-Libbi : Who?

• Maya : 100% he's there. OK, 95%, 'cause I know certainty freaks you guys out, but it's 100.

• Maya : I'm going to smoke everyone involved in this op and then I'm going to kill bin Laden.

• C.I.A. Director : May I join you?

  [sits down] 

  C.I.A. Director : How is the food down here anyway?

  Maya : Uh, it's okay.

  C.I.A. Director : How long have you worked for the CIA?

  Maya : Twelve years. I was recruited out of high school.

  C.I.A. Director : Do you know why we did that?

  Maya : I don't think I can answer that question, sir. I don't think I'm... allowed to... answer.

  C.I.A. Director : Alright. What else have you done for us? Besides Bin Laden?

  Maya : Nothing. I've done nothing else.

  C.I.A. Director : Well, you certainly have a flair for it.

• Maya : You can't run a global network of interconnected cells from a cave.

• Dan : State your request.

  Maya : Move Heaven and Earth and bring me this fuckng Sayeed's family phone number.

  Dan : Okay, I'll go and talk to "The Wolf."

• Joseph Bradley : How do you like Pakistan so far?

  Maya : It's kinda fucked up.

• Maya : Don't eat out, it's too dangerous.

• Jessica : Where's Jack?

  Maya : Probably stuck in some checkpoint somewhere.

  Jessica : You two hooked up yet?

  Maya : Hello, I work with him. I'm not that girl that fucks. It's unbecoming.

  Jessica : So? Little fooling around wouldn't hurt you.

• Ammar : Please help me.

  Maya : You can help yourself by being truthful.

• Debbie : I painstakingly combed through everything in the system and found this. It's him. He was one of ten names on a watchlist sent to us by the Moroccans after 9/11. Ibrahim Sayeed. They told us to watch out for him. Apparently, they think his whole family and extended family is bad and has ties to KSM. He was picked up for fake papers and a doctored exit visa leaving Afghanistan, traveling through Morocco en route to Kuwait. Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. This must be Abu Ahmed.

  Maya : Doesn't matter, but I wish I had that five years ago. How come I never saw it before?

  Debbie : Nobody saw it, most likely. There was a lot of white noise after 9/11, countries wanting to help out. We got a million tips and, you know, things got lost in the shuffle. Human error. Anyway, I thought you should know about it.

• Pilot : We've just crossed the border. Now entering Pakistan.

  Maya : Pakistani comms, no chatter.

• Maya : Dan, Debbie found Abu Ahmed.

  Dan : Really?

  Maya : Yeah. He's been in the files this whole time. The family's named Sayeed.

  Dan : Okay, but he's, uh, he's dead, so doesn't that make him a little less interesting to you?

  Maya : He may not be. We now know Abu Ahmed is one of eight brothers. All the brothers in the family look alike. Three of them went to Afghanistan. Isn't it possible that when the three eldest brothers grew beards in Afghanistan, they started to look alike? I think the one calling himself Abu Ahmed is still alive. The picture we've been using is wrong. It's of his older brother, Habeeb. He's the one that's dead.

  Dan : Okay, and what are you basing this on?

  Maya : We have no intercepts about Abu Ahmed dying, we just have a detainee who said he buried a guy who looked like Abu Ahmed. But if someone as important as Abu Ahmed had died, they'd be talking about it online in chat rooms all over the place. Plus, the detainee said that Habeeb died in 2001. We know Abu Ahmed was alive then, trying to get into Tora Bora with Ammar. That means it's probably one of the other brothers that's dead.

  Dan : In other words, you want it to be true.

  Maya : Yes, I fucking want it to be true!

  Dan : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down. Calm down.

  Maya : I am calm.