Memorable Quotes from Husam Chadat
1 quoteFrustration Over Monkey Situation Escalates
Detective Dalia Zaki
I appreciate your frustration but I cannot dispatch officers to arrest a monkey.
[on phone]
Caller
I'll just throw it down my well then!
Detective Dalia Zaki
No, I would not recommend you drown the monkey.
Caller
Fine, I'll just shoot it.
Detective Ismail
Officer Zaki, you speak good English, right?
[hangs up Zaki's phone; Dalia nods]
Detective Ismail
Why do you want to join the missing persons department? Lose a cat when you were eight years old?
[walking with Dalia]
Detective Dalia Zaki
I'm allergic to cats.
Detective Ismail
You know, Officer Zaki, I've located one hundred and ninety-three people in twenty-seven years on this job.
[opens door]
Detective Dalia Zaki
That's on average seven-point-one-four people you saved per year.
Detective Ismail
One hundred and ninety of them were dead. If you want to be promoted in this department, you should consider if facing that many corpses is an equation you can stomach.
[turns to her; goes in interview room]
Larissa Cannon
This is her. This is just from a week ago.
[slides phone across table]
Detective Ismail
Are they tourists?
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Detective Dalia Zaki
Are you on vacation?
[in English to Larissa and Charlie]
Larissa Cannon
No, no. We live here. We've been living her for five months. He's a TV news correspondent.
Detective Dalia Zaki
They are here for work. He's a TV reporter.
[in Arabic to Ismail'']
Detective Ismail
I don't know his face.
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Detective Dalia Zaki
When was the last time you saw Katie?
[in English to Larissa and Charlie]
Larissa Cannon
11 am, um... then I went to work, and... you were at home with the kids. And that's it.
[to Charlie]
Detective Dalia Zaki
Mr. Cannon.
Charlie Cannon
About three pm.
Detective Dalia Zaki
The father was the last to see her.
[in Arabic to Ismail'']
Larissa Cannon
Wait, I have these. Somebody, whoever took her, was giving these to her.
[presents candy wrappers]
Detective Dalia Zaki
She says the girl was getting these as gifts. Sounds like she was being groomed.
[in Arabic to Ismail, examining candy wrappers'']
Detective Ismail
Or they could be lying.
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Larissa Cannon
What is he saying? What is he saying?
Detective Ismail
Always start by looking in the family. They might have accidentally killed her and are trying to cover it up
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Charlie Cannon
Hey. You think I don't know what you're talking about? You think we did this?! You think we did something to our own daughter?! What the fuck is your problem?! Are you going to fucking help us?! Send someone out there to find her! Somebody took our child!
[gestures to Larissa and himself; bangs table up and down]
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