Flashback.
[Sayid at Heathrow airport in handcuffs being escorted by two guards to a room with intelligence agents from CIA and ASIS.]
Airport Announcer [while Sayid is being led by the guards]
Heathrow airport authority reminds traveling passengers that safety regulations require. . .
Agent Cole -Okay, Sayid, 18 hours in a holding cell should be enough. Let's get to it, shall we? I'm Melissa Cole from Central Intelligence, this is Robbie Hewitt from ASIS. We're here because you're going to do us a favor.
Sayid - A favor?
Agent Hewitt - Last week 300 pounds of C-4 explosives were stolen from an army base outside of Melbourne. The men responsible are members of a terrorist cell intent on disrupting the coalition presence in Iraq. 300 pounds of C-4 - I want it back.
Sayid [to Agent Cole] -You're the CIA, plant a few bugs.
Agent Cole -Oh, we have. But you're going to get inside for. . .
Sayid - I am Iraqi. I am not a terrorist.
Agent Cole - We didn't snatch you up because you are a terrorist, Sayid. We snatched you up because you know one.
Agent Hewitt - Essam Tazia, your roommate at Cairo University. He's a member of the cell.
Sayid - And why should I care?
Agent Hewitt - You'd be saving lives.
Sayid - I repeat, why should I care?
Agent Cole - Because we know where she is. 7 years since you left Iraq - 6 months here, 3 months there - always moving. There's only two reasons a man would do that, Sayid. Either he's running away from something, or looking for something. [She shows Sayid a picture of Nadia.] Noor Abed-Jazeem