Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

Christopher Abbott: Fahim Ahmadzai

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• Kim Baker : What are we talking about, Fahim?

  Fahim Ahmadzai : The human body produces its own heroin. In fact, when the fight-or-flight instinct is activated in the hypothalamu, your body releases endorphins, dopamine and norepinephrine. That is heroin, cocaine and amphetamine, all at once.

  Kim Baker : Okay, great. Are we having the Afghan version of this conversation, where in New York we would have gotten to the point, like, five minutes ago?

  Fahim Ahmadzai : There is a reason to believe that a person can get addicted to this type of high. Soldiers, athletes...

  Kim Baker : War reporters. Got it.

  Fahim Ahmadzai : An addict always needs a greater and greater dosage. And then people make mistakes, people get hurt.

  Kim Baker : I get it. You're a newlywed. I can probably get them to go up to $125 a day.

  Fahim Ahmadzai : Let us have the American version of this conversation.

  Kim Baker : Okay.

  Fahim Ahmadzai : I do not want to work with you anymore.

• Kim Baker : I drank too much water and I have to pee.

  Fahim Ahmadzai : Stop. Stop. I am engaged to be married.

  Kim Baker : Okay, Fahim, I know you like your women to be, like, beautiful, mysterious IKEA bags, okay? But we urinate, Doctor. Out of our vaginas.

• Fahim Ahmadzai : [Quoting Rumi]  I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want.