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Captain Under Orders: A Fatal Deception · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Imagine this a quiet street in mccattam late, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of quiet where you can almost hear the
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  Speaker 1: city breathing out. It's ten pm, Yeah, peaceful, until it's not. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: this searing orange glow just erupts. Flames just engulfing a
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  Speaker 1: parked car tearing through the dark. Oh wow, you can
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  Speaker 1: almost smell it, right, the awful, acrid smell of burning
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  Speaker 1: plastic maybe gasoline. People rush out, frantic, grabbing fire extinguishers.
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  Speaker 2: This ordinary residents trying to fight this.
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  Speaker 1: Inferno exactly, And as the flames finally start to die down,
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  Speaker 1: push back by all these extinguishers, they see it inside
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  Speaker 1: the car, slumped in the driver's seat, a body chilling. Instantly,
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  Speaker 1: the sense of dread just falls over the street, a
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  Speaker 1: mystery literally borne from the ashes.
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  Speaker 2: And what struck investigators almost immediately was how quickly security
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  Speaker 2: forces got there. Their first look confirmed what everyone feared.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't some accident, no way. This fire was set deliberately,
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  Speaker 2: fueled by something highly flammable, probably gasoline, and the body
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  Speaker 2: somehow still recognizable despite the heat. That was the real shock.
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  Speaker 1: It changes everything it does.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't just a burning car. It was well, the
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  Speaker 2: start of a really, really bizarre case because on the
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  Speaker 2: surface you look at the people involved. Later they seem
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  Speaker 2: worlds apart, but the connections deeply unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: So the scene itself chaos, right, Yeah, residents with extinguishers
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  Speaker 1: doing everything they.
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  Speaker 2: Can, and they actually managed to subdue the flames just
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  Speaker 2: enough enough so the body wasn't completely incinerated. That was
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  Speaker 2: crucial for identification later.
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  Speaker 1: A desperate effort, really in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and those preserved details they were vital. Fire experts
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  Speaker 2: quickly confirmed Yes it's arson. An accelerant like gasoline was used.
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  Speaker 2: But here's where it gets properly strange. The victim's personal
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  Speaker 2: stuff I dcard, driver's license, even a good amount of cash.
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  Speaker 2: It was all still there, either in the car or
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  Speaker 2: on him.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Robbery's off the table straight away, and they quickly identify
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  Speaker 2: the victim some mirror, a government employee, seemed like a
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  Speaker 2: regular guy.
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  Speaker 1: But then the first big clue surfaces just a few
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  Speaker 1: meters away from the burnt out car. Yeah, a gasoline
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  Speaker 1: jerry can.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's clumsy, and on it.
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  Speaker 1: A clear fingerprint and bloodstains fresh ones.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, leaving that behind. I mean, that's a major mistake
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  Speaker 2: for any killer. So what did the initial exam of
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  Speaker 2: some mer show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the preliminary look at the body showed he hadn't
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  Speaker 1: just died in the fire. He'd been stabbed, stabbed okay
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  Speaker 1: multiple times, neck and back. Forensic suggested the attacker was probably.
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  Speaker 2: In the back seat right behind him.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the thing, no signs of a struggle. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like it happened incredibly fast, maybe just minutes before
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  Speaker 1: the car was found burning.
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  Speaker 2: So surprise attack, brutal. Any cameras nearby.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately no cameras right at that exact spot. That forced
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  Speaker 1: the police into this huge effort checking every CCTV camera
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  Speaker 1: in the wider area, trying to trace the car's movements
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  Speaker 1: piece together. It's final journey.
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  Speaker 2: A digital dragnet. Yeah, as painstaking work, but often unlocks
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  Speaker 2: these cases.
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  Speaker 1: So while Samir's body goes off for a full forensic
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  Speaker 1: work up, time of death, cause of death, all that
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  Speaker 1: police find something else, another layer of mystery. The car.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't actually registered in Samir's name.
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  Speaker 2: Oh interesting, so who owned it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, soon after Samir's wife, Heiba, she arrives at the
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  Speaker 1: station utterly devastated, obviously identifies the body. She describes him
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  Speaker 1: as just kind, humble as you expect. And then the
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  Speaker 1: car's owner turns up. He Samir's close friend. He backs
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  Speaker 1: up Piba's description. Samir was a good guy, quiet maybe okay,
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  Speaker 1: but he adds this really important detail. He and Samir
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  Speaker 1: they shared the car, use it for ride sharing apps,
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  Speaker 1: you know, taking different shifts to make extra money.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so that explains why Samir was driving it and
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  Speaker 2: suggests money was tight exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The friend talks about Samir struggles, painting this picture of
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  Speaker 1: a man just trying desperately to provide So investigators know
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  Speaker 1: now Samir wasn't just random. His life involved well significant
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  Speaker 1: financial pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Right. That changes the potential motives.
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  Speaker 1: Then a breakthrough. That fingerprint from the jerry can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got a match.
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  Speaker 1: They did. It matched a known criminal. It's a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Sayad living over in Sayida, zenob which is actually
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  Speaker 1: pretty close to mccattam where the car was found.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's a strong lead connecting a non offender to
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  Speaker 2: the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Yes, they checked Samir's phone records. The very
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  Speaker 1: last call made from his phone, it pinged a location, right,
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  Speaker 1: in sayeda Zinob as well.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so the fingerprint and the phone call both point
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  Speaker 2: to the same area, the same person.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially precisely. That combination, the physical evidence the digital footprint,
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  Speaker 1: it led police straight to Sayed. He was arrested very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: How did he talk immediately? He confessed, admitted to the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, but he said he wasn't alone accomplices. He
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  Speaker 1: implicated another known criminal, a man named Mostafa Risha.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so Mostafa rish is pulled in right, and.
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  Speaker 1: He confesses too, confirms Sayad's story. They said they were hired,
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  Speaker 1: fired by who, by a man named Mohsen abdel Tawab.
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  Speaker 1: He apparently offered them fifty thousand Egyptian pounds, a huge sum,
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand just to coll out. The instruction was blunt,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of Samir, good grief, just like that, just
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  Speaker 1: like that, And neither Sayed nor Mostaf even knew Samir,
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  Speaker 1: They'd never met him. It was purely a business transaction
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  Speaker 1: for them, paid by Mosen.
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  Speaker 2: The coldness of that is striking contract killing essentially.
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  Speaker 1: So now all eyes turned to Mosen abdel Towab, the
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  Speaker 1: supposed mastermind. But this just raises a massive question for investigators,
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  Speaker 1: which is Mosen wasn't some shadowy figure. He was a
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  Speaker 1: well known merchant, respected, excellent reputation in the community.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it doesn't fit the typical profile of someone ordering
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  Speaker 2: a hit like this.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what possible connection could there be between this prominent
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  Speaker 1: businessman and Samir, a humble government employee struggle to make
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  Speaker 1: ends meet, and why pay fifty grand for his murder?
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't add up.
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  Speaker 2: Something is missing a huge piece of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: And then when Mosen is arrested, two completely new names
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  Speaker 1: pop up, names that throw everything into even more confusion. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Maha and Mayada. And get this, both women are from
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  Speaker 1: highly respected, wealthy, almost aristocratic families, no criminal records, nothing
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now it's getting really complicated. Respected merchant, two upper
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  Speaker 2: class women, two hired killers, and a rideshare driver. How
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  Speaker 2: on earth did they all connect?
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  Speaker 1: That's the million dollar question, isn't it. How are all
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  Speaker 1: these disparate people tangled up in such a dark, violent crime?
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  Speaker 1: And why Samir? Why was he the target? Was he
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  Speaker 1: just an unlucky victim caught in something bigger? Or was
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  Speaker 1: there more to his story.
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  Speaker 2: To understand any of this? We really need to go back.
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  Speaker 2: We need to rewind how far back. Let's go back
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  Speaker 2: about seven years, twenty eleven. Let's look at Samir's life then.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, twenty eleven. What was he like?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty straightforward, actually a simple government employee, diligent, did his job.
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  Speaker 2: He married Heba, a woman from his neighborhood. Seemed like
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  Speaker 2: a good match, a normal life, very normal. They married
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  Speaker 2: within a year, settled into this stable, modest life. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: not wealthy, but these seemed content and Heba, by all accounts,
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  Speaker 2: was really supportive.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so far, so ordinary.
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  Speaker 2: Then a year into the marriage, their daughter, Amira is born,
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  Speaker 2: a happy event. But two years after that devastating news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Amira is diagnosed with a malignant tumor cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's heartbreaking and incredibly expensive to treat.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine exactly. Suddenly their financial situation becomes desperate. The
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  Speaker 2: cost for treatment, just keeping things going, it's spirals.
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  Speaker 1: What did they do well?
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  Speaker 2: They scrambled. Heba started cooking food at home, selling it
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  Speaker 2: to neighbors, friends, anyone, trying to bring in something extra. Samir, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: was frantically looking for any kind of additional work, anything
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  Speaker 2: to earn more money.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure must have been immense, unimaginable.
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  Speaker 2: And that's when this opportunity comes up. Remember his friend,
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  Speaker 2: the one who owned.
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  Speaker 1: The car, Yeah, the one Samir was driving when he
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  Speaker 1: was killed.
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  Speaker 2: Right. The friend suggests they team up share the car
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  Speaker 2: for ride sharing. Samir could take the evening shift, which
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  Speaker 2: is often more lucrative.
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  Speaker 1: And Samir desperate for cash for Amira.
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  Speaker 2: He jumps at it, of course he does. He becomes
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  Speaker 2: essentially a captain on demand, Yeah, an Uber driver basically.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So he's driving nights, trying to make ends meet
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  Speaker 1: for his daughter's treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Then what then comes the day that changes absolutely everything.
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  Speaker 2: It starts like any other shift. He gets a ride
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  Speaker 2: request through the app, a woman named Mayada.
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  Speaker 1: Mayada one of the names Mosen mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: The very same and the destination she requested was quite
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  Speaker 2: far out, a potentially big fair, the kind of fair
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  Speaker 2: Samir desperately.
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  Speaker 1: Needed, right, so he picks her up.
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  Speaker 2: He does, and Mayada, sitting in the car, she notices
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  Speaker 2: something about Samir. He's different from other drivers she's had,
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  Speaker 2: how so, He's intensely focused on driving, avoids eye contact,
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  Speaker 2: very quiet, very professional, almost stoic.
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  Speaker 1: Not chatty like some drivers.
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  Speaker 2: No, and this quiet professionalism. It actually seems to intrigue
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  Speaker 2: her rather than put her off.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So they get to her destination a club, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and as.
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  Speaker 2: She gets out, Maauda does something unusual. She asks Samir
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  Speaker 2: for his personal phone number.
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  Speaker 1: Oh not through the app, no, directly.
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  Speaker 2: And then she asks him if he'd be willing to
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  Speaker 2: wait for her drive her home later. She offers him
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  Speaker 2: the full fare for the return trip cash, no app.
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  Speaker 1: Commission, and Samir needing the money.
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  Speaker 2: He agrees instantly. Why wouldn't he It's guaranteed money, good
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  Speaker 2: money for a mirah.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like the start of something.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely was. This simple exchange kicks off this well
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  Speaker 2: kill your relationship. Samir essentially becomes Mayada's personal driver, her
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  Speaker 2: captain on demand. She calls him directly whenever she needs
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  Speaker 2: a ride.
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  Speaker 1: So they start talking during these rides.
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  Speaker 2: Gradually, Yes, they learn bits about each other. Myatta reveals
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  Speaker 2: she's forty three, divorced, quite well off financially. Samir shares
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  Speaker 2: his story married daughter with cancer, the reason he's driving
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  Speaker 2: so much. Okay, and Miauda starts to see Samir not
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  Speaker 2: just as a driver, she sees him as well, maybe
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  Speaker 2: ideal for something else, she has in mind something very different.
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  Speaker 2: She sees him as a potential solution.
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  Speaker 1: A solution to what. What does she propose?
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  Speaker 2: She offers them a different kind of job, a very
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  Speaker 2: lucrative one twenty thousand Egyptian pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's a lot of money, especially then for how
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  Speaker 1: much work?
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  Speaker 2: Just two days work, two.
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  Speaker 1: Days for twenty thousand? What did Smer say?
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  Speaker 2: He agreed almost before she finished the sentence. The amount
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  Speaker 2: was just too significant given Amir's situation. He didn't even
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  Speaker 2: ask what the job was at first.
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  Speaker 1: He has needed the money that badly, so what was
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  Speaker 1: the job?
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  Speaker 2: This is where it gets really bizarre. Mayauta explains Samir
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  Speaker 2: needs to get married.
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  Speaker 1: Married, but he is married to Heba exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He's stunned, tells her, I'm already married. I can't afford
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  Speaker 2: another why another household? Right? But Mayada clarifies it's not
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  Speaker 2: like that. He's going to be what's called a halal
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  Speaker 2: analyst or a muhalil.
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  Speaker 1: A muhalil.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a controversial practice. In some interpretations of Islamic law.
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  Speaker 2: If a man divorces his wife three times, they can't
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  Speaker 2: remarry each other unless the wife first marries another man,
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  Speaker 2: consummates that marriage and then divorces him. This intermediate husband
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  Speaker 2: is the muhalel okay Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So Samir was being hired to temporarily marry someone precisely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mayada explains her friend Maha, the other name Mosen mentioned. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Maha needed this service. She've been divorced three times by
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  Speaker 2: your husband, who turns out to be Mosen abdel Twab Mosen.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the connection. Mosen wanted to remarry.
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  Speaker 2: Maha, correct, but to do it legally and religiously, she
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: needed to marry and divorce someone else first. And because
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  Speaker 2: Maha and Mohsen were from these prominent aristocratic families, they
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  Speaker 2: wanted done with absolute discretion.
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  Speaker 1: So they needed someone quiet, trustworthy, someone likes Samir.
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  Speaker 2: Someone likes The deal was Mary Maha for two days,
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  Speaker 2: then divorce her payment twenty thousand EGP.
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  Speaker 1: And Samir faced with his daughter's medical bills.
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  Speaker 2: He agreed the money was the only thing he could see.
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  Speaker 2: Any moral doubts, any religious concerns, they just seemed to
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  Speaker 2: vanish in the face of Amra's needs.
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  Speaker 1: It's a desperate choice. How did this wedding even happen?
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  Speaker 2: He was all arranged at Mayata's house, very low key
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  Speaker 2: and Efficient came. Mosen was there too, awkward, very and
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  Speaker 2: Mosen tells Samir in front, you'll get the money, but
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  Speaker 2: only after you divorce Maha, putting the pressure on right.
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  Speaker 2: But Samir, his focus is just laser sharp on that
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He agrees, okay, so the ceremony happens.
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  Speaker 2: Then what then? After the Efficient leaves, Mayata pulls Samir
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  Speaker 2: aside and she gives him this really critical, almost sinister instructions.
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  Speaker 2: She tells him, look for this marriage to count, for
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  Speaker 2: Maha to be able to legally go back to Mosen,
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  Speaker 2: you have to consummate it.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, but didn't Mosen exactly?
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  Speaker 2: Samir's confused, he says, but Mosen specifically he told me
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  Speaker 2: not to touch Maha.
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  Speaker 1: So conflicting instruction completely.
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  Speaker 2: Mayata insists mos And is wrong, maybe just being overly
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  Speaker 2: cautious or traditional. She says, no, trust me. It must
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  Speaker 2: be consummated for this whole thing to be valid.
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  Speaker 1: And Samir what does he do? He's technically married to
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  Speaker 1: Maha now, well, the.
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  Speaker 2: Script notes he was already quite attracted to Maha. And
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  Speaker 2: here you see this terrible convergence. Right. His desperation for money,
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  Speaker 2: Mayada's manipulation, maybe his own desires, it all pushes him
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  Speaker 2: over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: He agrees to Miata's instruction.
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  Speaker 2: He does, and then the deception deepens. He calls Heba,
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  Speaker 2: his actual wife.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what does he tell her?
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  Speaker 2: He lies, says he landed a really good work trip
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  Speaker 2: out of town for a couple of days, very lucrative,
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  Speaker 2: and Heba, thinking only of the money for Amere's treatment,
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  Speaker 2: is overjoyed for him.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, the web of lies is getting complicated.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and then things take another completely unexpected turn.
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  Speaker 1: What happens between Samir and Maha.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're together in Miyada's apartment for these two days,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of just waiting it out, they actually begin
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  Speaker 2: a relationship, a seemingly real, passionate relationship. Both of them
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  Speaker 2: appear happy.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously they fell for each other, it seems.
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  Speaker 2: That way, so much so that when the two days
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: are up, they decide not to get divorced immediately. They
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: actually extend their stay for another whole week. Samir is
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: completely captivated by Maha.
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  Speaker 1: This was definitely not part of Mohsen's plan or Mayada's presumably.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. Mosen starts getting suspicious. Obviously impatient, Samir
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  Speaker 2: keeps feeding him excuses about the divorce delay. Oh, my
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: daughter's health, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: One's the excuses.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Very Mosen finally loses patience. He confronts Mayata basically threatens her,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: says there'll be serious trouble if Samir doesn't divorce Maha now.
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  Speaker 1: So Mayata steps in.
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  Speaker 2: She does, She's under pressure from Mosen. She forces Samir
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: to go through with the divorce, and only then after
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  Speaker 2: the divorce is finalized, does Samir finally get his twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand EGP.
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  Speaker 1: But he's developed feelings for Maha by this point.
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  Speaker 2: Deep feelings, it seems, despite the divorce. He tries to contact.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Afterwards and Maha.
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  Speaker 2: Her response is absolutely brutal cold. She tells him flat out,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going back to mos and once my waiting period
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  Speaker 2: is over, don't ever call me again.
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  Speaker 1: Ouch just used him and discarded him completely.
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  Speaker 2: Samir is crushed. He went from being captain on demand,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: the driver, to husband on demand, the muhalil and now
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  Speaker 2: he's just nothing to her.
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  Speaker 1: What a devastating projectory. What about Mayada in all this?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Ah, Mayada, she saw how taken Maha was with Samir
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: despite the circumstances, and maybe she felt something herself, or
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: maybe she just saw another opportunity. She starts hinting to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Samir that she might be interested in a relationship with him.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously after orchestrating the whole thing with Maha.
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  Speaker 2: It seems so, and Samir, still reeling from MAHA's rejection,
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  Speaker 2: maybe wanting to make Maha jealous, maybe just needing some
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: kind of stability or connection.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: He agrees, so he gets involved with Mayada.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, they enter into what's called a customary marriage Irfi marriage.
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  Speaker 2: It's less formal than a state marriage, but often recognized.
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  Speaker 2: So now Samir is well, he's become man on demand
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  Speaker 2: for Mayada. He values her money, her stability, even if
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: his heart's still with Maha.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: This is just getting messier and messier. So Samir and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Mayada are together.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Now they are, but it's not smooth sailing. Samir constantly
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: talks about Maha, asks Mayada if Maha knows about them,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: what Maha thinks.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: If MAHA's jealous, Oh, that would drive anyone mad.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Miata becomes increasingly frustrated, feels second best, like she's
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: just a consolation prize. Her feelings of inferiority, her jealousy.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: They just build and build, until until one day it explodes.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Samir perhaps foolishly confesses to Mayada just how deeply he
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: still loves Maha, that he can't get her out of
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: his head.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That was the final straw for Mayada's jealousy, it was,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: And that's.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: When the really shocking secret comes out the acep Mayada's sleeve.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: What did she do?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: She reveals she had hidden cameras planted throughout her apartment. Yes,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: she had recorded everything that happened between Samir and Maha
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: during that week they were together, all the intimate moments.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's incredibly calculated and vengeful. What does
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: she do with the recordings?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: In a fit of pure rage and jealousy, she set
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: the videos directly to Mosen.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: To Mosen, who was planning to remarry Maha the.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Very same just as he was preparing to take Maha back.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Imagine his reaction, pure fury, I'd guess exactly.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: He confronts Mayada first, this huge explosive argument, but then
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: his anger shifts. It focuses entirely on Samir, the betrayal,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the humiliation. Mosen decides Samir has to.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Pay, so this is when he decides to hire the hitman.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: This is the trigger. Mosen devises his plan. He contacts
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Sayid and Mustafa Risha offers them the fifty thousand pounds.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: The instruction is explicit, eliminate Samir completely, leave no.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Trace tal obliteration. That was the goal and the plan
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: they came up with, calling him for.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: A ride deceptively simple. Sayda Mustafa call Samir, acting like
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: regular customers needing a ride from Sayda's Annam. Standard procedure
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: for but they prepare beforehand meticulously. About two hours before
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the pickup time, they ride their motorcycle out to Macattam.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: They buy the gasoline, stash the jerrykin in the motorcycle
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: nearby out of sight. Then they head back to Sayeda
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Zeinab to wait for Samir to arrive. Everything is planned,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the ambush is ready completely. Samir arrives totally unsuspecting. They
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: get into the back seat, They direct him to drive,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and then, at a quiet, isolated spot they'd already picked out,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they tell him.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: To stop and then they attack, swift.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Brutal, no warning. They stab him first in the neck,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: then the back. He stood no chance, no struggle, remember.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Just like the initial finding suggested exactly.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Then quickly they retrieved the gasoline can from where they'd
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: hidden it near their motorcycle, douse the car and Samir inside,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and set.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It ablaze, trying to destroy all evidence, hoping.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: The fire would consume everything. Then they jump on their
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: motorcycle and speed away, leaving the inferno behind.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: But the residents saw the fire, which brought the police.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Right and that's what ultimately unraveled the whole thing. The
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: investigation started the jerry can was found, the fingerprint matched sayed,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the phone call linked him. He confessed, implicated Mustapha, who
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: also confessed huh, leading them finally to Mosen.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: It all came crashing down. What happened when they confronted
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Mosen and Mayada with everything.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Well, Moson initially tried to deflect. He actually claimed Samir
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: was blackmailing him with videos, trying to flip the script.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But the investigators knew better.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, They quickly established it was Mayada who sent
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the videos fueled by jealousy, not Samir. Mayada, when confronted,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: she confessed to her role.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: What was her defense?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: She claimed she never intended for Samir to be murdered.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: She said she just wanted Mosen to quote teach Samir
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: a lesson for hurting her, not have him killed and burned.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: She also confirmed the customary marriage she had with Samir, teach.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Him a lesson that ends in murder and arson. It
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't quite hold up, does it not?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Really? The evidence against Mosen, Sayed and Mostafa was overwhelming,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: so the outcome after all the evidence was gathered, the
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: court re It's verdict. Mohsen ab Delta, Wab Sayed, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Mustafarisio were all sentenced to death for the premeditated murder
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of Samir.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: A grim end to a very tangled story.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: And perhaps the most tragic unthettling irony of it all.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Samir's wife, Hiba, his family, They apparently knew nothing about
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the secret life he was living, nothing about Maha Mayada,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the Muhalu marriage, none of it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: We just knew he was working hard trying to save
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: their daughter exactly.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It's this shocking paradox, isn't it. A seemingly ordinary, well
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: meaning man, driven by love for his child gets pulled
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: into this vortex of desperation, manipulation and ultimately becomes disposable
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: a man on demand whose life ended in flames.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: So when we step back and look at this whole
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: devastating story, what does it really tell us? What's the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: takeaway here?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well, it certainly shows the unbelievable length people can be
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: pushed to when they're desperate, especially when it involves protecting
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: or providing for loved ones. The drive can be all consuming, but.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It comes at a cost of a hidden one until
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's too late.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: That's the question it leaves you with, isn't it. When
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: you're facing truly extreme circumstances, what lines are you willing
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to cross? What happens when those choices made out of
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: sheer need lead you down paths you never imagine, especially when,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: like Samir, your own boundaries start blurring because someone else
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is demanding a solution you feel compelled to provide.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It makes you think about the hidden pressures, the secret
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: lives people might be living just beneath the surface.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It does. It's a stark look at human need, desperation,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and the incredibly dangerous unforeseen consequences that can erupt when
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: those forces collide, but truly chilling story