David McCloskey

And Seidel is one of them.

Apparently launches into an angry – Mendez asks if Seidel has been watching the news about Iran.

And he says yes, and then launches into this kind of angry screed about how nothing's been done to bring the hostages back.

And Mendez says, what if I was to tell you that not all of the diplomats are being held at the embassy?

So Mendez lays out the houseguests, and that explains that the job is –

is to get them out.

And then he pitches the Hollywood cover, which is that these houseguests will be a film crew scouting a location for an upcoming movie.

Seidel and Chambers love the idea.

They love the idea.

Of course they do.

But they want to know what Mendes needs them for.

And Mendes spreads photos of the houseguests across the table.

He's got photocopies of their Canadian passports.

Mendes says, well, look, you know, one of them, Cora Liak,

Her alias name is Teresa Harris.

And Mendes says, well, you know, somebody might call and try to verify that Teresa Harris is a real screenwriter.

So in other words, he needs the cover backstopped.

He needs somebody to be able to answer the phone.

And it sounds kind of simple.

But then when you start to unpeel all the different layers, it becomes much more complicated.