Sean Langan

And then also I found out the British Special Forces were planning a rescue mission

We're actually training for it in Helmand, the SBS, Special Boat Service.

My ex-wife was getting involved because there was a split between the foreign office governments and journalists don't trust each other.

Governments like, give us all the information you know.

Channel 4 was saying no because their fear is they might want to kill terrorists as a priority, not rescue.

And obviously ransom payments

Yes, so the Western official position is we don't pay.

He writes, as the AK-47 points it at me, he says, don't these foreign fuckers get it?

We kill people.

It turned out to be the most intense, one of the biggest battles of the entire war.

time they were there in Helmand over the years and it was just intense you know there were hundreds of Taliban surrounding this small unit and it went on for about a week and the army British soldiers ran out of ammo food and they're having to be air supplied so that was at the same period and just to to add a note a serious note here of

something was wrong with me.

Something was wrong with my logic.

I have two children, you know.

I have two children, but they were very young at that point.

And the fact that I went back to make this other film when I got kidnapped, it was, you know, less than a year later.

I always think of it that I was like Icarus, the Greek myth.

Icarus, who's flying ever closer to the sun, and these wings he'd made out of feathers with his father.

And his father had always warned us, don't fly too close to the sun.

But he is forever drawn to this light.