Captive - LIARS

AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE, IRAN - Colonel Heston began to slowly regain consciousness and discovered he was in an upright sitting position, gagged with his feet tied, his hands bound behind his back and fastened together behind a wooden support. He was in the middle of a room that appeared like any other one would find in the average Arab household, only this one had no windows and only one doorway.

The room was dark, hot and lit only by a single light bulb hanging from an electrical cord above his head. His vision remained somewhat blurred, both eyes swollen from the beatings that began soon following his arrival. Heston was just able to make out the Lieutenant two meters to his right, also gagged and tied to a wooden post.

The Colonel now heard the faint sound of a womans voice coming from the doorway. She was American by the tone of it. Probably from the northeastern seaboard by her inflection.

What the hell is going on here?

The womans voice was all of a sudden replaced by a