i can't close barton hall, if that's what you're thinking. it doesn't bother you how the intelligence that arrives on your desk is obtained? no, of course it does. but if you think the soviets aren't using the same-- or worse-- methods, you're wrong. well, i'm aware of what they do; it's what we do that's the issue. but it's intelligence that has saved many of our agents' lives. i have to see both sides of the coin. that's my job. but listen to me. pierce is first class, but you have something i need, and i don't mean your inability to toe the line. it's just that in this rather nasty little war we seem to be fighting, i'd like to think that i have you on my side. and it might just be that working together, we could do some good. we could start with mrs. ross, perhaps. yes? next time on masterpiece mystery!... meyerson: carl strasser, nazi. he's been an extremely valuable intelligence asset. we can't afford to lose him. the greater good? exactly, foyle. we both want the same thing. and what's that? man: we want him dead. (gunshots, screaming)

intervention, but today i'm in waxahachie where a town hall meeting just wrapped where 60 americans applauded when the representative republican joe barton told them that he would vote against a military strike on syria. that's the opposite of what i heard earlier from this man, a syrian, who now calls the u.s. home, who said that the united states cannot afford to just watch and wait. the images we are seeing are not the same place ahmad grew up. >> syria should be a peaceful country, and we don't like to be involved in wars. >> reporter: but this is the syria the world now knows. matabi has been away from his homeland for 13 years. he's 47, lives in dallas where he leads the syrian diplomatic forum. an international network of syrian expats dedicated to ending the civil war. >> he killed women, kids, men and young people, the new generation is being killed for no reason. >> reporter: matabi ran a distribution business in syria. one day at work he came across some government documents he knew he would be punished for seeing. so he fled. >> i took my wife and my three children. >> just instantly overnight? >> i took them in the dark of n