Filmography | Sleeper Cell: Family and Youmud Din

Role: Lynne Allen Emerson
Scenes: Family - Lynne shows up at the doorstep of her estranged son, Tommy, a sleeper cell terrorist. As she is an expert on medieval Europe, she's in town for a conference and is hoping to spend some time with Tommy. She asks him to be her guest at the conference. Tommy says he has to go somewhere and Lynne offers him a ride.
She drops him off at a parking lot and tells him how proud of him she is and how she and his father are glad he isn't in the army anymore.
Lynne begins her lecture at the conference and Tommy is nowhere to be seen.
Lynne is hanging out at Tommy's work place, a bowling alley. Christian, a sleeper cell member himself, joins the Emersons. Tommy concentrates on bowling, and Lynne finally blows up, accusing him of ignoring her, only calling her when he needs money and always letting his father off the hook, even when he's guilty of the same thing as she is. Tommy fires back and says she was always more interested in the Middle Ages than him. Christian tries to defuse the situation, but Tommy tells him that he couldn't understand the big picture. Christian says that Tommy is right in asserting that he doesn't understand; Tommy's family is here and within reach, whereas his family is on another continent.
Lynne and Christian have sex in his trailer home. Lynne reveals that she and her husband haven't had sex in months. Her husband is a literature professor and has no difficulty finding young women to go to bed with. Forlornly, she asks him if he has any idea of what it feels like to be despised by the people he loves. He replies yes.
Youmud Din - Tommy is holed up in his van, ready to make his last stand against the police force. He calls his mother, wants to know how she is, asks her to say hi to his father. He then says that she needs to stay on the line, he lays down the phone and she keeps asking what is wrong with him. He commits suicide by blowing up the van.
Lynne and her husband appear before reporters who are gathered on their front lawn. She announces that they will be seeking damages from the authorities for Tommy's death and for the persecution he experienced in the army.
Links: Sleeper Cell: American Terror (the second season)