Blooper

While certainly a dramatic and poignant reference by OA to witnessing the use of sarin gas in Mosel, Iraq, it just isn't possible. The inference is that he witnessed it while serving in the US Army. No sarin gas was used during that period. The last deployment of any chemical agent in Iraq was in 1991 against the Kurdish uprising and it was nowhere near Mosel. Also, OA is far too young to have witnessed even that event, even as a child as his family is from Egypt.

OA says that he witnessed a sarin gas attack in Mosel when he was in the Army. While it is true that the last publicly known use of sarin in Iraq was in 1991, far to long ago for OA to have seen it. However OA was part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, one of the Army's elite tier two special operations units. Most of their missions are highly classified so it is possible for OA to have witnessed the use of sarin on a small scale that was not known to the general public.

The only reason OA and Maggie entered the facility was the possibility that Abbas (Arash Mokhtar) had fled the area with the sarin gas. Once shots were fired at Maggie, that possibility was negated. Once she actually made contact with Abbas, it was definitive, and she and OA could have left the building, set up containment, and waited the less-than-fifteen minutes for S.W.A.T. and the protective gear to arrive. None of what followed would have occurred.