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A great time. >> if i knew then what i know now, i would have killed rai. i would take that man's life and not feel any regret about it whatsoever. i get into the airport, and there is guy there, and he is holding a sign that says erik aude, like he just drew it on napkin, basically. >> hey. >> how you doing? >> good. >> the first words out of the guy's mouth was -- >> rai messed up. >> he said we would have had a great time. >> but now we have to go karachi to bring all the jackets back. >> when are you guys coming back? >> when are you leaving? >> friday. >> yeah. we'll be back by friday. >>...

>> believe me, erik, you'll have a good time. >> had just set me up to unknowingly smuggle drugs for him. i felt like such an idiot. >> i need to speak with the american embassy. >> this little guy says to me "embassy can't help you." >> we're going hang you after the 5:00 prayer. >> i'm terrified at this moment. i can't believe this is happening to me. someone tells you they're going kill you, can we put the handcuffs on you now, no one there even had a chance to hold me down. >> stop him! >> all i heard is a gun being fired. i wasn't trying to escape. i was trying to find a phone. i hit the ...

Me. >> and then he cleared his throat and said -- >> they were kidding. >> they were kidding. wow. i was like how are you going to kid about something like that? >> please, come with us, mr. aude. >> i'm thinking now that the dea is here, they're going help me. i really believed that as long as we could get rai arrested, that i'll be released and the real drug smuggler will be, you know, punished. >> so, erik, what happened? why are you here? >> a friend of mine rai sends me out here to pakistan to pick up leather goods. i had no idea it was drug-related. >> they were not buying my story whats...

My lawyer said erik, you're going to be going home soon. >> we arrange a really good deal for you. >> you're going pay the judge a thousand dollars. he's going to give you a two-year prison sentence. >> because of the time you have already spent you should be able to go home within the next four months. >> this is wonderful. let's do this. >> this is great. >> okay. you just have to plead guilty and he'll give you the two years. >> plead guilty? >> i said why do i have to plead guilty? i didn't do this. >> that's how it's done here. you plead guilty. you pay the judge some money and you go hom...

It was a real good feeling to realize how much all these people cared about me. >> what was it like in there? what have these three years been like for you? >> i will talk about that stuff later. but i'm lucky to be here right now. on american soil. and i'm never going to take advantage of that again. and i'm glad it happened to me. i'm just glad it happened to me. >> welcome home, erik. >> welcome home. >> yay. [ applause ] >> the whole experience made me appreciate what's important in life. and i have to sometimes remind myself just how great everything in life really is. i needed to go to j...