The A-Team (film)/WMG
Murdock is South African.
He speaks fluent Swahili (not a native South African language, true, but spoken widely across the continent), and his South African accent is more convincing than his American one. He just pretends to be American because...he's Murdock.
- Non-US citizens must have permanent residency to join the US military, and they are restricted to low-level positions that don't require security clearance. It is possible that Murdock became a US citizen after joining the army, however.
- It doesn't matter which method he uses, he would still be restricted to lower-level positions and it would be difficult to acquire even the basic, entry-level clearance. Not impossible, but difficult, and it would still be the only clearance he could ever acquire. It would, however, be enough to allow him to progress completely through the vanilla army enlisted ranks and retire.
- I've never seen someone who is not a native-born American limited to lower-level positions. That's completely false. You can become a citizen and get a top secret clearance. I know this first-hand. For example, I worked with a guy who was born in Iraq, served in the Iraqi Army, fought in the Iran-Iraq war (all of it), moved to Michigan, became a citizen, then several years later, went back to Iraq as a translator with a secret clearance.
- He's not "really" a native of South Africa. He has a fake passport that somehow got mixed up. He was supposed to be passing himself off as Jewish, but there's nothing in that scene that suggests that he isn't actually a natural-born American citizen. The fact that he spoke the language was just rule of cool or rule of funny.
- Probably rule of funny combined with the fact that the actor really is from South Africa (and played Wikus in District 9).
The film is a sequel to Taken
"Hannibal" is an alias for Bryan Mills. The A-Team is his on-again-off-again Day Job, and Taken took place during his temporary retirement.
The passport Hannibal used in the airport says Bryan Mills.
"Bryan Mills" is one of Hannibal's many aliases. He's just a father, going to meet his daughter in Paris... nope, nothing to see here...
The film is in continuity with Modern Warfare.
(Read it somewhere, thought it was cool)
General Shepherd called in every favour he had, but his best still wasn't enough to save Hannibal, his friend and trusted subordinate, from the tribunal. Nevertheless, when the A-Team broke out and went on the run, he offered all the discreet help he could.
Fast forward to MW 2. One of the things Shepherd does with his blank cheque is clear the A-Team's names. Regrettably, before he can send Hannibal and the Team after Price and Soap, he dies. What a shame.