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It's June 3rd, 2013, early in the evening in Hong Kong, an Edward Snowden, standing by a window in a hotel room staring out at the city.

The sun is setting over the horizon, and down below traffic has begun to grow snorled, with cars honking and pedestrians swarming through the streets.

Snowden turns away from the chaotic city life, and gays is across his small hotel room, which has grown messy in chaotic in its own ways.

On the other side of the room, the documentary filmmaker, Laura Poitris, is packing up her camera gear, spread all across the floor littering the ground.

Next to her, Glenn Greenwald, reporter for the Guardian, is hunched over his laptop typing rapidly, only pausing to take a bite of something from room service.

Snowden just stands there. He's exhausted. At this point, there's not much more he can do.

All day, he's been sitting with Greenwald, getting interviewed on camera.

The two have been discussing why Snowden smuggled out top secret documents from the NSA and leaked them to these two journalists.

Overall, Snowden thought he did a good job. He explained that citizens deserve to know the truth about their government, that the NSA's surveillance of regular Americans is a threat to their freedom and democracy.

The interviews went on for hours, but were a culmination of a plan that was months in the making. But now, it's all done.

As he paces around the hotel room, Snowden realizes the story is largely out of his hands. Poitris is going to stitch together a film, and Greenwald is going to write and publish his stories.

The world is about to know the truth about the NSA, but Snowden is not entirely ready to step aside, because he still needs some assurances from the journalists.

He wants to make sure they're going to do their job responsibly.

Snowden steps over a tray of dirty plates, and sidles up to Greenwald.

So, Glenn, we covered a lot. What do you think you're going to write about first?

Well, I'm going to write three or four articles, I think. Send them off to my editors. Then we'll figure out what we're going to publish first. All right? That makes sense.

But look, I want to remind you, I reached out because I trusted you with this story. Oh, I know that. I mean, you're both good journalists.

You both have good ethics. Well, thank you, Ed, but where's this coming from? What's going on?

Snowden taps his hand against his chest, as he prepares his next words.

Well, Glenn, I just... I want you to promise me that you're going to vet all the documents I handed over.

Oh, you don't have to worry about that. We'll do our job. I'm serious. The public has to know the truth, but I need to promise this information can't put any innocent people at risk.

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