When Alwaleed travels, an advance communications team sets up a private phone network and satellite link, putting him in contact with his office in Riyadh and letting him keep an eye on the Arab TV channels in which he owns a stake.
The Bricklayer, whom he sees along with kaleidoscopic flashes resulting from a torn retina, is his link to his horrific memories and the home that he left, and he is terrified that eye surgery will sever this connection forever.