24 (TV Series)

Day 2: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. (2003)

Francesco Quinn: Syed Ali

Quotes 

• Michelle Dessler : [while in the interrogation room after playing the Cyprus recording]  this tape was recovered from the hard drive in your apartment: it's a recording of a meeting you had with these three men in Cyprus. Their all high ranking officials from three Arab countries, one of them your own. The tape proves that you conspired with these men to detonate a nuclear bomb on US soil. Whatever you don't tell me you'll tell the interrogators at Guantánamo and in much less comfortable circumstances. So I'll ask you one more time

  Syed Ali : [Interrupts her]  tell me what you want me to say and I will say it

  Michelle Dessler : I want the truth

  Syed Ali : What does the truth matter when you have this recording?

  Michelle Dessler : Explain what that means

  Syed Ali : It means I never spoke to these men

  Michelle Dessler : Your denying the meeting took place?

  Syed Ali : There was never a meeting. I was not in Cyprus in April

  Michelle Dessler : Where were you?

  Syed Ali : Berlin

  Michelle Dessler : They'll find out the truth in Guantánamo

  Syed Ali : Why would I lie about this? When I told you the truth about the bomb?

  Michelle Dessler : To protect your country