24 (TV Series)

Day 5: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. (2006)

James Morrison: Bill Buchanan

Quotes 

• Bill Buchanan : [after entering her office]  I saw a "proficiency" evaluation for all CTU personnel on my secondary screen

  Karen Hayes : That's a formality: the fact is we don't have time for evaluations right now

  Bill Buchanan : Why was it put in the pipeline?

  Karen Hayes : Like I said, it's a formality

  Bill Buchanan : Your here to shut this place down aren't you? The evaluations will be filled in later as a matter of protocol

  Karen Hayes : I told you before the White House...

  Bill Buchanan : [Interrupts her]  I know what you told me before: now tell me the truth

  Karen Hayes : The truth is CTU is being absorbed by Homeland, which means from now on every operational decision needs to go through me. What did you expect? You've been infiltrated, fifty six of your people have been killed. The others are demoralized...

  Bill Buchanan : [Interrupts her, raises his voice]  their not demoralized. Their angry, they want to fight back, their willing to lay down their lives, some already have

  Karen Hayes : It's done, the decision's been made and I know neither one of us wants this transition to interfere with ongoing protocols, so let's keep it between us. At least until this crisis plays out

• Audrey Raines : [Talking privately]  Homeland has been overly aggressive in their survey: what is going on?

  Bill Buchanan : Nothing, it's just a formality, they'll be gone as soon as they finish their evaluation. Where are we on the military mobilization?

  Audrey Raines : Martial Law is in effect in nine out of the fifteen LA districts, there are checkpoints throughout the city right now

  Bill Buchanan : The President's done the right thing

• Karen Hayes : [while in Bill's office]  give me details of the current threat assessment?

  Bill Buchanan : There's a high probability Bierko is planning an attack on a much larger scale than anything we've seen today. That's why he targeted CTU: cripple our ability to stop him

  Karen Hayes : And the question is, was he successful? When you look at the numbers, you were harder hit than you thought

  Bill Buchanan : We're still functioning, maybe not at a hundred percent, when you install the people I asked for, we'll be back to fighting strength

  Karen Hayes : Have you made any progress finding Bierko?

  Bill Buchanan : We've identified a woman who might lead us to him: Collette Stenger

• Chloe O'Brian : [after entering the Situation room]  what's going on?

  Karen Hayes : Why don't you tell us?

  Chloe O'Brian : I don't know

  Karen Hayes : We've got you hacking into a top secret NSA archive

  Chloe O'Brian : I don't know what you're talking about

  Miles Papazian : [to Chloe]  I pulled a mirrored archive of your web traffic: whatever you took from NSA was uploaded to Jack Bauer's remote node

  Karen Hayes : Tell us exactly what document you passed to Jack Bauer

  Bill Buchanan : [after Chloe doesn't say anything]  this going to get much worse if you force me to have NSA to run a back trace, what is it?

  Chloe O'Brian : Jack needed the "wet list"

  Karen Hayes : [Shocked]  what? Why on earth would you give him that?

  Chloe O'Brian : Theo Stoller wouldn't lead us to Collette Stenger without it

  Bill Buchanan : Giving that list to another intelligence agency could be disastrous: years of work could be rendered useless. Our own agents could be exposed

  Chloe O'Brian : Jack needed it ok?

  Bill Buchanan : [Raises his voice]  no, it's not ok

  Karen Hayes : [to Bill]  and you expected us to give your agents a chance?

• Bill Buchanan : [Over the speakerphone in the Situation room]  it's Bill, Karen Hayes is here as well. If you're with Theo Stoller, get some place you can talk privately

  Jack Bauer : [Over the speakerphone on his cell phone as Stoller listens]  I can't, we're in the middle of an operation, if I move, and I'll jeopardize our position

  Karen Hayes : Then you'll have to have this conversation in front of him: have you given him the "wet list" yet?

  Jack Bauer : Yes

  Karen Hayes : Has he given it to German Intelligence?

  Jack Bauer : No

  Karen Hayes : [Before Jack and Theo draw their guns on each other]  then get it back now

  Jack Bauer : I can't, if I do that Stoller won't cooperate, and then we'll lose Collette Stenger. Bill, would you explain this to her?

  Karen Hayes : It's not his decision: it's not his decision. Retrieve the "wet list" now or I will order Agent Manning and his team to do it

  Jack Bauer : Right now Collette Stenger is our only connection to Bierko, if you blow this operation, you will be responsible for every life lost in his next attack

  Karen Hayes : I don't like to be threatened

  Jack Bauer : That's not a threat, that's a fact

  Karen Hayes : German Intelligence will move preemptively in on people we have been watching for years: our ability to prevent terrorist attacks will be severely threatened

  Jack Bauer : And that's risk we'll have to take. Right now we have to deal with "this" situation

  Karen Hayes : It's not your call, it's not mine either. We need authorization from the President

  Jack Bauer : Then get it

  Jack Bauer : [after Curtis informs him Stenger is arriving at their location]  we have a possible suspect approaching. Ms. Hayes, are you telling me I have to abort this operation? Yes or no? This is your call

  Karen Hayes : You don't know for certain this woman will lead us to Bierko

  Jack Bauer : No, not for certain. Right now she's our only lead, are you willing to take this chance?

  Karen Hayes : You left me no choice: proceed but you have severely compromised this situation and I promise you, there will be repercussions

  Jack Bauer : [Before hanging up]  fine