24 (TV Series)

Day 8: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. (2010)

Cherry Jones: President Allison Taylor

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• Brian Hastings : [Over the phone]  I'm afraid I have bad news: despite our best efforts, the terrorists have got the nuclear rods into Manhattan

  Ethan Kanin : [Over the speakerphone, sitting next to Taylor and Weiss]  how good is your intelligence? Are you sure?

  Brian Hastings : We are: in fact we had a visual on the suspects until a few minutes ago

  Ethan Kanin : What happened?

  Brian Hastings : We lost them: we're launching a multi agency search in the area we think they're in

  President Allison Taylor : That you "think they're in?" Will you be able to find them or not?

  Brian Hastings : We're doing everything in our power but right now I don't have an answer for you. I'm sorry to have to tell you this but I can no longer guarantee the safety of Manhattan

  Rob Weiss : [Raises his voice to Hastings]  how the hell could this happen? CTU had one priority: that this didn't happen. It's unacceptable

  President Allison Taylor : Mr. Hastings, I want you to consider the entire resources of the government at your disposal. Whatever help you need, you'll get it, you must find those rods

  Brian Hastings : I understand madam President

  President Allison Taylor : We also need to prepare for "the worst". I want all branches and local law enforcement ready to respond to an "imminent" radiological attack

  Brian Hastings : [Before hanging up]  yes ma'am

• President Allison Taylor : [Over the phone]  I'm calling to ask you a favor?

  Jack Bauer : Anything ma'am

  President Allison Taylor : President Hassan and his family are being evacuated from the UN and being brought here, I would like for you to supervise that operation

  Jack Bauer : With all due respect I think I'd be much more helpful staying in place here with CTU. Besides Secret Service is more than capable

  President Allison Taylor : Well, that may be true but I'd feel a lot better knowing you were on the job. In light of the threat to New York, President Hassan's role in securing a lasting peace is more crucial than ever. I need him safe

  Jack Bauer : I understand, I'll leave for the UN immediately

  President Allison Taylor : Thank you, I'll see you when you get here

  Jack Bauer : [Before hanging up]  yes ma'am

• Samir Mehran : [Over the phone]  this going to be a short conversation

  President Allison Taylor : Who are you and what do you want?

  Samir Mehran : You know I've got the fuel rods and you know I got them into Manhattan: what I want now is to "convince" you that I have no desire to harm innocent Americans

  President Allison Taylor : And yet you're threatening them with a bomb

  Samir Mehran : Actually, a radiological dispersal device capable of contaminating forty square blocks under a dense radiation cloud

  President Allison Taylor : Any attack on the United States will prompt retaliation against your country

  Samir Mehran : I would expect nothing less but you should listen to me, what I'm asking for is simple: turn over President Hassan

  President Allison Taylor : What?

  Samir Mehran : He's a traitor to his people and must stand trial for his crimes

  President Allison Taylor : That will never happen

  Samir Mehran : You have exactly one hour to change your mind, Mr. Woods knows how to contact me: the clock starts now

• President Allison Taylor : [to the members in her Cabinet]  in the first place, the people who are "offering" us this "deal" cannot be trusted. How do we know they won't detonate the bomb anyway? President is a guest of this country: he is my partner in peace and I will not sell him out to the very terrorists that we are determined to defeat and finally, caving to any terrorist's demand, weakens this nation, imaginably. Now we have sixty minutes to find these bastards and I believe we will but if we don't, and the worst happens... we will deal with it. We will pick ourselves up off the floor and deal with it, why? Because that's what we do, Americans don't stay down: we rise up together in times of crisis, we carry on. Is that clear?

• President Allison Taylor : What is it?

  Rob Weiss : [Nervously]  well, I'm just going to say it: we should consider the "alternative"

  President Allison Taylor : What "alternative?"

  Rob Weiss : We have an "out" here and I think we should take it?

  President Allison Taylor : You mean give into the demand and turn over President Hassan?

  Rob Weiss : No one man is worth the lives of tens of thousands and... You know what? I bet he would agree

  Ethan Kanin : Madam President, are we really having this conversation?

  Rob Weiss : Doesn't it deserve a "conversation?"

  Ethan Kanin : Not less if your intent on destroying our "moral authority." This country's unique place among nations maybe forever

  Rob Weiss : [Gradually raising his voice]  as opposed to what? The irradiation of all those people? Real businesses? Real homes? Uninhabitable for a hundred years or more?