24 (TV Series)

Day 2: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. (2003)

Penny Johnson Jerald: Sherry Palmer

Quotes 

• President David Palmer : [to Sherry]  tell Mike what you told me

  Sherry Palmer : There's a back channel communications network that the CIA used to call OP-COM: it's been shut down for over twenty years. Last month NSA was given orders to resurrect it. It was an "eyes only" order issued by Roger Stanton

  Mike Novick : [Referring to the amount evidence to arrest Roger]  I'm not sure if that's enough

  President David Palmer : By itself, it's not. Unless Roger used call OP-COM to contact Colonel Samuels in the last few hours

  Mike Novick : [to David]  my source is checking on that now

  President David Palmer : [to mike]  call the Attorney General. Start working on this from the legal side. If we find this connection, we'll move on it, and have Stanton arrested

• President David Palmer : Jack Bauer's plane was shot down by an American military unit: Jack told me himself. I won't go into details except to say I believe him

  Mike Novick : American military? Why?

  President David Palmer : I just spoke to Roger Stanton. I think his hiding something from me, I'm going to arrest him

  Sherry Palmer : Arrest the head of NSA?

  President David Palmer : Bauer said the unit that attacked his plane was connected to a Colonel Samuels out of Fort Benning. Samuels is funded by NSA

  Sherry Palmer : With all due respect, that's pretty thin

  President David Palmer : By itself, yes. But the Ambassador's chopper crash, the evacuation of military personnel out of LA, Ron Wieland's escape from custody. Those things happened after Stanton arrived

  Sherry Palmer : Firing Stanton will cause chaos. All the agencies report through him. His running the search for the bomb for crying out loud

  Mike Novick : If the President's right, his not running the search, his "impeding" it

  Sherry Palmer : Why would he do such a thing?

  Mike Novick : I don't know but if he is, you have a better chance of finding the bomb if we get rid of him

  Sherry Palmer : [to David]  you can't do this on a hunch. if Stanton turns out to be innocent and that bomb goes off, you'll be blamed for the deaths of a million people

  Mike Novick : [to Sherry]  if you do nothing and if he is guilty of something he'll be blamed anyway

  Sherry Palmer : [to David]  no at the very least we need to get kind of proof. Some evidence, you cannot just arrest the head of NSA

  President David Palmer : [to Mike]  she's right we need proof, find me a connection to Stanton and this Colonel Samuels and find it quickly

• President David Palmer : [Over the phone]  yeah those three dates and anything the following week: hold on

  Sherry Palmer : Ok good. Let me know if you find something out

  Mike Novick : Sir,

  President David Palmer : What've you got?

  Mike Novick : I found a way to get into the OP-COM channels

  President David Palmer : Good

  Mike Novick : The problem is the files are password protected. We're going to need someone internal to open them. It'll take time

  Sherry Palmer : No, it's not. I just got the name of a Deputy Director who's retired but his code is still active. We could use that

  Mike Novick : I'll head over to the OC to check it out

  President David Palmer : Good

  President David Palmer : I'm collecting the dates Colonel Samuels' office logged on OP-COM. if Mike can trace Stanton access, we can look for a match

  President David Palmer : Great

  Sherry Palmer : If we have that, you'll have all the proof you need

  Mike Novick : Wait a minute, Stanton has a dozen staff that shares his code. How are we going to pin it on him?

  Sherry Palmer : There's a four digit sub-code that only belongs to him. That's the one that'll nail him

  President David Palmer : You're doing an incredible job here today

  Sherry Palmer : Thank you

  President David Palmer : I had forgotten how talented you are with all this stuff

  Sherry Palmer : I've worked with you for over twenty-five years. It had to rub off me somehow

  President David Palmer : [while rubbing her shoulder]  I'm glad you're here

  Sherry Palmer : I've always been here, you remember that?

  President David Palmer : [Before walking away]  yeah

• Sherry Palmer : [Over the phone]  it's me

  Roger Stanton : I told you not to call me here

  Sherry Palmer : I need to warn you: they know about OP-COM

  Roger Stanton : How?

  Sherry Palmer : I told them

  Roger Stanton : You what?

  Sherry Palmer : He was going to find out one way or the other. This way I get him to trust me little by little

  Roger Stanton : What'd we do now?

  Sherry Palmer : They'll connect you to the plane that was shot down. David's having an arrest warrant drawn up as we speak. Stay the course, when this is over you'll have everything you want. In the meantime, it's important you don't talk

  Roger Stanton : Don't talk about you? You mean?

  Sherry Palmer : That's right. It's more important than ever that I stay in place