24 (TV Series)

Day 4: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. (2005)

Kiefer Sutherland: Jack Bauer

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• Jack Bauer : [talking privately]  What's the location of the nuclear football?

  Audrey Raines : Forty miles east of her in the middle of the desert

  Jack Bauer : [she walks away]  hey

  Jack Bauer : [he catches up to her]  hey what's wrong?

  Audrey Raines : Paul may have to go back into surgery, apparently the bullet did more damage than they thought.

  Jack Bauer : I'm sorry.

  Audrey Raines : I Keep thinking if I handled things differently, if I had trusted him more, maybe none of this would've happened.

  Jack Bauer : you are not responsible for this, I and I alone, made the decision on how to handle Paul, I want you to remain effective, if you want to be able to do your job, you have to let it go.

  Audrey Raines : that's your gift, you're able to block things out. I can't do that.

• Jack Bauer : [Talking privately to Michelle]  I want you to uplink all current leads to a station so you and I can start working on a priority list: we might not know exactly where Marwan is but he has to be within a fifty miles radius of...

  Audrey Raines : [Walking up to them]  I'm sorry to interrupt you but I just got off the phone with the Secretary of Defense and right now there's higher priority than finding Marwan

  Jack Bauer : What is it?

  Audrey Raines : Recovering the Nuclear football

  Michelle Dessler : Didn't it go down with Air Force One?

  Audrey Raines : Not exactly: the missile inflicted enough damage that the plane left a trail of debris as it went down. A lot of things were sucked out, including the football and there's a transponder embedded in the casing so we know exact location

  Jack Bauer : Good, the retrieval team should have no problem recovering it

  Audrey Raines : The Secretary wants you to head up that team Jack

  Jack Bauer : Why?

  Audrey Raines : It's his top priority: that case contains the codes and locations of our entire nuclear arsenal. Nothing is more critical than getting it back and as quickly as possible

  Jack Bauer : Fine

  Michelle Dessler : [to Jack, before walking away]  I'll mobilize your team and mobilize the units

  Jack Bauer : Thanks

  Jack Bauer : What's the location of the football?

  Audrey Raines : Forty miles east of here in the desert

• Jack Bauer : [Over the phone]  hey it's me

  Audrey Raines : Hey

  Jack Bauer : When I walked away from you at CTU, I felt like you didn't understand what I was trying to say. I'm not telling you that you shouldn't care. I care about you, I care about what happened to Paul, I feel completely responsible for it but right now this country's under attack and I've got a job to do and I don't have a choice

  Audrey Raines : I understand what you have to do is very important

  Jack Bauer : I just didn't want to leave things like that

  Audrey Raines : I'm glad, me neither

• Tony Almeida : [Over the phone]  I got a guy on the line the police put through: his in the desert, he said he found a "case." This guy found the football

  Jack Bauer : Ok, let me speak to him

  Tony Almeida : His name is Jason Girard, we're running a background check as we speak. I'm patching you through right now

  Jack Bauer : Ok Tony, stay on the other line

  Jack Bauer : Mr. Girard?

  Jason Girard : Yeah, call me Jason, I'm with my wife Kelly who's this?

  Jack Bauer : My name is Jack Bauer, I'm a federal agent with the Department of Defense. My colleague agent Almeida says you found what we refer to as "the football"?

  Jason Girard : Yeah it sure looks that way. I mean I don't know very much about this sort of thing, my wife are out here on a camping trip

  Jack Bauer : Ok fine, why don't you just describe to me what you found?

  Jason Girard : Sure, it's a black leather briefcase, it's got a number paneling over by the handle, and it's in a protective case that's got the President Seal on it

  Jack Bauer : That sounds like it. Right now I'm in a helicopter, I'm about twenty minutes away from you. I just want you to hang out there and wait for me

  Jason Girard : I think someone beat you to the punch, I see headlights

  Jack Bauer : How far away?

  Jason Girard : It's hard to tell, a few miles?

  Jack Bauer : Ok just hold on a second Jason

  Jack Bauer : Tony, this kid Jason said his got headlights towards him, do we have any ground units in his vicinity?

  Tony Almeida : No

  Jack Bauer : Highway patrol? Park Rangers? Anything?

  Tony Almeida : No, nobody

  Jack Bauer : How can that be?

  Tony Almeida : We're spread thin: all state agencies are still assisting with the evacuation

  Jack Bauer : Son of a bitch

  Jack Bauer : Jason, are the headlights headed straight for you?

  Jason Girard : Yeah their pretty much coming this way

  Jack Bauer : Damn it. This situation just got a lot more complicated than we thought

  Jason Girard : What'd you mean?

  Jack Bauer : The football has a transponder. It's a tracking device, it allows anyone to pinpoint its exact location as long as they've got the right frequency

  Jason Girard : You think someone got a hold of the frequency that's not supposed to have it?

  Jack Bauer : Right now we have to make that assumption

  Jason Girard : Who do you think it is?

  Jack Bauer : Terrorists who carried out today's attacks. Listen, if I'm right we don't have a lot of time, I need to remove the transponder and take the football get away from there as far as you can

  Jason Girard : Ok go ahead

  Jack Bauer : The transponder's tiny and it's hidden in the surface of the case. It's designed not to be found

  Jason Girard : How am I supposed to find it?

  Jack Bauer : Do you have a compass and a flashlight?

  Jason Girard : Yeah

  Jack Bauer : I want you to move the compass over the surface of the case slowly, the transponder puts out an electromagnetic field: it's not very strong but it should move the needle. Just move the compass over the surface of the case slowly and watch the needle

  Jason Girard : [as his wife holds the flashlight while he moved the compass]  I found it

  Jack Bauer : Ok good. Take a knife or a sharp rock and start scratching the surface hard

  Jason Girard : [while scraping]  damn it

• Jack Bauer : Come on Jason, talk to me

  Jason Girard : I am working on it

  Jack Bauer : [after removing the transponder]  ok I want you to take the compass and put it over the scrapped area and tell me is the needle moving?

  Jason Girard : No, it's not

  Jack Bauer : Ok, you've disabled it. Good work, how far is the vehicle?

  Jason Girard : Not far