24 (TV Series)

Day 4: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. (2005)

Robert Cicchini: Howard Bern

Quotes 

• Howard Bern : [Over the phone]  I got a message to call you when I landed in San Diego

  Bill Buchanan : Are we on a secure line?

  Howard Bern : Yes sir, it's an encrypted cell

  Bill Buchanan : The Chinese are continuing to press the case that we were involved in the assault on their Consulate

  Howard Bern : Have they managed to find evidence beyond the surveillance video of me?

  Bill Buchanan : No, and we have to make sure they don't. I want you to start fabricating an alibi with CTU and San Diego, I want you to make it look like you were working there during the assault

  Howard Bern : My transport's arriving right now, I'll get right on it

  Bill Buchanan : The alibi has to withstand careful scrutiny: San Diego phone logs, roasters, and mainframe records all have to back it up

  Howard Bern : It'll be air tight sir

  Bill Buchanan : It has to be

  Howard Bern : Sir, about my family: any chance the Chinese will try to get to them?

  Bill Buchanan : They can't. We've already contacted your wife moved her and your kids to a hotel for the time being, I'll be in touch

  Howard Bern : Thank you very much sir

• Cheng Zhi : [to Agent Bern while his tied to a chair]  you were a part of the covert team that assaulted our Consulate: an operation that resulted in the death of our Consul. Who led the mission? Who was responsible for what happened?

  Howard Bern : I don't know what you're talking about

  Cheng Zhi : Please, you're wasting time. Give us a statement and we'll release you

  Howard Bern : I'm telling you the truth and you're going to have to release me as soon as CTU realizes what's happening to me

  Cheng Zhi : Actually, no one will ever know because no one will ever tell them

  Howard Bern : What're you talking about?

  Cheng Zhi : The China Queen container ship is at the port of San Diego: if you don't give us our statement, we'll put you on board and you will arrive in eighteen days in the port of Hangzhou then we will transfer you twenty eight hundred miles to the province of Xinjiang, where you will be remanded to the maximum security labor camp on the border with Siberia

  Howard Bern : You wouldn't do that

  Cheng Zhi : Why wouldn't I? We want justice. If you're not going to tell us whose "ultimately" responsible for the situation at the Consulate, that leaves you. Your wife and your two daughters will not be notified, the US government will not be notified, therefore there will be no chance for prisoner exchange. There will be positively no chance of escape for the rest of your life. Decide Mr. Bern, the China Queen is on a tight schedule

  Howard Bern : [Shaking his head]  I don't know

  Cheng Zhi : All we want is a name: a recorded statement naming the person responsible for what happened at the Consulate

  Howard Bern : Then what happens?

  Cheng Zhi : [Before pointing to the door]  you will walk right out of that door

  Howard Bern : No, I meant to him

  Cheng Zhi : As I said, all we want is justice

  Howard Bern : [Nervously]  his name is Jack Bauer