- Michelle Dessler: What did LAPD say?
- Bill Buchanan: They're keeping certain units in reserve...
- Michelle Dessler: [Interrupts him] but they're sending more patrol men to help Jack right?
- Bill Buchanan: They're sending nine over there now and they're going to try to pull another twelve from the...
- Michelle Dessler: [Interrupts him] nine? That's not nearly enough: we'll have to reassign our people. Send them over there now
- Bill Buchanan: I've taken care of it
- Michelle Dessler: [Sternly] when? We need people there now, this woman has to be captured
- Bill Buchanan: Everyone understands what's at stake here. We're going to do our best to find this woman but we have to remain calm or everything will spiral out of control
- Michelle Dessler: Your right, I'm not being objective. I'll admit it, I'm worried about what this woman will do to Tony but I will not lose sight of the "big picture"
- Bill Buchanan: The "big picture" is we have to apprehend this hostile: alive, nothing else matters
- Mandy: [Over the phone] don't bother trying to triangulate the call: it's scrambled
- Michelle Dessler: Please don't hurt him
- Mandy: He's ok for now. He won't be unless you do everything I say
- Michelle Dessler: I understand
- Mandy: I need your help getting out of here
- Michelle Dessler: What kind of help?
- Mandy: You're hesitating
- Michelle Dessler: I'm not, I just need to know what you need me to do
- Mandy: Your men are between me and my exit. I need to know what their search patterns are and how many men there are
- Michelle Dessler: Ok, I'll find out
- Mandy: You'll tell me right now
- Michelle Dessler: I have to go downstairs and talk to my tactical team
- Mandy: Oh, you're stalling: how many men are there total?
- Michelle Dessler: Upwards of thirty, not including LAPD and reinforcements are on the way
- Mandy: You will need to remove your men, from the northeast driveway of the complex
- Michelle Dessler: I don't know if I can do that
- Mandy: You'll redeploy your men by the time I call you back or Tony dies
- Michelle Dessler: When are you calling back?
- Mandy: [Before hanging up] soon. Get moving
- Tony Almeida: [Over the speakerphone] what've you got?
- Bill Buchanan: The second satellite pass is complete: we were unable to detect the missile with thermal imaging, there's just too much radiant heat from ground sources
- David Palmer: This is President Palmer, is there a chance another satellite pass will find the missile?
- Bill Buchanan: The more data we have Mr. President, the better but a more intensive pass will take two to three hours
- David Palmer: And we expect the missile to find its target before then?
- Bill Buchanan: Yes Sir, we do
- David Palmer: Alright make sure FBI is on a real time link with all local emergency channels
- Bill Buchanan: Yes Sir, I'll get that done right now
- David Palmer: I also want you to compile disaster scenarios for the urban centers within range of the missile
- Bill Buchanan: Sir, that's twenty of the largest cities in this country
- David Palmer: I'm aware of that. I want death rates, fallout patterns, and emergency response predictions for all of them
- Bill Buchanan: Yes Sir, I'll take care of that right now
- Bill Buchanan: [after he enters her office] where are we on the search of the apartment complex?
- Michelle Dessler: Nothing so far
- Bill Buchanan: LAPD there yet?
- Michelle Dessler: They're on their way
- Bill Buchanan: I'll be in COMM
- Michelle Dessler: I can't do this
- Bill Buchanan: Can't do what?
- Michelle Dessler: I can't sacrifice the lives of all those people if this warhead goes off: she called me
- Bill Buchanan: Who? Who called you?
- Michelle Dessler: The hostile who has Tony
- Bill Buchanan: When? What did she say?
- Michelle Dessler: Couple minutes ago: she said to redeploy our men so she can get away or Tony dies
- 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
- Bill Buchanan: [after sitting down next to her] I can't even imagine what you must be feeling, I know part of you is second guessing your decision but you couldn't place Tony's life over potentially over millions of people. You made the exact kind of decision Tony would've wanted you to make, that's our job, it's why we signed on
- Michelle Dessler: [Nods] we decided we were going to leave "this." Go somewhere and start again
- Bill Buchanan: Michelle...
- Michelle Dessler: I want to get back to work, we still have to find this missile
- Bill Buchanan: No, I want you to go home
- Michelle Dessler: I'll be ok
- Bill Buchanan: That's not advice: that's an order
- 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
- Mike Novick: [Over a speakerphone] we're all here: go ahead
- Bill Buchanan: I'm afraid Marwan's associate, the woman we hoped would help us locate the missile, has killed herself and one of our agents
- President Charles Logan: Oh my God
- David Palmer: Did she leave behind any physical evidence that could help us?
- Bill Buchanan: It doesn't appear so
- President Charles Logan: So what is CTU going to do now to find the missile?
- Bill Buchanan: Mr. President, at this point, CTU no longer has any reasonable expectation of finding the missile before it reaches its target
- President Charles Logan: This is it: it's going to happen. What do we do?
- David Palmer: At this point, we have no choice but to alert all state and federal agencies and focusing all of our resources on managing the aftermath
- President Charles Logan: [to David] but we don't even know the missile's target
- David Palmer: No, we can "assume" it will be a major city but no matter what the target is, there will be wide spread panic across this country: we need to mobilize the Army and the National Guard in every state and draw a declaration of Martial law
- President Charles Logan: Yes, we need to do that
- Mike Novick: Bill, all federal agencies need to prepare for the aftermath of a nuclear attack. CTU's priority should be "disaster management." Redeploy your people now
- Bill Buchanan: [Before hanging up] understood