24 (TV Series)

Day 4: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (2005)

Louis Lombardi: Edgar Stiles

Quotes 

• Edgar Stiles : [During a meeting]  using the alias "Harris Barnes", Marwan worked at McLennan-Forrester for the last two years as a Senior Engineer: his most recent project was the design and development of the Override

  Erin Driscoll : Before that?

  Tony Almeida : Here's the timeline we've "pieced" together, he went to graduate school in England, then worked several years for a company outside of London. Now it's not clear if he was radicalized there or before that but the one thing we do know is that from the day he arrived in the US, everything he did was about today

  Erin Driscoll : What were his other duties at McLennan-Forrester?

  Sarah Gavin : We don't know yet: we're taking a first pass at his records now. I'm looking into the possibility he may have used McLennan-Forrester as a base to recruit his sleeper cells

  Tony Almeida : And that brings up another issue, at present time, we have over eighty percent of field personnel looking for Marwan. I'm just wondering if we should divert part of that man power to root out some of these other cells?

  Tony Almeida : [after she doesn't respond]  Erin?

  Erin Driscoll : I'm sorry Tony, what was the question?

  Tony Almeida : Do you think we should reduce the field load on Marwan?

  Tony Almeida : [after she doesn't respond again]  how about we take some of our people off Marwan but keep a floor of sixty percent still looking for him? Would that work?

  Erin Driscoll : Yes, that would work

  Tony Almeida : Ok

• Tony Almeida : Edgar, I want you to relocate personnel

  Edgar Stiles : Based on what?

  Tony Almeida : Keep the people who've come in the last six hours working on Marwan, I want our most alert people focused on him

  Sarah Gavin : Are we going to ignore what just happened here?

  Edgar Stiles : What'd you mean?

  Tony Almeida : She's talking about Erin Driscoll

  Sarah Gavin : If she can't focus, she shouldn't be running this place

  Edgar Stiles : Her daughter died a few minutes ago: give her a little more time

  Sarah Gavin : More time? Since when do we have the luxury of time?

  Edgar Stiles : She's not stupid, she knows what's at stake here

  Tony Almeida : Your right Sarah, we have don't have the luxury of time. We have work to do and our mandate doesn't include deciding Erin Driscoll's fate

  Sarah Gavin : I think we have to tell Secretary Heller

  Tony Almeida : No, we don't, not yet. Now let's get back on it

• Tony Almeida : You hear from Jack?

  Edgar Stiles : He and Paul Raines are looking through Marwan's files now

  Tony Almeida : Any promising leads?

  Edgar Stiles : Nothing yet

  Tony Almeida : Before Erin left, she told me the one person I could rely on is you

  Edgar Stiles : She said that?

  Tony Almeida : Yeah she did, so if anything comes across your desk that you think is important, I want you to bring it to me directly alright?

  Edgar Stiles : You got it

  Tony Almeida : Alright, thanks

• Curtis Manning : Have you scanned all the satellite imagery around the Rockland building?

  Edgar Stiles : Yeah, everything's been taken of the Override

  Curtis Manning : Alright, I want you try different frequency channels on that satellite

  Tony Almeida : Manually?

  Tony Almeida : Yeah that's only way we can be sure it'll be sealed off

  Edgar Stiles : You're going to have to talk to Tony about that. I'm supposed to be backing up Jack and Paul at McLennan-Forrester

  Tony Almeida : Put somebody else on that: this more important

  Tony Almeida : [Walking over to them]  what's more important?

  Curtis Manning : We've got seventy five percent of our people at McLennan-Forrester, I need Edgar to help me find a thread on Marwan

  Tony Almeida : No, we won't have much of a chance of finding Marwan by satellite. Our best chance of picking up a thread is through those files at McLennan-Forrester

  Tony Almeida : [to Edgar]  stay on that

  Curtis Manning : We can't afford one security grade analyst? Over imagery?

  Tony Almeida : Yeah, one but not Edgar. Put somebody else on it

  Curtis Manning : Are we trying to accomplish the same thing here? Or is this about you establishing your position?

  Tony Almeida : I don't have to establish my position, I've already got it. What'd you say we stop "arm wrestling" here? I respect your opinion but we're going to disagree from time to time and when we do, we're going to do it my way

  Curtis Manning : Fine but I suggest you put more manpower into a data search for Marwan

  Tony Almeida : Grab a couple people from Image Processing, work the satellites with them. Don't worry, I'm going to be out of here when this crisis is over but in the meantime, I want the same thing you do, I want to find Habib Marwan, alright?