24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. (2007)

D.B. Woodside: President Wayne Palmer

Quotes 

• Bill Buchanan : [Over the speakerphone inside the Situation Room]  Mr. President, there's some new information you need to consider in regards to the airstrike on Assad. I'm on the line with Jack Bauer: he escaped from Fayed

  President Wayne Palmer : [Over the speakerphone inside the Oval Office]  What? How?

  Bill Buchanan : I'm not sure but his requesting we abort the airstrike against Assad

  President Wayne Palmer : For what possible reason?

  Bill Buchanan : According to him, Assad is not the one behind the attacks Sir

  Karen Hayes : Bill, that is insane, what is Jack basing this on?

  Bill Buchanan : He has an explanation but he wants to talk directly to the President

  President Wayne Palmer : Put him on

  Bill Buchanan : You're on with the President Jack

  Jack Bauer : [Over a cell phone]  Mr. President

  President Wayne Palmer : Jack I am so sorry...

  Jack Bauer : Sir, I'm sorry we don't have a lot of time: did Bill Buchanan explain to you about Assad?

  President Wayne Palmer : Yes he has but I have to tell you something, we're all very skeptical here. What's Assad doing in this country if his not behind these attacks?

  Jack Bauer : He's trying to stop them. His trying to stop Fayed

  President Wayne Palmer : So you're saying Fayed is carrying out these bombings?

  Jack Bauer : Yes Sir, Fayed admitted to me that Assad is planning to renounce terrorism, his trying to mainstream his organization. He wants to bring them into the political process. Fayed wants to stop that from happening, Fayed is behind the recent wave of attacks

  Karen Hayes : Jack, this is inconsistent with twenty years of terrorism on Assad's part, his organization has waged nonstop war against the west. His responsible for hundreds of deaths

  Jack Bauer : I'm aware of Assad's history and I am still telling you there's sufficient cause to call off this strike

  President Wayne Palmer : What if we change the strike to a ground assault? If we capture Assad...

  Karen Hayes : Sir, we cannot afford a ground assault, we have to take him out now: while we've got the chance

  Bill Buchanan : Mr. President, if Jack is right and we've got the wrong man, it's a risk we have to take

  Karen Hayes : Jack has been in a Chinese prison for twenty months. His ability to access the situation is highly "questionable." I believe he is being "played"

  Jack Bauer : I know what I heard and I am not being "played"

  Tom Lennox : [to Palmer]  with all due respect to Mr. Bauer, I think Karen is right

  Jack Bauer : Mr. President, you want to stop these attacks? You need to stop Fayed and in order to do that, you need to capture Assad, and find out what he knows. Sir, he might have the only hope you have

  Tom Lennox : [to Palmer]  I know your history with Mr. Bauer runs "deep" but don't let that impact your judgment here

  President Wayne Palmer : We have the opportunity to eliminate Assad, we have to take it. Bill I want real time progress on that airstrike

  Bill Buchanan : I'm sending you a video uplink now Sir

  Jack Bauer : Mr. President, don't do this

  President Wayne Palmer : Jack, I am sorry, I really am

• Bill Buchanan : [Over the phone]  we completed our sweep of the strike zone Sir: we recovered four bodies, none of them is Assad

  President Wayne Palmer : [Over the speakerphone inside the Oval Office, surprised]  what?

  Karen Hayes : Are you sure?

  Bill Buchanan : We're still checking the site but it's safe to assume Assad is still alive

  President Wayne Palmer : [shouting to Bill]  how the hell did we miss him?

  Karen Hayes : [to Palmer]  we couldn't have. Someone must've warned him

  Tom Lennox : Or the intel we got from Fayed was bad and Assad was never there to begin with

  Karen Hayes : Well, that's irrelevant: what matters now is that Assad is still out there

  Bill Buchanan : We're sealing off a ten block perimeter Sir. Assad may still be in the vicinity

  President Wayne Palmer : [Before hanging up with Bill]  alright

  President Wayne Palmer : [to Karen]  we put everything we had into that strike: we thought if we "cut off the head", we could stop these attacks and now...

  President Wayne Palmer : [to Tom]  what do you think Assad's next move is going to be?

  Tom Lennox : It's likely they'll be more attacks but he will respond: guaranteed

• President Wayne Palmer : [Over the phone]  what's going on?

  Sandra Palmer : I'm sorry to burden you with this but I think you need to know: the FBI was just here and they wanted access to the IAA personnel records

  President Wayne Palmer : Did they say why?

  Sandra Palmer : They gave some excuse about "expanding their database"

  President Wayne Palmer : You know I have to do whatever I can to stop these attacks right?

  Sandra Palmer : Yes

  President Wayne Palmer : Well, that includes giving law enforcement the authority to follow up on every single lead they get

  Sandra Palmer : That's my point: they weren't "following up on any lead." They were invading the privacy on a group of people based on their religion. Look, you know I'm not some idealistic "flag burner" and I understand your going through a very complicated situation but once you start ethnic profiling, it's s a "slippery slope"

  President Wayne Palmer : I'll look into it

  Sandra Palmer : You should probably with Tom Lennox, this has his name all over it

  President Wayne Palmer : Please don't start on Tom again

  Sandra Palmer : He treats the Constriction like a "list of suggestions." His laying the framework for a major crackdown and civil protections be damned

  President Wayne Palmer : Let's be honest you don't like Tom and you never have

  Sandra Palmer : Neither did David

  President Wayne Palmer : I gotta go

  Sandra Palmer : I'm sorry to put this on you ok? I wouldn't have called if I didn't think it was important

  President Wayne Palmer : I understand

  Sandra Palmer : You take care of yourself ok?

  President Wayne Palmer : [Before hanging up]  yeah, yeah, yeah, I love you too