24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m. (2007)

Jayne Atkinson: Karen Hayes

Quotes 

• Karen Hayes : [after entering the Oval Office, while looking at her folder]  I just got off the phone with the Pentagon and intel indicates the Russians are moving another mechanized divisions into the Central Asian theater

  Vice President Noah Daniels : So they're in striking distance of our base?

  Karen Hayes : Yes, our troops are at the highest level of alert. sir, Tom Lenox was suppose to be with me on the call and I couldn't find him or get him on the telephone: is there "something" going on that I should know about?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Tom is out in the field, running a classified "operation." He figured out who the "leak" was

  Karen Hayes : Who?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Lisa Miller

  Karen Hayes : Lisa Miller is spying for the Russians?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : No, the man Lisa's romantically involved with is. The last year this man Mark Bishop has been passing Lisa's emails to the Russians along with other things that she told him in confidence

  Karen Hayes : That's how the Russians knew the Chinese has the component?

  Karen Hayes : [after Daniels nods]  does Lisa know?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : She does now. Tom sent her back to Bishop with a cover story with falsified emails. We're hoping we can convince the Russians that we've destroyed the circuit board before the Chinese can get it out of the country. With any luck, Bishop will forward those emails to the Russians, they'll back off, and that'll buy time for us to retrieve the component from the Chinese

  Karen Hayes : Well, I hope that works sir

  Vice President Noah Daniels : I know you wouldn't have wanted to be kept out of loop on this one but let me assure you it had nothing to do with you but everything to do with me

  Karen Hayes : I don't understand

  Vice President Noah Daniels : At the same time Lisa was with Bishop, she and I were in a relationship as well. Needless to say, I am ashamed

  Karen Hayes : Well sir, I think you're being a little hard on yourself: you and Lisa were both single and there was no way you could know what she was doing behind your back

  Vice President Noah Daniels : That's a question of "judgment." I trusted her and unless Tom's plan succeeds that mistake will bring us to war

• Tom Lennox : [Talking privately, to Daniels, referring to his cell phone]  I've got a Philip Bauer holding for you on a scrambled line

  Karen Hayes : [Surprised]  what? What does he want?

  Tom Lennox : I don't know: his in league with the Chinese, I think we need to hear him out?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [to Tom]  put him on speaker

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Mr. Bauer

  Phillip Bauer : Thank you for taking my call Mr. Vice President

  Vice President Noah Daniels : What's this about?

  Phillip Bauer : I think you know what this is about

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Tell me anyway so there's no miscommunication

  Phillip Bauer : I want my grandson and I want a clear passage to a country of my choice. If you give me that, I'll give you the FB sub circuit board

  Vice President Noah Daniels : You're working with the Chinese

  Phillip Bauer : I was: they had their chance, they blew it

  Vice President Noah Daniels : How do I know you even have this component?

  Phillip Bauer : [while reading off the circuit board]  the serial number is 3PTL3, check it on any records you have

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [after Tom shows him a schematic of the circuit from his PDA]  do you realize what you're asking?

  Phillip Bauer : I'm offering you the opportunity of avoiding a conflict this country does not want: a war this country cannot afford, not after what's happened today. I'll send my instructions on an encrypted data stream

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [Before Philip abruptly hangs up]  Mr. Bauer...

  Karen Hayes : Sir, you are not seriously considering this. Philip Bauer is a federal fugitive, complicit in selling nuclear weapons to terrorists

  Vice President Noah Daniels : I know what crimes his committed

  Karen Hayes : Then how can you even entertain the thought of negotiating with him?

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Because maybe we can't afford not to

  Karen Hayes : We are talking about trading the life of an innocent young boy

  Vice President Noah Daniels : We're talking about the lives of a lot more young men if we go to war with Russia

  Karen Hayes : And you think Philip Bauer is somebody we can trust? The man is a sociopath

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [Asking for his opinion]  Tom?

  Tom Lennox : He is a sociopath: she's right about that. Given the stakes, this is a risk worth taking sir

  Vice President Noah Daniels : None of this makes sense, everything we know about Suvarov tells us the man wouldn't risk a military engagement even for this piece of technology

  Tom Lennox : Unless his being squeezed

  Vice President Noah Daniels : By who? His cabinet?

  Tom Lennox : I don't know, the military. Gredenko was not the only anti-American general left over from the Soviet regime

  Karen Hayes : Yes, some of them are still in power and Suvarov does rely on them

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [to both of them]  so you think these generals are looking for an excuse to pull the trigger?

  Tom Lennox : Well, it certainly sounds plausible sir