24 (TV Series)

Day 7: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (2009)

Bob Gunton: Ethan Kanin

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Quotes 

• President Allison Taylor : In your opinion, is Bauer's intelligence actionable?

  Ethan Kanin : Bauer says there's going to be an attack, my belief is there's going to be an attack.

• Senator Blaine Mayer : I see you found the bar: mind if I join you?

  Ethan Kanin : [Holding a glass of liquor]  something I never knew, if it ain't from Kentucky, you can't call it bourbon

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Irritated]  spare me the southern gentlemen "routine", the President didn't call me up here in the "ass end of the day" to drink her booze. I flipped through the briefing book

  Ethan Kanin : I thought it might be "helpful" before your meeting to bring you "up to speed" on the events of the last ten hours

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Casually gets up to leave]  ok, I'm "up to speed"

  Ethan Kanin : Surely you have some "reaction" to what you just read

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Sits back down]  damn right I have a "reaction". I want to know what all this has to do with Jack Bauer? I mean that's the reason I'm here right?

  Ethan Kanin : Without Mr. Bauer, we would've never "uncovered" the conspiracy, in the first. Nor the people behind it, his efforts in conjunction with those at the FBI are largely responsible for the arrests being made right now: across the District

  Senator Blaine Mayer : You're not saying his acting in an official capacity? I don't have to tell you how this looks, colluding with a rogue operative from a disbanded agency?

  Ethan Kanin : I'm sorry you see it that way

  Senator Blaine Mayer : How else am I supposed to see it?

  Ethan Kanin : The way the President does, that Jack Bauer saved lives today: plain and simple, including her husband's. Look, I know this isn't easy for you, the public battle you waged against detainee abuse, human rights violations...

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Interrupts him]  are you "seriously" asking me to "look the other way" on this? I have been after this son of a bitch for years. His a thug, his "exhibit A"

  Ethan Kanin : The President's prepared to reverse policy and support your amendment to the War Crimes Act

  Senator Blaine Mayer : In exchange for what "exactly"?

  Ethan Kanin : The hearings: declare a recess until after the holidays, and "quietly" let Mr. Baker's subpoena "expire"

  Senator Blaine Mayer : And if I refuse to go along?

  Ethan Kanin : The President is prepared to invoke Executive Privilege

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Executive Privilege? Meaning what "exactly"?

  Ethan Kanin : Well, that's for the President to decide

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Are you talking about a pardon?

  Ethan Kanin : I wouldn't rule it out

  Senator Blaine Mayer : If that's how the President wants to "play it", you can tell her she just walked into a "street fight"

  Ethan Kanin : [Before leaving]  you can tell her yourself

• President Allison Taylor : [walking up to Woods and Taylor]  Tim, I understand the threat levels have been raised but only first responders and federal agencies?

  Tim Woods : There's a concern that massive evacuation by the public could hamper efforts to thwart the attack when it comes

  President Allison Taylor : What about the airspace over Washington?

  Tim Woods : Restricted: military flyovers are commencing, DOD is recommending we deploy mobile teams to sweep the area for radioactive biological signatures

  President Allison Taylor : [to Woods]  call Philip at the Pentagon to push it through. What about NSA?

  Tim Woods : There is elevated anti-American chatter coming through the usual websites, telephone traffic but nothing specific to the attack

  President Allison Taylor : Thank you Tim, see you upstairs in fifteen minutes?

  Tim Woods : [Before leaving]  Yes ma'am

  President Allison Taylor : [to Kanin]  Which means our best source of intelligence is still right here under your noses. You realize we're going to have to offer this bastard a free pass?

  Ethan Kanin : With other measures off the table, it's our only option

  President Allison Taylor : Bauer's going to prison and a traitor walks: what's wrong with this picture?