24 (TV Series)

Day 8: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (2010)

Graham McTavish: Mikhail Novakovich

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• Mikhail Novakovich : [after welcoming to him to sit down]  the Russian people join you in mourning President Hassan: his death... was a tragedy for all peace loving nations

  Charles Logan : You can save your "platitudes"

  Mikhail Novakovich : You want the truth?

  Charles Logan : Why not for a change?

  Mikhail Novakovich : I assume President Taylor sent you here to bring my country back to the bargaining table? She is going to be disappointed: President Taylor "lured" the whole world here with the "promise" that Hassan had "united" the IRK, that there would be "peace" for the first time in decades. Well, now it is clear that was a lie: there was no unity even within Hassan now that his gone...

  Charles Logan : [Interrupts him]  his widow Dalia can "pick up the mantle"

  Mikhail Novakovich : [Shakes his head]  not in our estimation, Hassan wasn't "undone" by his opposition. How could his widow possibly succeed where he failed?

  Charles Logan : Because we both know that the opposition that "undid" him had "outside help." Nuclear threats, assassination plots against a heavily guarded head of state. This was not some "third-world malcontent" lashing out, this was a highly organized effort orchestrated by a major rival to the United States. A rival convinced their best interest was to stop the peace process by killing Hassan

  Mikhail Novakovich : You are insinuating...

  Charles Logan : [Interrupts him]  "Insinuating"? No, I'm "saying" it was people inside your government, first among them: you

  Mikhail Novakovich : [Leans forward]  that is an outrageous accusation

  Charles Logan : It's the fact in which I have "proof"

  Mikhail Novakovich : I don't believe you

  Charles Logan : Well, that's your right but I'll tell you this: you don't want to test me because what I "have", I will share with President Taylor if you and I fail to come to a "understanding" here. At this point, President Taylor knows nothing about any of this. I didn't see what good can come out from inflaming the situation between our countries further: not without talking to "you" first... and now I have

  Charles Logan : [after he doesn't respond]  the President's expecting me at the UN, I need to go

  Mikhail Novakovich : What would you like to tell her?

  Charles Logan : what I would like to tell her is that Russia is back at the table and her peace process is "on track" but if neither of us hears from you before I get there, I'm afraid what I'll have to tell her instead is the "unvarnished truth"