24: Legacy (TV Series)

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (2017)

Jimmy Smits: Senator John Donovan

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Quotes 

• Henry Donovan : You asked me to do a little recon for you with some of my old media contacts. Well, one of them came through, tipped me off about an attack ad the Gage campaign is gonna release next week.

  John Donovan : Dad, whatever Gage throws at me, uh, Nilaa will be able to handle it.

  Henry Donovan : Yeah, it's about her, son.

  [he plays the ad for John] 

  John Donovan : It wouldn't be the first lie coming out of that campaign.

  Tío : We checked it out, John. There are photos that prove that she was there. During her sophomore year.

  John Donovan : Show me.

  [Tio shows him a folder of surveillance photos] 

  John Donovan : This does't make sense.

  Henry Donovan : She was young.

  John Donovan : Yeah. Still...

  Henry Donovan : Well, son, I don't know what else to tell you except she's a liability. John, bottom line is you will not win in November if you have a campaign manager who prayed for the death of American soldiers.

• John Donovan : Gage's campaign is releasing an attack ad tomorrow about you. About you attending the Parkland Mosque. The Parkland Mosque?

  Nilaa Mizrani : I didn't go there to pray. It made me sick that some crackpot imam was spewing that kind of hatred and violence in the name of Islam. I went to tell everyone there he was distorting our religion.

  John Donovan : And you can prove that?

  Nilaa Mizrani : Even if I could, the damage is done. But it's the truth. I wanted to tell you, I did. I guess I just convinced myself it happened so long ago no one would ever find out. I'm sorry. I will, uh... I'll draft my letter of resignation and explain how I kept...

  John Donovan : I won't accept your resignation. It's true you should have told me, but it's also true that I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you.

  Nilaa Mizrani : As much as I appreciate your loyalty, I can't let you do this.

  John Donovan : If we get ahead of this, we can minimize the damage. Who knows? Maybe even turn it into an advantage.

  Nilaa Mizrani : Gage will just keep playing the national security card.

  John Donovan : Oh, Rebecca could help us out there.

  Nilaa Mizrani : You'll still take a hit.

  John Donovan : Well, the hit I can take. It's the not swinging back that's what bothers me. Standing up for the truth the way you did, it's what I've been telling the American people I'm gonna do for them. That's why I'm in this.

  Nilaa Mizrani : John, I don't know what to say.

  John Donovan : Stop trying to argue yourself out of a job.