24 (TV Series)

Day 2: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. (2003)

Alan Dale: Vice President Jim Prescott

Quotes 

• General Stone : The planes have passed over their final checkpoint and will be reaching their targets within the hour. Our primary targets are military but one includes is a command and control center inside a residential area. As smart as our weapons have become, there may be some "collateral damage."

  Vice President Jim Prescott : You mean civilian casualties?

  General Stone : Yes sir

  Vice President Jim Prescott : No way to avoid these?

  General Stone : I'm afraid not

  Vice President Jim Prescott : That's something we're going to have to live with

• Vice President Jim Prescott : [to David through video conference]  the Cabinet has annulled its earlier action. I've instructed Secret Service to resume its charge of serving you: as President of the United States

  President David Palmer : [With Mike and Jenny sitting nearby]  I see

  Vice President Jim Prescott : And also I've tendered my resignation effective immediately and those members who voted against you have also agreed to resign

  President David Palmer : Jim, gentlemen, and ladies. We came dangerously close to war today, that all of us reacted emotionally to the nuclear detonation is understandable but leaders are required to have patience beyond human limits. The kind of action we nearly took should only be exercised after all other avenues have been exhausted, after the strictest standard of proof has been met. By casting me aside so quickly, you have lowered those standards and that was a profound mistake. It was not however a mistake you're likely to make again. Therefore I do not accept your resignation, we have a nation to heal today and all of you play a vital role in that healing process

  Vice President Jim Prescott : Mr. President, I don't know what to say

  President David Palmer : There's nothing to say. We have work to do, that'll be all

  President David Palmer : [to Jenny]  I want you to set up a press conference

  Jenny Dodge : When?

  President David Palmer : As soon as you can make it happen but I want it public. I want to speak to the people directly, they deserve my assurance

  Jenny Dodge : Yes Sir

  President David Palmer : [to Mike]  I want to thank you for calling CTU in the eleventh hour

  Mike Novick : Of course Mr. President

  President David Palmer : But you should've been there with me to the end. That's what I expected of you, that's why I appointed you. I'm relieving you of your post, effective immediately

  Mike Novick : Yes Mr. President

• Mike Novick : [Over the phone]  I am against any delay in our military actions. I have been since the start but there is a good chance we will receive conclusive evidence in the next half hour that the Cypress recording is false

  Vice President Jim Prescott : We know Second Wave brought the nuke into the country. We know Second Wave is sponsored by these three countries: what am I missing here?

  Mike Novick : I don't have all the details but I just learned a possible link between Second Wave and man named Peter Kingsley

  Vice President Jim Prescott : Who the hell is he?

  Mike Novick : Apparently his part of a consortium of oil interests with contracts in the Caspian Sea

  Vice President Jim Prescott : So what're you saying? An oil consortium is behind the nuke?

  Mike Novick : Jack Bauer believes he can get a confession with Kingsley, his set up a live audio feed

  Vice President Jim Prescott : [after looking at his watch]  our bombers are due to drop their payloads in less than twenty minutes

  Mike Novick : Bauer's meeting Kingsley any minute

• Vice President Jim Prescott : [Over the phone]  we just finished setting up the feed. I hope this isn't going to be a waste of our time

  Mike Novick : Believe me: so do I

  President David Palmer : [after walking into the room]  what's going on?

  Mike Novick : The President and I thought that you should be a part of this along with Prescott and the Attorney General, we'll be listening to a live feed

  President David Palmer : Of what?

  President David Palmer : A sting operation of Peter Kingsley. It appears he was the architect of today's bombing and the delivery of the Cypress audio

  President David Palmer : Bauer found Kingsley?

  Mike Novick : Yes but it won't be Bauer who talks with Kingsley

  President David Palmer : Well, what difference does it make? As long as we get him to incriminate himself

  President David Palmer : [after noticing he becomes silent]  what is it?

  Mike Novick : It's Sherry who will be talking with Kingsley

  President David Palmer : I don't understand

  Mike Novick : It seems Kingsley "recruited" her some months ago. She was a part of this

  President David Palmer : Sherry? Working with this man Kingsley?

  Mike Novick : It appears that way Sir

  President David Palmer : To detonate a nuclear bomb and start a war? No!

  Mike Novick : Its unclear how much she knew or how deep she was in it. We just have to hope if she can extract a confession from Kingsley

  President David Palmer : Now Sherry is working with Jack Bauer to bring down Kingsley?

  Mike Novick : Yes and at considerable risk to herself

• Jack Bauer : [communicating with CTU through COMM, referring to gathering evidence to apprehend Kingsley while he meets with Sherry, as Prescott and Chappelle monitors]  Ok Tony, you've got your proof, let me go ahead: give me the greenlight

  Ryan Chappelle : [to CTU staff]  Get it confirmed from the White House

  Tony Almeida : Just a second

  Jack Bauer : She can't stay out there much longer

  Tony Almeida : [to Maggie]  This is Almeida, are you satisfied?

  Maggie : [to Prescott, sitting next to him]  CTU wants to know if that's enough to prove the Cypress recording was false?

  Vice President Jim Prescott : [to General Stone, sitting across from him]  Have you confirmed this is indeed live and these voices have been authenticated?

  General Stone : Yes sir