24 (TV Series)

Day 2: 11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. (2003)

Carlos Bernard: Tony Almeida

Quotes 

• Tony Almeida : [Addressing the CTU staff]  everyone gather around please, it'll just take a minute: George Mason asked in advance to thank you all for your dedication. Thanks to his sacrifice and your hard work, millions of lives were saved and that's a result we can say we're proud of. Now to say this was a long day would be a major understatement, I know you're all tired, this isn't over yet. We still got a lot of work to do, now the Cyprus recording is our primary focus and that's critical to any military response that Washington is considering, so let's get back at it

• Yusuf Auda : I'm suppose to update my office right now: I've got nothing to report because I've been excluded from this operation since I arrived

  Tony Almeida : Look, I'll tell what I can, when I can

  Yusuf Auda : My country permitted your operatives to raid Ali's apartment under the condition that I would be involved in this operation

  Tony Almeida : I understand your frustration and you can call your office and tell them anything you'd like. Now we've got work to do and you're simply not authorized to be a part of it

• Tony Almeida : [after walking into the conference room]  Agent Gibson, I take it your team is finished with the analyses of the Cyprus recording?

  Agent Gibson : Yes sir

  Tony Almeida : Could you walk us through it please?

  Agent Gibson : We began with taking voice samples from Syed Ali and the three government officials on the recording. We deconstructed the sound waves and isolated unique qualities that are vocally equivalent to fingerprints. Our studies indicate the voices on the Cyprus audio are in fact Syed Ali and the three government Ministers in question

  Tony Almeida : Now, this recording could've been created by putting different conversations together right?

  Agent Gibson : Yes, but reconstruction always leaves "artifacts", mismatched acoustical signatures or altered cadences, we found no such "artifacts."

  Tony Almeida : Is there any chance that this recording could've been doctored in a way that we couldn't detect?

  Agent Gibson : Of course anything is theoretically possible but I can say with absolutely certainty that the finest experts using the very best equipment available did not find any evidence that this recording is anything but a genuine and accurate record of an actual conversation

  Tony Almeida : A conversation with these four men that sat in the same room and conspired to detonate a nuclear bomb on US soil?

  Agent Gibson : Yes sir

  Michelle Dessler : [after entering the room and sitting down]  I just finished talking with Ali. He "claims" his never spoken to any of the men in the recording. He says it's a complete fabrication and that he was in Berlin on April 5th, not Cyprus. He could be telling the truth

  Tony Almeida : He still thinks we killed one of his sons. His trying to save the rest of his family by denying that his country is one of the three behind the nuke

  Michelle Dessler : I agree he has a clear motive to lie but if there's any possibility that his telling the truth, I think we need to investigate

  Carrie Turner : But he's not. I mean it's obvious

  Michelle Dessler : It's not obvious to me

  Carrie Turner : In a contest between the physical evidence and the word of an attempted mass murderer it's clear which side wins. And no offense but your experience as an interrogator is limited

  Tony Almeida : [to Carrie]  alright that's enough

  Michelle Dessler : [Raises her voice to Carrie]  I sat three feet away from the man and I believe that he is a broken man without the strength or resolve to lie

• Tony Almeida : Chappelle wants to see your report before you send it to the Pentagon

  Michelle Dessler : I'm ordering more data points. I'll need another fifteen minutes

  Tony Almeida : [Noticing she seems agitated]  fine. You alright?

  Michelle Dessler : Yeah, I'm just a little tired like everyone else

  Tony Almeida : No, I mean about before. I know it got tense between you and Carrie

  Michelle Dessler : I can handle Carrie

  Tony Almeida : The truth is you don't have the training or the experience to read a guy like Ali. Now that's my fault, I shouldn't have put you in that position

  Michelle Dessler : It doesn't mean we shouldn't press him harder

  Tony Almeida : They'll take care of that at Guantánamo

  Michelle Dessler : It may be too late

  Tony Almeida : We're sending him now. I'm handing him over now to make sure it goes as planned

  Michelle Dessler : [Before walking away]  ok

• Jack Bauer : [after Syed Ali was shot by a sniper]  I just got off the line with LAPD: the perimeter's set up

  Tony Almeida : How the hell did anyone know we were moving him?

  Jack Bauer : Half the intelligence community knew we had him in custody. The leak could've come from anywhere

  Tony Almeida : You figure the shooter's connected to one of the countries implicated in the Cyprus recording right?

  Jack Bauer : Maybe

  Tony Almeida : What'd you mean? They had the most to lose by Ali talking, who else could've it been?

  Jack Bauer : I don't know but after this I'm starting to think Ali might have been telling the truth

  Tony Almeida : You talked to Michelle?

  Jack Bauer : No, I talked to Ali

  Tony Almeida : Let me get this straight, you're taking Syed Ali's word over every expert we have?

  Jack Bauer : Ali was killed for a reason. You have to find out whether that recording was fabricated

  Tony Almeida : My best people have already verified that recording

  Jack Bauer : Fine. Keep the door open, assign a few men to it

  Tony Almeida : I don't have anyone to spare. The Pentagon has us processing intel from nine different countries. Frankly I think this is a dead end

  Jack Bauer : The President is going to make very, very serious decisions based on the information he got from that recording. If there's the slightest chance that recording is not genuine, you have a responsibility...

  Tony Almeida : [Interrupts him]  oh God, don't lecture me on responsibility. I mean we both know how you work. You consider going "against the grain" as some kind of virtue

  Jack Bauer : Why are you talking to me like this?

  Tony Almeida : Because I've got a job to do and I don't appreciate being told on how to do it

  Jack Bauer : I'm just trying to help

  Tony Almeida : I don't need your help. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything you've done for us, really I do but I think it's time you go get your daughter, let us handle the rest of this alright?

  Jack Bauer : [Before walking away]  yeah, fine

• Tony Almeida : [while shaking hands]  hey, I'm glad you're ok

  Jack Bauer : [Just having returning to CTU]  thanks: I'm going to get out of your way, I want to get a hold of Kim

  Tony Almeida : [Handing him the business card of the Sergeant]  I spoke to a Sergeant Griggs at the San Jose Sheriff's Department and we sent a man over to your sister in law to meet Kim. He was going to call when she got there but that's his number in case you want to follow up

  Jack Bauer : Ok thanks. George told me he put you in charge

  Tony Almeida : Yeah, how about that? "Trial by fire", right?

  Jack Bauer : You're going to do great

  Tony Almeida : Look, we'll catch up later alright?

  Jack Bauer : Yeah

• Tony Almeida : [Over the phone]  hey it's me

  Michelle Dessler : Was Yusuf Auda helpful?

  Tony Almeida : No, his got some trust issues: I'm right behind you. I think there's another way to prove the Cypress recording is fake. I'm going to need your help. You're going to have to trust me

  Michelle Dessler : Ok whatever you need

  Tony Almeida : Ok I'll back to you in a minute