24 (TV Series)

Day 4: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (2005)

Bill Smitrovich: Gene McLennen

Quotes 

• John Reiss : We need talk seriously before CTU gets here

  Gene McLennen : What's the problem?

  John Reiss : It's "more than a coincidence" that one of our products the Override was stolen and used in today's terrorist attack

  Gene McLennen : What'd you mean "more than a "coincidence"?

  John Reiss : The entire operation: everything from Secretary Heller's kidnapping, to the meltdown of San Gabriel Island was organized by one of our own employees

  Gene McLennen : [Stands up from his desk]  what're you talking about?

  John Reiss : One of our engineers, a man we now know is a terrorist named Habib Marwan was running his own covert organization from within our company

  Gene McLennen : When did you find this out?

  John Reiss : Couple minutes ago they called: one of our employees Harris Barnes was actually Habib Marwan

  Gene McLennen : Who else knows about this?

  John Reiss : Just the two of us, and Conlon

  Gene McLennen : I'm not going to keep this a secret. We have to let the government know, right away

  John Reiss : Sir, if you do this, with a hundred percent certainty this will be the end of this company. Now you built McLennan-Forrester from scratch everything you have is tied up in it and if this comes out your name will be synonymous with what happened today: terrorism and treason

  Gene McLennen : Well, what'd you want me to do? Lie to the government?

  John Reiss : If I knew twenty-fours ago what I know now, I would've done whatever it took to stop today's attack but there's nothing we could do now but protect ourselves and keep this company from going under which it will do, if CTU finds out the truth about Marwan

  Gene McLennen : CTU will subpoena the file, they will found out the truth

  John Reiss : No they won't. I promise you, Colon and I can deal with this, if you let us

  Gene McLennen : I don't like the sound of this

  John Reiss : We implicitly violated National Security procedure. This could mean prison time, we've got to protect ourselves