24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. (2007)

Jonathan Adams: Peter Hock

Quotes 

• Karen Hayes : [while in her office]  so what's going on? It sounded urgent

  Karen Hayes : You know I've interrogating reed Pollack? Tom's chief of staff after his arrest

  Karen Hayes : [Sarcastically]  that must be pleasant

  Peter Hock : Pollack's looking at a probable death sentence for his part in the attempted assassination of Wayne Palmer: out of desperation his offering up everything he knows hoping you'll show some "leniency"

  Karen Hayes : What does that have to do with me?

  Peter Hock : [Before taking out his laptop and playing a video file]  not just you, this involves your husband as well, take a look

  Peter Hock : [after playing the video of Pollack's interrogation]  do me a favor and save me some time: is it true or not?

  Karen Hayes : The facts are true but there's no "cover up" here. About two years ago, we apprehended Fayed as part of a FBI/CTU "border sweep." There wasn't enough evidence to hold him, he was one of many, and he "maybe" a "mid-level player"

  Peter Hock : And that turned out to be wrong

  Peter Hock : [Sitting down]  so why was it blue coded?

  Karen Hayes : Every year thousands of suspects are arrested, if there isn't enough evidence to hold them, their released, and blue coded. That's just standard procedure, the only way to "guarantee" that no one becomes a threat is to hold them and deprive them of their rights and freedoms

  Peter Hock : Alright then, if this was a "no fault", why did this carry so much with you twelve hours ago? Why did you resign? Rather than have this "come out"?

  Karen Hayes : Come on, we were under attack, there was no way I was going to let this information touch the President or my husband. They needed to lead us through this crisis unimpeded

  Peter Hock : Here we are: twelve hours later, Palmer's in a coma, the country's in shock over losing over thirteen thousand innocent lives, and all people are going to be asking is "who let this happen?"

  Karen Hayes : Certainly not my husband, he has devoted to his life to this country

  Peter Hock : This isn't "my call", but I think you know how this "works", someone's going to have to go down and the farther from the President, the better

  Karen Hayes : So, what "exactly" are you saying?

  Peter Hock : It's either going to be you or Bill. Bill would be my preference, his lower on the "food chain" but you'll do