24 (TV Series)

Day 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. (2009)

Kiefer Sutherland: Jack Bauer

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Quotes 

• [being questioned about previous illegal actions taken by CTU] 

  Jack Bauer : The difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy. The people that I deal with, they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result.

• Jack Bauer : I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is...

  [pause] 

  Jack Bauer : I don't.

• Senator Blaine Mayer : Let the record show this is the third day of the Senate hearing: investigating human rights violations against by the recently disbanded Counter Terrorist Unit. Yesterday when we adjourned, we were discussing brutality and torture by CTU agents in the course of their operations. Will the witness state his name?

  Jack Bauer : Jack Bauer

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Mr. Bauer, I don't see your counsel present, is he or she not aware we're about to start?

  Jack Bauer : I've chosen not to retain counsel

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Mr. Bauer, I have to advise you that many of the questions we're about to ask pose to you are of legal nature and might result in answers that will incriminate you

  Jack Bauer : I understand that Senator

  Senator Blaine Mayer : We can postpone to this afternoon if you would like to bring in representation? Something I would "strongly" advise

  Jack Bauer : What is the first question Senator?

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Alright then, let's begin. Mr. Bauer, who is Abraham Hadad?

  Jack Bauer : That information is "classified"

  Senator Blaine Mayer : We represent the people of the United States and we have declassified those files on their behalf. Now I'm going to ask you one more time: who is Abraham Hadad?

  Jack Bauer : He was a member of a terrorist sleeper cell CTU had under surveillance in 2002

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Isn't true that you "detained" Mr. Hadad without due process? And that you used "extreme" interrogation methods on him? Until he answered your questions?

  Jack Bauer : Yes sir

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Would you say you "broke" procedure with this interrogation?

  Jack Bauer : Probably

  Senator Blaine Mayer : "Probably," well that's a very cavalier answer. You don't seem to care about the implications

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [after Jack doesn't respond]  well? Mr. Bauer?

  Jack Bauer : I'm sorry Senator, I didn't hear a question

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Alright then, did you torture Mr. Hadad?

  Jack Bauer : According to the definition set forward by the Geneva Convention, yes I did. Senator, why don't I save you some time? It's obvious your agenda is to discredit CTU and generate a series of indictments...

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Interrupts him]  my only "agenda" is to get to "the truth"

  Jack Bauer : I don't think it is sir

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Sternly]  excuse me?

  Jack Bauer : Abraham Hadad had targeted a bus carrying forty five people: ten of which were children. The "truth" Senator, is that I stopped that attack from happening

  Senator Blaine Mayer : [Raises his voice]  by torturing Mr. Hadad

  Jack Bauer : By doing what I deemed necessary in order to protect innocent lives

  Senator Blaine Mayer : So basically what you're saying Mr. Bauer is "the ends justifies the means?" And that you above the law?

  Jack Bauer : When I am "activated", when I am brought into a "situation", there is a "reason" and that "reason" is to complete the objectives of my mission "at all costs"

  Senator Blaine Mayer : Even if it means breaking the law

• Larry Moss : [after introducing himself]  I'm head of this office: your here because Agent Walker thinks you might be able to help us with this investigation. Now "personally", I have my doubts but I'll be happy to be proven wrong

  Jack Bauer : [Sarcastically]  how lucky for me I'm not here applying for a job. Personally I don't care what makes you "happy" so let's get this over with

• Renee Walker : [while in her office]  the CIP firewall protects every major infrastructure system in this country. If it were breached, telecommunications, transportation, power grids: they would be vulnerable

  Jack Bauer : I'm not active: the DOJ is about to file criminal charges against me, I'm not "exactly" in a position to "help you" with your "situation. As much as I understand how dire it is...

  Renee Walker : [Interrupts him]  no I don't think you do. One of the men behind this threat is someone you know

  Jack Bauer : [Before he sits down, after she shows him an image of Tony]  that's not possible: Tony Almeida is dead

  Renee Walker : Apparently not

  Jack Bauer : [Sternly]  I was there when he "died"

  Renee Walker : And he was rushed away by the EMT's a minute later and you never saw him after that and hours later, you were abducted by the Chinese government

  Jack Bauer : No, if Tony was still alive, I would know, he would've contacted me

  Renee Walker : We recovered this image from a security camera where one of the technology thefts took place: it's time stamped and dated

  Jack Bauer : This image could be manipulated

  Renee Walker : Not this one

  Jack Bauer : I'm sorry, I don't believe it

  Renee Walker : I had Almeida's exhumed. DNA tests "confirmed" that it was not his body that was buried, the evidence is right here, if you want to leave without looking at it: go ahead

• Renee Walker : [while in her office]  all we know for sure is that Almeida's is part a home grown terrorist group that's targeting our infrastructure

  Jack Bauer : He could be working undercover: some kind of sting operation, you need to check every federal agency

  Renee Walker : We have, state and city too, Almeida's not working for any of them

  Jack Bauer : There must be some other explanation

  Renee Walker : Yeah there is. His wife was brutally murdered by a faction operating inside the government led by President himself

  Jack Bauer : Everybody involved in that is either in prison or has been killed

  Renee Walker : The government gave Logan a "slap on the wrist." They cut him a deal: sentencing him to house arrest on a hundred acre ranch?

  Jack Bauer : [Irritated]  and you think Tony is looking for justice by attacking this country?

  Renee Walker : Almeida's lost everything he and his blaming the government he spent his life serving. Now you know him better than me on how that feels, how far a man might go

  Jack Bauer : Not that "far" and not tony Almeida. There's a logical explanation: it's just "something" you're not "seeing"

  Renee Walker : Help me find Almeida and you can ask him yourself. You know how he thinks, you have the same training and you know the same people

  Jack Bauer : I need complete access to all your source material: everything you've got on this

• Gabriel Schector : [after Jack and Renee enter his apartment]  please, have a seat: this should be an interesting conversation. How long has it Jack? Years? How's the Senate "thing" going?

  Gabriel Schector : [When Jack doesn't respond]  I heard they dismantled CTU. Don't tell me, it was your fault wasn't it?

  Renee Walker : Mr. Schector, we're not here to make "small talk." We have "business"

  Gabriel Schector : Well, you have my undivided attention

  Renee Walker : Where's Tony Almeida?

  Gabriel Schector : Tony Almeida? In the ground I suppose: unless he was cremated? Didn't he die at CTU a while back?

  Jack Bauer : [Referring to the FBI]  their not after you, their willing to "accept" that you didn't know what Tony Almeida was going to do with the component that you helped him steal

  Gabriel Schector : [Leans forward]  whoa, whoa, whoa, I didn't know he stole anything and if he did, I knew nothing about it

  Renee Walker : This is far more serious than you "know" Mr. Schector. If you help us find Almeida, I'll see to it that you're kept "in the clear." Otherwise, you could be a co-conspirator to multiple terrorist acts

  Gabriel Schector : oh, well I think this conversation's over, I tried to answer your questions honestly but I think from now on, so you can speak to my lawyers so good bye Jack and good luck with the Senate, I hope it fries your ass

• Renee Walker : Tell me about Schector?

  Jack Bauer : He used to work for a defense contractor out of San Diego until he went on his own

  Renee Walker : Legitimate?

  Jack Bauer : Yeah, at first, then he got greedy: started using his "connections" to acquire technology, selling it on the "gray" market

  Renee Walker : Who'd he sell it to? Terrorists?

  Jack Bauer : No, usually foreign governments usually trying to get around treaties

  Renee Walker : And how'd you and Tony get involved with him?

  Jack Bauer : We arrested him and we "turned" him: he was a great conduit for intel

  Renee Walker : CTU didn't mind you were letting this guy stay in "business?"

  Jack Bauer : CTU didn't know, it was just Tony and me

  Renee Walker : So, you and Tony were "tight?"

  Jack Bauer : Yeah, we were close

  Renee Walker : Alright, it sounds like Tony: whoever thinks his "dead", put together a plan to hijack American security, he contacted Schector to help him with his plan

  Jack Bauer : Yeah

  Renee Walker : Except you don't believe it? That Tony's dirty?

  Jack Bauer : I believe that Tony's alive, I believe his doing something dangerous and we need to find him

• Jack Bauer : [Pointing to Sean's computer screen]  there he is: Gabriel Schector

  Larry Moss : Who is he?

  Jack Bauer : He was a supplier, Tony and I used him to buy things "off book"

  Jack Bauer : [to Sean]  see if his in your database

  Sean Hillinger : Yeah his there

  Jack Bauer : Is he still in Los Angeles?

  Sean Hillinger : No, according to this ear mark, he came to DC nine weeks ago

  Renee Walker : [to Larry]  the thefts started a week after that

  Jack Bauer : [to Larry]  that's your guy

  Sean Hillinger : His subletting an office downtown: 1208 Naylor Road, suite 630

  Larry Moss : [to Renee]  put a field team together, pick him up. I'll call judge Simons to have a warrant ready

  Jack Bauer : That's a mistake

  Larry Moss : Why?

  Jack Bauer : You don't have time to go through the "motions" with Schector. You serve him with a warrant, he'll call his lawyer, and he'll stall as long as he needs

  Larry Moss : [to Jack]  so what's the alternative? Break in and torture him like you used to do? Is that how you ended up in front of a Senate subcommittee?

  Larry Moss : [after Jack stands up]  oh, is this how it starts? You get in my face, tighten your jaw, and if I say something you don't like, you slam me against a wall?

  Jack Bauer : You have no idea on what I do: the last time I checked, you subpoenaed me. You want my help? You want my advice? Take it. You don't? Don't, I don't care

  Renee Walker : [Walks up to them, to Jack]  you said you used to work with this man Schector, how well does he know you?

  Jack Bauer : [to Renee]  he "knows" me

  Renee Walker : [to Larry, implying she wants to talk to him in private]  can I talk to you for a second?