24 (TV Series)

Day 7: 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (2009)

Frank John Hughes: Tim Woods

Quotes 

• Tim Woods : [Meeting in the Oval Office]  FAA has landed flights so far without incident but these people have proven what they can do at any time and can sabotage air traffic or any of the infrastructure systems we have behind the firewall

  President Allison Taylor : Does NSA have a timeframe on "fixing" it so we can keep these people out permanently?

  Tim Woods : Madam President the CIP firewall was result of a multiyear project: reengineering the code could take weeks or months. At this point, NSA just doesn't know

  President Allison Taylor : Exactly what systems are vulnerable Dr. Cornell?

  Dr. Cornell : [Showing her on a monitor]  at the top of the list would be the national power grid. If disabled, we could end up being unable to deliver power to many millions of people: a blackout of that scale would almost certainly result in rioting in major cities. Even more critical, are the water treatment and distribution systems, sabotaging key damns and sewage processing plants, they can contaminate water on a massive scale. Deaths from poisoning would be "substantial" up front, massive casualties would soon follow after as people begin to die from dehydration

  Ethan Kanin : Is there any way to protect these systems?

  Dr. Cornell : The only way would be shutting them down and within a short time, it would be impossible to supply the population with sufficient food and clean water: resulting civil unrest would undoubtedly "aggravate" the situation