24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. (2007)

Jayne Atkinson: Karen Hayes

Quotes 

• Tom Lennox : [Calling his name while chasing after him in the hallway]  yes I hear you

  Karen Hayes : You can't possibly be in favor of Daniels' plan of a nuclear strike

  Tom Lennox : You heard the Vice President: it's a "warning shot" into an unpopulated area

  Karen Hayes : It is a military offensive on foreign soil and you and I both know it will be impossible to contain. You know this is insane, I know you do. I saw you in that meeting. I saw the doubt in your eyes

  Tom Lennox : Do not presume to know what I am thinking or what I am feeling. I serve at the "discretion" of those above me

  Karen Hayes : You serve the President and you know Wayne would not sign off on this course of action

  Tom Lennox : Wayne was wrong: every decision he made today was wrong. Rejecting my security initiates, using Assad as an appeal to his extremist groups, and look what we've been lead to

  Karen Hayes : You can't seriously believe that, you just cannot

  Tom Lennox : It doesn't matter what I believe. As long as the President is in a coma, Daniels is the acting Commander in Chief. Now if you want him to abort that missile launch, you had better pray that CTU can find and stop that drone

• Vice President Noah Daniels : [after entering the conference room]  please be seated. As many of you are aware, the terrorists that attacked us this morning, Abu Fayed with the help of Dmitri Gredenko launched an aerial drone we believe is armed with another nuclear weapon. Efforts are ongoing to locate but those efforts failed: we are looking at a second nuclear attack on our country in less ten hours and I am determined not to let this attack happen without a military response on our part

  Ethan Kanin : A military response directed on whom Mr. Vice President? We were under the impression that these terrorists were "essentially" stateless

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Secretary Kanin, that is the "fiction" they hide behind but everyone in this room knows that element with Abu Fayed's country train and fund terrorist organizations like his: it's time to hold them accountable. The Ambassador's just been informed if the nuclear weapon on that drone detonates, we will retaliate with our own nuclear strike. Now this will be a "warning shot", not a full scale attack, the Joint Chiefs have been instructed to identify an unpopulated area where there will be "limited" civilian causalities, Admiral?

  Admiral John Smith : The closest match we have to that "scenario" is a territory near their northern border: we "believe" they should result in less than two thousand deaths. Long term damage, radioactive fallout however could double that number depending on ground conditions

  Vice President Noah Daniels : I can accept that

  Karen Hayes : Mr. Vice President, I'm sure your aware that our intelligence suggests that their government can't control Fayed either: they are doing the best that they can

  Vice President Noah Daniels : And I'm saying they need to figure out a way to do better. "Something" tells me once this bomb hits, they will

  Karen Hayes : If this bomb hits, the opposite will hold true, the moderates will be driven from power, the terrorists will be strengthened there and in the region and I don't hear anyone talking about the Chinese or Russian response to this. We could start another world war

  Vice President Noah Daniels : If I thought there was a high likelihood of that, I wouldn't be suggesting this

  Karen Hayes : Mr. Vice President, the "stakes" are too high for this decision to be based on your "personal judgment." It is my opinion this course of action would be dangerous and reckless

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Consider your concern "registered" Karen but the debate is over. America must start to stand up for herself. The attacks on this country must stop and as acting Command in Chief, that is the best way to make that happen