Quotes
Audrey Heller Raines:
[
Jack bursts into the operating room of Paul Raines with an injured Lee Jong. Audrey looks on]
Jack, what's going on? Jack.
Dr. Marc Besson:
You can't come in here.
Jack Bauer:
He's dying!
Dr. Marc Besson:
So is he. Get out of here, I just started this operation.
Jack Bauer:
This man is our only connection to a stolen nuclear warhead. You gotta save him now!
Dr. Marc Besson:
I'll get to him as soon as I can.
Jack Bauer:
He's not gonna make it.
Dr. Marc Besson:
I already have a patient.
Jack Bauer:
[
Jack motions Curtis to set up the gurney]
Curtis.
Jack Bauer:
[
Jack pulls his gun on Besson]
You have a new one.
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The writers are trying to torment me. The one person I can't stand on Season Four is "Audrey," Jack's supposed girlfriend who has dumped him to get back with her separated husband, but hasn't told him yet. When push comes to show at the end of this episode, where Jack decides that saving millions of lives are better than risking one (her husband), she, of course, violently disagrees.
Why is it that Jack, many times, is about the only person on this show who always put his country's welfare - and its millions of citizens - above anything else, including his own welfare? Where are the other heroes?
Much of this episode is another example of that as Jack leads an assault on the Chinese embassy to bring out the one man who might be able to tell us where Marwan is, and stop a nuclear explosion from taking place. As usual, Jack is told he's on his own and, if caught, he won't get help as this is "a mission that didn't happen." Boy, that sounds familiar....but Jack never says no, nor complains; he just does it, and then takes the consequences.