- Walt Cummings: Mr. President, we need to talk.
- President Charles Logan: What is it Walt?
- Walt Cummings: I was hoping to spair you this but I'm afraid Jack Bauer is forcing my hand to this.
- Walt Cummings: He's on his way here with Mike Novick
- President Charles Logan: Bauer? Why?
- Walt Cummings: He's going accuse me of helping the terrorists acquire the nerve gas.
- President Charles Logan: That's ridiculous.
- Walt Cummings: No Sir, it's... it's the truth.
- President Charles Logan: What did you say?
- Yellow Tie Man: [Over cell phone] We know you've altered the arming codes, Mr. Cummings.
- Walt Cummings: We can negotiate something.
- Yellow Tie Man: I don't negotiate with my enemies. I eliminate them. Your country is about to pay a very steep price for betraying us.
- Jack Bauer: [while in the conference room] I don't understand the problem: David Palmer was murdered because he was about to expose Walt Cummings' connection to the terrorists. When Cummings failed to frame me for Palmer's murder, he tried to kill me
- Bill Buchanan: All that may be true but we don't have proof
- Audrey Raines: We can prove that Cummings used Spencer to get Jack's assassin into CTU
- Bill Buchanan: All we have is Spencer's word, that's not enough to build a case
- Jack Bauer: You don't have time to build a case. You want the nerve gas? Cummings is your connection
- Lynn McGill: Cummings is the President's chief advisor, how exactly do you suggest we get to him?
- Jack Bauer: I can secretly meet with Mike Novick: enlist his help
- Bill Buchanan: How do we know Novick isn't in this with Cummings?
- Jack Bauer: Because I know him. He'll listen to me and the President will listen to him. With Novick's help, we can isolate Cummings
- Lynn McGill: As much as I appreciate you want to be involved, you don't work here anymore
- Jack Bauer: That's exactly the reason why I should do this. If it backfires, there won't be any fallout on you
- Audrey Raines: I think it's worth a try
- Bill Buchanan: I agree
- Jack Bauer: [to Lynn] it's your call
- Lynn McGill: Alright, just so we're clear, this is about finding the nerve gas, not getting revenge for David Palmer
- Jack Bauer: Understood
- Lynn McGill: Work out your protocols with Ms. Raines, we'll keep looking through Cummings' background for anything that supports our case
- Mike Novick: [Over the phone] it's good to hear your voice
- Jack Bauer: Yours too, I'm so sorry about David Palmer, I know how much he meant to you
- Mike Novick: Yeah, what's going on?
- Jack Bauer: I have a lead on the stolen nerve gas
- Mike Novick: Isn't CTU coordinating the search?
- Jack Bauer: This is something I need to bring directly to you
- Mike Novick: I don't understand
- Jack Bauer: I can't talk about it on the phone: we need to meet. No one can know about this, not even the President
- Mike Novick: I'm not comfortable with all the secrecy, you need to give me some idea on what this is about
- Jack Bauer: It's about Walt Cummings
- Mike Novick: There's an area a few hundred yards outside the southwest gate, it's at the far side of the property from the main house
- Jack Bauer: [Before hanging up] thanks, I'll see you in fifteen minutes
- Diane Huxley: [Talking privately] you're not coming back to us are you?
- Jack Bauer: No, I never thought I was going to be back here at CTU. I would have never gotten you involved, I promise you
- Diane Huxley: It's the woman who interviewed me: Audrey Raines? You were involved with her, I can tell by the way you looked at each other
- Jack Bauer: I was with her before I had to disappear
- Diane Huxley: Are you still in love with her?
- Jack Bauer: Yes
- Diane Huxley: Does she still love you?
- Jack Bauer: I don't know
- President Charles Logan: Have you found my wife yet?
- Mike Novick: No Sir, but Secret Service is "confident" she's still on the grounds
- President Charles Logan: [Irritated] if they're so damn "confident", why can't anyone find her? What the hell are they doing?
- Mike Novick: I'm sure it's just a matter of time Mr. President
- Walt Cummings: [as Walt enters the room] sorry I'm late
- Mike Novick: I was just setting up the video
- Mike Novick: [while playing the intelligence video] this was made by terrorists to document the effects of exposure to nerve gas: it was recovered from a training camp two years ago. Disorientation occurs moments after exposure, now the video jumps forward, no more than a couple of minutes we estimate but in that time, there's permanent damage to the central nervous system. Violent seizures take over, Bronchial membrane blister, and death occurs
- Mike Novick: [after the video ends] now according to DOD, the Sentox Six nerve gas stolen from the airport is far more lethal than the gas we saw just used. If released in a town or city for example, the cloud will remain lethal for much longer
- President Charles Logan: Are we any closer on finding the canisters?
- Mike Novick: There haven't been any reports on progress
- Walt Cummings: Through a proxy, I leaked information to the terrorists on where the nerve gas was hidden: you have to understand Sir, this gas was never going to pose a threat
- President Charles Logan: [Interrupts him, raises his voice] "Never pose a threat?" people died in the airport, hostages were killed
- Walt Cummings: We had hoped to limit the collateral damage
- President Charles Logan: Collateral damage? What're you thinking? This is an unspeakable crime
- President Charles Logan: [after Walt is silent, while picking up the phone] you have to answer for this
- Walt Cummings: Mr. President, it's in your best interest to hear me out: don't make that phone call
- President Charles Logan: [Hangs up the phone] what'd you mean? "My best interest"?
- Walt Cummings: Sentox gas is being smuggled out of the country by separatists, who think they're going to use it against the Russians. However, that nerve gas will never reach Russian soil
- President Charles Logan: And you know this how?
- Walt Cummings: We control the remote detonators on the gas canisters. As soon as they reach the terrorist base, we'll trigger the canisters by satellite to release the gas
- President Charles Logan: So everything that happened today was to just kill some terrorists?
- Walt Cummings: No, the goal is to produce a "smoking gun", proof that the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Central Asia
- President Charles Logan: [Attempts to walk away from Walt] this is unbelievable
- Walt Cummings: [Grabs his arm] no, it's necessary this will finally give us a pretext to increase our military presence in the region and guarantee the flow of oil for the next generation
- President Charles Logan: [Pulls his arm from Walt's grasp] how dare you, how dare you act without my consent? How dare you put this Administration, this entire country in jeopardy? You're a traitor
- Walt Cummings: [Raising his voice] no, I am a patriot, doing what needs to be done for the continued safety and well being of this nation
- President Charles Logan: My God, you gave the order to have David Palmer killed?
- Walt Cummings: That was an unfortunate but necessary intervention: he found out too much, we had to...
- President Charles Logan: [Interrupts him] your rationalizing the murder of a President, you're going to contact these people and recover the nerve gas before it leaves the country
- Walt Cummings: I'm afraid I can't do that
- President Charles Logan: Why not?
- Walt Cummings: I don't know where the nerve gas is and the man I have working inside has gone "dark," his unreachable. Now you'll let things play out as they are otherwise your Administration will be implicated and your Presidency will be destroyed: it's your choice
- Walt Cummings: [after hanging up the phone] Novick and Bauer have been taken into custody
- President Charles Logan: So we're just going lock Mike Novick up?
- Walt Cummings: For the time being
- President Charles Logan: What good would it do? Eventually his going to get out and his going to talk to the press
- Walt Cummings: What can he say? He doesn't know anything
- President Charles Logan: I thought you told me he talked to Jack Bauer?
- Walt Cummings: We stopped Bauer before he could tell Mike any details
- President Charles Logan: What's his going to think? We're detaining him
- Walt Cummings: Bauer was about to divulge national security secrets: Mike's not authorized to hear, that's why Mike's being detained
- President Charles Logan: What about Bauer? He must've told other people at CTU what he knows?
- Walt Cummings: As soon as this nerve gas leaves US soil, it's going to be very difficult to prove either of us is connected to this in any way
- President Charles Logan: And you're sure these detonators will work? That the Sentox nerve gas will be released before it can be used against the Russians?
- Walt Cummings: Yes, right now all you need to do is to authorize me to terminate CTU's involvement in matter: we'll tell them we've got the situation under control and we'll deal with Bauer. After all, they're not officially affiliated with him any longer
- President Charles Logan: [after thinking it over] alright
- Walt Cummings: Good
- Lynn McGill: [Talking privately] I can't have you talk to me like that in front of these people
- Bill Buchanan: Your right, I'm sorry
- Lynn McGill: Are we clear on who's in charge here?
- Bill Buchanan: Yeah, but my advice stands: if this order jeopardizes our chances of finding that nerve gas, it's your responsibility to ignore it. At least until we can make our case to the White House. You also have to learn to make decisions faster
- Lynn McGill: Bill...
- Bill Buchanan: One more thing that comes with experience, if we don't do everything in our power to stop these terrorists, we're not doing our job
- Lynn McGill: [after thinking it over] ok, disregard the order
- Bill Buchanan: [Before urgently walking away] thank you
- Evelyn Martin: Is there anything else you'd like me to pack for you? Maybe a few of your nicer dresses?
- Martha Logan: I'm being confined to a psychiatric ward, I don't think there's going to be any black tie events
- Evelyn Martin: I'm sorry
- Martha Logan: How could this happen?
- Evelyn Martin: What's that?
- Martha Logan: Charles and me, I was his confidant: all those years in Congress, my opinion was the one that mattered most to him. Now I'm less than an after thought
- Evelyn Martin: I'm sure the President would be here if he could
- Martha Logan: He's the President of the United States, he can do whatever he wants. If he wanted to be here, he would be
- Walt Cummings: [after hanging up the phone] that was NSA: CTU hasn't transferred the search operation to their jurisdiction yet
- President Charles Logan: What's the problem?
- Walt Cummings: I don't know. You need to call Lynn McGill, make sure we're in charge of this
- President Charles Logan: [Raises his voice] I've been avoiding his calls because his just going to ask why I'm pulling CTU off the search operation and I don't know what to tell him
- Walt Cummings: You don't have to tell him anything, you're the President
- Lynn McGill: [while entering the Situation room] we're no longer running point on the search for the canisters: we've been ordered off by Division
- Bill Buchanan: Why?
- Lynn McGill: The White House wants to use their own people to coordinate from now on
- Audrey Raines: That doesn't make sense, we'll waste hours getting another agency up to speed
- Lynn McGill: Yeah I know, I tried calling the President, his not taking my calls
- Audrey Raines: What about Mike Novick? Jack should be with him by now
- Lynn McGill: Novick's people say his unreachable, and Jack's cell is rigged to voicemail
- Bill Buchanan: Something's wrong
- Lynn McGill: Yeah I know but I don't know what we can do about it
- Bill Buchanan: I do
- Lynn McGill: What?
- Bill Buchanan: We can disregard the order
- Lynn McGill: We're not disregarding a Presidential order
- Lynn McGill: If we don't, we will not find this nerve gas
- Lynn McGill: Sending Jack Bauer to have a conversation with Mike Novick as a private citizen is one thing but I'm not about to start considering disobeying a direct order from the White House
- Bill Buchanan: [Raises his voice] that's because you don't have the experience to know any better
- Lynn McGill: [Stunned] Mr. Buchanan, step outside for a moment