24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (2007)

Peter MacNicol: Tom Lennox

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• Karen Hayes : [while in the Oval Office, after a staff member hands her a report]  Mr. President...

  President Wayne Palmer : Another attack?

  Karen Hayes : Los Angeles, a bus

  President Wayne Palmer : How many causalities?

  Karen Hayes : Twenty three so far, including the suicide bomber

  President Wayne Palmer : And we're still certain this man Assad is behind all these attacks right?

  Karen Hayes : Yes Sir, we confirmed he arrived in the United States three days before the first bombing in San Antonio

  Tom Lennox : And let us not forget Assad has been calling for the destruction of the United States for the last twenty years

  Karen Hayes : Mr. President, my analyst believe Assad's organization cannot survive without him and once his dead, these attacks will stop

  Tom Lennox : So this assumes the success of the operation to terminate Assad?

  Blake Simon : CTU estimates the success probability at seventy five percent

  Tom Lennox : [Sarcastically]  oh, I think that's very generous

  President Wayne Palmer : It sounds like your anticipating failure Tom?

  Tom Lennox : I fully acknowledge Sir that this is our only option but I am firmly advocating "contingencies"

  President Wayne Palmer : "Contingencies" are well and good Tom but CTU needs to eliminate Assad: that's all there is to it. God knows we're paying a steep enough price to get him

• President Wayne Palmer : When I agreed to run for this Office, I thought I understood this job. I mean I was right beside my brother David when he had to make impossible decisions: times when he had to choose bad options but now that I'm the one sitting in that chair, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the right person to lead this country

  Tom Lennox : It's an irrelevant question Sir

  President Wayne Palmer : Excuse me?

  Tom Lennox : You will lead this country: whether you want to or not. You are the President

  President Wayne Palmer : This President can't shake the feeling of sacrificing Jack Bauer as a mistake. Maybe I should call this whole thing off before it's too late?

  Tom Lennox : No Sir, you have not made a mistake and for what it's worth, your brother would be doing just the same thing

  President Wayne Palmer : It doesn't make it right

  Tom Lennox : It isn't right: it isn't wrong, it's simply our only option. Bauer has to be sacrificed so this country can survive

• Karen Hayes : I just heard a disturbing rumor

  Tom Lennox : What rumor is that?

  Karen Hayes : That your authorizing the National Guard to set up "detention facilities" at convention centers, and sports arenas in Los Angeles, Detroit, and Philadelphia

  Tom Lennox : That's correct

  Karen Hayes : That's against the President's order, I was there when he gave it

  Tom Lennox : I know where you were, I was standing right next to you

  Karen Hayes : To my knowledge, that order hasn't been rescinded

  Tom Lennox : Alright, you're confused, I haven't "implemented" yet. I'm merely "positioning", if the President changes his mind, as I suspect he will, and then we will have wasted less time

  Karen Hayes : I'm not confused, you can use whatever word you like. In plain English, you're second guessing the President

  Tom Lennox : Plain English does not allow for the nuances that my job requires

  Karen Hayes : And just how far are you going to push this? The ACLU has already filed complaints against us that we've given the Bureau too much field authority

  Tom Lennox : And by my estimations, they have not been given nearly enough: we need a wider "net" with tighter mesh

  Karen Hayes : And what happens when innocent people get caught in that "net"?

  Tom Lennox : Well, like I told you before, "security has its price". Just get used to it