24: Live Another Day (TV Mini Series)

Day 9: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (2014)

William Devane: President James Heller

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• President James Heller : You want me to put you back in the field?

  Jack Bauer : Until she's captured, yes.

  President James Heller : That's a big ask, Jack, even under the circumstances. The Russians are still crying for your head. They find out that we have you and then we let you go? I'll have a larger crisis than I have now.

  Jack Bauer : Mr. President, I give you my word that I will surrender myself to the authorities as soon as the threat has been neutralized.

  President James Heller : I can't do it, Jack.

• Jack Bauer : I'm not gonna let you blow the only lead that we've got because you're worried about what the Russians will do. You want to capture Margot Al-Harazi, you're gonna have my way.

  President James Heller : You've been in exile for four years, Jack. Haven't you learned anything?

  Jack Bauer : Mr. President, I hope you consider my request. While you still have time.

• General Coburn : We believe that this is Margot Al-Harazi crawling away from the wreckage. God knows how she survived.

  President James Heller : There were children there. So she was telling the truth.

  Mark Boudreau : Despite her claims, the majority of the people killed were members of a radical sect led by her husband.

  President James Heller : Well, why wasn't I told that there were civilian casualties?

  Mark Boudreau : We were in the middle of a fight to secure funding for the drone program. We needed to focus on the achieved objective, which was killing her husband.

  President James Heller : So you covered it up? Even from me?

  Mark Boudreau : I thought that the burden of specifics would distract you from the goal at hand.

  President James Heller : So you didn't think that you could trust me with the truth, that if I knew that we had killed civilians somehow I wouldn't lobby as hard as you thought.

  Mark Boudreau : I was protecting you. That's why you hired me. "No military action is purely surgical. And when the fight begins, collateral damage is always a factor, but our U.S. drone program lets us hit our enemies with the fewest civilian casualties." Those are your words, Mr. President. That's what you believe. And until I hear otherwise, I'm going to do everything I can to further that policy.