Designated Survivor (TV Series)

#thesystemisbroken (2019)

Jonathan Goldapple: Executive Assistant, NSB

Quotes 

• Deputy Director, FBI : Breaking and entering, infiltrating civilian computer systems, hacking personal phones without a warrant. Do you have anything to add?

  Hannah Wells : Just that I don't see any cameras, so this seems like a lot of grandstanding for an audience of one.

  Deputy Director, FBI : I wouldn't take these proceedings so irreverently, Agent Wells. Your career's in the balance.

  Hannah Wells : I did my job, Deputy Director. I protected my president. Who has been cleared of any wrongdoing, by the way, by both the Attorney General and Special Counsel West.

  Executive Assistant OIC : It was the special counsel himself who provided us with these many examples of your transgressions.

  Deputy Director, FBI : I'm not sure you appreciate the gravity of the situation here. Unless you're of the mind that agents of the United States government can kill people in allied countries without consequences.

  [noticing her reaction] 

  Deputy Director, FBI : Oh, do I have your attention now?

  Executive Assistant, NSB : After much conversation, the British are opting not to prosecute for the sake of our special relationship. But they've made it clear you're persona non grata in the UK.

  Deputy Director, FBI : I've promised we'd settle accounts. We'll have your badge, Hannah.

  Hannah Wells : Everything I have done, everything, has been to protect this country. You can't just throw...

  Deputy Director, FBI : That's enough. We're done. You're lucky to have been dismissed without charges.