24 (TV Series)

Day 7: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. (2009)

Kiefer Sutherland: Jack Bauer

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• Renee Walker : If we don't find these people, one day they will launch another attack, and I don't see how I can live with myself knowing that there was something I could have done to stop it. I don't know what to do.

  Jack Bauer : I can't tell you what to do. I've been wrestling with this my whole life. I - I see 15 people held hostage on a bus, and everything else goes out the window. I will do whatever it takes to save them - and I mean whatever it takes. I guess maybe I thought if I save them, I could save myself.

  Renee Walker : Do you regret anything that you did today?

  Jack Bauer : No. But then again, I don't work for the F.B.I.

  Renee Walker : I don't understand.

  Jack Bauer : You took an oath. You made a promise to uphold the law. When you cross that line, it always starts with a small step. Before you know it, you're running as fast as you can in the wrong direction, just to justify what you started in the fist place. These laws were written by much smarter men than me. And in the end, I know that these laws have to be more important than the 15 people on the bus. I know that's right. In my mind, I know that's right. I-I just don't think my heart could ever have lived with that. I guess the only advice I can give you is try to make choices that you can live with.

  Renee Walker : I don't know what to say.

  Jack Bauer : Don't say anything at all.

• Jack Bauer : You're not honoring Michelle's life. You're reveling in her death, and she would *despise* you for this.

• Jack Bauer : I can't believe you're doing this: betraying everything you once worked for I know you think this country failed you and I don't care what kind of ideology you believe in now. This is no way to fight for it. What you're doing is wrong and you know it. Damn it look at me, please, as someone who was once your friend, let me die in peace: don't let them use me to kill innocent people

  Tony Almeida : I have no intention of letting them use you as a pathogen, I never did

  Jack Bauer : I overheard you, this was your idea. You "sold" it to them

  Tony Almeida : It was just a "play"

  Jack Bauer : A "play?"

  Tony Almeida : To get the man who's coming here right now: it took me three years to find him, it took me another year to get him to meet me face to face. I had to "prove" myself to him by taking down Jonas Hodges, I had to convince him I was a "true believer" in his cause

  Jack Bauer : What the hell are you talking about?

  Tony Almeida : His name is Alan Wilson: he was the man behind Charles Logan, he's the one who ordered the hit on David Palmer, and he had Michelle killed to cover his tracks. This is the man who murdered my wife

  Jack Bauer : Everything that you have done today was for personal revenge?

  Tony Almeida : It's about justice

  Jack Bauer : Justice? You killed innocent people

  Tony Almeida : Ten times as many would've died if it hadn't been for me: the deeper I dug to find the person responsible for Michelle's death, the more I kept running into men like Jonas Hodges: they're the one with the crazy ideology not me, I'm the one who had a plan to bring them down. I enlisted Bill and Chloe to help track all the elements of this "group" and when I finally got what I wanted, I would turn them in and shut them down but you screwed all that up didn't you?

  Tony Almeida : [after Jack doesn't respond]  I'm the one who saved lives today, not you. I'm the one who helped you recover the CIP device, the one who warned you about the White House attacks, I'm the one who stopped Jonas Hodges from launching those missiles!

  Jack Bauer : You tell yourself whatever you want, you launched a biological attack on Washington Center and if we hadn't there in time, thousands of innocent people would've been killed

  Tony Almeida : I did what I had to do to get Alan Wilson here and now his going to die

  Jack Bauer : You kill him, and no one will ever know the full extent of this conspiracy

  Tony Almeida : I'm not going to kill him: you are. I'm sorry it had to be you but the truth is they wouldn't let me within fifty feet of the guy. You're the one his coming for

• Jack Bauer : [while in a hospital bed]  thank you for coming

  Muhtadi Gohar : I was surprised to get your call

  Jack Bauer : I'm dying

  Muhtadi Gohar : I know

  Jack Bauer : I made so many mistakes and I always thought I had the time to correct them

  Muhtadi Gohar : You have the time: right now

  Jack Bauer : You don't know what I've done

  Muhtadi Gohar : We live in complex times, nothing is black and white but I do know this: I see before me a man with all his flaws, with all his goodness, simply a man. Let us both forgive ourselves for all the wrong that we have done

  Jack Bauer : Thank you... it's time