Designated Survivor (TV Series)

The Confession (2016)

Maggie Q: Hannah Wells

Quotes 

• Hannah Wells : Show me that front angle of MacLeish again.

  Chuck Russink : Uh, what are you looking for?

  Hannah Wells : An explanation for why a thousand people are dead, Chuck.

• Hannah Wells : Who's the woman with the camera?

  Chuck Russink : I don't know.

  Hannah Wells : Check the seating chart, and then I want you to download the contents of her cloud. I want to see every photo she took that night. Maybe she got something during those missing thirty-four seconds.

  Chuck Russink : You want me to hack a dead woman's phone without an Order to Compel?

  Hannah Wells : It'll take too long.

  Chuck Russink : Not gonna make these people any deader.

  Hannah Wells : Chuck, the greatest act of terrorism since 9/11 was just perpetrated on our soil, and I need to know what happened. And if we don't play dirty, we don't stand a chance. Do it.

• Hannah Wells : First you get me in trouble, now you want to help me?

  Chuck Russink : Truth is, I never liked Orders to Compel, and I think you're kind of badass.

  Hannah Wells : What do you got?

  Chuck Russink : Okay, so I hacked the woman's cloud, and you were right. She took two photos between the time the feed cut and the time of the explosion.

  Hannah Wells : The missing thirty-four seconds?

  Chuck Russink : Yeah.

  Hannah Wells : Show me.

  Chuck Russink : [cropping a picture]  And Congressman MacLeish in his seat...

  Hannah Wells : Chuck, I've seen this.

  Chuck Russink : Wait for it. This photo was taken six seconds later.

  [he crops the second picture, showing MacLeish's seat empty] 

  Chuck Russink : I can't tell you what happened that night, how they did it, why. But I can tell you MacLeish survived...

  Hannah Wells : Because he wasn't there.

• Hannah Wells : Do you think there are others?

  Jason Atwood : Thirty-six hours... you never know, but... it's not looking good.

  Hannah Wells : How did MacLeish survive? Those blasts, they threw glass half a mile. There's 4,000 tons of debris out there.

  Jason Atwood : Sometimes things just defy logic, right? Common sense, or science. But those are the same things that give us hope when the world is going to hell. That's why they call him "The Miracle on the Potomac".

  Hannah Wells : Has anyone talked to him?

  Jason Atwood : No, he's in Bethesda. 24-hour care.

  Hannah Wells : He's also the sole surviving witness to the murder of a thousand people. Don't you think we need to get there and speak to him, see if he saw anything?

  Jason Atwood : We need all hands on deck right here.

  Hannah Wells : Well, you already have over fifty agents out there sifting through rubble and monitoring chatter. You don't need...

  [seeing his expression] 

  Hannah Wells : I'm just saying that we need to get a statement sooner or later.

  Jason Atwood : Don't make a mess I have to clean up.

• Hannah Wells : You wanted to see me?

  Jason Atwood : Did you really think I wouldn't find out that you asked a data tech to ignore the Fourth Amendment?

  Hannah Wells : Jason, our government's gone. It can't be business as usual, can it?

  Jason Atwood : It can't be the Wild West, either. I've got agents from every task force working 24/7. If you break the law, you jeopardize all the work they've put in.

• Jason Atwood : The lab updated the list of confirmed dead. One of those names is Senator Scott Wheeler. I'm sorry.

  Hannah Wells : You knew?

  Jason Atwood : Come on. I work for the largest information gathering organization in the free world. What would that say about me if I didn't?

  Hannah Wells : We met a year ago. He wasn't happy. You know the story. He and his wife were splitting, or... or that's what I wanted to believe.

  Jason Atwood : This job is not easy. We all need someone to care if we make it home at night. So forgive yourself for that.

  Hannah Wells : I'm sorry. I went too far.

  Jason Atwood : No. You made a bad call. But from now on, I want only good ones. Can you do that?

  Hannah Wells : Yeah.