Designated Survivor (TV Series)

The Confession (2016)

Malik Yoba: Jason Atwood

Quotes 

• 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.

• Tom Kirkman : Al Jazeera was always good enough for bin Laden to release information statements. Why would Nassar go to all the trouble to hack the most secure network in the world just to deliver this video to me? It... it doesn't feel right.

  Harris Cochrane : I believe he did it, sir, to show us he can. He's taunting us.

  Deputy CIA Director : Mr. President, I do think it's important to take note that Al-Sakar has taken credit for attacks committed by others in the past; the Moroccan nightclub bombing, 2013.

  Tom Kirkman : I remember. They claimed responsibility for the bombing, but eventually Israeli Intelligence proved that it was Al-Shabaab. Okay, any other reasons to believe that Al-Sakar was not behind the attack?

  [the room is silent] 

  Tom Kirkman : Anyone, please?

  [the room is silent again] 

  Tom Kirkman : Come on. Anybody?

  Jason Atwood : [standing up and clearing his throat]  Mr. President, Jason Atwood, Deputy Director, FBI.

  Tom Kirkman : We met at the Capitol site. You have another theory?

  Jason Atwood : Not me, one of my agents. She believes that the evidence was manipulated to point toward Al-Sakar so we wouldn't consider any other suspects.

  Tom Kirkman : What evidence?

  Jason Atwood : The unexploded ordnance. She thinks that it was not a mistake, and it was left there on purpose to be found.

  Tom Kirkman : And you believe this?

  Jason Atwood : I'm not sure, but I do believe in her.

  Harris Cochrane : Sir, what are your orders?

  Tom Kirkman : Until we can confirm that Nassar actually did what he says, no one outside these walls sees that video, understood? In the meantime, track the son of a bitch down. Whatever cave, cavern, or hole he's hiding in, I want you to find me Majid Nassar.

• 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.