- Jack Bauer: Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? Today I can die for something. My way. My choice
- Bill Buchanan: [having not spoken for two years, Jack struggles to talk clearly] I can't hear you, Jack.
- Jack Bauer: [rasping] Audrey?
- Bill Buchanan: Audrey doesn't know you're back.
- Jack Bauer: My daughter?
- Bill Buchanan: Kim doesn't know, either.
- Jack Bauer: You keep it that way.
- [at about 6:30am]
- Jack Bauer: [to Bill Buchanan] Do you know the difference between dying for nothing and dying for something. That's why I'm still alive. That's the only reason why I managed to stay alive in China, so I wouldn't die for nothing. Today, I can die for something.
- [about 20-25 minutes later, around 6:55am; Jack Bauer is being tortured very badly]
- Abu Fayed: [while torturing Jack Bauer] Funny you should mention Assad. Assad's been talking about renouncing violence and negotiating.
- Abu Fayed: [prepares to jam a sharp metal rod in Jack's back] Assad is a traitor to the cause. And soon he will be dead. That's right, Jack. CTU is about to kill the wrong man. Assad isn't behind these attacks. He's come here to stop them. He's come here to stop... me.
- Abu Fayed: [jams the metal rod into Jack's back]
- Jack Bauer: [gasping in beaut pain]
- Abu Fayed: [pulls the rod out after a few seconds and drops it on the floor and finishes with] You will die for nothing.
- Milo Pressman: I've told you twenty times: you don't send out a report without a certified header on
- Morris O'Brian: This make twenty one, I'll keep you an update on the count
- Milo Pressman: Do you and I'm just curious ever open your mouth without sarcasm just spilling out of it?
- Morris O'Brian: [Ignoring him] I'm sorry, are we done here?
- Milo Pressman: I'm just telling you to be careful, otherwise you will find yourself back selling ladies shoes in Beverly Hills
- Morris O'Brian: You're really settling well into the whole "middle management" thing aren't you?
- Milo Pressman: What's your problem with me?
- Morris O'Brian: I liked you fine as an analyst, actually you were very good, as a boss: a bit of a bore
- Chloe O'Brian: [Walks up to them, before Milo walks away] what's going on?
- Milo Pressman: [Referring to Morris] talk to your boyfriend, his on "self destruct"
- Chloe O'Brian: You promised me you'd get along with Milo
- Morris O'Brian: I'm sorry darling, that's just a promise I can't keep
- Chloe O'Brian: I had the same problem with department when I first started, then I learned how to fit in. There's no reason why you can't
- Morris O'Brian: Except I don't happen to be a pretty lady
- Chloe O'Brian: What're you talking about?
- Morris O'Brian: You're a hottie
- Chloe O'Brian: No, I'm not
- Morris O'Brian: [Seductively rubs her lower back] yes, you are: deal with it
- Chloe O'Brian: We're at work
- Morris O'Brian: So?
- Chloe O'Brian: It's unprofessional
- Morris O'Brian: You're saying you don't like it?
- Chloe O'Brian: [Before accessing his computer] no, I'm not saying that. I just came to see if you got a request from Homeland on a priority channel
- Morris O'Brian: No
- Chloe O'Brian: Why'd they send it only to me?
- Morris O'Brian: I don't know
- Chloe O'Brian: [Referring to his working relationship with Milo] just try to get along
- Chloe O'Brian: I just got a weird request from Homeland Security: they want to set up a channel and I wanted to clear it with you first
- Nadia Yassir: [Nods] consider yourself cleared
- Chloe O'Brian: They wanted it formatted according to military specs
- Nadia Yassir: We're coordinating an assault with attack helicopters from Camp Pendleton
- Chloe O'Brian: When?
- Nadia Yassir: Thirty minutes
- Chloe O'Brian: But an assault on who?
- Nadia Yassir: Assad
- Chloe O'Brian: What're you talking about? We don't even know where Assad is
- Nadia Yassir: We will: we have a lead
- Chloe O'Brian: No, we don't. If we did, I would know about it
- Nadia Yassir: We found a way to get Assad's location
- Chloe O'Brian: How?
- Nadia Yassir: Jack Bauer
- Chloe O'Brian: Jack's in a Chinese prison
- Nadia Yassir: Not anymore. The President negotiated his release two days ago
- Chloe O'Brian: Jack's coming back?
- Nadia Yassir: Yes
- Chloe O'Brian: But why did the Chinese let him go? Why today? Does this have something to do with the attacks? How do we think Jack's going to lead us to Assad?
- Nadia Yassir: [Irritated by her questions] I can't talk about this: not yet
- Chloe O'Brian: Why not? Can Bill Buchanan talk about it?
- Nadia Yassir: He's meeting Jack at Point Mugu Air Station. Now open that military channel and put it through to the conference area
- Bill Buchanan: [Over the phone] we have Jack
- Karen Hayes: Good
- Bill Buchanan: I thought I was "prepared", his worse than I expected: much worse
- Karen Hayes: I know how hard this must be for you but everything depends on this operation
- Bill Buchanan: I understand
- Karen Hayes: I know you do. I wish I were there with you
- Bill Buchanan: You're where you need to be
- Karen Hayes: I miss you
- Bill Buchanan: [Before hanging up] I miss you too, I have to take Jack to the drop point now. Bye
- Nadia Yassir: Did you open that military channel and put it through to the conference area?
- Chloe O'Brian: Yeah, I've been trying to locate Bill or Curtis just to find out what's going on with Jack but they're both offline and there's a block on their status rosters
- Nadia Yassir: I told you, I can't talk about this
- Chloe O'Brian: You've only been here couple months, so you don't know me very well but if you did, you would know how much Jack Bauer means to me: you would also know sooner or later, I will find out. So why don't you tell me right now?
- Nadia Yassir: I don't have the authorization...
- Chloe O'Brian: [Interrupts her] ok why don't I just call Division and let them know about the time you left the Jarvis firewall unsecured? If it weren't for me, you would've been fired over that
- Nadia Yassir: [Reluctantly] we were contacted four days ago by a man named Abu Fayed. He offered to give us Assad's location for a list of demands: one of them is Jack Bauer
- Chloe O'Brian: Jack? What's he want with Jack?
- Nadia Yassir: Retribution
- Chloe O'Brian: Retribution for what?
- Nadia Yassir: Fayed's brother was part of the cell that bombed of our embassy in Lebanon in 1999. Jack was sent to grab him and get the names of the other cell members: Fayed's brother died when Jack was interrogating him
- Chloe O'Brian: Now he wants Jack dead?
- Nadia Yassir: That's right
- Chloe O'Brian: You're really going to "deliver" Jack over to the terrorists to be killed?
- Nadia Yassir: We need to stop Assad
- Chloe O'Brian: Why aren't we organizing a rescue? We can just grab Jack once Fayed gives us Assad's location
- Nadia Yassir: Fayed has the resources to detect our surveillance: as part of the deal we gave Fayed monitoring access to our satellite coverage, radio frequencies, and air corridors. He won't give us anything until his free and clear with Jack
- Chloe O'Brian: How do we even know he'll do what he says?
- Nadia Yassir: We don't
- Karen Hayes: [while in the Oval Office, after a staff member hands her a report] Mr. President...
- President Wayne Palmer: Another attack?
- Karen Hayes: Los Angeles, a bus
- President Wayne Palmer: How many causalities?
- Karen Hayes: Twenty three so far, including the suicide bomber
- President Wayne Palmer: And we're still certain this man Assad is behind all these attacks right?
- Karen Hayes: Yes Sir, we confirmed he arrived in the United States three days before the first bombing in San Antonio
- Tom Lennox: And let us not forget Assad has been calling for the destruction of the United States for the last twenty years
- Karen Hayes: Mr. President, my analyst believe Assad's organization cannot survive without him and once his dead, these attacks will stop
- Tom Lennox: So this assumes the success of the operation to terminate Assad?
- Blake Simon: CTU estimates the success probability at seventy five percent
- Tom Lennox: [Sarcastically] oh, I think that's very generous
- President Wayne Palmer: It sounds like your anticipating failure Tom?
- Tom Lennox: I fully acknowledge Sir that this is our only option but I am firmly advocating "contingencies"
- President Wayne Palmer: "Contingencies" are well and good Tom but CTU needs to eliminate Assad: that's all there is to it. God knows we're paying a steep enough price to get him
- Bill Buchanan: President Palmer wants to speak to you himself: as soon as we debrief
- Bill Buchanan: [after Jack doesn't respond] I'm sorry Jack, how could you know? Wayne Palmer is President. He's the one who negotiated your release. I can't even to begin to imagine what you went through over there. Last eleven weeks, our cities have been targeted by a series of terror attacks. Buses, trains, shopping malls, the last one was fifteen minutes ago here in Los Angeles
- Bill Buchanan: [Shows Jack a photo] it's Hamri Al-Assad. Four days ago, one of Assad's men contacted us, he said he would give up Assad for twenty five million dollars. But his demanding something more than money: he wants you, he wants you dead
- Bill Buchanan: [Shows Jack another photo] it's Abu Fayed. He wants his "pound of flesh" for what happened in Beirut. We offered him other alternatives, we did everything we could think of but he only agreed to give us Assad in exchange for you
- Curtis Manning: His demanded our surveillance protocols, which means we can't risk an extraction. Once he has you, you'll be on your own
- Bill Buchanan: Do you understands what this means? We're asking you to sacrifice yourself so we can eliminate Assad
- Jack Bauer: I know what's being asked of me Curtis, you don't need your firearm. Before we do this, I would like to clean up
- Curtis Manning: We've got an area set up for, and provided you with some new clothes
- President Wayne Palmer: [Over the phone] I've been trying to think of what I could possibly say to you: after all you've sacrificed for this country. What you've done for me in the past of course, what you've done for my brother David. This is a desperate measure and believe me I know, it's also a "measure" of our desperation. People are afraid to come outside, their afraid to leave their homes, their actually starting to turn against each other out there
- Jack Bauer: Bill Buchanan explained the situation Sir, I know what's happening. I understand what's expected of me
- President Wayne Palmer: You have my word: my word, your sacrifice will not be in vain
- Jack Bauer: Thank you
- President Wayne Palmer: God bless you
- Jack Bauer: [Before hanging up] good bye Mr. President
- President Wayne Palmer: When I agreed to run for this Office, I thought I understood this job. I mean I was right beside my brother David when he had to make impossible decisions: times when he had to choose bad options but now that I'm the one sitting in that chair, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the right person to lead this country
- Tom Lennox: It's an irrelevant question Sir
- President Wayne Palmer: Excuse me?
- Tom Lennox: You will lead this country: whether you want to or not. You are the President
- President Wayne Palmer: This President can't shake the feeling of sacrificing Jack Bauer as a mistake. Maybe I should call this whole thing off before it's too late?
- Tom Lennox: No Sir, you have not made a mistake and for what it's worth, your brother would be doing just the same thing
- President Wayne Palmer: It doesn't make it right
- Tom Lennox: It isn't right: it isn't wrong, it's simply our only option. Bauer has to be sacrificed so this country can survive
- Karen Hayes: I just heard a disturbing rumor
- Tom Lennox: What rumor is that?
- Karen Hayes: That your authorizing the National Guard to set up "detention facilities" at convention centers, and sports arenas in Los Angeles, Detroit, and Philadelphia
- Tom Lennox: That's correct
- Karen Hayes: That's against the President's order, I was there when he gave it
- Tom Lennox: I know where you were, I was standing right next to you
- Karen Hayes: To my knowledge, that order hasn't been rescinded
- Tom Lennox: Alright, you're confused, I haven't "implemented" yet. I'm merely "positioning", if the President changes his mind, as I suspect he will, and then we will have wasted less time
- Karen Hayes: I'm not confused, you can use whatever word you like. In plain English, you're second guessing the President
- Tom Lennox: Plain English does not allow for the nuances that my job requires
- Karen Hayes: And just how far are you going to push this? The ACLU has already filed complaints against us that we've given the Bureau too much field authority
- Tom Lennox: And by my estimations, they have not been given nearly enough: we need a wider "net" with tighter mesh
- Karen Hayes: And what happens when innocent people get caught in that "net"?
- Tom Lennox: Well, like I told you before, "security has its price". Just get used to it
- Ray Wallace: [after watching the news coverage of the terrorist attacks] Scott shouldn't be going to school
- Jillian Wallace: He has a geometry test
- Ray Wallace: Honey, LA was just hit: they should be closing these schools down
- Jillian Wallace: [Turns off the TV] they will close them down, when it's not safe but until then I don't want to scare our son and I don't want you scaring him either. I want us to keep living our lives as "normally" as we can
- Ray Wallace: There's nothing "normal" on what's happening here
- Jillian Wallace: What're we suppose to do? Just hide inside our house for the rest of our lives?
- Jillian Wallace: [to Scott after he enters the kitchen, referring to his schoolwork] was Ahmed able to help?
- Scott Wallace: I didn't get to see him: the FBI are at his house. Their arresting his dad
- Jillian Wallace: [Before they all go to the widow to watch] what?
- Scott Wallace: [Referring to Ahmed's father] where are they taking him?
- Ray Wallace: I don't know
- Bill Buchanan: [Over the phone] Jack's at the drop point, set with the military?
- Nadia Yassir: Marines have two covert attack helicopters ready to deploy: we can hit anywhere inside LA within twenty minutes
- Bill Buchanan: Jack's giving his life for this operation, so I don't want any mistakes. Assad must be taken out with extreme prejudice
- Nadia Yassir: We'll be ready as soon as we get his location from Fayed
- Bill Buchanan: If Fayed calls before I get back, link me in
- Nadia Yassir: Ok, I'm "sidelining" Chloe on this operation
- Bill Buchanan: Why?
- Nadia Yassir: She started asking questions about Jack, I tried to put her off
- Bill Buchanan: What'd you tell her?
- Nadia Yassir: The truth
- Bill Buchanan: [Before hanging up] I'll talk to her when I get there
- Karen Hayes: [Over the phone] have you heard from Fayed?
- Bill Buchanan: Not yet, no
- Karen Hayes: The President's worried: Fayed should've contacted us by now
- Bill Buchanan: There may be a problem. There's a possibility Fayed could be going back on the deal
- Karen Hayes: What're you talking about?
- Bill Buchanan: He caught us trying to track Jack
- Karen Hayes: The orders were he was to have a "clear field"
- Bill Buchanan: I know what the orders were. Chloe thought there was a work around, she did it without authorization
- Karen Hayes: [Angrily] damn it, how could you let this happen? She is your responsibility, if we don't take out Assad...
- Bill Buchanan: [Interrupts her] I don't need a lecture, I know what the stakes are
- Karen Hayes: I don't think you do. If these attacks don't stop, there are people in this Administration that are willing to tear up the Constitution in the name of National Security. The things they are talking about doing, this country will never recover
- Bill Buchanan: As soon as I hear from Fayed, you'll be my first call
- Karen Hayes: [Realizing she's taking out her stress on him] I'm sorry
- Bill Buchanan: There's no need to apologize: we're all feeling it
- Karen Hayes: [Before hanging up] I have to go