24 (TV Series)
Day 8: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. (2010)
Jennifer Westfeldt: Meredith Reed
Quotes
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Meredith Reed : [while being detained at CTU] look, I don't know who the hell you people you are but I want an attorney and I demand to know what I'm being "charged" with
Brian Hastings : We found the files
Meredith Reed : What files?
Brian Hastings : On your computer in your apartment
Meredith Reed : You searched my apartment?
Brian Hastings : We found six documents on your laptop that were stolen from UN servers
Meredith Reed : What "documents"?
Brian Hastings : Relating to the security arrangements for the peace conference: your here because we know your part of a plan to assassinate President Hassan
Meredith Reed : What?
Brian Hastings : Please don't waste my time. The evidence against you is "clear cut"
Meredith Reed : Listen to me, your making a mistake. If there files on my computer, someone put them there
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Meredith Reed : [Over the phone, referring his performance during the press conference] you were terrific
President Omar Hassan : It's not about me: it's about the message that's important, I just hope no one could see how nervous I was
Meredith Reed : You hid it well
President Omar Hassan : Are you here?
Meredith Reed : Yes but I'm on my way out: do you still have time to see me?
President Omar Hassan : I've been looking forward to it all day
Meredith Reed : When?
President Omar Hassan : What're you saying?
Meredith Reed : When can I see you?
President Omar Hassan : I've got half an hour before the next session begins: meet me now and we'll go up to my private office together. I'll tell my staff that you requested an interview
Meredith Reed : Perfect, I'll be right there
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Brian Hastings : [Questioning her at CTU] I think we need a "fresh start." Now you "claim" those files were "planted" on your computer: fine. I'm willing to give you the "benefit of the doubt" but you need to meet me "half way", talk to me. Help me understand your side of "the story", fair enough?
Brian Hastings : [after she nods] so when was the first time you met President Hassan?
Meredith Reed : About six months ago at a conference of oil ministers. I requested an interview and he agreed: we met in his hotel lobby twice, it lasted an hour and a half the most
Brian Hastings : When you were in Bédar profiling President Hassan, were you ever "approached" by anyone hostile to his regime?
Meredith Reed : No
Brian Hastings : No one paid you?
Meredith Reed : No
Brian Hastings : Pressured you into cooperating?
Meredith Reed : I said no
Brian Hastings : So all you did was interview President Hassan? That's it?
Meredith Reed : Yes, that's all
Brian Hastings : [after being informed she's not telling the truth through biometrics] you're lying
Meredith Reed : I'm not
Brian Hastings : [Raises his voice] tell me what really happened in Bédar? How is it connected to the assassination plot?
Meredith Reed : I don't have anything to do with any plan to assassinate President Hassan my God, why would I?
Brian Hastings : Your reasons irrelevant: all I care about is stopping the assassin
Meredith Reed : So do I, so if someone really is trying to kill Hassan you need to stop wasting time on me and find them