24 (TV Series)

Day 7: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m. (2009)

Jon Voight: Jonas Hodges

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• Jonas Hodges : For 20 years I raised you like a son. TWENTY YEARS. A little gratitude. Isn't that the least I can get?

• Jonas Hodges : It's a great day, gentlemen. A great day for Starkwood.

  [looks down at his bloody shirt] 

  Jonas Hodges : Too bad Mr. Knowles can't be here to join us.

• Doug Knowles : [Talking privately]  you want to explain this? I'm arrested by our own security force: held captive in my own office like a prisoner. They won't allow me a phone call, even to you to find out what the hell is going on?

  Jonas Hodges : [Amused]  well, that's a lot of complaints: you're done. You were supposed to be home hours ago. Why'd this find you snooping around?

  Doug Knowles : I saw the FBI raid, they say we have bio weapons

  Jonas Hodges : Which they did not find

  Doug Knowles : That's not the point: is it true?

  Jonas Hodges : Remember when I first brought you out here? Twenty years ago? There was nothing. And out of the damn mud, we built this place: the largest private army in the hemisphere, maybe in the world? And we pulled America's ass out of the fire, again and again, and again

  Doug Knowles : [Raises his voice]  answer the question

  Jonas Hodges : I am. Everyday we've done things the government itself could not or would not do. "Get this done", that's what they say, "here's your mission." Nobody asks how it was going to be done, nobody wanted to know. All anyone wanted was "results" and we delivered

  Doug Knowles : No one is questioning that

  Jonas Hodges : No one is questioning that? You're not insane, are you? The Senate, the committees, and the President. Every chattering non entity in Washington is out there with their standard operating procedures, saying "how is this done?", how is that done?" Tearing at us, trying to bring us down, every one of them. I kept this country strong, I kept it safe, and I will not be persecuted for that

  Doug Knowles : You cannot start a war against the people you're suppose to protect

  Jonas Hodges : We were at war: the moment they decided to dismantle us and as for particular "weapons", as for your "question", let me rephrase it, "Are we prepared to defend ourselves?" We are

  Doug Knowles : [Walks closer to him]  you can't take on the federal government

  Jonas Hodges : Yeah, well you never the one for thinking "big." I treated you like a son: twenty years, a little loyalty, isn't that the least I deserved?

• Jonas Hodges : [Over the phone]  let me begin by saying that I'm truly sorry it's come to this but I have to do insist you turn your plans around immediately

  President Allison Taylor : You're in no position to issue ultimatums

  Jonas Hodges : Well, maybe I am? You remember several years ago Starkwood was deployed to Pakistan?

  President Allison Taylor : I remember it very well, I fought that deployment

  Jonas Hodges : And you lost: you also recall that we requisitioned a missile issue at that time, Python 5's? Well, three of those missiles are loaded with the pathogens and aimed at cities on our eastern seaboard

  President Allison Taylor : You're bluffing

  Jonas Hodges : As a sign of good faith, I'm willing to show you I'm not bluffing

  Jonas Hodges : [after showing her an image of the missiles]  see that?

  President Allison Taylor : You call this "good faith"? You are waging war on your own country

  Jonas Hodges : Well, I don't see it that way

  President Allison Taylor : What do you want?

  Jonas Hodges : We can have that conversation a little later at the White House

  President Allison Taylor : You think we're just going to sit down and discuss this?

  Jonas Hodges : Yes, I do. In the Oval Office, in confidence within the hour but in the meantime, I think it is both in our advantage the American people not know the exact circumstance of this standoff. So you will keep this conversation to yourself and turn the planes around and if you do not comply, I will have no choice but to launch those missiles

  President Allison Taylor : Mr. Hodges...

  Jonas Hodges : [Interrupts her]  and remember I can detect any you take against our facility: you have thirty seconds