- 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.
- Jack Bauer: [Over the phone] my name is Jack Bauer, I got your number from Senator Mayer
- Doug Knowles: Senator Mayer is dead
- Jack Bauer: Yes sir, I know, I was with him when he was killed by one of your employees: a man named John Quinn
- Doug Knowles: You have no idea how much I was hoping someone would call
- Jack Bauer: I'm sorry sir, I don't understand?
- Doug Knowles: Things are very out of control
- Jack Bauer: Are you aware of what's happening on your base?
- Doug Knowles: [Referring to the surveillance monitor in front of him] I'm watching it with my own eyes: the FBI is "pinned down", they say their looking for bio weapons
- Jack Bauer: Sir, Jonas Hodges is in possession of a military grade bio weapon. A Prion variant developed in Africa with General Juma
- Doug Knowles: That's not where they think it is. Their all standing in front of an empty hanger
- Jack Bauer: The FBI was deliberately led to the wrong location by a man named Seaton but I promise you sir, the weapon is on your base. I was contaminated when I was trying to intercept one of the canisters, they were ferried back to Starwood approximately ninety minutes ago
- Doug Knowles: Ninety minutes ago, Jonas was handing down his new strategy to the board. He" stonewalled" the government: they got no cooperation whatsoever, I can't believe this is "happening"
- Jack Bauer: Sir, this is "happening" and I promise you the weapons are on your base. Do you have any idea where they might be?
- Doug Knowles: I think I might
- President Allison Taylor: [Over the speakerphone, as Tim stands nearby] tell me you have the bio weapon?
- Jack Bauer: Madam President, I'm afraid that's not the case: our search was stopped by armed mercenaries on Starkwood's base. Agent Moss and his men were forced to withdraw from a firefight they most certainly would've lost
- President Allison Taylor: Are you saying Hodges' men were ready to fire on federal agents?
- Jack Bauer: Yes ma'am, that's correct
- President Allison Taylor: My God, who does he think he is?
- Jack Bauer: Madam President, despite the "setback", I'm confident the weapons are still there. I reached out to Starwood's chairman: his willing to cooperate, his with Tony Almeida now. Their moving to a secure area on the base where we believe the weapons are being held
- President Allison Taylor: Very good. Tim, what's our troop status?
- Tim Woods: Mobilizing, Secretary of Defense says they're still several hours out
- President Allison Taylor: At which point we have a war on our hands, with fifteen hundred mercenaries armed with bio weapons
- Jack Bauer: Madam President, I do believe a surgical airstrike could work: as long as we pinpoint the exact location of the weapon
- President Allison Taylor: And you can do that?
- Jack Bauer: Yes, I believe we can
- President Allison Taylor: Mr. Bauer, you've seen the canisters containing the bio weapon, you know what they look like, is that correct? We'll need you to verify the canisters once Almeida has located them: no more mistakes
- Tim Woods: We're going to need visual confirmation from you "eyes on"
- President Allison Taylor: Jack, we have got to get this part right
- Jack Bauer: I understand, anything else?
- President Allison Taylor: I've been told you were exposed to the pathogen? How are you doing?
- Jack Bauer: Right now I'm fine madam President, thank you for asking
- President Allison Taylor: Thank you for your service, I'm not giving up on you: keep me informed
- Olivia Taylor: [Over the phone] I don't have a lot of time, what's going on?
- Ken Dellao: That's what I've been trying to ask you, I've called three times
- Olivia Taylor: It's kind of crazy here right now: unless it's urgent, I've got to call you right back
- Ken Dellao: I'm hearing rumors that the Joint Chiefs have been called in?
- Olivia Taylor: It's not a big deal: their just doing a final assessment before lowering the alert level
- Ken Dellao: Don't do this
- Olivia Taylor: What? I'm telling you the truth
- Ken Dellao: Really? Because I've got a source in the Port Authority container yard whose using terms like "weapons of mass destruction", so naturally, that's why I'm wondering why the Joint Chiefs are having a meeting
- Olivia Taylor: Look, I can't talk about it. It's obviously a matter of National Security, you have my word, I'll tell you as soon as I can
- Ken Dellao: I want to know now
- Olivia Taylor: I just gave you a big story. You'll have to wait, I've got to go
- Ken Dellao: Don't hang up on me. It'd be a big mistake
- Olivia Taylor: What's that suppose to me?
- Ken Dellao: You want me to say it? Fine, I'll say it. Think about how your mother would feel if she found out you forced out her Chief of Staff so you could take over his position
- Olivia Taylor: He was incompetent
- Ken Dellao: Yeah well, it won't "play" that way on the morning news. Talk to me: now
- Olivia Taylor: I can't talk here
- Ken Dellao: [Before she hangs up] I'm in the Roosevelt Continental Hotel, room 1271, you've got half an hour
- Ken Dellao: [after she enters his hotel room] want a drink?
- Olivia Taylor: No
- Ken Dellao: I assume you don't mind if I do?
- Olivia Taylor: I've got to tell you, I don't like being threatened
- Ken Dellao: That was unfortunate, I apologize
- Olivia Taylor: We've known each other for a long time. I thought we had an understanding?
- Ken Dellao: We do want to keep it that way: we both do. Am I right?
- Ken Dellao: [after she doesn't say anything] ok so I told you I had this "source", a cop out at the Port Authority container yard
- Olivia Taylor: Ok
- Ken Dellao: He told me he saw these professional assassin "types" get into an intense fire fight out there couple hours ago. According to "him", someone hijacked a WMD to God knows where
- Olivia Taylor: That's true
- Ken Dellao: Yeah, I want to know all about it
- Ken Dellao: [as she remains silent] look, if you think all you've got to do is nod your head confirming everything I already know, then we've got a problem
- Olivia Taylor: It's National Security, I can't tell you
- Ken Dellao: I'm saying you can
- Olivia Taylor: If this story "breaks", it could create a panic: people would get hurt. If you knew what it was, you'd understand why it's got to stay a secret
- Ken Dellao: Exactly, I'd understand, have a little "faith" ok?
- Olivia Taylor: [after thinking it over] alright, there was a bio weapon in the container yard: that's what they were fighting over. It was developed by Starkwood in Africa
- Ken Dellao: Starkwood?
- Olivia Taylor: Right, they moved it to their base about thirty miles from here
- Ken Dellao: [Before she nods] so it's here right now?
- Ken Dellao: So this is what the Joints are discussing, what to do about that?
- Olivia Taylor: The President ordered an airstrike as soon as the exact location of the canisters was known. So you see why you can't "run" with this? A lot of lives are at stake, the entire plan depends on surprise, you get that right?
- Ken Dellao: Maybe you're right? Maybe I need to "kill" the story?
- Olivia Taylor: Thank you
- Ken Dellao: What I mean is, maybe "somebody" could convince me?
- Olivia Taylor: What're you saying?
- Ken Dellao: [Smiles, walking towards her] you know what I'm saying: you get so beautiful when you get all "patriotic", I ever tell you that?
- Olivia Taylor: That's over: we agreed
- Ken Dellao: No, you "agreed"
- Olivia Taylor: Really? I don't want to do this
- Ken Dellao: [Before he to kisses her] then say no
- Jack Bauer: This is none of your business
- Renee Walker: It's my business when you're having a seizure in the middle of the FBI
- Jack Bauer: You heard the doctor: the medication will "mask" the symptoms
- Renee Walker: Why won't you even talk about this?
- Jack Bauer: Talk about what?
- Jack Bauer: The experimental procedure
- Jack Bauer: Because there's nothing to talk about
- Renee Walker: She's your daughter and you're not even going to let her know?
- Jack Bauer: That's right
- Renee Walker: So you're not even going to try?
- Jack Bauer: I know your trying to help but you don't know what you're talking about here: my daughter and I don't talk ok? So please just let it go
- Renee Walker: It should be her choice
- Jack Bauer: It's not, I'm the one who's dying, it's my choice
- 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?
- Ken Dellao: [after she slept with him] you're probably thinking I'm the scum of the earth right now
- Olivia Taylor: All I care about is that you don't run the Starwood story
- Ken Dellao: You're a good sport: "taking one for the team" like this
- Olivia Taylor: Look at me, you won't run it right?
- Ken Dellao: I'm sorry, I have to run it
- Olivia Taylor: What?
- Ken Dellao: A break like this would put me over the top at New York, I'll make sure nobody knows any of it came from you
- Olivia Taylor: You lying son of a bitch
- Ken Dellao: Please, I did whatever I needed to do to get ahead: just like you
- Olivia Taylor: There's no comparison, running that story will harm the country
- Ken Dellao: I've been in Washington a lot longer than you. You'll see, this is how the game is "played"
- Olivia Taylor: Actually, this is how the game is "played"
- Ken Dellao: What'd you mean?
- Olivia Taylor: [after showing him a video recording of them sleeping together on her phone] you run that story or ever try to blackmail me again, and I'll make sure everyone knows how you get your "leads." I think your wife would especially be interested, from what you've told me, that's going to be one nasty divorce
- Ken Dellao: You bitch
- 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
- President Allison Taylor: Where are we Admiral?
- Admiral John Smith: The F-18's are loaded with bunker buster ordinates and will be in range in seven minutes
- President Allison Taylor: And what's the risk of the pathogen spreading to the surrounding areas?
- Admiral John Smith: Minimal, we're white phosphorous charges which burns at five thousand degrees: more than enough to incinerate the pathogen
- President Allison Taylor: And that's been confirmed by the CDC?
- Admiral John Smith: It has