24 (TV Series)

Day 8: 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. (2010)

Mykelti Williamson: Brian Hastings

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Quotes 

• Chloe O'Brian : Does anyone think this happened a little too fast and a little too easily?

  Dana Walsh : You know, Chloe, things do happen a little faster in here than what you're used to.

  Chloe O'Brian : I know. You keep reminding me. I might not be up to speed on all your software, but I know if someone doesn't want to be found, they don't leave behind code fragments that could lead to an I.P. address.

  Dana Walsh : Unless, of course, they were in a hurry and they had to improvise.

  Chloe O'Brian : Maybe, but then why would you go through all that trouble and leave a huge red flag for everyone to find?

  Brian Hastings : What is your point?

  Chloe O'Brian : It's like someone wanted us to find her. I just think we should continue to vet this until we're sure that we have the right person.

  Brian Hastings : We are vetting this, from every angle. I appreciate your concerns. We'll keep them in mind.

  Chloe O'Brian : In other words, "Shut up, Chloe".

  Dana Walsh : That's not what he said.

  Chloe O'Brian : Well, that's what I heard.

• Jack Bauer : All I'm saying is that it is possible that someone broke into the apartment and used her computer to steal the documents. All you need to do is send a couple of agents to check it out.

  Brian Hastings : I'm sorry, I just don't see it. And I can't waste valuable resources because Chloe O'Brian has a theory.

  Jack Bauer : Chloe and I have worked together for a long time. And trust me, she's someone you might want to listen to. She's very good at what she does. And if she's right, the assassin's got you looking in the wrong place, and you will get bit.

• Brian Hastings : You want to waste time chasing ghosts, be my guest.

• Jack Bauer : [Over the phone]  Victor Aruz told me right before he died that the assassin is someone working very close to President Hassan

  Brian Hastings : Did you get a name?

  Jack Bauer : No, not before he died

  Brian Hastings : You believe him?

  Jack Bauer : Normally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him but he was dying sir: he had no reason to lie

  Brian Hastings : Alright, we're on it. I need you and Cole back here to debrief

  Jack Bauer : I already gave one of your agents my statement

  Brian Hastings : [Insistently]  I need you back here

  Jack Bauer : [Before hanging up]  fine, we're on our way

• 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

• Jack Bauer : [Talking privately]  Meredith Reed might be telling you the truth

  Brian Hastings : Is this coming from O'Brian? I told her to drop this

  Jack Bauer : Yeah, well she didn't

  Jack Bauer : [Shows him a photo]  she found this: they were taken traffic cams near Ms. Reed's apartment. Check the time stamps, it shows this man entering the building through the service entrance almost five minutes before the intrusion into the UN servers: it shows him leaving the building almost immediately after

  Brian Hastings : So?

  Jack Bauer : Chloe talked to the building manager: there's no scheduled maintenance today, no packages delivered

  Brian Hastings : And this is your "evidence"? I'm looking at an apartment where dozens of people live coming and going all day long

  Jack Bauer : Look, I understand, all I'm saying is that it is possible that someone broke into the apartment and used her computer to steal the documents. All you need to do is send a couple of agents to check it out

  Brian Hastings : I'm sorry, I just don't see it. And I can't waste valuable resources because Chloe O'Brian has a theory

  Jack Bauer : Chloe and I have worked together for a long time. And trust me, she's someone you might want to listen to. She's very good at what she does. And if she's right, the assassin's got you looking in the wrong place, and you will get bit

  Brian Hastings : I have a "suspect in hand" But the file she had is "damning" enough to encrypt, that's what I'm going to focus my resources on now if you will excuse me

• Brian Hastings : I told you to leave this alone

  Jack Bauer : Chloe tracked the man in the surveillance photo to a second location: we didn't think you'd follow through with an investigation

  Brian Hastings : So you had no choice but to steal weapons from the armory?

  Jack Bauer : Would you have followed through with an investigation if I had asked?

  Brian Hastings : I'm not debating this anymore

  Jack Bauer : You shutdown a lead before you can access whether it was good or bad

  Brian Hastings : [to Cole, referring to Jack]  take him to detention

  Brian Hastings : [Raises his voice]  take him

  Cole Ortiz : [to Jack]  let's go

  Jack Bauer : [to Hastings]  I'm sure President Taylor will be very interested to find out what happened to my informant when I tried to deliver him to you

  Brian Hastings : Excuse me?

  Jack Bauer : Cole tried to secure that landing zone with more men but instead you sent a drone which failed to protect my informant and two of your men. Cole hasn't said anything about it and neither will I as long as you let me pursue this

  Brian Hastings : So now you're blackmailing me?

  Jack Bauer : You "forced my hand", now I'm "forcing yours"

  Brian Hastings : You don't want to be doing this Bauer

  Jack Bauer : No, I don't, I want to be on a plane to Los Angeles with my family but you're not giving me another choice

  Brian Hastings : You want to waste time chasing ghosts? Knock yourself out. I've got to stop an assassination plot

  Brian Hastings : [to Cole, referring to Jack]  give him the bag

  Jack Bauer : [to Hastings]  I need Chloe to run Ops

  Brian Hastings : Fine, she's all yours

• Rob Weiss : [Over the phone]  did you bring in Victor Aruz?

  Brian Hastings : I'm afraid not sir, it was an ambush and Aruz was killed along with two of our men

  Rob Weiss : Damn it

  Brian Hastings : Before Aruz died, he "shared" some "troubling information." He claimed that someone close to Hassan has been conspiring with the assassin. Now we don't have a name yet but we are pursuing a "lead"

  Rob Weiss : Tell me how and I had better be impressed

  Brian Hastings : We're tracing what "might" be an unauthorized entry into one of the UN servers

  Rob Weiss : And you think this is the person we're looking for?

  Brian Hastings : We're "optimistic"

  Rob Weiss : Yeah, you better hope that "optimism" translates into results

  Brian Hastings : Sir, until we locate the insider, you might want consider "locking down" President Hassan and postponing this conference

  Rob Weiss : That is not an option: we are close to signing one of the most important treaties in the history of this country. You were put in charge of CTU because you said you could get the job done "lean, mean, and fast", that's what you said. President Taylor expects you to deliver on those words

  Brian Hastings : Sir...

  Rob Weiss : [Before hanging up]  I'll take this to the President, keep me posted

• 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