24 (TV Series)

Day 8: 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m. (2010)

Mykelti Williamson: Brian Hastings

Quotes 

• President Allison Taylor : [Over the speakerphone]  I'm here with Rob Weiss, I was told you have urgent news?

  Brian Hastings : Yes ma'am, we've received a call from Farhad Hassan

  President Allison Taylor : Farhad?

  Brian Hastings : Yes, as we suspected, he was trying to smuggle the nuclear rods of the country: the people his working with turned against him

  President Allison Taylor : What do we know?

  Brian Hastings : Well, Farhad believes they want to use the rods to construct a dirty bomb and set it off somewhere in New York City

  President Allison Taylor : Why would they do this?

  Brian Hastings : Between Hassan's crackdowns and CTU, we've backed them into a corner: this is their "response"

  Rob Weiss : Do you believe him?

  Brian Hastings : Yes I do. Farhad's turning himself in, his agreed to help us prevent this attack

  Rob Weiss : Where is Farhad now?

  Brian Hastings : His in a warehouse just outside the city in Forest Hills, I've enlisted Jack Bauer to lock him down. Now madam President, the men who turned against Farhad are covert assets for the IRK, if we can get access to the IRK intelligence files, Farhad may be able to help ID these men: it'll put us that much closer in tracking him down

  Rob Weiss : Those files are the lifeblood of Hassan's intelligence operations, he'll never hand them over, especially in his current frame of mind. Hell, the man's gone off the "deep end"

  President Allison Taylor : Maybe this will pull him out of it. Tell Hassan we've found his brother and I need to speak to him immediately: contact Tim Woods at Homeland, have him put together a briefing, I need to know exactly what we're facing, God forbid this attack happens

• Brian Hastings : [Over the phone]  we lost him: Farhad's dead

  Jack Bauer : Damn it

  Jack Bauer : [Adamantly]  I still think we've got another "play", whoever shot Farhad couldn't confirm that he was killed: we came up on him too fast. They don't how badly he was wounded

  Brian Hastings : So what are you proposing?

  Jack Bauer : I'm saying we use Farhad as dead bait. Leak it to the press that we've got him in custody and he survived. We're transporting him to a local hospital where the authorities are going to question him. They'll have to make a move on him, he knows too much

  Brian Hastings : Sounds like a "hail Mary"

  Jack Bauer : Right now it's the only play" we've got but if they make a move on Farhad which I think they will, we'll be waiting for him

  Jack Bauer : [after Hastings doesn't respond]  you said you wanted me "in" until this resolved: this it

  Brian Hastings : [after thinking it over]  alright, it's not exactly "standard procedure" that your "ferrying" a dead man's body across the city but I am willing to give it a shot. We'll figure out a hospital route and put a press statement together, you get ready on your end