24 (TV Series)

Day 6: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m. (2007)

Powers Boothe: Vice President Noah Daniels

Quotes 

• Vice President Noah Daniels : [while Karen is being held in an interrogation room]  I assume you know why I ordered your detention?

  Karen Hayes : [Nods]  I do

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Then you admit to using information you got from CTU to assisting Bill Buchanan to break Jack Bauer out of custody?

  Karen Hayes : Yes I do sir

  Vice President Noah Daniels : You and I have had our differences but I thought that we've worked past them but you and I finally reached an upstanding: clearly, I was mistaken. What in the hell were you thinking?

  Karen Hayes : I learned a hard "lesson" today sir when I trusted Fayed

  Vice President Noah Daniels : What "lesson" was that?

  Karen Hayes : Never negotiate with a sociopath: Philip Bauer is a sociopath. We can't trust he'll give us that component whether we give him the boy or not

  Vice President Noah Daniels : [Sternly]  damn it that is not your call to make

  Karen Hayes : I understand that sir. I wouldn't have done what I did if I wasn't willing to accept the consequences

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Oh, believe me there will be consequences, I'll make sure you and your husband go down hard for this. It was Tom Lennox who said your different point of view would be an "asset" to my team and I believed him. Was he in on this with you?

  Karen Hayes : No sir, he didn't know anything about this

  Vice President Noah Daniels : If Jack Bauer prevents this exchange from happening, the Russians will attack our forces in Central Asia: any blood that is "spilled" will be on you

• Tom Lennox : [after entering the Oval Office]  sir, Melinda said you read the flash regarding CTU's "attempt" to make the exchange? We're still trying to track the water craft Philip Bauer's men used to escape: they've no success yet

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Suvarov is expecting my call to confirm that we've "retrieved" the component

  Tom Lennox : My advice is to give CTU a few more minutes before we call the Russians, we can still get lucky on this

  Vice President Noah Daniels : Karen was right

  Tom Lennox : Yes sir, she certainly was

  Vice President Noah Daniels : And I was wrong: not just about Karen but about Wayne Palmer. I judged his performance as President unfairly but what he "faced" these past weeks was an impossible situation. Maybe he was right to reach out to Assad? I don't know anymore. You know it's easy to think you've got all the answers but ultimately the responsibility lies with you but then sitting in this chair, until you sit in this chair, you don't know anything. You can't know

  Tom Lennox : Sir, the fact that Karen was right, you might want to "reconsider" your punitive stance towards her

  Vice President Noah Daniels : My decision might've been wrong but I can't condone that kind of insubordination

  Tom Lennox : Sir you do not want the fact that you disagreed with Karen made public and that's exactly what will happen if you prosecute her. After this crisis has passed, Karen Hayes and Bill Buchanan can retire quietly into their country home in Vermont, you will be honoring her service: it's just a better outcome all around

  Vice President Noah Daniels : I'll take your advice into consideration but right now I need a real time update on CTU's progress

  Tom Lennox : [Before leaving]  alright sir