24 (TV Series)

Day 5: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (2006)

John Allen Nelson: Walt Cummings

Quotes 

• Walt Cummings : I was approached six months ago by a man named James Nathanson: he was my contact

  Jack Bauer : Who is he?

  Walt Cummings : Former CIA, he said he was recruiting likeminded individuals for this initiative

  President Charles Logan : Initiative? Is that what you call this? You helped terrorists acquire a weaponized nerve gas

  Walt Cummings : I told you: we were going to trigger the canisters once the separatists reached their base in Central Asia, this was not suppose to happen

  President Charles Logan : [Yells]  but it happened, you got in bed with these people now their threatening to use the gas against American citizens

  Walt Cummings : You make it sound like our goal was to kill Americans?

  President Charles Logan : What the hell was your goal? Explain that to me

  Walt Cummings : We're patriots Mr. President, we were acting in the best interest of this country

  President Charles Logan : How is any of this in our best interest?

  Walt Cummings : Throwing up a strategic partner on the war on terror? Ensuring a stable flow of oil? How is any of that not in our national interest?