24 (TV Series)

Day 5: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (2006)

James Morrison: Bill Buchanan

Quotes 

• Bill Buchanan : Lynn's in charge.

  Audrey Raines : He may be in charge, Bill, but he's not in control.

• Bill Buchanan : [During a briefing]  although we were able to limit casualties at the mall, the terrorists made good on their threat to release the nerve gas on US soil: unless we catch a break, we can expect to suffer multiple attacks that would result in mass causalities

  Bill Buchanan : [to Lynn when he arrived late]  I assume you wanted me to start without you?

  Lynn McGill : [Irritated]  just tell me where we are

  Bill Buchanan : LAPD is setting up a perimeter around the terrorists last known location. We activated all search protocols including satellite and CALTRANS surveillance

  Lynn McGill : But we don't have any "real" leads do we?

  Lynn McGill : [after Bill doesn't respond]  if Jack Bauer followed orders to maintain his cover, we could've intercepted these people

  Audrey Raines : We don't know that for sure: what we do know Jack's field decision saved over eight hundred innocent people

  Lynn McGill : In the long term, it'll cost us a hundred times that many people

  Audrey Raines : In the meantime, we've contained the physical threat and the media's awareness, which would've triggered massive civil unrest

  Lynn McGill : You tell yourself that if you want to: the facts remains these terrorists are at large. Nineteen canisters of Sentox nerve gas and we don't know where or when they're going to hit us next

  Bill Buchanan : We're all aware of the situation

  Lynn McGill : Why does she keep defending Bauer? I want Bauer placed in custody, I want him brought in here, I want him held responsible of what's happened

  Bill Buchanan : Jack can be disciplined later. Taking him out of the field right now is a mistake

  Lynn McGill : [Sternly]  don't tell me how to do my job

  Bill Buchanan : He was authorized by the President

  Lynn McGill : But he works for me and so do you. I want him here now: the rest of you maintain your search protocols. Send your progress reports to my screen in ten minutes

• Lynn McGill : Someone's "screwing" with me and I won't tolerate it

  Bill Buchanan : "Screwing" with you how?

  Lynn McGill : Audrey Raines' phone log has been erased

  Bill Buchanan : What?

  Lynn McGill : [Hands him the log on paper]  take a look

  Bill Buchanan : Probably a system glitch

  Lynn McGill : It wasn't a glitch: she did it on purpose

  Bill Buchanan : Audrey? You think Audrey did this?

  Lynn McGill : I know she did

  Bill Buchanan : That's ridiculous. She's one of the most "by the book" people I know

  Lynn McGill : You don't go "by the book" when you're trying to hide something. Did you know she was on the phone with Jack right before he attacked Curtis?

  Bill Buchanan : No, I didn't know that: what does that prove?

  Lynn McGill : There's something going with these two, what's their history?

  Bill Buchanan : You know their history, they worked together at DOD

  Lynn McGill : There's more than that right?

  Bill Buchanan : It got personal later on

  Lynn McGill : Personal? And you didn't it was important to tell me that?

  Bill Buchanan : No, I didn't, what difference does that make?

  Lynn McGill : When did she find out Jack was still alive?

  Bill Buchanan : This morning with the rest of us

  Lynn McGill : You sure about that?

  Bill Buchanan : I was there, I saw her reaction

  Lynn McGill : It could've been an act

  Bill Buchanan : You're starting to sound paranoid

  Lynn McGill : I don't care how I sound. From this point on, I want all of our people on a tight leash, if someone has a hidden agenda, I want to know about it. CTU's become way too porous and that's your fault

  Bill Buchanan : I don't need to hear this from you

  Lynn McGill : You don't need to hear this from me? Then tell me why Audrey erased her phone logs?

• Audrey Raines : [Talking privately]  DOD wants a fuller explanation about what happened at the mall, I told them we're still trying to find a thread on the nerve gas

  Bill Buchanan : I just spent the last five minutes getting grilled by Lynn

  Audrey Raines : About what?

  Bill Buchanan : You and Jack: your relationship

  Audrey Raines : What'd you tell him?

  Bill Buchanan : The truth, that you and he were once romantically involved, now I'm not sure

  Audrey Raines : I don't see how that's any of his business

  Bill Buchanan : He thinks it is. He thinks you had something to do with Jack breaking from custody

  Bill Buchanan : [after she becomes silent]  did you?

  Audrey Raines : Not exactly

  Bill Buchanan : What the hell does that mean?

  Audrey Raines : A man claimed to be James Nathanson called here about twenty minutes ago and he said he had information on the terrorists that he would only give it to Jack

  Bill Buchanan : Why didn't you tell me about this?

  Audrey Raines : was afraid of losing this lead, I don't know what to do

  Bill Buchanan : Jack's meeting with this man Nathanson alone? Without backup? Where is he?

  Audrey Raines : I don't know, Nathanson dropped me off the call

  Bill Buchanan : Who else knows about this?

  Audrey Raines : Just Chloe, she helped me cover the call from Lynn