24 (TV Series)

Day 3: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. (2004)

Paul Blackthorne: Stephen Saunders

Quotes 

• General Stone : Mr. President, we've started down a "slippery slope" here and unless...

  President David Palmer : [Interrupts him]  cut the euphemisms: what're you trying to say?

  General Stone : Sir, we're concerned about the fact you ordered the death of a high ranking member of our intelligence...

  Wayne Palmer : [Interrupts him]  I don't think we're here to second guess his actions that have already been taken

  President David Palmer : No one is more aware than I am the moral ambiguity of my decision. I did it to buy CTU more time to find Saunders and to delay as long as possible the slaughter of millions. I made the decision to protect their future: not mine

  President David Palmer : [Holding up the phone Saunders gave him as it rings]  Saunders, I have to take this

  President David Palmer : [Answering the phone after leaving the conference room]  yes?

  Stephen Saunders : I've confirmed the identity of Chappelle's body Mr. President. It will be disposed of: respectfully

  President David Palmer : We know who you are Mr. Saunders, whatever you're trying to accomplish, you're going to fail. Your only chance is to relinquish the virus and hope we don't find you

  Stephen Saunders : That's not going to happen

  President David Palmer : What is it that you want?

  Stephen Saunders : To make America "clean" again. You see Mr. President, the world hates America and for good reason. I won't bother going into the details, you know better than I the atrocities your nation commits and we're going to change all that. You and I together are going to dismantle the military machine that exports its ugliness across the globe

  President David Palmer : And how are "we" going to do that?

  Stephen Saunders : We'll start where the work gets the dirtiest, something I know a little about. Covert foreign Nationals in thirty-two countries across the Middle East and Asia your government always uses Grade A through H intelligence consultants

  President David Palmer : They are citizens in which the countries they reside

  Stephen Saunders : Their spies: working against those countries at the behest of the American military machine. In forty five minutes, I want a list of their identities, sent to me by way of a website: Silvia.Imports.com, if you fail to comply, I will release two vials of the virus in your major cities and this time, they won't be in hotels where they can be contained