- Michelle Dessler: [while working at a computer station, Audrey just walked to her side] didn't mean to be confrontational before, it's like if you walk into a "hailstorm", you have to be decisive.
- Audrey Raines: I understand and I know where you're coming from. I think you're making the right decisions but...
- Michelle Dessler: But what?
- Audrey Raines: I think you reevaluate your professional opinion about Tony.This morning, Jack had nowhere to turn so he called the one person he knew he could count on and that was Tony. Tony saved our lives
- Michelle Dessler: I didn't know that.
- Audrey Raines: After that we had to spend couple hours at his place, I mean it's true, Tony does have a lot of issues but he is good at what he does and I think we can use him on a day like today
- Michelle Dessler: Fair enough
- Audrey Raines: And business aside: he still cares about you.
- Audrey Raines: I have an update on the San Gabriel Island meltdown: it's not quite as bad as we feared
- James Heller: How you doing?
- James Heller: [Points to a chair] sit down
- James Heller: Any word from Jack or Paul?
- Audrey Raines: No
- James Heller: I can't imagine how hard this must be for you. There's something else isn't there?
- Audrey Raines: A couple hours ago, when we thought Paul was somehow involved in the attacks, Jack questioned him and Paul has his pride: resisted
- James Heller: Jack was pretty rough
- Audrey Raines: Very
- James Heller: That's his job, he had to make sure. You have to believe Jack had no choice
- Audrey Raines: I know, I guess it was just a shock to see it. Somehow he seemed like a different person
- James Heller: We need people like that
- Audrey Raines: Jack is an incredible man
- James Heller: But you're not sure you feel the same way as you did before?
- Audrey Raines: Something like that
- Tony Almeida: I got those perimeter teams you asked for ready to go
- Michelle Dessler: Thanks, I just want you to know just because you overruled you a few minutes ago doesn't mean I don't value your input
- Tony Almeida: Don't patronize me
- Michelle Dessler: I'm not: you ran CTU for two years. Anything you have to say, I will consider seriously
- Tony Almeida: Don't worry, I'm going to tell you what I think whether you want to hear it or not, alright?
- Michelle Dessler: Good
- Audrey Raines: [Walking over to his station] Michelle said you were doing a search on possible ties to Marwan, may I help?
- Tony Almeida: Do you have a sign on for the Sakai server?
- Audrey Raines: In Washington?
- Tony Almeida: Yeah, we're saving time if I could use it on this search
- Audrey Raines: [after typing on his computer] there you go
- Tony Almeida: Thanks
- Audrey Raines: Anything else?
- Tony Almeida: This should kick off a few names: you can help me write them down when it's done searching
- Audrey Raines: Ok great
- Tony Almeida: So, did you tell Michelle what happened today?
- Audrey Raines: I said Jack called you
- Tony Almeida: Anything else?
- Audrey Raines: Well, I didn't say you were living with anyone if that's what you mean
- Tony Almeida: She probably already knows that and I'm sure she can probably care less. So how are you and Jack "ferrying" with him out in the field today?
- Audrey Raines: It's different: a lot different than Washington
- Tony Almeida: Yeah it is a lot different. To tell you the truth, I couldn't believe it when I heard had taken a desk job in DC
- Audrey Raines: He said he was happier this way
- Tony Almeida: Uh huh. Well, you got to see him in both worlds today, you think he'll go back to wearing a suit?
- Audrey Raines: After the hell Jack's been through today, you think he'd want to come back to this?
- Tony Almeida: Some people are more comfortable in hell
- Audrey Raines: Are you talking about Jack? Or yourself?
- James Heller: [Addressing CTU staff] for those of you that don't know: this is Michelle Dessler, she'll be taking over as acting Director of CTU effective immediately. Tony, I appreciate you "carrying the ball" until Michelle got here, why don't you bring her and everyone else up to speed?
- Tony Almeida: Yes sir, less than an hour ago, we discovered the man responsible for planning today's attacks Habib Marwan has been a long term employee McLennan-Forrester, the third largest defense contractor in the country. Now we know Marwan has been using the alias "Harris Barnes", what we don't know yet is how he managed to evade their security checks, Marwan knows we're looking for him so his probably gone "dark". His association with McLennan-Forrester is our primary focus, Jack Bauer and Paul Raines went to the company to inspect his computer files but as they were doing so an electromagnetic pulse bomb was detonated wiping out the company's database
- Sarah Gavin: It also fried every electrical device within an eight mile radius. Street lights, computers, cars, cell phones, everything
- Michelle Dessler: Were Jack and Paul able to find anything before detonation?
- Tony Almeida: Yeah but we weren't able to contact them since the blast. We have to assume whoever detonated the EMP "thinks" Jack and Paul found something and wants them eliminated
- Michelle Dessler: Have rescue teams been sent into the area?
- Tony Almeida: Not yet. Once we confirmed the effects subsided, we'll send two full teams in with fully functional electronics, the only problem is until we find Jack and Paul, we're not going to be able to do much
- Michelle Dessler: [to the CTU staff] we want to do everything we can to find Jack Bauer and Paul Raines but the priority to retrieve any information they found at McLennan-Forrester, that's all
- Audrey Raines: Any word from Jack or Paul?
- Curtis Manning: No, once the pulse bomb went off, we lost all communication with them
- Audrey Raines: What was the last word from them?
- Curtis Manning: Jack and Paul found something: it seems it must've been incriminating McLennan-Forrester
- Audrey Raines: That's why they set off the EMP? To destroy the evidence?
- Curtis Manning: That'd be my guess
- Audrey Raines: It just doesn't make sense, the fact that McLennan-Forrester is taking aggressive action is evidence against them
- Curtis Manning: Yeah, but it's not proof
- Audrey Raines: [Walking over to him to talk more privately] could Jack or Paul have been injured from the detonation?
- Curtis Manning: No, any EMP only damages electronics but it doesn't mean they're safe
- Michelle Dessler: [Before he hands her the access card] I need the access codes for CTU and Division
- Tony Almeida: What'd you need me to do?
- Michelle Dessler: Division's sending over a supplemental list of terrorists supposedly had contact with Habib Marwan, I want you to check any names that have been flagged by other agencies including overseas
- Tony Almeida: Given what's happening right now, it doesn't seem like the best use of my time
- Michelle Dessler: It has to be done and I'd like you to do it
- Tony Almeida: Jack and Paul may have information vital to ending this crisis: I should be helping us find them
- Michelle Dessler: Last time I saw you, you couldn't stay sober long enough to keep a job
- Tony Almeida: That was six months ago
- Michelle Dessler: This is what I need you to do, if don't like it, you can resign
- Tony Almeida: [after thinking it over] I'm going to need a security clearance
- Michelle Dessler: I'll make sure you get a Level Three
- Tony Almeida: Level Three? I used to have a Six
- Michelle Dessler: Right now? All you need is Three
- Audrey Raines: [after she overheard them arguing] is there a problem with Agent Almeida?
- Michelle Dessler: Not at all
- Audrey Raines: It's just that Secretary Heller is very "sensitive" to personal conflicts on the job. I know your history, I know you guys were married and he sacrificed his career to save your life but if this is going to be a problem...
- Michelle Dessler: [Interrupts her] his being here won't affect my work, I won't let it: if Secretary Heller wants to speak to me about it, I'll be more than glad to
- Paul Raines: What's the plan?
- Jack Bauer: CTU knows we're in trouble: they also know we can't contact them. They can view this area with satellite infrared, McLennan-Forrester's commandos arrived in a helicopter. CTU had to see that on satellite, if we can initiate a large enough fire fight, we can force their commandos to use radio frequency to communicate their positions
- Paul Raines: And CTU will pick up the signal?
- Jack Bauer: Yes
- Paul Raines: So you want to engage the McLennan-Forrester army? Just the two of us?
- Jack Bauer: We have a positional advantage, and we only have to hold them off until CTU gets here
- Naji: My brother and I talked about this: we're staying
- Jack Bauer: I can't force you to leave your property but this not just a bunch of looters. This is a very dangerous situation, I cannot guarantee your safety
- Safa: You don't understand, for years we've been blamed for these attacks by these terrorists, we grew up in this neighborhood, this country's our home
- Naji: My brother and I talked about this: we're staying
- Sarah Gavin: You're aware I was falsely accused of leaking information earlier today?
- Michelle Dessler: Yes, I saw the report
- Sarah Gavin: Erin Driscoll didn't talk to you about it? Or leave a memo?
- Michelle Dessler: Her daughter died today, I think she has other things on her mind
- Sarah Gavin: I understand but there still some "things" that need to be "handled"
- Michelle Dessler: [Confused] what "things"?
- Sarah Gavin: Well, she promised the accusations would be expunged from my record and I'd be bumped up two pay grades as compensation so I just want to make sure that would still happen
- Michelle Dessler: I'll look into it but not today
- Sarah Gavin: What happened to me was an outrage. Now if you don't do something to resolve it right now, I'll go directly to Secretary Heller
- Michelle Dessler: [Stands up from her desk] Secretary Heller doesn't run CTU, I do and I am ordering you to go back to work
- Sarah Gavin: Not until you assure me the false be expunged and my pay grade changed
- Michelle Dessler: [after picking up the phone] I need security over to station one
- Sarah Gavin: Security? What for?
- Michelle Dessler: I need people whose minds are on their job: yours isn't
- Sarah Gavin: Oh, so you're firing me? You can't do that, you need me, I'm juggling active protocol
- Michelle Dessler: We'll manage
- Tony Almeida: [after entering her office] Jack and Paul are ok
- Michelle Dessler: What about the information?
- Tony Almeida: We don't know if Jack has it but even if he does, we don't know if it's going to bring us any closer to finding Marwan
- Michelle Dessler: We know McLennan-Forrester is involved, that should yield some leads
- Tony Almeida: That's going to have to be worked up here because McLennan-Forrester's computers were all knocked out by the EMP
- Michelle Dessler: You want to head that up?
- Tony Almeida: No, you know what? You should let Curtis handle that
- Michelle Dessler: Alright, I will. I shouldn't have said that earlier about your drinking, that was out of line. I'm sorry
- Tony Almeida: You don't owe me an apology: my life right now... let's just that I've been better, quite frankly seeing you here today has only made things worse. Look, I'm going to leave, get out of your hair, and let you do your job alright?
- Michelle Dessler: No, we can't afford to lose you, not today
- Tony Almeida: You sure?
- Michelle Dessler: Yes I'm sure