James Morrison credited as playing...
Bill Buchanan
- Lynn McGill: What's the situation?
- Bill Buchanan: Rossler's dead: shot by his female companion
- Lynn McGill: What does that do to our plan?
- Bill Buchanan: We intended to use Rossler to lead us to Erwich and the Sentox
- Lynn McGill: How?
- Bill Buchanan: Rossler was going to Erwich a chip that would enable him to activate the canisters and release the Sentox
- Lynn McGill: And put a tracker on the chip?
- Bill Buchanan: Yes, and follow Erwich back to the canisters: obviously that plan has to change
- Lynn McGill: Has Erwich set a time and place to meet?
- Bill Buchanan: No, we've also picked up increased chatter related to the canisters
- Lynn McGill: Related, how?
- Bill Buchanan: Erwich's been putting out "feelers" to terrorist organizations with sleeper cells established here. His asking for help to launch an attack on larger targets in the country
- Lynn McGill: [Over the speakerphone with Jack patched through] this is Lynn McGill. You also have Bill Buchanan, Audrey Raines, Chloe O'Brian, and Edgar Stiles in the room
- President Charles Logan: [Over the speakerphone as Mike Novick stands nearby] go ahead
- Lynn McGill: Sir, we're calling for your decision on a critical operational matter
- President Charles Logan: What is it?
- Lynn McGill: Jack Bauer is currently undercover with some of the terrorists: their expecting Jack to help them release a single canister Sentox nerve gas in the Sunrise Hills Shopping Mall, where they are right now
- President Charles Logan: Well then arrest them, what's the problem?
- Lynn McGill: Sir, the problem is if we don't maintain Jack's cover, there's no guarantee they'll lead us "back" to the other nineteen canisters
- President Charles Logan: [Raising his voice] do you mean actually let them release the Sentox? Are you out of your mind?
- Bill Buchanan: This is Bill Buchanan, I had the same initial reaction then I looked at our updated scenarios: with the help of other terrorists organizations, the remaining nineteen canisters can be deployed at other more crowded public areas such as subway stations, hospitals, and sports arenas Sir. The loss of life could exceed hundreds of thousands of people
- President Charles Logan: My God
- Mike Novick: What kind of casualties are you predicting at the mall?
- Lynn McGill: We don't have exact numbers but based on video surveillance, our best guess is between eight and nine hundred
- Audrey Raines: Sir, many of them are children
- Mike Novick: Can't you evacuate the mall?
- Lynn McGill: Not without the terrorists knowing
- President Charles Logan: The public will not tolerate the government's complicity in this
- Lynn McGill: They wouldn't know Sir, this would be a covert decision. We're monitoring the terrorists, we know with a hundred percent certainty that when they leave the mall, their going back to the remaining canisters
- President Charles Logan: What's your recommendation?
- Lynn McGill: Bill Buchanan and I agree that the "greatest good served" would be to allowing them to release this single canister of Sentox nerve gas
- Audrey Raines: And I believe Sir that we have no right to sanction the lives of innocent people: we should take our chances, interrogate these men and find the location of the other canisters
- Lynn McGill: We're running out of time. We need your decision Sir
- President Charles Logan: This is a field operation, it's up to you
- Bill Buchanan: With all due respect, it's not. We don't have the legal authority to make this decision, only you do
- President Charles Logan: [Before putting them on hold to talk privately to Mike] you're putting me in a terrible position, Mike?
- Mike Novick: CTU has laid out the facts well, you have to make the call
- President Charles Logan: [after reconnecting with CTU] alright, the terrorists are forcing us to make a tragic choice. I'll go along with your assessment, let them release the Sentox but you better find those other canisters or those people would've died in vain