[21] quotable muse prompt # 10
"Round up the usual suspects."
There is no such thing as a usual suspect.
The first time I learned this was when a woman I trusted very much, one that I might have been able to fall in love with, if I hadn't been so in love with my wife even when we were separated. That woman, Nina Meyers, was a trusted member of CTU and we all had no idea that she was a mole working for the Drazens. That woman shot and killed my wife in cold blood. Nobody knew. Nobody suspected Nina of a damn thing.
The list goes on. Moles in the unit, Division officers being corrupt, but I have to say, there's one group of terrorists that I would have never suspected in a million years to be involved in our current crisis.
My father and my older brother.
There's a line, that one agent will draw, in letting things slide. Sure, we all do things that aren't exactly ethical, at times, but we've got permission to do it and if that's what it takes to get the job done and save the world, red tape and rule books be dammed, then you're sure as hell right that we're going to do it.
We're the CIA's bastard red-headed stepchild, most days.
Regardless. My father, and my older brother, are involved in all of this. When I found out that it was my father's name on that roster who had made contact with Gredenko, I was in shock. When I found out that Grae was the one who ordered the hit on President David Palmer, I was angry. Because of my brother I lost good agents. Tony Almedia. Michelle Dessler. I was sent to China because of my brother and my father, indirectly. They should have killed me when they had the chance, but no, I spent twenty months being beat down in a prison because of it.
Grae's dead. Dad killed him.
I don't think Grae really knew what he was getting into, working with Dad. Dad always tried to mold me into his perfect son to help run the company, but I wanted no part in any of it.
I'm glad now that I made that choice. To enlist rather than become his right hand man, his heir to BXJ. I want no part in it. I will have no part in it.
And I want my father dead.
Jack Bauer / 24 / 401
There is no such thing as a usual suspect.
The first time I learned this was when a woman I trusted very much, one that I might have been able to fall in love with, if I hadn't been so in love with my wife even when we were separated. That woman, Nina Meyers, was a trusted member of CTU and we all had no idea that she was a mole working for the Drazens. That woman shot and killed my wife in cold blood. Nobody knew. Nobody suspected Nina of a damn thing.
The list goes on. Moles in the unit, Division officers being corrupt, but I have to say, there's one group of terrorists that I would have never suspected in a million years to be involved in our current crisis.
My father and my older brother.
There's a line, that one agent will draw, in letting things slide. Sure, we all do things that aren't exactly ethical, at times, but we've got permission to do it and if that's what it takes to get the job done and save the world, red tape and rule books be dammed, then you're sure as hell right that we're going to do it.
We're the CIA's bastard red-headed stepchild, most days.
Regardless. My father, and my older brother, are involved in all of this. When I found out that it was my father's name on that roster who had made contact with Gredenko, I was in shock. When I found out that Grae was the one who ordered the hit on President David Palmer, I was angry. Because of my brother I lost good agents. Tony Almedia. Michelle Dessler. I was sent to China because of my brother and my father, indirectly. They should have killed me when they had the chance, but no, I spent twenty months being beat down in a prison because of it.
Grae's dead. Dad killed him.
I don't think Grae really knew what he was getting into, working with Dad. Dad always tried to mold me into his perfect son to help run the company, but I wanted no part in any of it.
I'm glad now that I made that choice. To enlist rather than become his right hand man, his heir to BXJ. I want no part in it. I will have no part in it.
And I want my father dead.
Jack Bauer / 24 / 401