I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
[watching the aliens at the satellite array]
Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: The most critical part of any military operation: establish communications, reinforcements, follow-on forces.
Cal Zapata: You're saying E.T. wants to phone home? That would be incredibly, incredibly bad.
