8:00 A.M. PST
In Seoul, a Korean man named Jason Park is tortured into revealing something to his captors. One of the captors runs to a room where American military officers are waiting. He tells them that Park had said the word “Today.” An officer immediately calls Eric Rayburn at the National Security Agency.

8:02 A.M.
President Palmer and his son Keith peacefully fish in a boat on Lake Oswego in Oregon when the Secret Service agent at their side alerts Palmer to a situation.

Nine year old Megan Matheson runs into Kim’s bedroom in the Matheson house and playfully hides under the covers from her father, Gary. Although Kim is the nanny for his daughter, Gary stares seductively at Kim in her sleepwear.

As a group of advisors whisks him from the dock to a car, Palmer apologizes to his son for cutting short their time together. Keith understands that it’s not Palmer’s fault.

8:06 A.M.
At CTU, new programmer Paula Schaeffer apprises Tony and Mason of her software upgrades. Staffer Michelle Dessler interrupts with a request for Mason from Eric Rayburn. NSA wants the inactive Jack Bauer to be brought in.

8:08 A.M.
Palmer is shuttled to the Northwest Regional Operations Complex and met by NSA staffer Eric Rayburn. Rayburn briefs the President and chief aide, Lynne Kresge, about a terrorist controlled nuclear device in Los Angeles that is set to go off today. While the government was tracking a suspect named Jason Park, they noticed in a surveillance photo that Park was standing next to a suicide bomber named Mamud Rashed Faheen. It was thought that Faheen had been killed in a West Bank bombing. After torturing Park, the NSA learned about the nuclear bomb. Faheen is controlled by a splinter group called Second Wave. Although no Middle Eastern state officially recognizes Second Wave, one is unofficially affiliated with them. Palmer asks to speak to that country’s Prime Minister on the phone.

8:12 A.M.
Megan Matheson, Carla’s mother, carefully prepares breakfast for her husband Gary. He hugs his wife, and as he watches Kim, gropes Carla for her benefit. Kim uncomfortably looks away. Gary makes a comment about Kim’s body and asks her if she works out.

The Prime Minister disavows any relationship with Second Wave to Palmer. President Palmer tells the Prime Minister that he knows his country supports Second Wave and that the group is planning an attack against the United States. Palmer threatens that America will retaliate if any bomb goes off on U.S. soil. The Prime Minister is insulted, and tells Palmer to proceed carefully or else America will have one billion Muslim enemies.

8:16 A.M.
As Kim plays with Megan outside the Matheson home, Jack watches from his car parked outside. He is unshaven and unkempt. Jack’s cell phone rings with a call from Mason’s office. Jack tells the caller that he no longer works for CTU and quickly hangs up. He then gets out of his car and approaches Kim. She is uneasy around him. Jack says that he only wanted to see her because he misses her. “Every time I see you I think of Mom,” she says. Kim explains that she is still not ready to let him back into her life.

8:17 A.M.
At O.C., Rayburn recommends to the President that they get the Pentagon involved for any possible proactive measures. Palmer insists that it is too early to discuss a response, and he dismisses Rayburn.

8:18 A.M.
A man of Middle Eastern decent named Reza Naiyeer drives up to the Warner estate in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He is speaking Arabic on his cell phone. Reza goes to the backyard and greets his fiancée, Marie Warner, with a kiss. She is frantically making last minute preparations for her wedding later that day in the garden. Marie’s sister, Kate, and her father, Bob, are also in wedding planning mode. Kate questions why Reza sent the company car to pick up his family at the airport, but Bob brushes her mistrust of Reza aside.

Mason calls Rayburn to tell him that he has not been able to bring Jack in. Mason offers a solution to help sway Jack.

8:24 A.M.
Jack returns to his unlived-in townhouse, and his answering machine is filled with messages from CTU. Jack ignores the machine, and instead looks sadly at a photo of his family from happier times. He is in the picture with Kim and his murdered wife, Teri. Jack lies down on the couch, clutching the photo. The phone rings again, and Jack hears the incoming message on the machine from the White House. He picks up the line and is connected to President Palmer. Although Palmer understands Jack’s emotional state, he asks for his help with a grave dilemma. Jack tells the President that he is no longer an agent, but Palmer urges Jack to go to CTU and listen to the situation before making any decision.

8:28 A.M.
Kim finds that Carla has returned home to wrap a gift for Gary’s assistant. When Kim offers to do the task, Carla nervously tells her that she must do it herself because Gary likes things done in a very specific way.

Michelle points out to Tony that the CIA has issued an Information Flow Advisory, but they are unsure of what’s actually going on. Paula asks Michelle about the situation and tries to offer help. Michelle tells her to stick to her job.

8:31 A.M.
Mason summons the CTU staff and informs them about the nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. He orders them not to make contact with anyone outside of the secure zone, including family members. Tony and Mason conclude that Jack was asked to come in because of a possible connection to this case.

Rayburn makes a presentation to the President and other aides in the O.C. war room about potential casualties in the face of such threat in Los Angeles. The number is over 2 million. However, they don’t know if it is a dirty bomb or something bigger. Rayburn again suggests to the President that they bring in the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss military action, but Palmer shoots Rayburn down. They are to proceed as if it is a terrorist attack and not a military operation.

8:36 A.M.
A man named Marko arrives at an unmarked building in an industrial park. He speaks to a man at the door in Arabic. Inside, armed guards are protecting a metal enclosed work area that has radiation symbols on it. People working with gloved hands tremble as they pour a colored powder into a container. Marko asks the man when the bomb will be ready. “Soon,” the man replies.

Paula admits to Tony that, as a new employee at CTU, she may not be able to work under such stressful conditions. Tony urges her to focus on her task. Suddenly, Jack is ushered into CTU, and everyone in the room takes notice. Tony greets him, and brings Jack to the conference room where Mason is waiting. Mason tells Jack about the rogue nuclear bomb in the city. He was brought in to help identify a prime suspect. Jack abruptly walks out of the room, and Tony follows him. Jack runs for a phone and calls Kim on her cell. He warns his daughter to get out of Los Angeles. Frustrated that he won’t obey her wishes to be separated, she hangs up on him. Jack redials and leaves a message on her voice mail, telling her to drive north to her Aunt Carol’s house. Jack leaves, and Tony tries to convince him that they can get to Kim quickly. He will be more effective finding the bomb to save everyone. Jack says that when he trusted CTU before, his wife was killed. He runs out of the building and phones Carol to tell her about Kim’s arrival. When he gets to his car, Jack has second thoughts and returns to CTU. He demands from Mason that two specific agents pick up Kim and keep him apprised of her status at all times. Mason agrees, and briefs Jack on the terrorist situation. A man named Joseph Wald has been connected to Second Wave, and Jack had previously worked undercover on Wald and made the arrest. Wald is out of jail on trial, but the government can not find him. Jack orders them to bring in Marshall Goren, the key witness against Wald in the trial, so that Jack can re-establish his cover with Wald. Although he is dubious of Jack’s plan, Mason relents and calls the FBI for Wald.

8:46 A.M.
At the Warner house, Marie is organizing wedding details when Kate gets a phone call. It is Ralph Burton, the private investigator she hired to do a background check on Reza’s finances. Although Reza has checked out financially, Burton has uncovered news that Reza has had dealings with an international terrorist named Syed Ali. Although the business may be legitimate, Burton needs Kate’s help to find out for sure.

8:49 A.M.
Lynne asks the President if he arranged a conference call with the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding military response. He tells her that he didn’t, and orders her to cancel it. When Palmer accosts Rayburn about this call, Rayburn says that he set it up in case the President changed his mind. Palmer tells Rayburn not to second guess his decisions. “Sir, I would never work against you,” Rayburn replies.

Michelle creates a fake criminal background record for Jack’s cover. Mason arranges for the FBI to have Goren sent to CTU for questioning, but he can’t get Jack to reveal his ultimate plan. Mason questions Jack’s state of mind. Goren is brought in, but refuses to give any information because he is already promised a deal by the FBI. In a deliberate motion, Jack pulls out a gun and shoots Goren in the chest. Mason freaks out, but Jack tells him this is what it will take to get results. He then asks Mason for a hacksaw.

8:59 A.M.
Kim is in her room with Megan, when Gary pulls up to the house. They hear Gary yelling at Carla in the other room. Her cries echo from each sound of abuse by Gary. “I don’t like when he gets like this,” Megan says fearfully. Kim locks the door when Gary comes knocking, and she pretends that they were in the shower. He asks if they had heard anything, explaining that Carla had an accident. Gary sends Kim to help Carla, but when Kim notices that Megan is afraid she goes to her. Gary pushes Kim away and she falls. He threatens her that he will hurt her. Megan starts crying and runs to Kim. Gary pulls at Megan, causing her to hit her head. Suddenly, Gary’s cell phone rings and he answers it to deal with business.

At CTU, Jack shaves off his beard and washes up. He is ready to get back to work.

 

 

9:00 A.M. Lynne Kresge updates the President in the O.C. that the CIA is proceeding on its potential response to a nuclear threat. Palmer, however, wants assurances that they will not leak the information because he fears mass hysteria. Meanwhile, at the industrial complex, Marko and his crew load the completed bomb into a van. At the Matheson home, Gary finishes his call in Kim’s room. Kim motions to the still-crying Megan, and the girls make a break for it while Gary is on the phone. As they run down the stairs, Carla hands Kim her car keys and tells her to take Megan away. Kim loads Megan into the Carla’s car and pulls out. Although Gary threatens Kim, she escapes. Gary then phones his security company to track the location of his vehicle. 9:05 A.M. Jack is transported by helicopter to a waiting car. Michelle briefs him en route with photos of Joseph Wald’s crew, and Jack recognizes one of the guys as Eddie Grant, a guy that he befriended while undercover. Jack orders that no other agents get near his operation. The press begin to suspect something because the President cut short his fishing trip. Although Eric Rayburn doesn’t agree, Palmer wants to deal with the media immediately. As the helicopter touches down, Jack checks in with Mason about Kim. When Agent Grothy went to pick her up, she was gone. Jack calls Kim’s cell phone, but he doesn’t realize that her phone is still sitting in the Matheson house. He leaves a message warning her to leave Los Angeles. At CTU, Tony assures the frightened Paula that the nuclear bomb may only be a false alarm. When Mason learns that forged Middle Eastern passports found in a car crossing the border match those of the suspects, he sends the closest agent to investigate. Unfortunately, that agent is Grothy, who is waiting for Kim at the Matheson’s. 9:09 A.M. Jack goes into a salvage garage and asks for Joe Wald. He is met by Eddie Grant. Eddie knows him as Jack Roush. Eddie accuses Jack of putting Joe in jail, but Jack tries to square himself and tells Eddie that he has news about Marshall Goren turning state’s evidence to convict Joe. Jack gives Eddie his bag, and Goren’s decapitated head rolls out. “I don’t think you gotta worry about Goren testifying anymore,” Jack says. Eddie smiles, and brings Jack into the back room. 9:16 A.M. Palmer conducts an informal press briefing outside his residential retreat. He brushes off their questions about his shortened fishing trip with a joke. Press Secretary Jenny Dodge lets the President know that a reporter named Ron Wieland still suspects something is wrong. 9:17 A.M. Kim drives Megan toward a police station, but they are detoured by a construction crew. She heads down an alley, but is cut off at the end by Gary’s car. A truck behind her has blocked her in. She tries to lock the doors, but Gary unlocks them with his own key. Kim and Megan get out of the car and make a run for it. They hide behind a dumpster as Gary calls out for Megan. 9:20 A.M. At the garage, Eddie brings Jack to see Dave, who is suspicious of Jack’s showing up on the day of an important job. Jack tells them that he just served five years for Joe, and he wants to see him. As Dave checks out Jack’s record online, Paula sees them making the trace on her computer screen at CTU. Yet Michelle and Tony have yet to download Jack’s information, and Paula scrambles to fill something in. When no record of a prison release shows up, Eddie pulls out his gun ready to kill Jack. Suddenly, after Paula makes the file transfers, Jack’s record pops up on Dave’s screen. 9:28 A.M. Rayburn tries again to persuade the President to come up with a military plan of action in case of a nuclear detonation. Lynne comes in to tell Palmer that Wieland heard a rumor that the Alert Condition has been changed due to a threatening situation. Wieland is going live with a report at noon. Palmer has her secretly set up a private interview with Wieland. He also orders her to bring in Richard Armus. Lynne shudders at the name. 9:31 A.M. As Dave works with some kind of explosive, Jack asks again to see Joe. Eddie says that Joe is busy and to come back tomorrow. They have something going on today. Jack gets in his car and calls Mason to warn him about what he has found. Fearing he has no other choice, Jack floods his car so that it won’t start. He gets out to open up the hood, and watches the crew pack duffel bags into a van. 9:33 A.M. Back at CTU, Mason checks a confidential report that says the probability of attack is about 89-93%. He quietly packs his briefcase and heads out. Tony stops him, and Mason says that he is going to follow up a lead in Bakersfield. Tony questions his motives as merely trying to get outside the blast range. 9:40 A.M. As they hide in an alley, Megan complains that her head hurts from when her dad pushed her. She doesn’t want to follow Kim to go make a phone call. She promises that she will hide behind some boxes to wait for Kim. 9:41 A.M. Kate Warner calls her private investigator Ralph Burton to tell him that she could not ascertain Reza’s wallet. Burton asks her to look for Reza’s passport to find out what countries have been stamped. While Reza tends to wedding detials, Kate runs out to his car and finds the passport in the glove compartment. As she quickly writes down the entries, Reza approaches. Kate tells him that the workers needed the space and she was looking for the key. Reza offers to move the car himself. 9:45 A.M. Dave gives Jack a hard time when his car won’t start. Jack makes a comment to Eddie about Dave being an amateur because he tied the fuses too tight. Dave lunges at Jack, and Jack breaks Dave’s ankle. 9:50 A.M. Kim finds a nearby payphone and dials 911, but Gary surprises her. He tries to appeal to Kim that he did not mean to hurt Carla and only wants to apologize to Megan. When Gary gets forceful with Kim, she knees him in the groin and runs off. Gary catches her and they fight. Kim swats him with a tire iron and he falls down. Kate calls Burton and lists the stamped entries in Reza’a passport. Burton is going to track Reza’s travel against those of the terrorist Syed Ali to see if there is a connection. Marie interrupts Kate’s phone call to thank her for her help with the wedding. The sisters embrace. 9:54 A.M. Palmer has a sit down meeting with the reporter. Wieland knows that the Alert Condition has been changed and is ready to report his story. Palmer says his information is wrong. Knowing that no journalist can get a private interview with the President on a few minutes notice, Wieland suspects that his assumptions are indeed correct. Palmer asks for a favor to sit on the story, and Wieland says he will think about it. When the reporter leaves, the President makes a call to Armus. “I think we’re going to have to go ahead and deal with this,” Palmer says. Armus, who is outside, stops Wieland as he leaves the retreat and introduces himself as part of the President’s Secret Service team. Armus drags Wieland away by the arm. 9:57 A.M. As Jack fiddles with his car, Eddie approaches him about working on this job. He is one man short since Dave is now incapacitated. Kim returns to the boxes where she hid Megan, but the little girl is gone. Kim calls out, and runs down the street to look for her. 9:59 A.M. Jack rides in the van with Eddie and his crew, and asks about the job they are pulling. Eddie tells him that they are bringing down the CTU offices in Los Angeles.

 

10:00 A.M.
Kim frantically searches and finds Megan. The police come to Gary’s aid, and he tells them that Kim kidnapped his daughter.

As Mason drives north out of Los Angeles, Tony phones him with news that the LAPD located a suspect in Panorama City. District wants Mason to check it out on his way to Bakersfield.

At the Northwest O.C., Lynne gives the President bad news: the predicted casualties are actually higher than they had anticipated. Ruling out any possibility of a “dirty bomb,” the NSA now believes they are looking for a nuclear weapon.

Now a member of the crew, Jack questions why CTU is being targeted. Eddie won’t reveal any information. Suddenly, Jack’s cell phone rings. It is Kim, but she has not heard any of the messages from her father because she lost her phone. Jack tries to not give anything away in earshot of Eddie’s crew. Although Kim begs for Jack’s help, he tells her to go to her Aunt Carol’s house. Kim doesn’t understand why he is telling her to go all the way to San Jose. Kim then calls Tony, who informs her that Jack is working undercover. Tony asks her to get to CTU, and she says she will take a bus.

10:08 A.M.
All the phones in CTU get corrupted as Eddie’s crew takes out the phone lines at a relay station. Eddie sends Jack to watch the road. He discreetly calls CTU to warn them, but he can not get through. Jack instead calls the O.C. and asks to speak to the President.

10:09 A.M.
Since Palmer is in the midst of a press conference, Lynne takes the call and is warned of the attack on CTU. Jack asks her to have the building evacuated, and then clicks off when Eddie approaches. At the O.C., Lynne and Eric Rayburn presume that this hit on CTU is a diversion from the main nuclear attack. When Lynne wants to notify CTU, Rayburn stops her. He believes that doing so will blow Jack’s cover and ruin his chances of getting close to the Second Wave terrorist Joseph Wald. Yet Lynne is adamant about telling Palmer, and she asks Jenny Dodge to interrupt the press conference.

10:11 A.M.
Two telephone repair workers arrive at the relay station to find that the locks have been cut. Eddie’s van ambushes them, and Eddie shoots one of the workers. He orders the other one to call his boss to say that he must go on site at CTU to check the phone system.

10:16 A.M.
Rayburn calls Tony with an order to copy and transfer all CTU database information about the nuclear threat onto NSA’s server. Since he wants it done in under an hour, Tony has Paula work on sending the data over. She goes into Mason’s office to use his computer. Michelle points out to Tony that if this order had only been precautionary, then other agencies would have received the same request. CTU was the only one asked to forward their databases.

Mason arrives at an industrial complex in Panorama City where a vehicle was linked to someone on the terrorist watch list. This complex is the same place where the nuclear bomb was being built by Marko’s team. The police at the scene break into the building, and they see the remains of the area where the nuclear weapon was constructed. Suddenly, a gunman fires at the officers and a shootout occurs. Mason realizes that a powder has dispersed in the air and he notices the radiation warning sign. He coughs as he calls out to a policeman to summon HAZMAT. This may be a possible hot zone.

10:22 A.M.
Kim rides with Megan on a city bus toward CTU. Megan asks whether Kim makes her own father mad. Kim reassures her that she is not the cause for Gary’s anger, and promises that she will never let him hurt Megan again.

10:23 A.M.
The telephone repair van pulls up to CTU, and the worker lies to the security guard that he is there to fix the phones. Although Eddie and his crew are in the back, they are cleared into the complex. The worker asks what the crew could possibly want from CTU, and Eddie explains that they are taking back their country. “We’re patriots,” Jack says.

10:30 A.M.
At the Warner house, Kate gets a call from her private investigator, Ralph Burton. He confirmed that Reza did have contact with the terrorist. Burton is obligated to notify the authorities at Homeland Security, and he warns Kate not to tell anyone. When she hangs up, Marie and Reza playfully coax her to meet his cousin, but Kate pulls away forcefully. Marie confronts her, but Kate tearfully says that she only wants her sister’s happiness.

10:34 A.M.
Lynne is surprised to see Jenny hurrying through the O.C. She had asked her to interrupt the President’s press conference. Jenny had slipped him a note about Lynne’s urgent request, but Palmer did not respond.

As Eddie and his crew make their way into CTU, Jack waits in the van with the tied up worker. He urgently writes a note of warning that there are bombs being placed in the building.

10:41 A.M.
Mason calls Tony from Panorama City to tell him about the lab where the terrorists have assembled the nuclear bomb. Everyone at the scene is being put through decontamination, but they still don’t know if they were exposed to radiation. Mason will send Tony the fingerprints from the dead bodies to see if they match anyone on the watch list. Tony informs him that NSA ordered CTU’s database be transferred, but did not make the same request from other agencies. Mason agrees that this is not usual protocol.

10:43 A.M.
Michelle approaches Paula in the restroom. Although she is worried about her friends and family living in Los Angeles, the scared Paula knows it is her duty to keep working.

10:44 A.M.
In the van, Jack releases the phone worker with the note intended for Tony, explaining that he is a government agent working undercover. After the worker gets out, Jack cuts himself with his switchblade to create the impression that he has been struck in the head. Eddie and the crew return to the van and find Jack knocked out. Eddie is mad that the telephone guy got away, but gets everyone in the van out before the building explodes. As the van pulls away, Kim and Megan arrive. She tells the security guard that Tony is expecting her.

10:54 A.M.
Lynne is angry that Palmer did not call her when the press conference broke. She confronts Rayburn about his keeping the President in the dark about the CTU situation, and Rayburn threatens her not to cross him. When Palmer comes into the O.C., Lynne tells him the news. Rayburn tries to explain that alerting CTU would expose Jack. He had CTU transfer their intelligence, so that the only losses would be infrastructure and personnel. “Those losses are unacceptable,” Palmer says, and he orders Lynne to notify CTU immediately. Rayburn tells the President that he believes he is making a mistake.

Michelle gives Tony the note from the telephone worker about the bomb, and Tony orders an immediate evacuation of the building. He gets the call from Lynne, and asks if this is the reason NSA wanted their data. Kim and Megan are escorted out of the building along with the other CTU workers. Tony runs up to Mason’s office to save Paula, who is still trying to complete the data transfer. They are caught inside the building when it explodes. Eddie and the crew watch CTU from a distance, and congratulate themselves when they see they smoke cloud rise above the building.

10:59 A.M.
A HAZMAT doctor informs Mason that he has inhaled a high level of enriched plutonium. He may only have one more day to live.

 

 

11:00 A.M. Far from the crime scene, Eddie’s crew listens to the police scanner as casualty reports from CTU come in. Jack listens silently, barely able to contain his rage. Meanwhile, at CTU, Tony emerges from the rubble to assist injured co-workers. He finds Paula trapped under a twisted girder. Kim carries Megan out of the CTU complex and they are unharmed. Suddenly, Megan’s eyes roll back and she begins to seize. Kim calls for help, and a Paramedic takes Megan to an ambulance. 11:03 A.M. At the O.C., Palmer is visibly upset over the bombing at CTU and laments that they did not receive word from Jack Bauer sooner. Rayburn says that they did everything they could. After the President leaves, Lynne blames Rayburn for the casualties. He informs her that since she was the only one to have spoken to Jack, she will be the one to take the blame if the truth comes out. Lynne knows she is being blackmailed. 11:05 A.M. In Panorama City, Mason asks an EMT what his deterioration will be like. Although he should be normal for another twelve hours, he will later experience more severe symptoms. His mental functions will eventually deteriorate and he will lapse into a coma. Mason receives a call from Tony who gives him news about the bombing and casualties. Paula, who had encrypted all intelligence about the nuclear threat, is injured and unavailable to help decrypt it. Mason tells Tony to do whatever it takes to get that data. He also says that he may not be coming back to the office. Tony is furious that Mason is still trying to distance himself from the nuclear blast range. 11:08 A.M. Eddie pulls the van up to a remote road, and the crew sets fire to the vehicle. Eddie takes a call from Joe Wald and scribbles an address of where to meet him on a matchbook. At a waiting car, Jack pulls his gun on Eddie and demands the address. Jack places him under arrest. The other guys in the crew see this and fire at Jack, but Jack kills them. Eddie begins to drive, and Jack shoots at him through the windshield. He pulls the lifeless body of Eddie out of the driver’s seat, and gets in the car. 11:16 A.M. As he drives away, Jack calls CTU. Michelle informs him of the casualties, but he doesn’t understand why there wasn’t enough time to evacuate everyone. He gives her the address of Joseph Wald in Simi Valley and she sends backup. When Jack asks about Kimberly, Michelle says she will look into her whereabouts. Michelle tells Tony about Jack’s call. He had forgotten that Kim was on her way to CTU, and he has Michelle check the security log to see of Kim was in the building before the blast. At the hospital, Kim consults with an ER doctor about Megan’s condition. The little girl’s seizure was caused by a skull fracture that occurred before the CTU explosion, and she suffered from other prior injuries that were never treated. This indicates a pattern of physical abuse. Although Kim claims to have never hurt Megan, the doctor wants to leave it up to the police to determine what really happened. 11:17 A.M. Palmer and his team of military and civilian advisors watch a news report about the CTU bombing. Rayburn once again brings up his plan about a citywide evacuation. This time, Lynne argues with him about the idea. Any evacuation of Los Angeles would take at least a week and it would be difficult to target specific areas under immediacy. Palmer, sensing that there are some unknown undertones in this fight, states that he has reservations about evacuating people. Rayburn insists that he is only trying to protect the President politically. “If the bomb goes off, we have more important concerns than my re-election,” Palmer says. The President orders that no evacuation takes place. 11:21 A.M. At the Warner house, Kate admits to her father that she had found inconsistencies in their company’s budget and had hired a private investigator to find out whether Reza had been stealing money. Although he was clean financially, Kate then learned that Reza may be involved with a terrorist. However, she doesn’t know what proof the investigator uncovered. Bob doesn’t believe her, and tells her that it is a mistake. He had Reza checked out thoroughly himself, and knows that he is not a terrorist. Bob asks his daughter to start treating Reza as a member of the family. Reza approaches them, and Kate says that she has to pick up lunch. Reza offers to drive her, but she refuses. Bob insists that she allow her future brother-in-law to drive her. 11:28 A.M. As Mason rides in an ambulance toward a hospital, he gets a call from Tony on the emergency scanner. Since Paula had worked on the encryption at Mason’s computer, they need his password to access the hard drive. Mason soberly inquires about Paula’s condition, and Tony tells him that she is non-responsive. 11:29 A.M. Jack calls the O.C. and is connected to Lynne. He asks why the CTU office wasn’t emptied when he called thirty minutes before it was bombed. Lynne has no explanation, and Jack blames her for the lives of his co-workers. She encourages him to continue with his job because he is their best chance of intercepting the nuclear weapon. 11:30 A.M. Jack pulls up to the address from Eddie’s matchbook. He knocks on the door, demanding that Joe let him in. Jack feigns alarm, and tells Joe that Eddie and the crew are all dead. Joe opens the door to let Jack in, and Jack takes him at gunpoint. Joe questions why Jack would kill Marshall Goren if he is really a federal agent, and Jack says that he did what he had to do to get to Joe. Joe is surprised when Jack informs him that the CTU explosion was merely a diversion for a nuclear bomb, but he does not answer when Jack asks who gave the order to hit CTU. Suddenly, a pit bull leaps at Jack and he wrestles it to the ground. Joe escapes out the back door into a nearby shed. Jack shoots the dog to escape and follows him. Joe has locked himself into a secured room guarded by steel doors,and from inside, he watches on security monitors as Jack pounds the walls with a pitchfork. Seeing the cameras, Jack knows he is being watched. 11:34 A.M. Kim phones Carla Matheson from the emergency room and tells her what happened to Megan. Carla at first accuses Kim of kidnapping her daughter and attacking her husband, but Kim blames Gary for what has happened. Although Carla warns her to stay out of their problems, Kim tells her that the doctors found evidence of physical abuse. She invites Carla to the hospital to be with Megan. As Carla rushes out the door to go to her daughter, Gary stops her. 11:40 A.M. With no luck breaking into the secure room, Jack tries to appeal to Joe directly. He tells him that whoever hired him wants to destroy the entire country, starting with Los Angeles. Although Joe has fought against the government in the past, this time his actions will kill over a million innocent people. He has always believed that it was wrong to have too much power, but the irony is that he is now the one who holds the power. Jack asks Joe what he will do with that power. 11:42 A.M. As Reza drives with Kate, he tells her that he is aware that she doesn’t like him. He says that she just needs to get to know him. Kate suddenly becomes alarmed when Reza takes a different course toward the restaurant. He says that he wants to show her something to help her understand him better. They pull onto a service road of a residential street, and Kate becomes afraid. She yells at him to stop the car and she gets out. Reza points to a house, showing Kate the new home he bought for Marie as a wedding present. Kate feels foolish for jumping to conclusions. 11:45 A.M. The rescue workers remove the girder off Paula, but her body is in shock. With internal bleeding, she needs to be taken to the hospital for surgery. Tony follows her gurney toward an ambulance, and they are met outside by Mason. Mason asks the field doctors to not only make Paula remain on site but to also keep her lucid. Tony argues with Mason because Paula will die if she does not get to the hospital. Yet she is the only one who can decrypt the intel on the nuke. Against Tony’s judgement, Mason orders for her to be woken up. 11:51 A.M. Palmer tells Lynne that he knows that there was a thirty-minute lapse between when Jack called and when they notified CTU. His suspicions are confirmed about her trying to alert him during the press conference, but he questions why she never told him the truth after the fact. Lynne apologizes, but does not reveal any other information. Palmer suspects, after seeing the argument between Lynne and Rayburn, that it was Rayburn who wanted to keep it from him. Lynne offers her resignation instead of answering him. Palmer does not accept it, but assures Lynne that he still trusts her to tell him everything that happened. 11:54 A.M. Tony tells Michelle that he agrees with Mason’s call to revive Paula, even if it means risking her life. Yet Tony feels guilty for hiring Paula because she was never given the chance to do her job. Michelle comforts Tony. 11:55 A.M. Secret Service agents escort Rayburn to the President’s office in the O.C. Palmer fires him for lying, but Rayburn claims that he made a decision that the President could not make. “I’m the only one who could make it,” Palmer says bluntly. Rayburn insists that he was only doing what was necessary to allow Jack Bauer to get to Joseph Wald. When Palmer orders the Secret Service to bring Rayburn to Richard Armus, a flicker of fear crosses Rayburn’s face. 11:57 A.M. In the shed, Jack makes one last appeal to Joe. With the SWAT team soon to arrive, Joe will either end up dead or in jail. Jack gives him the chance of still doing the right thing by telling him who ordered the hit on CTU. The steel door of the secure room opens, and Jack goes in with his gun drawn. Joe hands Jack a manila envelope with photos of his female contact. He says that he only met the woman twice. Joe then shoots himself in the mouth. Jack is stunned to see that the woman in the photos is Nina Myers.

 

 

12:00 P.M. Mason wants the still unconscious Paula woken up as soon as possible. Tony leaves to follow up on a Middle Eastern businessman who has connections to the terrorist Syed Ali. Jack calls Mason with news that Nina Myers is the one who commissioned Joseph Wald to blow up CTU. She did it before she was arrested. Jack has her transferred to CTU for questioning, but Mason tells him to not come back to the office. He will handle Nina on his own. At the O.C., military advisors speculate on the possible targets in Los Angeles. Lynne informs Palmer that the Ambassador has landed at the site. Also just arriving is Roger Stanton, the head of NSA and Rayburn’s boss. 12:04 P.M. Marko pulls the van up to a gas station, and his accomplice Basheer gets out to fill their tank. Another customer yells at Basheer because the van is blocking both pumps. Although the guy makes a derogatory Arab reference, Basheer calmly apologizes and orders Marko to move the van. While waiting for Carla at St. Virgil’s Hospital, Kim becomes alarmed when she sees the police. As she hurries down the corridor, she runs into Gary. He tells her to leave without saying anything or else she will be arrested for kidnapping Megan. Gary threatens to tell the authorities that she was the one who hurt his daughter. He says that Carla will even back his story. When the police approach, Kim leaves the ER. 12:07 P.M. Stanton apologizes to the President for Rayburn’s actions regarding CTU. Yet he is more concerned with the meeting Palmer will be having with the Ambassador. Stanton believes that the diplomat is only attempting to access U.S. intelligence. The President, who is not as certain about this theory as Stanton, plans to take the meeting anyway. 12:09 P.M. Jack returns to CTU and is stunned at the ruins. Mason is annoyed that Jack came back, because he doesn’t want him anywhere Nina Myers -- the person who killed his wife, Teri. Yet Jack insists that it is better that he be debriefed at CTU. Mason tells him to leave when his debrief is complete. 12:10 P.M. Paula wakes up, and Mason and Michelle ask her for her source decryption key to complete the file transmission to NSA. With her last breaths, Paula gives them the volume in the database where she had made a copy of the key. Michelle retrieves the key, and Mason praises Paula for helping to save lives. As the EMTs go to take her to the hospital, Paula dies. 12:17 P.M. Reza and Kate return home, and Bob greets them. He knew about the new house Reza had purchased, and he chides Kate for her suspicions. Tony and another agent arrive to question Reza. Bob tries to explain that it is a mistake, but Tony is insistent. Kate finds Reza and tells him about the visitors. Reza doesn’t want Marie to find out about this situation. 12:21 P.M. The Ambassador and his security officer, Salim, tell the President’s team that they have taken four suspected members of Second Wave into custody for interrogation. Stanton, however, presents satellite photos taken an hour ago that show there is no clampdown. Yet the Ambassador assures the President that they want to help prevent the bomb as well as any retaliation from the U.S. He asks to be provided with all the American intelligence on their native country’s terrorism. Palmer tells the Ambassador that he must consider this request, and sends them to a waiting room. Stanton, who doesn’t trust the Ambassador, strongly believes that they do support Second Wave. Lynne agrees with Stanton. Palmer is torn as to his decision. 12:25 P.M. While Jack works on his debrief at CTU, Kim calls his cell phone. She explains about Megan being hurt, but he tells her to get to her Aunt Carol’s house immediately because there might be a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Jack instructs her to not tell anyone, and that he will meet here there when he is finished. When he hangs up, he watches silently as guards bring a shackled Nina into CTU. 12:32 P.M. Mason enters the interrogation room and asks Nina what she knows about the nuclear bomb. She demands a full presidential pardon in return for her assistance. As Mason calls Chappelle at Division, Jack inquires as to Nina’s participation. Mason, knowing that Jack is trying to worm his way onto the case, dismisses him. Jack notices Mason’s strange hacking cough. 12:34 P.M. Reza denies knowing Syed Ali to Tony, even though the man’s name is in all of Reza’s personal computer files. 12:36 P.M. Bob and Kate wait outside impatiently as Tony interrogates Reza. Bob does not want to cancel the wedding, and encourages Kate to keep her sister preoccupied. As the American military advisors hand off their intel to Salim and the Ambassador, Stanton admits his unease at the President’s decision. Kim calls her boyfriend Miguel at his recording studio, and asks for his urgent help. He reluctantly agrees to pick her up at the hospital. 12:39 P.M. Jack gives Michelle his completed debrief, and she tells him that she is supposed to get him out of there. Jack is transfixed on the interrogation room where Nina is being held. This is the first time he has seen her since the day she killed Teri. President Palmer phones Jack to personally inform him that he is forced to grant Nina a shadow pardon. “I wish there was another way,” Palmer says. “Let’s just get through this day. Eventually we’ll make it right.” 12:44 P.M. Jack follows Mason to the men’s room and sees him swallow a pill. He asks to be allowed to interrogate Nina, but Mason won’t listen to his plea. Jack sees Mason’s prescription medication wrapper. He snatches it and goes back into the office. 12:47 P.M. Suspecting something is wrong with Mason, Jack demands from Michelle that he be told where Mason has been in the last twelve hours. He questions whether Mason is fit to lead CTU. 12:49 P.M. Marie is upset to find that agents from CTU are in her house talking to Reza. Kate explains that she was the one who hired a private investigator to check up on Reza, and doing so uncovered his association with a terrorist. Marie is furious that Kate would go behind her back, and she orders Kate to leave. 12:54 P.M. Miguel shows up at St. Virgil’s Hospital in a cab because he loaned his car to someone. Kim is forced to tell him her father’s warning about the nuclear bomb. Yet she does not want to leave Megan behind, and Miguel agrees to help her. Jack confronts Mason about his health condition, knowing that he was exposed to radiation and is dying. Jack threatens to call District to relieve Mason of his duties unless he agrees to let Jack handle Nina. Although it is against Mason’s better judgement, he relents. Lynne informs the advisors that the Ambassador’s helicopter just took off en route to his plane. Stanton rushes in and shows the group a live news feed. The Ambassador’s chopper crashed just after takeoff. There were no apparent survivors. 12:59 P.M. At the Warner house, Reza continues to claim innocence against Tony’s accusations. When the surveillance monitors are set up in the CTU interrogation room, Jack watches Nina. She is waiting to hear about her freedom, and he ponders his next move.

 

 

1:00 P.M.
As Nina waits in a secured CTU room, Jack is handed her case file. Yet he knows all about her and doesn’t need it to interrogate her.

At Palmer’s retreat, reporters bombard him with questions about the helicopter crash and any possible connection to the CTU bombing. The President only reveals that there will be an investigation forthcoming. Jenny Dodge promises the media that a statement will be released when credible information is confirmed. Palmer walks inside to find his ex-wife Sherry waiting for him. She asks to speak with him privately about his administration, but Palmer dismisses her. Sherry piques his interest when she mentions that she heard military personnel have been evacuated out of Los Angeles. Palmer leaves, telling her to wait. Since he specifically requested that no evacuations were to take place, Lynne is assigned the task of finding out what happened.

1:06 P.M.
Tony continues to question Reza at the Warner residence. Reza complains of racial profiling, but Tony explains why his accusations are valid and refuses Reza’s request for a lawyer.

1:08 P.M.
NSA chief Roger Stanton theorizes whether the helicopter crash was actually premeditated, because the Prime Minister was unhappy with his Ambassador doing business with America. Yet Palmer suggests that perhaps forces within his own government caused the crash. He orders Lynne to set up an independent inquiry to find out the truth.

1:09 P.M.
Jack vows to Mason that he will put aside his anger and get Nina to disclose everything. He walks into the interrogation room and slaps her Presidential pardon on the table. Nina claims that she needs to be sent to Visalia because her contact there will only tell her where the bomb is in person. Jack is reluctant to trust her, and demands her contact’s name. Nina, under the assumption that CTU will remove Jack from the case if he harms her, stands her ground. Her smugness only enrages Jack to slams her against the wall. Holding her throat, he threatens to kill her unless she tells him what he wants to know. Watching outside from a monitor, Mason immediately orders Jack removed from the room. He questions Jack’s motives, but Jack says that it is all part of his plan to convince Nina that he is putting his own revenge ahead of stopping the bomb. Mason notices that while Nina is visibly afraid, Jack is completely calm. Jack asks for another five minutes with her, and requests that the thermostat be turned up ten degrees in the interrogation room. Mason agrees to this.

1:18 P.M.
Kate tries to explain her side of the story to her crying sister. She suggests that they may have to cancel the wedding, but Marie refuses. Marie only wants Kate to stop trying to control her life.

1:19 P.M.
As they search the hospital for Megan, Kim and Miguel see Gary talking to a doctor outside of Megan’s room. The doctor warns Gary that the causes of Megan’s concussion have yet to be determined so she must be kept for observation. Panicking, Gary books two tickets to Mexico and begins to dress Megan.

1:21 P.M.
Jack returns to the interrogation room and pulls out a gun. He fires shots into the wall past Nina’s head, demanding a name from her. Jack aims at her head, and she admits that the man in Visalia is Mamud Faheen. Jack already knows that name, and he wants to know what their relationship is. Faheen had introduced Nina to Joseph Wald because Wald wanted her schematics for CTU. Yet Nina refuses to give Jack Faheen’s exact location unless she is permitted to go to Visalia. Her pardon won’t mean anything if she is killed. Jack turns to the video monitor. Watching from outside, Mason orders Michelle to notify the authorities in Visalia.

1:23 P.M.
Lynne learns that military personnel and resources began evacuating an hour ago under Roger Stanton’s orders. Palmer has her countermand the evacuation, returning the forces back to their bases. He then confronts Stanton about this, but Stanton apologizes. He was only following up on what he thought was the President’s command. Palmer asks him to make sure his orders to rescind the evacuation are executed. Knowing Sherry’s intelligence was correct, he agrees to meet with her.

As he dresses Megan, Gary apologizes for hurting her and explains that they are leaving. A nurse knocks on the door to inform Gary that he has a phone call at the nurse’s station. He tells Megan not to move and goes to take the call from someone in accounts receivable about his bill. The caller is really Miguel, who stalls Gary so that Kim can slip into Megan’s room. Kim persuades Megan that she is only trying to protect her. When Gary returns to the room, he finds Megan is missing. He angrily alerts the nurse.

1:32 P.M.
Kim, Megan and Miguel rush down the stairwell. Megan begins to cry because she thinks that her father will get mad and hurt her. Kim tries to convince her that he will continue to hurt her unless she leaves with them. Back at the room, the nurse tells Gary that no one has seen Megan, and he orders security to find her. Kim, Miguel and Megan hide in an examination room when the security guards block the entrances.

1:34 P.M.
Mason arranges for an agent named Miller to accompany Jack and Nina on their flight to Visalia. Jack again assures Mason that he won’t put the lives of millions on the line to satisfy his own revenge. Mason still wants Miller there as a precaution. Mason gets hit with a fit of coughing, and Jack encourages him to go be with his family in his last hours.

1:35 P.M.
Palmer enters his retreat where Sherry is waiting. She won’t reveal how she learned about the military evacuation, but asks to allow her to help him. Sherry tells Palmer that she still loves him, but she needs to know what he is up against so she can be of some assistance. Palmer realizes that he needs all the help he can muster, and he discloses that there is the threat of a nuclear strike in Los Angeles. Sherry is stunned, and admits that a high level staffer at the Defense Department told her about the evacuation because members of the administration are allying against Palmer for control of his presidency. She offers to aid him in weeding out these people who disagree with his policies. Palmer accepts her help on the condition that it is only in the best interest of the country. He warns her that it better not be one of her manipulations back into his personal life.

1:43 P.M.
Kate greets Reza’s parents when they arrive at the Warner house. They ask to see their son, and Kate tells them that government agents are there to question him about alleged terrorist activity. The Naiyeers are convinced that Reza is being treated unfairly only because he is Middle Eastern.

Miguel leaves the exam room, grabs a flat screen computer monitor from a desk and runs. The distracted security guard chases after him, allowing Kim and Megan to escape. Gary sees the girls from the hospital window and heads outside.

1:47 P.M.
In the transport van, Nina tries to make small talk with Agent Miller in an attempt to convey that he is only there to protect her against Jack. Yet Miller ignores her, and takes a bottle of water from Jack.

1:54 P.M.
Tony presses Reza about a money transfer to Syed Ali under his name, but Reza claims ignorance. Tony threatens to walk him out in handcuffs past his parents. Reza relents, and admits to only confirming the transfers to cover for Bob Warner -- Marie’s father.

Waiting for Miguel, Kim and Megan duck behind cars in the hospital parking but are spotted by Gary. He threatens to throw Kim in jail unless she turns over his daughter. She refuses. Gary grabs Kim’s hair and is about to strike her when Miguel appears and body slams Gary. The men fight, and Miguel knocks Gary out cold with a roundhouse martial arts kick to the face. They grab Gary’s keys and run for his parked car nearby.

Reza comforts both Marie and his parents with news of his exoneration. Yet when Tony asks to speak to Bob Warner, Kate turns to Reza. Reza explains that he only told the truth to Tony.

1:59 P.M.
Miller informs Jack that their team is assembled in Visalia, but he immediately passes out. Jack eases Miller’s body down on the seat. Nina notices the water bottle that Jack gave to him, and she realizes that Miller has been drugged. Jack cocks his gun and smiles at Nina. A look of fear spreads over her face.

 

 

2:00 P.M.
As they arrive at the airbase, Nina alerts the agents securing the area that Jack had drugged Agent Miller to get her alone. Once aboard the CTU jet, Agent Phillips tells Jack that he will make sure Nina is kept safe.

2:03 P.M.
Marie reproaches Kate for wrongfully incriminating Reza and for opening up the witch hunt on their family. Kate then turns on Reza for implicating Bob to save himself, but Reza says that Bob must be the one who is guilty. Reza only told the truth. With her sister and future husband fighting, Marie bursts into tears and runs out of the room.

Palmer’s Chief of Staff Mike Novick arrives in Oregon from Washington, and is surprised to see Sherry at the retreat. She tells him that she has learned from her past mistakes. Lynne and Palmer discuss how to handle the Ron Wieland situation. The reporter’s crew has not seen him since the Secret Service took him into custody. Novick, who has found precedent for the executive branch’s measures against the press in times of national crisis, suggests they buy time by having Richard Armus leak a story about Wieland being away on personal business.

2:08 P.M.
Michelle informs Mason that Jack drugged Miller to get Nina alone. Mason is hardly taken aback, and goes into his office. He opens his shirt to reveal a radiation rash on his chest.

Despite Sherry’s knowledge of the military evacuation, Novick is not sure that she is correct about a vast conspiracy within the government, but he promises the President that he will investigate the situation. Palmer advocates that Novick begin with NSA Director Roger Stanton, Stanton had always been close with the just-fired Eric Rayburn.

2:11 P.M.
Jack tries to physically threaten Nina to reveal where Faheen is, but Phillips intervenes. Jack orders her to get changed into civilian clothes so that she will blend in. Not trusting her, he has her strip in his presence.

2:17 P.M.
Mason calls his estranged son, John, whom he hasn’t spoken with in two years. He asks John to come to see him at CTU. John refuses.

2:19 P.M.
The CTU jet lands at the Davenport Airfield in Visalia and is met by a squadron of FBI agents. After deplaning, Nina gives up the name of Faheen’s location: a store called Crescent Collectibles. Jack wants Nina to go along with him there.

2:20 P.M.
Novick approaches Stanton, and requests an update on all the intel that Stanton has compiled. Lynne briefs the President about CTU locating weapons grade nuclear material in a warehouse. When she tells him that Jack is working directly with Nina Myers to find the terrorist, Palmer becomes alarmed.

2:22 P.M.
Jack and the FBI agents prepare for the raid on Faheen and Nina tells them what to expect. She had already given Faheen protocols from CTU, and Faheen is prepared to kill himself to protect their plan. Jack wants Nina to go in first and convince Faheen that she has gotten out of prison. Nina is worried that Faheen will be suspicious, and shoot her before turning the gun on himself. Jack says they will prevent Faheen from committing suicide. He will not be responsible for saving Nina.

2:28 P.M.
Tony calls Mason to tell him that Bob Warner is the new suspect. Bob claims not to know anything about Syed Ali. Mason wants both Bob and Reza brought to CTU for further questioning, and gives Tony authority to arrest them if necessary. Although Reza is resistant, Bob asks him to comply with Tony’s demand. Marie insists on accompanying Reza. Bob instructs Kate to notify their guests about the wedding’s postponement and to contact his lawyer.

2:33 P.M.
Lynne meets with Palmer and Novick but is hesitant to speak because Sherry is in the room. Palmer introduces the women, and explains that he has granted Sherry a provisional security clearance. He gives Lynne permission to disclose secrets in front of his ex-wife. Lynne is shocked to learn that Stanton is a suspect in a plot against the President. Sherry boldly tells Lynne that she found out Stanton and Rayburn were having secret meetings with a Senator. Lynne, however, already knows about those meetings and explains that they have nothing to do with this situation. She offers up detailed records on their context. Regardless, Palmer wants to be certain that Stanton is not working against them. Lynne and Sherry trade distrustful looks.

2:38 P.M.
Kate phones her private investigator, but gets the man’s boss instead. Paul Koplin assures her that he is familiar with her case. Kate asks Koplin for help accessing her father’s private data records.

Sherry lets Lynne know that she was one of the people who put Palmer in office, and that she is important enough to provide help. Overhearing this, Palmer warns Sherry about trying to compete with Lynne. He tells her that he is keeping her around despite advice on the contrary from others in his Administration.

2:42 P.M.
As Nina enters Crescent Collectibles, Jack waits outside the store. A wire attached to her necklace transmits both voice and picture to him. Michelle is watching and listening from CTU as well. A woman working in the store tells Faheen over an intercom that Nina is out of prison and is there to see him. When she brings Nina into a back room, the reception on Jack’s monitor goes out. Michelle describes for him what she is viewing and the translator relays what they are saying. Nina lies to Faheen, saying that she had to pay someone to escape from prison and that she needs his help to flee the country. Since Michelle can not confirm that it is indeed Faheen, Jack holds the FBI SWAT team from raiding the building. Yet when Faheen hugs Nina the audio goes dead. Jack orders the raid, and agents shoot their way into every entrance. Jack finds Faheen unconscious and Nina gone. He enters the basement of the building to look for her.

2:51 P.M.
Nina runs to a gated door from the basement, but it is locked. As she pulls a gun to blow off the padlock, Jack traps her. She drops her gun, turns her back to him and places her hands on her head. Jack trains his weapon on the back of her head and pauses. After debating what to do, he then slaps handcuffs on her.

2:53 P.M.
In Gary’s car, Kim calls her Aunt Carol to say that she is on her way there. Megan is asleep in the back seat. Suddenly, they are pulled over by the police for speeding. Miguel hands over the registration and the cop goes to call it in. Kim and Miguel brace themselves for the worst.

An LAPD officer leads a handcuffed John Mason into CTU. Mason uncuffs his son and apologizes for the manner in which he was brought in. Mason gives John the number of a secret bank account where he has stashed a few hundred thousand dollars, but John does not want the money. Without giving specifics, Mason tells his son that he is dying. He then asks him to leave Los Angeles because it is unsafe. John is confused, and Mason hugs him. Mason makes his son leave so he won’t see how emotionally wrought he is.

2:59 P.M.
The policeman lets Miguel off with a warning. As he walks back to his squad car, the cop notices blood dripping from the trunk and stops them. He orders Miguel to open the trunk. Miguel is stunned to see a woman’s dead body inside. The policeman pulls his gun on Miguel and forces him to the ground. He orders Kim to exit the car and calls for backup. Kim gets out and recognizes that it is Carla inside the trunk. Megan wakes up from the commotion, but Kim tells her to stay in the car. She doesn’t want Megan to see her mother’s dead body.

 

 

3:00 P.M.
Kim and Miguel try to explain their story to the highway patrolman, but he doesn’t understand why they are fleeing the city instead of seeking help from the police. He places them under arrest.

Tony escorts Reza, Marie and Bob Warner into the ruins of CTU. Bob asks if he can speak to Tony privately, but Tony dismisses him. Although both Reza and Bob’s stories have contradicted each other, Tony lets Mason know that there is definitely some connection to Syed Ali. Mason gives him permission to do whatever it takes to find the answers.

3:03 P.M.
In the O.C., Stanton inquires to Lynne about Sherry’s provisional security clearance. At the retreat, Sherry finds out that the reporter Ron Wieland is missing. She presses Palmer about his being held hostage, reasoning that the man’s disappearance will only raise more questions. Sherry offers her assistance in trying to persuade Wieland to accept an exclusive on-air interview.

Before being taken away in a squad car, Kim appeals to the officer to not bring Megan back to Los Angeles. Yet, despite Miguel’s pleas, she will still not reveal why it is unsafe. She gives the cop Jack’s information and asks him to contact her father. The policeman says he will call once Kim has been processed. She fears it will be too late.

3:08 P.M.
At the Crescent Collectibles store in Visalia, Nina attempts to get information from Faheen. As she speaks to him in Arabic, Michelle’s translator deciphers the conversation for Jack over the monitor. Faheen, however, won’t disclose anything, and Jack gets impatient. He drags Nina back to the car so that they can head back to Los Angeles. The other agents won’t let Jack leave with Nina alone, and they raise their guns to make him retreat from the car.

3:14 P.M.
Paul Koplin, the boss of Kate’s private investigator Ralph Burton, comes to the Warner house to see her. He is familiar with the files that link Reza to Syed Ali, and he attaches some kind of transmitter to the back of Bob’s computer. Kate is slightly alarmed to see that Koplin is carrying a gun, but she shows him the records that she is having trouble accessing in the computer.

3:15 P.M.
Roger Stanton stops Armus as he is escorting Sherry to a restricted area in the O.C. She assures the dubious Stanton that she has been granted right of entry, and she goes into the holding room where Wieland is being kept. Sherry promises Wieland that, if he does not reveal anything about the rumors he had threatened to broadcast, he will be given permission to report from inside the O.C. No other journalist has ever been allowed to do so.

3:18 P.M.
In the van transporting the nuclear device, Basheer gets off the phone and informs Marko and Omar that “Everybody is ready” for them to deliver the bomb. The van suddenly gets a flat tire and they are forced to pull over. They realize that there is a part missing that would detract from fixing the tire. A pool man pulls over and offers them his assistance. Basheer accepts the man’s help.

3:20 P.M.
As they ride back to Los Angeles on the CTU jet, Nina tries to persuade Faheen to cooperate with Jack and about the bomb. Michelle is still having their conversation in Arabic translated into Jack’s earpiece. Faheen tells Nina he is not afraid to die for his cause, and he calls her a traitor. Yet Nina still has a piece of a gift card in her hand that she grabbed when she entered Crescent Collectibles. It is unseen by anyone else. Jack takes Nina aside. She confirms that she did not know anything about the nuclear bomb, but she has no other information about the plan.

3:27 P.M.
The pool man kindly puts a spare tire on Marko’s van, and Basheer thanks him graciously by offering to pay. The pool man doesn’t accept the money, and gives Basheer his business card instead. Marko, who is staring at a group of children playing nearby, tentatively gets back into the van.

While driving Kim to the station, the highway patrolman discusses the situation with another policeman on the phone. He then informs Kim that Miguel told another officer that they were leaving town because some kind of bomb is going off in Los Angeles. Kim pleads with the man to call her father at CTU and keep Megan away from the city. Sensing that perhaps Kim is not lying, the patrolman calls dispatch and asks to be put through to the FBI. The dispatcher says that they have been unable to contact the FBI because of jammed lines. The policeman begins to suspect that something is indeed wrong.

3:29 P.M.
Sherry returns to the retreat to report back to Palmer. Wieland will not conform to their demands. Palmer dismisses her, but Sherry asks why he won’t give her a second chance. She admits that she once got caught up in the political power, but she has now realized her limits. Sherry only wants to help him so that she can regain his confidence. Palmer accepts her help again, with the caveat that she receive nothing in return.

3:31 P.M.
As he drives, thoughts go through Marko’s head. He pulls the van off the road and Basheer reprimands him. “I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to kill anyone,” Marko says. Basheer shoots him in the chest, and gets out to retrieve Marko’s body. Yet when Basheer gets to the other door, the still living Marko shoots him back. They both fall out of the van dead. Omar sees the two men’s bodies and is confused about what to do.

3:37 P.M.
In Bob’s computer, Koplin finds transaction records confirming that Reza withdrew money. There is also a consulting check made out to Syed Ali for $475,000. Koplin then uncovers government files on the database, which Kate merely attributes to Bob’s government clients. Suddenly, the files begin to auto-delete themselves, and Koplin hits some keys to freeze them. The screen becomes filled with ASCII codes, and Koplin recognizes them as encoded coordinate addresses. The only people with files such as these would have government security clearance. Kate is confused as to why this would be on her father’s machine.

3:40 P.M.
Tony comes into the CTU interrogation room where Bob Warner is being held and turns on a tape recorder. Bob admits that he is working as a consultant for the CIA, and he gives Tony the contact code of his liaison there. Because of its international investment business, Bob’s company passes information back and forth to an unknown source. Yet Bob does not know Syed Ali or how there would be any record of him doing business with him. Tony goes to verify Bob’s story and alerts Mason of the discovery.

3:43 P.M.
Michelle gets a call from the California Highway Patrol. They have Kim in custody for a charge of murder. She phones Jack on the jet and connects him on the line with Kimberly. Kim explains what happened. She is sure that Gary must have killed Carla. Although Jack vows that someone from CTU will retrieve her, Kim wants him to come himself. Jack notices that Nina and Faheen are engaged in a hushed conversation on the other side of the plane. With Kim still on the line, Michelle translates their conversation for Jack. Nina said that she has the power to save Faheen’s family from being rounded up by U.S. forces. Yet Michelle can’t pick up any more of what they are saying because they are talking too quietly. Jack asks Nina what Faheen just told her. “Everything,” she says before slitting Faheen’s throat with the shard of gift card she was palming. Jack leaps out of his seat to restrain Nina while the other agents rush to stop the bleeding in Faheen’s neck. Faheen dies. Nina, who now is the only one who knows where the bomb is, stipulates that Jack re-route the plan to San Diego so that she can flee the country. She will only tell him the information when they are on the ground. Mason, who has been listening on the phone, gives in to her demand because they are running out of time. Jack insists that they will hold her until they can confirm the validity of what she divulges.

3:51 P.M.
Michelle tells Mason that she picked up a name from the recordings of Faheen’s muted admission to Nina. Michelle connected the name Marko Khatami to Syed Ali. Mason goes over to Reza, grabs him by the neck and pins him to the wall. Reza says that he does not know Marko Khatami, and Mason calls him a liar. Tony pulls Mason off, as Marie goes to Reza’s aid.

At the highway patrol station, the officer leads Kim and Miguel out of their holding rooms and tells them that they are being transferred to someone at CTU. She asks about Megan, insisting that the little girl not be taken back to Los Angeles. The policeman once again pushes Kim to reveal what is going on, and she finally admits that there is a nuclear bomb loose in the city.

3:54 P.M.
Michelle tells Tony that she was not able to retrieve anything else from the tape. Noticing that she is rattled, he inquires about her well being. “We’re going to survive this day,” Tony says warmly.

Palmer asks Lynne what she thinks about Sherry being around. She says that she will defer to anything he wants. They are interrupted by a live news broadcast. Wieland is reporting that there is an imminent threat to national security by Middle Eastern terrorist cels working with the possible involvement of domestic terrorist groups. Wieland also confirms that the President knows about this and is not telling the American public. Palmer asks Mike Novick how Wieland got out, and he demands to see Armus, who had been overseeing Wieland’s captivity.

3:56 P.M.
As Kate walks Koplin out of the house, she wonders why her father didn’t already know about Reza’s illegal involvement if he was supposedly working with the government. Bob wouldn’t have let his daughter marry Reza if he had been under investigation, and he had always treated Reza like a son. Koplin says that he knows Tony Almeida and will call him. Suddenly, two men appear in the yard and attack Kate and Koplin. The men inject something into their necks and toss the limp bodies of Kate and Koplin into a parked truck. It pulls out of the Warner driveway.

3:59 P.M.
As a shackled Nina sits on the CTU jet, Jack recalls to Nina a fond memory of his wife Teri in the days before she was killed. “That’s what you took from this world, Nina,” he says. “That’s what you took from me and my daughter.” Suddenly, an explosion rocks the plane and an alarm sounds. The jet jostles, and bodies are tossed about the cabin.

 

 

5:00 P.M.
In a press conference at the retreat, the President admits to the media that there is a form of terrorist threat against the country. However, he guarantees that there is no cause for alarm and he will exercise judgement about what to reveal. Avoiding the reporters’ questions, Palmer and Novick conclude that his statement will help buy them some time.

As Nina holds Jack hostage in the Angeles National Forest, she tells him that their predicament is not personal. She only killed his wife because Teri had overheard details about her escape route. Unbeknownst to Nina, Jack spots a sharpshooter in the woods, but the shooter does not have a good angle. Jack walks forward to bring Nina into the shooter’s range. She threatens him to stop, but Jack says that if she kills him now, she will be in violation of her pardon agreement. Nina moves closer to Jack, and the sharpshooter fires, hitting Nina in the hand. As she falls wounded, CTU agents converge on them and take Nina captive. Jack is saved.

5:04 P.M.
Although Kim and Miguel try to resist being taken back to Los Angeles, the policeman escorts them to a waiting car. Before he gets in, Miguel fights with the officer. A lighter falls out of the policeman’s pocket, and Miguel secretly palms it in his cuffed hand. Kim and Miguel are placed in the vehicle.

Novick relays to the President that CTU took down Nina without seriously hurting her. Palmer instructs him to keep Nina out of custody. Although she will still be pardoned when they confirm her information, he wants her delivered to Los Angeles so that she can share the fate of everyone she has endangered.

As he waits for the helicopter to transport him, Jack goes over to Nina and whispers something in her ear. Her face becomes masked with fear. Jack approaches one of the fallen soldiers who tried to kill him. On the dead man’s wrist is a tattoo of a coral snake.

5:06 P.M
Reza brings CTU agents to the Warner Corporation building to show them the alleged transactions. Agent Richards boots up Bob’s computer, and Reza guides him through accessing the invoice files.

5:08 P.M.
Kate watches as Mohsen cleans up the mess from Koplin’s bloodied corpse. Syed Ali comes in and, speaking in Arabic, asks Mohsen why he did not kill Kate. Mohsen wants to be certain that she has revealed everything before they dispose of her. They embrace, and Ali leaves to pray one last time. In perfect English, Mohsen questions Kate about what she found in Bob Warner’s computer and about whom else she told. She once again tells him that she does not know anything. Mohsen menacingly picks up a surgical knife from the tray of instruments.

5:14 P.M.
In a helicopter en route to the address that Nina provided, Jack calls Palmer to tell him that the soldiers who attacked his plane were either Americans or American-trained. Jack recognized a coral snake tattoo on one of the bodies as a signature of an undercover special ops unit under the command of Colonel Samuels that is out of Fort Benning. The President does not know the unit, and Jack informs him that it is buried within the budget of NSA. Palmer wonders whether the soldier was merely working as a mercenary outside of the government. Yet Jack construes that only someone with inside knowledge could have had access to the shot-down plane’s flight plan.

5:15 P.M.
Michelle notices Mason’s worsening condition. Becoming reflective, he tells her that his job at CTU wasn’t his first choice. He advises her to find something that makes her happy instead of waiting for life to happen.

The President asks NSA Director Roger Stanton about both the Coral Snake special ops unit and Colonel Samuels at Fort Benning. Stanton denies knowledge of them, but suggests that perhaps the Department of Defense secretly funded the unit and attached it to the NSA. Saying he will look into it, Stanton leaves the office. Palmer informs Novick and Sherry about what he has learned. Doubting Stanton’s honesty, the President wants him arrested. The chain of events that occurred after Stanton’s arrival -- the crash of the ambassador’s helicopter, the evacuation of military out of Los Angeles, Ron Wieland’s release from custody -- all point to his guilt. Sherry is quick to have reservations about Palmer’s decision, but Novick argues that Stanton might possibly be impeding the search for the nuclear bomb. Palmer agrees with Sherry that they need proof before they make any move against him. He demands that Novick find a connection between Stanton and Colonel Samuels.

5:21 P.M.
In the backseat of the police car, Miguel shows Kim the lighter. He tells her to reach for the bandanna in his pocket so that he can set it on fire. Kim resists, but Miguel implores that they need to do something instead of heading right back into the blast range. Kim pulls out the cloth, and after Miguel lights it, she puts it into the grate between the front and back seats. The officer reacts to the fire, and as he tries to put it out, he loses control of the vehicle. It swerves and topples into an embankment.

5:28 P.M.
Kim makes her way out of the crashed police car and climbs into the other side where the officer lays unconscious. She takes his keys to unlock her handcuffs, and grabs the radio to call for help. Miguel, who is badly injured, tries to dissuade her. Yet she gives the location of the car to dispatch with news of the two injured people.

5:30 P.M.
In the torture room of the suburban house, Mohsen raises the knife and takes Kate’s left ear between his fingers. He asks her whom she told, and Kate again says no one. Mohsen pierces the blade into Kate’s earlobe.

Outside the house, CTU agents on the scene prep Jack. Two figures are seen on an infrared image of the house, and they assume one must be Syed Ali. Jack phones Mason and informs him of what is there. Mason arranges for teams around the city to be ready when they learn the actual location of the bomb.

As Reza leads Agent Richards through Bob’s computer, Marie shows up at the office demanding to speak to her fiancé. She leaps into Reza’s lap and apologizes for what she said to him at CTU. Marie vows that she still wants to marry Reza, and she trusts whatever he has to do.

5:32 P.M.
Mohsen wipes the blood from Kate’s neck and assures her that it is only a nick. He trains his gun on Kate and she begs to be let go. Mohsen explains that something terrible is going to happen that will cause much suffering, and she would rather die quickly. Suddenly, the CTU team advances into the house, and Mohsen hears a noise. He sees the shadow of a gunmen on the roof, and instinctively fires holes into the walls around him. Mohsen grabs Kate and yells to the agents that he has taken her hostage. When the agents do not respond, Mohsen assumes that they want him alive. An agent goes in with a shield, and as Mohsen fires, Jack enters behind the shield and shoots Mohsen. Jack takes Mohsen’s weapon and retrieves Kate. Suddenly, Mohsen begins to foam at the mouth. He lapses into convulsions and dies. Since no one saw him take anything, they assume he hid cyanide in his mouth. Jack orders an analysis to confirm that this man is Syed Ali.

5:39 P.M.
Kim sits at Miguel’s side in the overturned squad car. He urges her to leave before the police arrive. She thanks him, and pledges that she will find him when this ordeal is over. Kim kisses him gently. She runs off into the woods as an ambulance approaches the scene.

5:40 P.M.
Kate sits outside the house holding gauze on her ear. Jack brings her a glass of water and drapes his jacket over her shoulders. She tells him that she and Paul Koplin were kidnapped because the two men thought they knew something. Kate identifies the man that escaped as Syed Ali, and she describes what Ali was wearing. Jack radios to another agent that Ali is still alive. Kate then tears up when she tells Jack that her sister Marie was supposed to get married today.

Sherry informs Palmer and Novick that she has learned about a back channel communications network called OPCOM that the CIA used to operate. Although it has been shut down for twenty years, Stanton had given an order to resurrect it a month ago. Sherry’s source is still checking to see whether Stanton used OPCOM to contact Colonel Samuels. The President has Novick call the Attorney General to begin the process of arresting Stanton.

5:43 P.M.
Jack calls Tony at CTU and asks him to run a background check on Kate Warner. Tony recognizes the name, and explains to Jack about his investigation into Reza and Bob Warner. He also tells Jack that Bob does freelance work for the CIA. Since no one in the family will reveal any information, Tony asks whether Jack can make Kate talk. Jack instructs Tony to connect the dots, because for some reason, this family is involved with the nuclear threat. Jack then radios another agent to bring Kate back into the torture room.

5:46 P.M.
Novick uncovers the OPCOM channel, but he needs a password to get in. Sherry finds the still-active code of a retired personnel officer, and Novick takes it to the O.C. Sherry then tells Palmer that she is collecting the dates that Colonel Samuels logged onto OPCOM so that they can link it to Stanton. Palmer praises Sherry for what she has done. Placing his hand on her shoulder, he tells her that he is glad she is there. Sherry touches his hand. “I’ve always been here,” she says.

5:52 P.M.
Struggling to form a connection between the Warners and Syed Ali, Tony asks Michelle to draw up a list of managers and directors at Warner Investments. Affected by what Mason said to her about not wasting time in life, Michelle garners up the courage to tell Tony that she would like to date him. Although Tony is also interested in her, he has been hesitant because of what happened between him and Nina last year. They agree to go out if their case is closed successfully.

5:54 P.M.
In the torture room, Kate recounts for Jack what had happened there. She says that Ali and Mohsen spoke in hushed tones. She knew it was in Arabic because her family had lived in Saudi Arabia when she was younger. Kate only recognized the word for “prayer.” Jack looks at his watch, and radios another agent to locate the nearest mosque. It is nearly time for Muslim prayer. Jack asks Kate to go with him to the mosque to identify Ali.

5:56 P.M.
Stanton receives a cell phone call in the O.C. It is Sherry, who says that she told the President about OPCOM. She is working her way into having Palmer trust her again, and she warns Stanton not to talk about her involvement when he is arrested. If Stanton stays the course as they had planned, he will have power, but Sherry must remain in place with Palmer.

5:58 P.M.
On Bob’s computer, Reza uncovers Ali’s shipping order for Agent Richards. However, it had been entered last January when both he and Bob were in Europe and could not access their terminal. Reza finds evidence of somebody hacking into the system through his laptop while he was gone. Suddenly, a shot downs Richards. Reza looks up to see Marie holding a gun. “I didn’t expect you to find anything,” she says. Reza is confused, and questions whether the last two years of their relationship really meant nothing. A tear falls down Marie’s cheek, and she shoots Reza dead.

 

 

7:00 P.M.
As the CTU SWAT team surrounds the building to hunt for Syed Ali, Jack asks the imam of the mosque if he is hiding the terrorist. The imam assures Jack that he will be cooperative in finding Ali. One of the agents leads Jack to a trap door on the floor that was not in the schematics of the mosque. Knowing that Ali is prepared to kill himself in lieu of being captured, Jack goes down into the basement first.

7:04 P.M.
From the basement beneath the mosque, Syed Ali places a cell phone call and reaches Marie, who is driving in a car. He instructs her to go to their set rendezvous point, saying that if he does not arrive, she will know what to do. Jack comes upon Ali and apprehends him with the help of the SWAT team. After Kate identifies him, Jack removes the cyanide capsule from Ali’s teeth.

7:06 P.M.
At CTU, Mason gives Bob Warner confirmation that his daughter is indeed involved with Syed Ali. Bob explains that when Marie was studying in London, she ran away after her mother died. The police could not find her, but Marie regained contact with her family after a few weeks. Mason suggests that it was at that time when she was converted to the terrorists’ cause. Michelle interrupts to tell Mason about Ali’s capture. A burned paper fragment with writing on it was also found in Ali’s clothes on the dead man. Michelle had brought in a computer-imaging expert named Murdoch to analyze what was on the paper.

7:09 P.M.
Mike Novick brings news to the President that Jack Bauer captured Syed Ali and is interrogating him. Novick sees Palmer watching the feed of Agent Simmons enacting his interrogation on Roger Stanton. Simmons had informed the President that Stanton’s military background taught him to resist this kind of torture. “But everyone breaks eventually,” Palmer says calmly.

7:14 P.M.
Tony directs a rescue team searching for Kimberly Bauer in the forest, and Mason becomes angry with him for diverting resources away from finding the bomb. He orders Tony to stay focused on their immediate mission, but Tony says that he is only keeping his promise to Jack. Tony then returns to his efforts when Mason is out of earshot.

7:15 P.M.
As Kim tries to free her foot from the trap, she hears leaves rustling in the distance. The forest, however, is blanketed in darkness and she can’t see anything. A man with a rifle comes upon her and asks how she got there. The man, whose name is McRae, helps release her foot from the snare.

7:17 P.M.
Jack interrogates Ali in the basement of the mosque, striking the man when he won’t divulge any information about the bomb. Ali, however, is more than ready to die for his cause.

In the forest, McRae wraps up Kim’s ankle and tells her that he will try to get her to the ranger’s station. Yet Kim doesn’t want to go back there, and McRae begins to suspect that she is running from something. Since the forest is dangerous at night, he offers to let her stay at his nearby house.

7:20 P.M.
Jack allows the mosque’s imam to try to question the captive. The imam tells Ali that the Koran strictly forbids the killing of innocents and non-combatants, and that the death of one of those people will not permit him into paradise. Yet Ali is steadfast in his commitment. The imam reports back to Jack, who warns that the imam may not like what they may do to Ali. They pull the last number dialed on Ali’s cell phone, and Kate immediately recognizes the number as her sister’s. Jack is forced to tell her about Reza’s murder and the fact that Marie is the suspected killer. Kate does not believe this, and questions whether Marie’s cell phone had been stolen. Jack tells her to call the number to see if Marie answers, and they will trace the call.

7:28 P.M.
While the techs set up the phone, Jack instructs Kate on how to keep Marie on the line. They rig it so that Kate’s number will appear on the caller ID. Marie picks up as she is driving, and Kate casually asks about where she is. Marie realizes that Reza’s body has been found, telling her sister that “People have to die for things to change.” The techs are able to trace the call to an area in Sylmar, but they lose connection when Marie hangs up and throws the phone out the window. Kate becomes upset, and wonders whether Marie had been forced to say that under threat.

7:31 P.M.
At CTU, Murdoch recovers the phrase “N34” written by hand on the charred paper, and he sends it to Jack at the mosque. Tony has Michelle look up any possible links connected to this code.

7:32 P.M.
Jack gets a printout of Murdoch’s results, and he questions Ali about what “N34” means. When Ali is still unhelpful, Jack then turns on a bank of video monitors. Ali is horrified to see his wife and children via satellite from his home country. Masked soldiers are tying them up. Jack once again asks where the bomb is.

7:39 P.M.
Palmer becomes concerned when Novick informs him that Jack is holding the lives of Syed Ali’s family. The President is disturbed that they have resorted to killing innocent people, but Novick argues that the bomb is an act of war that may cause civilian casualties.

Ali continues to watch the monitors. Jack threatens to kill his family unless he gets the information he needs to stop the bomb. Ali still holds to his position of silence, saying he is doing Allah’s work. Jack is interrupted by a call from the President, who forbids him from killing these people. Palmer hangs up, but Jack continues talking on the phone so that Ali can hear him. He pretends to get the full support of the President for his actions against Ali’s family. Listening, Ali winces.

7:43 P.M.
Lynne approaches Novick to say that she does not believe Sherry Palmer should be there because she is untrustworthy. Although Novick at first brushes this off as turf war, Lynne explains that Sherry has been communicating with Stanton for the last six months even though Stanton claimed to have only met the former First Lady that morning. Lynne says that she finally has a face-to-face meeting with her unknown source in ten minutes. Novick decides not to immediately tell the President about this, and he instructs Lynne to apprise him after her meeting.

7:45 P.M.
Over a satellite phone, Jack instructs someone to begin with Ali’s first born son. Jack then goes into the room where Ali is being held, and he tells him that he has run out of time. When Ali still does not answer, Jack gives an order to kill over the satellite phone. One of the masked soldiers pushes the boy’s chair over and shoots him. Ali reacts in horror at watching his own son’s murder. Jack again demands to know where the bomb is, but Ali will not talk.

7:51 P.M.
Lynne pulls up to a highway rest stop outside of the perimeter of the O.C. She is surprised to see Sherry waiting for her. Sherry says that the people Stanton is conspiring with wanted Lynne to connect the situation to her. The conspiracy’s true goal is to take control of the Presidency, and they have been feeding misinformation about Sherry because they are afraid of her. She did not reveal any of this to Palmer until she was sure she had concrete evidence. Yet Lynne does not listen, and is convinced that Sherry still only has her own interest at heart. She vows to fight her to save Palmer and his Administration.

Jack is about to give the order to shoot Ali’s next son when Ali finally gives in. He says that the plan is to detonate the bomb from a plane over downtown. Jack phones CTU with news that the bomb is at Norton Airfield. Michelle quickly finds out that the planes there have tail numbers that begin with the letter “N.” Mason dispatches teams to Norton and has the FAA ground the site’s aircraft.

7:57 P.M.
As Ali is carried out of the mosque, he curses at Jack for killing his son. Kate hears this and questions why Jack would do such a thing. Jack radios over the satellite phone for the real feed to be rerouted back to him for confirmation. Kate sees on the monitors that the boy is really alive. The whole shooting had been staged. Jack then asks Kate to accompany him to Norton Airfield because he believes that Marie will be there. They get into a car and drive off.

7:59 P.M.
Marie arrives at an airplane hangar where Omar the van driver is waiting with the bomb. She takes out the trigger that she retrieved from Marko’s locker. He connects the trigger to the bomb.

 

 

8:00 P.M.
As he is driving towards the airfield, Jack inquires about Kim. Tony says that they have not yet heard from her. Jack asks him to do whatever he can to find her.

Kim limps behind McRae through the forest toward his cabin. He notes her injured ankle and suggests that she be taken to a doctor. When Kim says it is not safe for her to go back to Los Angeles, McRae asks if she is being accused of something she didn’t do.

8:03 P.M.
Palmer enters the holding room in the O.C. where Agent Simmons has been interrogating Roger Stanton. Stanton admits to being part of a group that wants to make Palmer’s defense policy more aggressive. They allowed the bomb to enter the country, and permitted the Second Wave terrorist cel to operate unimpeded. However, Colonel Samuels’ special ops forces have been tracking the bomb so it does not detonate. They were to remove the bomb from play at the last moment. The President orders Stanton to call off the mission and secure the bomb, but Stanton says that the team has not been reachable for the past three hours. They are operating on their own accord at Norton Airfield in Los Angeles.

8:06 P.M.
McRae cooks up some food and offers Kim the use of his shower.

At CTU, Tony asks Michelle to send transport teams to pick up groups of Second Wave terrorists named by Syed Ali. Mason announces that the NSA and the President’s command center in Oregon confirmed that the bomb is at Norton Airfield. He orders all agents sent there, overriding Tony’s directive to pick up other Second Wave members.

8:07 P.M.
As Jack drives with Kate, Mason calls to tell him that Colonel Samuels’ Coral Snake team, a hostile paramilitary unit who shot down Jack’s plane, will prevent him from getting to the bomb. Jack wants to know why the American military is working with terrorists, but Mason assumes that Coral Snake merely want to be the ones who secure the nuclear weapon. However, this group is acting as a rogue unit who can not be contacted. They will treat anyone else as hostile. Jack senses that something is wrong.

8:09 P.M.
At the hangar, Omar gets the plane ready to fly the bomb over the city. Marie spots police cars pull up at the airfield, and she warns Omar that they have been found.

Jack and Kate pull up to the emergency building at Norton Airfield. He asks her again for her help, and has another agent take her to a secure area. Jack is met by Steve Goodrich, an agent heading the assault team on site. Goodrich gives him profiles of the soldiers in Samuels’ Coral Snake unit, as well as the schematics for the airport. Jack then briefs the assault squads about the situation.

8:16 P.M.
Division wants to shut down Mason’s CTU operation because the site is not up to full speed after the bombing and may be compromised. Division wants to run the investigation themselves. Tony tells Mason his frustration with this news.

8:17 P.M.
Kim finishes cleaning up, and McRae serves her food. He asks her again why she is resistant to returning to the city, and Kim divulges to him that there is a terrorist nuclear threat. McRae is surprisingly not shocked by this. He has suspected something would happen soon enough in this country.

8:19 P.M.
Lynne briefs the President about what Jack is facing from the special ops team that Stanton described. Then Novick discovers that Stanton had been working with a Senator from Michigan named Gluck. Palmer suggests that they bring in Sherry because she is close to Gluck and his key staffers. He instructs Novick to give her access to the O.C.’s secure databases. Novick and Lynne trade looks of concern. When Lynne attempts to tell the President about her suspicions, he cuts her off and orders her to do what he asked.

8:21 P.M.
Michelle voices her distress to Tony about Division’s stepping into their investigation, but he says that it is nothing to worry about. She asks about Mason, and Tony tells her that Division will probably pull him from command once they see his deteriorated health.

8:22 P.M.
Agent Goodrich shows Jack a group of footprints left by military-issue combat boots that lead into a fuel depot at the airfield. The marks show that no one has exited the building, which means that the special ops soldiers are still inside. Jack leads the SWAT team to raid the building. Yet inside they find the Coral Snake commandos lying on the ground. Each one has been shot in the forehead. Goodrich asks, “If these guys are dead, who’s tracking the bomb?”

8:28 P.M.
Inside his office, Mason readjusts a bandage on his arm. He is clearly in agony, and puts on his suit jacket to cover the bandage. Meanwhile, Tony and Michelle lead Brad Hammond from Division around the office to show him which databanks have been damaged by the blast. Hammond points out that they have the same data at Division, where they should now be running the operation. He orders them to shift people to his Division offices. Mason hears this, tells Hammond that will only waste time instead of finding the bomb. Hammond comments that he heard Mason wasn’t feeling well. Mason shrugs off this notion and demands that they not shut down. His systems in this office are now exceeding performance levels. Hammond, taken of guard, has no response. Mason walks away, and grabs his arm where the bandage is. Blood is beginning to seep out.

8:30 P.M.
McRae leads Kim down into the basement of his cabin to proudly show her the bomb shelter he has built. Yet when Kim sees the weapons and ammunition he has amassed inside, she becomes alarmed and runs out of the shelter. McRae chases her upstairs to the living room. She tells him that she was a bit claustrophobic and afraid of the guns he has stored. McRae boasts that if there is a nuclear explosion, he will be one of the only people to survive. Kim says that she needs to be with her family at her Aunt Carol’s house. McRae tells her to go if she needs to.

8:33 P.M.
Lynne meets Sherry on her arrival at the O.C., and she hands her access cards to the facility. Sherry asks what made Palmer change his mind to allow her in. Lynne avoids answering, but requests that Sherry not deal with any of the personnel and run everything through her. Sherry is taken aback, and accuses Lynne of positioning herself between Palmer’s inner circle because she doesn’t trust her. Lynne cuts through the niceties, admitting to not liking Sherry and not wanting her to be here. “Well, now we’re communicating,” Sherry says with a slight smile.

8:40 P.M.
McRae packs some supplies for Kim to take with her on her escape. They hear a car pull up to the cabin, and Kim hides. A park ranger comes to the door and asks McRae if he spotted a teenage girl from a car accident. The park ranger explains that the police had arrested her for kidnapping and murder. McRae says that he hasn’t seen her, and the park ranger leaves. Kim comes out of hiding, and McRae asks about the charges. She tells him that she is not guilty. She then says that she is lucky that he found her.

8:43 P.M.
Palmer asks Sherry to find whatever she can about Stanton’s relationship with Senator Gluck. She thanks him for trusting her. Novick comes to the President with news that all six members of the Coral Snake team were found dead, but that Jack Bauer did not uncover the bomb. Palmer goes in to see Stanton. He angrily tells him that the plan backfired. Stanton is astounded, and can’t understand who else would have known about the situation. Yet when Palmer says that six of the commandos were killed, Stanton tells him that there were originally seven soldiers.

8:45 P.M.
Murdoch the tech comes up with a clearer picture of the number on the scrap of paper, narrowing it down to two tail numbers. Michelle discovers from the FAA records that one of those tail numbers is at Norton Airfield. Tony calls Jack with the plane. Its location is hangar MD7.

8:46 P.M.
Inside MD7, Marie wishes Omar good luck and they say their farewells. Omar climbs into a Cessna plane and starts its engine. Marie opens the hangar door and leaves the building. As the plane drives out of the hangar, Jack and the SWAT team see it and follow it along the runway. Jack has the Hummer he is riding in pull up alongside the Cessna, and he shoots at the plane’s wheels. Although the wheel blows out, the plane keeps moving. Jack then fires inside the cockpit and hits Omar. The plane comes to a stop, and the agents raid it. Jack sees the bomb inside the plane and calls for the Nuke Emergency team.

8:52 P.M.
At CTU, Hammond hears Mason cough. He tells him to get it checked out. Mason brushes this comment aside.

8:53 P.M.
Inside the airplane, the bomb specialist finds a modification on the bomb and is unsure if he can diffuse it. Jack prepares to put the bomb onto another plane to take it outside Los Angeles. Then the N.E.S.T. tech realizes that what he is looking at is not a bomb but a fake one rigged to look real. The plutonium residue on the device means that there was recently a nuclear bomb in place that is no longer there. Jack notifies the other SWAT teams that they only have a decoy.

8:55 P.M.
As Kim prepares to leave, McRae checks the police scanner. He panics because all of the Los Angeles radio stations have gone static, and a station outside of the county reports a flash in the sky. Kim looks out the window and doesn’t see anything. McRae gives her his headphones to prove that all the stations are dead. Kim begins to hyperventilate and starts for the door because she wants to go to her father. McRae pulls her back, saying that they have to go to the bomb shelter. Shell shocked, she lets him lead her down into the basement and McRae locks them inside. Kim does not know that all is normal in Los Angeles. The bomb did not go off.

Michelle gets word that Jack did not find the bomb, and she passes this on to Mason and Tony.

8:59 P.M.
Palmer goes in to see Stanton again, saying that there was no bomb at the airport. He gives Stanton one more chance to come clean. Stanton tells the President to ask Sherry. “She’s the one you want to talk to,” Stanton says.

 

 

9:00 P.M.
As the techs scan the decoy bomb for clues, Jack tries questioning Omar. Omar, however, does not speak English. Jack puts in an urgent request for a translator.

At CTU, tufts of Mason’s hair fall out from the radiation sickness. He gets Jack on the phone and inquires about the search at the airport. Jack asks him for a reverse-time satellite to track the delivery of the decoy, but the weakening Mason seems not to have heard him. Jack implores Mason to step aside if he is not fully functioning. Right now they need someone capable in command. Mason lets Jack know that there was a seventh commando who may have escaped. The seventh member of their team must have shot the soldiers at close range, and Jack asks Mason to find the identity of that man. Omar begins to say something in Arabic, but no one can understand him because the translator has yet to arrive.

From the airport holding room, Kate calls her father. Bob Warner is still being held at CTU. They are both shocked that Marie is linked to the terrorists. Kate hangs up when Jack comes in to ask her for help in talking to Omar.

9:04 P.M.
Palmer fills in Novick on what Stanton said about Sherry’s involvement in the conspiracy. The President has Sherry summoned, and he tells her that he knows about Stanton bringing the bomb into the country. He then questions if she is working with Stanton. Sherry denies it, claiming that she only met Stanton that afternoon. Palmer knows that is not true. Since she alleges to love him, he asks her to come clean. She admits to being approached by Stanton because he wanted to know Palmer’s weaknesses. Sherry only obliged in order to gain Stanton’s confidence. She did it to protect Palmer, not hurt him. She asks her ex-husband to allow her to prove her innocence.

9:09 P.M.
Kate translates that Omar only participated in the terrorist plot because Syed Ali promised to pay his family. Kate then asks Omar about the second bomb, but he doesn’t understand her dialect. The translator arrives and asks Omar the same question. He says he doesn’t know anything.

9:10 P.M.
When Kate is leaving the hangar, she sees a group of people being shuffled into another building because of the airfield lock down. Among the crowd, Kate sees a woman with short brown hair. She recognizes the woman as her sister Marie.

9:15 P.M.
In the bomb shelter, Kim asks McRae about what he heard on the radio regarding the nuclear blast. He tells her that the transmission died before he could get any news. Kim is eager to contact her father, but McRae dissuades her from leaving the shelter. He offers to try his shortwave radio. Yet when he puts on the headphones, he can hear the Los Angeles radio stations in full force. McRae pulls out the antennae connection from the radio and it goes static. He tells Kim that he could not pick up anything because the radiation has affected the antennae. Kim sobs in fear, and McRae comforts her.

9:17 P.M.
Mason meets Carrie Turner, the new programmer brought in to replace Paula Schaeffer. He asks her to report directly to him. Carrie, who has noted Mason’s failing health, says that she heard he will not be around much longer. He smiles at her frankness, and tells her to instead report to Tony and Michelle. Carrie informs him that she used to be Michelle’s boss at District, but that this will not cause any problems. Suddenly, Mason passes out and collapses to the floor.

9:19 P.M.
Kate goes into the building where people are being checked in by security and subjected to metal detectors. She spots Marie slipping out a back door. Yet when she goes to follow her, Kate is stopped by a guard. She flashes the badge given to her by CTU, and tells the guard to radio Jack Bauer about Marie. Kate goes out the back door and is startled when Marie pulls a gun on her and demands her badge. Marie tells her sister that Syed Ali helped her see the hypocrisy of this country and of people like Bob Warner, who worked for the CIA. Kate calls her sister ungrateful for everything she and their father did. She believes that Marie has been brainwashed by lunatics. Marie slaps Kate, and again asks for her badge. This time she threatens to kill her. Suddenly, a shot rings out. Jack has hit Marie in the arm. He approaches with a team of agents and they secure Marie.

9:28 P.M.
Marie is brought to an emergency building at the airport. She screams in pain from the gunshot. Kate asks why her sister is not being treated for the pain, and Jack explains that they need her cooperation because she may be the only one who has information. After Marie is handcuffed to a chair, Jack asks where the bomb is but she is resistant. Once she reveals the information they are looking for, they will have the bullet removed from her body. Marie screams in agony, and Kate winces at the sound of her sister being tortured. Marie still will not give Jack anything, saying that she is not afraid to die. Jack doesn’t believe her, and he says that she doesn’t have the look of people willing to give up their lives for their cause.

9:31 P.M.
While McRae fiddles with his radio under headphones, Kim finds a television set on a shelf in the bunker. She turns it on and sees that all the stations are fully operational. The local news does not show anything out of the ordinary. Kim realizes that she is in danger.

9:33 P.M.
Tony pulls up a bio of a special ops soldier named Jonathan Wallace, who is believed to be the seventh commando in the Coral Snake unit. Michelle forwards the info to Jack and the White House’s O.C. Carrie comes over to greet Michelle, and there is some tension between the two. Michelle, establishing the lines of authority, hands Carrie some files to analyze.

9:34 P.M.
Mason approaches Tony about taking over command because he doesn’t feel well enough to continue. He asks Tony to say goodbye to the staff for him, and hands him access codes for CTU and Division. He has already talked to Chappelle at District. Tony has been named the new Director. Mason wishes Tony luck and leaves quietly.

9:40 P.M.
Tony settles himself into Mason’s office. He alerts the CTU staff of Mason’s situation and the new chain of command. Tony tells the crew that they can not mourn until they get through this crisis.

9:42 P.M.
Jack has Agent Goodrich give Marie something temporary for the pain because he needs her lucid for more questioning. He then asks Kate to remind Marie of the other things she used to love so that they can break through whatever brainwashing Syed Ali did to her. Although Marie is a bit groggy from the painkiller, Kate strokes her hair tenderly. She pleads with her to stop the bomb, but Marie says she can’t. The Demerol wears off, and Marie sobs when the pain returns. Jack won’t dispense more painkillers until she gives them information. Marie finally relents. She tells Jack that the bomb is in a suitcase being transported by a green van to the Arco Towers downtown. Marie knows it will detonate in three hours because she saw the timer. Jack wants her to describe the timer, and Marie hesitates. Jack knows that there would not be a visible timer on a bomb that size. Marie claims that she is not lying. Jack becomes convinced that Marie is trying to lead them astray and that the bomb is still on the site. He orders teams to initiate a grid search of all the buildings at the airport. Jack and the agents head out to search, leaving Marie alone with Kate. “They’re not going to find it in time,” Marie says. “We’re all going to die.”

9:52 P.M.
Novick sets up a video call for the President with Steve Hillenburg, a CIA operative at Langley. Sherry watches the monitor as Hillenburg confirms her story. Sherry contacted him four months ago because Stanton was trying to recruit her to undermine the Administration. Hillenburg operated without the President’s knowledge in order to protect both Palmer and Sherry. He says he has photographs, taped conversations and debriefs to corroborate her claims. Palmer asks where the meetings took place, and Sherry says that it was in a hotel room for the first month. She quickly tells Palmer that she did not sleep with Stanton. “I didn’t ask,” Palmer says, and hangs up with Hillenburg. Sherry pleads with Palmer to believe that she was not part of Stanton’s conspiracy. Palmer doesn’t know whether she’s telling the truth or not, but he knows that he can not trust her. He orders her to leave and threatens to arrest her if she resists.

9:55 P.M.
As McRae sets up a cot, Kim scans the room and spots a hunting knife. She asks McRae to get her another aspirin, and when his back is turned, she hits him in the head with a flashlight. She draws the knife on him and demands that he let her out, saying she knows that the bomb didn’t go off. McRae disarms her, and pleads that he wasn’t going to hurt her. He only wanted some company. Kim says that she does not want to stay, and McRae becomes enraged that she is rejecting him. Kim begs him to let her go. He hands her a flashlight and a gun to guard against the wilderness. He opens the door and gives her directions to the trail. Kim runs out.

9:59 P.M.
As Jack drives through the airfield, he sees signs of gunfire ahead. The CTU radio reports that one hostile is down. Jack pulls up, and Goodrich directs him to the bomb wrapped in an Army green duffel bag. The N.E.S.T. technician confirms that the bomb is nuclear and has a trigger. Jack radios for an evacuation of the site. The tech realizes that the weapon is armed, but he doesn’t know how long before it will detonate. It could be any second.

 

10:00 P.M.
As the N.E.S.T. techs work on diffusing the bomb, Mason arrives at Norton Airfield alone. Although Jack tells him that it is not necessary for him to be there, Mason had promised himself that he would see this case to the end. The techs alert Jack that they can not dismantle the bomb because the trigger has been rendered tamperproof. There is 55 minutes left until detonation. Jack orders Agent Goodrich to find a fast plane so that the bomb can be flown somewhere else, and he calls the O.C. to notify the President.

10:05 P.M.
Kim walks along a deserted road, and flags down an oncoming car. The male driver who pulls up just happens to be heading toward San Jose. Kim becomes suspicious, and refuses the ride. When the driver gets out of the car to persuade her to get in, Kim draws her gun on him. He doubts her ability to use the weapon, causing Kim to fire at his car as a warning. The guy drives off, and Kim continues walking down the highway.

Jack and Palmer discuss two different locations to take the bomb -- the ocean and the desert. The President tells Jack that they need to analyze both options, and he will get back to him as soon as possible.

10:07 P.M.
Novick outlines for the O.C. war room staff the disaster impact of releasing the nuclear detonation in the Pacific Ocean, and Lynne does the same for the Mojave Desert. Although the facts point to less risk with the desert, there is one problem: the bomb would have to be deposited in a precise location. Since the aircraft transporting the nuclear device is not a military plane, there would be no method to deliver the payload accurately. The pilot would be forced to go down with the plane. Palmer calls Jack with the news. Jack says that CTU analysts had come to the same conclusion about the suicide mission. He tells the President that several men have already volunteered to pilot the plane. Palmer pledges the nation’s gratitude for that man’s service, and he vows to take care of whatever family the man will leave behind. Palmer asks Jack to call when the plane is in the air.

10:11 P.M.
Mason, who overheard the conversation with the President, approaches Jack. He knows that there are no volunteers for the mission because Jack wants to do it alone. Mason offers up himself for the flight. Not only is he an instrument rated pilot, but he is already going to die by the end of the day. Jack refuses to let him take over because Mason may black out short of his destination.

10:17 P.M.
Two CTU agents bring a suitcase full of Syed Ali’s personal effects from the safe house to Tony. Among the items was a hard drive that has been encrypted. The agents also have with them Yusuf Auda, a visiting intelligence liaison from the Arab country suspected of harboring the Second Wave terrorists. Yusuf is eager to participate in the analysis on Ali’s belongings, but Tony is evasive and not willing to trust this man. Tony asks Michelle to assign someone to make sure that Yusuf doesn’t see anything of importance related to the case. When Michelle informs Carrie that she will handle Yusuf herself, Carrie questions whether Michelle has problems with her working there.

10:19 P.M.
As the N.E.S.T. techs load the nuclear bomb onto a Cessna, Jack calls CTU to ask Tony about Kim’s whereabouts. Jack says that since he is flying the suicide mission, he needs to speak to his daughter immediately. He also tells Tony that there is safe in his apartment with his will and a letter to her.

10:21 P.M.
Kim is still hitchhiking along the road when another car pulls up. This time the driver is a woman named Anna. Kim tells Anna that she fled a date who had gotten out of hand, and Anna invites her for the ride. Anna lets Kim use her cell phone to call her father.

10:22 P.M.
Kate inquires about how the bomb will be transported and is horrified to learn that Jack is the one manning the plane. She calls out to Jack as he boards the Cessna equipped with a clock synchronized to the bomb’s timer. He turns to her, but there are no words for what is happening. Jack closes the cockpit door, and she watches as he starts the plane down the runway for takeoff.

10:28 P.M.
Novick gets word that the plane is in the air. Palmer requests that Air Force One be prepared to take him to Los Angeles. Novick and Lynne try to talk him out of the trip, but Palmer wants to be there to reassure citizens that he is in control of the situation. The President is then shocked to hear that Jack is the one flying the plane.

10:31 P.M.
Tony patches through to Jack on the plane. He has Kim on the line, and connects the two. Jack is relieved, but tells Kim that he has to fly a nuclear bomb to the desert and will not make it out alive. Kim becomes upset and starts to cry. She apologizes for the way she has treated him, and Jack pledges his love for her. They say their teary good-byes to each other.

10:39 P.M.
Anna pulls over the car and tries to comfort Kim, but she gets out of the car because she wants to be alone. She no longer cares about leaving Los Angeles, and she runs off into the night.

10:40 P.M.
Michelle brings Tony a transcript of a recording pulled from Syed Ali’s decrypted hard drive. The audio is of a conversation that took place months ago in Cypress between Ali and high-ranking officials of three Middle Eastern governments. It confirms that these countries supplied Ali with the bomb. Michelle requests that they run a voiceprint authentication on the tape.

10:41 P.M.
Tony phones Air Force One and tells the President what he has found in the recording. Palmer is concerned that CTU’s Division headquarters will have already notified the Pentagon and other agencies, causing alarm to spread. Palmer questions why Ali would have taped his conversation, and Tony assumes that Ali would want proof in case one of these countries were to turn against him. Palmer isn’t thoroughly convinced, but thanks Tony for his work. Palmer then tells Novick that they could soon be at war. It would not only be with those three Middle Eastern countries, but with others. When that bomb goes off, the President’s options will quickly narrow.

10:43 P.M.
As Jack is flying, he senses movement behind him. He instinctively draws his gun and swings around to find Mason behind him. Mason, who snuck on the plane, hands Jack a parachute. He says that the hardest part of the flight is over and he can take over the suicide flight. Mason questions whether Jack has wanted to die since Teri was killed. Mason says it would be more heroic for Jack to put his life back together, reconnect with Kim and continue to serve his country. Jack considers this seriously. He asks Mason whether he is absolutely sure he is able to man the plane. Mason concurs, and Jack gives him instructions on where to crash land. Jack thanks Mason solemnly.

10:52 P.M.
Jack gets ready to make his escape, but will wait to jump four minutes before impact so that he can stay with Mason for as long as possible. He phones Tony about the change of plan. Tony then orders Michelle to send a helicopter to pick up Jack in the desert. Yusuf notices the commotion at CTU and inquires about what evidence has been found. Tony won’t give him any information, and Yusuf becomes annoyed because his country has shown good faith in leading the Americans to Syed Ali’s safe house.

10:54 P.M.
Aboard Air Force One, General Bowden from the Joint Chiefs comes in to see the President to discuss retaliation plans. The military already knows about Ali’s tape that points the finger to three Middle Eastern countries who funded the Second Wave terrorist group with the nuclear bomb. Plans for war are already underway even though it is not yet confirmed whether the tape is valid or that those three countries are actually involved. Palmer gives the General approval to activate the plan, but warns him that the military can not implement the plan without direct authorization from him. After the General leaves, Palmer quietly says to Lynne that they may be facing World War III.

10:57 P.M.
As Jack loads his parachute to prepare to jump, he inquires if there is anything he can do for Mason. Mason says that he got to see his son earlier, but asks Jack to look in on the boy after he’s gone. Jack places his hand on Mason’s shoulder, and Mason takes Jack’s hand in return. They let go, and Jack leaps from the plane to safety.

Novick gingerly informs the President that they will be able to witness the explosion from Air Force One. Palmer grimly goes to the window facing east.

10:59 P.M.
While Mason pilots the Cessna determinedly toward Ground Zero, Jack drifts down to the ground and releases his parachute. He shelters behind a rock, and the explosion roars in the distance. Meanwhile, Kim looks up into the sky to see a faint glow in the northeast. Palmer can also see the light of the bomb from his plane.

A mushroom cloud grows over the desert.

 

 

11:00 P.M.
The staff of CTU watches the mushroom cloud billow on a monitor, while the President sees the glow in the distance from Air Force One. From the deserted road, Kim is certain that her father died in the explosion. She cries to herself.

Safe from the blast in the desert, Jack lights flares to signal the chopper that will pick him up. Once inside, he asks the pilot to connect him to Tony at CTU so that he can contact his daughter. However, radio transmissions and cell phones are down because of the nuclear blast.

11:05 P.M.
Tony tells his staff at CTU that George Mason thanked them in advance for their hard work. Tony encourages them to continue working even though it has been a hard day already. Yusuf Auda, the visiting Arab liaison, approaches Tony after the speech to question why he has yet to be allowed to participate in the investigation. Tony manages to brush him off. Since Michelle is still interrogating Syed Ali, Tony asks Carrie to handle the audio verification of Ali’s tape that confirms three Middle Eastern countries hired him.

11:07 P.M.
Michelle plays the tape for Ali, but he denies that the Cyprus conversations ever took place. He claims to have been in Berlin at the time, saying that he never met the men on the tape. The bomb was a Second Wave operation only.

11:09 P.M.
Tony consults with the audio techs about the tape. Their findings indicate that the voices are real and have not been spliced together. The evidence shows that it is a genuine and accurate record of a conversation. Michelle enters the meeting and informs Tony of what Ali is claiming. She thinks that they should investigate further because there is some possibility that the tape has been doctored. Carrie interjects in disagreement, saying that physical evidence trumps the word of a terrorist. She then questions Michelle’s limited abilities as an interrogator. Tony says he will present both sides to the President for his decision.

11:12 P.M.
Novick debriefs Palmer on the detonation and its lack of casualties beyond the pilot. The President learns that Jack Bauer was not the one who manned the plane. Lynne informs them that CTU confirmed the Cyprus tape, providing proof that the three Arab countries’ ministers gave Syed Ali support for the bomb. She tells them that, as expected, Ali denied the conversation ever took place. Given the evidence, Palmer has no other choice but to respond militarily. He gives an order to issue a statement about the nuclear blast. He then calls for an emergency session of Congress in which he will ask for a formal declaration of war.

11:18 P.M.
Tony asks Michelle about the tension between her and Carrie. He agrees that Michelle does not have the proper training to handle Ali. Regardless, Michelle still believes that there is reasonable doubt warranting the pressing of Ali. Tony says that Ali will be further interrogated when he is shipped to Guantanamo, but Michelle thinks that will be too late.

11:20 P.M.
Palmer meets with his Joint Chiefs of Staff via videophone from Air Force One. General Bowden, who is aboard the plane with the President, informs him that they can be ready to begin a rolling start with surgical strikes that same day. It will take eight to ten weeks to get the ground troops into the Middle East. Lynne interrupts to tell Palmer that Deputy Prime Minister Barghouti is calling for the second time since the bomb exploded. He does not know that the United States is planning to invade his country, and Lynne advises Palmer to speak with him or else the man may jump to his own conclusions. The President exits the briefing room to take the call. The Deputy Prime Minister pledges his country’s full support against Second Wave because they have been trying to capture Syed Ali for years. He asks the President to not rush into a response against his country. Palmer says they are merely gathering evidence at this time.

11:22 P.M.
A battered Syed Ali is carried out of CTU. Jack enters the facility, and Ali curses at him as he passes. Tony gives Jack the phone number of a San Jose sheriff who is waiting for Kim at her aunt’s house. Michelle then approaches Jack to ask for his help. She believes that the President is planning a major military action based on what was found on Ali’s recording. From what Ali told her, she is not sure whether he isn’t telling the truth. Since Jack was effective at breaking him once before, she wants him to try interrogating Ali again. Jack has Michelle track down Kim with the San Jose number, and he goes off after Ali. Carrie witnesses this exchange from the other side of the room.

11:25 P.M.
Jack catches up with the CTU agents taking Ali outside the complex. He admits to Ali that they staged the killing of his son, and Jack promises that he will be allowed to speak to his family when he arrives at Guantanamo. Jack then asks about the validity of the Cyprus recording. Ali says that what he told Michelle was true. Jack thanks him and walks away. Suddenly, a single shot rings out. Ali falls dead from a bullet wound to the head. Jack and the CTU agents scan the surrounding area to discern where the gunshot came from.

11:31 P.M.
Tony and Jack discuss who would have known that Syed Ali was being transported. The leak could have come from anywhere because the whole intelligence community knew Ali was captured. Tony suggests that the shooter is from one of the three countries implicated on the recording, but Jack is convinced that this incident makes it even clearer that Ali was telling the truth about the audio being faked. They argue over this, and Tony thinks that Jack is implying that he is not fit to run CTU. He tells Jack to worry about Kim and let them handle the situation alone. Jack moves off, realizing he’s going to have to get involved himself.

11:34 P.M.
Kim walks up to a closed convenience store sees a payphone. She attempts to make a call but all the circuits are busy. When she hangs up, a man who works there comes up behind her. Frank Davies allows Kim to use the store’s restroom. When she goes in, he locks the two of them inside.

11:35 P.M.
Palmer resumes his meeting with the Joint Chiefs as Bowden briefs them on the possible scenarios. He predicts ten to thirty thousand American casualties. Palmer gets a call from Jack and takes it in the next room. Jack informs the President that Ali has been assassinated, which suggests that the Cyprus recording is not genuine. Palmer tells Jack that he needs hard proof immediately.

11:41 P.M.
Jack calls Michelle, and she mentions that an intelligence officer is in the office from one of the target countries. He goes to look up Yusuf’s background when Kate spots him as she is brought into CTU. She is surprised to see him alive, but is relieved because the bomb has been detonated safely.

11:43 P.M.
Novick comes to Palmer to give him the good news that Bowden downgraded his casualty list. The President is not fazed. He has more pressing matters on his mind, and relays his fears to Novick that they may be acting too hastily in starting a war. Novick wants to side with the facts, but even he is unsure whether the proof is not a lie.

11:45 P.M.
Jack enters the men’s room where Yusuf is washing up and he introduces himself. Yusuf is resistant because he has been excluded from the investigation. Yet Jack asks whether it is possible that the tape found in Ali’s house may have been compromised. Yusuf wants to learn what it is that Jack knows because it most likely incriminates his country. Jack is not at liberty to say anything, hoping that Yusuf will help without receiving information in return. Yusuf leaves in a huff. Jack’s cell phone rings. An unknown man identifies himself as the one who planted the bogus tape and shot Ali. The man demands Kate Warner, and he instructs Jack to take her from CTU and bring her to a specific warehouse.

11:52 P.M.
Kim is in the convenience store restroom when she hears someone banging on the door to be let in to buy supplies. Davies tells the man named Garcia that the store is already closed, and he calls the police when Garcia becomes threatening. “It’s starting,” Kim says. Davies presses her to find out what that means, but before she can answer, the door shatters. Garcia smashes a shopping cart through the glass. He lunges at Davies and grabs his throat. Kim pulls out her gun and fires into the air. She orders Garcia to let go of Davies and leave. Yet when faced with having to actually shoot him, Kim relents. Garcia takes the gun away from her and fills the cart with food and supplies.

11:55 P.M.
Jack calls Michelle from inside CTU. He thinks that there may be another way to prove that the Cyprus tape was faked, and he asks for her help.

Garcia offers to pay for the goods in the store. He is not a criminal, but wanted to fend for his pregnant wife waiting in the car outside. He tells Davies to turn on the news, and they see reports that a nuclear bomb has exploded. Davies asks Kim if she knew about this all along. Suddenly, the police arrive and draw their weapons on Garcia’s wife in the car. Garcia calls to them, and Davies reaches for the gun in Garcia’s hand. Garcia accidentally discharges Kim’s gun and Davies falls down bleeding. The cops order Garcia to exit the store, but he grabs Kim as a hostage.

11:57 P.M.
Michelle goes into a CTU holding room where Agent Baker is debriefing Kate. Michelle tells Baker that one of his files needs to be attended to, and she follows him out of the room. Jack slips into the holding room and tells Kate that he urgently needs her to come with him. Yusuf watches this occur. So does Carrie, who immediately picks up the phone to notify Tony.

11:59 P.M.
Tony blocks Jack from leaving the building at gunpoint. Jack asks him to put the weapon down. When Tony doesn’t comply, Jack takes it away forcefully and Tony is knocked out cold. Jack grabs Kate’s arm and ushers her roughly through the exit door.

 

 

12:00 A.M.
Jack takes Kate to the CTU garage. She stops him to inquire about what is going on. “Do you trust me?” he asks. She does, and gets in his car. Meanwhile, Carrie finds Tony trying to lift himself from the ground where he fell and injured his ankle. He warns her to notify security. The guard doesn’t get the information in time, allowing Jack and Kate to escape from the complex. Jack explains to her that a world war may be started over phony evidence. The man who claims to have forged this evidence wants Kate for some unknown reason. Jack has no other choice but to use her because he is running out of time and options.

12:04 A.M.
Carrie lets Tony know that Jack got out. She has already notified both the LAPD and FBI. Carrie then says that she thinks Michelle was helping Jack because she distracted another agent so that he could get to Kate.

12:05 A.M.
Palmer, Lynne and Novick disembark Air Force One in Los Angeles and get into a waiting limousine. Lynne connects Palmer to Vice President Jim Prescott who is in Washington. Prescott informs the President that he will be meeting with the British ambassador and that he plans to tell him about the U.S. preparing to retaliate for the nuclear bomb. Palmer asks Prescott to refrain because there may not be an attack. Although there is possibility that the evidence might be false, Prescott thinks it is too late for them to turn back on military action. Yet Palmer is adamant about his decision. After he hangs up, both Novick and Lynne express their reservations to the President about letting the fate of the country hang on Jack Bauer.

12:07 A.M.
At the convenience store, Kim tries to stop the bleeding in Davies’ chest. She appeals to Garcia to give himself up to the police. He is terrified. Suddenly, Davies stiffens. Kim attempts CPR, but Davies dies.

12:09 A.M.
As he drives towards a warehouse in Studio City to deliver Kate, Jack notices that he is being trailed. He turns the car into an alley, and the other car follows. Jack pulls his gun on the driver. It is Yusuf. After he watched Jack take down Tony, Yusuf knew that Jack is not on board with what CTU has been doing. Yusuf states once again that his country is not responsible for the bomb. He offers to help Jack clear up the facts.

12:11 A.M.
Tony, walking on crutches, asks Michelle if she helped Jack kidnap a witness. Michelle tells him that she did not intentionally draw the agent away from Kate Warner. Michelle claims that Carrie is trying to sabotage her because they don’t get along.

12:17 A.M.
The police phone the store to urge Garcia to come out, but he refuses to exit peacefully. They put his wife on the phone, and Garcia tells her to leave the city so that she can be safe from the oncoming war. He then orders the police to take his wife to Monterey. Once she arrives there, he will release Kim.

12:19 A.M.
Jack pulls up to the warehouse where he is to meet the caller and takes out a gun. He instructs Kate to remain in the car. In case of emergency, she is to dial him on the car phone. He promises to protect her. Jack goes up to the entrance underneath a neon sign and enters the building. Inside he finds Captain Jonathan Wallace, a member of the Special Ops team from Fort Benning. He shows Jack the Coral Snake tattoo on his forearm as proof of his membership in that squad. Then Wallace sits down at a table with his hands visible to Jack. Wallace was the seventh commando who took out his own platoon so that they couldn’t prevent the bomb from detonating. Wallace admits responsibility for that, as well as for planting the Cyprus recording so that the bomb was blamed on the three countries. His goal was to start a war by forcing the United States to attack the Middle East. The people who hired Wallace control oil in the Caspian Sea, and a war in that region would quadruple their holdings’ value. However, those same people tried to kill Wallace an hour ago and he fears for his life. Because Warner Industries has a Department of Defense variance, board member Kate can authorize his departure out of the country. While he is talking to Jack, Wallace secretly taps his foot against a plug in its socket underneath the table.

12:23 A.M.
That plug causes the neon sign outside the warehouse to flicker. This signals a man with a gun to approach Kate as she waits in Jack’s car. The man orders her to get out. Suddenly, Yusuf appears and smacks the man over the head with his weapon. The man drops unconscious. Inside the warehouse, Wallace tells Jack that he holds the source recordings before they were mixed down to create the faked Cyprus tape. Suddenly, Jack’s cell phone rings and he answers it. “It’s for you,” he says calmly, handing it to Wallace. Yusuf is on the phone, and he tells Wallace that the man he sent for Kate has been knocked out. Wallace hangs up, and says to Jack that he won’t turn over the evidence unless Kate comes with him to personally authorize the charter. He admits that he will have to kill Kate once he’s reached his destination. Jack says that he won’t let that happen, and doesn’t give in to Wallace’s demands. Wallace gathers his weapons to leave. With no other choice, Jack stops him. He radios Yusuf to bring Kate in.

12:31 A.M.
Setting up at District Headquarters in Los Angeles, Novick tells Lynne that he wants to talk to Jack Bauer himself. Although Lynne disagrees with Novick going behind the President’s back, she gives him the number of CTU. Novick calls Tony asking to be connected to Jack. Tony, however, informs him that Jack illegally took a witness from the site and can not be located. Novick asks to be notified when they find him.

12:33 A.M.
Carrie briefs Tony on the hunt for Jack. He has not made contact with anyone and has not been spotted on satellite. The Warner house and office are also being watched. She asks about Michelle’s involvement, and Tony questions whether she had concocted the stories because they are not friendly. Carrie says that she saw Michelle and Jack speaking conspiratorially before he took Kate Warner. Believing her story, Tony has Carrie put a filter on all of Michelle’s communications to see if Jack tries to reach her.

12:35 A.M.
The police take Garcia’s wife away from the convenience store. Garcia blames Kim for pointing the gun at him and starting the whole ordeal. She tells Garcia that she was only afraid because her father died in the explosion that rocked the city. The police call Garcia and beg him to let Kim go because his wife has been delivered to safety. He says that he will kill Kim if they raid the store. As he talks to the policeman, Kim runs out and manages to lock herself in a back room. The police help her escape outside, and Garcia panics.

12:38 A.M.
Yusuf ties up the man who tried to kidnap Kate. The man says that there were no other accomplices, and Yusuf knocks him out cold. With Kate in tow, Yusuf sweeps the outside perimeter to make sure there are no other men. He notifies Jack of this, as Jack waits inside with Wallace. Wallace tells Jack that he was at Fort Benning when Colonel Samuels unsuccessfully tried to recruit Jack for Coral Snake. Samuels had called Jack “a born killer.”

12:44 A.M.
Working at her station, Michelle gets an error alert from the backup server on her computer. She calls Carrie to ask if she received the same alert, but Carrie says the problem must be on her end. Michelle goes off to find a solution. Carrie then walks over to Michelle’s station. She redirects Michelle’s links to outside communications so that she can track them on her computer.

12:46 A.M.
Novick tells Palmer about Jack’s improper activities. In an attempt to focus the President on the war at hand, Novick suggests that Jack may have suffered an emotional collapse from the day’s events. Palmer, however, trusts that Jack is doing what is necessary to prove that the Cyprus recordings are not authentic. He orders Novick to find Jack.

12:47 A.M.
Wallace tells Jack that, once he and Kate have escaped, he will notify him where the evidence is. Yusuf brings Kate into the warehouse. Jack reluctantly tells her that she has to go with Wallace. Kate thinks that Jack is giving her up.

12:53 A.M.
Carrie listens in when Michelle receives a phone call from a man named Danny. Danny asks Michelle if he and the children are safe from the nuclear bomb, but she can’t give him any more information. Michelle tries to calm Danny down, but he threatens to call Carrie to find out what’s going on since she won’t tell him anything. Michelle thought that he stopped speaking to Carrie. Danny concurs because he thinks Carrie is a bitch. He abruptly hangs up. Carrie deletes this call from her database file.

12:55 A.M.
The SWAT team surrounds the convenience store, and the police tell Garcia to give up his weapon. He doesn’t come out, and the cops raid the building. Kim watches in horror as gunfire ensues. A medical team is called in.

12:56 A.M.
Since Palmer is in a briefing with CTU Director Chappelle, Novick and Lynne meet with Vice President Prescott via videophone. Prescott informs them that the British ambassador is frustrated because the United States is planning an attack against the Middle East without coordinating with his country. Prescott asks Novick what is going on with the plans for war, questioning the President’s softness on the issue. Novick believes that Palmer is capable of making the right decision and is committed to the military action. Yet the President only wants to cover every base. The Vice President hangs up, and Novick tells Lynne that, with the planes in the air ready to begin the attack, it will be a disaster to turn them around based on one CTU agent’s claim of evidence. Lynne wonders what they are going to do next.

12:58 A.M.
Wallace orders Kate to get in the trunk of his car. She won’t go, but Jack urges her to do it for her own safety. She looks at Jack and obeys. Yusuf whispers to Jack that he put the tracker on the car. Suddenly, the car windshield shatters. Gunfire comes from above the warehouse. Wallace, Jack and Yusuf return fire.

 

 

1:00 A.M.
As Jack, Yusuf and Wallace fire back at the gunmen in the buildings above, Jack pulls Kate from the trunk of Wallace’s car. He takes her into the warehouse with Wallace, while Yusuf darts off into an alley. Wallace tells Jack that the shooters must be the follow up team sent by his employers when their first attempt to kill him had failed. Stocking up on ammunition, Yusuf radios Jack from the car. He will try to get to a better vantage point to see how many men are still out there. Wallace won’t let Jack call CTU to warn them about the Cyprus recording, but when more snipers appear, Wallace gives in to Jack’s demand for help. Jack phones Michelle’s cell phone. She warns him not to phone any agency numbers because she is being monitored. He needs her to track infra-red satellite at the warehouse to find out how many men are surrounding them. Michelle gets to work.

1:05 A.M.
Outside the convenience store, Kim is forced to explain to Deputy Raynes that the gun Garcia used to accidentally shoot Davies was hers. She admits to being a murder suspect who escaped from police custody.

1:06 A.M.
At District Headquarters in Los Angeles, Palmer and his staff watch news reports about violence erupting across America after the nuclear bomb detonated. Although he is not allowed to use the Army on U.S. soil, Palmer gives the order to bring troops in to help. Lynne informs the President that their bombers will reach the Middle East in less than five hours.

1:07 A.M.
As Michelle researches Jack’s request, Carrie questions what she is doing on the satellite. Michelle switches screens on the monitor and sends Carrie away. Carrie runs up to Tony to tell him that Michelle is not only accessing a mod-sat screen, but that she received an open call that did not lock onto their log. He has Carrie find out what Michelle was looking at.

1:08 A.M.
As they wait inside the warehouse for help from Michelle, Jack assures Kate that they will get out of there. He explains that Wallace wanted her for her access to a cargo plane, but that he would not have let Wallace take her.

1:10 A.M.
From a monitor, Carrie watches Michelle as she collects satellite telemetry and images.

1:15 A.M.
As Deputy Raynes drives her from the crime scene, Kim asks about Miguel and Officer Brown who were hurt in the patrol car accident. Raynes doesn’t know anything about either of them, but tells her that she can make a phone call when they arrive at the stationhouse. Kim says that she has no one to call because her father was the one who flew the plane with the nuclear bomb.

1:16 A.M.
Carrie analyzes the data that Michelle has been tracking and informs Tony. He assumes that Jack can be found at the coordinates on the satellite. However, Michelle has been covering herself by tracking over a hundred different quadrants. There’s no way to distinguish which one she’s really studying. Tony tells Carrie that he will handle this his own way.

1:17 A.M.
Michelle goes into the restroom and phones Jack from her PDA phone. She quickly synchs him the map of the warehouse with the location of the shooters. As she leaves, Tony is waiting for her outside the restroom. He cautions her that they have been monitoring communication and asks point blank where Jack is. Michelle says that she doesn’t know, but that Tony should notify the President to not act on the Cyprus recording until Jack has finished his investigation. Tony warns her to tell him what information she knows. Michelle again denies helping Jack.

1:19 A.M.
Jack and Wallace analyze the map Michelle beamed over and figure out an escape route from the warehouse. Jack arms Kate with a gun. He then radios Yusuf with the locations of the gunmen and his plans.

1:20 A.M.
Lynne asks the President how long he plans to wait for Jack to find the evidence. The Secretary of Defense feels that he is losing flexibility to begin attack and wants to launch pre-strikes. Palmer orders that there be no pre-emptive strikes, giving Jack all the time he needs to disprove the tape. Novick then alerts the President that civil unrest is becoming alarming. Militia groups in Marietta outside Atlanta, Georgia are joining forces in racially motivated attacks against Middle-Eastern people. Unfortunately, there is not enough police or military to cover every hot spot around the country. Palmer instructs his team to send all of the Eastern Georgia National Guard to Marietta and to inform the media about it. Palmer plans to let the public see the government’s response in protecting its citizens against racism.

1:27 A.M.
With the go-ahead from Jack, Yusuf throws smoke grenades into the alley near the warehouse and he begins firing toward the roof. Jack and Wallace come out and fire in the same direction. They now know where the shooters are located. Yusuf goes for the car. Kate gets separated from them. She spots one of the snipers coming towards her, but the man doesn’t see her. She aims her gun but is unable to shoot. The man turns around to face Kate and she kills him. Jack grabs her and makes a run for the car. Wallace follows, and as he climbs in the car, he is hit in the neck by a gunshot. Yusuf peels out and they escape. Jack checks Wallace’s wound and finds that the bullet is still inside his body. They need to get to a hospital, but Wallace insists on going directly to the airport. He asks Jack to suppress the bleeding. Kate gets the CTU first aid kit from the glove compartment and Jack applies gauze to Wallace’s wound.

1:30 A.M.
Palmer and his staff watch news reports of riots taking place in Marietta. The President enacts a curfew and orders the National Guard to start making arrests. Novick suggests that the President make a statement to the public. Palmer agrees.

1:32 A.M.
Tony, who has received word from the LAPD about gunfire in Studio City, has Carrie check the location against what Michelle pulled from the satellite. He then approaches Michelle and asks her if it’s where Jack was located. She acknowledges that it is true, and tells Tony that Jack can only get his proof if CTU stays out of the situation. Tony says that they don’t even know if Jack is still alive. Michelle picks up her phone and dials Jack, telling Tony that the number is not traceable. She hands the phone to him. Jack tells Tony that he has been ordered by the President to prove that the Cyprus recording is a fake. The man who can give him that proof won’t deal with CTU. Jack knows that the man is not using him to escape because commandos tried to kill him for making the deal. Tony insists on Jack bringing the man into CTU. Jack refuses and hangs up.

1:38 A.M.
Deputy Raynes takes Kim into the Sheriff’s station and hands her off to Sergeant Amis. Amis asks Kim about Megan Matheson’s kidnapping. Kim admits that she did this because Megan was being abused. Amis informs her that Gary Matheson confessed to killing his wife Carla. Although she and Miguel tried to escape from police custody, Kim had been truthful in telling Officer Brown about the bomb. She is free to go. Amis lets Kim call CTU so that they can clear her through legal channels.

1:40 A.M.
As they drive towards the airport, Kate phones ahead to prep a cargo transport authorization. She explains that, since she is an officer of her father’s company, she will also be on the flight. Wallace begins to seize, and Jack begs him for the evidence. Wallace loses consciousness. Jack plugs into the car’s GPS to find the nearest medical center and has Yusuf head there.

1:42 A.M.
Kim calls Tony at CTU and asks for his help in clearing her charges. She is shocked to find out that Jack is still alive. Yet when she asks to speak with him, Tony says that Jack is not reachable.

1:43 A.M.
Yusuf pulls up to a clinic, and Jack barges in past the front desk with Wallace in tow. Although the clinic is not prepared to deal with such a serious wound, Jack demands that the doctor treat Wallace.

1:45 A.M.
Kim gets the number for Miguel’s hospital room and calls him. When she tells him that they will probably be cleared of all charges, Miguel is surprisingly not excited by the news. She inquires about his health, and he says he is fine. Yet Miguel doesn’t want to see her anymore, and Kim is confused by this. He hangs up without telling her that his right leg has been amputated.

1:51 A.M.
Michelle goes to Tony expecting to be fired. He is angry with her for not doing her job. They still don’t even have Jack or the evidence to prove the recording was forged. Michelle apologizes for her actions, and Tony dismisses her from his office.

1:53 A.M.
General Bowden briefs the President on the status of the bombers as they head towards the Middle East. Palmer is reassured that the planes can be ordered back at any time. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, however, would rather have a firm decision. Lynne and Novick inform the President that the crowds in Marietta grew out of control, and that the National Guard shot rubber bullets. Two people were killed. One was a young Middle Eastern boy who was trying to flee with his family. Palmer is saddened, and asks Lynne to find out the boy’s name. He then orders Novick to tell the National Guard to not back down. They are to restore order in the Marietta neighborhood.

1:55 A.M.
The doctor examines Wallace’s x-rays, telling Jack that he is not authorized to perform surgery to remove the bullet. Jack assures him that the clinic will not be shut down because saving Wallace’s life has something to do with the nuclear bomb that went off. He also asks that Wallace not be sedated because he needs him to talk. Kate gets a departure time for their flight, and Jack guarantees that he will get on the plane with her if that’s what it takes to protect her. Suddenly, Wallace calls off the doctor’s treatment. He tells Jack that he’s not going to make it. Wallace whispers to him that the original source files to make the Cyprus recording is on a memory chip. When Jack asks where that chip is, Wallace says, “It’s inside…” Before he can finish his sentence, Wallace stops breathing. The doctor attempts to restart his heart through defibrillation, but Wallace dies. Jack doesn’t know what to do, and rests his head in his hands. When he lifts his head up, he is facing the light box holding Wallace’s x-ray. Jack notices a shadow on the x-ray at the bottom of the rib cage. He goes over to Wallace’s dead body. There is a stitched scar in the same spot. Much to the horror of the doctor, Jack grabs a scalpel and slices the skin where the scar is located. He reaches his hands into the body cavity and pulls something out. “I got it,” he says as he holds up the blood-covered microchip.

 

 

2:00 A.M. As a general briefs the war room on the military plan, Vice President Prescott questions whether Palmer is indeed behind the air strikes. Palmer informs the Joint Chiefs and Cabinet members that he is waiting for CTU Agent Jack Bauer to provide hard evidence to prove that the Cyprus recording was fabricated. The general advises the President that, in order to be effective, the first strike must be a surprise. Waiting any longer will only increase U.S. casualties. Palmer agrees that they must proceed with the plan. 2:03 A.M. Yusuf examines the microchip under a magnifying glass. Jack calls the President, but his staff will not put him through until the meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff is completed. Jack then phones Tony to tell him that he is bringing into CTU a chip with the evidence. He asks Tony to notify the President. Yusuf alerts Jack that there is a transponder on the chip, which is how they must have found Wallace at the warehouse. Yusuf is familiar with this kind of tracker and attempts to dismantle it without destroying the audio files. 2:05 A.M. Michelle gets another frustrating call from Danny, but she has no news for him. Tony comes up to tell her that Jack called and has found the evidence. She urges Tony to warn the President. He says that he is thinking about it. 2:06 A.M. Yusuf separates the tracker from the chip just as the men looking for Wallace arrive at the urgent care center. Jack takes the tracker, and tells Yusuf and Kate to meet him a few blocks away with the chip. If he is not there in fifteen minutes, they are to deliver the chip to CTU. As Jack runs out of the clinic, the men see on the handheld GPS monitor that Wallace has moved. They head towards where Jack went. One of the men sees Wallace’s dead body in the patient room, finding the hole in Wallace’s chest. Yusuf and Kate, hiding in the room, sneak out unnoticed. 2:13 A.M. After the meeting with the Joint Chiefs, Novick informs the President that the California governor wants National Guardsmen dispatched in the state because of erupting violence. Lynne patches Tony through to the President as she and Novick listen in on speaker. Tony tells them that Jack claims to have found the source recordings edited together to make the Cyprus tape. Although Jack says that they are authentic, Tony can not be sure. Palmer tells Novick and Lynne that he wants to call off the attack. Novick tries to convince the President that his lack of response to a nuclear weapon going off on U.S. soil may cause him to be perceived as weak. Lynne also makes note that the Pentagon’s assessment shows that stopping and then restarting the military operation will cost thousands of lives. Yet Palmer is steadfast in his decision not to attack. 2:17 A.M. Tony tells Michelle that he informed the President about Jack’s evidence. She thanks him for doing the right thing, but Tony wants to confirm that the chip is real when Jack brings it to CTU. 2:18 A.M. As Yusuf drives towards Jack’s meeting point, Kate tries to phone CTU. All the circuits are clogged and she can’t get through. Yusuf comments that they are too busy preparing war against his country. They pull up to the location to look for Jack. Meanwhile, the henchmen follow their GPS monitor into the basement of the clinic. There is no sign of Jack, but they find the tracker that was removed from the chip. The men see Jack running outside and one of their cars catches him. One of the men named Ronnie Stark shoots Jack with a taser. He falls to the ground. On Stark’s orders, the men carry Jack’s limp body into the clinic. 2:25 A.M. After Novick informs a general with the President’s decision not to launch the attack, Lynne asks him if he knows about a meeting that the Vice President called. She only heard about it second hand, and has not informed Palmer. Novick has no idea either, and says he will try to find out its purpose. 2:26 A.M. The men strip Jack and search his clothes with a metal detector. They induce him to vomit, and run the metal detector over the excrement. Stark takes out a medical case full of scissors and scalpels. He receives a call from Peter Kingsley, who is flying in a helicopter over Los Angeles. Kingsley seems to already know that the man they are holding is Jack Bauer. He asks to speak to Jack, and offers Jack money for the chip. Jack will not relent. Kingsley instructs Stark to get Jack to break because they do not have much time. 2:29 A.M. Stark dips a scalpel in ammonia and slices into Jack’s abdomen. Jack’s scream is muffled by the gag in his mouth. 2:30 A.M. Michelle asks Carrie to unlock the software on her system to allow her to run point analysis on the chip Jack is bringing in. Carrie says she will do it herself, but Michelle insists that she just do as she is commanded. Michelle accuses her of trying to sabotage her work, and Carrie says that Michelle is doing the same. Tony witnesses this, and summons Michelle to his office. He asks what is going on between them to interfere with their work. Michelle admits that she and Carrie were friends when she worked for her at Division. Her brother Danny left his wife and children for Carrie, who then dumped him. Danny lost his job and his family, and tried to commit suicide. Tony asks Michelle to help keep the office running despite what is between them. Michelle gets a call. Danny is at CTU to see her. 2:33 A.M. Michelle asks Danny what he is doing there. He says that he tried to call, but the phones weren’t working. He only wanted to apologize for yelling at her. Michelle wants him to leave, but Danny sees Carrie across the room. He yells at Carrie for not returning his calls. Both Michelle and Tony try to step between them, but Danny lunges for Carrie and wraps his hands around her throat. Security guards have to pull Danny off, and Michelle watches, horrified. 2:38 A.M. Novick tells Lynne that he found out the Vice President is personally calling cabinet members. They both assume it is about the President’s decision to call off the attack. Novick says that he is secretly meeting with a Defense Department official named Jesper Isberg who has information. Although Novick tries to keep her out of it, Lynne insists on being present for the meeting. Novick tells her to go to a storage room on the fifth floor and wait. 2:39 A.M. While a medic checks out Carrie, Tony goes to Michelle, who is crying in a corner. She is upset about her brother, and the emotions from the day’s events come flooding over her. Tony comforts her and they kiss. Carrie interrupts to tell Tony that Chappelle is looking for him. 2:42 A.M. Stark opens another wound in Jack’s side but Jack is defiant. Stark then takes a hot cauterizer and burns Jack in the spot where he has been cut. Jack screams in pain through the gag until he loses breath. One of the other henchmen pulls Stark off to prevent him from killing Jack. Stark’s cell phone rings. It is Kingsley, checking on the status of the chip. Stark says he is still working. 2:46 A.M. Novick enters the fifth floor corridor and meets Lynne. He asks her if she knows about Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, where the cabinet can vote to remove a President from office if they determine that he is unfit to fulfill his duties. The Vice President would then become acting President. Lynne is alarmed that Prescott would do such a thing. Jesper Isberg arrives, and Novick makes him wait outside. Novick then asks Lynne where she stands with regard to Palmer’s decision. Lynne says that, although she does not agree with the President, she is loyal to him and believes that Prescott should be charged with treason. Novick calls in Isberg and steps out of the room. Isberg blocks Lynne from the door. Lynne is shocked that Novick is aligned with Prescott. He tells her that Palmer would not listen to reason and that he can’t stand by while the President’s indecisiveness could cost American lives. Novick tries to justify to Lynne that he is doing this for the good of the country. Although she puts up a fight, Isberg locks Lynne in the room. Novick orders him to not let her out unless Isberg hears it from him directly. 2:53 A.M. Yusuf tells Kate that they should bring the chip to CTU since Jack never showed up. As he is about to drive away, Yusuf is pulled out of the car by a group of men. They accuse him of being an Arab who bombed the United States. Yusuf grabs one of the men and trains his gun on him, warning the other men to get down on the ground. As Kate is getting back into the car, she sees another man come up to Yusuf with a brick. She tries to warn him, but the man knocks Yusuf to the ground. The men beat him mercilessly. When Kate tries to stop them, they smack her. She falls, dazed. 2:56 A.M. Tony phones Chappelle in his car. He tells Tony that he is coming to CTU with a few key people from Division to help out. Tony then calls Michelle to see how she is doing. She apologizes for her actions, but he says he is not sorry for what they did. Michelle is concerned about what Carrie will do with the news. Tony says that it is none of her business. 2:58 A.M. Stark orders the unconscious Jack to be woken up. He brings up Kim, suggesting that Jack wouldn’t want his daughter to be an orphan. Stark has one of his men hit Jack with the taser. Jack writhes in pain. Stark instructs the man to do it again, but the man says that Jack is no good to them if he is dead. Stark takes the taser and does it himself. Jack’s eyes roll to the back of his head and his body goes slack. Stark orders the men to wake him up, but when they snap poppers under Jack’s nose, he does not stir. One of the men says that Jack is dead. With concern rising, Stark tells the men to cut Jack’s binds and let him down. Stark frantically administers CPR on Jack, and yells for the men to find epinephrine.

 

 

3:00 A.M.
While Stark shocks Jack’s chest with a defibrillator, one of his henchmen searches the clinic for epinephrine. Kingsley phones again and another henchman named O’Hara takes the call. O’Hara is forced to tell Kingsley that Jack is flatlining, and Kingsley gives him the order to fix it. The doctor is ushered in at gunpoint to administer epinephrine to Jack. He applies the defibrillator paddles and revives Jack. Stark is relieved, and inquires to O’Hara about what Kingsley wanted. “He said I just got promoted,” O’Hara says before shooting Stark point blank. The doctor is horrified. O’Hara leans over and asks Jack for the chip.

3:05 A.M.
Novick tells Vice President Prescott that Palmer is still in the dark and that he managed to get Lynne out of the way before she could warn him. Novick expresses doubt that he is doing the right thing, but Prescott assures him that history will recognize their accomplishments. When Novick hangs up, Palmer comes into his office. He asks the President if there is anything he can say to make him change his mind about delaying the war, but Palmer is sure of his stance. He thanks Novick for standing by his unpopular decision. When Palmer inquires about Lynne, Novick tells him that she wasn’t feeling well. Lynne, meanwhile, bangs on the closet door begging Isberg to let her out. She opens a storage cabinet and finds a blowtorch among the tools.

3:08 A.M.
The men who attacked Yusuf go through his pockets and steal his money and watch. They find the chip, and although they don’t know what it is, they grab it as well. Kate begs the men to give her the chip. She offers them money from her house. They pile her into their car and drive off. Yusuf uses whatever strength he has to drag his bloodied and broken body to a nearby payphone. He dials 911, but the automated voice tells him that all circuits are busy.

3:11 A.M.
O’Hara orders the doctor to give Jack an injection of Beroglide to paralyze his diaphragm. When O’Hara is distracted by a phone call from Kingsley, Jack pleads with the doctor to untie him. The doctor hesitates, fearing for his life, but starts to loosen the ropes on Jack’s wrist. O’Hara returns and makes the doctor inject the Beroglide. Jack gasps, unable to breathe.

3:18 A.M.
Michelle meets Ryan Chappelle when he arrives at CTU. Since all phone services are down, he warns her to save satellite phone usage for their highest priorities. Chappelle commends Tony for not letting Jack’s ideas about the Cyprus recordings alter their mission. Yet Tony tries to tell Chappelle that Jack may not be wrong. Chappelle threatens Tony. Either he goes against Jack, or Chappelle won’t support his permanent placement as CTU Director.

3:20 A.M.
Lynne starts a fire in a trash bin. When the smoke alarm goes off, Isberg enters the closet. Lynne smacks him with a fire extinguisher and bolts out of the room. Isberg follows her to the stairwell and grabs her, but Lynne falls over the railing. She lands a few floors down, struck unconscious.

3:21 A.M.
Palmer tries to phone the Vice President, but is told that he is unreachable. He turns to Secret Service Agent Pierce who stands guard. Since Pierce is a seasoned veteran of the White House, Palmer asks for his opinion on the situation. He wants to know if Prescott is planning something behind his back. Pierce is at first hesitant to answer the President. Yet he warns Palmer to trust his own instincts.

3:23 A.M.
Kingsley is in his office when Alexander Trepkos enters. “Max is very unhappy,” Trepkos says. Since their project depends on military action, Palmer’s withdrawing the attack is a setback. Kingsley tells him not to worry about Palmer’s response or about Jack’s delivering proof that the Cyprus recording is false.

3:25 A.M.
As Jack hyperventilates from the Beroglide, O’Hara presses him about the chip. Jack doesn’t answer, so O’Hara punches him the face. O’Hara orders the doctor to double the dosage with another injection. As he prepares the syringe, the doctor gives Jack a slight nod. “I’ll tell you where the chip is,” Jack finally says. O’Hara leans over Jack and the doctor slams the syringe into O’Hara’s back. O’Hara stumbles, giving Jack enough time to free his hands from the rope. Jack grabs O’Hara’s gun and shoots the other henchmen. Jack pulls on his pants and demands to know from the dying O’Hara who was on the other end of the phone line. O’Hara says Peter Kingsley’s name and Jack shoots him dead. Suddenly, Jack staggers. He has trouble breathing.

3:32 A.M.
Novick comes into Palmer’s office. The President asks him if Prescott is avoiding him, but Novick blames his unavailability on the events of the past eighteen hours. Palmer wants Lynne to go over his statement, and Novick says that he will deliver it to her. He exits and goes into another office.

3:33 A.M.
Novick dials Prescott from a satcom phone and asks if he is still moving forward. Novick warns him that Palmer is becoming suspicious because the Vice President hasn’t returned his calls. Prescott says that he will call Palmer. He tells the anxious Novick to keep things together on his side.

3:35 A.M.
Jack takes O’Hara’s phone and walks through the clinic. He dials CTU and gets Michelle. Although Jack tries to tell her about the chip, Michelle only hears static. Michelle notifies Tony that Jack called but that the signal was lost. He instructs her to trace the source of the call. Tony gives Chappelle the news, but Chappelle does not want Jack distracting their resources. Tony, however, is siding with Jack.

3:36 A.M.
Novick listens as Palmer speaks to Vice President Prescott over speakerphone. The President offers Prescott the chance to personally address the military attack with him. Prescott acknowledges that, if he had something to say, he would come to the President first. After he hangs up, Palmer admits to Novick that he doesn’t trust Prescott. Agent Pierce comes in to notify Palmer that Lynne is in critical condition after falling down stairs. He takes the President to her. A look of panic washes over Novick’s face.

3:42 A.M.
Michelle tells Tony that Jack called from a cell phone somewhere between Studio City and Encino. They check a map to see where he might be headed. Tony does not want Michelle to use the satellite for fear of raising flags with Chappelle. He has her monitor police channels instead. Carrie secretly watches them speak.

3:43 A.M.
Jack takes O’Hara’s car and drives to where he was supposed to meet Yusuf and Kate. He spots Yusuf near the payphone. Although he is bloodied and battered, Yusuf manages to tell Jack that someone took the chip with Kate to her house. Yusuf dies before Jack can rescue him.

3:45 A.M.
Kate leads the men with the chip to her house. They open the door and the security alarm rings. They order her to shut it off, and she gives them the code. The men demand the money she promised.

3:46 A.M.
Palmer and Novick run outside the federal building where Lynne is being taken away on a gurney. She has suffered a concussion. Lynne tries to form a word but nothing coherent comes out. She raises a weak hand and points toward Novick. Novick steps forward and takes her hand, pretending to comfort her. The EMTs whisk her into the ambulance.

3:52 A.M.
Carrie warns Tony that Chappelle will find out that he and Michelle are wasting time looking for Jack. She says that she won’t tell Chappelle if Tony gives her Michelle’s job. Tony calls Chappelle over and announces that Carrie is trying to use extortion to get a promotion. She argues that Tony and Michelle are still searching for Jack Bauer against orders. Chappelle dismisses Carrie, then admonishes Tony. Tony makes it clear that, as acting CTU Director, he is trying to garner all the facts. He gives Chappelle the opportunity to relieve him of his duties if he does not agree with his decisions. Chappelle says that there is no one else to fill in at the moment. “I don’t like insubordination,” he tells Tony.

3:55 A.M.
Kate opens the safe in her closet, and the men pull out some cash and a diamond bracelet. Kate asks for the chip as promised, but they are reluctant to let her go. Kate runs off as they fire at her. The men catch up to her and throw her to the ground. Jack appears and shoots one of the fleeing guys. She tells him that they have the chip, and Jack pursues the other two through the house. He calls out to them through a bathroom door asking for the chip. The men are afraid, but refuse to hand it over. One of them says that if Jack comes in he will smash the chip.

3:59 A.M.
Novick watches via videophone as Prescott gathers the Cabinet members in the White House. Prescott tells the group that the meeting will be closed from the President. The purpose of the meeting is to decide whether Palmer is unfit to continue as President of the United States based on his response to the day’s events.

 

 

 

4:00 A.M.
Jack pleads with the men in Kate’s house through the bathroom door, telling them what is on the chip and why he needs it. One of the men implores the other to give up the chip, and his friend accidentally fires his gun. Jack breaks down the door and enters the bathroom. He holds the guy and grabs the chip. Jack has Kate get something to tie the men up.

4:04 A.M.
Palmer tells Novick that he just learned that the bombers did not return to their bases as he ordered. Novick sullenly invites the President to join him in the conference room. Palmer senses his aide’s unease, and asks Novick what is going on. Novick finally admits that the cabinet members are questioning whether Palmer is fit to continue as Chief Executive of the country.

4:05 A.M.
Palmer enters the conference room to find a video screen with panels of feeds. A group of cabinet members, lead by Vice President Prescott, is assembled in the White House bunker, with the Secretary of State filmed on a plane and the Secretary of Agriculture in a limo. Prescott tells Palmer that they are invoking the 25th Amendment, which states that the Vice President and a majority of the cabinet can determine whether that the President can be discharged of powers if he is not capable of performing the duties of his office. He says that they have decided Palmer’s actions over the day warrant such a query. The Secretary of State interjects to state that they are all not in full agreement just yet. Palmer explains that the Amendment was designed to deal with the situations where the President is ill or incapacitated. Prescott informs him that their interpretation is backed by the Attorney General. He insists that Jack Bauer has not turned up the evidence to disprove the Cyprus recording, and that waiting will only risk tens of thousands of American lives. Although they do not agree with his policy decisions, Palmer maintains that he can not be labeled disabled. Prescott intends to show that the President’s refusal to authorize military action is a symptom of his erratic behavior. The Secretary of State says that Palmer should be given the chance to explain himself in order to answer their questions. Palmer consents to this, on the condition that, if he is exonerated, then Prescott should resign as Vice President. Prescott agrees.

4:15 A.M.
Tony informs Chappelle that a source told him that the President called off the military offensive more than an hour ago. Chappelle acknowledges that he was aware of this, but says there is a strong possibility that the White House will reinstate the attack order.

4:16 A.M.
Michelle gets a call from Jack at Kate Warner’s house, and she grabs Tony. Jack informs them that he has the chip but that he can not read what is on it. Michelle attempts to access it over the server. Jack then asks Tony to run a background check on Peter Kingsley and to cross-reference it with oil industry players. Tony tells him that, although Palmer called off the military strikes, for some reason the order may get reversed.

4:18 A.M.
Prescott brings the reporter Ron Wieland into the proceedings. Wieland recounts that he was detained by Secret Service after he investigated the possibility of a terrorist attack. Although he understands the reason he was held captive, Wieland feels it was a violation of his First Amendment rights. He says that Sherry Palmer came to visit him and offered to give him access to the O.C. if he sat on the story. Wieland got the sense that Palmer was not in control of the situation. The President calmly explains that he was balancing the need for public safety, and he tried to rectify the situation with a remedy that had legal precedent.

4:20 A.M.
Michelle walks Jack through overriding the chip’s access, but he only gets a screen full of numbers and symbols. He checks the hardware and realizes that the chip has been damaged. He sends whatever data he pulled up to Michelle so that she can run it through a retrieval program at CTU. Meanwhile, Tony gets a call from Kim looking for her father. She is in a police car on her way to the Matheson house to pick up her belongings. Tony puts her through to Jack. Kim tells Jack that she misses him, and Jack assures her that he will see her soon.

4:23 A.M.
Palmer asks Novick how long he has known about Prescott’s plan to get him out of office. Although Novick claims to still be on his side, Palmer accuses him of aligning with the Vice President. Novick begs him to change his stance on the attack, but Palmer conveys that the trust between them is gone forever.

4:29 A.M.
Prescott calls on another witness who is at the O.C. in Oregon. The haggard face of NSA head Roger Stanton appears on a monitor, and he describes how he was tortured on orders from the President. Palmer accuses him of lying about the location of the nuclear bomb. Stanton explains how he arrived at the O.C. to find his underling Eric Rayburn had been fired for wanting to bring in the military. He says that Palmer was immediately adamant about not using military action. Stanton believes that Palmer’s indecisive and erratic behavior made him terrified of any military engagement. He thinks that Palmer wanted to convince himself that he could avoid war by showing that an American was behind the bomb threat.

4:31 A.M.
Chappelle questions why Tony ordered I.T. people to work on a retrieval project. Tony explains that Jack found the chip that could show that the Cyprus file was forged, but that the chip was damaged. Chappelle steps away and calls the White House. He leaves a message for the Vice President.

4:32 A.M.
Prescott plays a video of Stanton’s torture at the O.C. The group shudders at what they see. Palmer tells the cabinet that he did order the torture, but that Stanton ultimately confessed to knowledge of the bomb. Stanton says that he made that confession only because he was weakened by the torture. Palmer informs them that Stanton also gave information about the Coral Snake team and the bomb at Norton Airfield. However, Prescott says that there is nothing more on the tape. Palmer insists there has been deliberate sabotage of evidence because he questioned Stanton further. Prescott gives Palmer the opportunity to present evidence on behalf of his defense, but Palmer says he has not been given time to do so. He deems his extreme actions warranted by the day’s events. An aide hands Prescott a note, and Prescott informs the group that CTU Division Chief Ryan Chappelle just sent him an urgent message. Jack Bauer has evidence to prove the inaccuracy of the Cyprus recording. Prescott calls for the group to wait for that evidence to be analyzed. Palmer breathes a sigh of relief.

4:37 A.M.
Chappelle checks on Tony and Michelle’s progress. They tell him that they did not find the audiofiles, but that they can figure out who programmed the information. Chappelle makes a comment that Jack wasted their time, and he walks off disgusted.

4:42 A.M.
Kate becomes upset. She feels like everything that happened today was her fault because her sister may have started a war. Jack comforts her, explaining that there was nothing she could have done to prevent it. Suddenly, Jack’s cell phone rings. Tony and Michelle tell him that, unfortunately, there were no audiofiles left on the chip. However, Michelle did find junk code that may have been put there by the chip’s programmer. She traced the sequence to a hacker named Alex Hewitt. He has a file with the FBI, and may have been the one who fabricated the recording. Jack asks for Hewitt’s last known address, and he tells Kate that he is going off to track down a lead.

4:45 A.M.
Palmer is connected to Chappelle and Jack, who tells Palmer that the chip was damaged and can not prove that the Cyprus tape is a fake. He also says that a man named Peter Kingsley is part of a group manipulating events to instigate a war in order to control the Middle East oil. Palmer asks Jack for hard evidence, and gets Jack’s assurance that he is absolutely convinced that the Cyprus recording was forged.

4:47 A.M.
Palmer turns back to the cabinet members on the monitor to tell them that the evidence is not yet available but will be in the future. Regardless, Prescott calls for a vote. Novick pulls Palmer aside to beg him to change his mind and authorize an attack. Palmer refuses once again. The cabinet begins their voice poll, deciding for or against Palmer being allowed to remain in office.

4:53 A.M.
As he pulls up to Hewitt’s loft, Jack calls Tony for a briefing on the suspect. While working for the State Department, Hewitt had been caught manipulating files. He attempted suicide in custody and was recently released from a psychiatric prison. Tony tells him that Hewitt has no connection to Kingsley.

4:54 A.M.
With a split in cabinet members, the deciding vote falls upon the Secretary of State. He goes against Palmer. Prescott tells Palmer that he can appeal this decision before Congress in four days. Until then, Palmer must remove himself from the decision making process. Secret Service Agent Pierce arrives with two Marines. They escort Palmer to a holding room -- not as bodyguards but as wardens.

4:58 A.M.
As the bombers make their way toward the Middle East, Prescott is sworn in as President of the United States.

4:59 A.M.
Jack enters Hewitt’s ransacked loft. There is no one inside. He hides behind an alcove when he hears footsteps approaching the door. Sherry Palmer comes into the loft and calls out for Alex Hewitt.

 

 

 

5:00 A.M.
Jack watches from a hidden alcove in Alex Hewitt’s loft as Sherry Palmer instructs her bodyguard to look for Hewitt.

A military advisor briefs Prescott on the bombers’ location. Prescott orders the advisor to proceed with the attack as planned. “Yes, Mr. President,” the man responds. Meanwhile, Novick enters the room where Palmer is detained and asks his ex-boss for the war key codes. Palmer hands over a small wallet with a key card. The military officer known as the “Football” takes the card and slides it into a portable scanner. The codes are confirmed.

5:04 A.M.
Chappelle calls the CTU staff into a meeting to bring them up to date on the presidential transition. Tony questions whether Palmer was taken out because of his stance on the attack, suggesting that what Jack is doing has now become even more relevant. Chappelle orders him not to expend any more resources on Jack. Tony secretly tells Michelle that he’s going to reach out to someone on Prescott’s staff in the instance Jack does get the proof he’s looking for.

5:06 A.M.
Jack hears Sherry tell her bodyguard that Peter Kingsley’s people must have removed anything important from Hewitt’s loft. Jack knocks out the bodyguard and handcuffs him. He pushes Sherry to the couch and asks what she is doing there. She says that she is working on Palmer’s behalf, but Jack doesn’t believe her. Although she knows that Jack is looking for Hewitt because he created the tapes, Sherry refuses to answer any of his questions. Jack fires his gun at her and hits the wall. Sherry admits that she knows that Hewitt is an audio technician who was hired by Kingsley to fabricate the Cyprus recording. Kingsley wants the United States to start a war with the Middle East because of his oil interests there. Jack realizes that his bullet hole in the wall let a stream of light into the darkened room. He goes over to the hole and fires more rounds, calling out to whomever is inside to come out. A frightened Hewitt emerges with his hands in the air. Hewitt pleads with Sherry to help him, and she advises him to not say anything in front of Jack. Jack sticks the barrel of his gun to Hewitt’s neck. “You’re going to talk to me now,” he says.

5:14 A.M.
Jack tries to get Hewitt to admit that he forged the Cyprus recording, but he won’t reveal anything. Hewitt will only speak to Sherry because she promised to help him. Jack turns to Sherry seeking the truth. She acknowledges that she wants to protect herself because she will be incriminated on Hewitt’s tapes. Sherry had wanted to enact revenge on her ex-husband by bringing down his presidency. Kingsley only coveted money, and told Sherry that the bomb would never go off. She sought out Hewitt in order to remove herself from the connection to Kingsley. Sherry demands immunity from Jack, and says that the only criminal that needs to be prosecuted is Hewitt. Jack gets Hewitt from the other room so that Sherry can deal with him.

5:19 A.M.
In his confinement room, Palmer explains his situation to Secret Service Agent Pierce. Alluding to Pierce’s son being in the Navy, Palmer asks for help in contacting Jack.

5:21 A.M.
Michelle assigns Carrie to work on one of her duties and won’t explain to her why she is doing so. Carrie believes she is really trying to help Jack behind Chappelle’s back. Tony comes up to inquire about the situation between the two women, and he persuades Michelle to explain herself. Michelle admits to doing a task for District. After Carrie walks away, Tony tells Michelle that Carrie probably doesn’t believe her lie. Carrie then approaches Chappelle and tells him her suspicions. She feels that Tony is unfit to run CTU because he and Michelle are working with Jack.

5:27 A.M.
Jack phones CTU and Tony brings him up to speed on Prescott pushing Palmer out of office. Jack asks him for a helicopter to pick up Hewitt. Although Chappelle is breathing down his neck, Tony agrees to send a chopper. Sherry, meanwhile, promises Hewitt that she will get him full immunity for his crimes and assures him that she will protect him from Jack. Sherry notifies Jack that Hewitt will testify by demonstrating the audio technology.

5:30 A.M.
Tony tells Chappelle that Jack has captured the guy who created the Cyprus recording and that he needs a helicopter to bring him in. Chappelle refuses, and Tony attempts to argue Jack’s case. Chappelle informs Tony that he is being reassigned because he has become a liability to their mission with the start of the war. Chappelle orders Tony to be out of the office in fifteen minutes.

5:31 A.M.
Hewitt gets his computer full of audio software ready to go. He plans to do a another sample of the Cyprus recording to prove that the previous one was a fraud. Jack guarantees Hewitt that he will be fine, and Hewitt becomes suspicious. He questions whether Jack and Sherry made a deal together to set him up. Hewitt asks to speak to Jack privately and Sherry becomes defensive. Hewitt is curious about Sherry’s intentions, but Jack reassures him that she only wants to help him.

5:39 A.M.
Accompanied by a police officer, Kim enters the Matheson house to get her things.

As Tony begins to pack up his office, he gets a call from a satellite phone secure line. Palmer requests that he be connected to Jack, and Tony patches him through. Jack tells Palmer that he found the man who engineered the Cyprus recording and that Sherry is there with him. Jack does not explain further, and Palmer cautions him not to trust her. He asks to speak to his ex-wife. Sherry tells Palmer that she is merely trying to help him, and that she and Jack are his only hope in preventing this war. Palmer warns her to stay out of Jack’s way.

5:42 A.M.
After Palmer hangs up, Jack demands that Tony quickly get him the helicopter. Tony turns to Michelle and asks for her help.

5:43 A.M.
Gary Matheson is in his house when he sees a police officer outside. Gary does not realize that Kim is also in the house.

Novick comes into the holding room and takes the satellite phone away from Palmer. He has Agent Pierce placed under arrest.

5:44 A.M.
Kim packs clothes in her room. She does not know that anyone else is there. Gary creeps up the stairs to his bedroom with a holster he apprehended from the police officer. He packs money, a passport and a stash of drugs. Kim hears noise from the house and calls out for the officer. She walks up to the master bedroom but finds it empty. She goes back to her packing. Gary hides in a corner, realizing that Kim is in the house.

5:46 A.M.
Michelle and Tony make a plan. She calls Chappelle to tell him that someone is waiting for him in a holding room. Chappelle goes into the room, but only Michelle is there. Suddenly, Tony comes from behind Chappelle and puts a chloroform rag over his face. Chappelle falls unconscious, and Tony sends Michelle off to dispatch the helicopter. Tony takes out a syringe to drug Chappelle.

5:51 A.M.
As they wait for the chopper, Sherry tells Jack that she is trying to clear her name in order to protect Palmer’s public image. Jack informs her that Palmer has been stripped from the Presidency and that Prescott is now in power. Sherry is shocked. Tony phones Jack’s cell with news that the chopper is on its way. Jack asks for the Attorney General to be brought in because Sherry wants to cut a deal when Hewitt’s testimony incriminates her. Sherry hears this and confronts Jack because they had discussed another scenario. When she tries to go to Hewitt, Jack forcibly grabs her and orders her to stay away from him.

5:54 A.M.
Kim exits her room and sees through the window that the police officer is lying face down in the outside bushes. She grabs her bags and spots Gary downstairs. Kim panics and darts into another room. Gary comes up the stairs and points the gun at the closed door. He opens it, but Kim is not inside. Gary sees the door for the attic and climbs up the stairs. When he gets to the attic, Kim smacks him in the head with a can and Gary drops down unconscious. Suddenly, the attic floor gives way and Kim falls through to the bedroom. She grabs Gary’s gun and cell phone.

5:56 A.M.
Kim calls CTU and begs Michelle to put her through to Jack. A frightened Kim tells her father that Gary Matheson killed the police officer that brought her there. Jack instructs her to get out of the house, but when Gary starts to stir to consciousness Kim becomes terrified. Jack tells her to shoot Gary. She fires one shot into him, and Jack tells her to shoot him again. She does, and Gary is killed. Then Jack has Kim go downstairs because he is going to send someone to get her. Kim obeys and hangs up the phone. Jack calls Kate, asking her to phone the police and pick up his daughter. Meanwhile, in the loft, Hewitt tries to leave. Sherry stops him. Jack orders them to separate, but phoning CTU preoccupies him. Hewitt goes to escape again and Sherry steps in his path. Hewitt stabs her with a screwdriver and makes a run for a hidden door. Sherry lies on the ground, bleeding, but Jack goes after Hewitt instead. He follows him into a darkened tunnel.

 

 

6:00 A.M. With Chappelle still unconscious, Tony keeps Carrie preoccupied with other work. Brad Hammond from Division calls looking for Chappelle, and Tony tells him that Chappelle “stepped out.” 6:03 A.M. Jack chases Hewitt through the loft’s secret tunnel, telling him that he can cut a deal once he’s brought into CTU. Jack promises him that he will be kept alive if Hewitt helps prevent the war. Hewitt breaks open a glass window and runs out onto the roof of his building. 6:05 A.M. From his office, Kingsley speaks to someone named Max and assures him that the war will increase their oil holdings dramatically. A woman named Eve informs Kingsley that Hewitt was not found when his people went to the loft to pick up all the recordings and data. Kingsley is worried that Hewitt could blow their whole operation. 6:06 A.M. Hewitt climbs to a raised level of the roof and pulls up the ladder so that Jack can not reach him. Jack, clutching his aching chest, manages to shimmy up the drainpipe and chase Hewitt to a ledge. When Hewitt pulls out a gun, Jack draws his in return. Jack pleads with him to drop the weapon, but Hewitt raises it instead. Jack fires, wounding Hewitt in the leg. Hewitt is startled and falls over the ledge onto another landing. Jack checks the leg wound and assures him that he will be fine once the helicopter arrives. Jack then realizes that blood is pouring out from Hewitt’s head. 6:14 A.M. Jack phones Tony, who warns him that he may be unreachable because he had to remove Chappelle from becoming an obstacle. He tells Jack to contact Michelle in the field on a remote access. 6:15 A.M. As Michelle walks toward the exit, Tony hands her an access card. Carrie stops Michelle and asks about Chappelle’s whereabouts. She accuses Michelle of doing something underhanded, but Michelle lies her way out of the situation. Michelle leaves the CTU building. 6:16 A.M. Counselor Brian Jacobs arrives to see Palmer. Jacobs explains he can appeal the cabinet’s decision but that it will take time. Palmer gives him Kingsley’s name as the one who manipulated the evidence. Jacobs agrees to vigorously pursue this lead regardless of how much Novick is impeding the investigation. 6:17 A.M. Michelle calls Tony from a CTU van and warns him that Carrie is onto them. He tells her to contact Jack herself because Hammond has arrived from Division with a phalanx of agents. 6:18 A.M. Hammond questions Tony about Chappelle’s disappearance. Hammond locks down CTU based on a report by one of Tony’s own staff members accusing him of supporting a rogue agent against Division’s orders. Tony spots Carrie glaring at him. 6:19 A.M. Jacobs informs Novick that Palmer will oppose his removal from office by proving that Peter Kingsley falsified the Cyprus recordings. Jacobs requests access to intelligence databases in order to make the connection to Kingsley. At first Novick resists, but Jacobs appeals to Novick’s history with Palmer. Novick finally agrees to set up a computer station for him to use. 6:20 A.M. Carrie leads a pair of Division agents through CTU and they come upon a holding room where the lock has been reconfigured. They kick the door in and find a weakened Chappelle struggling to stand. 6:21 A.M. Jack waits for the helicopter on the roof as he tries to keep Hewitt lucid. Jack spots the CTU helicopter and waves at it. Meanwhile, Carrie briefs Chappelle on what she has found -- the helicopter that Tony requested for Jack. Chappelle orders her to bring the chopper back to CTU. As Jack flags down the helicopter, the pilot reverses direction and flies off. Jack calls Michelle, and she tells him that Hammond recalled it because he put the office in lockdown. Jack then runs over to Hewitt, but Hewitt is already dead. 6:28 A.M. Jack asks Michelle to set up an interface with Hewitt’s computer, and he heads back to the loft. Novick comes into Palmer’s holding room to solicit a favor. U.S. stealth bombers have been spotted over Turkey’s airspace, but that country’s Prime Minister will not grant a flyover for the planes unless he receives a personal request from the President. The Prime Minister has not been told that Palmer was discharged from office. If Palmer speaks to the Prime Minister under the pretense that he is still President, the planes will not be attacked. 6:30 A.M. When Jack returns to the loft, Sherry yells at him for leaving her after she was stabbed. Her checks her minor wound and treats her. Since Hewitt is dead, Jack will need her to get him closer to Kingsley. Sherry will tell Kingsley that she can deliver Hewitt because he still does not know that Hewitt is dead. Suddenly, Jack falls back in pain, placing his hand to his chest. Sherry asks him what is wrong. Jack admits that Kingsley’s men stopped his heart when they interrogated him. She encourages him to see a doctor, but Jack insists that she help him get to Kingsley. Sherry is to offer to trade Hewitt to Kingsley in exchange for the evidence that implicates her. Knowing that Kingsley will require proof, Jack tells Sherry that Hewitt will do the talking. 6:32 A.M. Kingsley speaks to Max again, and assures him that the American government most likely does not have the source files for the Cyprus recordings because the bombers are still on course for the Middle East. Kingsley guarantees that Hewitt will be found and eliminated. 6:33 A.M. Chappelle has Tony placed under arrest. He inquires about Michelle’s participation, and Carrie offers her services to find her. 6:34 A.M. Michelle calls Jack when she is connected to Hewitt’s computer. He tells her that Hewitt described his program as one that can recreate any voice. However, Hewitt’s database has samples of thousands of voices. To save time in finding which one is Hewitt’s, Jack asks Sherry when she last spoke to him. Michelle retrieves a taped phone call between Hewitt and Sherry from the pervious night. The recording is of Sherry asking Hewitt about his relationship with Kingsley. Michelle gets a sample for the integrator to recreate Hewitt’s sound, and she need only to type phrases in a separate file to be spoken in Hewitt’s voice. Michelle sees CTU agents outside her van, and quickly leads Jack through the process. The agents raid her van just as Jack sees the program he’s looking for on Hewitt’s monitor. As Jack calls out for her over the phone line, Michelle is carted away in handcuffs. 6:41 A.M. Palmer is lead down the federal building hallway by Novick to a conference room. From a monitor in the White House bunker, Prescott thanks Palmer for his help. Palmer tells him that he is only doing this to save the military men flying in the planes over Turkey. Palmer is then connected over the phone to the Turkish Prime Minister to grant his personal request. 6:43 A.M. Kate enters the Matheson house looking for Kim, who raises her gun in fear. “Who are you?” she asks suspiciously. Kate explains that Jack sent her, and she proves it by describing the events that happened to Kim. Kim is wary to believe this stranger, but Kate assures her that Jack trusted her enough to send her for his daughter. As Kim lowers the gun, Kate approaches her cautiously. 6:45 A.M. Michelle and Tony sit imprisoned in a CTU holding room. Tony insists on taking all the blame by saying that she was only following his orders. Michelle won’t let him lie for her because she did what she thought was right. She tenderly takes his hand. 6:47 A.M. Novick ushers Palmer back into his confinement room, and tells him that Prescott will keep him there until he makes his formal announcement at a press conference. Novick awkwardly mentions to his former boss that he granted Jacobs’ request for low security access on Palmer’s behalf. Novick slinks out of the room as Palmer stands stoically. 6:52 A.M. As Kate drives to CTU, Kim asks her what her relationship is with her father since she only just met him the previous day. Kate has no clear answer. Kim says that she wants him to be happy since her mother died. Kate tells her that she also lost her mother. 6:54 A.M. Although Sherry is hesitant, Jack makes her call Kingsley with a prepared script. Sherry demands from Kingsley the tapes that he made of their conversations, and she offers up Hewitt in return. Kingsley requests that he speak with Hewitt directly, and Sherry feigns going to another room where her bodyguards have him held. She holds the receiver to a computer speaker and Jack plays back the generator of Hewitt’s voice insisting to Kingsley that he didn’t say anything. Kingsley asks to speak with Hewitt again, but on Jack’s orders, Sherry refuses. Kingsley finally relents, and gives Sherry a neutral meeting place on Figueroa Street to meet. Jack hangs up the phone and he and Sherry head for the location. 6:56 A.M. Kingsley tells his confidante Eve that Sherry has Hewitt. Although he suspects that he is being set up, he has no other choice but to meet her. He will set up shooters at the place, knowing that Sherry and whomever else she is working with won’t leave there alive. Kingsley tells Eve that he will see her in another country the following week, and when Eve leans in to hug him, Kingsley grabs a knife off the desk to kill her. 6:59 A.M. As they drive, Sherry chides Jack for not having a CTU backup at the Figueroa Street meeting place. He is forced to take down Kingsley himself. Sherry notices that Jack has trouble focusing on the road, and she demands that he pull over. Jack rebuffs her because there is no time. Suddenly, Jack winces and the car swerves. His body contorts in pain and Jack loses control of the car. Sherry grabs the steering wheel as they veer off to miss an oncoming van. Jack’s body goes limp and the car careens off the road into an embankment in the riverbed basin.

 

 

7:00 A.M.
Although he is unhurt in the car crash, Jack becomes trapped when his seat belt locks up. Sherry gets out of the car without helping him, telling him that she has to take care of herself first. He pleads with her because she is the only one who can stop the war. Sherry at first refuses because Palmer turned against her. Yet Jack makes an appeal to her that Palmer will learn that she was the one responsible for getting him back his presidency. Sherry gives in, and cuts Jack out of the seat belt.

7:03 A.M.
Attorney Brian Jacobs shows Novick a file on Kingsley. The information proves that he made calls within the past few hours to Coral Snake member Jonathan Wallace. Novick realizes that Wallace is the one who killed his own men in an effort to detonate the nuclear bomb.

7:04 A.M.
Prescott is briefed on the military attack. The bombers are set to reach their target within the hour. Prescott readily accepts the fact that there will be civilian casualties.

7:05 A.M.
Novick calls Chappelle, instructing him to provide assistance for Jack on finding the evidence about the Cyprus recording. Chappelle is confused because he is under the impression that the country is already at war, but Novick insists that Chappelle locate Jack as soon as possible.

7:06 A.M.
Kingsley phones Max and tells him that he is still looking for Alex Hewitt. Max is alarmed because Hewitt is the only one who could bring down their operation. Kingsley assures him that he will take care of Hewitt.

7:07 A.M.
Chappelle goes into the room where Tony and Michelle are being held. He demands that they put him in touch with Jack. They agree to help him if he drops the charges against them. Chappelle acquiesces.

7:08 A.M.
Jack and Sherry leave the scene of their car crash. He lugs the audio equipment weakly, leaning on Sherry for support. Jack tells her that they are functioning without CTU authority. A driver approaches them and offers his help. Jack pulls out his gun and steals the man’s car. He gets into the passenger seat while Sherry takes the wheel.

7:13 A.M.
Kate and Kim are ushered into CTU and met by Carrie. To Carrie’s surprise, Tony takes over. He informs Kim that Jack is not reachable. Tony then tells Kate that her father returned to CTU after he was released from custody because he wanted to see Marie.

7:14 A.M.
At a holding cell, Bob Warner speaks to his daughter Marie through a plexiglass wall. She looks back at him coldly and does not speak. He tries to get an answer from her about why she threatened their family and tried to start a war, but Marie remains silent. Kate enters, and tells her father that Marie can not provide any reason that they would understand. After Bob leaves, Marie calls for Kate. “You think you’ll be safe out there?” she says. “You won’t be.”

7:17 A.M.
Tony calls Jack with news that Kim is safely at CTU. Chappelle gets on the line to tell Jack that he now operating with full support, but that he is to wait for backup before proceeding. Kingsley, however, is expecting the meeting at the Los Angeles Coliseum to go down immediately and Jack can not wait for backup. He asks Chappelle to obtain audio voiceprints of both Kingsley and Sherry to be used for authentication. Jack also wants a live audio feed with the President. Chappelle grants these requests, and sends a SWAT team to the location.

7:19 A.M.
Jack and Sherry arrive outside the Coliseum. He wires up Sherry with a transmitter.

7:24 A.M.
Novick alerts Prescott that there is a strong chance they will have evidence forcing a delay in military actions. Although the Second Wave terrorist group brought the nuclear weapon into the United States, a link has come up between the group and Peter Kingsley. This may exonerate the Middle Eastern countries that have traditionally backed Second Wave and are facing attack. This also points the finger at an oil consortium who is behind the bomb. Novick says that Jack Bauer will get a live audio confession from Kingsley.

7:26 A.M.
At CTU, Michelle matches Sherry’s voice over the live transmitter to the voiceprint they have on record for her. Although the CTU backup is minutes away, Jack needs to proceed because Kingsley is waiting. Sherry admits to Jack that she is afraid of being killed. He guarantees that Kingsley will not do anything until he gets Hewitt, and after that, Jack will watch her back. Sherry finds little comfort from this because of Jack’s health. Jack admits that there is a possibility that she may not survive. Sherry asks him to convey to Palmer that she is doing this only for her ex-husband, and makes her way toward the Coliseum complex. Still at the car, a sudden pain grips Jack in the chest.

7:28 A.M.
As Prescott is set up on a live audio feed at the White House, Novick arranges the same at the federal building in Los Angeles. Palmer is brought in to listen. Palmer is impressed that Jack found Kingsley, but he is taken aback when he learns that Sherry is the one to deal with him. Novick explains that Sherry had been recruited by Kingsley, but that she is now working with Jack at considerable risk to herself.

7:29 A.M.
Sherry walks onto the grounds of the Coliseum sports arena. She does not see a sniper in a tower above who takes aim at her.

7:34 A.M.
As Jack sets up beneath the stands, Sherry sees Kingsley approach her. A cadre of guards surrounds him. Kingsley whispers into a radio for his sharpshooter to wait until they get Hewitt. Sherry tells Kingsley that Hewitt is safely hidden. As she speaks, listening in is CTU, the White House and Palmer. Kingsley admits that he used her to ignite the nuclear bomb. She demands that she receive safe haven in return for handing over Hewitt. Michelle, meanwhile, confirms that Kingsley’s voice matches up. Sherry gives Kingsley a cell phone, telling him that she will call him with Hewitt’s location once she is free. Kingsley gives her the recordings of their phone conversations. She then asks for the Cyprus recording as insurance. Kingsley doesn’t understand why she would want that tape since Hewitt is the only person who can indict them. Kingsley states that Hewitt was the one who forged the recording. Hearing this, Tony asks the White House for confirmation to move on Kingsley. Prescott hesitates.

7:37 A.M.
Back at the Coliseum, Sherry again tells Kingsley that she will call him when she lands at a secret location. Kingsley doesn’t believe that she really has Hewitt, and he instructs his sniper to fire. Nothing happens. Kingsley looks up to the tower, but his sharpshooter is gone. Just as Kingsley’s other guard draws his gun on Sherry, Jack appears in the above tower with the sniper rifle. He shoots at the guard and kills him. Jack yells for Sherry to run. She takes off, and Jack aims at the other guards. Kingsley ducks behind a wall and fires at Jack. Palmer is horrified by the gunfire he is hearing over the live feed. From his high vantage point, Jack takes out all but one of Kingsley’s men. He leaves the tower and grabs Sherry as she waits under the bleachers in a tunnel. The last of Kingsley’s guards charges at Jack in the tunnel, and as they fight, Jack loses his weapon. Sherry runs for cover. Jack proceeds to struggle with the guard, and knocks away a gun from the man’s ankle holster. Jack snaps the guys’ neck, and the guard falls dead. Jack is jolted with another, much stronger pain in his chest. He stumbles to the ground as Kingsley slowly approaches. Jack reaches for the gun that fell from his attacker’s holster and aims weakly at Kingsley. The chambers of the gun, however, are empty of bullets. Recognizing Jack, Kingsley raises his gun. Suddenly, shots from a CTU helicopter ring out. Kingsley falls down dead. The SWAT team raids the Coliseum and attends to Jack.

7:42 A.M.
Palmer listens in as Prescott orders the attack to be aborted.

7:47 A.M.
A man named Trepkos phones Max with news that Kingsley has been killed and that the President called off the war. Max says that they will have to go another way. Trepkos is unsure about what he means. Max tells him that he will soon find out because it will start today. Max hangs up and calls someone else. He gives the unknown person the go-ahead.

7:48 A.M.
Before a video screen of the assembled Cabinet, Prescott informs Palmer that they have decided to annul the earlier action. Palmer is reinstated as President. Prescott also tenders his resignation along with the other Cabinet members who voted against Palmer. Palmer tells them that he is not accepting their resignations. Although they did not act as leaders, he knows that they will never make those same mistakes again. Palmer then orders an immediate press conference. He thanks Novick for making the call to CTU at the last possible moment. However, Palmer is disappointed that Novick did not stand by him. He relieves Novick from his post.

7:52 A.M.
Chappelle happily tells Tony that the District Director is pleased with their actions. Tony demands that Chappelle get out of his chair. Chappelle makes the gesture, giving Tony his job back. Michelle comes in, and Tony thanks her for making the right choices even if she had to go up against him. He sends her home, saying “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

7:54 A.M.
As he lies on a gurney, Jack sees Kate and Kim arrive at the Coliseum. Kate watches as Kim runs over to him, crying. Jack tells Kim that everything will be all right. Kim kisses her father’s head, and says that she will take care of him.

7:56 A.M.
At a press conference outside the federal building, Palmer pronounces to the public that the nation is safe. As he makes his way through the cheering crowd and accepts handshakes, a woman calls for the President. She reaches her hand out to him. The woman is Mandy, who was hired by Ira Gaines the previous year in the plot to assassinate Palmer. Palmer clasps Mandy’s hand in a kind shake. She leaves the crowd and walks alone into a stairwell. Using tongs, Mandy peels off a sheer layer of some substance from the palm of her right hand. She places the filmy peel into a metal container. Mandy phones Max and says, “It’s done.”

7:59 A.M.
After reaching his limo, Palmer looks down at his right hand. The flesh on it has been eaten away. His breath is shortened and he falls to the ground. The crowd panics as the Secret Service agents scan the scene with their guns. Palmer gasps for air helplessly.