10:00 A.M.
Neither Curtis nor Buchanan is able to make contact with Jack. They assume he’s been captured or killed. Curtis must reconfigure his assault plan.

10:01 A.M.
Beresch addresses Jack by name, and asks him what CTU’s plan is. Jack answers that CTU is waiting for his signal to attack. Jack emphasizes that the U.S does not negotiate with terrorists, but Beresch knows that Logan is weak. Beresch pushes Derek aside and asks for another hostage. Jack begs Beresch to allow him to buy more time before he kills another innocent victim.

10:04 A.M.
The White House gets word that CTU lost contact with Jack. They watch as another hostage is shot in front of the camera. Beresch accuses Logan of signing a “corrupt” treaty with the blood of hostages. The President is horrified, and he offers to postpone the summit in order to save the people. Cummings advises Logan to stay on course because the terrorists will never release the hostages.

10:06 A.M.
Evelyn encourages Martha to show Logan the paper transcript that will prove the Palmer phone conversation was doctored. Knowing that her husband is preoccupied and that he believes she is unstable, Martha wants to wait until after the treaty is signed. She slips the paper into her bra for safe keeping.

10:07 A.M.
Curtis tells Diane that he doesn’t know whether Jack and Derek are safe.

10:08 A.M.
Beresch watches a news report about the President moving ahead with the treaty. He orders Jack to convince CTU that he has revised the assault plan to another entry. Beresch threatens to kill Derek.

10:09 A.M.
Lynn McGill from District arrives at CTU and abruptly assumes control over the chain of command. He even takes Buchanan’s office.

10:11 A.M.
Forced by Beresch, Jack calls CTU and explains that he was forced to end the earlier transmission. Jack tells Curtis to set up in another exit. He stresses that he is in “flank two” position. Buchanan and Curtis make changes to their plans.

10:17 A.M.
Curtis lets Buchanan know he needs another fifteen minutes to reposition. McGill summons Buchanan up to his office. He wants to review the playbook before he approves the mission. Buchanan bristles, but agrees.

10:19 A.M.
Beresch believes that the White House is not giving in because they think they have an option with CTU’s attack. Derek blames himself for Jack getting captured. “This is not over,” Jack says with certainty.

10:20 A.M.
Novick brings the President the good news that CTU regained contact with Jack. Even though the mission is proceeding, Logan isn’t convinced that the hostages won’t be killed.

10:21 A.M.
Logan walks out to meet Suvarov and he tells him that the rescue attempt will move forward. Suvarov says that if they are both unable to deal with these terrorists, then the treaty will become a mockery.

10:22 A.M.
Cummings asks Evelyn about Martha retrieving a document with highly sensitive intelligence protocols. Evelyn says that it was only a transcript of a call with Palmer. Cummings threatens Evelyn with prosecution for aiding a criminal act. She tells him that Martha has the document inside her blouse.

10:23 A.M.
Logan worries about CTU’s ability to bring down the terrorists in the short time he has before the treaty will be signed.

10:24 A.M.
CTU watches as Logan arrives at the stage a minute ahead of schedule. When Chloe asks if they should warn Curtis, Buchanan snaps at her. She thinks that Buchanan is convinced they won’t be able to save the hostages.

10:29 A.M.
Logan addresses the hostage situation to the reporters. He is emphatic that they will not let the terrorists win.

10:30 A.M.
Novick checks in with Buchanan, who asks him to slow down the ceremony. Novick refuses.

10:31 A.M.
Beresch guarantees Nathanson that everything will go according to plan. The White House is under the false impression that their assault will save the hostages. Nathanson warns him to carry out the threat regardless of whether the treaty is signed.

10:32 A.M.
McGill questions Buchanan on the sudden attack alterations. He is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding Jack’s decision. McGill wants to review all the transcripts of Jack’s phone transmissions.

10:33 A.M.
As Curtis gets his teams ready to attack, McGill asks Chloe to unlock a node in the call logs. She is rude to him, and complains to Spenser that he is a hindrance. Spenser says that McGill is known for firing much of his own staff for incompetence.

10:34 A.M.
One of Beresch’s men finds Chevensky’s dead body and the keycard he was hiding. Jack sees Beresch discreetly pass the keycard to a male hostage in a yellow tie. The man pockets the card and pretends to huddle in fear with the others.

10:39 A.M.
Beresch has Jack answer his ringing cell phone, where Curtis lets Jack know that his teams are in place. Jack reiterates that he is in the “flank two” position. Jack hesitates and then finally gives Curtis the green light to move in. Curtis counts down a minute to launch, not knowing that bombs are set up where his men are about to enter.

10:40 A.M.
McGill rushes into the CTU situation room and demands that the assault be stopped. He found that Jack was using a code to indicate that an agent is making a communication under duress. Although nothing came up on the filters, McGill points out that “flank two” was the code back when Jack was an active agent. Chloe confirms this, and Buchanan tells Curtis to abort and go back to the original set up.

10:42 A.M.
Beresch doesn’t understand why CTU is late in attacking. He makes Jack call CTU, and Buchanan tells Jack that there was a malfunction. They will be ready to launch the attack any minute.

10:43 A.M.
As Logan and Suvarov sign the treaty, Nathanson calls Beresch. Nathanson orders him to kill all the hostages because it is now too late. Suddenly, the wall where Beresch’s men are waiting for CTU explodes. The men fire back but there’s no one there. CTU SWAT teams attack from behind and take out the gunmen.

10:44 A.M.
Jack grabs a gun from one of the men and starts shooting. Jack hits Beresch in the hand to wound him before he can commit suicide. Beresch makes his way to one of his fallen men and detonates the vest. He is dead. Curtis alerts CTU that they have secured the terminal. The remaining hostages are unharmed.

10:45 A.M.
Novick passes the good news to President Logan, who makes an announcement to the press. “The rescue operation that I authorized was successful,” he boasts.

10:46 A.M.
Jack hugs Derek. “I have to finish this,” he says before sending him to the command post. Jack looks among the hostages and realizes that the man with the yellow tie is gone.

10:51 A.M.
A tearful Derek reunites with his mother. He tells her that Jack saved not only his life but all the hostages’ lives. Diane asks an agent if she can see Jack, but the agent has instructions to escort them back to CTU.

10:52 A.M.
As soon as the treaty is signed, Martha urgently requests a few minutes alone with Logan. He promises to speak to her after the ceremony. She demands to be paid attention to, exclaiming that she is not crying wolf. “Do not ruin this moment for me,” Logan dismisses. Cummings approaches the distraught Martha, who helplessly says that the situation is more dangerous than the President knows. Cummings presses her for information, but she will only talk to her husband.

10:54 A.M.
Buchanan apologizes to McGill for brushing him aside because his thoroughness helped save the day. McGill asserts that it was Buchanan’s insistence about Jack’s integrity caused him to double check. Yet McGill still wants Jack taken into custody because he hasn’t been fully cleared of Palmer and Michelle’s deaths. Audrey pipes in that the evidence and Chloe’s testimony prove that he is innocent, but McGill notes that the video surveillance of Jack near the assassination site was not doctored. McGill orders Jack to be brought in for questioning.

10:55 A.M.
Jack tells Curtis about the missing hostage with a keycard who was working with the terrorist. Curtis has been ordered to bring Jack into custody.

10:57 A.M.
The man with the yellow tie enters a subterranean tunnel below a hangar. He shows his keycard to a gunman and tells him that Chevensky is dead. The two climb into a hole drilled into the floor where a giant metal holding container is kept. The yellow tie man inserts his keycard and the top is opened to reveal several canisters. The gunman checks the canisters for radioactivity. The yellow tie man calls Nathanson and says that they are moving the canisters out.

10:58 A.M.
Cummings slips into Martha’s room and grabs her from behind, putting a chloroform-soaked cloth over her mouth. Martha’s screams are muffled and she loses consciousness. Cummings takes the paper transcript from her bra.

12:00 P.M.
Buchanan and McGill are hesitant to arrest Cummings. Jack intends to go directly to Novick, who can be trusted. Since Jack no longer works there, the plan won’t backfire on CTU. McGill gives in with the stipulation that Jack doesn’t make this revenge for Palmer’s death.

12:02 P.M.
Audrey apologizes to Jack for being so distant. It will take time for her to get used to seeing him alive.

12:03 P.M.
Cummings cannot confirm whether Jack is dead, but Nathanson says that the nerve gas is on its way to the port.

12:04 P.M.
The yellow tie man and an accomplice named Schaeffer arrange shipping the canisters to Moscow.

12:05 P.M.
Logan is furious that Martha hasn’t been found yet. He is shown a video made by the terrorists to show how the nerve gas causes permanent nerve damage within minutes. Yet the nerve gas stolen from the airport is far more lethal than the one in the video. Novick excuses himself when he gets a text message from Jack. Cummings watches him nervously, wondering if it’s news of Jack’s death.

12:06 P.M.
Novick calls back Jack, who says he has a lead on the nerve gas but that he wants it kept secret from the President. Novick is alarmed when Jack adds that it concerns Cummings. Novick agrees to meet him.

12:07 P.M.
Jack tells Diane and Derek that he needs to stay on to help CTU. Diane knows that Jack isn’t coming back to her, and she asks if it’s because of Audrey. Jack says that he is still in love with Audrey even though he doesn’t know if she feels the same way. He kisses Diane goodbye.

12:09 P.M.
Cummings and Nathanson listen to the playback of Jack and Novick’s phone conversation. Nathanson blames Cummings for not getting the job done inside CTU. He orders Cummings to kill Jack when he comes to the retreat.

12:14 P.M.
Secret Service Agent Pierce finds Martha in the stables on the property. She pleads with him to help her because they are setting her up. She says that someone inside the Administration is trying to shut her up because she knows the truth. The other agents come in to apprehend her.

12:17 P.M.
Inside the freight unit container, Schaeffer secretly attaches a handheld device to the canisters and triggers an unlock code. He exits the container and bumps into the yellow tie man. Schaeffer tells him that he only was securing the canisters, but yellow tie man is suspicious.

12:18 P.M.
Diane asks Audrey if she still has feelings for Jack. Audrey is shocked to learn that Jack still loves her. “If you don’t love him, let him go,” Diane cautions.

12:19 P.M.
Audrey calls Jack. She wants to know if he is coming back to her. Jack doesn’t know what he will do next. “I never stopped loving you, not for one second,” he says.

12:20 P.M.
Agent Pierce lets Logan know that they found Martha. Pierce tries to tell the President about Martha’s claims. Logan brushes this off as “conspiracy theories.”

12:21 P.M.
Logan wonders whether sending Martha away is the right solution. Cummings lets him know that Jack is coming to the retreat to meet with Novick. Jack plans to accuse Cummings of helping the terrorists acquire the nerve gas. Cummings then confesses to the President that he leaked information to the terrorists about the location of the nerve gas. Logan is outraged, but Cummings’ intent was to make the separatists think they will use it against the Russians. The nerve gas will never reach Russian soil because detonators will be triggered once the terrorists landed at their home base. This would prove the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Central Asia. It will allow America to increase its military presence in the area and guarantee the flow of oil.

12:23 P.M.
Logan calls Cummings a traitor for jeopardizing the country and going behind his back. He then realizes that Cummings gave the order to have Palmer killed. “That was an unfortunate, but necessary intervention,” Cummings explains. Logan demands that the operation be stopped, but it is too late because the man Cummings has working inside went dark. Cummings charges that if things don’t play out, Logan will be implicated and his Presidency will be destroyed. Logan is trapped.

12:29 P.M.
Novick meets Jack in secrecy, but a helicopter appears overhead and the agents order Jack to surrender. Novick swears that he didn’t tell anyone, and he yells to the Secret Service to stand down. The agents are under order from the President to arrest Jack. They handcuff him.

12:31 P.M.
With Jack now in custody, he was prevented from telling Novick anything. Cummings will make it look like Jack was leaking information of national security to Novick. Logan considers that others at CTU are aware of what Jack knows, but Cummings covered his bases so that the nerve gas explosion can’t be traced back to them. Logan demands assurance that the canisters will be destroyed before reaching Russian soil. Cummings wants the President to grant him the authority to remove CTU from the investigation. Logan helplessly gives him the power.

12:33 P.M.
Martha tries contacting Logan, but he ignores her.

The Secret Service brings Jack and Novick to the main building of the retreat. Agent Pierce makes eye contact with Jack, and questions an underling why Jack was arrested. The agent says that Cummings directed it.

12:34 P.M.
CTU is confused when it is pulled off the terrorist investigation. The President won’t take McGill’s call, and both Jack and Novick are unreachable. Buchanan senses that something is wrong and he suggests they disregard the order. McGill refuses, and Buchanan demeans his experience and says that is because he doesn’t know any better. McGill calmly asks Buchanan to step outside. Buchanan apologies to McGill for being out of line, but he still stands by his recommendation. Buchanan advises him to make decisions faster. They need to do everything they can to stop the terrorists. McGill agrees to disregard the White House order.

12:35 P.M.
Evelyn packs for the First Lady. Martha wonders aloud what happened with her relationship with Logan. She used to be his closest confidante.

12:36 P.M.
Agent Pierce comes in the holding room to move Jack to a detention facility. Jack tries appealing to Pierce’s friendship with Palmer. He explains that Palmer was killed because he was about to expose Cummings of helping the terrorists attack. It was Cummings who ordered the assassination of Palmer. Pierce says that the First Lady also believes someone inside the Administration was involved. Jack implores him to protect the President because a coup d’etat is going on. Jack begs Pierce for help.

12:43 P.M.
Pierce has a subordinate agent radio in that Jack has escaped.

12:44 P.M.
Cummings gets word that CTU hasn’t stopped working on the terrorist crisis. He urges the President to call McGill off. Suddenly, Pierce enters with Jack. Jack accuses Cummings of working against the country. Cummings tries to flee but Jack pummels him. Logan urges Pierce to intervene, but Pierce says he is only protecting the President. Jack lays out all of Cummings’ crimes, including leaking the nerve gas and the killing of Palmer. “I know about that,” Logan explains to Jack’s horror. Jack draws a knife to Cummings’ face and threatens to cut out each eye in order to get him to confess where the nerve gas is. Knowing Jack’s penchant for torture, Cummings gives up that the nerve gas is hidden on a boat from Long Beach.

12:45 P.M.
Jack calls Buchanan and puts Logan on speaker phone. He lays out the details of the shipment. Logan confirms for Buchanan that CTU should take lead on the investigation.

12:46 P.M.
Jack places his badge on the table and offers to turn himself in to the authorities. Pierce does the same. Logan orders Pierce to take back his shield and get Cummings out of his sight.

12:47 P.M.
Logan explains to Jack how he was coerced. Cummings had lied to him and said it was too late. Yet the international issues from the previous year are still pressing. “The fact that you’re alive presents problems for both of us,” Logan says. Jack’s only intention was to find Palmer’s killer. He wants to see the terrorist threat through, but promises to disappear once it’s done. Logan is satisfied, and then shakes his hand, thanking him.

12:53 P.M.
Evelyn puts Martha in a car, but a Secret Service agent stops her before she can drive off. Logan comes to retrieve her, and tells her that she was right about the conspiracy. He explains that Cummings lied to him and convinced him to send her to the clinic. She is still angry that Logan went along with it. Logan is pulled away by an aide, and he kisses his wife softly on the cheek.

12:55 P.M.
Chloe finds information on the only ship leaving for Central Asia. Edgar narrows down which container the nerve gas could be in.

12:56 P.M.
Buchanan sends Jack an image of the yellow tie man, whose real name is Ivan Erwich. He was a chemical engineer who joined his country’s separatist movement. Buchanan wants Jack to ID him for the strike team.

12:57 P.M.
CTU and the President watch the feed from the strike team at the port. The gas mask-wearing agents raid the container. They find a dead Schaeffer. The canisters are gone from their holding bins.

12:58 P.M.
Jack has Cummings brought back in to see the video. Cummings swears that he doesn’t know what happened to the canisters. Cummings identifies Schaeffer as his inside man. “They must know,” Cummings says.

12:59 P.M.
Cummings’ cell phone rings, and he sees that it’s Schaeffer’s number. Jack has CTU monitor the call and he makes Cummings answer. It’s Erwich, the yellow tie man, who says that Schaeffer confessed everything. Cummings tells Erwich that this was an unsanctioned act and that no one else, including the President, was involved. “Your country is about to pay a very steep price,” Erwich warns.

 

2:00 P.M. McGill returns to the CTU office shaken. Buchanan updates him on Rossler’s death. Erwich calls Rossler’s phone and Chloe records it. 2:01 P.M. Using an indistinct voice, Jack answers Rossler’s phone. Erwich gives who he thinks is Rossler the location to meet one of his men. Curtis readies a tracking device inside the chip. 2:02 P.M. Jack calls Buchanan. Since Erwich is sending a man who does not know Rossler, Jack can pretend to be him. Even though this is risky, Jack knows that it’s the only way to lead them to Erwich and the nerve gas. 2:03 P.M. Curtis shows Jack that the chip is genuine and can detonate the trigger. The chip also has a listening device so that CTU can hear what’s happening. 2:04 P.M. Erwich instructs one of his men to come up with a backup plan in case the chip doesn’t let them trigger the nerve gas by remote. 2:05 P.M. Novick suggests to Logan that they attribute Cummings’ suicide to despondency instead of labeling him a traitor. Without Cummings to answer for what he has done, the President may be liable for his crimes. Logan notes that Martha will have a problem with this lie. 2:07 P.M. Evelyn asks the First Lady about Cummings’ death. Martha is preparing a statement for the President that will lay out everything. Evelyn still questions whether Cummings really killed himself. Martha explains that he was a traitor. 2:09 P.M. Curtis watches as a blue van arrives to meet Jack at the rendezvous point. Edgar runs the plates and finds that the van has been stolen. Jack, acting as Rossler, approaches the two men and they show him the payment for the chip. 2:11 P.M. As Chloe instructs him over his earwig, Jack works on the trigger. He replaces the chip, but the men want him to accompany them to ensure that it works. CTU listens as one of the men, Polakov, punches Jack and throws him into the van. 2:12 P.M. Audrey insists that CTU stop this mission. Erwich knows who Jack is from the airport, and now he is in danger. McGill thinks this is the only solution for grabbing Erwich. Buchanan goes along with McGill, who orders Curtis not to interfere with the men capturing Jack. 2:18 P.M. Evelyn gives Martha the press release that the President has issued. It brands Cummings as a hero. Martha is furious and goes to Logan’s office to find out what happened. Novick explains to her that Cummings’ suicide would not allow him to face justice. Martha accuses Logan of serving his own self-interest instead of confessing to what really happened. The President suggests that she be the one to tell Cummings’ wife the truth when the woman comes to collect her husband’s body. Martha says that she will do the right thing, no matter how painful. 2:20 P.M. As Curtis follows the van, Jack tries to get information from Polakov. Jack realizes that they have one of the nerve gas canisters inside the van. McGill won’t let Curtis intercept until they have a visual on the canister. Chloe tracks the van heading towards a shopping mall. 2:22 P.M. Chloe sends schematics of the mall to the tactical teams, who are getting into position. The men unload the canister and plan to walk through the front door. Jack refuses to go with them because there are hundreds of video cameras there and he only agreed to sell them the chip. Polakov forces him to follow. Audrey radios Jack that the tactical teams will recover the canister before they enter the mall. 2:23 P.M. Audrey is incredulous when McGill doesn’t let the teams move in to grab the canister. He would rather accept the damage of one canister versus allowing the other nineteen to be released. Audrey tries appealing to Buchanan, who decides to call the President. 2:24 P.M. Jack and the two men dress as air conditioning repairmen and enter the mall. 2:29 P.M. CTU watches as Jack and the men are picked up on the mall surveillance cameras. They pass a children’s birthday party as they enter the security guard area. 2:30 P.M. Polakov shoots a security guard. They pull out a blueprint and set about slicing open the air ducts. 2:31 P.M. Jack listens in as CTU gets the President on the line and explain the situation. The other nineteen canisters could be deployed in densely populated areas like sports arenas and subway systems. The loss of life would be great. This one canister would cause fewer casualties. 2:32 P.M. As Polakov and his accomplice place the canister into the duct, Logan weighs the options. McGill and Buchanan agree that the greater good would be served by releasing the gas in the mall, but Audrey believes they have no right to sanction the deaths of innocent people. 2:33 P.M. Logan does not want to decide but only he can legally make the call. Logan gives in to their assessment about releasing the gas in the mall in order to nab the terrorists with the other nineteen cans. 2:34 P.M. McGill gives Jack the go to follow the terrorists’ plan. Jack and the men put on their gas masks. Buchanan gives Jack the unlock code, but Jack transmits the wrong code to Polakov. McGill orders him to provide the correct code, but Jack ignores this. The canisters do not arm, and Jack tells Polakov that there is nothing he can do to make it work. 2:36 P.M. Polakov calls Erwich and explains that they cannot arm the canisters. He doesn’t know whether to believe “Rossler.” Erwich says that they may have another way to detonate the canisters. The men knock out Jack and handcuff him to a table. CTU listens as Polakov discusses that there may be a way to release the gas without the remote trigger. 2:41 P.M. Jack wakes up and hears Polakov receiving instructions on how to manually open the valve on the canister. 2:42 P.M. Audrey argues with McGill about saving the children in the mall, but McGill stands by the President’s command. 2:43 P.M. As Polakov nears completion of the detonation, they don their masks. The partner goes to kill Jack, but Jack kicks the man off his feet and takes his mask. Polakov flees, missing Jack’s shots. Erwich hears the gunfire. Jack grabs the keys from the dead guard and releases his handcuff. 2:44 P.M. Jack goes to the air duct and stops the canister from releasing more gas. He alerts CTU that he prevented the flow, but that some nerve gas has seeped into the air conditioning system. They should evacuate the mall and find Polakov. Jack warns another security guard about the gas. The man radios for emergency procedures and an announcement is made over the PA. 2:45 P.M. As the shoppers run in panic, Jack looks for Polakov. People start dropping from inhalation of the gas. Jack finds the ventilation control room and shuts down the panels. 2:47 P.M. Jack sees a little girl lying restless on the ground. He puts his mask to her face and carries her outside to Curtis. Jack calls for a shot of atropine as the girl passes out. He injects her and she wakes up. 2:48 P.M. Chloe tracks the moving signal from the chip held by Polakov. Polakov breaks into a parked car and hotwires it. He peels out of the lot. 2:53 P.M. As he drives, Polakov calls Erwich and explains that “Rossler” tried to stop them. Erwich instructs him to come back to the auto shop. 2:54 P.M. While Chloe tracks Polakov, Jack and Curtis follow him. McGill calls the President to tell him that Jack disobeyed the order. Logan is furious. 2:55 P.M. Novick gives Logan word that a small amount of casualties were contained at the mall. CTU has a chance to find Erwich and the other canisters. He also adds that Suzanne Cummings has arrived at the retreat. 2:56 P.M. Suzanne Cummings cries to Martha, blaming herself that she wasn’t with her husband when he died. Logan eavesdrops as Suzanne asks Martha why Cummings committed suicide. “Walt loved this country,” is all Martha can answer. When she exits the room, Martha looks at Logan, disappointed. 2:58 P.M. Chloe tracks Polakov to an auto body shop. McGill gives the order to set up a perimeter and begin the team’s approach. From a distance outside in a car, Erwich watches as the CTU teams surround the auto body shop. 2:59 P.M. Erwich calls Polakov, who is inside the shop. He tells him that he has been followed. “You know what to do,” Erwich instructs. As Jack enters the building, Polakov shoots himself in the head. Both Erwich and the canisters are gone. Erwich and his remaining men drive off in a pickup truck.

 

3:00 P.M.
Erwich arrives at a safe house and reports to his superior, Vladimir Bierko. Bierko kills Erwich, blaming him for trusting Nathanson who has turned against them. Bierko wants to concentrate on their real enemy -- the Russians.

3:02 P.M.
One of Bierko’s men goes looking for Nathanson in his office. Nathanson drives away nervously.

3:03 P.M.
From his car, Nathanson phones a government associate and warns him that Bierko is on their trail. Nathanson hears the man being shot. He hangs up quickly.

3:04 P.M.
McGill leaves a message on his sister Jenny’s answering machine. He is frantically looking for the CTU keycard that was in his wallet. Jenny wants to give it back to him, but her boyfriend Dwayne refuses.

3:05 P.M.
McGill tells the President that CTU has no leads on finding the terrorists. Logan blames McGill for not allowing the gas to be released in the mall like he had ordered.

3:06 P.M.
An anxious McGill comes in as Buchanan is leading a briefing. McGill and Audrey argue about what should have been done in the mall. McGill questions why she keeps defending Jack. He wants Jack arrested in order to account for his actions. Buchanan calls Curtis with the news.

3:08 P.M.
Curtis tells Jack about him being blamed by McGill. With the trail cold, Curtis convinces Jack that they should go back to CTU. He takes Jack’s gun from him.

3:09 P.M.
Audrey pleads with Buchanan to take control from McGill and leave Jack in the field. She is contacted by Nathanson, who warns her not to trace the call. He asks her to transfer him to Jack on a clean line. Nathanson knows she has a “special” relationship with Jack, and he offers an opportunity to find the nerve gas.

3:10 P.M.
Audrey calls Jack with Nathanson. Jack feigns for Curtis that it’s merely a personal call. Nathanson admits to setting up Jack for Palmer’s murder. Yet he needs protection in return for information about the terrorists. Nathanson wants the nerve gas stopped. He gives Jack a location to meet him.

3:11 P.M.
Jack gets back in the car with Curtis, who asks about his relationship with Audrey. Jack knocks Curtis out and carries him to the curb. Jack retrieves his gun and drives off to meet Nathanson.

3:17 P.M.
Curtis revives and tells McGill that Jack escaped after getting a call from Audrey. Jack can’t be traced because he shut down the transceiver in the car. McGill orders him back to CTU.

3:18 P.M.
McGill thinks Audrey helped Jack escape custody, but she claims ignorance.

3:19 P.M.
Audrey calls Chloe at her desk and tells her that Jack went dark to follow a lead. She asks Chloe to delete the record of her call to Jack. To do this, Chloe must erase all of Audrey’s calls for the entire day. McGill, meanwhile, has the communications department send Audrey’s phone log to his computer. He sees that all the records quickly vanish from his screen. McGill senses that something is wrong.

3:20 P.M.
Novick has Cummings’ cell phone. An untraceable caller is claiming to have the Sentox gas and he will only speak to Logan. Bierko tells Logan that Erwich is dead. He intends to strike at Russia on foreign soil by assassinating its President, Suvarov. Bierko demands Suvarov’s motorcade route as well as a profile of his security detail. If Logan refuses to cooperate within fifteen minutes, Bierko will release the nerve gas in more populous American areas.

3:23 P.M.
Novick stresses that to give up Suvarov to the terrorists will destroy America’s relationship with Moscow. Logan requests Suvarov’s route from the Secret Service even though he hasn’t yet decided what to do.

3:28 P.M.
McGill shows Buchanan that Audrey’s phone log was erased. He thinks Audrey did it on purpose, especially since she was on the line with Jack before he escaped. Buchanan acknowledges that Jack and Audrey were romantically involved while at Defense. McGill suspects whether she knew that Jack had always been alive.

3:30 P.M.
Jack races to meet Nathanson. He pulls up to a phone booth, where he answers a ringing cell phone. Nathanson is watching him from a building above, and he directs Jack into an alley and up some stairs. A chopper suddenly lands on the roof of the building. Jack sees the terrorists and warns Nathanson to move out. Jack will meet him in an adjacent building.

3:32 P.M.
Buchanan asks Audrey pointedly whether she helped Jack escape from custody. “Not exactly,” she says, explaining Nathanson’s call. McGill comes up, requesting to work with Audrey over her shoulder.

3:33 P.M.
Jack makes his way to meet Nathanson on top of an empty warehouse. Nathanson gets surrounded by terrorists, engaging in gunfire as he flees. The gunmen follow him to the roof, but Jack takes them out before they can kill Nathanson.

3:36 P.M.
A helicopter appears and fires at Jack and Nathanson. Jack shoots at the chopper’s engine, and it retreats. Yet Nathanson is hit. Jack begs him for information on the canisters. Nathanson gives Jack a chip, but he dies before imparting what it means. Jack inserts it into his cell phone.

The terrorists let Bierko know that Nathanson was aided by another man. Bierko orders them to find this person.

3:37 P.M.
As McGill works with Audrey at her desk, he notices that she is ignoring her ringing phone. She answers and it is Jack. Audrey pretends that it is a wrong number. She transfers it to Chloe. Chloe tells Jack that McGill has become suspicious. Jack uploads the data from the chip to her.

3:42 P.M.
Novick brings Logan the motorcade information, warning him that the Russians would consider turning over this data as an act of war. Logan wonders if they can help prevent the terrorists from succeeding on the attack. Martha enters and hears the word “attack.” Logan is forced to tell her the truth, and she is appalled that he would condemn the Russian president to death. She demands that he refuse to negotiate with the terrorists because that is America’s policy and the basis of the treaty he just signed. “It’s not that simple,” Logan says.

3:46 P.M.
Chloe encounters a problem decrypting the file from Jack because it has been formatted by the Defense Department. She calls Buchanan, who pulls McGill aside to distract him. As McGill talks to Buchanan, Chloe sends an instant message to Audrey asking for her DoD password. After Audrey transmits the password, she closes the message box. McGill catches this and questions her. Audrey lies, but McGill accuses Audrey and Buchanan of protecting Jack.

3:47 P.M.
McGill knows he can’t reproach Audrey because her father is the Secretary of Defense. Instead, he has Buchanan taken into custody. McGill announces to the CTU staff that everyone’s station is being monitored. Audrey threatens to tell her father that McGill is jeopardizing the mission.

3:52 P.M.
Chloe calls Jack with what she uncovered on the chip. A company called Terra-Dyne has acquired raw strontium isotope, which is used to make the Sentox gas. The company is a subsidiary of Omicron. Jack recognizes the name Omicron and asks Chloe to find out whether someone named Christopher Henderson is a senior executive there. She confirms this, and Jack says that he once knew Henderson. Chloe cannot send the files to Jack because McGill is watching her. She tells Jack that McGill took Buchanan into custody for insubordination because he is getting pressure from the President to find the canisters.

3:54 P.M.
Logan begs Martha to understand that this is a difficult decision for him. She is resigned to the exigency of the situation. As they exchange greetings with the Suvarovs, Novick gets a call from Bierko. Novick gives him the motorcade’s route.

3:57 P.M.
Bierko maps out the strike point for his men. Meanwhile, Logan and Suvarov pose for press photos.

3:58 P.M.
Martha begs her husband to prevent the Suvarovs from leaving. Logan gets a call from McGill, and he excuses himself. As he leaves, Martha alerts Agent Pierce that she will be accompanying the Suvarovs to the airport. To protect the First Lady, Pierce must ride in the same car with them. Martha asks Pierce to tell her husband where she is. The car pulls out of the retreat.

4:00 P.M.
Bierko watches on television as the motorcade proceeds on schedule. His men prepare a missile to attack the Russian president’s car.

4:01 P.M.
Logan and Novick review a threat assessment that pinpoints the likely spot of attack on the motorcade. Logan realizes that he will have to explain to the world why the Russian president was attacked on U.S. soil right after they signed a terrorism treaty. He becomes flustered when he finds out that Martha got in the car with the Suvarovs. He can’t warn the Secret Service because that will lead the terrorists to set off the nerve gas.

4:04 P.M.
Martha is distracted as she rides with the Suvarovs. The President calls her in the car. She pretends to make idle chatter while Logan orders her to be picked up by the Secret Service because he cannot order the motorcade back. She refuses to get out and hangs up on him.

4:06 P.M.
Logan is desperate to save his wife. Novick fears that Martha will tell the Suvarovs the truth, exposing that the White House gave them up to the terrorists. He asks the President whether they should summon the motorcade back. Logan doesn’t answer.

4:07 P.M.
Audrey whispers to Edgar to meet her in the server room and not tell anyone where he is going. McGill sees Audrey leave and he questions Edgar, who covers. McGill orders that everything the staff is working on be mirrored to his system.

4:08 P.M.
Audrey and Chloe sneak into the server room. Chloe tells her that Jack wouldn’t say how he knows Henderson. Audrey calls Jack, who is on his way to Omicron. He needs help accessing the building, and he explains that Henderson was the agent who recruited Jack to CTU. Things ended badly between them when Jack was involved in an internal investigation where Henderson was implicated and lost his job. Jack is sure that if Omicron was involved in making Sentox gas, then Henderson would know about it.

4:09 P.M.
Edgar enters the server room, but he is worried about getting caught. Audrey and Chloe say that they are helping Jack find the nerve gas behind McGill’s back. They want Edgar to cover for Chloe.

4:10 P.M.
Logan is upset, and wants to convince Bierko to wait until Martha is out of the car. Logan is afraid of losing his wife. Since CTU has no other leads on the nerve gas, their only choice is to either save the Suvarovs and Martha or allow the nerve gas to be released on the American public.

4:12 P.M.
Martha nervously asks Agent Pierce if there have been any changes to the route. He says that nothing has been revised. She tells the Suvarovs that she is only worried about traffic.

4:17 P.M.
McGill fires a techie for doing a task not within the scope of finding the nerve gas. He then notices that Chloe is not at her desk.

4:18 P.M.
Audrey and Chloe get Jack access to Omicron as a scheduled appointment. McGill finds them and Audrey lies, saying she asked Chloe for help on a Defense assignment. McGill is adamant that Audrey go through him for these requests. Chloe quickly finishes with Jack and returns to her workstation.

4:19 P.M.
Jack enters Omicron, giving his thumbprint at the entry gate. His photo shows up as the man with the appointment. He is granted entry.

4:20 P.M.
Jack hears Henderson’s voice on speaker phone from an office. Jack asks the secretary where the restroom is, but garners her name from the desk nameplate. He then calls Audrey from his cell and has her distract the secretary. Audrey looks up the woman’s direct dial and pretends to be in another department. She asks the woman to come to her office.

4:21 P.M.
After the secretary steps out, Jack enters Henderson’s office. Henderson is waiting there with a stun gun and knocks him out. Realizing that he knows Jack, Henderson revives him but takes Jack’s gun from him. “I never believed you were dead,” he says. Jack explains that Omicron manufactured the nerve gas that has been stolen by the terrorists. Henderson, blanching at the accusation, counters that the gas they developed was for the military, who destroyed it all. Henderson is shocked to find out it that his company’s Sentox gas killed eleven people earlier in the mall.

4:23 P.M.
Henderson swears to Jack that he wasn’t involved, but Jack can’t afford to believe him just yet. Henderson hands Jack back his gun. Jack wants to see the bunker where the nerve gas was made. Henderson is reluctant, but agrees to take him. Henderson grabs a metal file box on his way out.

4:29 P.M.
Edgar sneaks to Chloe’s desk and tells her that he keeps seeing numbers in the NSA terrorist chatter. They correspond to the highways that the Russian president is taking to the airport. Chloe and Edgar bring this revelation to McGill, but he dismisses the claim because it has nothing to do with the nerve gas. Chloe asks whether they can at least notify the Secret Service or devote some limited resources to following up. McGill angrily refuses. Curtis suggests to McGill that they do something about the intelligence.

4:30 P.M.
Bierko assures his men in the field that the motorcade is still on course. He wants the nerve gas canisters to be armed in case things don’t go as planned.

4:31 P.M.
Audrey tries to convince McGill that the chatter might be connected to the nerve gas. McGill is furious. He doesn’t want CTU to be the source of any more mistakes. Curtis and the team overhear him threaten to have Audrey removed.

4:32 P.M.
Audrey leaves McGill’s office and sends an instant message to Chloe and Edgar, asking them to meet her in the corridor.

4:33 P.M.
Audrey tells them that she wants to notify the Secret Service, but that they won’t act upon it unless McGill verifies the information. Chloe will hack into McGill’s system, but she needs Edgar to cover for her. Edgar is afraid that what they are doing is illegal, but he goes along with the plan.

4:34 P.M.
Audrey pulls Curtis aside and they both agree that McGill is a problem. She believes they need Buchanan back on the floor, and she wants second-in-command Curtis to invoke a rule that declares McGill mentally unfit to continue in the job. He is tentative.

4:35 P.M.
Logan is resigned to the fact that he is allowing his own wife to be murdered. He could not risk the lives of thousands of Americans to save the Russian president, and he cannot do the same to save Martha. Logan asks Novick to pray with him.

4:38 P.M.
As they attempt to work, Chloe and Edgar’s computers are cut off. McGill comes in with guards to arrest them for unauthorized access to his system. He orders Curtis to remove Audrey from CTU. When Curtis refuses, McGill demands that he be detained as well. Curtis threatens to draw his weapon, and McGill tells the guards to shoot him if he does so. Curtis is forced to invoke the mental stability clause removing McGill from command. The guards take McGill away, and Curtis alerts Division that Buchanan will be reinstated.

4:45 P.M.
Curtis briefs Buchanan about what they have uncovered with Jack’s progress. He undoes all of McGill’s recent activities. They notify Secret Service of the threat to the motorcade.

4:46 P.M.
Buchanan calls the President with news of a possible attack on Suvarov. Logan becomes silent. Novick tells Buchanan that the First Lady is also in the limousine. There is nothing that Logan can do to change the course of events now.

4:47 P.M.
As the motorcade makes its way near the terrorists post, Agent Pierce gets word of the attack. He calls in an alert and the motorcade is quickly turned around. The terrorists see this and begin firing. They launch a missile at the presidential car. Since the vehicle is armored at the highest level, Martha and the Suvarovs are alive but trapped inside.

4:48 P.M.
The armed terrorists surround the limo but they cannot open it. They spray it with bullets to no avail. A flamethrower has no success penetrating it either. Agent Pierce, who was knocked unconscious, wakes up and opens the car door. He kills the terrorists standing outside the car with only a few shots. The police arrive.

4:49 P.M.
Logan is relieved to find out that Martha and the Suvarovs have survived the attack because of CTU’s intervention. Yet Bierko won’t understand that the President kept his end of the bargain. They expect him to retaliate.

4:54 P.M.
Henderson takes Jack into the Omicron bunker where the Sentox gas was made. He doesn’t know who within his company worked on the project. They talk about CTU as they wait for the files to come up on the lab computer. Henderson maintains that he was framed in the CTU whistleblower investigation that Jack was a part of. Henderson is still bothered that Jack never believed he was innocent. Henderson find files showing that the three lead scientists on Sentox were killed in freak accidents.

4:57 P.M.
Henderson leaves the bunker to go to the IT department for help sending the files to CTU. Jack tries to call CTU but the phone doesn’t work. He realizes that Henderson has locked him inside alone. Jack looks at the metal file box that Henderson left behind. There is a bomb inside. “How could I be so stupid?” Jack whispers to himself.

Henderson walks out of Omicron and phones someone. He says that, based on what Jack revealed, CTU doesn’t have enough information to pin it on them. In one minute, Jack will be killed.

4:58 P.M.
Jack scrambles to find a way out, but he is sealed in the bunker. He carefully puts the bomb in the corridor, closes the lab door and moves a file cabinet in front of it.

When he has driven far enough away, Henderson detonates the bomb with a remote. It explodes the bunker door, destroying most of the lab. Jack climbs up from the floor panel where he was hiding and crawls out among the rubble.

4:59 P.M.
Logan questions whether they should play up the fact that Martha was in the Suvarovs’ car to undermine any connection to his duplicity. Bierko calls on Cummings’ cell. Logan swears to him that he didn’t notify anyone, but Bierko doesn’t accept this. He bluntly states that Russia’s new ally, the United States, will pay with the lives of its citizens. Bierko labels this as their last conversation and he hangs up.

 

5:00 P.M.
Buchanan is summoned to the medical area because Tony has woken up and is asking for Michelle. The doctor fears that Tony’s condition will destabilize if told the truth about Michelle’s death.

5:01 P.M.
Buchanan tells Tony that he thinks Michelle will be fine. Tony demands to immediately speak with Jack. He also wants Michelle to know that he is alive.

5:02 P.M.
Amid the wreckage of the motorcade, Martha cries to Agent Pierce that her husband knew about the attack and didn’t do anything about it. Pierce doesn’t understand why the President would give the Suvarovs’ route to the terrorists. The Marine One helicopter arrives to pick them up.

5:03 P.M.
Bierko has his technician Viktor arm the canisters. He wants it placed in an area that will inflict the maximum casualties.

5:04 P.M.
Bierko calls one of his men, Ostroff, who is on his way to pick up a keycard which is crucial to their plan.

5:05 P.M.
Ostroff phones Jenny McGill’s boyfriend Dwayne to arrange the tradeoff for McGill’s CTU keycard. Dwayne and Jenny use the keycard to cut up lines of cocaine.

5:06 P.M.
Logan worries about what he will say to his wife. He second guesses the decision to give in to the terrorists.

5:07 P.M.
Jack calls CTU to report that Christopher Henderson was responsible for handing over the nerve gas. Henderson covered up his involvement by blowing up the Omicron servers and then escaping. Chloe tells him that Henderson’s computer has been exchanging data with his home system. Buchanan wants to send backup, but Jack thinks he needs to go to Henderson’s house alone. The former agent will recognize being ambushed by a tactical team.

5:09 P.M.
While driving, Henderson calls his bank in Buenos Aires and asks for access to his safety deposit box.

After examining corpses of the terrorists from the motorcade attack, Curtis finds a schematic of a ventilation system. He tells Buchanan that it might be the location of a possible nerve gas target. It has a time of 6:00 on it. Curtis sends the map to Chloe for analysis.

5:10 P.M.
When the doctor has no news on Michelle’s condition, Tony becomes suspicious. He removes his IV tubes, gets out of bed and peels the bandage off his burned face.

5:11 P.M.
Tony sneaks into the medical office and types Michelle’s name on the system search. Buchanan comes in as he Tony learns that Michelle is listed as deceased. He collapses in sadness.

5:17 P.M.
The chopper carrying Martha and the Suvarovs lands at the retreat. Logan goes to apologize to his wife, but she is angry that he didn’t stand up to the terrorists. She walks away.

5:18 P.M.
Logan pulls Suvarov aside to tell him he only just learned about the nerve gas threat. Suvarov grants the United States access to Russian intelligence to stop the separatists. Suvarov also says that he noticed Martha’s strange behavior when she first got into the limo. Logan blames this on her medically-treated depression.

5:20 P.M.
McGill asks Buchanan for permission to contact his sister regarding a personal matter. Buchanan allows him the use of a phone.

5:21 P.M.
McGill calls Jenny, looking for his keycard back. He threatens to call the police. Dwayne won’t give the card to Jenny because he claims to be getting $20,000 for it.

5:22 P.M.
Logan goes to see Martha, but Evelyn refuses to let him in on order from the First Lady. Martha asks Evelyn to bring Pierce to her.

5:23 P.M.
Edgar finds the building depicted in the blueprint that Curtis uncovered. It is a hospital, and Buchanan notifies them to evacuate.

5:24 P.M.
Inside that hospital, Bierko’s henchman Viktor is dressed as an orderly. He pushes a gurney that hides the nerve gas canister.

5:29 P.M.
Jack sneaks into the backyard of the Henderson house. He sees Henderson’s wife Miriam in the window.

5:30 P.M.
In the CTU chopper, Curtis calls the hospital’s security officer, Wegman. He warns the man about the urgency of the nerve gas situation.

5:31 P.M.
Jack surprises Miriam Henderson, who thought that Jack was dead. She says that her husband is still at work and hasn’t called her. With his gun trained, Jack demands to see Henderson’s computer. He explains what Henderson has been up to, but Miriam doesn’t believe him. Jack forces her to the den and he puts away his gun. He sits down to Henderson’s computer as Chloe begins to help him hack into it.

5:32 P.M.
Martha warmly takes Pierce’s hand while thanking him for saving her life. Novick sees this and dismisses Pierce. Martha tells Novick that she doesn’t want to see her husband. As Novick is leaving, Pierce tries to explain himself. “Whatever did happen, make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Novick sneers.

5:35 P.M.
As patients are evacuated from the hospital, Curtis arrives on the scene and meets up with Wegman, who says that a number of ICU patients cannot be moved. Curtis dispatches his teams to find high-risk areas in the building.

5:36 P.M.
Viktor notifies Bierko that the hospital is being evacuated and surrounded by police. Bierko pulls up the building’s schematics and instructs Viktor to another entrance that might not be guarded. “I need you to finish this task,” Bierko implores. “Even if it means you don’t get out.”

5:41 P.M.
Audrey gets Bierko’s name from Russian intelligence and tells the President that they believe he is financing the entire terrorist attack himself.

5:42 P.M.
Miriam thinks Jack has some sort of hatred for her innocent husband. Chloe uncovers a list of satellite phone numbers on Henderson’s hard drive, but there is a password protecting it. Miriam says she doesn’t know the password.

5:44 P.M.
Wegman finds surveillance images of Viktor dressed as an orderly. Curtis sends teams to that area and has CTU run a face match.

5:45 P.M.
Edgar finds Viktor’s identity as a Russian criminal. Curtis gets confirmation and sets off to find the man.

5:46 P.M.
In the subbasement, Viktor arms the canister. Curtis comes upon him and shoots him.

5:47 P.M.
Donning a gas mask, Curtis sees the detonated canister and calls for the chemical response team.

5:52 P.M.
As the people continue to flee the hospital, Curtis waits for help with the gas. Buchanan orders a mandatory evacuation of the entire downtown corridor.

Chloe determines that the encryption on Henderson’s computer will take half a day to crack. She apologizes to Jack and lets him know about the canister at the hospital.

5:53 P.M.
Henderson returns home. Jack knocks him down and handcuffs him. Henderson feigns ignorance about the nerve gas. Miriam screams for Jack to leave him alone. Jack opens Henderson’s briefcase which contains stacks of hundred dollar bills. Miriam is shocked, and she questions whether her husband has been lying to her. Henderson claims he is serving his country, and taunts Jack to shoot him because he knows nothing.

5:56 P.M.
Instead of firing at Henderson, Jack shoots Miriam in the leg above the kneecap so that she will still be able to walk. Miriam cries out in pain and begs her husband to tell Jack what he wants to know. “Forgive me, Miriam, I can’t,” Henderson says to both Jack and Miriam’s horror. Jack calls for an ambulance. He also has CTU ready an interrogation room with hyoscine-pentothal prepared for Henderson.

5:57 P.M.
Buchanan calls Curtis, who has found a timer on the canister. Since it will detonate in a minute, the bomb squad won’t have time to stop it. Curtis picks the canister up and runs out of the basement into the hospital wards. He speeds out the door and gets the canister to the tac unit’s truck where it is sealed into a chemical container. They lock it in as the trigger detonates. The nerve gas is contained and the hospital is saved.

5:59 P.M.
Ostroff kills Jenny and Dwayne. He calls Bierko to let him know that he has the CTU keycard.

 

8:00 P.M.
As the medic workers wrap up Tony’s body, Audrey comes to tell Jack that Henderson has escaped. However, Chloe was able to decrypt a file on his computer and she found an intelligence broker named Collette Stenger who is a known associate of Bierko.

8:01 P.M.
Jack tells Curtis that he wants to accompany the tactical team going to look for Collette at the hotel she has checked into.

8:02 P.M.
As Logan prepares to formally declare martial law, Martha comes in and dismisses Gardner from the room. She lets her husband know that Novick found out that CTU has a lead on Bierko. Logan believes CTU cannot handle anything at this point. Martha suggests that Gardner’s true intention is to see Logan go down. The President does not respond.

8:04 P.M.
Logan goes to the press podium and announces that Los Angeles will be under a curfew enforced by the military. Bierko watches this on television.

8:05 P.M.
Karen Hayes and Miles Papazian enter CTU. Karen wants all able workers of CTU to still be operating. Homeland will assume full control after the nerve gas canisters are found.

8:06 P.M.
Buchanan greets Karen, who informs him that the White House wants an assessment of how Homeland can assist them. She orders Miles to check out CTU’s networks.

8:07 P.M.
Miles approaches Chloe and asks for Edgar’s work station because it is empty. She is disgruntled when Miles takes her keycard. Chloe sees him place it into a box on the desk.

8:08 P.M.
As the President and Vice President watch news coverage of the martial law movement, Martha eyes Gardner warily. She walks outside mutters “I don’t trust him” to Agent Pierce under her breath.

8:09 P.M.
Pierce gets a call from Wayne Palmer on his cell phone. Wayne knew that his brother trusted Aaron, and he asks if he can come there to give him something from the former President. Pierce agrees to find a discreet place to meet.

8:10 P.M.
When news commentators suggest that the enactment of martial law might be an illegal action, Logan becomes angry. Gardner assures him that he is in control of the situation.

Buchanan briefs Karen about the threat assessment on Bierko. He is confident that CTU will soon be back at full speed.

8:11 P.M.
Stoller asks Collette about her business, but she is adamant to not reveal anything. She kisses him goodbye and says she will meet him at the airport.

8:12 P.M.
Collette calls Bierko and tells him that she is on her way there with the information he asked for. Although their new target, the Distribution Center, might prove difficult, it will allow the Sentox gas to be released on 200,000 people.

8:17 P.M.
Buchanan accuses Karen of preparing to shut CTU down. She admits that CTU is being absorbed by Homeland Security, which puts her in charge of it. Buchanan argues that his staff is not demoralized or beaten. Since the decision has already been made, she wants the news kept under wraps.

8:18 P.M.
Audrey asks Buchanan why Homeland is aggressively surveying the workers. He says it is only a formality.

8:19 P.M.
Jack, Curtis and the TAC team go to Collette’s hotel room, but it’s empty. Curtis heads to the roof, where he is attacked by Stoller and loses his gun. Jack arrives and there is a standoff. Stoller sees their CTU bags and then identifies himself as working for the German Federal Intelligence Service. He asks Jack to leave so that his cover isn’t blown.

8:22 P.M.
Jack calls Chloe, who confirms Stoller’s claim. Stoller refuses to lead them to Collette because it would jeopardize his undercover operation to expose the terrorist cells she is connected to. Jack explains that hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake, but Stoller’s allegiance is to his own country.

8:23 P.M.
Although Stoller has been granted permission by the U.S. government to conduct his investigation, Jack takes him into custody.

8:28 P.M.
Collette pulls up to Bierko’s safe house in a red sports car. She is frisked.

8:29 P.M.
Buchanan and Karen explain to Jack that Logan could not get in touch with the German Chancellor to expedite the matter. Audrey says that German intelligence won’t order their agent to cooperate. Jack thinks he can change Stoller’s mind, and he asks Curtis to leave him alone with the man.

8:30 P.M.
Jack offers Stoller something more valuable to the Germans than Collette. He says he can provide the United States government’s roster of all known terrorist suspects around the world. The Germans have requested this WET list many times before. Jack doesn’t work for CTU and can give it up. Stoller agrees to the trade, and says he will be able to spot a fake list because he knows several names on it.

8:31 P.M.
Jack calls Chloe and asks her to use the CTU backdoor to NSA’s mainframe to get him the WET list. Chloe can’t because Homeland took away her keycard, but she will figure out something.

8:32 P.M.
Chloe goes to Miles at Edgar’s old desk. She pretends to stumble and knocks over his cup of coffee onto him. Miles goes to the restroom to clean himself off and Chloe steals her keycard out of the box on the desk. She pops it into Edgar’s computer and calls up the NSA list. She calls Jack and uploads it to his PDA.

8:33 P.M.
Chloe quickly clears the screen and replaces the keycard back into the box. Miles returns to his desk and sees right away that the box is slightly askew. It’s something only he would notice. He opens it up to find Chloe’s keycard on top of the pile. He looks at Chloe suspiciously.

Stoller confirms that the WET list is legitimate, but Jack takes the memory card from him. He will give it back once Collette is in custody. Stoller says he is supposed to meet Collette in the parking lot of Van Nuys Airport. He and Jack leave the hotel.

8:34 P.M.
Collette readies her overseas bank for the money transfer and hands Bierko a thumb drive. Yet when he tries to open it, the file is encrypted. Collette won’t budge and orders him to transfer the funds. Bierko does and Collette tells him the decryption key. A schematic of a gas distribution facility becomes visible on the computer screen. Bierko has his men torch the safe house as they move out.

8:40 P.M.
An aide warns Gardner that Wayne Palmer has arrived at one of the roadblocks established during martial law. Wayne is claiming to have high-level clearance and is there on official business. Gardner is concerned over this development.

8:41 P.M.
Wayne is cleared for passage and is let through the roadblock.

8:42 P.M.
Jack sits in the back of Stoller’s car in the airport parking lot. Curtis waits in position for Jack to confirm Collette. Stoller asks Jack if he has ever grown attached to a woman while working undercover. Jack’s silence confirms this.

8:43 P.M.
Buchanan asks Chloe to come into the situation room. She is ambushed by Karen and Miles, who have proof of her hacking into an NSA file and sending it to Jack. They force Chloe to admit that she passed him the WET list. Karen is furious. “And you expected us to give your agents a chance?” she sneers at Buchanan.

8:44 P.M.
Jack’s cell phone rings, and Stoller orders him to put it on speaker because he doesn’t trust him. It is Karen and Buchanan. She demands that he get the WET list back from Stoller, but Jack refuses because it will endanger the mission. Karen threatens to retrieve it, but Jack says that she will be responsible for every life lost in the next attack. Since this will diminish the United States’ ability to prevent terrorist attacks in the future, they will need the President’s authorization. “Get it!” Jack insists.

8:45 P.M.
Curtis radios that a woman fitting Collette’s description is circling the lot in a red sports car. Jack asks Karen to quickly make her decision. She has no other choice but to let him proceed. “I promise you, there will be repercussions,” she snaps. Stoller is assured that he will get the WET list.

8:46 P.M.
Collette parks near Stoller’s car. Jack watches from the mirror as Stoller approaches her. They kiss. Jack radios to Curtis that he has a positive identification and that teams should move in.

8:47 P.M.
Jack gets out of the car and holds Collette at gunpoint. She is shocked, and looks sadly at Stoller who has betrayed her. With the WET list, Stoller gets in his car and drives away. Jack frisks Collette and puts her in handcuffs. She remains silent when he asks where Bierko is.

8:48 P.M.
As Stoller drives, he calls someone to warn them that he is about to upload something. He places the memory card into his PDA and presses a few buttons. Suddenly, smoke and sparks emanate from the device. Jack calls Stoller and apologizes. He promises to help him rebuild his investigation when this is all over. “I had your word,” Stoller says. “Now I know what its worth.”

8:54 P.M.
In a nearby hangar where the TAC team has set up a staging area, Curtis reports that Collette has nothing on her that reveals what she sold to Bierko. Jack tells Collette that Stoller is German intelligence. She is surprised and assumes he sold her out for a price. Collette admits that she had feelings for Stoller, and never suspected him because she believed he had feelings as well. Jack presses her on Bierko’s whereabouts. She wants to talk to him alone.

8:55 P.M.
Collette asks Jack what his price is, but he replies that he is not for sale. In order for her to divulge anything, Collette demands full immunity signed by the President. Yet she doesn’t know where Bierko is because he was already leaving the safe house to carry out the attack. Collette is unaware what kind of schematic she sold him because her source encrypted the files and didn’t tell her what was in it. She will give up her source in exchange for immunity.

8:56 P.M.
Jack calls CTU and lays out Collette’s demands. Karen has Miles call Novick to start the immunity paperwork. Jack explains that he programmed the memory card with the WET list to self-destruct. He couldn’t tell them before because he had Stoller in the car. Buchanan notes to Karen that this is proof that CTU is doing its job and should maintain its autonomy.

8:57 P.M.
Wayne is driving along a deserted road when a black van speeds up behind him. Masked gunmen in the van shoot at his wheel. Wayne spins out of control and his car flips over a small ridge. The gunmen head towards the accident. Wayne manages to kick open the car door and climb out. His hand is bleeding. Wayne runs into the woods to escape.

8:58 P.M.
On the phone with her lawyers in Europe, Collette confirms that her immunity has been granted. She tells Jack where Bierko’s safe house is and that she received her information from Audrey Raines at the Department of Defense. Jack slams Collette against the wall and accuses her of lying. “Apparently, she had a price,” she says about Audrey.

 

10:00 P.M.
CTU waits impatiently for news about the blast at the Distribution Center. Jack emerges from the thick smoke, carrying Bierko’s unconscious body. He urges the medics to send Bierko back to CTU. Curtis lets Jack know that the nerve gas has been destroyed.

10:03 P.M.
Jack calls Buchanan on his private cell. He is convinced that Henderson was only following orders from someone higher up. Jack admits that he is scared. “I think this is bigger than anything we could have imagined,” he says.

10:04 P.M.
Karen tells the Vice President that she has not yet assumed command of CTU because they are still actively looking for Henderson. Gardner orders her to move forward with the takeover. He makes an assurance that Henderson will be caught.

10:05 P.M.
Karen voices her concern to Miles about how Buchanan will react in light of all CTU has just accomplished. Miles suggests that they get Audrey to go on record citing Buchanan’s mismanagement.

10:06 P.M.
Buchanan tells Audrey that Homeland swallowing up CTU. Yet he doesn’t know why Gardner wants this change in control.

Henderson hides in a coal plant. He gets word from a commando that they have lost Wayne Palmer in the woods.

10:07 P.M.
Agent Pierce arrives back at the retreat. He removes Wayne from the back of the SUV. Wayne explains that Martha Logan’s aide Evelyn was his brother’s source inside the White House. Someone tried to prevent Wayne from seeing Evelyn. He thinks Palmer was killed because of information Evelyn gave him.

10:09 P.M.
Evelyn says goodnight to Martha and, as she is leaving the retreat, Wayne and Pierce stop her. She is frightened. Wayne says that he traced emails she sent to Palmer, but he needs to know what was inside those emails. Evelyn’s eyes fill with tears, and she insists that she knows nothing. She finally confesses that someone has kidnapped her daughter and will kill her unless Evelyn gives them the evidence of who is behind the conspiracy. Wayne and Pierce convince her that these people will kill her regardless. She will hand it over to Wayne if he gets her daughter back.

10:16 P.M.
As a team from Homeland Security arrives, Karen announces that CTU is being absorbed by her department.

10:17 P.M.
Miles asks to speak with Audrey privately.

10:18 P.M.
Wayne calls Jack and tells him that Evelyn has proof of the plot against President Palmer. Yet she won’t tell them what it is until they help save her kidnapped daughter. The culprit is going to call her with a meeting place. Jack is sure this is Henderson’s doing. Wayne gives him the location of an abandoned barn to get together. Wayne has Evelyn leave the retreat alone because she may be watched.

10:19 P.M.
Audrey reads the statement that Miles has drawn up. It holds Buchanan responsible for all of the day’s events. She refuses to sign because it is a complete distortion of what happened. Miles suggests that she and the Defense Department will shoulder some of the blame because she was at CTU as a liaison. “This takeover is completely unwarranted and I won’t help you justify it,” she retorts.

10:21 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey on her cell and explains what Wayne has uncovered. He needs her to get satellite surveillance on the location where Henderson wants to make the exchange with Evelyn. Audrey tells him that Vice President Gardner has made Homeland Security take over CTU. Jack thinks Gardner might be involved in the conspiracy because Henderson was protecting someone higher up. Regardless of what is going on at CTU, he desperately needs Chloe to work on the satellite.

10:22 P.M.
Audrey approaches Miles and Karen, saying that she has reconsidered signing their statement. She claims she wants to shield Defense and her father from any controversy. Audrey asks for Chloe to be assigned to her. Karen agrees to the deal, and Audrey signs the paper.

10:23 P.M.
Henderson holds Evelyn’s young daughter hostage at the coal plant.

10:29 P.M.
Wayne wants Pierce to remain at the retreat so that he doesn’t arouse suspicion. Suddenly, Gardner comes upon Wayne and is surprised to see him. Pierce tells the Vice President that Wayne was there to bring him a memento from his brother. Wayne says that he needs to fly Palmer’s body back to Washington, and Gardner wishes him a safe trip.

10:31 P.M.
Chloe is furious about Homeland’s sudden takeover. Buchanan assures her that he is working to have it overturned. Miles orders Chloe to stay on per Audrey’s request. Miles tells Buchanan that Audrey signed a statement laying blame on CTU and Buchanan. Audrey confirms this, in earshot of Miles.

10:33 P.M.
As they drive to the meeting place, Evelyn tells Wayne that the person bribing her said he would know if she told anyone about the proof. Wayne is convinced that there is a mole inside the retreat. Evelyn is terrified that she is responsible for Palmer’s death. Her phone rings, and Wayne quickly patches Jack in. Henderson asks Evelyn what Wayne was doing at the retreat. She swears that she didn’t even know he was there. Henderson puts her daughter on the phone, and Evelyn tells the girl that she is coming to get her. Henderson gives Evelyn the address of the coal plant.

10:35 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey with the address. Buchanan shoots a glance at Audrey as he is leaving CTU.

10:36 P.M.
Audrey approaches Chloe, who is angry that she gave up CTU to Karen. Audrey grabs Chloe’s wrist and says that Jack needs her help. Audrey explains that she only signed the document in order to keep Chloe in place.

10:41 P.M.
Jack meets Wayne and Evelyn at the barn. He promises Evelyn that he will get her daughter back, but she still refuses to tell him what she knows about the conspiracy.

10:43 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey’s phone and speaks to Chloe. She sends the satellite’s infrared image of the meeting place to Jack’s PDA. There are at least ten men surrounding the premises.

10:44 P.M.
Jack doesn’t want Wayne accompanying him to take Evelyn to the exchange place. Wayne insists on going because his brother died in his arms.

10:45 P.M.
Gardner tells Logan that Wayne was at the retreat to see Pierce. Although Wayne didn’t speak to the President, Logan brushes this off because Palmer and Pierce were close. Logan thinks Wayne must still have hard feelings over the White House’s attitude towards Palmer.

10:46 P.M.
Evelyn drops Jack off at the back of the coal plant. He presses that Henderson will kill both her and her daughter, so her compliance with their plan is her only chance of survival. Evelyn drives to meet Henderson. Chloe radios Jack and Wayne with a path into the plant. They draw their weapons and enter.

10:52 P.M.
Jack takes out two of Henderson’s men.

10:53 P.M.
With too many guards surrounding them, Jack asks Wayne to shoot a sniper so that he can make his way to the roof. Chloe guides Wayne to a clear shot of his target, but he hesitates. He finally kills the man. Jack is clear to climb up. He slices the throat of one of the men who is radioing Henderson about Evelyn’s arrival. Jack manipulates the walkie’s mouthpiece so that he is not identified while finishing the man’s transmission to Henderson.

10:56 P.M.
Evelyn pulls up to the site. Henderson calls her phone and orders her to open all the doors and trunk of her car. Jack watches through the scope of the sniper’s rifle as Henderson comes out with the little girl.

10:57 P.M.
Henderson lets the girl run to Evelyn and asks for the evidence. Evelyn ducks with her daughter and Jack shoots the two guards beside Henderson. Wayne fires at the other men surrounding them. Henderson gets in Evelyn’s car and speeds off. Jack and Wayne aim at the car, but Henderson escapes. Jack calls to Chloe and asks her to quickly reprogram the satellite to extend past the plant. She loses Henderson on the satellite.

10:58 P.M.
Wayne tends to Evelyn, who’s been hit with gunfire. Jack sees that it’s not a serious injury. He demands to know who is involved. “The Vice President has nothing to do with this!” she exclaims.

10:59 P.M.
Henderson explains to someone on the phone that he didn’t expect Jack to show up. He assures the caller that Jack and Wayne will be killed and that he can suppress any evidence they might have. “I won’t let you down again, sir,” Henderson guarantees. The person on the other end of the line is President Logan.

 

12:00 A.M.
Logan is not pleased that Henderson hasn’t killed Jack already. Henderson thinks that CTU can lead him to Jack.

12:02 A.M.
Logan calls Karen to reinforce his order that finding Jack is her top priority. Miles knows that they will need to use Audrey and Chloe to get to him.

12:04 A.M.
Jack and Wayne wait on the side of the road for Buchanan. Jack had asked him for help and explains the current situation. Jack needs Buchanan to take Wayne somewhere safe because he’s a target. Jack leaves to meet Secretary Heller to hand over the evidence.

12:05 A.M.
Audrey calls Jack when her father’s plane lands.

12:07 A.M.
Jack arrives at the airport, and Heller encourages him to turn himself in. Jack says he is being set up.

12:08 A.M.
Jack takes Audrey and Heller inside an empty hangar and plays them the tape recording. Logan gave the terrorists the Sentox gas, but planned to deploy the gas before it reached Moscow. This would provide him with an excuse to exercise the military terms of his arms treaty with Suvarov. Jack thinks it was a play to control the oil supply in central Asia and that David Palmer found out about it. Heller is not surprised at Logan’s actions. Jack asks Audrey to accompany her father to present this evidence to the Attorney General.

12:10 A.M.
Heller has his Secret Service detail arrest Jack. Heller believes that accusing Logan will destroy the essence of the presidency and cripple the nation. Heller plans to use the tape to convince Logan to step down quietly. He wants Audrey to go with him, but when she refuses, he has her kept by the agents too. Heller hands the tape recorder to one of the agents for safe keeping. As Heller leaves, Jack warns him that he won’t be able to trust Logan.

12:15 A.M.
Chloe is alarmed when she’s not invited to a high-level meeting in the situation room. She catches Shari, who is exiting the meeting, and gets her to admit that Miles found Audrey. Miles and Karen listen to this whole conversation from surveillance.

12:17 A.M.
Karen and Miles watch as Chloe goes to make a phone call. Miles decrypts her channel and traces the call to a payphone at the Van Nuys Airfield. Chloe does not connect with Audrey. Karen sends her teams to the airport.
Chloe accuses Shari of cooperating with Miles to set her up. “Miles is an idiot!” Chloe exclaims. “If anyone should know that it should be you!” The Homeland Security guards apprehend Chloe.

12:18 A.M.
Karen calls the President to tell him what they have uncovered. Logan orders her to pull back her agents because he is sending in the military. Karen is confused, but agrees to his wishes.
Logan notifies Henderson about CTU’s discovery.

12:19 A.M.
As they are tied up in the hangar, Jack tells Audrey that Henderson won’t allow Logan to negotiate with Heller. Heller is only making himself a target.
Karen calls Novick to ask why the White House is stepping in when she can take care of Jack. Novick says he will look into it.

12:20 A.M.
Novick goes in to see Vice President Gardner and asks him about Karen’s question. Gardner doesn’t know, but assumes the President made his decision for a reason.

12:22 A.M.
Still bothered by Logan’s strategy, Novick places a call to the general running military operations in Los Angeles. The general confirms that he did not receive a call from the President to pick up Jack.

12:23 A.M.
Novick tells Logan that he got a call from Karen about using the military to get Jack. He asks why he did not go through the general. Logan says he used a covert task force because he doesn’t want the Chinese to know that Jack is alive.

12:30 A.M.
Miles tells Chloe that if they find Audrey at the location she called then she is in trouble. As Miles leaves the holding room, Chloe slyly grabs his keycard from his jacket pocket. He locks her in, but Chloe uses the keycard to get out.

12:31 A.M.
Chloe grabs a laptop on the counter and makes her way down the corridor. Shari sees her and threatens to alert Miles. Chloe is forced to tell her that Jack’s evidence implicates President Logan. She also says that she knows Shari made up lies about Miles sexually harassing her. Chloe threatens to recommend her for a psych evaluation if she doesn’t cooperate. Shari allows Chloe to escape.

12:33 A.M.
Martha tries to convince her husband to get some sleep. Logan receives an urgent call from Secretary Heller, who has come to Los Angeles. “I think you know exactly what this is about,” Heller alludes.

12:34 A.M.
Martha asks what Heller wanted, but Logan brushes this off to an issue over martial law.

12:35 A.M.
Logan phones Henderson, who is about to board a chopper. Henderson thinks Jack got to Heller first but that Jack still has the tape. Logan wants him to call when he has the evidence.

12:40 A.M.
Martha approaches Agent Pierce in the corridor and asks him why Heller is there. She suspects something. Pierce says he will meet her near the stables to tell her what he knows.

12:41 A.M.
Heller lets the President know that he heard a recording of his conversation with Henderson. The tape is in a safe place. Heller knows that he allowed Henderson to kill Palmer. Logan admits that he was protecting the interests of the country regarding access to cheaper oil. Heller wants him to leave Jack and Audrey alone. He also demands that Logan resign in the morning with the promise that he will keep the recording under lock and key. He wants him to get Gardner so he can witness the letter of resignation.

12:45 A.M.
Chloe drives to Buchanan’s house, and he sets her up on his workstation. She’s worried that Jack and Audrey may already be in custody. “If CTU has Jack, it’s all my fault,” she sighs.

12:46 A.M.
Martha waits at the stables for Pierce and dials him on his cell. Suddenly, she hears a phone ringing. She finds Pierce’s cell on the ground. He is nowhere to be seen.

12:47 A.M.
Restrained to a pole, Jack looks up at the ceiling and sees a cluster of pipes. He shimmies up and presses his wrists against the scalding pipe. Jack grits his teeth against the pain as the heat melts his plastic restraints. He jumps down and grabs a set of pliers to snip Audrey’s off.

12:48 A.M.
When the Secret Service agent comes back to check on them, Jack knocks the man down and takes his gun. Audrey puts the restraints on the agent.

12:52 A.M.
Jack takes a gun away from the other Secret Service agent. Suddenly, a helicopter roars overhead. It’s Henderson’s black ops team. They shoot at Jack and the agent. Jack explains to the agent that they have come for the tape recording. Jack gives the agent back his gun, and they fire back at the chopper. The agent is hit, and Jack takes the tape recorder from his jacket. Henderson runs into the hangar.

12:54 A.M.
Henderson has his gun trained on Audrey and demands the tape recording. Jack asks why he is protecting Logan, but Henderson says he is only protecting the integrity of the government. He allows Audrey to walk towards Jack. Blood drips from her hand and Henderson says that he has cut her brachial artery. She will bleed to death in a few minutes. Jack has no choice but to toss the tape recorder to him. With the evidence secured, Henderson runs out of the hangar. Jack makes a tourniquet out of a wire to stop Audrey’s arm from bleeding further.

12:57 A.M.
Heller gives Logan a resignation to sign. Gardner is summoned in. Before Logan can explain to him what is going on, he gets a call from Henderson who confirms that he has the tape recording. Logan then tells Gardner that he has asked for Heller’s resignation because he has accused the President of conspiracy. When Heller insists that Logan was complicit with the nerve gas and sanctioned Palmer’s assassination, Logan wants to know where the evidence is. Heller is stunned as the President orders the Secret Service to remove him from the retreat.

2:00 A.M.
Karen hears from Buchanan that Chloe is leaving and that Jack stowed away on a diplomatic plane where a passenger has the recording. Miles comes in as she is on the phone. Karen orders him to handle the Buchanan house ambush in the situation room instead of her office.

2:03 A.M.
Karen lets Buchanan know that he will be arrested as a suspect. She wants Chloe to contact her on a dry channel. Buchanan sends Chloe out and directs her to walk to a nearby hotel.

2:04 A.M.
The Homeland Security team knocks on Buchanan’s door. He stalls as much as possible and tells them he will only speak to Karen. Karen orders Buchanan be brought into CTU and that they set up a search for Chloe’s car.

2:05 A.M.
Miles has reservations about Karen’s decision to not interrogate Buchanan on site. She is emphatic that she wants to do it herself.

2:06 A.M.
Chloe enters the hotel and sets up her laptop at the lobby bar. She calls Karen and instructs her to look up the manifest of the flight that Jack is on. Karen puts the data on a shared file so that Chloe can access it.

2:07 A.M.
Jack sits in the plane’s cargo area. Chloe calls him and explains that Karen is secretly helping her. Jack asks her to get the air marshal’s seat number and to cross examine the passenger list against Henderson.

2:08 A.M.
Chloe gives Jack the air marshal’s name and seat number.

2:09 A.M.
Jack opens up the cargo door leading to the floor of the plane’s galley. He climbs out unnoticed. Jack goes to the row where the air marshal is and sits down. He knocks the air marshal out with his elbow, then props a pillow under the man’s head to give the appearance that he is asleep. Jack takes the air marshal’s gun.

2:14 A.M.
Chloe gives Jack the identity of their suspect on the plane. Hans Meyer is a German connected to Henderson through Omicron.

2:15 A.M.
Jack approaches Meyer, pretending to be the air marshal. He asks him to identify his baggage because there is something suspicious. Meyer complies and follows Jack to the galley. Jack knocks him out and dumps him through the cargo door. He climbs in and shuts the door.

2:16 A.M.
Martha asks the Secret Service agent outside her bedroom why she can’t have her medication. He has been instructed not to give it to her.

2:17 A.M.
Martha summons Novick to her room and demands her pills. She won’t say why she needs them so badly, but she is visibly upset. Novick promises to try to help her.

2:20 A.M.
Graham calls Logan, who says that Jack has not been found yet.

2:21 A.M.
Novick warns the President that Martha is agitated and wants her medication. Logan is angry and refuses. “Is there something going on that I should know about?” Novick asks pointedly. He says that Martha would not tell him anything. Logan assures him that it has nothing to do with national security and is merely a personal matter. The couple has come to the conclusion that their marriage is over. Novick apologizes, and Logan allows him to give Martha her meds.

2:22 A.M.
Jack wakes Meyer up. Meyer insists that he has not seen Henderson in months. Jack forces him to open up his luggage.

2:23 A.M.
A man named Ross approaches Chloe in the bar. When she doesn’t respond to his advances, he retreats. Chloe calls Airport Customs and asks to speak to someone in passenger clearing.

2:24 A.M.
A flight attendant alerts the passengers to remain in their seats because they are expecting turbulence. She notices that someone is missing. Suddenly, the air marshal flops from his seat. An attendant notifies Cotter, the pilot, that the air marshal has been assaulted. Following procedure, Cotter tells his copilot to lock the cockpit door and prepare to reverse course.

2:25 A.M.
The air marshal warns the flight attendant that the man who was next to him has taken his gun.

2:29 A.M.
Novick brings Martha her pills. He wonders what she is hiding because he thinks both she and the President are covering something up. Martha claims that it is only marital problems.

2:31 A.M.
As Jack goes through his luggage, Meyer maintains that he is innocent. Chloe thinks Jack has the wrong guy because Meyers was in Customs for the last three hours. Jack feels the plane turning and he realizes that they know he is on board. He tries to open the cargo door, but he’s been sealed in.

2:32 A.M.
The air marshal locks the cargo door and tells the flight attendant to signal the pilot. She is concerned that the passenger taken hostage could die, but the marshal is insistent.

2:33 A.M.
The cargo air starts to depressurize. If they can’t get back into the main cabin, Jack and Meyer will lose consciousness. Jack calls Chloe, who sees the security bulletin about the plane. She has Karen connect Jack to the pilot.

2:34 A.M.
As Chloe waits for Karen, Ross from the bar comes over to hit on her again. She zaps him with a stun gun and Ross passes out. Karen connects Cotter to Jack’s phone. Jack explains that he is a federal agent and needs pressure restored to cargo because it is a matter of national security. Cotter is skeptical of Jack’s claims, and he turns to his copilot, Evans. Evans doesn’t want to take a chance and advises Cotter not to obey. Cotter refuses Jack’s request.

2:35 A.M.
Jack opens up a panel, exposing cables. He takes a belt from the luggage and uses it to bend one of the cables. The plane lurches and the passengers react in horror.

2:36 A.M.
Jack tells the pilot that he will responsible if anything happens to the plane. Cotter concedes to bring pressure back into the cargo area. He orders the flight attendant to open the cargo hatch door. Jack comes out and has the air marshal locked into the baggage area.

2:37 A.M.
The passengers scream when they see Jack’s gun. He wants Cotter to keep the plane in a holding pattern so that he can search it. The pilot is bound by law to land the plane as soon as possible.

2:43 A.M.
Logan panics when he learns that Jack hijacked a diplomatic flight to look for the recording. He calls Graham, who instructs him to order the plane down.

2:44 A.M.
Karen learns about Jack’s plane being forced to land. She knows that the President will take over the plane as soon as it touches the ground and she urgently needs confirmation of that tape. Buchanan is brought into CTU in handcuffs. Karen tells Miles she will handle him.

2:45 A.M.
Miles calls Novick because he is concerned about how Karen is dealing with Buchanan. Novick doesn’t have time for him, and he thinks Karen’s actions are probably necessary.

2:47 A.M.
Miles notices that Karen has shut down the feed in the holding room. She tells Buchanan that will remain skeptical until she sees the evidence against the President. Karen briefs Buchanan about Jack’s current situation.

2:48 A.M.
Karen is interrupted by a call from Logan and Novick, who want an update on the diplomatic flight’s hijack. Logan insists that Jack is a fugitive looking to escape. He wants him taken down, dead or alive. Novick is shocked by this. Karen apprehensively agrees to the order.

2:49 A.M.
Buchanan thinks that Logan wants to stop Jack from finding the evidence. Yet Karen has no authority to prevent the plane from landing.

Novick questions the President’s decision. Logan insists that Jack has been lying to them all day.

2:54 A.M.
At the bar, Ross wakes up and Chloe stun guns him back out. She phones flight operations and asks why the copilot didn’t board the plane. She learns that he was replaced at the last minute by Evans. Chloe looks up Evans’s history and sees that he was a private pilot for Omicron.

2:55 A.M.
Chloe calls Jack with the latest discovery. She patches him into the pilot and Jack explains that Evans is connected to a known terrorist. Cotter is shocked, but doesn’t say anything out loud. He feigns a cramp in his leg and gets up from the seat. When Cotter makes a move to open the cockpit door, Evans knocks him out with a flashlight.

2:57 A.M.
Jack breaks into the cockpit and slugs Evans. He trains his gun on him and demands the recording. Evans hands it over. Jack makes him get back in the driver’s seat to land the plane. He calls Chloe and warns her that he will soon be on the ground.

2:58 A.M.
A drugged-up Martha calls Logan from her bedroom. She knows he’s a good man, but doesn’t understand why he didn’t come to her for advice. Logan counters that she has been close to a nervous breakdown for the last three years. He hangs up on her to take another call.

2:59 A.M.
Graham knows that Jack has the recording and is controlling the plane. He picked up a call from Chloe to Karen. Graham orders the President to shoot down the plane. The only other option is for Logan to go to prison for treason and murder.

 

3:00 A.M.
As Evans prepares to land the plane, Jack calls Karen and tells her he has the recording. He doesn’t want anyone loyal to the President to interfere with his taking it back to CTU. Buchanan assures Jack that a team will be there to escort him.

3:02 A.M.
Curtis comes into the clinic to let Audrey know that Heller survived the car crash and is being treated. She is elated that her father is alive.

3:03 A.M.
Karen orders Curtis to pick up Jack at the Van Nuys Airport. He must make sure that Jack and the evidence are protected from Logan’s militia.

3:04 A.M.
Graham informs Logan that his people can arrange a distress signal from the plane to make it appear that there is a hijacking. This will give the President legal reason to have the plane shot down. Logan is reluctant to kill innocent people, but he knows there is no other choice to protect himself.

3:06 A.M.
Miles is alarmed to see Buchanan and Karen walk out together from the holding room. Karen says that new intelligence has emerged, but she won’t tell Miles what it is.

3:07 A.M.
Novick reports to the President that a hijack distress call came from Jack’s plane. There is a possibility it will target something on the ground.

3:08 A.M.
Logan and Novick are briefed by Admiral Kirkland from the Point Mugu Command Center. Logan feigns shock and horror that Jack would be in control of the plane. Kirkland advises him to bring down the plane. Novick doesn’t believe that Jack would use the plane as a weapon against civilians, but Kirkland insists there is no time to make another decision. Logan overrules Novick and authorizes the Admiral to have his F-18 fighter shoot down the plane.

3:10 A.M.
Karen gets word of the alert to shoot down the plane and she calls Jack. Jack asks Buchanan to find a stretch of freeway to touch down.

3:14 A.M.
Miles watches with mounting dismay as Chloe is brought into CTU. Buchanan and Karen give her the news about Jack’s plane and ask her to find out exactly how much time he has before the F-18 reaches him.

3:16 A.M.
Jack has the flight attendant prepare the passengers for an emergency landing. Buchanan gives him a freeway where he can land. Evans is hesitant to land on the road, but Jack forces him to obey.

3:17 A.M.
Karen calls Curtis and redirects him to the freeway where Jack will land.

3:18 A.M.
Admiral Kirkland patches the President through to the pilot of the F-18.

Chloe taps into the radar feed and finds that the missile from the jet will hit Jack before he can land. Jack orders Evans to descend faster, even if it means the landing will be jeopardized.

3:19 A.M.
The passengers scream when the plane lunges. With the F-18 almost within missile range, Jack makes Evans continue pushing the plane downward. Jack sees the freeway out the cockpit window. He tells Evans to level off, but the plane is not able to pull out of the dive.

3:20 A.M.
Jack demands that Evan lower the landing gear, even though they are at one thousand feet above the ground.

The F-18 pilot notifies Logan and Kirkland that the plane is landing on the freeway. Kirkland recommends to the President that they abort, but Logan is adamant that they shoot it down anyway. Novick implores him to reconsider. Logan realizes that he has been outmaneuvered and agrees to abort. Yet he demands that Marine units apprehend Jack on the freeway.

3:21 A.M.
Although the plane is still going too fast to land, Evans completes the descent and the plane slams down on the freeway. It screeches to a halt just before its wings reach an overpass.

3:22 A.M.
Buchanan tells Jack that Curtis will be there to pick him up. Jack instructs the passengers to exit at the back while he goes to the side door and climbs down from the wing. Jack breaks into a run on the ground.

3:27 A.M.
Graham chides Logan for not following the plan. Logan answers that he had no pretext to shoot the plane, and reassures Graham that Marines will pick up Jack before he escapes.

3:28 A.M.
Jack hides below the overpass and calls Curtis, who is approaching from the opposite side of where the Marines are posted.

3:29 A.M.
Jack gets in Curtis’s car and they hit a roadblock. Curtis identifies himself to the Marines, and he says he is there to apprehend Jack. The Marines have orders to detain everyone, but Curtis claims that they are wasting time. He says they can shoot at him even though he is a federal officer. The Marines wave the car through.

3:30 A.M.
Curtis calls CTU and says he will head in using back streets to avoid more roadblocks. Buchanan is sure that the Marines are under direct orders from Logan.

Miles calls Karen in the conference room and demands to know what’s going on because he is watching her work with two people that were under arrest for aiding a fugitive. He threatens to call someone else for answers. Karen agrees to talk to him. She explains to Buchanan and Chloe that Miles has been loyal to her and she has no choice but to trust him.

3:31 A.M.
Karen tells Miles that Jack retrieved evidence implicating Logan. Miles is hesitant and tries to play devil’s advocate. They are interrupted by an agent informing them that Bierko is ready to be moved. Karen urges Miles to keep this a secret.

3:34 A.M.
A bruised Bierko is brought out in shackles. They are transferring him to a holding facility at District.

3:35 A.M.
Bierko is loaded into a transport van. He nods to the driver, who nods back.

3:40 A.M.
Logan is alarmed to find out that Jack was not taken into custody by the Marines. This hits Logan like a death sentence. Novick notices that this reaction is odd.

3:42 A.M.
Logan sees on his cell phone that Graham is calling. He doesn’t pick up.

3:43 A.M.
Curtis brings Jack to CTU. Jack hands the tape recorder to Chloe so that she can prepare it for the Attorney General.

3:44 A.M.
Jack goes to see Audrey in the medical unit and kisses her. He tells her that they got the evidence. “It’s over,” she sighs. Jack sits with her in silence.

3:45 A.M.
Logan opens a wooden box in his office. Inside is a .45 caliber pistol. He calls Graham and lets him know that Jack escaped. Graham knows that the Attorney General received a call from CTU, so the recording must be in their hands. “I still believe we were right,” Logan says. “I still believe that we acted in the best interests of the country.” Graham notes that the murder trial of a sitting President would devastate the country. Yet there cannot be a trial without a defendant. Logan confirms that neither Graham nor his associates will be implicated in anything. Logan hangs up, explaining that he has some things to take care of. He loads the pistol.

3:51 A.M.
Logan goes to see Martha, who is watching news broadcasts alone. He apologizes for hurting her but she doesn’t respond with sympathy to give him the closure he’s seeking. Martha says that she had no idea he was such a good liar. “If I wasn’t so horrified by the fact that I’m married to you, I might actually be impressed,” she says coldly.

3:55 A.M.
Logan walks back to his office, defeated. He quickly knocks back a glass of scotch for liquid courage and takes the pistol from the box. The office phone rings, and the operator informs the President that he has an urgent call from Miles about Jack. Logan takes the call.

3:57 A.M.
From a darkened corner of CTU, Miles explains to Logan that Jack delivered a recording which could compromise national security. Miles feels compelled to intervene and wants Logan’s approval. Logan smiles like a drowning man who’s just been thrown a safety line. He gives Miles his private number and asks him to keep him abreast of the situation. When Logan says he will not forget this favor, Miles is pleased. Logan puts away his gun.

3:59 A.M.
Miles goes into the conference room where Chloe is working on the tape. He leans on the table next to her and innocently asks if she will be ready for the teleconference. Chloe cannot see that he is holding a black device that flashes next to the tape recorder. Satisfied with what he has done, Miles leaves.

 

4:00 A.M.
Chloe sets up a feed to the Attorney General and to Congress. Yet when she tests the recording, there is nothing but white noise. Chloe remembers that Miles came in, claiming that Karen had him check up on her.

4:02 A.M.
Jack heads to the bullpen, and Karen calls for security to stop him. Jack punches the guard. He then grabs Miles by the throat and accuses him of obstructing the case. Karen orders Jack to let him go.

4:03 A.M.
Miles says that he has been transferred and Karen asks where. “The White House,” Jack sneers. Miles’ silence serves as an admission. Karen threatens to investigate, and Miles informs her that he now works for the President. Karen slaps him hard on the face. He leaves CTU.

4:05 A.M.
Karen sends Chloe to try to restore the tape.

4:06 A.M.
Logan quizzes Karen about a conference call with the Attorney General, but she claims it was a mistake. Logan wants to suspend the arrest for Jack because the evidence he has is “inconclusive.” Jack knows that Logan intends to make him an unobstructed target.

4:07 A.M.
CTU gets word that Bierko escaped from the transfer to District. The one agent who survived the attack on the van heard Bierko mention a nerve gas canister and tell his men that they “are not finished.” CTU had assumed all the canisters were destroyed in the gas plant explosion. Karen makes finding Bierko the new priority.

4:08 A.M.
Bierko’s man shows him the one canister kept in reserve.

4:13 A.M.
Martha gives Pierce’s cell phone to an agent on duty in hopes that it will be returned to him in Washington where he was transferred.

4:14 A.M.
Logan comes to see Pierce in the stables at the retreat. Pierce has been beaten and his hands are bound. Logan tells him that the tape recording no longer exists. Logan threatens him to save his own career in the Secret Service. Pierce calls Logan a traitor and a disgrace to the office.

4:16 A.M.
An agent named Adams tells Logan that Pierce is loyal to Palmer. Logan doesn’t say anything, and Adams understands what to do.

4:17 A.M.
Logan calls Graham and lets him know that the recording has been destroyed and Pierce is being taken care of. The arrangements to take out Jack have been put into motion.

4:19 A.M.
Novick brings the President news that Bierko escaped and is planning another attack. Logan is furious.

4:20 A.M.
Chloe cannot find any trace of Bierko on satellites or security cameras. Karen and Buchanan suggest offering a deal to Henderson in return for information on Bierko. Jack is adamant that they don’t because Henderson killed Palmer. Yet with no other option, Jack relents.

4:21 A.M.
Jack goes to Henderson in the holding room and tries to appeal to his patriotic sense. Henderson can tell Jack is not happy to be offering full immunity. Henderson’s only protection was that tape and now it’s gone. He will be killed if he is set free. Henderson offers to help Jack catch Bierko if they allow him to go underground with his wife

4:29 A.M.
Henderson gives up fourteen names that he thinks Bierko will contact. Jack has Chloe run a search.

4:30 A.M.
Jack tells Audrey that Henderson is helping them find Bierko. Audrey is angry that the man who tried to kill her father was offered immunity. Jack apologizes to her.

4:31 A.M.
Chloe finds that Victor Malina, one of the people on Henderson’s list, just got a call from a payphone in Van Nuys which was then called by a GSM satellite phone. Henderson warns them that it will take too long to roll Malina. He suggests that he go and talk to Malina himself. Jack knows Henderson can’t be trusted, but Karen and Buchanan decide that they have no other choice. Karen orders Jack to accompany Henderson. Jack threatens to kill Henderson if something goes awry.

4:33 A.M.
Martha is outside smoking a cigarette when she sees a government sedan pull into the stables.

4:34 A.M.
Agent Adams exits the sedan with a gun. The trunk of the car is lined in plastic. He takes the bound Pierce from the stable, but Pierce fights back. Martha walks in and surprises Adams with Pierce. Adams cannot shoot the First Lady, and this allows Pierce to kick him. Adams loses his gun. Just as Adams is about to hit Pierce with a tire iron, Martha grabs the gun and shoots Adams. She is in shock and drops the gun.

4:40 A.M.
Curtis drives Jack and Henderson to Victor Malina’s loft. Henderson won’t wear a wire because Malina will find it. Jack gives him only ten minutes to get information. Curtis sets teams around the perimeter.

4:41 A.M.
Henderson goes to the building and Malina lets him into the heavily-secured complex. Jack hoists himself up to the roof.

4:42 A.M.
At the door, Malina x-rays Henderson over the Backscatter monitor. There is nothing on him, and he is allowed entry.

4:43 A.M.
Jack affixes a sonar device to the skylight over Malina’s loft. He hears Henderson tell Malina to secure-cache his files because Jack and CTU are outside. Jack radios Curtis to move his teams in because Henderson welched on his promise.

4:44 A.M.
Malina starts crashing his own system as Curtis’s teams blast through the building entry. Jack breaks in from the roof. Henderson takes Malina’s gun and ducks. Malina fires at the TAC team, hitting Curtis in the shoulder. Jack shoots Malina and he makes Henderson come out from hiding.

4:46 A.M.
Jack accuses Henderson of trying to play him, but Henderson says that he was getting Malina to drop the firewall and download all his files onto a flash drive. Jack came in too soon and now the files are all decrypted on the mainframe. Jack doesn’t know what the truth is, but sends Chloe the files from Malina’s computer.

4:52 A.M.
Pierce tells Martha that Logan ordered Adams to kill him. Martha says she knows about the whole plot, but she can no longer remain silent. Pierce needs Logan to believe that he’s dead, so he has her go back inside and pretend nothing is different. Pierce asks her to tell Novick.

4:54 A.M.
Chloe uncovers Defense documents on Malina’s computer for a Russian submarine that is in America for inspection by the Navy. Karen explains that the Logan treaty called for the sharing of technology. Henderson confirms that the sub named Natalia would have multiple, non-nuclear warheads.

4:55 A.M.
Jack has Audrey contact the ranking U.S. officer on the Russian sub. Jack takes Henderson with him in a helicopter. He needs Henderson because he knows the weapon systems.

4:56 A.M.
Audrey connects Jack to the U.S. Navy officer aboard the submarine Natalia. Jack orders the Lieutenant to lock down the weapons system because the Natalia might be under siege by terrorists who will try to apprehend its missiles.

4:57 A.M.
The Lieutenant goes through the top hatch and Bierko shoots him. Jack hears the gunshots and has Audrey warn Defense.

4:48 A.M.
Bierko drops a Sentox canister into the hatch of the sub and releases the gas. The crew of the submarine falls to their deaths.

4:59 A.M.
Bierko and his gas-masked men board the sub. Bierko plugs a code that he got from Malina into a console. This allows him to take control of the sub’s weapons system.

 

5:00 A.M.
Bierko’s men flush out the Sentox gas aboard the sub Natalia. Bierko instructs them to begin the launch countdown. They are targeting high population areas to punish the Americans for allying with Moscow.

5:01 A.M.
Audrey contacts Admiral Kirkland at the Point Mugu Command Center to alert him that terrorists have seized control of the Natalia submarine. All of the Navy crew onboard dead. She asks him to sink the Natalia with his F-18 fighter planes. Yet they won’t be there in time before the missiles launch.

5:02 A.M.
Jack, Henderson and the TAC team are at the dock of the Natalia. Since backup won’t get there in time, Jack will have to stop Bierko himself. Henderson notices a signal tube launching off the side, which indicates someone on board is trying to send a distress signal.

5:03 A.M.
Henderson tells Jack that he won’t go on the sub unless he gets his own gun for protection. Distrusting Henderson, Jack is hesitant to give him a weapon.

5:06 A.M.
Chloe scans the area around the sub for emergency frequencies and finds one coming from a survivor. She patches Jack to Rooney, a petty officer engineer aboard the sub. Rooney gives his location, and Jack has him go to an entry point where they can board. Rooney will have to kill the terrorist at that post to go unseen.

5:08 A.M.
Henderson demands a gun, and Jack gives it to him. They head towards the sub.

5:09 A.M.
Novick briefs Logan about Bierko raiding the submarine and taking over its missiles.

From outside the conference room, Martha watches Logan in the midst of the crisis. She calls Pierce and warns him not to remove the body from the retreat until she talks to Novick.

5:10 A.M.
With less than ten minutes to missile launch, Jack asks Henderson how long it will take him to shut the system down.

5:11 A.M.
Jack instructs Rooney on how to slit the throat of the terrorist guarding the door. Rooney clumsily attacks the man and kills him. He radios Jack that their entry is clear. Jack shoots the guard on the deck, and the TAC team runs to the top of the sub.

5:12 A.M.
The missile doors open up on the top of the sub in preparation to launch.

5:13 A.M.
Jack and Henderson board the sub and meet Rooney. He shows them where the control room is, and Jack has him access it from the other side to create a distraction.

5:14 A.M.
Rooney knocks over a tool cart, causing a loud noise. Bierko leaves the control room to investigate. Jack and his team go in the control room and see one man left to arm the missiles. Jack stabs him in the throat.

5:17 A.M.
Henderson gets to work on the controls, manually reversing the launch codes. Jack goes after Bierko.

5:18 A.M.
Jack fires at one of Bierko’s men. Chloe warns him that they have sixty seconds until launch. Henderson works as fast as he can.

5:19 A.M.
The other terrorist knocks Jack’s gun down. Jack grabs him and uses the man’s arm to fire at Bierko. Jack shoots at a pipe that releases steam, and he presses the man’s face to the burning pipe. Jack is set free from his grip. Bierko smacks Jack in the forehead with a metal tool. Jack leaps to a pipe above and uses his legs to snap Bierko’s neck. Henderson is able to dismantle the missiles. Everyone at CTU sighs in relief, and Karen has Chloe call off the F-18 planes.

5:20 A.M.
Jack returns to the control room, but Henderson is gone. He tells CTU to take him off of radio and he runs outside on the deck to look for Henderson. Henderson comes up behind Jack and makes him drop his weapon. “You weren’t ever really gonna let me go, were you?” Henderson asks. He pulls the trigger and the gun clicks. Henderson realizes he’s been had, and he removes the empty clip from his gun. Jack accuses him of killing his friends Palmer, Tony and Michelle. Then he shoots Henderson dead. Rooney comes out and is frightened when he sees what Jack has done.

5:27 A.M.
Military transport vehicles arrive at the dock of the Natalia. Jack identifies himself and asks for a vehicle. He calls CTU, claiming to have killed Henderson in self-defense. Jack tells them he is coming back to CTU and asks Chloe to pick up.

5:29 A.M.
Jack explains to Chloe that he is going after Logan himself and needs her help. Chloe agrees. Jack gets into the government car provided to him and drives off.

5:30 A.M.
Logan is pleased when he finds out that Bierko and the missiles are no longer a threat. He wants to publicly address the crisis resolution before escorting Palmer’s casket to Washington. Novick goes to prepare the statement.

5:31 A.M.
Martha approaches Novick as he leaves the President’s office. She asks whether he has been suspicious about Logan’s actions. Martha begs him to come with her.

Logan is happy to report to Graham that Henderson was killed aboard the sub. “Mr. Bauer will be taken care of,” Logan guarantees.

5:32 A.M.
Martha brings Novick to the stables to see Pierce, whom Logan had ordered to be killed. Martha explains that Logan was involved with everything that has happened -- from Palmer’s murder to supplying the terrorists with nerve gas to Cummings’ fake suicide. Pierce says that Jack had a recording to implicate the President, which is why Logan wanted Jack dead. Novick begins to realize that all of this is true, and he wants to drive Pierce off the retreat. Pierce tells Martha that he cannot contact her to ensure both their safeties. They say goodbye, fondly.

5:41 A.M.
As they carry the dead body into the woods, Novick and Pierce get a call from Jack. He intends to get Logan to confess what he has done. Jack will need twenty minutes to get to the retreat, and he asks Novick to find a way to stall Logan from leaving for Washington.

5:43 A.M.
Karen lets Buchanan know that she’s been summoned to Washington by the White House. Chloe asks for high clearance for a new employee with tech specialties -- her ex-husband, Morris.

5:45 A.M.
Chloe interrupts Morris flirting with a female CTU staffer. She needs him to do a digital audio transfer.

5:46 A.M.
Novick comes to the First Lady’s room and tells her that Pierce is safe and that Jack wants to get Logan to confess. Novick asks Martha to detain Logan from leaving the retreat.

5:53 A.M.
Jack pulls up to the field where Pierce is hiding. Pierce informs him that the President is not riding on Marine One to the airport, but is using a Navy helicopter instead. Jack asks Pierce to help get him on that chopper.

5:54 A.M.
Logan is surprised when Martha comes to see him. She apologizes for the way she has acted and asks him to forgive her for the hurtful things she said. Martha tells him she still loves him. She asks him to stay at the retreat a little while longer so that they can have time alone. Logan is at first resistant, but Martha kisses him and seduces him to wait.

5:58 A.M.
Jack and Pierce sneak inside the Secret Service outbuilding on the retreat grounds. The agent on guard is checking the helicopter because the Presidential departure is being delayed. Pierce asks how far Jack is willing to go to get Logan to confess. “As far as I have to,” Jack says.

 

6:00 A.M.
Logan and Martha put their clothes back on after having sex.

6:01 A.M.
Jack takes a chopper pilot uniform from a locker in the outbuilding. Chloe lets Jack know that she and Novick found a way to pull the co-pilot from the flight.

6:02 A.M.
A Secret Service agent removes the real co-pilot from the helicopter because there is something wrong with his paperwork.

6:03 A.M.
Novick prepares Jack’s Marine One identification papers. Martha lets him know that she has stalled Logan as much as possible. Novick calls Pierce and warns him that the reassignment documentation is being faxed to the outbuilding.

6:04 A.M.
The co-pilot enters the building to find out about his paperwork. Jack knocks him out.

6:05 A.M.
Wearing the uniform and the pilot helmet, Jack walks out and shows his paperwork to the agent on duty. He boards the chopper.

6:06 A.M.
The Presidential limo pulls up to the outbuilding. Novick has Martha find an excuse not to be on board. She tells her husband that she thinks he should step out of the helicopter alone because it will make for a better press image. Logan agrees, and gets on the chopper. It takes off.

6:07 A.M.
Once the helicopter is in the air, Jack warns the pilot that he will kill him if he doesn’t keep flying. Jack orders him to dismantle the flight communication on his helmet.

6:08 A.M.
Jack goes to the back of the chopper and stun guns the two Secret Service agents to make them pass out. He handcuffs Logan, who is shocked to see Jack.

6:09 A.M.
Chloe radios to Jack a coordinate to land the helicopter at an empty warehouse. Logan asks Jack what he wants, but Jack remains silent. Logan goes on to try to explain his actions.

6:10 A.M.
Chloe calls Morris, who is heading towards where the chopper will land. She instructs him to handoff something when he arrives.

The pilot lands next to a warehouse and shuts down the chopper. Jack stun guns the pilot, who passes out.

6:11 A.M.
Jack forces Logan into the empty warehouse. Logan tries to bribe him. Jack removes all the objects from Logan’s pockets and cuffs him to a pole.

6:12 A.M.
The confused Morris pulls up to the chopper and goes inside the building. He carries a briefcase.

6:13 A.M.
Jack finds Morris and takes the briefcase and a piece of equipment from him. Morris sees President Logan and is stunned. Jack orders him to leave.

6:14 A.M.
Jack calls Chloe and she tells him that he has less than ten minutes until the response team comes after the President.

6:18 A.M.
Jack sets up a camera on top of the briefcase and tells Logan that he wants a confession. Logan insists that he will not do so. Chloe watches this over the video feed.

6:19 A.M.
Jack starts to ask Logan questions about the Sentox gas being given to the Russian separatists. He wants to know the truth about the deaths of Palmer and others. Logan insists that everything he is saying is a lie. Jack lets him know that Cummings, Henderson and Nathanson all confirmed they were involved in a conspiracy before they were killed. Logan refuses to say anything, and accuses Jack of attempting to torture him. Jack tells him that he won’t torture him but will kill him unless he confesses.

6:21 A.M.
Jack recalls how, a year and a half ago, he was told his life was in danger and faked his own death to protect himself. Now he is sure that Logan was the source of this danger to his life. Palmer and the others who tried to help Jack are now dead. “I have absolutely nothing to lose,” Jack says, assuring Logan that he has no problem shooting him. Jack is confident that Logan will face justice.

6:22 A.M.
Jack raises his gun and starts to count to three. Logan is afraid, pleading that his death will only make him appear to be a martyr. Shaking, Jack gets to three but doesn’t pull the trigger. Logan is relieved that Jack could not kill him.

6:23 A.M.
Suddenly, a TAC team swarms the warehouse. Jack hears them and lowers his gun. He gets on the floor and puts his hands behind his head.

At CTU, Chloe types something and quickly shuts down her laptop.

6:24 A.M.
The Secret Service captures Jack. Logan grabs all of the things removed from his pocket. He tells the agents that Jack is delusional and needs to be put in solitary confinement.

6:29 A.M.
The naval chopper lands at the airfield where Novick and Martha are waiting. Novick tells her that Jack wasn’t able to get the confession and is now in custody. Martha panics.

6:30 A.M.
Palmer’s casket is removed from a hearse with full pomp and circumstance. It is placed near a podium. Martha breaks down, accusing Logan of being a murderer. Logan has the Secret Service agents take her away into a hangar. “He’s not fit to be President!” Martha cries out.

6:32 A.M.
Logan goes to the hangar. He smacks Martha and checks to see if she’s wearing a wire. Logan accuses Martha of delaying him with sex in order to get Jack on the chopper. He asks her why she did it. Martha explains that he had Palmer and others killed to hide his conspiracy. “I did it for the good of the country,” Logan says repeatedly.

6:35 A.M.
Logan threatens to fill Martha with drugs and send her off to an asylum if she tells anyone what she knows.

6:39 A.M.
Logan and Martha emerge from the hangar and walk to the podium. He addresses the gathered military and press, boasting of his victories against the terrorists.

6:40 A.M.
Buchanan and Karen are shocked when Chloe sets up a conference call with the Attorney General. She explains that Jack placed a listening device on the President. Chloe plays back the recording of Martha and Logan talking in the hangar. The President admits responsibility for the terrorist plot and for killing Palmer.

6:42 A.M.
Logan eulogizes Palmer, calling him a “wonderful friend.” A federal marshal guarding the ceremony gets a call from the Attorney General. The Marshal is confused by what is being said to him, but he agrees to obey the order.

6:43 A.M.
As he speaks, Logan notices rumblings among the agents surrounding the gathering. The Marshal and the Secret Service descend upon the podium as Logan ends his speech. The Marshal whispers something in the President’s ear and Logan’s face goes white. The Marshal pulls out the fountain pen from Logan’s pocket and shows him the microchip transmitter planted inside of it.

6:46 A.M.
Logan turns to Martha and Novick, speechless. He is escorted from the podium amid the twenty-one gun salute to Palmer and is placed in a limo for arrest. The casket is loaded upon the plane.

6:47 A.M.
At the warehouse, Jack sees Audrey emerge from a car. He rushes to her and kisses her. An agent interrupts Jack with a call from Kim. Audrey says she will wait for him outside.

6:48 A.M.
Jack goes in the building and picks up the phone. There is no one there. Suddenly, a masked man comes up from behind and gags Jack’s mouth. Jack tries to fight off the other masked men, but the chloroform in the gag makes him pass out. The men whisk him into a room and shut the door.

6:53 A.M.
Karen tells Buchanan that she thinks Logan will resign and try to cut a deal for clemency. Since the Vice President will soon be sworn in as President, Buchanan thinks he will be fired. Karen says she will make sure that Buchanan is still running CTU. She apologizes for her behavior towards him earlier in the day. Buchanan invites her out for breakfast but Karen needs to go to Division for debriefing. She asks for a rain check.

6:55 A.M.
Buchanan commends Chloe for her work and hands her something found in Edgar’s possessions. It is a photo of her and Edgar. Chloe tears up. Morris comes up and kindly asks her if she wants to talk about it.

6:56 A.M.
Audrey goes into the warehouse looking for Jack. She sees the phone off the hook and becomes worried. Audrey runs out and alerts the agents that Jack is missing.

6:57 A.M.
A beaten and bloody Jack is dragged into a dark room. The men remove their masks and reveal that they are Chinese. Their leader is Cheng, the head of security from the Chinese Consulate who threatened the American government to turn over Jack for his raid on the consulate building eighteen months ago. “China has a long memory,” Cheng says. “Did you really think that we would forget?” Jack can barely speak, but begs to make one phone call. Jack wants them to kill him, but Cheng says he is too valuable to kill.

6:59 A.M.
Cheng has Jack kidnapped aboard a Chinese shipping boat. It is already sailing the ocean.

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