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6:00 AM-7:00AM
Los Angeles: A newscaster informs the viewing public that America has been under a barrage of terrorist bombings for the past 11 weeks. The announcer high-lights the growing fear of the American public and notes that, although no one has taken responsibility for the bombings, Muslim extremists are suspected.

At a bus stop, an Arab man tries to catch a bus for work, but the bus driver won’t open the door. As the man yells with anger, the bus speeds away. On board, a young Asian man listens to music on an MP3 player. After a few moments, the man presses a button and the bus explodes in flames.

Washington D.C.: In the Oval Office of the White House, a group of presidential advisors argue about what tact to take in the face of the continuing attacks. Presidential Advisor Tom Lennox argues that all suspected terrorists should be rounded up and placed in detention facilities. NSA Advisor Karen Hayes believes that it is unconstitutional and that this move would unfairly target Muslims. President Wayne Palmer is not agreeable to Lennox’s suggestion, even though it has legal precedent. Hayes interrupts the debate to inform Palmer of the bombing in L.A. Everyone is convinced that a terrorist leader named Hamri Al-Assad is behind the attacks. Hayes believes that his death will put a stop to the siege. “I hope so,” broods Palmer, “Because we’re paying a steep enough price to get him.”

At CTU, Morris O’Brian and Milo Pressman are involved in an argument over files. Milo tells Morris to get it together, or he’ll be back selling women’s shoes in Beverley Hills. Morris tells Milo he liked him better when he was an analyst, before he was promoted to middle management. Chloe interrupts them and Milo tells her to keep Morris in line. Chloe tells Morris to work harder at getting along with people as he eagerly gropes her from behind. Chloe brushes him off and asks him if he received a priority request on the military channel. Morris says he got no such request. Chloe goes to ask her boss, Nadia Yassir, if she knows anything about it. Nadia clears the request and tells Chloe it is an assault on Assad. Chloe asks how they got a lead to Assad and Nadia tells him they got it through jack Bauer. Chloe is understandably confused, since she believes Jack is still in a Chinese prison. Nadia tells her that President Palmer arranged for Jack’s release, but she won’t say anymore.

At Ellis Airfield, Bill Buchanan and Curtis Manning stand ready as a transport plane lands. Chinese soldiers escort a ragged-looking and shackled Jack from the plane as Cheng Zhi hands Bill the transfer papers. The soldiers uncuff Jack and Curtis sees that Jack’s hands are badly burned. Curtis takes Jack into a nearby hangar as Cheng tells Bill that Jack never uttered a word during his entire captivity of nearly two years.

In the hangar, Bill tells a silent Jack that Wayne Palmer is now president and that he negotiated Jack’s release. Bill tells Jack of the terror attacks upon America for the past 11 weeks, and that they suspect Assad of orchestrating them. Bill says that one of Assad’s men, Abu Fayed, contacted them and agreed to give up Assad’s location for 25 million dollars. In addition, he wants to kill Jack as revenge for the death of his brother. Fayed has demanded their surveillance protocols, so they won’t be able to rescue jack once Fayed has him. Jack tries to speak, but can barely whisper, He tries again and says, “Audrey.” Bill says Audrey doesn’t know he’s back and neither does his daughter, Kim. Jack tells Bill to keep it that way. He agrees to his fate and tells Curtis to put away his gun. He asks Bill if he can clean up first and Bill agrees. Curtis leads him to a curtained area with a sink and toiletries. Jack looks at himself in the mirror and takes off his shirt, revealing his badly scarred torso.

Bill calls Karen and tells her that Jack is much worse than he expected. Karen says she misses him and wishes they could be together. Bill says he has to take Jack to the exchange point and tenderly tells her goodbye.

At CTU, a newscaster announces that the terror level has been raised to red. Chloe confronts Nadia and demands to know what’s going on. Nadia resists at first, but then tells Chloe that Jack is being sacrificed to Fayed. Fayed wants revenge because jack killed his brother while interrogating him about a terrorist cell in Beirut in 1999. Chloe demands to speak with Karen Hayes, but is shocked to learn that Wayne Palmer signed off on the deal.

As bill Drives jack to the drop point, he gets a call from Palmer, who asks to speak to jack. Palmer apologizes to Jack for what has to be done, but says it’s a desperate measure against the attacks. Jack says he understands and bids him goodbye.

Wayne second guesses himself after hanging up and wonders if he’s the right man for the presidency. Lennox tells him his self-doubt is irrelevant, since he will lead the country whether he wants to or not. As Lennox leaves, Karen confronts him about going behind Palmer’s back to set up detention facilities to hold Muslim suspects. Lennox claims he’s just repositioning to save time if Palmer changes his mind, but Karen doesn’t buy it.

Fayed calls Bill and tells him to cuff Jack to a grate at the mouth of a tunnel. Bill does as he’s told and tells Jack he’s sorry for what is happening. Jack tells Bill that he fought to stay alive in China because he didn’t want to die for nothing. Today, he can die by his choice in a sacrifice that has meaning. He tells Bill it will be a relief. Bill says goodbye to jack and walks away.

In an L.A. home, a husband and wife argue about sending their son to school after the bus bombing. Their son comes in and tells them that his friend’s father across the street is being arrested by the FBI. The Arab boy, Ahmed, protests as his father is put in a car and driven away. Another neighbor from down the block begins banging on Ahmed’s door and demanding that he let him in. Scott goes to defend his friend. Ray hesitates, but then goes along. They come upon the angry neighbor breaking in the door and going after Ahmed. Ray demands that Stan back off, and Stan warns them that he’ll be back. After he leaves, Ray insists that Ahmed come over to stay with them until things calm down.

Bill calls Nadia and she tells him that the military is ready to strike once Fayed gives up Assad’s location. Nadia also tells him that she had to sideline Chloe because she found out about Jack. Bill says he’ll deal with it when he gets back to CTU.

Morris approaches Chloe and says he can pull up a visual of Jack using an off-grid satellite that CTU doesn’t know about. Chloe is nervous, but she quietly looks on as Morris pulls up the surveillance.

Fayed’s men arrive and unlock Jack from the grate. Fayed faces Jack and snarls, “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.” He knocks Jack out and tosses him into the van. They are about to leave when Fayed gets a call from one of his henchman, who has detected Morris’s satellite signal. Fayed calls CTU and tells them that they have 30 seconds to redirect the satellite, or he won’t give up Assad’s location. Milo checks the band and sees that he’s right. He traces the signal to Chloe’s work station and Nadia orders Chloe to redirect the satellite. Morris does so and Fayed says he’ll now have to think about giving up Assad, then hangs up. Bill storms in and blasts Chloe, saying that Jack may have sacrificed himself for nothing.

Bill calls Karen and reluctantly tells her about the mishap with Morris and Chloe. Karen bites his head off at first, but then they make nice again and get all mushy. They know they can’t have a big, rip-roaring fight because it’s impossible to have make-up sex on separate coasts.

Fayed drags Jack into his hide-out and puts him in a chair. He shackles Kiefer, then attaches a heart monitor to his wrist and breaks out some sharp instruments. Jack tells Fayed to call CTU, but Fayed just bitchslaps Jack a few times. “I want you to feel what my brother felt before he died,” Fayed growls. He sticks a knife into Jack’s shoulder, then pours a chemical into the open wound, making Jack scream and his heart monitor go crazy. Jack tells Fayed to honor the deal and call CTU with Assad’s location. Fayed taunts Jack by telling him that Assad has decided to renounce terrorism and try to establish peace with the U.S. Assad has come to America to try and help stop the attacks. Fayed then tells Jack that he himself is the actual leader, which means Jack’s death will be in vain. Fayed punctuates the sentiment by ramming a sharp instrument deep into Jack’s back, making him wince in agony.

CTU gets a call from Fayed, who gives them the coordinates where Assad can be found, complete with a transponder signal. Jack overhears and memorizes the coordinates as Fayed talks into the phone with his back turned. Milo pulls up the coordinates and Bill orders Nadia to mobilize the military and cut off Fayed’s access to their systems. Chloe sobs in Morris’s arms as he tries to console her.

Fayed puts a pair of pincers around jack’s finger, but before he clamps down, his henchman tells him he has a phone call. Fayed leaves and takes the call…from Ahmed. It seems that he and not his father is in on the attacks. Ahmed tells Fayed that the FBI arrested his father. Fayed tells him that his father must be sacrificed for the greater good, then asks Ahmed if he has the package. Ahmed says he will have it soon and Fayed orders him to call back when he’s got it. Ahmed hangs up and turns around to see Scott. Ahmed claims he was talking to his uncle and the two go off for breakfast.

Jack manages to tear the heart monitor off his wrist with his teeth. The guard hears the flat line tone and goes to check on Jack. As the guard bends over him, Jack bites a hole in the guard’s neck, then spits out a mouth full of bloody flesh as he takes the key from the guard’s pocket and unlocks himself. Fayed returns to the room to see Jack’s empty chair and the guard’s body. “Find him!” Fayed roars as Jack hides under a grate in the floor. Tick, tick, tick...

8:00AM-9:00AM
Assad pulls up and Jack hops in. Assad confirms that Fayed’s handler is in a car ahead of them.

Fayed calls his man and says there’s a change, saying he needs to make a stop in Newhall before he comes back.

Bill updates Wayne on the casualties from the bombings around the country. Bill tells Wayne that Jack averted the subway bombing in L.A. Wayne asks if anyone has talked to him, but Wayne says Jack went dark since no one listened to him about Assad earlier. Wayne feels some appropriate guilt, when he receives a scrambled call from Fayed. Fayed tells Wayne that he is willing to stop the attacks if Wayne meets his demands. Wayne is skeptical, since Fayed tricked them in the first place, but Fayed knows they have no choice. Fayed demands that the U.S. release 110 “freedom fighters” from the Palmdale Military Facility in L.A. Wayne tries to protest, but Fayed isn’t having it.

Wayne orders Bill to contact Palmdale and see what has to happen for a mass prisoner release. Both Karen and Lennox urge Wayne to reconsider, since they know this isn’t Fayed’s end game, but Wayne wants to buy more time so they can try and find Fayed.

Jack worries that Fayed’s man is hitting thinner traffic, which means it will be more difficult for them to conceal themselves as they follow him. Jack wants to call CTU to get aid with satellite coverage, but Assad refuses, saying he will not work with his enemies. “You’re working with one now,” Jack retorts. Jack tells Assad that if he’s serious about disarming, he has to compromise and cooperate with CTU. Assad relents and Jack calls Chloe, who is in the middle of breaking up another verbal scuffle between Morris and Milo. She patches him through to Bill, who updates him on the situation. Bill tells Jack about Fayed’s demand as Chloe pulls up satellite coverage, which will take 10 minutes. Jack will have to figure out another way to track the handler. Bill dispatches Curtis’s team to meet Jack. Curtis is disquieted when he learns Jack is cooperating with Assad.

Jack carjacks an innocent driver and speeds off in his jeep. Assad is still tailing the handler when jack’s jeep comes screaming out of nowhere and sideswipes the handler’s car, running him into another parked car. Jack jumps out and starts bellowing at the guy. The handler looks intimidated, when Assad walks up and says he saw the whole thing. He blames Jack for the accident and Jack lets a little racism creep into his manners. Then, with a hardy, “screw you!” he speeds off. Assad tells the handler he got Jack’s license number. The handler is pissed because he can’t wait for the police. Assad asks him where he’s going and the handler tells him, Newhall. Assad offers to give him a lift and the handler gratefully agrees. As the handler unloads stuff from his totaled car, Assad dials his cell phone, leaves it on and drops it in the pocket of his car door. The handler gets in and they drive off.

Jack’s phone rings and he answers, hearing Assad’s casual banter with the handler. He mutes his phone, then calls Bill and transfers him into the call so they can all track Assad. Assad mentions Newhall and Bill orders Chloe to pull up coverage for that area, then sets up assault perimeters.

One of Fayed’s men tells him they are detecting increased activity around Palmdale. His man says they still don’t have the component, but Fayed assures him that Ahmed is on his way to pick it up.

Ahmed hustles Scott into the Wallace home at gunpoint, then orders Jillian to call Ray to the living room. Ahmed orders Jillian to get medical supplies for his wound, then orders Ray and Scott to sit on the couch. Jillian returns with bandages and Ahmed orders her to patch his wound, but she can’t stop the bleeding because the wound is too deep. Ahmed tells Ray to take the package and go pick up an item for him. Ray finds his delivery address in Ahmed’s bag. Ahmed assures him that he’ll kill his wife and son if he calls the police.

Chloe calls Curtis, who tells her he’s five minutes away from Jack. Chloe tells Morris to chill out in his feud with Milo.

Karen updates Wayne on Jack’s operation with Assad. She asks if he still wants to go through with the prisoner release. Wayne says he has no choice and tells her to order the guards to start loading the buses.

Assad says the name of the road they are traveling on aloud and Chloe pulls it up on satellite. Jack meets up with Curtis and they monitor the car on the cell phone GPS. Curtis tells Jack it’s good to see him again. He asks Jack if it bothers him working with Assad; a terrorist responsible for taking hundreds of innocent lives in the past 20 years. Jack says the playing field has changed, but Curtis feels it doesn’t change Assad’s past. Curtis feels Assad should be punished for his actions. “It’s not our call,” Jack says. “We’ll see,” Curtis says ominously.

Ahmed orders Scott to get some pain-killers and water from the kitchen. As Scott fills the glass, he pockets a knife from the sink. He goes back to Ahmed and gives him the meds, but can’t work up the nerve to stab him.

At Palmdale, the guards hurry the jump-suited prisoners into lines and start to load them on to the buses. As Wayne watches the process from the Oval Office, Lennox comes in and tells him about Sandra’s arrest for the destruction of the IAA files. Lennox tells Wayne that Sandra is being held at a provisional detention facility. Wayne angrily grabs his phone and starts dialing.

At the Anacostia Detention Facility, Sandra and Walid are driven past a group of picketers holding signs. They are unloaded and Sandra apologizes to Walid for getting him into this mess, but Walid defends her actions. The two are separated and Sandra is uncuffed, then handed a cell phone. Wayne comes on the line and blasts her for making a political statement during this bloody day. Sandra asks Wayne to release Walid, but Wayne refuses and tells her that she’s free to go home. She demands to speak to Walid, but the head FBI agent refuses, saying that he’s being held under the revised enemy combatant statute.

Walid spots an Arab man being mussed up by an agent. Walid intervenes and gets slugged in the ribs for his trouble. Walid is ordered to be taken to interrogation as the Arab man for whom he stuck his neck out looks on.

As Assad continues to make not-so-casual chatter with the handler, Jack and Curtis pursue and form a capture strategy. Assad drops him off and turns around. Chloe spots the handler on satellite. Jack and Curtis pull up and Jack orders Curtis to set up a moving perimeter. Curtis starts to show hostility toward Assad, demanding that another agent search him for weapons. “Do I know you,” Assad asks Curtis. “No, but I know you,” Curtis responds as he storms off. Jack whispers to Assad that he’ll take care of things.

Chloe examines the building that the handler enters and determines that it is a storage facility. The handler unlocks a garage and enters as CTU agents surround the area. One agent reports that he can see the handler as he enters the garage, which is full of wooden boxes. Jack realizes this is a dead drop and that Fayed is not here. Listening over com, Bill tells Jack they’ll have to pick up the handler and make him talk. Curtis and his men move in quietly, but not quietly enough. The handler is taking a laptop out of a case when he hears a noise, looks up and sees a helmet on the nearby roof. He pulls a gun from his briefcase and opens fire. CTU returns fire and the handler takes cover, then jumps up with a grenade. Jack pulls Curtis into a doorway as the entire storage garage explodes in a fiery blast. Jack rushes in among the burning debris and finds the laptop, but it is too badly damaged to offer much hope.

As Wayne continues to watch the Palmdale feed, Bill calls him and tells him that their lead to Fayed is dead. Lennox says that they are awaiting Wayne’s order regarding the prisoners. After a moment of thought, Wayne orders the prisoners loaded on to the plane. The head guard orders the prisoners to go single file on board the plane as a Sergeant makes the count. Once the prisoners are all loaded, the buses pull away, but a single prisoner in an orange suit hides in back of the bus.

Ray arrives at the address and finds his contact in a back room full of boxes. Ray hands him the package and the guy, Marcus, opens it. The package is full of cash, but Marcus claims it’s not enough. He says the component cost him more than he expected and he needs another 50 thousand. Ray is desperate, claiming he has no more money, but Marcus blows him off. Ray uses his phone to call Ahmed, but Ahmed says there is no more money and that Ray needs to do whatever it takes to get the item. Ray hangs up and tells Marcus he’ll get the money, but he wants to make sure that Marcus has the item first. Marcus shows him a box full of electronics. As Marcus turns his back to replace the box on the shelf, Ray grabs a lamp and smashes it over Marcus’s head. Marcus goes down, but rebounds and grabs for a gun. Ray knocks it out of his hand and throws Marcus to the floor, then punches him in the face. Marcus tries to struggle and Ray channels some Tony Soprano, bashing Marcus’s brains out on the cement floor. Marcus quits struggling and Ray starts to collect the component.

Chloe tells Jack the hard drive is mostly toast, but she was able to retrieve a part of a wiring schematic, mostly in Russian. Curtis brings Assad and jack asks him if he knows what it is. Assad says it’s a list of electronic components, including a detonator for a nuclear device. Curtis angrily grabs Assad, believing he knew about the nuke all along. Jack pulls Curtis off and Assad tells him there is a reference file at the bottom of the page. Nadia recognizes it as a compact bomb that the Russians made in the late ‘80’s. They believed that the Russians had destroyed all of them, but there were rumors that one bomb was diverted to a scientist with terrorist connections. They pull up a photo of the scientist and discover that he was one of the terrorists being released from the Palmdale Facility. Assad realizes Fayed planned this all along, using the suicide bombings as a strategy to force the U.S. to release the scientist. Bill orders his men to start searching the prisoners on the plane for the suspect.

The head guard has the photo and orders the prisoner to raise his hand, but no one responds. The guard orders his men to search the entire plane. Meanwhile, the prisoner in the orange suit is let out of the back of the bus by a guard, who tells him Fayed is waiting. The prisoner runs past the dead body of the bus driver as he makes his escape. Tick, tick, tick...

10:00am-11:00am
Wayne and his advisors watch a news report of the nuclear blast in Valencia. Lennox estimates initial casualties at around 12,000. Karen tells Wayne about the four other nuclear bombs in Fayed’s possession. Wayne orders a meeting with the Joint Chiefs as Secret Service takes him down to the bunker.

Wayne tells his press secretary he wants to make a televised speech within the hour.

Milo tells Bill all of the CTU teams who went after Fayed were killed in the blast. Bill tells his people to find out if Fayed was killed.

Secret Service tells Wayne about the dispersal of the Vice-President and cabinet as they escort him into the bunker. Karen calls Bill for an update. He tells her CTU was outside the blast radius.

Chloe is upset over Curtis’s death. Morris tries to comfort her.

As chaos reigns in Granada Hills, Fayed talks to an arms dealer named McCarthy. McCarthy is pissed that Fayed detonated a nuke in his city. Fayed tries to talk McCarthy into finding him another man to reprogram the triggers, but McCarthy says he’s headed for Vegas. But he reconsiders when Fayed offers to double his fee. McCarthy says he’ll do some checking and get back to him.

Jack stares at the mushroom cloud amidst the tumult. A chopper pilot runs up to him and begs for his help. His chopper was knocked out of the sky by the shockwave from the blast. The pilot says one of his guys is dead and another is injured. Jack rushes to the building and sees the chopper teetering on the edge of the roof. He climbs up to it, pries open the door and drags the injured man to safety. Just as Jack clears the man, the chopper falls from the roof and bursts into flames. Viewers who look carefully can see no sign of a one-armed doctor under the wreckage.

The pilot’s buddy asks what happened and he tells him about the nuke. The injured man runs off because his family lives in Valencia and he wants to save them. Jack tells the pilot not to let his friend go into the blast zone. Jack calls Bill and asks about the blast. Bill says it took out a square mile and that Fayed has four more devices. Jack asks for a car to pick him up. Bill is surprised since Jack just quit, but Jack says he can’t quit after this.

Wayne talks with his military advisors, who tell him that ambassadors from various Middle Eastern countries are expressing their condolences. They are all denying any involvement with the bombing. Another advisor tells Wayne that they have carriers placed at strategic points in the Persian Gulf, and that they could launch retaliatory nuclear strikes against major cities. Wayne says they will stay focused on the enemy and will strike only when they have a clear target. Karen tells Wayne that the bomb was only being assembled in Valencia, but that it was meant for a more populated area. She is sure Fayed is alive and has the four remaining nukes.

Assad arrives at CTU and Nadia introduces him to Bill. Assad tells Bill he is not their enemy today and tries to shake hands, but Bill refuses the gesture. CTU workers, including Morris and Chloe, look on as Assad goes to the conference room. Bill tells Assad about the four remaining nukes in Fayed’s possession. Assad tells Bill this attack was planned after he and Fayed broke ties when Assad started talking about peace. Bill asks Assad about the source of the bomb. Assad says that a year ago, he sent Fayed to negotiate with an ex Russian general named Dmitri Gredenko. Chloe opens up a search on Gredenko.

As Milo and Chloe continue the search, Morris brings them a list of people in L.A. who had business ties to Gredenko. Chloe orders them to send it to Bill’s screen. Chloe goes to Bill and points out a certain name on the list; the chairman of BXJ Technologies, Philip Bauer. Any resemblance between Philip’s last name and Jack’s is strictly not coincidental, as Chloe reveals that Philip is Jack’s father. Bill calls Jack and tells him about his father’s connection to Gredenko. Bill tells Jack that his father isn’t a suspect, but they just want to question him. Jack says he hasn’t spoken to his father for nine years, but he wants to be the one to talk to him. Bill agrees and Jack hangs up, then asks his driver to pull over.

Sandra speaks to the FBI head agent. He tells her an agent will be putting a wire on Walid since the other suspects trust him. Sandra objects, but the feds don’t care.

Walid talks to Salim in the yard and asks what’s going on, but Salim is evasive. Several FBI agents grab Walid and make a show of it, telling him they want to interrogate him further. As other detainees watch, the agent roughs up Walid and demands to know about what they found in his wallet. Walid is confused, but the agent whispers to him that he should try to make the other men believe he’s working for Fayed. The agent clocks Walid in the face before leaving. Salim asks Walid what happened, but Walid won’t talk about it. The fed confirms that they are getting a clear signal from the transmitter.

Jack calls his father’s mansion and speaks to Sam, the butler. Sam says Philip left yesterday and no one knows where he is. Sam says he tried to call jack’s brother, but he didn’t know anything. Jack asks for his brother’s cell number and tells Sam to have Philip call him if he hears from him. Sam says Philip would want to talk to Jack because he regrets how they left things when they last spoke. “Me too,” Jack says wistfully and hangs up.

A man named Liddy overhears Sam’s conversation and calls Jack’s brother, Graem Bauer. He tells Graem that, not only is Jack out of Chinese captivity, but he’s in L.A. looking for Philip. Graem says they should’ve killed Jack when they had the chance instead of handing him over to the Chinese. Liddy says they tried. “My brother has a way of digging things up that need to stay buried,” Graem says. Graem’s apprehension is understandable, because there’s a good deal that Jack could dig up about him, including the fact that he sometimes goes by the alias, Graham, and was the leader of the Blue Tooth Group whom President Logan dealt with secretly during Day 5.

As Graem arrives home, he gets a call from Jack. Graem seems to be happy to hear from Jack, but its clear the two don’t like each other. Graem asks how Jack got away from the Chinese, but Jack dodges the question. Jack asks about their father’s location, but Graem says he doesn’t know anything. Graem promises to get back to him. Jack calls Chloe and asks her to pull up Graem’s current address.

Graem comes home and finds his wife Marilyn and son Josh watching a newscast about the nuke. Graem reassures Josh that the terrorists won’t hit L.A. again, then asks for a private moment to talk to his mother. He tells her that he just spoke to Jack and she seems surprised. She asks if Jack is coming over. Graem is obviously jealous and says he knows she never got over Jack when she married him. Marilyn isn’t impressed with Graem’s insecurities.

As Wayne works on his speech, Lennox councils him to push for the suspension of more freedoms in the wake of the bombing. Karen adamantly disagrees, believing that Lennox is pushing the politics of fear. Lennox says that if fear causes the people to band together, it’s a good thing. Wayne says he wants his message to have a calming effect, and that he won’t mention policy in his speech.

McCarthy picks up his girlfriend, who has a bad habit of never shutting up. She wants to go to Vegas, but he has other plans. He calls Fayed and tells him he may be able to find someone to do his dirty work within he hour.

Nadia tells Bill she’s finished talking with Assad, and that she’s convinced that he really wants to make peace. Bill tells Assad that he’ll be transported to D.C. on a military jet to meet with the president. The two men shake hands and Assad departs. Milo tells Bill they picked up intel from the FBI on Walid’s situation.

Walid continues to listen as his new friends chatter in Arabic. Sandra is still mad that Walid is being placed in danger, but the fed tells her the guards know they should protect Walid if anything goes wrong. He tells her the only reasons he’s allowed to stay is because she’s the sister of the president.

Salim asks Walid why the guards were busting his chops. Walid acts hesitant at first, but then slowly lets it slip that the guards found a phone number in his wallet. Salim asks whose number it is and after more false hesitation, Walid says it is Fayed’s. As Sandra watches, the fed tells her that Walid will have to sell himself to the others before they’ll accept him.

Graem is hanging out in his house when the doorbell rings. Graem finds Jack at the door and the two share a cold hug. Graem says they haven’t talked since the death of Jack’s wife. Jack asks if Graem has found their father yet, but Graem says no. Graem introduces Josh to Jack, who haven’t seen each other in a while. It may or may not be a coincidence that Josh bares a strong resemblance to Kim Bauer. Graem’s wife also sees Jack, but the two barely speak.

Graem takes Jack to his office and asks Jack to sit, but Jack doesn’t. Jack asks Graem about Gredenko, but Graem pretends not to know anything. Graem tries to make small talk, but Jack blows it off. Graem mentions China and Jack suddenly decks him, then ties him to a chair with a lamp cord. He threatens to start hurting Graem unless he starts talking.

Wayne prepares to give his speech. He tells Lennox that he can’t let the public see how scared he is. Lennox agrees, but says vibrato would be no more appropriate than fear. Wayne begins to make his speech.

Jack again asks Graem where their father is. Graem swears on his family’s life that he doesn’t know. “Not good enough,” Jack says. “You brought this on yourself,” he growls as he grabs a trash bag, puts it over Graem’s head and begins to suffocate him. Tick, tick, tick...

12:00pm-1:00pm

12:00 P.M.
Wayne watches news reports of the nuclear blast, affected by what he is seeing. When Lennox comes in, Wayne is suspicious of his involvement in Karen’s resignation. Lennox suggests that Karen quit because she knew she couldn’t stop his new plan for the Administration. Wayne is resistant to sign Lennox’s executive orders, knowing they will abuse power and civil liberties. Yet Lennox makes a strong argument and Wayne despairingly tells him to convene his cabinet.

12:03 P.M.
Lennox lets Reed know that they have succeeded and that the President is ready to sign the order. “Getting rid of Karen was distinctly unpleasant, but she left us no choice,” Lennox says.

12:04 P.M.
Karen tells Buchanan that she resigned, but she refuses to tell him why. She abruptly hangs up on him, and when he calls her back Karen does not pick up the phone.

12:05 P.M.
Chloe reports to Buchanan that neither Jack nor the support teams are answering her calls.
Graem goes to his house to erase all of his hard drives.

12:07 P.M.
Captive in the van, Phillip wearily admits that everything he ever did was for Jack. Phillip only now realizes that he pushed him away. After Jack left, Graem was all he had left.

12:08 P.M.
After arriving at a cement plant, Jack and Phillip are lead out in handcuffs. Phillip offers the men double whatever Graem is paying them, but they don’t accept. Phillip refuses to get on his knees at a freshly dug grave. With the men distracted, Jack is able to wrestle one of their guns with his locked hands. He shoots both men. Phillip grabs the keys and releases the handcuffs.

12:09 P.M.
Jack uses the dead man’s cell to call Buchanan. He lets him know that his brother lied to him and tried to have him killed. Buchanan sends a field team to Graem’s mansion. Jack wants Burke the torture specialist brought in too.

12:10 P.M.
McCarthy phones Fayed because he has found someone to program the triggers for the bombs. McCarthy emails Fayed the engineer’s photo and background. “He’ll need to be coerced,” McCarthy warns.

12:15 P.M.
Fayed’s call is intercepted by the feds, and the CTU team hears McCarthy notifying Fayed about someone to detonate the nuclear weapons. Morris attempts to salvage an image file that McCarthy sent to Fayed of the engineer.

12:16 P.M.
Jack meets up with the field team outside Graem’s mansion. Although Phillip wants to go with him, Jack says he will need to question Graem alone and do “whatever it takes to find out what he knows.”

12:17 P.M.
While Graem works feverishly on his laptop, he lies to Marilyn about what’s going on. Suddenly, the CTU teams raid the house. Graem pulls out his gun, but he is surrounded. Jack and Graem are locked in a standoff, but Graem gives up his weapon. Jack has an agent upload all computer hard drives to CTU.

12:18 P.M.
Jack drags an angry Marilyn into another room. She doesn’t believe that Graem would try to have Jack and Phillip killed. He tells her about Graem’s involvement with the nuclear bombs. While she believes that her husband is capable of such things, Marilyn does not know about any of his dealings. Jack promises to look after both her and Josh, but Marilyn only wants to leave. “I’ve seen what happens when you try to protect people,” she shouts. Jack orders for Marilyn and Josh to be transported to CTU.
Outside the house, Marilyn sees Phillip and asks him if what Jack said about Graem is true. She takes Phillip’s silence as confirmation.

12:21 P.M.
As Agent Burke sets up a camera to monitor body temperature, Graem claims to Jack that he doesn’t know where McCarthy is. Burke sees that Graem is lying about something. Jack calls for Burke to bring in the interrogation setup.

12:28 P.M.
Milo lets Chloe know that Morris’s brother was exposed to radiation and is in critical condition. Milo wants to keep this from Morris, but Chloe disagrees.

12:29 P.M.
Chloe brings Morris the bad news. Morris is confused because his brother wasn’t supposed to be in Valencia. He tries calling the hospital but cannot get through.

12:30 P.M.
With no information on his dying brother, Morris gets up to leave. Chloe convinces him to stay and finish decrypting the photo that was sent to Fayed.

12:31 P.M.
Jack checks in with Buchanan and learns that Fayed found an engineer to detonate the nukes. Jack realizes his time is running out, and he presses Graem to tell the truth. Burke prepares a syringe of hyocine-pentothal to induce pain, but Graem still claims that he doesn’t know McCarthy’s whereabouts. Graem is injected with a small amount and winces in agony. Jack is disturbed to see his brother go through this torture.

12:33 P.M.
Jack clutches Graem’s head and begs him to give up what he knows and forestall any more pain. When Graem offers nothing, Jack has the levels of serum increased. Graem launches into a series of spasms and Jack holds him tight for comfort.

12:34 P.M.
When Graem is still tight-lipped, Jack urges Burke to go even higher with the IV. This prompts Graem to confess that he arranged for the assassinations of David Palmer, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler. He even arranged it so that Jack would come out of hiding to take the fall. “Today wasn’t the first time I’ve tried to have you killed, Jack,” Graem says with spiteful pride. Jack reacts in heartbroken disbelief.

12:36 P.M.
Graem claims his actions were for his country, and he says that the two of them are the same. “We are not the same!” Jack yells in rage before throwing back Graem’s chair. He charges Burke at gunpoint to increase the serum to a deadly level and then threatens to kill Graem. As Jack points his gun at Graem’s temple, he looks up and sees his father in the doorway. Jack suddenly stops in his tracks. He has Burke shut down the IV drip on Graem and walks away in silence.

12:40 P.M.
Lying in a hospital bed, Walid conveys to Sandra that he is ashamed for spying on the innocent men in the prison. She gets a call from Wayne, who apologizes for what happened to Walid. Sandra tells him that the inmates only saw the information on the internet. Wayne’s administration is detaining people who might be able to help, but they are afraid to come forward because they will be imprisoned or deported.

12:42 P.M.
Distracted, Morris is unable to make the image clearer. He downloads an unlicensed hack to help further the task.

Jack briefs Buchanan on what Graem disclosed. His brother doesn’t know where McCarthy is. Buchanan lets him know that Morris is working on the image of the engineer to be used for the nukes. He sends a chopper to pick Jack up.

12:43 P.M.
Jack approaches his father, who is visibly devastated by what he has witnessed. Jack consolingly says that he cannot blame himself for Graem’s choices. Yet Phillip is more upset at how the family has treated Jack and the time lost between them. Jack asks Phillip to return to CTU.

12:50 P.M.
Morris gets the plug-in to work and the image begins to sharpen. Since it will take a few minutes, he leaves it in Milo’s hands so that he can go tend to his brother. Chloe kisses Morris goodbye as he walks out.

12:47 P.M.
From the airborne cabin of Air Force Two, Vice President Noah Daniels congratulates Lennox about the plan he has pushed through. “To be honest, I didn’t think this President had the stomach for the cure,” Daniels growls.

12:48 P.M.
Lennox puts Daniels on speaker phone as Wayne enters the bunker conference room. It is filled with generals, cabinet members and advisors. Wayne explains to the group that Lennox’s plan sacrifices rights and freedoms granted by the Constitution. To implement it would be a mistake. Lennox argues his case, but Wayne is insistent that the American Muslim community is the country’s best line of defense. Daniels suggests the President hear from some other sources, but Wayne stands firmly by his decision.

12:53 P.M.
As the image materializes, everyone at CTU is shocked when Morris’s face and resume is revealed. Buchanan orders an APB on Morris’s car and he tells Jack what has occurred.

12:54 P.M.
Chloe reaches Morris on his cell, and patches Jack and Buchanan through. They tell him that his brother’s illness was a setup and that he was the engineer McCarthy was looking for. Morris is shocked and goes to turn his car around. Suddenly, McCarthy pulls alongside Morris and fires at his windshield. CTU can hear the gunshots and McCarthy ordering Morris out of the car. Buchanan rouses a shocked Chloe to pull up the satellite so they can find him.

12:55 P.M.
Rita helps handcuff Morris inside their car as McCarthy calls Fayed to tell him he is on his way. McCarthy makes it clear that he is only delivering Morris. Fayed will have to make him cooperate.

12:56 P.M.
Jack boards the helicopter.

At the mansion, Burke allows Phillip to speak to Graem in private. Graem is proud of himself for taking whatever Jack did to him and not revealing Phillip’s involvement in the plot. He assures his father that he won’t tell Jack anything, no matter how much worse the interrogation gets. They successfully convinced Jack that Phillip was innocent. Their plan is for Graem to take the rap and for Phillip to get him released in time. “The company lives on,” Graem says.

12:58 P.M.
Despite Graem’s confidence, Phillip isn’t so sure that his son will hold firm. Graem tells Phillip that he loves him, and Phillip returns the compliment. Then Phillip apologizes and injects Graem’s IV with a full dose of hyocine-pentothal. As Graem convulses, Phillip covers his mouth so no sound can escape. Graem’s body goes limp, and Phillip kisses him on the head.

12:59 P.M.
Phillip bellows that his son has had a seizure. Burke and the other agents try to revive Graem. “If you people kill my son, I swear you’re gonna regret it for the rest of your life,” Phillip threatens.

01:00 P.M.

2:00pm-3:00pm

02:00 P.M.
Fayed lands his helicopter at the L.A. river basin where his team is waiting with the three remaining suitcase nukes. Fayed phones Dmitri Gredenko, the former Russian general who had contracted BXJ to decommission the bombs. Gredenko is annoyed that they are now down to only three bombs, but he has the delivery systems en route.

02:03 P.M.
Buchanan gathers his staff for updates. Milo was able to restore a fragment of an email correspondence between Fayed and Gredenko. They surmise that Gredenko has colluded with Fayed because he has an interest in harming America. They assume he is already in Los Angeles.

02:05 P.M.
Morris is brought into CTU. Chloe rushes to him, but he is embarrassed and refuses to respond.

Jack enters CTU for the first time in almost two years. Faces he doesn’t recognize stare back at him. Buchanan lets him know that they believe that Gredenko is aiding Fayed.

02:06 P.M.
Chloe thanks Jack for saving Morris’s life. “I’m really glad Fayed didn’t kill you this morning,” she says.

02:07 P.M.
Phillip is surreptitiously erasing messages on Graem’s cell phone in the CTU morgue. Jack comes in, observing his father’s mourning. “I didn’t mean for this to happen,” Jack says sadly, but Phillip acts like he doesn’t believe him. Jack gets down to business and asks what he knows about Gredenko. Phillip cannot hide his anger and claims he had no involvement in Graem’s work. Yet he offers to reach out to some of his other company executives for information.

02:10 P.M.
Chloe goes to check in on Morris, trying to find words of comfort. He is cold towards her, blaming himself for the other bombs that Fayed will surely set off.

02:11 P.M.
Phillip ducks into a corner to call Liddy, his head of security. Phillip orders Liddy to kill Gredenko before CTU gets to him. Gredenko could expose Phillip’s involvement.

02:12 P.M.
Buchanan shows Jack the toxicology reports on Graem. The coronary was caused by hyocine-pentothal used in the interrogation. The field reports show that Jack exceeded protocols, even after Burke warned him about the dangerous levels of serum. Jack explains that he might have killed his brother but then stopped when he saw Phillip. He swears that he never set out to harm Graem. Buchanan suggests covering up Burke’s report, but Jack won’t let him lie. “I killed my brother,” he says. “Whatever the consequences are, I accept them.”

02:20 P.M.
Wayne makes notes to Assad’s speech. He is interrupted by a call from Vice President Daniels, who is disappointed that Lennox’s plan was turned down. The majority of the Cabinet thinks that this is a mistake. Daniels will not support Wayne on his policies regarding Assad and Fayed.

02:22 P.M.
Assad warns Wayne that, by going alone, he might be alienating his constituents.

02:23 P.M.
Lennox furtively meets Reed in the boiler room of the bunker because it is not monitored. Reed says that he and others like him will not stand by while Wayne’s leadership causes more American deaths. Definitive action will remove the President. Lennox knows that this is necessary, but he is torn that the situation has resorted to this. Reed refuses to let on who else is involved or what will happen, because it allows them to retain plausible deniability. Reed asks him for Wayne’s itinerary regarding the Assad televised speech, and Lennox agrees to get it.

02:31 P.M.
Marilyn tells Jack that she doesn’t blame him for her husband’s death, even if it was caused by the interrogation. She wanted to leave Graem, but he had threatened to take her son away.

02:33 P.M.
When Jack asks about Gredenko, Marilyn admits that she once followed Graem to a house where there were men with Russian accents. She doesn’t remember where it was, but she might be able to retrace the route.

02:34 P.M.
Jack tells Buchanan that he may have a lead on Gredenko. Phillip, who has been watching Jack, approaches Marilyn and asks what Jack wanted from her. Phillip brings up the name Gredenko, claiming that Jack questioned him about the man too. Marilyn says she knows nothing but followed Graem to a group of Russians in a house in West Los Angeles. Jack wants to take her there, so she asks Phillip to stay with Josh.

02:36 P.M.
Buchanan sends Milo with Jack in case there are any hard drives with intelligence on the site.

02:37 P.M.
Phillip wants to bring Josh back to his house for a “friendly environment.” Marilyn reluctantly agrees, and leaves CTU with Jack.

02:38 P.M.
Phillip calls Liddy and orders him to find a house near West Los Angeles. He will lead CTU there. Phillip orders that Liddy not harm Marilyn because they need her to find Gredenko.

02:43 P.M.
Chloe asks Morris for help running tactical, but he accuses her of coming to him out of pity. “I know you’ve been through a lot today, but you’re really starting to piss me off,” Chloe grumbles before slapping him. She angrily urges him to stop feeling sorry for himself and get back to work.

02:44 P.M.
As they drive to West Los Angeles, Marilyn confesses to Jack that she thought about him while he was held captive in China. She believes that Phillip drove him away, forcing him to join the military all those years ago. Marilyn asks if she was another reason for his leaving, and Jack says no.

02:45 P.M.
Phillip phones Marilyn but doesn’t want her to let on to Jack that it’s him. He tells her that he murdered Graem, and that unless she does what she is told, he will kill Josh as well. Marilyn is stunned. Phillip gives her an address to lead Jack to. She terrifyingly agrees.

02:46 P.M.
Phillip lies to Josh about the roads being closed. He will take him to a hotel for the night.

02:47 P.M.
Marilyn sees the house where Graem had met with the Russians, but she says nothing to Jack.

02:48 P.M.
In that house, Gredenko and his men program targets on a United States map. He comments that his country was afraid to attack America with nuclear weapons during the cold war but that he will enact that revenge. “And the Arabs will take all the blame,” he says.

02:53 P.M.
Morris emerges from medical, cleaned and wearing a fresh shirt. He sits down, ready for work. The over-tasked Chloe tells Buchanan that she can use Morris’s help.

02:54 P.M.
As they enter the hotel, Josh comments to his grandfather that he knows he’s being lied to about his father’s death. He asks whether Graem had something to do with the nuclear attack, but Phillip doesn’t give him any answers.

02:55 P.M.
Marilyn points to the house at the address given by Phillip. Jack diverts all teams there, including Milo who is in a follow van.

02:56 P.M.
As Jack prepares the TAC teams into position, Marilyn attempts to talk to him. Jack is preoccupied with the mission.

02:57 P.M.
Jack and the TAC teams raid the house. It is empty. Jack spots the blinking red lights of a C4 explosive. He yells a warning and jumps out the window as the house explodes into a fireball.

02:58 P.M.
Milo pulls Marilyn into the van for safety. He realizes they are about to be attacked and peels out. Phillip’s henchmen follow Milo.

02:59 P.M.
The men blow out the wheels of the van, sending it crashing into a brick wall. They fire at the van as Milo detonates hand grenades inside. He grabs a gun and runs off with Marilyn as the van explodes. The men start chasing after them.

Jack wakes up amid the rubble and calls to his teams on the radio. No one responds.

03:00 P.M.