YNLSZ'S BLOG

9:02 P.M.
As Jack escorts Collette through CTU security, she confirms that she has met with Audrey and can identify her.

9:03 P.M.
The torture tools are wheeled into Audrey’s holding room. Buchanan argues with Karen and Miles about the extreme interrogation techniques they want to use on Audrey.

9:04 P.M.
Jack enters and tells Karen that he will handle Audrey. She accuses Jack of always putting his feelings before work. “Is that what happened with Nina Myers?” she asks. Jack warns Karen that Audrey’s father, the Secretary of Defense, might have a problem with his daughter being tortured. Karen allows Jack to attempt to get Audrey to talk, but she will intervene if nothing comes out of it.

9:06 P.M.
Outside the conference room, Buchanan confesses to Jack that he doesn’t believe Audrey is guilty. Yet she might know something that can help their investigation.

9:07 P.M.
Los Angeles Police happen upon a brawl in an alley, but it’s a trap. Bierko and his men kill the cops and take their uniforms and weapons. They will use the police car to accompany the van with canisters in avoiding roadblocks.

9:08 P.M.
Chloe finds a connection between Audrey and Cummings. The two had stayed in the same hotel room in Maryland, which was confirmed by the manager of the hotel. Jack is shocked at this revelation.

9:14 P.M.
A techie named Shari Rothenberg reports to Chloe as Edgar’s replacement. Shari sees Miles across the bullpen. They share a look.

9:15 P.M.
Jack goes into the holding room and is abrupt with Audrey. “I have nothing to do with these terrorists,” she pleads. Jack shows her photos of Henderson and Cummings. Audrey says she only met Cummings a few times in Defense briefings. Jack brings up the hotel in Maryland, and he forces Audrey to admit that she slept with Cummings. She swears that she knows nothing else. Jack grabs her by the throat, and then stops. He turns to the security camera and yells to Karen that this is over.

9:19 P.M.
“If you ask me, she broke him. Not the other way around,” Karen tells Buchanan, as they watch the surveillance feed. Buchanan is certain that Audrey is innocent. Karen is not convinced, and she calls for Agent Burke to be brought in with his torture tools.

9:20 P.M.
Chloe gives Shari an assignment, and Miles accuses Shari of not being qualified. Shari confesses to Chloe that she had filed a sexual harassment charge against Miles when they worked together a few years ago.

9:21 P.M.
Buchanan tells Jack that Karen wants to use torture on Audrey, but Jack refuses to allow it. The guards try to stop him, and Burke is forced to taser Jack. The guards take Audrey away as Jack is put in handcuffs.

9:26 P.M.
One of the snipers chasing Wayne Palmer calls Henderson. Henderson orders the man to find the missing Wayne and kill him.

9:27 P.M.
Agent Pierce repeatedly tries Wayne’s cell phone but keeps getting his voice mail. A fellow Secret Service agent tells Pierce that Wayne cleared through a checkpoint half an hour ago. Pierce wants to go look for Wayne, and asks the agent to keep it quiet.

9:28 P.M.
Jack insists to Karen that Audrey is innocent. He thinks Henderson gave Collette Audrey’s name in order to mess with Jack. They are wasting time when they should be interrogating Collette, who has immunity. Jack wants to get Collette to admit that she is withholding information, which will negate her immunity deal. He begs Karen to let him and Chloe try to find something to impugn Collette.

9:29 P.M.
Miles tries to catch Shari breaking protocol, but Chloe steps in and accepts responsibility for her underling’s actions. Miles accuses Shari of lying about the sexual harassment charge. Chloe stands up to him, saying that their main focus is to find the nerve gas. She threatens to file a complaint if he interrupts their work again.

9:30 P.M.
Jack asks Chloe to help him save Audrey. He needs evidence that Henderson and Collette had direct contact.

9:31 P.M.
Both Bierko’s van and the cop car pull up to the Wilshire Gas Company. The terrorists shoot the guard at the gate and start unloading their canisters. Bierko finds the manager in charge. He makes the man escort them to the control room as the canisters are brought to the distribution tank.

9:33 P.M.
Bierko instructs the manager to reduce the pressure in the pipes so that the substance they are going to add will not become inert. The man is in fear of being killed by Bierko.

9:39 P.M.
Pierce enters the woods. Wayne orders him to drop his gun, but then realizes it is Pierce. The two run from the gunmen after Wayne.

9:40 P.M.
Burke administers a drug into Audrey’s veins, but she cries that she doesn’t know anything. Meanwhile, Chloe finds that Henderson placed eight calls to Collette’s cell. Jack tells Buchanan that this news means Collette’s immunity is voided. He wants him to get the President to null the agreement. He also demands that no more harm be done to Audrey.

9:41 P.M.
Jack runs into Collette’s holding room. He accuses her of withholding information about Henderson. The Federal Marshal guarding Collette says that Jack can’t question her until the order to rescind the immunity is sent. Jack knocks the Marshal out and trains the man’s gun on Collette. Collette admits that Henderson told her to use Audrey’s name. Jack threatens to kill her unless she tells him what was inside the schematic. Collette says that it is a natural gas distribution center. She doesn’t know which one.

9:42 P.M.
Jack tells Buchanan the new information. This is how Bierko is going to deliver the Sentox into people’s homes. Jack gives the Marshal’s gun back to Buchanan.

9:43 P.M.
Jack bursts into the holding room and orders Burke to stop torturing Audrey. Jack tells Audrey that Henderson set her up to get at him. Jack apologizes and takes her in his arms. “I knew you would come,” Audrey says in tears. Jack kisses her.

9:44 P.M.
Chloe brings up all the city’s gas centers. Buchanan thinks they only have fifteen minutes before detonation, and Jack heads to field ops to prepare to leave.

9:45 P.M.
Shari tells Buchanan that she was a Chemistry major and knows that the pressure index of the natural gas would have to be reduced in order to keep toxins from becoming losing their effectiveness. Chloe pulls up PSI levels at the Los Angeles distribution centers and finds that the Wilshire Gas Company’s has just dropped. Buchanan quickly leaves to let Jack know. Shari notes that Buchanan’s hand brushed against her shoulder and that this is wrong. Chloe squirms quietly.

9:46 P.M.
Pierce and Wayne make their way past his flipped car. Suddenly, a missile wheezes past them. Wayne is knocked down. Pierce returns fire into the darkness at the gunmen. He puts Wayne into his car and they escape.

9:52 P.M.
Jack, Curtis and the TAC team fly in the chopper to the Wilshire Gas Company. Chloe radios that the main control room is where the PSI level is adjusted. Meanwhile, Bierko’s men set remotes on the canisters.

9:53 P.M.
Chloe scans heat signatures outside the site, and finds the pilot a landing spot away from the two men patrolling the perimeter.

9:54 P.M.
Jack and the TAC team rappel down to the roof of the gas plant from the hovering chopper.

9:55 P.M.
Jack and Curtis make their way into the building and take out two of Bierko’s men with silenced guns.

9:56 P.M.
Jack and the CTU team sneak to the control room. One of the terrorists sees them and warns Bierko, who shoots. Amid the gunfire, Bierko activates his remote and the canisters start to emit gas into the tank. Jack goes after Bierko but stops when he notices the canisters in the tank. The plant manager says that it is too late to shut power because the gas will already spread. He tells Jack that the pipeline that feeds into the tank is outside. Jack notifies CTU that he intends to ignite the natural gas that has mixed with the Sentox. He can incinerate the mixture before it leaves the plant. Curtis and the rest of the team evacuate.

9:57 P.M.
Jack places the explosive on the pipe and sets the charger to blast in 30 seconds. He runs out as the explosions burst the pipe, sending flames into the air behind him.

9:58 P.M.
Jack makes it outside, but sees Bierko fleeing. He heads back in and calls to Bierko. Bierko is slammed against the stolen cop car when a flame erupts at his back. Jack goes to pick Bierko up, and the man fights back. They throw punches at each other. The main tank explodes as Jack pulls Bierko into the car. A wave of flame blows out the car windows.

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.

7:01 P.M.
Buchanan calls Curtis, who is on his way back from the hospital with the chemical response team. It may take thirty minutes to get the team to CTU.

7:02 P.M.
Buchanan calls the conference room and lets Jack know that he can find Henderson by pulling up a building grid. All of CTU’s gas masks and Atropine medication are in contaminated areas.

7:03 P.M.
Chloe is in a state of shock. Jack needs her to work, but Chloe can’t move. Barry, who is a clinical psychologist, thinks he can help her. Barry pulls Chloe away from the window facing Edgar’s body and tries to steady her nerves.

7:05 P.M.
McGill, who is sealed in the holding cell, confesses to the guard watching him that the nerve gas being released was his fault. “I didn’t want anyone to know I got beat up,” he sighs. “So we’re all gonna die because you got embarrassed?” the guard asks incredulously.

7:06 P.M.
Tony gets up from his hospital bed and sees the dead bodies outside the medical area.

7:07 P.M.
Jack calls down to the medical unit. The doctor tells Jack that Agent Burke got Henderson secured in time. Tony hears that Henderson is in there with him, and he knocks the doctor unconscious. Tony hangs up on Jack.

7:08 P.M.
Tony sees Henderson lying groggily on a bed and he grabs Burke’s gun. On the video feed, Jack sees Tony holding Burke at gunpoint. Tony wakes Henderson and blames him for taking Michelle’s life. With tears streaming down his cheek, Tony threatens to kill him. Jack tries to calm Tony down over the intercom. He can sympathize because he lost Teri in the same way. They need Henderson to save thousands of lives. Tony understands and backs off.

7:09 P.M.
Burke continues injecting Henderson with the pain-inflicting hyoscine-pentothal. Despite this, Henderson refuses to say anything about Bierko or his computer password.

7:10 P.M.
Logan and Vice President Gardner grill Karen Hayes over the phone about the hit on CTU. Karen is a high-ranking official in the Homeland Security office in Los Angeles. Karen suggests an emergency restructuring that would put Homeland Security in charge of finding the terrorists over CTU. Gardner gives her approval.

7:11 P.M.
Gardner presses the President to enact martial law because it is the effective solution, but Logan insists that his advisors believe it will only create mayhem. Gardner notes that, with only military personnel on the streets, the terrorists would not be able to move freely. Logan is indecisive.

7:12 P.M.
Bierko instructs his operative to move all of the nerve gas to the new target.

7:17 P.M.
Jack pushes Barry aside and pleads with Chloe to help decrypt the files from Henderson’s computer. She doesn’t want to. “We do not quit until it’s over,” Jack presses. Barry interjects that Jack is only making it worse. He then accuses Jack of never being there for others when they need it the most. Jack angrily walks over to Barry and grabs him by the throat. Jack reproaches him for taking advantage of Kim. Kim steps in and explains that Barry helped her deal with suicidal thoughts. Chloe breaks the tension in the room by announcing that she will get back to work.

7:18 P.M.
Suddenly, an alarm beeps. Chloe discovers that the seals on the protected rooms are breaking down. The nerve gas must have been laced with a corrosive acid that is eroding the partition seals. She thinks they have about twenty minutes before the gas permeates the isolated zones.

7:19 P.M.
Martha overhears Novick defend himself to Gardner about usurping his position. She is surprised that her husband is allowing Gardner to create policy. Martha knows that Gardner wants Logan to fumble so that he can assume the Presidency. Novick begs her to intervene, alluding to past events where Gardner took credit for success and left Logan out to dry on failures.

7:21 P.M.
Buchanan warns all workers in the protected areas that the nerve gas is eating away at the seals. They need to figure out a way to flush the gas out of the contaminated zones.

7:22 P.M.
Jack confides to Audrey that he persuaded Kim to stay at CTU for his own benefit. It will be his fault if something happens to her.

7:23 P.M.
Chloe thinks that she may be able to flush out the contaminated areas with air conditioning. Yet she is being blocked by a program set up on another computer that she cannot access from a remote. Jack wants to go behind the cleared wall of the conference room to get to that computer. He will have to hold his breath when entering the ventilation room where the computer is. Jack pulls off one of the wall panels and climbs inside. They replace the panel once he is in.

7:28 P.M.
Jack shimmies his way along the crawlspace and reaches a storage area. He tapes over the door he entered through to create an airlock to the conference room.

7:29 P.M.
Jack radios Chloe to say that he is about to head into the ventilation room. He says he will tap his comm unit three times when he is back inside the safe room. Jack pulls up his jacket hood and sucks in one last big breath.

7:30 P.M.
Jack steps over the dead bodies in the hallway. He removes another wall panel to discover iron bars blocking his entrance to the ventilation room. Jack can see the computer running the program that Chloe referred to. He hurries back to the storage area.

Back in the conference room, Chloe sees that the seal corrosion is now rapidly increasing. Kim nervously asks if they can do anything to help Jack. Chloe quickly shoots her down and they argue. The three taps from Jack echoes on the radio when he arrives in the storage room. He waits twenty seconds for the room to clear of any residual gas. As Chloe monitors the storage room’s air, they all wonder aloud what Jack’s quick return means.

7:31 P.M.
After the twenty seconds, Audrey gives Jack the signal to breathe. He tells them that he was unable to get to the computer because of a security grate but he did see the program running. Chloe learns that the grate was a new addition that someone neglected to file properly. The only way to enter the ventilation area is through the holding room where McGill is being kept.

7:32 P.M.
Jack calls McGill and explains the situation. He is the only one alive who can get to the computer. Unfortunately, there is no way to airlock the holding room once he has exited it. This means that both he and the guard will die. McGill rationalizes to the anxious guard that they have no other choice. McGill tells Jack that he will do it.

7:39 P.M.
Kim apologizes to Chloe for snapping at her. She asks if Chloe had contact with Jack while he was gone. Chloe admits that she sent him information about Kim’s life — including her breakup with Chase and her depression.

7:40 P.M.
Jack returns to the conference room and he has Chloe pull up the feed to the holding room.

7:41 P.M.
McGill watches as the guard says goodbye over the phone to his child. McGill lets Chloe know that he is ready. McGill takes a deep breath and opens the door. He runs upstairs and turns off the program on the computer. McGill runs back out.

7:42 P.M.
When the air conditioning finally responds, Chloe starts the vents. Although the air won’t be clear for another fifteen minutes, this will help slow down the rotting of the seals.

McGill returns to the holding room and shuts the door behind him. He and the guard hear Jack thank them over the intercom.

7:43 P.M.
The guard exhales and is relieved. “I’m okay,” he exclaims. Two seconds later, he convulses and keels over. McGill gasps for air and dies too. Jack and the others watch this helplessly from the conference room.

7:45 P.M.
Jack orders the medical room’s security feed pulled up. He sees Burke prepare another syringe as Henderson still refuses to confess. “You’re wasting your time,” Tony says bluntly.

7:46 P.M.
Jack asks Chloe to keep working on hacking into Henderson’s computer because the seasoned former agent will divulge nothing. Jack asks Kim to stay when the gas is exhumed because they still need to talk. She says that she loves him but doesn’t want to be around him. “Every time I am, something horrible happens. People die,” she adds. Jack is heartbroken and he begs to spend a little time with her. She refuses, and goes to Barry’s waiting arms. Audrey takes Jack’s hand in comfort.

7:51 P.M.
Novick and Martha review the press statement that Gardner has drawn up. Logan stands behind what it says. Novick leaves the room, dejected.

7:52 P.M.
Martha tells her husband that she will support his decision but that she won’t stand by and watch Gardner promote his own agenda. Logan breaks down to her. “I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” he says, referring to Palmer’s assassination, the hostages and the nerve gas. “I almost lost you,” he cries. Martha assures him that she is still here with him.

7:53 P.M.
Bierko phones a European woman named Collette Stenger and asks for the high-security schematics he is paying her for. She says she is not ready and hangs up on him.

7:54 P.M.
Collette returns to bed with her lover, Theo Stoller, without telling him what she is working on.

7:55 P.M.
Karen Hayes calls Buchanan to inform him that she is heading to CTU with a team. System analyst Miles Papazian sits beside her in the car. He informs his boss Karen that he has re-formatted CTU servers to Homeland Security specs and routed their tactical protocols through him. Karen gives him authority to replace CTU personnel with some of his own because they won’t be in any shape to continue working. She explains that Buchanan will no longer be in charge and that CTU ceases to be an operational entity. All the people there will now report to the two of them.

7:56 P.M.
The sealed doors raise on the CTU contained offices as the nerve gas is stripped out by the air conditioners. Jack says goodbye to Kim before heading out. Jack orders Barry to take her out of Los Angeles.

7:57 P.M.
Henderson’s nervous system shuts down. When Jack calls the medical room, Tony tells him that Henderson is in a coma. “You’ve had your chance, he’s mine now,” Tony says, clutching the gun. As he runs through the halls toward the medical unit, Jack urges Tony not to do anything to Henderson because it won’t make him feel better about losing Michelle. Tony ignores his plea with renewed determination.

7:58 P.M.
Tony knocks out Burke. He prepares a syringe and holds it over Henderson, but Tony can’t kill him. Suddenly, Henderson awakes and grabs Tony’s wrist. He forces Tony to stab himself in the chest. Tony’s face goes white and he falls to the floor. Henderson gets up off the table and grabs the gun. Although he is weakened, he runs out.

7:59 P.M.
Jack enters the clinic and finds Tony and Burke on the ground. Gasping his last breath of life, Tony tells Jack that he couldn’t do it. Jack clutches Tony’s head. Tony dies, and Jack cries with him still in his arms.

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.