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4:00 P.M.
Gredenko arrives at an airplane graveyard and gets a call from Fayed. Gredenko expects their plan to deploy the nuclear warheads to take about two hours.

4:01 P.M.
Gredenko is annoyed that he has to deal with Fayed’s kind. “The Arabs and the West can destroy each other,” he says hopefully.

4:03 P.M.
When the ambassador arrives at the bunker, Wayne looks for the missing Lennox. Wayne introduces Assad to the ambassador, who is vocal in his displeasure. Wayne explains that he has no other choice but to work with Assad in finding the remaining three nukes. The ambassador acknowledges that Assad’s speech might work, but is insulted that the Americans would threaten his country in order to coerce its prime minister to issue a public statement of support.

4:06 P.M.
Morris has trouble getting information from the phone landline in the house where Gredenko was hiding.

4:07 P.M.
Jack calls Buchanan and tells him about Logan’s offer. Logan is under house arrest in Hidden Valley. Jack is outraged when he learns that Logan brokered a private deal after his ousting from office that would hide the fact that he was aligned with terrorists or involved in David Palmer’s death.

4:08 P.M.
Outside the hotel, Jack finds Marilyn and Josh and asks them to go back to CTU for their safety because Phillip has escaped. Jack promises Josh that he will explain the truth about everything that has happened. Jack and Marilyn share a compassionate moment.

4:09 P.M.
Reed escorts Bruce Carson through security at the White House bunker. The agent at the metal detector checks a cassette recorder in Carson’s briefcase. He plays back a voice recording and it passes as legitimate.

4:10 P.M.
Reed whispers to Carson that Lennox needed to be restrained because he tried to warn Secret Service about their plot. Reed doesn’t know whether Lennox changed his mind or was against them the whole time.

4:11 P.M.
Reed takes Carson to the boiler room where Lennox is taped to a pole. Carson wants to “take care” of Lennox and make it look like a suicide. Reed tries to convince Carson against this. He argues that Lennox could be convinced once Vice President Daniels takes over from Wayne.

4:12 P.M.
Lennox watches in horror as Carson starts to assemble a bomb in order to frame Assad for the assassination of the President.

4:16 P.M.
Reed nervously sends emails from Lennox’s computer. While slipping out, he bumps into the President’s assistant. She is looking for Lennox. Reed lies about his whereabouts.

4:17 P.M.
Chloe notices that Morris has become frustrated in his task. She points out a mistake. Morris assures her that he did call his sponsor, but Chloe doesn’t think he’s any better.

4:18 P.M.
When Morris is away from his desk, Chloe looks up the number of the AA sponsor named Jeannie on his PDA. Nadia comes looking for Morris and questions Chloe about his ability to be back at work. Chloe says they need all the manpower they can get.

4:19 P.M.
Chloe leaves a message for the female sponsor to call her back.

4:20 P.M.
Jack arrives by chopper at Logan’s retreat. He casts a steely eye over the former President and dismisses Logan’s small talk. Based on intelligence updates and news from sources, Logan knows that Gredenko supplied five nukes and that three are still at large. Jack assumes that Logan is out for a plea bargain, but Logan insists that he has reconnected with his faith and does not seek a pardon. He only wants to help.

4:22 P.M.
Logan knows that the Russian Consul General Anatoly Markov is Gredenko’s liaison, despite his lies to CTU about not being involved. Logan says that Markov is protected, and he is the only one who can go through back channels and speak to the man personally because Markov owes him. Markov was involved in the conspiracy and Logan never gave him up. Although Jack doesn’t trust Logan, he has no other choice.

4:28 P.M.
Jack calls Wayne and explains the Logan situation. He needs an executive order granting Logan temporary furlough. Wayne is leery of Logan, who was behind the execution of his brother. Yet Jack thinks that Logan only wants some kind of personal redemption and he promises to never let Logan out of his sight.

4:29 P.M.
Jack hands Logan the phone. Logan tells Wayne that he has a prior relationship with Markov that they can exploit. Plus, he has experience dealing with criminals like Markov. Wayne threatens to hunt him down if he uses this as an opportunity to escape custody. Wayne promises to never forgive him but reluctantly grants the furlough.

4:31 P.M.
Two flatbeds arrive at the airplane graveyard, and Gredenko inspects the cargo. They are U.S. military aerial drones that will be used to drop the bombs.

4:32 P.M.
Buchanan briefs his team on Markov and removes Morris from taking lead on decoding Russian consulate intelligence. Morris defends himself to the entire group, but Nadia disagrees. Buchanan overrules her and allows Morris to continue working at CTU.

4:33 P.M.
In the boiler room, Lennox struggles with his binds but cannot break free. Reed comes in to check on Carson. It’s just started to hit him that they are about to kill the President.

4:39 P.M.
Nadia shows Chloe a mistake that Morris made. Chloe says she told him to turn in his report incomplete. Nadia accuses her of covering for him, but Chloe claims she isn’t.

4:40 P.M.
Chloe approaches Morris and asks him once again if he’s been drinking. She has the report that Nadia gave her, but Morris dismisses any idea that he screwed up. He intended to fill in the rest of the report, and he charges that Nadia is only trying to prove that she is right about him.

4:41 P.M.
Alone in his bedroom, Logan prepares to change into a proper suit. He pulls out a patriotic flag lapel pin, and sees a photo of him and Martha from happier times. Logan pumps himself up by quoting the Bible.

4:42 P.M.
Jack, who has changed into a suit to look like a Secret Service agent, checks in with Buchanan. CTU has no red flags on Markov, and Buchanan wonders if Logan is being sincere. Jack sees that Logan’s Bible has highlighted passages and tells Buchanan that they have no other choice.

Chloe gets a return call from Morris’s sponsor Jeannie. The woman says she hasn’t spoken to Morris in years.

4:43 P.M.
Chloe goes looking for Morris. She storms into the men’s restroom and Morris emerges from one of the stalls. Chloe tells him that she spoke to Jeannie. Morris becomes incensed. He explains that he has a new sponsor and that he did call him. Chloe is embarrassed and apologizes. After she leaves, Morris pulls out a bottle of whiskey from his waistband. He considers taking a drink. Instead, he pours it down the drain.

4:45 P.M.
Wayne signs the executive order for Logan’s release. He asks after Lennox because he wants him there for Assad’s speech. Wayne has his assistant find him.

4:46 P.M.
Lennox starts coughing, so Reed removes the gag from his mouth and mops the blood on Lennox’s brow. Lennox pleads with Reed to stop with his plan. “You’re just as bad as Fayed,” Lennox avows. Reed asks if he was ever on board with the idea but Lennox says he was against him from the start. Reed puts the tape back over Lennox’s mouth.

4:48 P.M.
Reed gets a call from the President’s assistant, and he tells her that Lennox is on his way. Carson finishes assembling the small bomb inside the cassette recorder using explosive liquid from decoy dry erase markers.

4:49 P.M.
Carson gives Reed a PDA and a code to activate the bomb. Reed is the only one who can get close to Palmer without attracting attention, so he will have to place it.

4:53 P.M.
Reed tries to hide his nervousness as he enters the broadcast area where Assad will transmit his speech. The crew gets ready for a run-through, and Reed slips the bomb-rigged cassette player into the podium.

4:54 P.M.
Wayne and Assad arrive in the broadcast room. Assad thanks Wayne for taking a risk.

4:56 P.M.
Wayne pulls Reed aside and asks if Lennox’s disappearance means that he has doubts about them working with Assad. Reed assures the President that Lennox will show up.

4:57 P.M.
Lennox sees that he is tied up near the pressure valves on the boiler room pipes. As Carson is distracted, Lennox manages to twist one of the knobs with his foot. The pressure on the gauge rises and an alarm sounds. Carson runs over and turns the valve back to normal. He threatens to kill Lennox if he tries anything like that again.

4:58 P.M.
Reed excuses himself to the President in order to check on Lennox. Reed waits outside the broadcast room so he has full view of what’s going on inside. Although his hands are shaking, he plugs the password into the PDA and activates the bomb.

4:59 P.M.
Assad, who is at the podium, notices some brown fluid dripping. He leans in and sees a red light blinking on the cassette recorder. Assad yells “Bomb!” and darts from the podium. A Secret Service agent quickly lunges in front of Wayne as the podium explodes. More agents run into the room after the blast. They push aside the various bodies, including Assad, and find the President bloodied and unconscious. They summon medical teams. Reed walks away from the melee quietly.

3:00 P.M.
Jack finds Milo’s torched van is empty. He briefs Buchanan about the ambush and goes looking for Milo and Marilyn.

3:02 P.M.
As Phillip’s henchmen pursue, Milo and Marilyn are on the run. They hide behind a garbage dumpster.

3:03 P.M.
One of Phillip’s men named Hacker calls him with news that they took out the CTU team. Phillip asks if Jack is dead, and Hacker says yes. Phillip reacts with a slight wave of remorse. “It had to be done,” he sighs. Phillip needs Marilyn to be kept alive so that she can lead him to Gredenko.

3:05 P.M.
When the ambush team spots him, Milo orders Marilyn to run while he shoots back at them. Marilyn freezes amid the gunfire, and Milo is hit in the arm. Hacker takes Marilyn. As the other two are about to kill Milo, Jack appears and shoots them down. He disarms Hacker and has Milo hold him at gunpoint.

3:07 P.M.
Jack grabs Marilyn by the throat and wants to know if she helped Gredenko set him up. Through tears, Marilyn explains that these are Phillip’s men and that he threatened to kill Josh. Jack is stunned, and the news hits him hard.

3:08 P.M.
When Jack promises to help get Josh back, Marilyn reveals where Gredenko really is. Jack has Buchanan send teams there, but he has to do something else. Jack refuses to give Buchanan any more information, but says that it is “personal.”

3:14 P.M.
Morris stares into space rather than doing any work. Chloe becomes worried, but he refuses to take her advice and talk to either the staff psychologist or his sponsor. Nadia informs them that Milo single-handedly fended off the hostiles until Jack arrived. Morris snidely remarks to Nadia that this only rubs salt in his wounds because he acted like a coward. Chloe offers to relieve him of his duties, but Morris claims he will be fine after he takes a walk.

3:15 P.M.
Jack needs Marilyn to force Phillip to turn over Josh before she leads him to Gredenko.

3:16 P.M.
In a hotel room near the airport, Phillip tells Josh that his father was proud of him. Josh is too upset to talk about it.

3:17 P.M.
Jack has Hacker relay to Phillip that he has Marilyn in custody. She is refusing to tell him about Gredenko until she sees her son. Marilyn gets on the phone with Phillip and holds firm in her demand. Phillip threatens to kill Josh, and Josh overhears this from the other room. Phillip gives Hacker his location, and Jack gets the address.

3:20 P.M.
Josh tells his grandfather that he is going to the soda machine downstairs, but Phillip stops him and shows him his gun. “No one’s life is worth the destruction of everything I’ve built,” he says.

3:25 P.M.
Lennox secretly meets with Reed in the boiler room of the bunker and hands over the President’s itinerary. Reed wants him to authorize clearance for someone to get into the bunker. This person will kill Wayne and the blame will be laid on Assad. Lennox gets summoned by the President, and leaves.

3:27 P.M.
Wayne asks Lennox to read over Assad’s speech. He says that he still values his judgment. Lennox complies.

3:28 P.M.
Gredenko urges his men to work quickly to reposition the target on two cities. He is a nationalist who wants to bring back the Soviet Union.

3:29 P.M.
Morris buys a pint of whiskey and a box of breath mints at a liquor store. He goes outside and takes a giant slug of the liquor, then immediately forces himself to regurgitate it. Chloe calls Morris and urges him to get to his workstation. He swallows a few mints as he heads back.

3:30 P.M.
Jack pulls into the parking garage of the hotel where Phillip is hiding. He has Marilyn don a flak jacket.

3:36 P.M.
Morris enters CTU and goes in to see Milo, who is being treated in medical. Milo says that the ambush in the field happened so fast and he didn’t know what he was doing. Morris tells him not to downplay his heroics to make him feel better.

3:37 P.M.
Wayne commends Lennox on his suggestions to change the speech and asks him to be there when Assad delivers it.

3:38 P.M.
Lennox goes back to the boiler room and assures Reed that their man’s clearance is in the works. Reed leaves. Lennox calls the ranking Secret Service agent and says to meet him urgently. Suddenly, Reed hits Lennox over the head with a flashlight because of his deceit. “Nothing justifies the killing of a President,” Lennox says in his dazed state and implores Reed to cancel the plan. Reed whacks him again on the head and Lennox passes out. Reed calls the Secret Service to cancel Lennox’s request.

3:39 P.M.
The CTU team assembles in the situation room. Morris quietly slips into his seat. Chloe lies about needing to fix something and she makes Morris come with her outside the room.

3:40 P.M.
Chloe tells him that she can smell liquor on his breath. Morris swears that he spit it out and is sober. He realized he didn’t want to throw everything away, including Chloe. Morris begs her not to tell Buchanan. She will only do so if he calls his sponsor.

3:42 P.M.
Chloe and Morris return to the situation room. They watch live footage of the TAC team raiding Gredenko’s hideout. The house is empty. Chloe texts a message to Jack, letting him know that they don’t have Gredenko.

3:43 P.M.
Jack has Hacker lead the way into Phillip’s hotel suite, but Phillip and Josh are gone. The room phone rings and it is Phillip. He tells them to look out the window to see him holding Josh at gunpoint on an adjacent roof. Jack offers up himself in return for Josh. Phillip instructs Jack to come alone or else the boy dies.

3:46 P.M.
Jack calls CTU and has a team pick up Hacker. He takes Marilyn with him to meet Phillip.

3:51 P.M.
Milo pulls Chloe aside to ask if Morris has been drinking. She explains that Morris said he spit it back out. She believes him because she knows when he’s drunk. Chloe asks Milo not to tell Buchanan. If Morris slips up again, she will personally turn him in.

3:52 P.M.
Jack leaves Marilyn in the stairwell of the second building. She touches his face tenderly and thanks him.

3:53 P.M.
Jack goes to the roof of the building with his hands raised. Phillip is not there. He enters a machine room, and Phillip emerges from the shadows with Josh. As Josh walks away from Phillip, Jack walks towards him. Jack directs Josh to where Marilyn is waiting.

3:54 P.M.
Josh reunites with his mother in the stairwell and they run out of the building.

3:55 P.M.
Phillip reveals that Gredenko blackmailed him once he found out about Phillip’s involvement in the assassination of David Palmer. It was Gredenko who forced him to keep some of the nuclear suitcase bombs. Phillip didn’t know that Gredenko sold the bombs to Fayed until one was detonated in Valencia.

3:57 P.M.
Phillip says he has been looking for Gredenko so that he could stop Fayed. “I’m a patriot, Jack,” he says. “I never wanted any harm to come to this country.” Yet Jack is furious that Phillip let all of this happen to cover up his own mistakes. Phillip notes that this situation would never have escalated had Jack worked for the family. Since CTU didn’t find Gredenko, condemning Phillip solved nothing.

3:58 P.M.
Phillip has Jack get on his knees. He cocks a round in his gun and raises it. Jack makes a final confession to his father. He never wanted him to feel like he turned his back on him or the family. “I just had to go my own way,” he says. Jack apologizes to Phillip and braces himself for death. Nothing happens. Jack turns around and Phillip is gone.

3:59 P.M.
Jack runs out to the roof and sees a cell phone left on the ledge. There’s a text message instructing Jack to call a number. He dials it and identifies himself. The person on the other end is former President Charles Logan, who knows that Jack has exhausted all his options to find Gredenko. Logan wants to meet because he can help.

 

24 Hours Season 6 Episode Guide 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

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.

12:06 P.M.
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.

12:20 P.M.
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.