YNLSZ'S BLOG

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:04 P.M.
Logan doesn’t know what to do next, but Jack verifies that CTU will take over. If Jack needs to disappear again, he doesn’t want his daughter to know that he is still alive. Logan asks Jack to serve the office of the President even though he is not Palmer. He wants to reinstate Jack, regardless of what political ramifications will occur. Their urgent need is to recover the nerve gas before millions are killed.

1:05 P.M.
One of Erwich’s men cannot figure out how to arm the canisters after Schaeffer locked them. He urges Erwich to forget about retaliation against the Americans because their true enemy is the Russians. Erwich warns him not to disobey orders.

1:06 P.M.
McGill’s sister Jenny calls him from a payphone asking for $500. He is annoyed, but she swears she is not using drugs anymore. McGill won’t let her come to CTU to get the money because he is embarrassed of her. Jenny threatens to hurt herself, so McGill agrees to meet her in a parking lot across from the office.

1:08 P.M.
CTU learns that the canisters are useless without the detonation codes.

Erwich gets a call from a man named Jacob Rossler, who has been asked to help him reconfigure the activation device. Rossler needs Erwich to cut into the canisters in order to get the identification keys so that he can set up new remote triggers.

1:09 P.M.
Buchanan lets Audrey know that President Logan has reinstated Jack with full autonomy and access. Chloe gets a tap on Erwich’s phone and she plays back his conversation with Rossler. Edgar traces the call to a landline in downtown Los Angeles.

1:10 P.M.
Buchanan calls Jack, who is in a helicopter, with the location of Rossler. Rossler is a software programmer who was indicted for high security code infiltration. Jack asks for schematics of the building and for Curtis to meet him there with a small team.

1:11 P.M.
Chloe alerts Buchanan that the security system in Rossler’s building uses a proprietary technology that is hard to hack into. She wants Spenser to help because he has more experience with it than her and Edgar combined. Edgar thinks this is a bad idea because Spenser had been spying on them. Buchanan relents on the condition that Spenser wears a security wristband.

Jack calls Audrey. He asks her to call his daughter Kim and bring her to CTU. He wants to tell her that he is alive in person.

1:12 P.M.
Erwich enters an auto body shop and threatens to kill a mechanic unless he helps them cut some metal.

1:18 P.M.
Spenser is brought of out holding. He tries to thank Chloe for having him reinstated, but she says that she only needs his help with hacking. She does not forgive him.

Although Martha is still agitated with her husband, she doesn’t want to fight. She thinks he will need her because things are going to get rough for him. She slaps him, cautioning, “Don’t you ever do that to me again.”

1:19 P.M.
Novick comes in, and Logan apologizes to both him and Martha. The President wants to discuss the Cummings problem with Martha present. Novick thinks they can cover up Cummings’ involvement in Palmer’s murder to protect the credibility of the office of the President. Martha is appalled, and she insists that the American public doesn’t like being lied to. Logan agrees and asks her to help draw up a press statement for him.

1:21 P.M.
With the mechanic ready, Rossler gives Erwich instructions on how to cut the canister.

1:22 P.M.
Curtis and his team meet Jack’s chopper on the roof of Rossler’s building. Chloe radios to Jack as Spenser monitors the men guarding Rossler. Jack wants Spenser to shut down the security cameras so that he can enter, but the cameras can only be disrupted for thirty seconds because they will reboot themselves.

1:24 P.M.
Erwich gives the mechanic directions to cut the metal but doesn’t tell him what is inside when the man questions him. Erwich recalls how his wife is in a prison and his son is being held in a state-run facility. “This is about justice, about ending tyranny,” Erwich says, explaining that the government is his enemy. The mechanic begins slicing the canister.

1:32 P.M.
The mechanic opens the canister so that Erwich can make out the LED numbers of the ID keys.

1:33 P.M.
Spenser overrides the security cameras at Rossler’s building so that Jack and Curtis can raid the premises. A guard alerts Rossler that there might be a breach with a warning to remain in his office.

1:34 P.M.
As the elevator reaches the penthouse, Chloe lets Jack know that there are men with automatic weapons on the floor. Jack and Curtis come out firing when the door opens. Curtis is hit in his flak jacket, so Jack proceeds to Rossler’s office.

1:35 P.M.
Chloe tells Jack that Rossler is armed, and Jack quickly shoots him in the leg. Rossler tosses his handgun. Jack orders his backup teams to come in. Chloe says that there is someone else in the penthouse, so Curtis covers Rossler.

1:36 P.M.
Jack finds a young girl with bruises hiding in the bedroom. In her Russian accent, she says that her name is Inessa and Rossler was keeping her captive. Jack approaches her gently and leads her out of the room, promising that he will help her. He tells the medic not to give Rossler any pain medication for his wound.

1:37 P.M.
Jack handles the interrogation while CTU listens in, but Rossler is unyielding. Jack even has Curtis step on Rossler’s wound. Rossler demands full immunity, his assets sent to a foreign country and Inessa to be given to him. Jack says no, and he has Curtis inflict pain on the man some more.

1:38 P.M.
McGill radios Jack and orders him to accept the deal. McGill tells Buchanan to make sure that Jack follows the plan while he steps out.

1:39 P.M.
Jack begrudgingly tells Rossler that he will be granted his conditions. Rossler wants the agreement signed by the Attorney General. He will only talk when he sees the document.

1:44 P.M.
McGill goes outside and meets up with his sister Jenny. He hands her the number of a doctor who can help her. Suddenly, a guy jumps out and punches McGill, taking his wallet. Jenny apologizes to her brother and leaves with the man.

1:45 P.M.
Chloe is uncomfortable as she directs Spenser to hand his work over to Edgar. Spenser wants to keep working, but Chloe is adamant that his reinstatement is over now that Rossler is in custody. Spenser is escorted out by guards. Edgar tries to console Chloe for doing the right thing. “Shut up, Edgar,” she snaps.

1:46 P.M.
Rossler tells Jack that he only first talked to Erwich a half hour ago. He was put in touch with him by a Russian associate who is a commander in the resistance army. Erwich will be calling him back with the identification keys in the canisters so that he can reprogram the trigger with an updated chip. Rossler is going to deliver the chip to him at a location Erwich decides. Rossler won’t turn over the chip to Jack until he sees the paperwork granting his freedom.

1:49 P.M.
Jack calls Buchanan, who says that the Attorney General will be sending the papers in a few minutes. CTU hasn’t found much on Inessa, who is fifteen and was listed as missing from Kiev. Jack tells Rossler that he can’t take Inessa. Rossler calls it a deal breaker.

1:54 P.M.
Martha thinks Logan should take responsibility for Cummings’ actions and offer swift punishment. Logan is happy to work with his wife again. Novick calls and urgently asks the President to meet him in the hallway.

1:55 P.M.
As the Secret Service cuts the strap that Cummings has hanged himself with, Logan and Martha enter, horrified.

1:56 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey to find out if she contacted Kim. Audrey promises to try her again.

1:57 P.M.
Inessa asks Jack when she can return home. He carefully explains that he needs her to go with Rossler, but that agents will follow her and take her away from him. Jack swears that he won’t let anything happen to her, but Inessa doesn’t trust him. “You are no different from Rossler,” she says.

1:58 P.M.
After the mechanic finishes cutting open the last canister, Erwich calmly shoots him. One of the men inputs all the codes into a PDA. Erwich orders them to load all the canisters back into the truck. Erwich calls Rossler’s number from his sat phone. Jack has Rossler answer, and Erwich sends him the codes over text message. Rossler says he can have the chip ready in ten minutes. Erwich will call him back with a location.

1:59 P.M.
Jack has Rossler wired, and he takes Inessa to leave. Suddenly, Inessa pulls a gun from her shirt and plugs Rossler with two shots. Jack lunges for the gun, but Rossler is already dead. With Erwich calling back shortly, they have no other link to the nerve gas.