YNLSZ'S BLOG

5:00 P.M.
A bloodied Wayne Palmer is rushed into surgery.

5:01 P.M.
Jack warns Logan that he is still a Federal prisoner. Logan leaves his retreat for the first time as they head to the Russian Consulate. Logan compares his solitary imprisonment to Jack’s sentence in China.

5:02 P.M.
Buchanan lets Jack know about Wayne. Jack is surprised that Assad is suspected to be behind the assassination attempt. Assad is dead.

5:04 P.M.
Reed looks in on the President’s surgery. Secret Service Agent Lowry approaches him looking for Lennox. Reed says that he is filling in for Lennox.

5:05 P.M.
The White House doctor updates the Cabinet on the President’s health. Vice President Daniels is teleconferenced in from Air Force Two. Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin tells Daniels that he will be required to take over the President’s duties. Daniels wants a briefing with Lennox as soon as he lands.

5:07 P.M.
Kanin questions Reed over the missing Lennox. Reed lies and says he has no idea. Kanin summons Agent Lowry to sweep the bunker and find him.

5:08 P.M.
Reed hurries to the boiler room and updates Carson on Wayne. Reed still refuses to let Carson kill Lennox. He thinks Lennox can be reasoned with.

5:09 P.M.
Reed pulls the gag from Lennox’s mouth and defends his own actions by quoting Lennox’s urging of extremism. He says that Vice President Daniels will implement Lennox’s security plan, but if Lennox implicates them then the plan will be harder to push through. No one will ever believe him if tells the truth. Carson made sure that the bomb was linked to Assad’s group. “I know that you will do the right thing,” Reed implores. Lennox nods sullenly. Reed cuts Lennox free.

5:11 P.M.
They emerge into the hallway and come upon Agent Lowry. Lennox tells Lowry to arrest Reed and Caron for the attempted assassination of the President. He surrenders himself and asks to speak to the Attorney General.

5:16 P.M.
Air Force Two lands and Daniels is met on the tarmac by his chief aide, Lisa Miller. She connects him to Buchanan, and Daniels questions why Wayne granted Logan a furlough. He demands that the traitorous Logan be returned to house arrest as soon as CTU is done.

5:17 P.M.
When they pull up to the Russian Consulate, Logan tells Jack that Markov won’t talk to him unless he’s alone. Although Jack doesn’t want to let him out his sight, he reluctantly agrees but warns Logan about escaping. Logan contends that he’s only trying to help.

5:18 P.M.
Logan meets with Markov and asks him point blank where Gredenko is. Markov claims he had a falling out with Gredenko a year ago and doesn’t know. Logan threatens to send tapes incriminating Markov for his involvement two years ago that put the Sentox gas into the hands of the Russian separatists. Despite this intimidation, Markov maintains that he doesn’t know anything about Gredenko. Logan says he believes him and politely leaves.

5:22 P.M.
As they exit the grounds, Logan tells Jack that he thinks Markov is lying about not being in contact with Gredenko.

5:23 P.M.
Markov calls Gredenko to alert him that the Americans have connected him to the terrorists. Yet, since they sent Logan, they probably don’t have evidence. Markov assures Gredenko that by the time the Americans find anything it will be too late.

5:24 P.M.
Jack orders the limo driver to pull over outside of the Consulate gates. He calls Chloe and has her shut off the electricity in the Consulate for sixty seconds to make it look like a power outage. She has to do this without telling Buchanan.

Logan can’t believe that Jack would risk violating the sovereignty of another country when he just served a prison term for doing the exact same thing to the Chinese Consulate.

5:29 P.M.
As Karen waits for transport at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, she gets a call from Buchanan. She’s shocked to hear that there was an attempt on Wayne’s life since it hasn’t been made public. Karen realizes she must go back to the White House. Her resignation has not actually been processed yet.

5:30 P.M.
As he enters the bunker, Daniels tells Lisa he wants to use the Lennox plan that Wayne rejected. Daniels learns of Lennox’s accusation of Reed.

5:31 P.M.
Agent Lowry interrogates Lennox. Despite him telling the truth about the events of the last few hours, Lowry doesn’t believe him. Daniels comes in and Lennox claims his innocence. Regardless of what happened, Daniels would rather have Assad take the blame to make it easier to sell the security plan to the people. Lennox accuses Daniels of playing right into Reed and Carson’s conspiracy in order to reverse Wayne’s agenda. Although Lennox still believes his original security proposal is the only way to stop the terrorist attacks, he will have to silence any assertion that Assad is innocent in order for Daniels to clear his name.

5:34 P.M.
Daniels orders Agent Lowry not to send Lennox’s statement to the Attorney General until he sees it first.

5:35 P.M.
Jack scales the wall of the Russian Consulate and gives Chloe the go-ahead. As soon as the power is out, Jack is able to evade the security cameras and enter the building. He enters Markov’s office and locks the door, demanding to know where Gredenko is. “You are breaking international law!” Markov yells.

5:36 P.M.
Jack knocks Markov out and yells to Russian FSB Agent Vasili outside that he is holding the Consul hostage.

5:37 P.M.
Jack asks Buchanan to tip off the White House about what he’s just done. Buchanan tells him to get out, but Jack refuses to leave until he gets something on Gredenko.

5:43 P.M.
Lisa informs Daniels that she has written his statement for his live public address. She also says that Karen is returning to her post. The rumor is that she stepped down because she opposed Lennox’s security plan.

5:44 P.M.
Buchanan alerts Daniels that Jack took the Russian Consul hostage because Logan claims the man is lying about his Gredenko link.

5:45 P.M.
Daniels is interrupted by a call from Russian President Suvarov. Daniels says that the actions at the Consulate are based on the belief that Markov has ties to Gredenko. Suvarov warns Daniels to have his agent surrender and then investigate the charges through proper diplomatic channels.

5:46 P.M.
Jack beats up Markov, who says he hasn’t spoken to Gredenko since he entered U.S. soil. Jack never said that Gredenko was in America, which proves that Markov is lying.

5:47 P.M.
Jack picks up a cigar cutter from the man’s desk and chops the tip off Markov’s pinky finger. Jack threatens to shoot him, and Markov finally gives up that Gredenko is in the Mojave Desert. He is preparing to launch aerial drones to deliver the nuclear warheads. Jack punches Markov one last time in anger.

5:48 P.M.
As Jack walks towards the door, Vasili’s guards blast it open and take an unconscious Jack hostage. Markov orders Vasili to not let anyone near Jack.

5:54 P.M.
Daniels makes an address to the nation, blaming Assad for the attempt on Wayne’s life. He promises to be more aggressive with national security, which will suspend certain civil liberties.

5:55 P.M.
Nadia and Chloe are worried that they have not heard from Jack. Morris intercepts digital communications from the Russian Consulate and translates a message sent to Moscow. It says they have an American agent in custody. Buchanan doesn’t want to tell the Vice President just yet. He wants a plan prepared in case they need to take the Consul building by force.

5:56 P.M.
Jack pleads with the Russian guard holding him captive. He explains that Markov was working with Gredenko who supplied the nuclear weapons. The guard doesn’t want to believe it, but he knows that Markov is connected to Gredenko. Jack begs the man to call Buchanan at CTU and tell him what he knows.

5:58 P.M.
The guard leaves the room and dials Buchanan from his cell phone. Suddenly, Vasili shoots the guard in the head. When Buchanan picks up the call, there’s no one there.

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.