5:00 A.M. – 6:00 A.M.
Jack is informed that the White House has ordered an air strike on the oil platform where Phillip is holding Josh. Jack and Buchanan hijack the CTU chopper and go there. Firing at gunmen as they arrive, Jack captures Cheng. He then finds Josh, who has just shot Phillip. Jack convinces Josh not to kill Phillip and sends him to be rescued by Buchanan. Jack wants Phillip to pay for his sins, but there is no time to carry him back to the helicopter. Jack leaves his father to die on the oil rig. Buchanan flies the chopper and Jack leaps to the ladder dangling from it as the oil platform explodes from a missile attack. As they fly over the ocean, Jack jumps into the water and waves to Buchanan and Josh to let him flee. Jack makes his way to James Heller’s house and accuses his former boss of leaving him to die in China even when Audrey tried to save him. Jack demands to see Audrey, and Heller convinces him that she is better off not being in Jack’s life. Jack says goodbye to the unconscious Audrey and tells her that he will always love her. Jack walks out of the house and stares at the ocean, unsure of what he will do next.

4:00 A.M. – 5:00 A.M.
Although Jack is in custody he calls Karen and begs her to save Josh because he knows Phillip won’t give up the component. Buchanan intercepts the vehicle transporting Jack to a detention facility and helps Jack flee. They go to the beach area where Phillip has instructed CTU to conduct the Josh handover. Yet they find a wounded Doyle and Phillip’s men escaping with Josh by boat. Since the boat must be meeting up with a larger vessel, Jack has Chloe search for oil platforms nearby because Phillip’s company has oil connections.

3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M.
Jack works with Nadia and Morris to attack the Chinese gunmen who have captured CTU. Doyle and the tac teams arrive to help them finish the job and secure the hostages. Jack and the teams go after Josh. Jack chases Cheng to the roof of a warehouse building and Josh breaks free from Cheng’s grasp. Josh falls, and when Jack goes to save him, Cheng escapes. Jack is ready to bring Josh back to his mother at CTU, but Doyle has Jack held down and grabs the boy instead. He explains to Jack that he is under orders to do so. Jack watches helplessly as Doyle leaves with Josh on a helicopter.

2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M.
Jack begs to be let go to help find the component, but Nadia keeps him under arrest. He sees Marilyn, who offers him emotional support. When the Chinese attack CTU, Jack is able to escape from the holding cell. He saves Marilyn and Josh, who is the target of the raid. Yet the three are captured. Jack asks the gunmen what they want with his nephew but he gets no answer.

1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M.
Although Jack tries to get through to Audrey, he is arrested by Doyle. Yet when Nadia agrees with a doctor’s intention to drug Audrey even more, Doyle allows Jack to escape from holding in order to save her. Audrey finally says something that is a lead -- the name of the place where the Chinese were holding her. James Heller arrives at CTU to take Audrey, and he warns Jack to stay away from his daughter forever.

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.
Jack evades CTU’s tracking and makes Cheng meet him at an abandoned hotel. Jack sees Audrey for the first time and apologizes for what he has caused. He sends her out alone to a waiting taxi. As Jack is about to explode himself up along with the circuit board, Doyle appears outside and starts a gun fight with the Chinese guards. Cheng escapes with the component before Jack could destroy it. He is angry with Doyle for ruining his plan, but Doyle is ordered to arrest Jack. Audrey is brought back to the hotel, muttering the same phrase over and over. Jack realizes that she doesn’t recognize her. He fears that the Chinese might have done something to her.

11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.
Cheng wants Jack to trade him the Russian nuclear bomb trigger in return for Audrey. Jack gets caught trying to steal the trigger circuit board from the bomb, and he is forced to appeal to President Palmer. He promises Wayne that he will destroy the board before it actually falls into the hands of the Chinese, and the President gives him the go-ahead. When Daniels takes over the Oval Office, his first order is to stop Jack from trading the circuit boards. Doyle is told to apprehend Jack, but Jack takes over the car from him at gunpoint. He leaves Doyle on the side of the road as he goes off to meet with Cheng.

10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
Jack and Doyle fake a rescue of Fayed by his men. Yet when Fayed demands to speak to the general who has been helping him, he gets tipped off that it’s a trap. Fayed escapes but Jack hides on the stolen truck that Fayed is driving to his safe house. Jack raids the safe house single-handedly and he kills Fayed. The remaining bombs are secured. Jack gets a call from Audrey. She’s alive and being held by Cheng, the head of security from the Chinese Consulate who kidnapped Jack eighteen months ago. Cheng orders him to call back from a secure line.

9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Although Jack doesn’t trust Gredenko, he readies the amnesty paperwork to get him to help find the nukes. Jack and a field team take a wired Gredenko to meet Fayed, but Gredenko goes missing. Gredenko has severed his arm to elude the CTU tracking implant. Jack tails Fayed and Gredenko to a bar, where the patrons have captured Fayed whom they recognize from the news. Jack apprehends Fayed but Gredenko escapes.

8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Jack apprehends the man obtaining nuclear power plant access for Gredenko. Jack uses the man’s autistic brother to lure Gredenko. Gredenko will give up Fayed in return for full amnesty and the promise he won’t turned over to Russia.

7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
Jack has broken ribs and is sent back to CTU for treatment. He runs into Marilyn, who reveals that Audrey Raines was killed trying to save him in China. Jack is distraught, but he demands to help CTU bring down the terrorists to avenge Audrey’s death. Despite his chest injuries, Jack leads the field ops team to find Gredenko’s men and he lands the drone carrying the nuclear weapon.

6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M
Jack breaks free from the Russian guards and hides in the Consulate basement. He tries to call CTU with information about Gredenko, but all phone lines are cut. Jack gets a worker to find him a satellite phone, but they come under attack before he can call. Jack is rescued by the CTU SWAT team, and he has Agent Mike Doyle radio Buchanan with Gredenko’s location.

5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Jack accompanies Logan to the Russian Consulate. Logan believes that Markov is lying about his connection to Gredenko. Jack breaks into the Consulate building and tortures Markov until the man gives up that Gredenko is in the Mojave Desert arming drones with nuclear warheads. The Russian guards take Jack hostage before he can alert anyone about his discovery. Jack persuades one of the guards to call CTU with the news, but the guard is killed by his boss before he can warn CTU.

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
With Phillip missing, Jack sends Marilyn and Josh back to CTU. He goes to meet with Logan even though he distrusts him. Logan insists that he can appeal to Markov, the Russian who has worked with Gredenk, because of their past relationship. Jack asks Wayne to grant Logan a furlough so that the former President can deal with Markov in person.

3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Jack rescues Marilyn, but is shocked to learn that she was covering for Phillip. Marilyn only wants to get her son back. Jack promises to do so when she helps lead him to Phillip. Phillip trades Josh for Jack, and he admits to Jack that Gredenko had been blackmailing him to expose his involvement in David Palmer’s assassination. Phillip only wanted to stop Gredenko, who gave the nukes to Fayed. Phillip is ready to kill Jack but disappears. He leaves a cell phone for Jack to dial a number. The person on the other end is former President Charles Logan, who says that he may be able to help Jack find Gredenko.

2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
Jack returns to the CTU office for the first time in almost two years. He meets Phillip there. Although Jack is apologetic, Phillip blames him for Graem’s death. When Jack asks him about Gredenko, Phillip feigns ignorance. Jack admits to Buchanan that he thought about killing his brother during the interrogation but he stopped himself before it went further. Jack is willing to accept the consequences for murdering Graem. Marilyn doesn’t hold a grudge towards Jack, and agrees to show him a house where Graem met with Russians. Unbeknownst to Jack, Phillip threatens to kill Marilyn’s son and forces her to lead Jack into a trap. Jack is almost killed, but he escapes.

1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
After CTU traces a call made to McCarthy’s phone, Jack rushes to Fayed’s hideout and kills all of his men. Fayed escapes and leaves an armed nuclear bomb in the building. With Chloe’s help, Jack is able to deactivate it. Yet Morris confesses that he was forced to create a new trigger for Fayed that will allow him to detonate the remaining suitcase nukes.

12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.
Jack and Phillip escape from Graem’s henchmen and head back to the mansion. CTU sends backup and an interrogation unit. Jack captures his brother and tortures him to get him to divulge where McCarthy is. Graem doesn’t say anything about McCarthy, but confesses to being responsible for the attempts on Jack’s life as well as the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler. Jack knows he is hiding more, and is about to kill him. The sight of their father stops him. Phillip apologizes to Jack for alienating him in the past.

11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Jack gets his brother Graem to confess that the nukes were taken from his company and sold to the terrorists. Graem takes Jack to the office of McCarthy, the man who stole them. Jack finds his father there. Phillip Bauer took on the search for McCarthy himself to protect Graem. Jack convinces Phillip that they must involve CTU, despite the fact that this will incriminate Graem. Yet Graem takes both his father and Jack hostage in order to prevent Jack from alerting the authorities.

10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
When Jack sees the mushroom cloud he has no choice but to get back to work. A Fayed contact is found to have links to Jack’s father, Phillip, whom Jack hasn’t seen in years. When Jack cannot find Phillip to question him, he contacts his brother Graem. Jack, who has a bad history with Graem, threatens to torture him unless he gives up where Phillip is. Jack does not know that Graem was one of the conspirators who had been controlling Logan almost two years ago.

9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Jack reluctantly accepts the President’s request to lead the search for Fayed and the nuclear scientist. When a woman calls emergency services about her family being taken hostage and she mentions Fayed’s name, Jack goes there and gets the address of Fayed’s safe house. Jack tries to convince Curtis to work with Assad even though Curtis has a history with the former terrorist. Curtis becomes angry when the President grants a pardon to Assad. Curtis is about to shoot Assad but Jack intervenes by killing Curtis in order to save Assad’s life. Jack becomes emotionally distraught and tells Buchanan that he is quitting the mission. Jack looks on in horror as the nuclear bomb explodes in the sky.

8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M.
Jack and Assad follow Masheer the handler and cause an accident so that Assad will have to drive Masheer to wherever he is going. This allows Jack and CTU to follow them to a storage facility. When Masheer sees the TAC teams, he blows up the storage locker in a suicide bombing.

7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.
Free from Fayed’s underground hideout, Jack breaks into a car to use the cell phone inside. He calls CTU and the President to let them know that Fayed is behind the bombings. Assad is innocent. Nobody believes him, and they continue with their plan to take out Assad. Jack uses the phone to plug in the coordinates he overheard Fayed say was Assad’s location. He goes there and warns Assad what is about to happen. They manage to get out before the safe house is bombed. One of Assad’s men was a traitor, and gives up a location where Fayed’s men are meeting. Jack and Assad head there to find two men about to attack a subway car. Jack throws the suicide bomber out of the car, saving the passengers. Assad follows the other man, who will hopefully lead to Fayed.

6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M.
After being tortured for eighteen months in a Chinese prison, Jack is returned to the American government who trades him to a known terrorist named Fayed. Fayed wants revenge, blaming Jack for the death of his brother in a Beirut attack years ago. In exchange, Fayed gives the U.S. the location of the suspected terrorist Assad, who they believe is responsible for the current bombings on American soil. Jack is prepared to give up his own life to save his country. As Fayed tortures Jack, he admits that he is the one who is attacking America. Assad was only trying to broker peace. Armed with that information, Jack escapes from Fayed’s grasp.