7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.
When Jack is trapped in the car, he convinces the fleeing Sherry to help him escape. They steal a car and make their way to the L.A. Coliseum in order to meet Kingsley. Chappelle calls Jack to tell him that he now has full CTU support behind him and that he will soon have backup. Jack asks him to set up a feed with the President so that Kingsley’s confession can be heard live, but he must proceed before the backup arrives. When they arrive at the Coliseum, Jack wires up Sherry with a transmitter. Sherry is afraid that she will be killed and that Jack’s failing health will prevent him from saving her. After she goes into the stadium, Jack is gripped with a sharp chest pain. He makes his way into the complex and takes out a sharpshooter aiming at Sherry. When Kingsley turns on Sherry, Jack shoots his guards. Losing his weapon, Jack fights off the last guard and is afflicted with an even stronger chest pain. As Jack lies weakened, Kingsley raises his gun at him. Yet before Kingsley can fire, a CTU helicopter kills him. Jack is then reunited with his daughter. He tells Kim that everything will be all right.

6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M.
Jack chases Hewitt out onto the roof of the building. When Hewitt refuses to concede, Jack is forced to shoot him in the leg to stop him. Although the gunshot wound is superficial, Hewitt’s head bleeds from falling off a ledge. The CTU helicopter arrives to pick up Hewitt, but it takes off before touching down. Jack calls Michelle to find out why this happened, and she tells him that Chappelle ordered the chopper back. Nevertheless, Hewitt dies from the fall. Jack returns to the loft and informs Sherry that she will be the one to make the connection to Kingsley using Hewitt’s voice. From offsite, Michelle links to Hewitt’s computer and the voice program he created. She and Jack locate a phone call between Sherry and Hewitt from the night before to match Hewitt’s voice. The program can reconstruct his voice with new phrases plugged in. Jack has Sherry phone Kingsley and offer to trade him Hewitt for a tape that incriminates her involvement. They play a facsimile of Hewitt’s voice as proof that he is still alive. Kingsley warily agrees to the trade and sets up a meeting. Jack, who has been suffering from chest pains since the interrogation stunted his heartbeat, dismisses Sherry’s plea that he see a doctor. While driving to the meeting place, Jack is afflicted with a more severe pain that causes him to lose control of the car. He and Sherry swerve off the road and crash into an embankment.

5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M.
Jack gets Sherry Palmer to admit that she was looking for Alex Hewitt because his audio tapes implicate her as a participant in Peter Kingsley’s plot. She had sought to bring down Palmer’s presidency out of revenge. Hewitt comes out of hiding, and Sherry convinces him to assist Jack by confessing that he produced the Cyprus audio. Yet she asks Jack for immunity in return for her help with Hewitt testifying. Jack calls CTU and requests that Tony send a helicopter to pick up Hewitt. Hewitt, who is skittish, questions whether Jack and Sherry made a deal to set him up. Jack speaks to Palmer, who advises him not to trust Sherry. He then asks Tony to have the Attorney General ready so that Sherry can cut a deal when Hewitt’s testimony incriminates her. Sherry is furious, and Jack must prevent her from trying to appeal to Hewitt. Jack gets a panicked call from Kim, and he instructs her to kill Gary Matheson. While Jack is distracted by the call, Hewitt manages to stab Sherry and slip out a hidden door.

4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M.
Jack gets the chip back, but it is damaged. He is only able to retrieve some junk coding on it. None of the audiofiles survived. Jack gets through to CTU and has Tony run a search on Peter Kingsley. He is then connected to Kim, who tells her father that she loves and misses him. When Kate breaks down, Jack comforts her. Jack tells Palmer that he was unable to turn up hard evidence to disprove the authentication of the Cyprus recording, but that he is convinced the audio is a fake. Michelle finds that the coding on the chip is the trademark of a hacker named Alex Hewitt who may have programmed the audiofiles on the chip. Jack goes to Hewitt’s last known address, but Hewitt is not there. Jack is surprised when Sherry Palmer enters the loft looking for Hewitt.

3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M.
After the doctor revives Jack, O’Hara kills Stark for almost spoiling the plan. O’Hara then pressures the doctor to give Jack a drug to strain his breathing. Despite the torture, Jack will not give up any information about the chip. Out of O’Hara’s earshot, he begs the doctor to help him escape. The doctor loosens Jack’s binds and stabs O’Hara with the syringe full of the drug. Jack takes the disabled O’Hara’s gun and forces him to reveal Kingsley’s name. After killing him, Jack leaves with O’Hara’s phone and car. He attempts to call CTU, but is disconnected. Jack goes to the meeting point and finds a bloodied Yusuf. Before he dies, Yusuf tells him that some men took the chip to Kate’s house. Jack goes there and saves Kate. But the men, fearing Jack, threaten to destroy the chip.

2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M.
Jack phones Tony to tell him about the chip and asks him to notify the President with the news. Yusuf removes a tracker from the chip. Jack takes the tracker and hands the chip to Yusuf and Kate, having them meet him at another location. He instructs them to take the chip to CTU if he does not show up. With the tracker in hand, Jack leads the henchmen through the clinic. He drops it in an empty room and runs out. The men catch him and knock him out with a taser. Jack is stripped and checked for the chip. They interrogate him. The lead interrogator named Stark puts Jack on the phone with Stark’s boss, Kingsley. Kingsley offers Jack money for the chip, but Jack refuses. Stark begins torturing Jack, and Jack passes out. When Jack can’t be revived, Stark panics and begins administering CPR to him. Jack’s heart stops and the men believe him to be dead. Stark calls for epinephrine.

1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M.
Jack, Wallace and Kate get back safely in the warehouse. Yusuf tries to assess the situation from outside. At first, Wallace won’t let Jack call CTU for backup, but when more snipers arrive, he gives in. Jack has Michelle pull a satellite image of the warehouse to determine where the shooters are positioned. Yusuf drops a smoke grenade near the warehouse to allow Jack and Wallace to run out and shoot towards the snipers. Jack grabs Kate, and the three run to the car that Yusuf has waiting. Wallace gets hit in the neck, and he demands that Jack suppress the bleeding so that he can get on a plane to escape. Yet when Wallace starts to go into shock, Jack reroutes them from the airport to the nearest medical facility. Although it is only a clinic, Jack orders the doctor to perform the necessary surgery to remove the bullet. Wallace, realizing he is about to die, tells Jack that the source files that faked the Cyprus recording are on a memory chip. He dies before he can say where the chip is hidden. Jack then notices that there is a spot on Wallace’s chest x-ray where the man also has a scar. Jack slices into Wallace’s body cavity and pulls out the chip.

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.
Jack takes Kate from CTU, and he is followed by Yusuf Auda, the Arab liaison. Yusuf, however, offers to help Jack with his mission. Jack shows up at the warehouse and leaves Kate in the car. Inside, he meets Wallace, the Coral Snake commando who had murdered his fellow soldiers. Wallace had tried to detonate the bomb at the behest of oil investors who wanted the United States to start a war with the Middle East. His employers then tried to kill him, so Wallace wanted Kate’s access to the Department of Defense through her father to help him escape the country. Wallace secretly gives a signal to a cohort outside. The man attempts to capture Kate, but Yusuf stops him. Wallace had falsified the Cyprus recording, and he promises to hand Jack the evidence if he gets Kate in return. However, he plans to kill Kate once he is given transport, so Jack has Yusuf put a tracker on Wallace’s escape car. Yet unseen assailants ambush Wallace with gunfire when he tries to flee with Kate.

11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.
A helicopter picks up Jack in the desert and transports him back to CTU. Michelle asks him for help interrogating Syed Ali. Although audio verification shows that the recording of a conversation between Ali and the three Middle Eastern representatives is real, Ali had told Michelle that the tape was actually a phony. The United States may be planning retaliation against those three countries based on the validity of that tape. Jack has Michelle track down Kim, and he goes to find Ali before the terrorist is removed from CTU. Jack admits to Ali that they did not murder his son, and he asks him about the tape. Ali is grateful for Jack’s honesty, and tells him that the recording is not real. Suddenly, an unknown shooter guns down Ali. This convinces Jack that what Ali claimed is really true. Tony, however, stands by the evidence, and battles Jack over this decision. Jack calls Palmer with the turn of events. Palmer tells him to get hard proof immediately. Jack turns to Michelle, and she informs him of Yusuf Auda, the Arab liaison sent to CTU for the investigation. Jack asks Yusuf for help, but because Jack won’t reveal anything about what might be going on, Yusuf remains silent. Jack then gets a cell phone call from an unidentified man. The man claims to have planted the tape and killed Ali. He demands that Jack bring him Kate Warner, who has been sent to CTU for debriefing. Jack sneaks Kate out, but is stopped by Tony. Jack grabs Tony’s gun and knocks him out. He and Kate exit the CTU complex.

10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
When the bomb can not be dismantled, Jack arranges for a plane to fly it somewhere so that it will detonate safely. Jack calls the President, and the analysts decide that the least damage and casualties would occur in the Mojave Desert. However, without a military payload delivery, the pilot would have to crash the plane at the precise site. Jack does not tell Palmer that he will make the suicide mission himself. Mason, who has shown up without warning at Norton Airfield, offers up himself as the pilot. Jack refuses him because of Mason’s weakening state. As Jack is in mid-air, Tony connects him to Kim. After Jack explains the situation, both father and daughter say their sad good-byes. Jack is then surprised to find that Mason has stowed away on the plane. Mason hands him a parachute and again asks to be the one to crash-land the aircraft. Knowing the hardest part of the flight is over, Jack relents and gives up the plane’s controls to him. Jack thanks Mason, and he jumps out to safety a few minutes before detonation. Once he is on the ground, Jack sees the mushroom cloud in the distance.

9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Jack is informed that a seventh commando escaped and may have killed the other six who were tracking the bomb. Kate learns from Omar that he was lured by Syed Ali to do this work because Ali was going to pay off his family. Omar, however, does not know anything else about a second bomb. After Kate spots her sister at the airfield, Jack fires a shot that hits Marie’s arm. He refuses to remove the bullet until she gives him some answers. Despite Marie’s pain, she will not reveal where the real bomb is. She instead tries to direct Jack away from the airport, but he knows she is lying. He orders the CTU agents to look for the weapon on the site. They find the bomb. It is nuclear and activated. However, they don’t know when it will go off.

8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Jack asks Tony about Kim, who is still missing. He is then informed that Coral Snake is on a rogue mission to secure the bomb, and they will treat anyone who crosses their path as hostile. At Norton Airfield, the CTU agents track the Coral Snake soldiers to a fuel depot. Yet when Jack raids the building, the six commandos have all been killed by gunshot. CTU discovers the tail number from the scrap of paper, and Jack drives to the hangar where that plane is housed. When he arrives, a Cessna is pulling out from the hangar and Jack’s team follows it down the runway. Jack shoots the pilot, and the plane comes to a stop. However, the techs discover that the bomb inside the cockpit is only a decoy. Plutonium residue shows that a real nuclear weapon was recently removed from the device.

7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
Jack finds Syed Ali in the mosque basement, and he quickly removes the cyanide tablet from the terrorist’s mouth to prevent him from committing suicide. Jack harshly interrogates Ali, but Ali will not say anything about the bomb. Ali’s cell phone reveals that Marie Warner was the last person he called, and Jack must convince Kate that her sister was complicit. Kate calls Marie and gets her answer. With Ali still resistant to talk, Jack shows him a video monitor linked to a live satellite of Ali’s family in captive. Jack threatens that their lives are in danger if he does not acquiesce, but Ali remains silent. Palmer gets news of Jack’s plan, and phones him to prevent him from taking such drastic measures. Yet Jack makes it sound like he has gotten the President’s approval for Ali’s benefit. Jack then orders one of Ali’s children be killed, and Ali watches in horror as his oldest son is shot on the monitor. Before Jack can order the murder of the second child, Ali gives in and divulges the plan and location of the bomb. What Ali does not realize is that the shooting of his son was pretend. The boy is really still alive. Jack takes Kate with him to the airfield where the bomb is so that she can help apprehend her sister.

6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.
Jack drives Kate to the mosque where they believe Syed Ali may have gone to pray, and he divulges the nuclear bomb plot to her. Mason calls with news of Kim’s disappearance, and Jack begs him to find her. When they get to the mosque, Jack prepares the CTU team, still unsure whether they have the right location. Kate offers to enter the building and find Ali. She sees him inside, and hurries back out to Jack with the confirmation. They wait outside to grab him as he is leaving the mosque. Tony phones Jack with news that Marie Warner killed Reza and the CTU agents guarding him. He warns Jack that perhaps Kate might be involved along with her sister in the terrorist plot. Jack, however, is confident that Kate is innocent. When the service is over, Ali is not among the worshipers leaving the mosque. Jack orders the SWAT team to raid the building, and inside they find a man who has been burned to death wearing Ali’s clothes. But Jack notices that the clothes do not fit the corpse’s body, and he realizes that this is not Syed Ali. He radios the agents surrounding the mosque that Ali is still somewhere on the premises.

5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
As Nina holds him captive in the woods, Jack notices that a CTU sharpshooter in the distance can not make a shot. Jack makes Nina step forward, and she is hit in the hand. CTU agents take her down, and Jack is freed. He whispers something in her ear that makes her afraid. Jack then sees a coral snake tattoo on the wrist of one of the soldiers who tried to kill him. He phones the President and tells him that the tattoo means that these men were part of an American military unit hidden within the NSA. Only someone with resources inside the government would have had their flight plan. Jack is taken by helicopter to the address where Nina said Syed Ali would be. The CTU team in place has identified two people in the house. When the team raids the premises, Jack rescues Kate Warner from the grip of Ali’s assistant Mohsen. Mohsen, however, immediately takes his own life with a cyanide pill hidden in his mouth. Jack questions Kate, and she describes what Ali was wearing when he left. Jack calls Tony, who fills him in on the investigation already underway with the Warner family. Yet they do not know what connection these people actually have with Ali. Kate recounts what had happened in the house, and because she knows some Arabic, was able to discern the word “prayer” being said. Jack realizes that Ali might be headed to a mosque, and he has the other agents find one nearby. Jack asks Kate to accompany him there so she can identify the man.

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
As the plane goes down in flames, Jack calls Mason with information about their intended crash landing site. He makes one last plea to Nina to reveal the location of the nuclear bomb, but she is afraid that Jack will only kill her if they survive the plane crash. Jack vows that he will not harm her, but Nina remains taciturn. Agent Phillips raises his gun to Nina’s head, and Jack orders him to back away. Jack manages to let Mason know that the plane will miss its target before the phone gives out. Jack survives the plane crash, but his leg is wounded. He resuscitates Nina and takes her with him into the forest to set a flare for their rescuers. They see a group of soldiers descend upon the crash site and kill Agent Phillips. Jack knows that these soldiers are not part of the Search and Rescue team, and he shoots one of them with the flare gun. Jack takes the man’s rifle, and he and Nina flee into the woods. She provides reconnaissance, and tosses him with ammunition for the rifle. Yet Jack does not see Nina hide one of the ammo clips, and when he runs out of bullets, she loads the rifle herself. When the CTU Search and Rescue team arrives to save them, Nina takes Jack hostage and demands to speak to the President. On the phone with Palmer, she asks to be given a pardon in advance for killing Jack. Jack tells Palmer that they have no other option of finding the bomb. He only asks that the President keep his daughter safe. Palmer grudgingly gives in to Nina’s ultimatum with the stipulation that she not act until the bomb is found.

3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
After Nina makes a weak attempt to get information from Faheen, Jack drags her out of Crescent Collectibles so that they can return to Los Angeles. Yet the FBI agents draw their guns on Jack to prevent him from being alone with her. Back on the jet, Jack listens to the translation of Nina trying to persuade Faheen to surrender his plan. Faheen still resists Nina’s pleas. Michelle connects Jack to a phone call from Kim, who has been arrested for murder. Although she has asked him to come himself, Jack tells Kim that he will have someone from CTU retrieve her. While on the line with Kim, Jack notices that Nina and Faheen are whispering to each other. Michelle is unable to pick up what they are saying. Before Jack can separate them, Nina slashes Faheen’s throat with a piece of gift card hidden in her hand that she had stolen from Crescent Collectibles. Nina then demands to be exiled in return for giving up what Faheen told her about the bomb. Jack grants her request. Seething, Jack blames her for taking away his wife. Suddenly, an explosion shakes the jet.

2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
The agent accompanying Jack to Visalia forewarns him that he is there to protect Nina. Jack still doesn’t trust her, and orders Nina to change clothes where he can see her. In Visalia, Jack makes Nina go into Faheen’s contact location alone. Michelle tracks her with audio and video. Since Michelle can not clearly identify Faheen, Jack holds the team from raiding the site. Yet when the wire goes out, Jack orders the invasion and the agents shoot at the terrorists inside. Jack finds Faheen down and Nina gone. He follows Nina to a basement entrance where she is locked in. With no one around, Jack considers shooting her. He arrests her instead.

1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
When Nina is uncooperative, Jack slams her into a wall. He threatens to kill her unless she reveals her sources. Mason has Jack removed from the interrogation room, but Jack persuades him that it is actually part of his plan to make Nina afraid that he will put his revenge ahead of finding the bomb. Seeing how Nina’s fear will work in their favor, Mason allows Jack another shot at her. Jack then pulls out a gun and fires past Nina’s head. She finally gives up the name of Mamud Faheen. Since CTU is already aware of Faheen, Jack asks what their relationship is. Faheen connected Nina with Joseph Wald, who was looking to blow up CTU. She says that she only learned later that the larger plan was to set off a nuclear bomb. Yet Nina demands that she be allowed to go to Visalia because her contact will only disclose the bomb’s location in person. Mason sends another agent with them to Visalia as a safeguard against Jack endangering Nina. Yet in the transport van, Jack drugs the other agent. Nina is terrified that Jack will actually kill her.

12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.
Jack has Nina delivered for questioning when it is learned that she was the one who hired Joseph Wald to blow up CTU. Although Mason doesn’t want him there, Jack returns to his old office under the pretense of typing up his debrief. When Kimberly calls him in a panic, Jack is forced to tell her the truth about the nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. He convinces her to leave the city, with a promise that he will soon join her. President Palmer phones Jack to say that he has granted Nina a pardon in return for her help in apprehending the bombers. Jack tries to persuade Mason to let him take a crack at questioning Nina, but Mason won’t let him near her. After hearing Mason cough, Jack sees him take a pill in the restroom and takes the medicine’s wrapper to find out what it is. He confronts Mason after discovering that his boss is dying from radiation poisoning, and threatens to disclose Mason’s condition to Division unless he lets him interrogate Nina. Mason gives in to Jack’s request.

11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Jack snatches the address where he was to meet Joseph Wald and places Eddie under arrest. In escaping, he is forced to kill Eddie and the crew. Driving their car, Jack heads to Wald’s location. He checks in with CTU and gives them Wald’s address for backup. However, there is no news about Kimberly’s whereabouts. Jack phones Lynne Kresge at the President’s O.C. and berates her for not warning CTU when he originally called. They would have had ample time to evacuate the workers. Jack gains access into Wald’s house, and demands that Wald reveal who hired him for the CTU hit. Wald, however, escapes into a locked safe room. Jack tries to break down the safe room’s steel doors with no success, so he instead appeals to Wald for help. Wald did not know that the ultimate plan was to target Los Angeles with a nuclear bomb. Wald finally gives Jack photos of the woman who hired him. It is Nina Myers.

10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
As Jack is accepted into Eddie’s crew, he tries to find out why they are targeting CTU. No one will give him an answer. Kim calls Jack’s cell phone begging for help, but because he is in earshot of the crew, he only tells her to go to her Aunt Carol’s house. Jack can not get through to CTU to warn them, so he calls Palmer at the O.C. and is put through to Lynne Kresge. Jack tells her to evacuate the CTU premises. When a telephone repair crew shows up at the relay station, Eddie shoots one of them and has the other obtain access to CTU. While Eddie leads his crew through the building, Jack waits in the van with the telephone worker as a hostage. He releases the man and gives him a note to bring to Tony inside. Jack cuts his own head to make it look like the worker knocked him out. When Eddie and the crew return, they only have a few minutes to flee the explosion. As they watch smoke rise from CTU at a distance, they celebrate their success. Jack looks on in horror, hoping his note made it to Tony on time.

9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
From surveillance photos, Jack recognizes Eddie, a member of Joseph Wald’s current gang whom he befriended when he was undercover. He shows up at Wald’s hideout, giving Eddie the head of turncoat Marshall Goren as proof that he is on Wald’s side. Suspicious of Jack’s showing up on the day when they have a big job, Eddie’s associate Dave checks Jack’s record. Dave confirms that Jack did just serve time for Wald’s benefit. At CTU, Paula makes the facts in the database correspond to Jack’s story. Yet when Eddie tells Jack that he has to leave, Jack feigns a broken down car. He then belittles Dave to Eddie and breaks Dave’s ankle. Eddie has no choice but to ask Jack to join the crew since he is now one man short. On their way to the job, Eddie tells Jack that the plan is to blow up CTU.

8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M.
Eighteen months after his wife Teri was killed by Nina, Jack is inactive from CTU and estranged from his daughter, Kimberly. When he tries to make contact with Kim, she pushes him away, still blaming him for her mother’s death. Jack ignores CTU’s calls to come back to work until President Palmer contacts him. Palmer asks Jack for help with dire circumstances, and Jack agrees to hear the situation from CTU. When Mason informs Jack that a rogue nuclear bomb is set to go off in Los Angeles that day, Jack’s first instinct is to flee with his daughter. Yet Kim refuses to take Jack’s call, and he is forced to tell her voice mail that she must leave the city. Jack has a change of heart, and accepts the assignment. He demands that CTU protect Kim, and then asks that they bring in a witness set to testify against a man connected with the suspected terrorist group. When the witness is brought to CTU, Jack does not interrogate him. He instead shoots the man in the chest. Jack tells Mason that this is necessary to get him undercover and close to Wald, the link to the terrorists.