7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.
While Michelle and Tony wait for their punishment in a holding room, Chappelle asks that they put him touch with Jack. They offer to help him in return for their full acquittal. Chappelle gives in. After a live feed is set up to Sherry’s wire, Michelle authenticates that both Sherry and Kingsley’s voices are legitimate. Later, when Jack averts the war and Palmer is vindicated, Michelle tells Tony that she is going home. Tony thanks her for sticking to her guns, even if it meant acting against him.

6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M.
Carrie stops Michelle as she is walking out. She is distrustful of Michelle’s explanation as to why she is leaving the building. Michelle goes to a CTU van in the parking lot and connects with Hewitt’s computer. Jack explains to her Hewitt’s program, and Michelle finds the thousands of voice samples. She walks Jack through the process just as Division agents surround the van and arrest her. Sitting with Tony in a holding room as prisoners, Michelle tells him that she won’t let him take all of the blame. She only did what she thought was right, and will accept the consequences.

5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M.
Michelle lies to Carrie about what she is working on to get her off her back. Yet Carrie does not believe Michelle, and she reports to Chappelle on Tony and Michelle’s secret operations. When Tony is reassigned, he asks Michelle for help in assisting Jack. She brings Chappelle to a holding room and Tony drugs him. Michelle hurriedly orders the helicopter to pick up Jack and Hewitt.

4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M.
After Jack finds the chip, Michelle tries to access its contents despite the damage caused to it. No audiofiles are retrievable. Yet Michelle is able to find the chip’s possible programmer from the sequences in the junk code. She traces the sequences to a hacker named Alex Hewitt who worked for the State Department and was fired for manipulating files. Hewitt may have been the one who fabricated the audio on the Cyprus recording.

3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M.
Michelle receives a call from Jack, but they are cut off. She notifies Tony, and they trace Jack’s location to try and figure out where he may be headed.

2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M.
Michelle is pleased that Tony warned the President about Jack’s evidence. After Carrie picks an argument, Michelle accuses her of sabotage. Tony sees this fight and calls Michelle to his office. She admits that when her brother Danny left his wife for Carrie, there has been tension between them ever since. She promises Tony that she will not let it interfere with her work. Yet Danny arrives at CTU and Michelle tries to make him leave. He attacks Carrie, and is pulled off by security. Michelle is horrified and becomes upset. Tony comforts her when she tells him that she can’t handle the stress of the day, and they kiss. Carrie catches them, and Michelle becomes alarmed that Carrie will use that information. Tony brushes the notion off.

1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M.
Jack phones Michelle for her help in finding a satellite image of the warehouse so that he can locate the assailants surrounding him. Knowing that she is being watched, Michelle pulls over a hundred satellite quadrants so that it cannot be connected to Jack. Carrie inquires about what she is doing and Michelle dismisses her. Michelle then goes into the restroom to call Jack. She synchs the map of the warehouse to his PDA and quickly hangs up. As she is coming out of the restroom, Tony stops her to question if she is helping Jack. Michelle denies doing anything wrong, but warns Tony to alert the President not to act on the Cyprus recordings until Jack finds the truth. Yet when Tony gets word that there was gunfire in Studio City, he confronts Michelle once again. She dials Jack and hands the phone to Tony. Expecting to be fired for her actions, Michelle apologizes to Tony. Although her sneaking around got them nowhere closer to proving that the Cyprus recording was falsified, Tony tells Michelle to get back to work.

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.
Tony asks Michelle whether she helped Jack kidnap Kate Warner. Michelle denies being an accomplice, saying that Carrie is trying to sabotage her because the two do not get along. Working at her computer, Michelle gets an error signal, so she walks over to another department to solve the problem. While she’s away from her station, she doesn’t see Carrie manipulate her outside links so that her communication can be tracked. Later, Michelle gets a phone call from a man named Danny, and Carrie secretly listens in on their conversation. Danny is upset, and he wants to know if he and his children are safe from the nuclear blast. Michelle won’t give up any information to him and she attempts to calm him down. Danny threatens to call Carrie to find out what’s really going on, and Michelle questions whether he is still speaking to Carrie. Danny says that he doesn’t talk to her because he thinks Carrie is a bitch. Danny hangs up on Michelle, and Carrie furtively erases the call from her log.

11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.
Michelle plays the tape of the conversation for Syed Ali, but he maintains that it never took place. He does not know those men and was not in Cyprus at the time. She discloses that information to Tony, but the evidence shows that the tape has not been altered. Michelle persists in pushing for more research because there is a doubt about the veracity, but Tony wants to give the White House both verdicts. Although Ali will be interrogated again in Guantanamo, Michelle knows that will be too late. With nowhere else to turn, she goes behind Tony’s back to Jack and presents the predicament. Since Jack has had success in breaking Ali, she hopes he can find out whether the man is telling the truth. He agrees to help, but has her track down Kim for him. After Ali is murdered, Michelle tells Jack about Yusuf Auda, who was sent by his Arab country to assist in the investigation. Yusuf has been kept in the dark so far. Jack hits another dead end in dealing with Yusuf, but asks Michelle to trust him when another option arises that could prove the tape is a phony. Michelle makes up a story to detract the agent debriefing Kate Warner. When the agent leaves the room, Jack is able to take Kate out of CTU.

10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.M.
After Tony asks Michelle to assign someone to babysit the liaison Yusuf, she assumes the task herself. Carrie takes this as a sign that Michelle not comfortable with giving the job to her. Michelle then discovers a recording of a conversation on Syed Ali’s encrypted hard drive. It serves as evidence that Ali’s terrorist plan to bring a nuclear weapon into America was funded by three Middle Eastern countries. However, she orders a voiceprint authentication on the tape to prove its legitimacy. Tony learns of Jack’s parachuting out of the plane and has Michelle send a helicopter to pick him up in the desert.

9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.M.
A new programmer named Carrie Turner is brought in to replace Paula Schaeffer. Carrie had been Michelle’s boss when the two worked together at Division. Carrie greets Michelle, and there is some tension between them. Michelle quickly establishes that she is now her boss, and she hands Carrie case files to analyze. After Tony gives news of Mason’s departure to the staff, Michelle commends him on his speech.

8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Tony asks Michelle to send a team to pick up Second Wave terrorists named by Syed Ali, but after Mason orders all agents to Norton Airfield that directive is ignored. Michelle is worried about Division wanting to close up their operation, but Tony says that maybe they will remove Mason from command once they see his rapidly declining state. Yet when a Division head comes to inspect the site, Mason assures him that not only is he in fine health, but that his office is in perfect working order. The technician Murdoch narrows the info on the charred paper to two possible tail numbers, and Michelle uncovers that one of those planes is at Norton. When Jack finds that the bomb there is only a decoy, Michelle passes on the bad news to Mason and Tony.

7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
After bringing in an imaging expert earlier in the day, Michelle has him analyze a charred paper found in Syed Ali’s clothes. The expert uncovers the phrase “N34” on the paper, and Michelle checks that against other possible clues. Yet when Ali discloses that the bomb will be at Norton Airfield, Michelle quickly makes the connection that the planes there have tail numbers that begin with the call letter “N.”

6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.
Tony tells Michelle that, although he has been hesitant about being burned by the Nina relationship, he is eager to try again with her. He sensed that there was attraction between them.

5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Mason opens up to Michelle about his regrets in choosing his profession. He implores her to seek out what truly makes her happy. Armed with this advice, Michelle works up the courage to admit to Tony that she would like to start a relationship with him. Tony also has feelings for her, but he has been cautious after his experience with Nina. They agree to go out if they get through this mission alive.

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
Michelle shows Mason proof that the CTU jet had been shot down by a ground-to-air missile. As she is talking, she notices that his nose begins to bleed. Michelle then tells Tony that she is aware that Mason has been exposed to radiation because of the Hazmat presence at the warehouse, his sudden nosebleed and rumors of his vomiting in the restroom. She also can read Tony’s face. Tony admits to Mason’s deathly poisoning. Yet when Michelle questions Mason’s ability to lead CTU at such a crucial time, Tony defends their boss.

3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
As Michelle translates all of Nina and Faheen’s conversations on the plane, she gets a call from Kim who is being held for murder. Michelle connects Kim to Jack, but while they are talking, Nina and Faheen begin to speak in hushed tones. Michelle can not hear what they are saying, and Nina manages to kill Faheen. Michelle quickly goes back to the transcription tapes, and she is able to discern that Faheen told Nina the name Marko Khatami. Michelle digs up that Marko has a connection to the terrorist Syed Ali. With the day’s events starting to take their toll on her, Michelle begins to grow weary. Tony comforts her tenderly.

2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
Michelle gives Mason the news that Jack drugged another agent to avoid having someone watch over him. Watching video from the wire attached to Nina, Michelle stays in contact with Jack and describes for him what is going on. As Nina speaks to Faheen in Arabic, Michelle has an interpreter translate the conversation for Jack. Yet Michelle can not clearly identify that the man whom Nina is talking to is indeed Faheen, so Jack holds off on raiding the building. When the transmission suddenly goes out, Jack orders the SWAT team to storm in.

1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
Michelle hands Jack the case file before his interrogation, but he is already quite familiar with Nina. Along with Mason, Michelle then watches Jack from a video monitor. Mason orders Michelle to assemble a team in Visalia to meet Jack when he brings Nina there.

12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.
With Paula’s help, Michelle is able to find the key to decrypt the data about the nuclear bomb that was transferred to NSA. Yet after Paula helps Michelle, she dies. Under Mason’s orders, Michelle is supposed to make Jack leave the office, but she knows that he won’t do that. Jack convinces her to tell him where Mason has been for the last twelve hours because he suspects that Mason is too ill to run CTU.

11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Michelle is relieved to see Tony alive after the blast. She breaks the news to Jack about CTU’s losses, but she knows nothing about the welfare of his daughter. When Tony is troubled at having to risk Paula’s life to decrypt the data about the nuclear bomb, Michelle is there to comfort him.

10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
After CTU is asked to transfer their databases to NSA servers, Michelle questions why they were the only agency requested to do so. Finding Paula in the ladies’ restroom, Michelle tries to allay her fears about the pending nuclear threat.

9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Michelle travels with Jack on the helicopter and briefs him about Joseph Wald’s current gang. Jack recognizes one of the men as someone he knew while undercover.

8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M.
Michelle works with Tony to assemble the strategy for the terrorist threat. She sets up Jack’s undercover identity in his records.