12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M.
After Saunders is killed there is no one to identify Rabens. Jack notices that one of the passengers has disappeared from the subway station. He and Chase follow Rabens, who has hijacked a car. Rabens hides out in a school, and he is about to kill Chase when Jack shoots him. Chase clamped the device holding the virus onto his own arm to prevent Rabens from taking it. With no time left before detonation, Jack is forced to chop off Chase’s arm. Jack safely puts the device in a refrigerator before it emits the virus. At the hospital where Chase is undergoing surgery, Jack reunites with Kim and grants his blessing for her life with Chase. Jack is overwhelmed by the day’s events, and he retreats to his car to break down in tears. Yet duty calls, and Jack returns back to work on the case.

11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Jack is unsuccessful in getting leniency for Tony from CTU. After Jane’s pleading to Saunders doesn’t work, Jack threatens to send Jane into the infected building unless Saunders releases the location of the eleven other vials. To save his daughter’s life, Saunders gives up all eleven codes that track the couriers holding the vials. Ten of the couriers are safely apprehended, but the missing one is somewhere in Los Angeles. Chloe locates the courier in an underground subway station. Jack takes down the man holding the tracking device, but it is an innocent victim. The real courier placed the tracking device in the man’s bag. Jack locks down the station to find the courier among the passengers.

10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
Jack gets to Tony before he reaches Saunders, and he convinces Tony to help use Jane in luring the terrorist. Jack has Tony ask Saunders for a different meeting spot so that they can set up a SWAT team. As Jane is traded for Michelle, Jack orders the CTU agents to open fire. Saunders runs off to a waiting helicopter, and Jack follows him. CTU sends in Marine jets to shoot the chopper, and Saunders is knocked down in the explosion. Jack wants him to give up the location of the other vials of the virus, but Saunders refuses unless he’s given what he wants. Jack seemingly has no choice.

9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Jack questions why Tony would move all the agents to one side of Saunders’s building, but Tony blames the call on his own tactical error. Jack takes over command of CTU from Tony because he tried to cover this up. Jack then learns that there might be a mole inside CTU, but he finds out that Tony was secretly dealing with Saunders to trade Jane for Michelle. Before Jack can get to Tony, he disappears from CTU with Jane.

8:00 A.M.-9:00 A.M.
Jack convinces Jane Saunders that her father is a terrorist, and she agrees to call Saunders so that CTU can trace the call. Saunders knows that Jack has his daughter in custody, and Jack intimates that he will use torture if he has to. Jack flies to the building where Saunders is hiding out. He calls to Saunders to come out, but Saunders refuses.

7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.
After he turns over Chappelle’s body to Saunders’s men, Jack returns to CTU and is alarmed that Kim is being sent out in the field as a double for Jane Saunders. Kim rebels against his wishes, and Jack must lead her in her mission. When one of Saunders’s men grabs Kim, she defends herself and shoots the guy. However, their tactics might now be exposed to Saunders.

\6:00 A.M.-7:00 A.M.
The President calls Jack to let him know that Saunders wants Chappelle dead within the hour. There is no apparent connection between Chappelle and the terrorist, so Jack intensifies the search in order to beat the deadline. Chappelle tries to escape, and Jack takes him into custody. They find a location in Los Angeles where Saunders’s phone is connecting from. Jack doesn’t lead the raid, and he lies to Chase about where he is going with Chappelle. He instead takes Chappelle to the train yard, per Saunders’s instructions. CTU fails to capture Saunders, and Saunders phones Jack with a threat. Jack is forced to kill Chappelle in order to prevent the spread of the virus.

5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M.
Jack recognizes the terrorist as Stephen Saunders, a British MI-6 agent who supposedly died when working with Jack’s team on the attack on Victor Drazen in Kosovo. Jack supposes Saunders was tortured in prison and now blamed the U.S. for his fate. Jack and Chase pick up a call girl who worked with Saunders and bring her to the MI-6 office. They are ambushed by gunmen from a helicopter. The woman is killed without revealing anything about Saunders. Jack manages to escape with MI-6’s hard drive that has intelligence on Saunders before Saunders’s men destroy it in an explosion.

4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M.
Jack sets it up so that Amador escapes. Yet Jack had put a tracking device in the man’s bandage. Jack and Chase follow Amador and hope he will direct them to his boss. Amador enters a parked car and it explodes. Jack receives a cell phone call from a man he does not know who claims to have eleven more vials of the virus. The man demands to speak with President Palmer. Jack connects the man to Palmer, and the President listens as the man threatens to release more of the virus.

3:00 A.M.-4:00 A.M.
Chappelle accuses Jack of blocking the security camera to obscure the view of him shooting Nina in cold blood. But Jack insists that he killed her in self-defense. With the help of Chase, Jack gets permission from Chappelle to remain on the mission. Jack captures Amador, who won’t reveal anything about the virus. Amador does say that the man responsible for this threat knows Jack very well. Jack has CTU cross-reference all of his contacts with the virus investigation.

2:00 A.M.-3:00 A.M.
Jack returns to Los Angeles with Nina. But before he can get back to work, Chappelle forces him to take a blood test and subject to questioning about his addiction by the Inspector General’s office. Although Jack used heroin long before he began working undercover with the Salazars, he explains that it was meant to make him seem more like a junkie. Jack knows he has nothing to hide. When Nina escapes from the clinic where she’s been taken, Jack comes upon Kim holding Nina at gunpoint. He fires and hits Nina in the shoulder. Jack sends Kim out of the room, and he kills Nina himself.

1:00 A.M.-2:00 A.M.
Jack finds Nina and brings her onto a plane headed for Los Angeles so that she can help him track Amador. She gives up the name of Amador’s associate who is named Alvers. Nina gives Jack a secret number to contact Alvers, but when he does, it actually engages a computer worm that disables the CTU system. Since this could expose undercover agents, Nina promises to give him the kill code in return for the plane transporting her back to Mexico. After the worm speeds up, Nina provides the code to temporarily slow it. Jack insists that he won’t bargain with her anymore, and makes the plane keep going toward L.A. Tony, however, orders the pilot to turn around. Jack pulls his gun on the pilot so that they don’t change direction. CTU finally defeats the worm, and Jack is relieved that he beat Nina this time around.

12:00 A.M.-1:00 A.M.
Jack watches as Salazar plugs another shot into Hector to put him out of his misery. Nina continues to press him about his affiliation with CTU, but Jack keeps her at bay. When Nina returns with the briefcase holding the virus, Salazar turns his gun on Jack. Before he can kill Jack, Salazar is shot by Chase in the shoulder. The guards fire back. In the melee, Jack grabs one of the weapons and takes out a few men. He chases after Salazar, who runs off with the briefcase. Jack follows him, and is met by Chase and a team of agents. They trap Salazar, and Jack tries to persuade him to hand over the virus. The vial, however, explodes in Salazar’s hands. Jack radios CTU to tell them that he does not have the virus because Amador switched it with a bomb. Jack and Chase go looking for Nina.

11:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.
Jack attempts to convince Nina that he’s switched sides, but Nina can tell from his kiss that he is lying. Jack manages to take her hostage. He tells her that since he is now a fugitive, he needs the money from this deal to survive. Salazar informs Jack that Chase has escaped, but Jack is saddened to hear that Claudia died in the process. Jack listens as Nina gives Amador the money transfer. Jack then secretly dials Michelle from the cell phone so that she can hear them discuss the location of the transaction. Hector becomes wary. He tries to talk his brother out of going through it, and then disobeys him by walking out on plan. Jack is shocked when Salazar shoots Hector for betraying him.

10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
Believing that Gael is still working for the Salazars, Hector has him find Amador via the cell phone number. Gael is able to track Jack’s location as well, and he learns about both situations with Chase and Nina Myers. Jack gets Amador’s meeting place with Nina, and he and Salazar go there. Jack convinces Salazar to let him go in alone. After Amador leaves, Nina takes Jack hostage. Jack offers Nina ten times what her buyer is paying if she hands the virus to the Salazars. He tries to convince her that he has no life left, and he only wants to use his share of the money to disappear. Tempted by the money, Nina is ready to take Jack up on his offer. However, she is not quite sure that he has changed. To test his claim of disavowing his former life, Nina kisses him. Jack kisses her back.

9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Jack is forced to tell Claudia the truth about his mission so that she will help him contact CTU. She agrees after he promises to save her family. Jack makes contact with the virus dealer and brings the Salazars to purchase the goods. Yet he finds Nina Myers is also there to buy the virus, and an auction is set up. Nina is ready to kill Jack, but the dealer assures her that he had Jack checked out. Jack admits to Salazar that Nina murdered his wife, but that it will not impede the deal. Nina wins the auction, and the Salazars want to kill Jack for failing. He convinces them that he can hunt Nina down to retrieve the virus once it passes hands. If he fails, they can kill him.

8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
On a pre-recorded a message for the President, Jack explains the sting operation on the Salazars. He is pretending that he is on their side to acquire the real virus from a group of Ukrainians. Jack had set up the infected body at Health Services and the prison break to garner the Salazars’ support. Only Tony and Gael were in on the secret so that the President would be protected from any political fallout. In Mexico, Jack tells Salazar that he is only helping them so that he can make a profit. Hector convinces his brother that this is true, and Salazar allows Jack to make contact with the seller. Claudia, who had an affair with Jack, is angry with him for betraying her and going against his own morals. When Chase is captured, Jack must shoot him in order to gain the Salazars’ trust. Fortunately, the gun chamber is empty. Salazar orders a move because he thinks the government has located them. Yet Chase inadvertently destroyed the transponder on Jack’s watch, and now CTU can not trace him.

7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
Aboard the private plane, Salazar revives Jack and tells him that his brother Hector wants him delivered alive even though Salazar would rather kill him now. Jack is able to knock out the guard watching him and take the man’s gun away. Salazar goes to kill Jack, but Jack takes him hostage. When they land in Mexico, Hector refuses to shoot Jack despite his brother goading him to do so. Instead, Hector embraces Jack and congratulates him on a job well done. Their arm tattoos match. Out of Hector’s sight, Jack presses a button on his watch. This sends a signal to Gael’s handheld device that he is inside the Salazars’ gang again.

6:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.
Jack flies Salazar toward downtown Los Angeles instead of Mexico because he knows they can’t be shot down in a populated area. Jack manages to fly into the downtown corridor before the military helicopters following him fire. He lands the chopper in the middle of a busy street. Jack and Salazar run to the nearest subway station, and exit through the tunnels onto another street. They come upon a valet parking lot and steal one of the cars. Jack calls Salazar’s pilot and arranges to drop off Salazar at an airfield. Salazar asks Jack why he used heroin while working undercover when he didn’t have to. Salazar notes that Jack, like all other junkies, was trying to numb himself against something painful. When they arrive at the airport, Salazar’s men knock Jack unconscious and take him onto the plane. Hector Salazar had ordered that Jack be delivered alive.

5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Jack and Salazar knock out some guards and put on their uniforms. Yet prisoners who believe they are guards capture them in the riot and force them to play Russian Roulette. After two lucky rounds, Jack takes the gun and shoots at the prisoners. He and Salazar are able to hide in the prison. Outside is the SWAT team ready to bring them down, but Jack comes out with Salazar and demands the helicopter. With no choice left to thwart the virus being spread, Chase gives in. Jack and Salazar escape by helicopter, and Jack removes the tracking device so CTU can’t find him.

4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
Jack concocts a plan to break Salazar out of prison to meet Hector Salazar’s demands and stop the spread of the virus. This will allow the President to abide by his policy of non-negotiation with terrorists while also saving the lives of Americans. Unfortunately, by acting on his own accord, Jack will become a fugitive from the law. He tells Palmer that he accepts his fate. Jack hoodwinks Kim into arranging the prisoner transfer request, and says what he believes is his final goodbye to his daughter. Then he finds out that Chase has gone to the prison. Jack is forced to knock out Chase and tie him up so that he won’t prevent the escape. Yet before he can walk out with Salazar, the alarm goes off. Jack threatens a guard to open all the doors so that the prisoners are released from their cells. Jack and Salazar hide out among the melee.

3:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Jack is interrupted once again when he tries to shoot up with heroin. He joins an old friend, Dr. Nicole Duncan, and her Hazmat team to invade the Singer home and find the white powder substance. As he tries to contain the virus threat, Jack suffers from detox withdrawal. Yet the powder is not toxic, and Jack determines that Kyle Singer must have the virus planted inside of him. After Kyle is traced on his cell phone, Jack drives to the location with Dr. Duncan. She recognizes the symptoms of his heroin addiction and confronts him. Jack confesses his situation caused by going undercover. Yet he says that he has not used and is currently kicking the habit. Chase tries to contact Jack, and Jack avoids his call. Jack arrives at the mall but enters just after Tony has been shot. Jack alerts the officers outside to find Kyle Singer.

2:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
After smashing his heroin syringes, Jack saves one vial of the drug. Chase confronts him about his addiction, but Jack refuses to go on record with it and dismisses his partner’s help. Kim tells Jack that she and Chase are dating, and Jack is cold to Chase as they go out on an investigation. Jack lets Chase know that he doesn’t believe a Field Agent can have a relationship -- especially with his daughter. They enter a crack den and are shot at by a dealer. Jack fires back and hits the man. The guy confesses to waiting for a delivery from a kid on behalf of one of Salazar’s men. Jack sets out to find the kid who may have the virus in a bag of cocaine. He orders the unhappy Chase to accompany the dealer back to CTU. Jack tells Chase that he must protect him because he is involved with Kim.

1:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
As Director of Field Operations for CTU, Jack has been working undercover for the past year on the Salazar drug ring because of its ties to terrorist cells. Its leader, Ramon Salazar, is arrested and he agrees to hand over information about the terrorists in return for a lesser-security prison facility. But before Salazar signs the deal, he stabs his own lawyer in the throat with the pen. As he’s taken away to his cell, Salazar says that “what happens next” will be Jack’s fault for arresting him. Jack learns of a deadly virus threat and an anonymous caller links the threat to Salazar’s release. Jack is uncomfortable when his ex-girlfriend Kate Warner phones because he hasn’t seen her in some time. When it is discovered that a local drug dealer is the dead person, Jack orders a search for the man’s supplier to connect to the Salazars. As Jack battles the sweats and a voracious thirst, his new partner Chase inquires about his state of mind, alluding to what he had to do to infiltrate the Salazar drug cartel. Jack denies any problems, and holes himself up in his office. He is about to shoot up with heroin when Kim buzzes on the intercom. Jack destroys the syringe before he takes the drugs.