10:00 P.M.
CTU waits impatiently for news about the blast at the Distribution Center. Jack emerges from the thick smoke, carrying Bierko’s unconscious body. He urges the medics to send Bierko back to CTU. Curtis lets Jack know that the nerve gas has been destroyed.
10:03 P.M.
Jack calls Buchanan on his private cell. He is convinced that Henderson was only following orders from someone higher up. Jack admits that he is scared. “I think this is bigger than anything we could have imagined,” he says.
10:04 P.M.
Karen tells the Vice President that she has not yet assumed command of CTU because they are still actively looking for Henderson. Gardner orders her to move forward with the takeover. He makes an assurance that Henderson will be caught.
10:05 P.M.
Karen voices her concern to Miles about how Buchanan will react in light of all CTU has just accomplished. Miles suggests that they get Audrey to go on record citing Buchanan’s mismanagement.
10:06 P.M.
Buchanan tells Audrey that Homeland swallowing up CTU. Yet he doesn’t know why Gardner wants this change in control.
Henderson hides in a coal plant. He gets word from a commando that they have lost Wayne Palmer in the woods.
10:07 P.M.
Agent Pierce arrives back at the retreat. He removes Wayne from the back of the SUV. Wayne explains that Martha Logan’s aide Evelyn was his brother’s source inside the White House. Someone tried to prevent Wayne from seeing Evelyn. He thinks Palmer was killed because of information Evelyn gave him.
10:09 P.M.
Evelyn says goodnight to Martha and, as she is leaving the retreat, Wayne and Pierce stop her. She is frightened. Wayne says that he traced emails she sent to Palmer, but he needs to know what was inside those emails. Evelyn’s eyes fill with tears, and she insists that she knows nothing. She finally confesses that someone has kidnapped her daughter and will kill her unless Evelyn gives them the evidence of who is behind the conspiracy. Wayne and Pierce convince her that these people will kill her regardless. She will hand it over to Wayne if he gets her daughter back.
10:16 P.M.
As a team from Homeland Security arrives, Karen announces that CTU is being absorbed by her department.
10:17 P.M.
Miles asks to speak with Audrey privately.
10:18 P.M.
Wayne calls Jack and tells him that Evelyn has proof of the plot against President Palmer. Yet she won’t tell them what it is until they help save her kidnapped daughter. The culprit is going to call her with a meeting place. Jack is sure this is Henderson’s doing. Wayne gives him the location of an abandoned barn to get together. Wayne has Evelyn leave the retreat alone because she may be watched.
10:19 P.M.
Audrey reads the statement that Miles has drawn up. It holds Buchanan responsible for all of the day’s events. She refuses to sign because it is a complete distortion of what happened. Miles suggests that she and the Defense Department will shoulder some of the blame because she was at CTU as a liaison. “This takeover is completely unwarranted and I won’t help you justify it,” she retorts.
10:21 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey on her cell and explains what Wayne has uncovered. He needs her to get satellite surveillance on the location where Henderson wants to make the exchange with Evelyn. Audrey tells him that Vice President Gardner has made Homeland Security take over CTU. Jack thinks Gardner might be involved in the conspiracy because Henderson was protecting someone higher up. Regardless of what is going on at CTU, he desperately needs Chloe to work on the satellite.
10:22 P.M.
Audrey approaches Miles and Karen, saying that she has reconsidered signing their statement. She claims she wants to shield Defense and her father from any controversy. Audrey asks for Chloe to be assigned to her. Karen agrees to the deal, and Audrey signs the paper.
10:23 P.M.
Henderson holds Evelyn’s young daughter hostage at the coal plant.
10:29 P.M.
Wayne wants Pierce to remain at the retreat so that he doesn’t arouse suspicion. Suddenly, Gardner comes upon Wayne and is surprised to see him. Pierce tells the Vice President that Wayne was there to bring him a memento from his brother. Wayne says that he needs to fly Palmer’s body back to Washington, and Gardner wishes him a safe trip.
10:31 P.M.
Chloe is furious about Homeland’s sudden takeover. Buchanan assures her that he is working to have it overturned. Miles orders Chloe to stay on per Audrey’s request. Miles tells Buchanan that Audrey signed a statement laying blame on CTU and Buchanan. Audrey confirms this, in earshot of Miles.
10:33 P.M.
As they drive to the meeting place, Evelyn tells Wayne that the person bribing her said he would know if she told anyone about the proof. Wayne is convinced that there is a mole inside the retreat. Evelyn is terrified that she is responsible for Palmer’s death. Her phone rings, and Wayne quickly patches Jack in. Henderson asks Evelyn what Wayne was doing at the retreat. She swears that she didn’t even know he was there. Henderson puts her daughter on the phone, and Evelyn tells the girl that she is coming to get her. Henderson gives Evelyn the address of the coal plant.
10:35 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey with the address. Buchanan shoots a glance at Audrey as he is leaving CTU.
10:36 P.M.
Audrey approaches Chloe, who is angry that she gave up CTU to Karen. Audrey grabs Chloe’s wrist and says that Jack needs her help. Audrey explains that she only signed the document in order to keep Chloe in place.
10:41 P.M.
Jack meets Wayne and Evelyn at the barn. He promises Evelyn that he will get her daughter back, but she still refuses to tell him what she knows about the conspiracy.
10:43 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey’s phone and speaks to Chloe. She sends the satellite’s infrared image of the meeting place to Jack’s PDA. There are at least ten men surrounding the premises.
10:44 P.M.
Jack doesn’t want Wayne accompanying him to take Evelyn to the exchange place. Wayne insists on going because his brother died in his arms.
10:45 P.M.
Gardner tells Logan that Wayne was at the retreat to see Pierce. Although Wayne didn’t speak to the President, Logan brushes this off because Palmer and Pierce were close. Logan thinks Wayne must still have hard feelings over the White House’s attitude towards Palmer.
10:46 P.M.
Evelyn drops Jack off at the back of the coal plant. He presses that Henderson will kill both her and her daughter, so her compliance with their plan is her only chance of survival. Evelyn drives to meet Henderson. Chloe radios Jack and Wayne with a path into the plant. They draw their weapons and enter.
10:52 P.M.
Jack takes out two of Henderson’s men.
10:53 P.M.
With too many guards surrounding them, Jack asks Wayne to shoot a sniper so that he can make his way to the roof. Chloe guides Wayne to a clear shot of his target, but he hesitates. He finally kills the man. Jack is clear to climb up. He slices the throat of one of the men who is radioing Henderson about Evelyn’s arrival. Jack manipulates the walkie’s mouthpiece so that he is not identified while finishing the man’s transmission to Henderson.
10:56 P.M.
Evelyn pulls up to the site. Henderson calls her phone and orders her to open all the doors and trunk of her car. Jack watches through the scope of the sniper’s rifle as Henderson comes out with the little girl.
10:57 P.M.
Henderson lets the girl run to Evelyn and asks for the evidence. Evelyn ducks with her daughter and Jack shoots the two guards beside Henderson. Wayne fires at the other men surrounding them. Henderson gets in Evelyn’s car and speeds off. Jack and Wayne aim at the car, but Henderson escapes. Jack calls to Chloe and asks her to quickly reprogram the satellite to extend past the plant. She loses Henderson on the satellite.
10:58 P.M.
Wayne tends to Evelyn, who’s been hit with gunfire. Jack sees that it’s not a serious injury. He demands to know who is involved. “The Vice President has nothing to do with this!” she exclaims.
10:59 P.M.
Henderson explains to someone on the phone that he didn’t expect Jack to show up. He assures the caller that Jack and Wayne will be killed and that he can suppress any evidence they might have. “I won’t let you down again, sir,” Henderson guarantees. The person on the other end of the line is President Logan.
11:00 P.M.
As Wayne drives, Jack treats Evelyn’s wounds. She explains that she hid a recording of a phone call in a safe deposit box. The call was between the President and Henderson. Jack takes the key to the box. With all the military roadblocks in place, Wayne pulls up to a motel.
11:02 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey, who says that Chloe couldn’t reposition the satellite to track Henderson. He asks her to involve her father as a credible source to present the evidence. Jack warns Audrey to get out of CTU because they don’t know who they can trust.
11:05 P.M.
Wayne locates the bank manager’s home address. He and Jack carry Evelyn and her daughter into a motel room. It’s not safe for her to be taken to a public hospital. Jack cleans Evelyn’s wound, and she thinks she will be able to stay on her own. Jack and Wayne leave.
11:06 P.M.
Henderson tells Logan that he doesn’t know where Evelyn hid the recording of their conversation. Yet he is having all hospitals monitored because she was wounded. “It all spiraled out of control when you decided to kill David Palmer,” Logan admonishes.
11:07 P.M.
Karen starts to doubt to Miles whether Homeland’s takeover of CTU was even necessary.
11:08 P.M.
President Logan calls Karen and inquires about Jack’s whereabouts. He orders a warrant for Jack in the death of David Palmer. Logan wants it to be CTU’s top priority because he has “new evidence.”
11:09 P.M.
Karen is wary of this recent directive, especially since it means pulling resources off finding Henderson. Miles suggests they keep an eye on Audrey because Jack will try to contact her.
11:10 P.M.
After Chloe puts Audrey’s cell on a secure channel, she learns about the evidence against Logan. Suddenly, Chloe’s computer is alerted that a warrant is issued for Jack. “It’s starting,” Audrey says ominously.
11:11 P.M.
Karen approaches Audrey, who claims to be leaving to get sleep. Karen says that the new evidence implicating Jack is coming. She cannot tell them who ordered the warrant, but she admits that it is odd. Audrey lies and says she hasn’t had contact with Jack in over an hour.
11:12 P.M.
Karen wants Audrey to lead them to Jack, so she has a field agent place a transponder on Audrey’s car.
11:16 P.M.
Jack and Wayne break into the bank manager’s home.
11:19 P.M.
Jack threatens to shoot the man and his wife, demanding access to the bank. The man gets dressed to go and Jack has Wayne tie up the wife.
11:20 P.M.
Audrey leaves the CTU parking lot and calls her father who is aboard a jet. She tells him that Jack has been framed but she can’t say anything more. Heller has his plane rerouted to the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. He has the stop kept off the plane’s manifest.
11:22 P.M.
Audrey pulls into a gas station and pretends to fill up her tank. The field agent follows. Audrey calls Chloe, who instructs her to take a CTU walkie and scan her car. The walkie reacts with a squeal over the transponder. Audrey removes the tracker and puts it onto a DWP utility truck that has stopped to get gas. She gets back in the car and drives off.
11:23 P.M.
Pierce is in the President’s office when Gardner asks about the warrant on Jack. Logan dismisses Pierce, and then admits to Gardner that he issued it. Gardner is annoyed that he wasn’t consulted even though he is in charge of the Homeland Security transfer. Logan refuses to tell Gardner any more about the “evidence” that names Jack as Palmer’s killer.
11:25 P.M.
Evelyn goes to her crying daughter, but falls and hits her head. The little girl instinctively calls 911 and gives her mother’s name to the operator.
11:27 P.M.
Henderson is notified that a 911 call came in about Evelyn. He heads to the motel.
11:32 P.M.
Logan gives a press conference to announce that the terrorist attack has been thwarted. From inside the retreat, Martha tells Pierce that she is impressed that her husband defeated the crisis. Martha notices that Pierce is worried about something, but he covers up the cause.
11:33 P.M.
Jack and Wayne go to the bank with the manager. Jack gets a call from Pierce, who warns him that Logan issued a warrant for him. Jack tells Pierce that the President is responsible for all that has happened, and that the evidence incriminating him will be passed to Secretary Heller.
11:34 P.M.
Karen finds out that her field agents lost Audrey. She has Miles redirect the satellites away from looking for Jack. They need to find Audrey.
11:35 P.M.
Jack forces the bank manager to lead them to the vault. The man recognizes Wayne from the television coverage of his Palmer’s assassination. Wayne and Jack admit to what they are doing there and the urgency of the situation.
11:38 P.M.
A paramedic revives Evelyn. Suddenly, Henderson shoots the paramedic. He demands that Evelyn tell him where Jack is.
11:43 P.M.
Martha lets Logan know that she is proud of him and she apologizes for being a burden with her breakdowns. Logan’s cell phone rings and he says he needs privacy. Martha doesn’t understand what is so critical because the terrorist threat is over.
11:45 P.M.
Logan takes the call from Henderson while Martha is still sitting next to him. Henderson says that they are on their way to get Jack. Logan tells him to get it done, and Martha questions what he is referring to. Logan lies to cover it up.
11:46 P.M.
Miles finds Audrey on the satellite, and Karen alerts her field agents of the location.
Shari the techie asks Chloe why she has been locked out on the satellite by a priority override. Chloe sees that the satellite is tracking Audrey.
11:47 P.M.
Henderson’s commandos arrive at the bank. Jack enters the vault and retrieves Evelyn’s tape recorder. He plays it and hears Henderson tell Logan that he killed Palmer. The bank manager is floored by this revelation and gives Jack his car keys.
11:49 P.M.
Jack hears something outside, and he huddles the others back into the vault. Jack sees Henderson’s armed men through his monocle.
11:50 P.M.
Jack knows that Henderson’s men will kill them as soon as they step outside. He asks the bank manager how to trip the silent alarm which will bring out the LAPD. Jack thinks Henderson will order his men to shoot at the cops. This diversion might allow them to escape.
11:55 P.M.
Chloe goes to the server room and corrupts the satellite signal. Miles sends the feed to the field agents, but it becomes distorted. Miles traces the error to the server. He also notices that Chloe is away from her workstation.
11:56 P.M.
Chloe deletes access logs to hide her tracks. Miles goes to the server room but no one is there. He exits to find Chloe coming out of the restroom. “What were you doing?” he accuses. Chloe jokes that she’ll write a report on the details of her bathroom visit.
11:57 P.M.
Jack urges the bank manager to remain inside, but the man wants to stay with Jack because he will be killed for having heard that tape.
11:58 P.M.
The police arrive at the bank and Henderson has his men fire at them. In the midst of the gunfire, Jack emerges and shoots at the commandos. Wayne and the bank manager follow. A marine transport takes out the snipers. As Jack and Wayne head for a police car, the bank manager is hit in the chest with a bullet. They get him into the police car and Jack speeds from the melee.
11:59 P.M.
The bank manager dies in the backseat. Jack calls Audrey, who is at the Van Nuys Airport waiting for her father to land. Jack tells her that the evidence clearly implicates Logan. This information sinks in. “We’re talking about taking down the President of the United States,” he says.
12:00 A.M.
Logan is not pleased that Henderson hasn’t killed Jack already. Henderson thinks that CTU can lead him to Jack.
12:02 A.M.
Logan calls Karen to reinforce his order that finding Jack is her top priority. Miles knows that they will need to use Audrey and Chloe to get to him.
12:04 A.M.
Jack and Wayne wait on the side of the road for Buchanan. Jack had asked him for help and explains the current situation. Jack needs Buchanan to take Wayne somewhere safe because he’s a target. Jack leaves to meet Secretary Heller to hand over the evidence.
12:05 A.M.
Audrey calls Jack when her father’s plane lands.
12:07 A.M.
Jack arrives at the airport, and Heller encourages him to turn himself in. Jack says he is being set up.
12:08 A.M.
Jack takes Audrey and Heller inside an empty hangar and plays them the tape recording. Logan gave the terrorists the Sentox gas, but planned to deploy the gas before it reached Moscow. This would provide him with an excuse to exercise the military terms of his arms treaty with Suvarov. Jack thinks it was a play to control the oil supply in central Asia and that David Palmer found out about it. Heller is not surprised at Logan’s actions. Jack asks Audrey to accompany her father to present this evidence to the Attorney General.
12:10 A.M.
Heller has his Secret Service detail arrest Jack. Heller believes that accusing Logan will destroy the essence of the presidency and cripple the nation. Heller plans to use the tape to convince Logan to step down quietly. He wants Audrey to go with him, but when she refuses, he has her kept by the agents too. Heller hands the tape recorder to one of the agents for safe keeping. As Heller leaves, Jack warns him that he won’t be able to trust Logan.
12:15 A.M.
Chloe is alarmed when she’s not invited to a high-level meeting in the situation room. She catches Shari, who is exiting the meeting, and gets her to admit that Miles found Audrey. Miles and Karen listen to this whole conversation from surveillance.
12:17 A.M.
Karen and Miles watch as Chloe goes to make a phone call. Miles decrypts her channel and traces the call to a payphone at the Van Nuys Airfield. Chloe does not connect with Audrey. Karen sends her teams to the airport.
Chloe accuses Shari of cooperating with Miles to set her up. “Miles is an idiot!” Chloe exclaims. “If anyone should know that it should be you!” The Homeland Security guards apprehend Chloe.
12:18 A.M.
Karen calls the President to tell him what they have uncovered. Logan orders her to pull back her agents because he is sending in the military. Karen is confused, but agrees to his wishes.
Logan notifies Henderson about CTU’s discovery.
12:19 A.M.
As they are tied up in the hangar, Jack tells Audrey that Henderson won’t allow Logan to negotiate with Heller. Heller is only making himself a target.
Karen calls Novick to ask why the White House is stepping in when she can take care of Jack. Novick says he will look into it.
12:20 A.M.
Novick goes in to see Vice President Gardner and asks him about Karen’s question. Gardner doesn’t know, but assumes the President made his decision for a reason.
12:22 A.M.
Still bothered by Logan’s strategy, Novick places a call to the general running military operations in Los Angeles. The general confirms that he did not receive a call from the President to pick up Jack.
12:23 A.M.
Novick tells Logan that he got a call from Karen about using the military to get Jack. He asks why he did not go through the general. Logan says he used a covert task force because he doesn’t want the Chinese to know that Jack is alive.
12:30 A.M.
Miles tells Chloe that if they find Audrey at the location she called then she is in trouble. As Miles leaves the holding room, Chloe slyly grabs his keycard from his jacket pocket. He locks her in, but Chloe uses the keycard to get out.
12:31 A.M.
Chloe grabs a laptop on the counter and makes her way down the corridor. Shari sees her and threatens to alert Miles. Chloe is forced to tell her that Jack’s evidence implicates President Logan. She also says that she knows Shari made up lies about Miles sexually harassing her. Chloe threatens to recommend her for a psych evaluation if she doesn’t cooperate. Shari allows Chloe to escape.
12:33 A.M.
Martha tries to convince her husband to get some sleep. Logan receives an urgent call from Secretary Heller, who has come to Los Angeles. “I think you know exactly what this is about,” Heller alludes.
12:34 A.M.
Martha asks what Heller wanted, but Logan brushes this off to an issue over martial law.
12:35 A.M.
Logan phones Henderson, who is about to board a chopper. Henderson thinks Jack got to Heller first but that Jack still has the tape. Logan wants him to call when he has the evidence.
12:40 A.M.
Martha approaches Agent Pierce in the corridor and asks him why Heller is there. She suspects something. Pierce says he will meet her near the stables to tell her what he knows.
12:41 A.M.
Heller lets the President know that he heard a recording of his conversation with Henderson. The tape is in a safe place. Heller knows that he allowed Henderson to kill Palmer. Logan admits that he was protecting the interests of the country regarding access to cheaper oil. Heller wants him to leave Jack and Audrey alone. He also demands that Logan resign in the morning with the promise that he will keep the recording under lock and key. He wants him to get Gardner so he can witness the letter of resignation.
12:45 A.M.
Chloe drives to Buchanan’s house, and he sets her up on his workstation. She’s worried that Jack and Audrey may already be in custody. “If CTU has Jack, it’s all my fault,” she sighs.
12:46 A.M.
Martha waits at the stables for Pierce and dials him on his cell. Suddenly, she hears a phone ringing. She finds Pierce’s cell on the ground. He is nowhere to be seen.
12:47 A.M.
Restrained to a pole, Jack looks up at the ceiling and sees a cluster of pipes. He shimmies up and presses his wrists against the scalding pipe. Jack grits his teeth against the pain as the heat melts his plastic restraints. He jumps down and grabs a set of pliers to snip Audrey’s off.
12:48 A.M.
When the Secret Service agent comes back to check on them, Jack knocks the man down and takes his gun. Audrey puts the restraints on the agent.
12:52 A.M.
Jack takes a gun away from the other Secret Service agent. Suddenly, a helicopter roars overhead. It’s Henderson’s black ops team. They shoot at Jack and the agent. Jack explains to the agent that they have come for the tape recording. Jack gives the agent back his gun, and they fire back at the chopper. The agent is hit, and Jack takes the tape recorder from his jacket. Henderson runs into the hangar.
12:54 A.M.
Henderson has his gun trained on Audrey and demands the tape recording. Jack asks why he is protecting Logan, but Henderson says he is only protecting the integrity of the government. He allows Audrey to walk towards Jack. Blood drips from her hand and Henderson says that he has cut her brachial artery. She will bleed to death in a few minutes. Jack has no choice but to toss the tape recorder to him. With the evidence secured, Henderson runs out of the hangar. Jack makes a tourniquet out of a wire to stop Audrey’s arm from bleeding further.
12:57 A.M.
Heller gives Logan a resignation to sign. Gardner is summoned in. Before Logan can explain to him what is going on, he gets a call from Henderson who confirms that he has the tape recording. Logan then tells Gardner that he has asked for Heller’s resignation because he has accused the President of conspiracy. When Heller insists that Logan was complicit with the nerve gas and sanctioned Palmer’s assassination, Logan wants to know where the evidence is. Heller is stunned as the President orders the Secret Service to remove him from the retreat.
1:00 A.M.
Jack stabilizes Audrey’s bleeding. A phone rings inside the hangar and Jack realizes it is coming from one of the dead agents. Heller is on the line, and he tells Jack that Logan refused to resign after receiving a call from Henderson. They failed to get Logan because Heller betrayed Jack.
1:02 A.M.
Jack calls Buchanan, who is with Chloe. She thinks she can use CTU’s satellite to find Henderson even though it will make her more vulnerable to being found. Chloe barks orders to Buchanan as he sets up his desktop computer.
1:05 A.M.
Jack loads Audrey into the police car that he stole from the bank shoot out.
1:06 A.M.
Henderson lets Logan know that he has not killed Jack. He also did not destroy the tape because he wants it as protection in case something happens to him, citing Cummings’ “suicide.” Logan reminds him that he was the one who deemed that death necessary.
1:07 A.M.
Chloe notifies Jack that she found Henderson on the satellite and that he is not far from him. Jack speeds up and turns off his headlights.
1:08 A.M.
When his car is just behind Henderson, Jack turns on the headlights. Henderson is blinded and swerves. Jack drives him off the road. Henderson crashes into an outdoor nursery. He gets out and shoots, but the police car protects Jack and Audrey.
1:09 A.M.
Jack returns fire. Henderson is out of ammo and tries to run, but Jack threatens to shoot him. Henderson says that if he dies, Heller will be killed too. His men have been tracking Heller from the retreat and will take him out if Henderson doesn’t contact them every fifteen minutes. A startled Audrey hears this. Jack has Henderson handcuff himself.
1:10 A.M.
Jack asks Chloe to patch him through to Heller and trace him on the satellite. She sends the feed to his PDA. Heller confirms for Jack that there is a helicopter above him and that there is a laser sight trained on him.
1:11 A.M.
Henderson knows that Jack won’t let Heller die, and he demands to be released. Heller hears Henderson over the phone and refuses to let Jack choose him over the tape. Heller takes responsibility because he didn’t obey him earlier. “I will not allow Logan and Henderson to use me as a pawn,” Heller says. He drives his car off a cliff and lands in a lake. As the car descends into the water, the helicopter retreats.
1:12 A.M.
Jack sees the car plummet on his PDA. He lunges at Henderson, blaming his thirst for power on the deaths of two real patriots -- Palmer and Heller. “What happened to you?” Jack asks in exasperation as he raises his gun. Henderson doesn’t have the tape recording and he won’t tell him where it is. Audrey encourages Jack to kill him. Jack punches Henderson instead.
1:18 A.M.
Logan phones a power broker named Graham, who is surrounded by other men at computer stations. Logan wants to “cancel the action” against Henderson because the tape will be released if he is killed. Graham warns the President that Martha is suspicious and that Agent Pierce is feeding her information. Logan wants to handle his wife on his own.
1:19 A.M.
Martha questions another agent why Pierce was transferred in the middle of the night.
1:20 A.M.
Another Secret Service agent explains to Martha that it is a “sensitive issue” and that her husband wants to see her. The agent ushers her into a dimly lit room and locks her in. No one is in there and the phones do not work. Martha panics.
1:21 A.M.
Audrey is determined to get that tape and expose Logan in order to avenge what happened to her father. Jack thinks Henderson might have handed the tape off to someone before he captured him. He has Chloe check the satellite’s history and she finds that a car met Henderson. The car then returned back to the tarmac of the Van Nuys Airport near a plane that is preparing to take off.
1:22 A.M.
Jack asks Buchanan to have Curtis pick up Audrey and Henderson from the nursery. Although Jack wants to wait with Audrey, she begs him to go so that her father did not die in vain.
1:23 A.M.
Jack relents and gives Audrey a gun. Henderson is unconscious and bound. Since Henderson’s men will probably come looking for him, Jack warns her to not take calls so that they can’t trace her. He kisses her cheek, saying that he doesn’t feel right about leaving her. She urges him to get the tape back. “I will,” he says confidently.
1:29 A.M.
Karen voices her concern to Miles. They haven’t heard anything even though they gave Jack’s location to the President an hour ago. She is suspicious, but Miles brushes this off. Karen and Miles are alerted that Chloe escaped from the holding room after having a conversation with Shari. Karen orders Miles to find Chloe by tracing her use of CTU resources. They are sure she will try to contact Jack.
1:30 A.M.
Shari is brought to Karen’s office and she explains that Chloe threatened to send her for a psychiatric evaluation. Shari says that Chloe claimed Logan was framing Jack and was responsible for Palmer’s assassination. This news seems to confirm the doubts that Karen’s been feeling.
1:31 A.M.
Martha pounds on the locked door and Logan comes to see her. He tells her that he had Pierce transferred back to Washington. Logan admits that he never authorized the murder of Palmer, but someone who works for him was the shooter. Martha lashes out at him and can’t believe what she’s hearing. Logan implores her to stop asking questions or talking about this to other people. If his duplicity was exposed, it would be traumatic for the nation and lessen their credibility worldwide. He begs her to keep it a secret. “You’ve broken my heart,” she says. “I look at you and I hate you.” Although she cannot forgive him, she agrees to keep her mouth shut so that the American people won’t have to suffer.
1:40 A.M.
Graham convinces his three other conspirators to push through any doubts they have. Logan calls Graham and tells him that he will send Martha back to an institution if she doesn’t keep quiet. Graham articulates a veiled threat to Logan to control the situation.
1:42 A.M.
Henderson tries to convince Audrey to call for help because her father might have survived the crash. She is well aware that the only reason he wants her to do that is so his people can find them.
1:44 A.M.
Jack pulls up outside the airfield security gate and sees a private jet in the distance with a lot of security around it. He gets a call from Chloe, who informs him that the chopper following Heller is now headed toward Audrey. Curtis has not arrived there yet.
1:45 A.M.
Jack calls Audrey and urges her to get out of the nursery, but she refuses to leave the man who caused her father to die. The helicopter lands outside. She puts down the phone and trains the gun on Henderson, but she can’t shoot him.
1:46 A.M.
As Audrey runs deeper into the building, Henderson’s men arrive and cut him free. He orders them to kill her. Audrey is rescued by Curtis. His tac team captures Henderson and takes down the gunmen. Audrey calls Jack and tells him the good news. Jack instructs Curtis to bring them back to CTU. No one else should have access to Henderson.
1:47 A.M.
Jack calls Buchanan. Chloe has learned that the jet is a diplomatic flight and is scheduled to leave at 2:00 a.m. She is having trouble breaching the State Department’s firewall to check the passenger list.
1:48 A.M.
Jack sees a fuel truck driving through the airfield gate. Unnoticed, he runs up and grabs the back ladder. He climbs to the top and lays flat as it enters into the secured area.
1:53 A.M.
Once on the tarmac, Jack jumps onto another truck. He gets a call from Buchanan, who cannot delay the plane. Chloe isn’t having any luck obtaining the passenger list either.
1:55 A.M.
Miles finally locates Chloe’s remote access at Buchanan’s house. He doesn’t know why she would be tapping into the State Department’s database. Miles dispatches a tac team that is in the area to get her.
1:56 A.M.
Karen calls Novick and asks why her orders have switched from Gardner to the President. Novick admits that he doesn’t know what the secret evidence is against Jack because Logan has been keeping his own counsel. “It’s been a strange night,” Novick sighs. They both have suspicions but are afraid to express them.
1:57 A.M.
Karen looks up Buchanan’s home number and calls him from her cell. She warns him to get Chloe out because Miles has traced her there. Karen acknowledges that she made a mistake, but things started to make sense when Shari told her what Chloe said about Logan’s involvement.
1:58 A.M.
Although Buchanan urges her to leave, Chloe won’t stop working because Jack needs the passenger list.
1:59 A.M.
On the tarmac, Jack sees workers load baggage into the underbelly of the plane. He sneaks into the cargo door before it shuts. The plane revs its engines preparing for takeoff.
2:00 A.M.
Karen hears from Buchanan that Chloe is leaving and that Jack stowed away on a diplomatic plane where a passenger has the recording. Miles comes in as she is on the phone. Karen orders him to handle the Buchanan house ambush in the situation room instead of her office.
2:03 A.M.
Karen lets Buchanan know that he will be arrested as a suspect. She wants Chloe to contact her on a dry channel. Buchanan sends Chloe out and directs her to walk to a nearby hotel.
2:04 A.M.
The Homeland Security team knocks on Buchanan’s door. He stalls as much as possible and tells them he will only speak to Karen. Karen orders Buchanan be brought into CTU and that they set up a search for Chloe’s car.
2:05 A.M.
Miles has reservations about Karen’s decision to not interrogate Buchanan on site. She is emphatic that she wants to do it herself.
2:06 A.M.
Chloe enters the hotel and sets up her laptop at the lobby bar. She calls Karen and instructs her to look up the manifest of the flight that Jack is on. Karen puts the data on a shared file so that Chloe can access it.
2:07 A.M.
Jack sits in the plane’s cargo area. Chloe calls him and explains that Karen is secretly helping her. Jack asks her to get the air marshal’s seat number and to cross examine the passenger list against Henderson.
2:08 A.M.
Chloe gives Jack the air marshal’s name and seat number.
2:09 A.M.
Jack opens up the cargo door leading to the floor of the plane’s galley. He climbs out unnoticed. Jack goes to the row where the air marshal is and sits down. He knocks the air marshal out with his elbow, then props a pillow under the man’s head to give the appearance that he is asleep. Jack takes the air marshal’s gun.
2:14 A.M.
Chloe gives Jack the identity of their suspect on the plane. Hans Meyer is a German connected to Henderson through Omicron.
2:15 A.M.
Jack approaches Meyer, pretending to be the air marshal. He asks him to identify his baggage because there is something suspicious. Meyer complies and follows Jack to the galley. Jack knocks him out and dumps him through the cargo door. He climbs in and shuts the door.
2:16 A.M.
Martha asks the Secret Service agent outside her bedroom why she can’t have her medication. He has been instructed not to give it to her.
2:17 A.M.
Martha summons Novick to her room and demands her pills. She won’t say why she needs them so badly, but she is visibly upset. Novick promises to try to help her.
2:20 A.M.
Graham calls Logan, who says that Jack has not been found yet.
2:21 A.M.
Novick warns the President that Martha is agitated and wants her medication. Logan is angry and refuses. “Is there something going on that I should know about?” Novick asks pointedly. He says that Martha would not tell him anything. Logan assures him that it has nothing to do with national security and is merely a personal matter. The couple has come to the conclusion that their marriage is over. Novick apologizes, and Logan allows him to give Martha her meds.
2:22 A.M.
Jack wakes Meyer up. Meyer insists that he has not seen Henderson in months. Jack forces him to open up his luggage.
2:23 A.M.
A man named Ross approaches Chloe in the bar. When she doesn’t respond to his advances, he retreats. Chloe calls Airport Customs and asks to speak to someone in passenger clearing.
2:24 A.M.
A flight attendant alerts the passengers to remain in their seats because they are expecting turbulence. She notices that someone is missing. Suddenly, the air marshal flops from his seat. An attendant notifies Cotter, the pilot, that the air marshal has been assaulted. Following procedure, Cotter tells his copilot to lock the cockpit door and prepare to reverse course.
2:25 A.M.
The air marshal warns the flight attendant that the man who was next to him has taken his gun.
2:29 A.M.
Novick brings Martha her pills. He wonders what she is hiding because he thinks both she and the President are covering something up. Martha claims that it is only marital problems.
2:31 A.M.
As Jack goes through his luggage, Meyer maintains that he is innocent. Chloe thinks Jack has the wrong guy because Meyers was in Customs for the last three hours. Jack feels the plane turning and he realizes that they know he is on board. He tries to open the cargo door, but he’s been sealed in.
2:32 A.M.
The air marshal locks the cargo door and tells the flight attendant to signal the pilot. She is concerned that the passenger taken hostage could die, but the marshal is insistent.
2:33 A.M.
The cargo air starts to depressurize. If they can’t get back into the main cabin, Jack and Meyer will lose consciousness. Jack calls Chloe, who sees the security bulletin about the plane. She has Karen connect Jack to the pilot.
2:34 A.M.
As Chloe waits for Karen, Ross from the bar comes over to hit on her again. She zaps him with a stun gun and Ross passes out. Karen connects Cotter to Jack’s phone. Jack explains that he is a federal agent and needs pressure restored to cargo because it is a matter of national security. Cotter is skeptical of Jack’s claims, and he turns to his copilot, Evans. Evans doesn’t want to take a chance and advises Cotter not to obey. Cotter refuses Jack’s request.
2:35 A.M.
Jack opens up a panel, exposing cables. He takes a belt from the luggage and uses it to bend one of the cables. The plane lurches and the passengers react in horror.
2:36 A.M.
Jack tells the pilot that he will responsible if anything happens to the plane. Cotter concedes to bring pressure back into the cargo area. He orders the flight attendant to open the cargo hatch door. Jack comes out and has the air marshal locked into the baggage area.
2:37 A.M.
The passengers scream when they see Jack’s gun. He wants Cotter to keep the plane in a holding pattern so that he can search it. The pilot is bound by law to land the plane as soon as possible.
2:43 A.M.
Logan panics when he learns that Jack hijacked a diplomatic flight to look for the recording. He calls Graham, who instructs him to order the plane down.
2:44 A.M.
Karen learns about Jack’s plane being forced to land. She knows that the President will take over the plane as soon as it touches the ground and she urgently needs confirmation of that tape. Buchanan is brought into CTU in handcuffs. Karen tells Miles she will handle him.
2:45 A.M.
Miles calls Novick because he is concerned about how Karen is dealing with Buchanan. Novick doesn’t have time for him, and he thinks Karen’s actions are probably necessary.
2:47 A.M.
Miles notices that Karen has shut down the feed in the holding room. She tells Buchanan that will remain skeptical until she sees the evidence against the President. Karen briefs Buchanan about Jack’s current situation.
2:48 A.M.
Karen is interrupted by a call from Logan and Novick, who want an update on the diplomatic flight’s hijack. Logan insists that Jack is a fugitive looking to escape. He wants him taken down, dead or alive. Novick is shocked by this. Karen apprehensively agrees to the order.
2:49 A.M.
Buchanan thinks that Logan wants to stop Jack from finding the evidence. Yet Karen has no authority to prevent the plane from landing.
Novick questions the President’s decision. Logan insists that Jack has been lying to them all day.
2:54 A.M.
At the bar, Ross wakes up and Chloe stun guns him back out. She phones flight operations and asks why the copilot didn’t board the plane. She learns that he was replaced at the last minute by Evans. Chloe looks up Evans’s history and sees that he was a private pilot for Omicron.
2:55 A.M.
Chloe calls Jack with the latest discovery. She patches him into the pilot and Jack explains that Evans is connected to a known terrorist. Cotter is shocked, but doesn’t say anything out loud. He feigns a cramp in his leg and gets up from the seat. When Cotter makes a move to open the cockpit door, Evans knocks him out with a flashlight.
2:57 A.M.
Jack breaks into the cockpit and slugs Evans. He trains his gun on him and demands the recording. Evans hands it over. Jack makes him get back in the driver’s seat to land the plane. He calls Chloe and warns her that he will soon be on the ground.
2:58 A.M.
A drugged-up Martha calls Logan from her bedroom. She knows he’s a good man, but doesn’t understand why he didn’t come to her for advice. Logan counters that she has been close to a nervous breakdown for the last three years. He hangs up on her to take another call.
2:59 A.M.
Graham knows that Jack has the recording and is controlling the plane. He picked up a call from Chloe to Karen. Graham orders the President to shoot down the plane. The only other option is for Logan to go to prison for treason and murder.
3:00 A.M.
As Evans prepares to land the plane, Jack calls Karen and tells her he has the recording. He doesn’t want anyone loyal to the President to interfere with his taking it back to CTU. Buchanan assures Jack that a team will be there to escort him.
3:02 A.M.
Curtis comes into the clinic to let Audrey know that Heller survived the car crash and is being treated. She is elated that her father is alive.
3:03 A.M.
Karen orders Curtis to pick up Jack at the Van Nuys Airport. He must make sure that Jack and the evidence are protected from Logan’s militia.
3:04 A.M.
Graham informs Logan that his people can arrange a distress signal from the plane to make it appear that there is a hijacking. This will give the President legal reason to have the plane shot down. Logan is reluctant to kill innocent people, but he knows there is no other choice to protect himself.
3:06 A.M.
Miles is alarmed to see Buchanan and Karen walk out together from the holding room. Karen says that new intelligence has emerged, but she won’t tell Miles what it is.
3:07 A.M.
Novick reports to the President that a hijack distress call came from Jack’s plane. There is a possibility it will target something on the ground.
3:08 A.M.
Logan and Novick are briefed by Admiral Kirkland from the Point Mugu Command Center. Logan feigns shock and horror that Jack would be in control of the plane. Kirkland advises him to bring down the plane. Novick doesn’t believe that Jack would use the plane as a weapon against civilians, but Kirkland insists there is no time to make another decision. Logan overrules Novick and authorizes the Admiral to have his F-18 fighter shoot down the plane.
3:10 A.M.
Karen gets word of the alert to shoot down the plane and she calls Jack. Jack asks Buchanan to find a stretch of freeway to touch down.
3:14 A.M.
Miles watches with mounting dismay as Chloe is brought into CTU. Buchanan and Karen give her the news about Jack’s plane and ask her to find out exactly how much time he has before the F-18 reaches him.
3:16 A.M.
Jack has the flight attendant prepare the passengers for an emergency landing. Buchanan gives him a freeway where he can land. Evans is hesitant to land on the road, but Jack forces him to obey.
3:17 A.M.
Karen calls Curtis and redirects him to the freeway where Jack will land.
3:18 A.M.
Admiral Kirkland patches the President through to the pilot of the F-18.
Chloe taps into the radar feed and finds that the missile from the jet will hit Jack before he can land. Jack orders Evans to descend faster, even if it means the landing will be jeopardized.
3:19 A.M.
The passengers scream when the plane lunges. With the F-18 almost within missile range, Jack makes Evans continue pushing the plane downward. Jack sees the freeway out the cockpit window. He tells Evans to level off, but the plane is not able to pull out of the dive.
3:20 A.M.
Jack demands that Evan lower the landing gear, even though they are at one thousand feet above the ground.
The F-18 pilot notifies Logan and Kirkland that the plane is landing on the freeway. Kirkland recommends to the President that they abort, but Logan is adamant that they shoot it down anyway. Novick implores him to reconsider. Logan realizes that he has been outmaneuvered and agrees to abort. Yet he demands that Marine units apprehend Jack on the freeway.
3:21 A.M.
Although the plane is still going too fast to land, Evans completes the descent and the plane slams down on the freeway. It screeches to a halt just before its wings reach an overpass.
3:22 A.M.
Buchanan tells Jack that Curtis will be there to pick him up. Jack instructs the passengers to exit at the back while he goes to the side door and climbs down from the wing. Jack breaks into a run on the ground.
3:27 A.M.
Graham chides Logan for not following the plan. Logan answers that he had no pretext to shoot the plane, and reassures Graham that Marines will pick up Jack before he escapes.
3:28 A.M.
Jack hides below the overpass and calls Curtis, who is approaching from the opposite side of where the Marines are posted.
3:29 A.M.
Jack gets in Curtis’s car and they hit a roadblock. Curtis identifies himself to the Marines, and he says he is there to apprehend Jack. The Marines have orders to detain everyone, but Curtis claims that they are wasting time. He says they can shoot at him even though he is a federal officer. The Marines wave the car through.
3:30 A.M.
Curtis calls CTU and says he will head in using back streets to avoid more roadblocks. Buchanan is sure that the Marines are under direct orders from Logan.
Miles calls Karen in the conference room and demands to know what’s going on because he is watching her work with two people that were under arrest for aiding a fugitive. He threatens to call someone else for answers. Karen agrees to talk to him. She explains to Buchanan and Chloe that Miles has been loyal to her and she has no choice but to trust him.
3:31 A.M.
Karen tells Miles that Jack retrieved evidence implicating Logan. Miles is hesitant and tries to play devil’s advocate. They are interrupted by an agent informing them that Bierko is ready to be moved. Karen urges Miles to keep this a secret.
3:34 A.M.
A bruised Bierko is brought out in shackles. They are transferring him to a holding facility at District.
3:35 A.M.
Bierko is loaded into a transport van. He nods to the driver, who nods back.
3:40 A.M.
Logan is alarmed to find out that Jack was not taken into custody by the Marines. This hits Logan like a death sentence. Novick notices that this reaction is odd.
3:42 A.M.
Logan sees on his cell phone that Graham is calling. He doesn’t pick up.
3:43 A.M.
Curtis brings Jack to CTU. Jack hands the tape recorder to Chloe so that she can prepare it for the Attorney General.
3:44 A.M.
Jack goes to see Audrey in the medical unit and kisses her. He tells her that they got the evidence. “It’s over,” she sighs. Jack sits with her in silence.
3:45 A.M.
Logan opens a wooden box in his office. Inside is a .45 caliber pistol. He calls Graham and lets him know that Jack escaped. Graham knows that the Attorney General received a call from CTU, so the recording must be in their hands. “I still believe we were right,” Logan says. “I still believe that we acted in the best interests of the country.” Graham notes that the murder trial of a sitting President would devastate the country. Yet there cannot be a trial without a defendant. Logan confirms that neither Graham nor his associates will be implicated in anything. Logan hangs up, explaining that he has some things to take care of. He loads the pistol.
3:51 A.M.
Logan goes to see Martha, who is watching news broadcasts alone. He apologizes for hurting her but she doesn’t respond with sympathy to give him the closure he’s seeking. Martha says that she had no idea he was such a good liar. “If I wasn’t so horrified by the fact that I’m married to you, I might actually be impressed,” she says coldly.
3:55 A.M.
Logan walks back to his office, defeated. He quickly knocks back a glass of scotch for liquid courage and takes the pistol from the box. The office phone rings, and the operator informs the President that he has an urgent call from Miles about Jack. Logan takes the call.
3:57 A.M.
From a darkened corner of CTU, Miles explains to Logan that Jack delivered a recording which could compromise national security. Miles feels compelled to intervene and wants Logan’s approval. Logan smiles like a drowning man who’s just been thrown a safety line. He gives Miles his private number and asks him to keep him abreast of the situation. When Logan says he will not forget this favor, Miles is pleased. Logan puts away his gun.
3:59 A.M.
Miles goes into the conference room where Chloe is working on the tape. He leans on the table next to her and innocently asks if she will be ready for the teleconference. Chloe cannot see that he is holding a black device that flashes next to the tape recorder. Satisfied with what he has done, Miles leaves.
4:00 A.M.
Chloe sets up a feed to the Attorney General and to Congress. Yet when she tests the recording, there is nothing but white noise. Chloe remembers that Miles came in, claiming that Karen had him check up on her.
4:02 A.M.
Jack heads to the bullpen, and Karen calls for security to stop him. Jack punches the guard. He then grabs Miles by the throat and accuses him of obstructing the case. Karen orders Jack to let him go.
4:03 A.M.
Miles says that he has been transferred and Karen asks where. “The White House,” Jack sneers. Miles’ silence serves as an admission. Karen threatens to investigate, and Miles informs her that he now works for the President. Karen slaps him hard on the face. He leaves CTU.
4:05 A.M.
Karen sends Chloe to try to restore the tape.
4:06 A.M.
Logan quizzes Karen about a conference call with the Attorney General, but she claims it was a mistake. Logan wants to suspend the arrest for Jack because the evidence he has is “inconclusive.” Jack knows that Logan intends to make him an unobstructed target.
4:07 A.M.
CTU gets word that Bierko escaped from the transfer to District. The one agent who survived the attack on the van heard Bierko mention a nerve gas canister and tell his men that they “are not finished.” CTU had assumed all the canisters were destroyed in the gas plant explosion. Karen makes finding Bierko the new priority.
4:08 A.M.
Bierko’s man shows him the one canister kept in reserve.
4:13 A.M.
Martha gives Pierce’s cell phone to an agent on duty in hopes that it will be returned to him in Washington where he was transferred.
4:14 A.M.
Logan comes to see Pierce in the stables at the retreat. Pierce has been beaten and his hands are bound. Logan tells him that the tape recording no longer exists. Logan threatens him to save his own career in the Secret Service. Pierce calls Logan a traitor and a disgrace to the office.
4:16 A.M.
An agent named Adams tells Logan that Pierce is loyal to Palmer. Logan doesn’t say anything, and Adams understands what to do.
4:17 A.M.
Logan calls Graham and lets him know that the recording has been destroyed and Pierce is being taken care of. The arrangements to take out Jack have been put into motion.
4:19 A.M.
Novick brings the President news that Bierko escaped and is planning another attack. Logan is furious.
4:20 A.M.
Chloe cannot find any trace of Bierko on satellites or security cameras. Karen and Buchanan suggest offering a deal to Henderson in return for information on Bierko. Jack is adamant that they don’t because Henderson killed Palmer. Yet with no other option, Jack relents.
4:21 A.M.
Jack goes to Henderson in the holding room and tries to appeal to his patriotic sense. Henderson can tell Jack is not happy to be offering full immunity. Henderson’s only protection was that tape and now it’s gone. He will be killed if he is set free. Henderson offers to help Jack catch Bierko if they allow him to go underground with his wife
4:29 A.M.
Henderson gives up fourteen names that he thinks Bierko will contact. Jack has Chloe run a search.
4:30 A.M.
Jack tells Audrey that Henderson is helping them find Bierko. Audrey is angry that the man who tried to kill her father was offered immunity. Jack apologizes to her.
4:31 A.M.
Chloe finds that Victor Malina, one of the people on Henderson’s list, just got a call from a payphone in Van Nuys which was then called by a GSM satellite phone. Henderson warns them that it will take too long to roll Malina. He suggests that he go and talk to Malina himself. Jack knows Henderson can’t be trusted, but Karen and Buchanan decide that they have no other choice. Karen orders Jack to accompany Henderson. Jack threatens to kill Henderson if something goes awry.
4:33 A.M.
Martha is outside smoking a cigarette when she sees a government sedan pull into the stables.
4:34 A.M.
Agent Adams exits the sedan with a gun. The trunk of the car is lined in plastic. He takes the bound Pierce from the stable, but Pierce fights back. Martha walks in and surprises Adams with Pierce. Adams cannot shoot the First Lady, and this allows Pierce to kick him. Adams loses his gun. Just as Adams is about to hit Pierce with a tire iron, Martha grabs the gun and shoots Adams. She is in shock and drops the gun.
4:40 A.M.
Curtis drives Jack and Henderson to Victor Malina’s loft. Henderson won’t wear a wire because Malina will find it. Jack gives him only ten minutes to get information. Curtis sets teams around the perimeter.
4:41 A.M.
Henderson goes to the building and Malina lets him into the heavily-secured complex. Jack hoists himself up to the roof.
4:42 A.M.
At the door, Malina x-rays Henderson over the Backscatter monitor. There is nothing on him, and he is allowed entry.
4:43 A.M.
Jack affixes a sonar device to the skylight over Malina’s loft. He hears Henderson tell Malina to secure-cache his files because Jack and CTU are outside. Jack radios Curtis to move his teams in because Henderson welched on his promise.
4:44 A.M.
Malina starts crashing his own system as Curtis’s teams blast through the building entry. Jack breaks in from the roof. Henderson takes Malina’s gun and ducks. Malina fires at the TAC team, hitting Curtis in the shoulder. Jack shoots Malina and he makes Henderson come out from hiding.
4:46 A.M.
Jack accuses Henderson of trying to play him, but Henderson says that he was getting Malina to drop the firewall and download all his files onto a flash drive. Jack came in too soon and now the files are all decrypted on the mainframe. Jack doesn’t know what the truth is, but sends Chloe the files from Malina’s computer.
4:52 A.M.
Pierce tells Martha that Logan ordered Adams to kill him. Martha says she knows about the whole plot, but she can no longer remain silent. Pierce needs Logan to believe that he’s dead, so he has her go back inside and pretend nothing is different. Pierce asks her to tell Novick.
4:54 A.M.
Chloe uncovers Defense documents on Malina’s computer for a Russian submarine that is in America for inspection by the Navy. Karen explains that the Logan treaty called for the sharing of technology. Henderson confirms that the sub named Natalia would have multiple, non-nuclear warheads.
4:55 A.M.
Jack has Audrey contact the ranking U.S. officer on the Russian sub. Jack takes Henderson with him in a helicopter. He needs Henderson because he knows the weapon systems.
4:56 A.M.
Audrey connects Jack to the U.S. Navy officer aboard the submarine Natalia. Jack orders the Lieutenant to lock down the weapons system because the Natalia might be under siege by terrorists who will try to apprehend its missiles.
4:57 A.M.
The Lieutenant goes through the top hatch and Bierko shoots him. Jack hears the gunshots and has Audrey warn Defense.
4:48 A.M.
Bierko drops a Sentox canister into the hatch of the sub and releases the gas. The crew of the submarine falls to their deaths.
4:59 A.M.
Bierko and his gas-masked men board the sub. Bierko plugs a code that he got from Malina into a console. This allows him to take control of the sub’s weapons system.