2X10 - 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
WRITTEN BY DAVID ERHMAN
DIRECTED BY RODNEY CHARTERS
DISCLAIMER:
This is a fan written account of this episode of 24. I do not wish to obtain
any credit for it and am doing it for no financial gain. None of the characters
and script are my own. All credit for this episode goes solely to the actors
and writers who created it.
Recap: Previously on 24.
GEORGE MASON:
Six hours ago, a cache of weapon-grade plutonium was found in a warehouse,
we also found this! What you make of that guys?
BOB WARNER:
This is a bill of lading from our company.
MASON: For
a container sent to Sayed Ali.
REZA: I can
track the shipping order. The database is at the office.
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KATE WARNER:
My father really does work for the government, wouldn’t he have known if Reza
was doing something illegal?
[Kate and Paul
Koplin getting kidnapped.]
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KATE: Who are
you?
SAYED ALI:
My name is Sayed Ali. You were looking in places you do not belong.
KATE: I don’t
know anything!
ALI: Kill her.
KATE: No…
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JACK BAUER:
We’re going down! The pilots don’t know what happened. It felt like some kind
of an explosion.
MASON: God.
They were shot down…?
MICHELLE DESSLER:
By a ground-to-air missle.
[Blood drips
from George Mason’s nose.]
JACK: That
doesn’t look like Search and Rescue.
[The man shoots
Rick Phillips. Jack and Nina takes cover.]
JACK: Are they
coming here for you?
NINA MYERS:
I don’t know!
[Jack shoots
flare gun into man. Skips to Jack looking around, gun out. Nina emerges from
behind with rifle pointing at Jack.]
NINA: Drop
it Jack. I’ll tell you where the bomb is in exchange for immunity for the
murder of Jack Bauer.
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KIM BAUER:
Someone from CTU is supposed to pick us up.
COP: Captain
said it was out of their jurisdiction. He overruled it.
KIM: We told
you why we can’t go back to LA.
COP: Yeah.
I know. The bomb.
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PRESIDENT DAVID
PALMER: Ms. Myers. If the information you provide culminates in the successful
interception of the nuclear device, you’ll be pardoned in advance for the
murder of Jack Bauer.
JACK: Mr. President.
There was only one right choice to make and you made it.
---
**The following
takes place between 5PM and 6PM.**
---
PRESIDENT DAVID
PALMER: You’ve been told by a well-respected member of the press, Mr. Ron
Wieland, that there is imminent terrorist threat leveled against this country.
That is true, so far as it goes.
[Journalists
starts shouting questions and raising hands.]
PALMER: Please.
The fact is, we get a dozen such threats everyday. And do I know more about
them than I publicly reveal? Of course. What is released to the public and
when, is a matter of judgment. And you have elected me to exercise that judgment
in the best interests of this county. That’s what I’ve done since I took office.
That’s what I’m doing today. And I can assure you, that we have the situation
well under control and there is no cause for alarm. Thank you.
[Palmer walks
away, journalists starts shouting questions again.]
PALMER: It
wasn’t the Gettysburg Address, but it should buy us time.
MIKE NOVICK:
It was fine.
PALMER: What’s
the situation with Jack Bauer?
MIKE: He’s
still being held hostage by Nina Myers.
---
NINA MYERS:
Didn’t have to be like this Jack. I never meant for it to be personal.
JACK BAUER:
Felt pretty personal when you killed my wife.
NINA: I had
to. Teri overheard something that compromised my escape route.
JACK: What
about bombing CTU? All those people you used to work with?
NINA: I didn’t
bomb CTU. I just sold the plans.
JACK: You believe
what you have to Nina, but you killed your friends.
NINA: Shut
up Jack! Shut up! Now we are done talking. We’re just gonna wait for Palmer
to call and then this’ll all be over. You got it?!
[Jack spots
a CTU agent getting in position with a sniper on some elevated ground, ready
to snipe down Nina, just needed Bauer to lure her out of her secluded area.]
JACK: You know
what Nina? You’re right. I don’t really want to sit here and wait to die.
NINA: Don’t
move Jack!
[Jack stands
up, Nina stands up. Jack starts walking. Nina scoots forwards a bit, fire
at a nearby mound of earth. Jack turns around; Nina holds her gun at ready.]
JACK: you kill
me before they verify the information, you’ll be in violation of you agreement.
They’ll just slap your ass back in jail.
NINA: And you’ll
be dead.
JACK: I’m already
dead.
[Jack shrugs
and waves his hand in defeat. He starts walking backwards; Nina walks forward
a few steps.]
NINA: Last
warning Jack. That’s it! One more step and I’ll shoot.
[The CTU agent
waits patiently for Nina to step out to the open. Nina scoots forward a bit
more, and the agent has clear shot. He took it.]
NINA: Argh!
[Nina collapses,
Jack shields himself.]
MAN: Team one,
move in! Go!
MAN2: Go, go,
go!
MAN: Move,
move, move!
MAN2: Grab
her!
MAN: Secure
the weapon.
MAN2: Got it.
[They secure
Nina and her weapon.]
MAN: Notify
the chopper!
MAN2: Get her
up!
[Jack smirks.]
---
COP: Let’s
go.
MIGUEL: We’re
not going back to LA.
COP: We’ve
already been through this.
MIGUEL: No
way.
KIM: I told
you before.
COP: I know,
the bomb. Move. Walk.
MIGUEL: Man,
forget about us. What about you? You wanna get blown to pieces?
KIM: I told
you who my dad was. You think they’d send someone from CTU?
COP: Get in!
MIGUEL: I’m
not going back to LA!
[Miguel does
a small wall run against the SUV police vehicle. The cop staggers, but recovers
quickly to push Miguel down on the floor. A lighter drops out of Miguel’s
pocket.]
KIM: Miguel!
COP: Get down!
Get down! Don’t move.
[Miguel rolls
over and picks up the lighter without anybody noticing.]
COP: I got
him.
KIM: Miguel!
Careful.
COP: Let’s
go. Get in.
[Cop opens
car door and shoves the two of them in.]
---
MIKE: Yes.
Good. Yes I’ll tell him. It’s over.
PALMER: Is
Jack okay?
MIKE: Yes they
got to Nina before she could shoot him.
PALMER: What
about her?
MIKE: Just
as you requested, she wasn’t seriously hurt. Sir they’re awaiting your orders.
Do you want her taken back to prison?
PALMER: No.
We’ll honor our original deal. I’ll pardon her for the charges of murder and
treason as soon as we confirm her information.
MIKE: In the
meantime, where do you want her?
PALMER:
MIKE: Yes sir.
[Mike smirks.]
---
JACK(RADIO):
That’s affirmative. I’ll meet the chopper just south of the gully in the field.
MAN(RADIO):
Roger that.
JACK(RADIO):
Copy.
JACK: Now…
[Jack whispers
something in-audible into Nina’s ears. Nina looks at Jack. Jack walks away.
Jack follows the agent from the road. He examines one of the dead enemy’s
corpse; the hand had a cobra snake tattoo on it.]
---
[Richards and
Agent Maccabee leads Reza Naiyeer into the office of Bob Warner.]
RICHARDS: We’re
here to find transactions you claim Bob Warner had with Sayed Ali. The sooner
we do that, the sooner we’re out of here. Have a seat.
[The Maccabee
un-cuffs Reza, and Richards helped him into a chair and cuffs him to the chair.]
REZA: I can’t
work like this.
RICHARDS: I’ll
be keying the computer.
[The computer
boots up.]
RICHARDS: How
do I open the invoice files?
REZA: What?
RICHARDS: I
need to access the invoice files.
REZA: File,
open, warehouse.
RICHARDS: How
are they ordered?
REZA: Chronologically
I think.
RICHARDS: You
think?
REZA: Look,
my fiancée just left me on my wedding day because I’m sending her father to
jail. And since he’s my employer, that pretty much means my whole life’s in
the toilet. So why don’t you cut me some slack.
RICHARD: There’s
a nuke somewhere in this city. And you don’t give me something useful in the
next hour; I’ll take you back to CTU and chain you to the roof, so you’ll
have a front row seat when the damn thing goes off.
---
[The man washes
his hands in a bucket of water, the water is already bloody. Paul Koplin’s
body is in the tiled bathtub, which is splattered with blood, under a plastic
covering. Kate is tied up on a chair. Sayed Ali enters. They speak in Arabic.]
ALI: I thought
you were going to kill her? If she knew anything she’d told us.
MAN: Probably,
but I’d like to be certain.
ALI: And I
would like to pray one last time, properly.
MAN: Of course.
You go pray, I’ll finish here.
[Sayed Ali
and the man embrace. Ali exits. The man glances at Koplin’s body and resumes
to speaking in English.]
MAN: Do you
want to suffer as he did?
KATE: No, of
course not.
MAN: Then tell
me what you’ve learned from your father’s computer files, who you told.
KATE: I already
told you. I don’t know anything.
[The man looks
through a box of tools and examines one of the sharp surgical knifes carefully.]
---
05:09:37..
38.. 39.. **Fades out.**
05:14:02..
03.. 04.. 05.. 06.. 07.. 08
---
MIKE: Jack
Bauer.
[Mike Novick
hands Palmer a portable telephone.]
PALMER: Jack?
JACK: Mr. President,
the soldiers that attacked us at the crash site, they were Americans. Or at
least American trained.
PALMER: What?
JACK: One of
the soldiers that was killed had a tattoo of a coral snake on his arm. That’s
a signature of a group out of
PALMER: What
sort of group?
JACK: A deep
cover special ops unit. The only reason I know about the tattoos sir, is because
early in my career they tried to recruit me. Their commander is a Colonel
Samuels.
PALMER: I’ve
never heard of this unit.
JACK: No sir,
you wouldn’t have. That’s the point. They’d be buried pretty heavily in NSA’s
budget.
PALMER: NSA.
Okay. Even if NSA originally trained him, isn’t it possible he’s freelancing
now? A mercenary?
JACK: If it
was just the tattoo, I’d agree with you. But the men that attacked us had
access to our flight plan. The only way they could have got that information
was from on the inside. Mr. President, I know it sounds very far-fetched that
we got attacked by Americans, but that tattoo is very distinctive and very
specific.
PALMER: I appreciate
the information Jack. Where are you now?
JACK: We’re
in a chopper, we’re on our way to the address that Nina Myers provided for
us. We should be touching down soon sir. Our ETA is 15 minutes.
PALMER: Keep
me posted Jack.
JACK: Yes Mr.
President.
---
[George Mason
is standing in his office, looking tired, worn and sad. He has tears in his
eyes. Michelle enters.]
MICHELLE: Sir,
Jack’s on his way to the Sayed Ali house. Do you want me to patch a feed up
here?
MASON: No..
I assume you have that under control.
MICHELLE: Yeah
we do…
[Mason coughs
furiously with his back turned towards Michelle. After a moment, he spots
her still standing there and leans around.]
MASON: Was
there something else?
[Michelle walks
in and stands next to the table.]
MICHELLE: I’m
sorry.
MASON: So what
are you gonna do tomorrow?
MICHELLE: What?
MASON: If the
bomb doesn’t go off. Thought about it?
MICHELLE: No.
MASON: You’ll
probably come back to work here?
MICHELLE: Of
course, why wouldn’t I?
MASON: I don’t
know. Are you happy in this job? Hm? Believe it or not, I used to want to
be a teacher… a long time ago. You know why I didn’t?
[Michelle smiles
and shakes her head. Mason smirks.]
MASON: ‘Cause
DOD offered me more money. That’s how I made my decision. So I made myself
miserable, and I made everyone else around me miserable, for an extra 5,000
dollars a year. That was my price.
MICHELLE: Sorry.
[Mason shrugs
and gets out of his chair. He walks around the table and up to Michelle.]
MASON: You
know.. Michelle, mmhm… I’m not a big advice giver… But under the circumstances,
don’t wait around for your life to happen around you. Find something that
makes you happy, do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
[Mason puts
his arm around Michelle’s shoulder and walks over to the window. He gives
her a fatherly smile and pats her on the back. Michelle walks away with a
sad smile on her face, tears in her eyes. Mason sits back down and puts on
his glasses, magnifying his teary eyes.]
---
PALMER: Roger.
ROGER STANTON:
Mr. President.
PALMER: Tell
me everything you know about Colonel Ron Samuels from
PALMER: What
about a special ops unit from down there called Coral Snake?
PALMER: How
could NSA be funding a paramilitary group and you not know anything about
it?
PALMER: That’s
absurd. NSA is information gathering only. They have no military mandate.
PALMER: How
would you know that Roger? A minute ago you told me you’d never heard of them.
PALMER: You
do that.
[
PALMER: Jack
Bauer’s plane was shot down by an American military unit. Jack told me himself.
I won’t go into details, except to say that I believe him.
MIKE: American
military?! Why?
PALMER: I just
spoke to Roger Stanton. I think he’s hiding something from me. I’m going to
arrest him.
SHERI PALMER:
Arrest the head of NSA?
PALMER: Bauer
said the unit that attacked his plane is connected to a Colonel Samuels out
of
SHERI: With
all due respect David, that’s pretty thin.
PALMER: By
itself yes. But the ambassador’s chopper crash, the evacuation of military
personnel out of LA, Ron Wieland’s escape from custody, those things happened
after
SHERI: Firing
MIKE: If the
President’s right, he’s not running the search, he’s impeding it.
SHERI: Why
would he do such a thing?
MIKE: I don’t
know. But if he is, we have a better chance of finding the bomb if we get
rid of him.
SHERI: David.
You can’t do this on a hunch. If
MIKE: If you
do nothing and he is guilty of something, you’ll be blamed anyway.
SHERI: No,
no, no. At the very least, we need to get some kind of proof, some evidence.
You cannot just arrest the head of NSA, David.
PALMER: Sheri’s
right Mike. We need proof. Find me a connection between Stanton and this Colonel
Samuels. And find it quickly.
[Mike nods
and exits. Sheri stares at Palmer.]
---
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
LA County 470, go ahead.
COP(RADIO):
Yeah this is Officer Brown with Valley. I’m trying to reach Detective Bill
Gucoff.
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
Brown. You’re transporting two suspects down to Central?
BROWN(RADIO):
Mmhm. That’s right.
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
Hold on, I’ll patch you through.
GUCOFF(RADIO):
Gucoff here.
BROWN(RADIO):
Hey Bill.
GUCOFF(RADIO):
Yeah?
BROWN(RADIO):
Hey listen, I’m bringing the prisoners down.
GUCOFF(RADIO):
Alright. You got everything under control?
BROWN(RADIO):
The guy gave us a little bit of trouble…
[Miguel leans
forwards, one of his hands holding the lighter and looks at Kim.]
KIM: What?
MIGUEL: Get
the bandanna out of my pocket.
KIM: Why?
MIGUEL: To
start a fire.
KIM: What?
You’re crazy.
MIGUEL: He’ll
have to pull over and stop the car.
KIM: And then
he’ll put it out. Then what?
MIGUEL: I don’t
know. Maybe… Maybe it’ll do enough damage and we’ll have to go back to the
station. It’ll buy us time.
KIM: This is
crazy.
MIGUEL: Crazier
than going to
BROWN(RADIO):
Hey listen uh.. this might sound a little crazy, but did you happen to hear
anything about some kind of a bomb threat today?
GUCOFF(RADIO):
What?
MIGUEL: Ugh..
I can’t do this. You gotta do it.
KIM: No.
MIGUEL: Why
can’t you do it Kim. You’re smaller.
GUCOFF(RADIO):
No I haven’t heard anything.
BROWN(RADIO):
You sure?
MIGUEL: Come
on.
GUCOFF(RADIO):
Why? Somebody tell you there was a bomb or something? What’s going on? You
know something that I don’t? What’s up?
BROWN(RADIO):
I don’t know, it may be nothing, but one of the kids here, apparently her
father works for CTU.
[The lid of
the lighter clicks. Officer Brown turns around to look at the kids to investigate
the noise but found nothing unusual.]
BROWN(RADIO):
He gave her some kind of information about a bomb or something. Just check
it out for me. Like I said, it’s probably nothing, but…
GUCOFF(RADIO):
Okay.
BROWN(RADIO):
Okay Gucoff, I owe you one.
[Kim successfully
set the handkerchief alight. Kim stuffs it through the metal wiring that separates
the cop from the prisoner compartment. Officer tries to put out the fire while
the SUV is still moving. They run off the pavement and down the hill, out
of control.]
---
05:23:43..
44.. 45.. **Fades out.**
05:27:55..
56.. 57.. 58.. 59..
---
[Kim climbs
out from above the wreckage of the car crash to the cop’s side of the car.
She takes the keys from the officer’s belt and un-cuffs herself.]
MIGUEL: Kim!
KIM: Hang on
okay?
[Kim takes
the officer’s radio.]
KIM(RADIO):
Hello. Can anyone hear me?
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
This is CHP Station Six. Come in.
MIGUEL: Kim,
Kim! Don’t!
KIM(RADIO):
We’re on San Fernando, the 118. There’s been an accident. We need an ambulance.
Right away.
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
How’s the officer?
KIM(RADIO):
He’s hurt badly. So is someone else.
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
Two injured?
KIM(RADIO):
Yes.
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
Alright. Stay there. We’re getting someone there now.
KIM: Hang on!
DISPATCHER(RADIO):
All units. All units proceed to San Fernando at 118. MVA, officer down. Officer
down.
[Miguel has
had a terrible nosebleed. Kim climbs out of the SUV again via the broken window.
She gets in the part where Miguel is trapped and laid there with her head
next to Miguel’s chest.]
---
MAN: I’m gonna
ask you just once more huh?
[Man is holding
Kate Warner’s earlobe, also with a glistening surgical knife in his hands.]
MAN: Who did
you tell?
KATE: Mmm.
No one.
[Kate Warner
winces in pain as the man carefully cut a line on her earlobe.]
---
TOM BAKER:
Here’s an infrared of the house. Two people both in this room. We assume one
is Ali. But we’ll need to take them both alive.
JACK: Are your
men in position?
BAKER: Give
them 90 seconds.
JACK: Good.
[Jack connects
to George Mason on the phone.]
MASON: Yeah?
JACK: George
it’s me.
MASON: Jack-
Where are you?
JACK: I’m on
site. Sayed Ali’s in the house. We’re gonna be ready to move in, in about
a minute. We’d need auxiliary teams ready to move as soon as we find out the
location of this bomb.
MASON: Yeah.
We’re already working on it.
JACK: Yeah.
I’ll get back to you as soon as we get him.
[They hang
up. We can see that Mason’s tissue in which he just wiped his nose with is
stained with blood.]
JACK(RADIO):
Agent Baker?
BAKER(RADIO):
Baker here.
JACK: Let me
know as soon as your teams are ready.
BAKER(RADIO):
Roger that.
---
REZA: This
is Bob Warner’s access code. As you can see, he logged on roughly twice as
often as I did.
MACCABEE(OUTSIDE
THE DOOR): This is a restricted area, Ms. Warner.
MARIE (OUTSIDE
THE DOOR): I need to speak with Reza right now.
MACCABEE(OTD):
I’m afraid I can’t do that.
MARIE (OTD):
Just a minute, it’s our wedding day.
MACCABEE(OTD):
I realize that. We’re in the middle of an investigation.
MARIE (OTD):
Can I talk to him for one minute?
[Richards gets
up, annoyed and walks over to door and opens it.]
MARIE: Can
I talk to Reza for a minute?
MACCABEE: I
tried to explain.
RICHARDS: Make
it fast.
MARIE: Thank
you.
[Marie comes
in, embraces Reza.]
REZA: Marie?
MARIE: Hey
what I said before, I didn’t mean it. I’m so sorry, just this whole thing
has been such a shock.
REZA: No, no,
no. It’s alright.
MARIE: you
are the man I’m going to marry. I know, whatever you’re doing, you have to
do it. I love you. Whatever happens- happens.
REZA: My angel.
RICHARDS: We
have to get back to work.
[Marie kisses
Reza goodbye.]
RICHARDS: You
can wait in the next room if you’d like.
MARIE: Thank
you.
[Marie exits.
Agent Maccabee closes the door.]
---
[The man picks
up a crimson towel and gently wiped Kate’s wound and neck clean of the blood.
Kate winces in pain.]
MAN: It’s not
nearly as bad as it feels.
[Baker leads
SWAT team through the back following Jack. The man and Kate are still oblivious
of the raid.]
KATE: You don’t
have to kill me. Just leave me here. By the time someone finds me, you’ll
be 100 miles away.
MAN: Something’s
going to happen, very soon.
[The man takes
out a gun from a drawer. Jack holding his shotgun at ready, signals it’s clear
to Baker and his team, who followed.]
MAN: Something
terrible, which will cause much suffering. This will be easier.
[The man cocks
the gun. Kate gasps and shuts her eyes and the man positions himself directly
behind Kate, aiming his gun at her head. The man hears footsteps from above.
He can see a man’s shadow through the glass ceiling.]
MAN: Take cover!
[The man shot
his automatic weapon on the walls surrounding the room, letting his bullets
rip through the thin walls. Jack, Baker and his team leaps down just in time
to dodge the incoming bullets.]
JACK: Fall
back! Fall back!
MAN: I have
a woman! If you come any closer, I’ll kill the woman!
[The man points
his gun at the door with one hand, pulls the chair tied to Kate in the other
and retreats into a corner.]
JACK: Bring
in the shield now.
BAKER(RADIO):
We need the body bunker right away.
KATE: They
don’t negotiate. Yet they do shoot. It’s not you they want alive. It’s me.
JACK: I’ll
try to take him out with a beanbag hit.
[Jack signals
to man with shield. He follows the shield man to the door. Baker holds up
his hand to signal for his remaining men to wait. Jack nods the shield man
and the shield man kicks open the door. The man shoots at the shield man,
but to no avail. Jack dodges right from behind the shield man and takes out
the enemy. Kate gasps. Jack secures the man.]
JACK: Suspect
is secure. (goes to Kate) You’re alright. You’re alright. It’s alright. It’s
alright. Just relax. Take a breath.
[Baker runs
in to take custody of the man. Jack leads a gasping Kate Warner away.]
JACK: It’s
over. It’s over. Someone get a medic! You’re alright. Okay?
[Baker turns
the man over, to find him foaming at the mouth. Another CTU agent leads Kate
away to safety.]
BAKER: Jack,
he’s going into convulsions.
JACK: What?
Did you see him take anything?
BAKER: I was
watching him the whole time.
[Baker checks
the man.]
BAKER: Cyanide.
He must have had it in his mouth already.
JACK: We need
a medic in here now! We need a medic now!
MAN(RADIO):
Copy that!
[Baker furiously
tries to revive the man. Jack glances at Baker’s troubled face and stood up.]
JACK: Dammit!
I want him photographed, fingerprints, everything. I want it sent it over
to CTU for analysis. I want confirmation that that is Sayed Ali.
[Jack punches
the door in frustration and exits.]
---
05:34:45..
46.. 47.. **Fades out.**
05:38:55..
56.. 57.. 58.. 59.. 00.. 01..
---
MIGUEL: You’ve
called them. You should go.
[Miguel couldn’t
move. Kim continues to lay by Miguel’s side.]
KIM: I’ll go
when they get here.
MIGUEL: It’ll
be too late. They’ll see you.
KIM: I’ll be
fine.
[Kim cries.]
KIM: Thank
you so much… for everything. As soon as this is all over, I’m gonna find you
okay? I promise.
[Distant sounds
of sirens. Kim sits up.]
MIGUEL: Go.
[Kim leans
over and kisses Miguel. The sirens get louder. Kim clambers out of the SUV
and runs towards the woods away from the highway. She looks at the ambulance
from behind the tree. There’s a bunch of cops and medics running down to the
wreckage.]
MEDIC: Notify
dispatch. 143. Move!
[Kim runs away.]
---
BAKER: Did
you get the area locked down?
AGENT: Yes
sir.
[Kate is holding
her ear with a handkerchief. A medic leaves her. Jack Bauer approaches.]
JACK: You should
drink some water.
[Jack offers
Kate water and Kate gratefully accepts. Jack takes off his jacket and
drapes it over Kate’s shivering frame.]
JACK: Miss
Warner, my name is Jack Bauer. I’m a federal agent. I know you’ve been through
a terrible ordeal in there, but I’m afraid I’d have to ask you a few questions.
Would that be alright?
[Kate nods.]
JACK: How did
you get here?
KATE: Um...
I was… trying to help my sister. So I hired a private investigator. Those
men thought we knew something… But we didn’t know anything-
JACK: Slow.
Slow down, slow down. The dead man in the other room; that was a private investigator?
KATE: Paul
Koplin. What they did to him…
JACK: They?
There was more than one man here? How many men were there?
KATE: Two.
The other one left before you came.
JACK: Did you
get his name?
KATE: Sayed
Ali.
JACK: Are you
sure? Can you describe him for me?
KATE: Tall.
Thin.
JACK: Do you
remember what kind of clothes he was wearing?
KATE: A black
shirt. With… silver buttons down the front. Black pants.
JACK: Do you
remember what kind of a car he got into when he left? Do you know where he
was going?
[Kate shakes
her head to both questions. Jack takes out his radio.]
JACK: Excuse
me for one moment.
JACK(RADIO):
Baker, this is Agent Bauer. Sayed Ali is still alive. We are looking for a
Middle Eastern man, wearing all black. I didn’t get a make on the car. Send
out a description and an APB. We need to find him. Now.
BAKER(RADIO):
Copy.
JACK: Miss
Warner? You said you came here to help your sister; who is she?
KATE: Marie.
Marie Warner. She was supposed to get married today.
---
PALMER: Sheri,
tell Mike what you told me.
SHERI: There’s
a back-channel communications network that the CIA used to use, called OPCOM.
It’s been shut down for over 20 years. Last month, NSA was given orders to
resurrect it. It was an eyes-only order issued by Roger Stanton.
MIKE: I’m not
sure that’s enough.
PALMER: By
itself, it’s not. Unless Stanton used OPCOM to contact Colonel Samuels in
the last few hours.
SHERI: My source
is checking on that now.
PALMER: Mike,
call the Attorney General. Start working on this from the legal side. If we
find this connection, we’ll move on it, have Stanton arrested.
[Mike nods
and exits.]
---
JACK: I think
we got a positive ID on John Doe 1. I want you to cross-reference his prints
with the name Paul Koplin.
[Jack Bauer
calls CTU.]
WOMAN: CTU.
JACK: Yeah,
it’s Bauer, put me through to Tony.
TONY: Jack,
its Tony. What’s up?
JACK: I’m still
at the house. Look, I just through questioning the woman that Sayed Ali was
torturing for information. Her name is Kate Warner. I want you to run a background
check.
TONY: Did you
say Kate Warner?
JACK: Yeah.
Why?
TONY: I had
her family picked up this morning. I was with Kate Warner a few hours ago
Jack.
JACK: What
are you talking about? What’s the connection?
TONY: A guy
named Reza Naiyeer, her sister’s fiancé, had dealings with Sayed Ali. Of course
he’s denying it. He’s saying it was the father, Bob Warner. I had Richards
take Naiyeer over to Bob Warner’s office to try and hack into his computer.
I have Warner here with me right now. Jack, will Kate talk to you? ‘Cause
her family’s not cooperating.
JACK: Yeah,
I think so.
TONY: Jack?
There’s one more thing.
JACK: What?
TONY: The father,
Bob Warner, he freelances for the CIA.
JACK: Okay.
Look, we’re gonna have to start from the beginning with this thing. You’ll
have to run everything again. Start connecting the dots. These people are
involved; somehow you gotta find out how. Now get back to me as soon as you
got anything.
TONY: Alright,
you got it.
[They hang
up.]
JACK: Gentlemen,
I need you to pack up. I need the room.
[Forensics
leaves.]
JACK(RADIO):
Agent Baker?
BAKER(RADIO):
Baker here.
JACK(RADIO):
How is Ms. Warner doing?
BAKER(RADIO):
Not so good.
JACK(RADIO):
As soon as you think she’s ready, I need you to bring her back down to the
bathroom.
BAKER(RADIO):
Will do. Baker out.
---
SHERI(PHONE):
Yeah. Those three dates and anything the following week. Hold on.
PALMER(PHONE):
Okay Good. Let me know as soon as you find something out. Thanks.
MIKE: Sir?
PALMER: What
have we got?
MIKE: I found
a way into the OPCOM channels.
PALMER: Good.
Tunnel in.
MIKE: Problem
is, the files are password protected. We’ll need someone internal to open
them. It’ll take time.
SHERI: Hold.
No, it’s not. I just got the name of a deputy director who’s retired, but
his code is still active. We could use that.
SHERI(PHONE):
Uh Jean, could you hold on for a sec? Uh-huh. Let’s see.
SHERI: Try
this. It should work.
SHERI(PHONE):
I’m back.
MIKE: I’ll
head over to the OC and check this out.
[Sheri scribbles
down something. She hands the paper to Mike. Mike exits.]
PALMER: Good.
SHERI(PHONE):
Oh that’s terrific. Jean, I’m gonna cross-reference these, but I need you
to stay in the office. ‘Cause I’m gonna need you there.
JEAN(PHONE):
No problem.
SHERI(PHONE):
Right. Okay. Thanks. Bye.
[Sheri hangs
up.]
SHERI: I’m
collecting the dates that Colonel Samuel’s office logged onto OPCOM. If Mike
can trace Stanton’s access, we can look for a match.
PALMER: That’s
great.
SHERI: If we
have that, you’ll have all the proof we need.
PALMER: Wait
a minute. Stanton has a dozen staff who shares code. How are we gonna pin
it on him?
SHERI: There’s
a 4-digit sub-code that only belongs to him. That’s the one that’ll nail him.
PALMER: Sheri?
SHERI: Yes?
PALMER: You’re
doing an incredible job here today.
SHERI: Thank
you.
PALMER: I’ve
forgotten how talented you are at all this stuff.
SHERI: David
I’ve worked with you for over 25 years. It had to rub off on me somehow.
PALMER: I’m
glad you’re here.
SHERI: I’ve
always been here. You remember that?
PALMER: Yup.
---
05:47:38..
39.. 40.. **Fade out.**
05:51:50..
51.. 52.. 53.. 54.. 55
---
MICHELLE(PHONE):
Alright, call me if there’s anything.
[Michelle hangs
up. Tony enters and sits down on the edge of Michelle’s desk.]
MICHELLE: That
was Barbara at the Warner office.
TONY: What’d
they find?
MICHELLE: Nothing
yet. They’re still going through the records, but Reza seems to be cooperating.
TONY: This
is driving me crazy. Just doesn’t make any sense that Sayed Ali has a connection
to this white-bread family from Pasadena.
MICHELLE: So
you believe Bob Warner?
TONY: Well
there’s nothing in his profile or his behavior that suggests he’s involved
with terrorists.
MICHELLE: I
agree, but look at the facts. There is a paper trail between Warner Investments
and Ali. And Kate Warner was abducted for a reason.
TONY: I know.
Alright look uh… I want you to put together a list of all the managers and
directors of Bob Warner’s company. I want to widen the search a notch here.
MICHELLE: It’s
a good idea.
TONY: Anything
else?
MICHELLE: Yeah.
Uhm.. I was talking to Mason before and…
TONY: And?
MICHELLE: Look
I know this is hardly the time, but I don’t know how much time we have, so..
I just wanted you to know that if you wanted to go out sometime…
TONY: Michelle…
MICHELLE: Look
you don’t have to say anything. I just wanted you to know how I felt.
TONY: No Michelle...
I feel the same way. I’ve just been keeping my distance because…
MICHELLE: Because
of what happened between you and Nina?
TONY: Yeah…
MICHELLE: So
you think I just want you for your information?
TONY: So uh…
What are we saying here? If we save LA from a nuclear bomb, then you and I
can get together for dinner and a movie? Is that it?
MICHELLE: I’ll
get that list.
TONY: Yeah…
That’s…
[Tony exits.]
---
KATE: Sayed
Ali left… After he killed Mr. Koplin. Talked for a minute or two. They looked
at me a couple of times. It was like… I wasn’t important anymore. They embraced…
And he left.
JACK: Did they
say anything to each other when he was leaving?
KATE: Yes,
but they spoke so softly… And mostly in Arabic.
JACK: Arabic.
How can you be so sure?
KATE: My family
lived in Saudi Arabia when I was younger. When my sister got engaged to Reza,
I picked it up again.
JACK: Can you
identify any words that they said? Anything at all?
KATE: Salat.
They said salat several times. It means prayer. But I couldn’t really hear
anything. They were so soft.
JACK(RADIO):
Baker this is Jack. I want you to get hold of CTU. I want a list of every
mosque in a 15-mile radius.
BAKER(RADIO):
Mosques?
JACK(RADIO):
They were talking about prayer before Ali left. The time fits.
BAKER(RADIO):
Roger that.
KATE: Did that
help?
JACK: Yes.
Yes I think it did.
KATE: Okay.
JACK: Miss
Warner, the normal protocol would be to transfer you back to CTU for further
debriefing. But the truth is; I don’t know what Sayed Ali looks like. No one
does, except for you. I need you to identify him for me.
---
[Stanton’s
phone rings.]
STANTON(PHONE):
Stanton.
SHERI(PHONE):
It’s me.
STANTON: Excuse
me.
STANTON(PHONE):
You know better than to call me here.
SHERI(PHONE):
I wanted to warn you. They know about OPCOM.
STANTON(PHONE):
How?
SHERI(PHONE):
I told them.
STANTON(PHONE):You
what?
SHERI(PHONE):
David had the bit between his teeth. He was gonna find out one way or another.
This way, I get him trusting me again, little by little.
STANTON(PHONE):
What do we do now?
SHERI(PHONE):
They’ll connect you to the plane that was shot down. David’s having an arrest
warrant drawn up as we speak. Stay the course, Roger. When this over, you’ll
have everything you want. While, in the meantime, it’s important that you
don’t talk.
STANTON(PHONE):
Don’t talk about you, you mean.
SHERI(PHONE):
That’s right. It’s more important than ever that I stay in place.
STANTON(PHONE):
How much time do I have?
SHERI(PHONE):
Not much.
[Sheri hangs
up.]
---
REZA: Hold
on. Here’s the shipping order, but it was entered last January, Bob and I
were both in Europe at the time.
RICHARDS: So
he logged on from overseas.
REZA: No, no,
no. That’s not possible, it’s not international. But it didn’t originate from
this terminal either. Somebody hacked in. Hold on. This can’t be. I set up
this program on my own computer.
RICHARDS: I
thought you said you were out of the country.
REZA: I left
my laptop here.
RICHARDS: Who
else had access to it.?
REZA: Nobody.
Except…
[Richards is
shot. Marie is holding a gun, silencer attached. Reza stands up.]
REZA: Marie?
MARIE: I didn’t
expect you to find anything. I underestimated you.
---
[Reza Naiyeer
shakes his head slowly.]
[Jack Bauer
escorting Kate Warner into a car.]
[President
David Palmer in his office.]
[Kim Bauer
running away in the woods.]
[Sheri looking
smug.]
[Roger Stanton
standing in a corridor.]
---
REZA: Well
then… The last two years… Had been… It’s just been an act, is that it? I mean
nothing to you? Huh? I don’t understand. Say something Marie!
[A tear rolls
down Marie Warner’s cheeks.]
MARIE: Reza…
You really are very sweet.
[Marie shoots
Reza.]
---
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