24
Day One
Episode#16
Transcript by Daniel Smith
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JACK BAUER: {Voice Over} The following takes place between
[
JACK BAUER: Bob? What just happened I
can't hear you.............Bob can you hear me? ...................Bob. Pick up
the phone. Somebody pick up the phone.
[The man takes papers out of Ellis's jacket
and walks over to the cell phone on the ground.]
JACK BAUER: Whoever's there pick up the
phone............Bob?
[The man turns off the cell phone and
leaves the bathroom]
INT. C.T.U. JACK'S OFFICE
[Jack hangs up the phone he presses the
redial button only to get a voice message]
ROBERT ELLIS: {Voice over} At the beep
leave a message for Bob Ellis.
[Jack hangs up]
JACK BAUER: Oh God no. [Puts his hands on his face] Just think Jack
think. [He picks up the phone and calls
C.T.U.
ROUTING OPERATOR: Routing operator.
JACK BAUER: Yes this is Jack Bauer I
want you to transfer me to agent Watson in our
ROUTING OPERATOR: One moment
please. [She connects him.]
AGENT WATSON: C.T.U.
JACK BAUER: This is Jack Bauer in
AGENT WATSON: All right what would you
like us to do?
JACK BAUER: I'm going to transfer you to
our comm link. I'll get you an address I want you to check it out. Phone me
back as soon as you got anything.
[
JACK BAUER: I'll transfer you now. [To
JACK BAUER: WHAT?
[
JACK BAUER: How long ago?
JACK BAUER: Right.
JACK BAUER: Make sure they brief
Palmer's staff. I want them to keep their eyes open.
JACK BAUER: Good work. [As he stares at
the photo]
***FADE OUT***
EXT. ALEXIS DRAZEN WALKING BACK TO HIS
CAR
[His cell rings]
ALEXIS DRAZEN: Hello?
ELIZABETH NASH: It's me. I wanted to
tell you we're not leaving town today after all.
ALEXIS DRAZEN: What made the Senator
change his mind?
ELIZABTH NASH: He didn't say and I
didn't ask. I was just happy I would get to see you again so soon.
ALEXIS DRAZEN: Well I'm leaving a
meeting right now but I can be back at the hotel by
ELIZABETH NASH: I know where to find
you. [Hangs up]
***FADE OUT***
EXT. THE SAFE HOUSE
[An extra team has been sent. One agent
is disguised as a phone line operator and is sitting in his van. Another agent
is cutting the house's front lawn.]
AGENT BREEHER: Daniel's is in position
10-98 can you give me a data check.
AGENT DANIEL'S: This is Daniels. I'm in
position. Touch your ear if you can hear me.
[The agent cutting the grass touches his
ear.]
AGENT DANIEL'S: Paulson can you hear me?
[Agent Paulson is inside the house]
AGENT PAULSON: Yeah. Breeher talk to me.
How you looking?
AGENT BREEHER: It's quiet on my end.
[Paulson answers a ringing cell phone]
AGENT PAULSON: Hello?.......Hey Jack,
yeah hold on.
[Paulson knocks on Teri's door]
AGENT PAULSON: Mrs. Bauer? It's Jack.
TERI BAUER: Thank you......Jack?
JACK BAUER: How you doing?
TERI BAUER: I'm doing okay. Just trying
to get some rest.
JACK BAUER: I couldn't help but feeling
after I hung up.....I don't know that something was wrong.
TERI BAUER: No I'm fine. A lot has
happened and I really need to talk to you.
JACK BAUER: Fine then let's talk.
TERI BAUER: No now is not the time.
JACK BAUER: Why not?
TERI BAUER: You do what you have to do
and we'll talk when this is all over okay?
JACK BAUER: Okay. I'm here at C.T.U. if
you need me.
TERI BAUER: I know.
JACK BAUER: Okay bye. [Hang up]
***FADE OUT***
AGENT PIERCE: Folks I know you’re all
busy so I'll be as brief as I can.
SHERRY PALMER: Good. You’re just in
time.
SENATOR PALMER: What's going on?
SHERRY PALMER: Bauer sent over photos of
the people targeting you.
AGENT PEIRCE: The threat against Senator
Palmer remains a high probability. We have gotten a significant piece of heads
up intelligence. These three men are the suspected shooters.
[Elizabeth Nash sees Alexis's photo and
freaks out as she runs out of the room]
SENATOR PALMER:
***FADE OUT***
INT. THE SAFE HOUSE
NINA MYERS: Okay Kim but the fact is
Rick ran away before we could talk to him
KIM BAUER: He was scared.
NINA MYERS: Apparently. Whatever
explanation he has doesn't change the fact that he's a fugitive and if you know
where he is and aren't saying anything, that in itself constitutes for a
serious....
KIM BAUER: I don't know where he is.
NINA MYERS: Are you sure?
KIM BAUER: What I'm sure of is that he
helped us escape and if it wasn't for him we would have never gotten out of
there.
NINA MYERS: Kim. When people are taken
hostage it's not uncommon for them to feel a certain bond with their
kidnappers.
KIM BAUER: Rick isn't a kidnapper.
Anyway I don't know where he is.
TERI BAUER: Sorry Nina. Whenever your
ready we can pick up were we left off.
NINA MYERS: Ah..Sure. Kim, why don't you
take a break and your mother and I can finish up here.
[Kim walks out of the room]
NINA MYERS: Sure you’re okay to do this?
TERI BAUER: Yes. Are you sure?
NINA MYERS: Yeah.
TERI BAUER: Listen Nina, I don't want
you to have to tiptoe around me. Jack and I were separated when you slept with
him. I'm not going to hold that against you.
[Nina gets herself together]
NINA MYERS: Okay um, you and Kim have
both said that Rick helped you. Talking to Kim I get the sense that she's
withholding something.
TERI BAUER: Based on what?
NINA MYERS: She's protecting Rick. She
seems to have feelings for him from what I can tell.
TERI BAUER: There may have been an attraction
when she met him last night but if Kimberly knew anything she'd tell you.
NINA MYERS: Sure about that?
TERI BAUER: She's my daughter I think I
know her better than you.
***FADE OUT***
INT. C.T.U. JACK'S OFFICE
[Phone rings]
JACK BAUER: Bauer.
SENATOR PALMER: It's David Palmer.
JACK BAUER: Sir, Is everything all
right?
SENATOR PALMER: I'm not sure.
JACK BAUER: What's going on?
SENATOR PALMER: A member of my advance
team Elizabeth Nash, She recognized one of the assassins in the photos you sent
Secret Service. Victor Drazen's son Alexis.
JACK BAUER: Does she know where he is?
SENATOR PALMER: There in contact.
JACK BAUER: Contact? What do you mean?
In which context?
SENATOR PALMER: Intimate.
JACK BAUER: Senator, Is this person in a
position to endanger your security?
SENATOR PALMER: I'm afraid so. Look
she's pretty shaken up but she wants to help.
JACK BAUER: Good. We have to bring her
into C.T.U. and question her. I'll get a helicopter to you in a few minuets.
SENATOR PALMER: I'll have her
ready. Jack? What about Ellis? Did he
retrieve the missing file on Operation Nightfall?
JACK BAUER: I lost contact with Ellis.
SENATOR PALMER: Lost contact? What do
you mean?
JACK BAUER: We got interrupted in the
middle of our phone call. Sir I have to be honest with you I've got a very bad
feeling about this.
SENATOR PALMER: So what are you saying
to me?
JACK BAUER: I'm telling you that for
right now we have to assume that Ellis is dead.
[The Senator is shocked]
SENATOR PALMER: Keep me posted.
JACK BAUER: Yes sir.
[HANG UP]
JACK BAUER:
COMMERCIAL BREAK
[Kim calls Rick for the second time]
RICK: Yeah.
KIM BAUER: Rick it's Kim.
RICK: Hey.
KIM BAUER: This woman here, she’s really
pushing me hard.
RICK: What did you tell her?
KIM BAUER: The truth. I told her that
you helped us escape.
RICK: That's really going to save my
ass. I'm sorry. I'm a little edgy right now.
KIM BAUER: Look I just think that if you
tell her what happened it'll work out.
RICK: She won't believe me.
KIM BAUER: I don't know how much longer
I can keep covering for you.
RICK: Okay okay. Can she prove anything?
KIM BAUER: I don't think so.
RICK: That's all that matters. Listen I
appreciate what you’re doing and all but you probably shouldn't call here.
Least not for a while.
KIM BAUER: How long?
RICK: I don't know. I got to go. [HANGS
UP]
[Rick's Girlfriend enters the room]
MELANIE: Who's that?
RICK: Don't know. Just a wrong number.
[Rick lies on his bed]
RICK: I'm worked. I'm gonna crash for a
while okay?
[Melanie gets up and leaves the room]
***FADE OUT***
INT. THE SAFE HOUSE
[Nina still questioning Teri Bauer]
NINA MYERS: So is there anything else
you can tell me about Gaines? Maybe a conversation you overheard?
TERI BAUER: Who's Gaines?
NINA MYERS: Ira Gaines, The leader of
the group.
TERI BAUER: Right.
NINA MYERS: Teri.
TERI BAUER: No I'm fine.
NINA MYERS: Maybe we should take another
break.
TERI BAUER: Maybe you should do your job
Nina. Don't you have a job to do?
NINA MYERS: I wish it were that simple.
TERI BAUER: Things tend to get
complicated when you screw your boss.
NINA MYERS: Look this obviously isn't
working.
TERI BAUER: No it's not. I'm sorry. I
thought I could stay calm and rational about this but I can't do it.
NINA MYERS: There's no apology needed
but I think Paulson should finish up here.
***FADE OUT***
INT. C.T.U. JACK'S OFFICE
[Jack puts on some new cloths when
George Mason walks into Jack's Office]
JACK BAUER: George. What are you doing
here?
GEORGE MASON: I'm the new quarterback.
JACK BAUER: Since when?
GEORGE MASON: Since right now?
JACK BAUER: What about
GEORGE MASON: Back at District.
JACK BAUER: So Chappelle thought you'd
do a better job keeping an eye on me than she would.
GEORGE MASON: I don't know Jack
something like that.........So it’s really Drazen's boys that are after Palmer?
JACK BAUER: This whole day has been a
revenge plan for killing their father.
GEORGE MASON: I know why they're gunning
for you but why are they after Palmer?
JACK BAUER: [Sighs] Senator Palmer was
head of the subcommittee that authorized the mission.
GEORGE MASON: You got Ellis tracking
down the missing file on that operation right?
JACK BAUER: I had Ellis. I lost contact
with him twenty minuets ago.
GEORGE MASON: You think they took him
out?
JACK BAUER: Yes I do. We got a break on
another front though. [Jack walks over to his computer.] A Miss Elizabeth Nash,
part of the Senator's Advance team identified one of the shooters from the
photos I sent over. She's been dating him. She had no idea who he was. She's
pretty shaken up but she's on her way here for a debriefing.
GEORGE MASON: Which one was she seeing?
JACK BAUER: Alexis Drazen. She's supposed
to meet him in his hotel room in an hour.
GEORGE MASON: Good, That will give us
time to stage an arrest.
JACK BAUER: George think about this.
What if she keeps her date? We would have the upper hand in this thing for the first
time. See what we could learn.
GEORGE MASON: Don't know Jack it's a
little risky.
JACK BAUER: I'd have a squad across the
hall ready to go before anything could possibly happen. George? I think this a
big opportunity just to pass up.
GEORGE MASON: What time is she getting
here?
JACK BAUER: Ten minuets.
GEORGE MASON: We'll talk to her then
make up our minds.
JACK BAUER: Absolutely.
***FADE OUT***
[The Senator is on his cell]
SENATOR PALMER: She's going to the CTU
office right now.
DAVE: Why are they taking her there?
SENATOR PALMER: Well they what to find
out everything they can about Alexis Drazen.
DAVE: Is that the brother?
SENATOR PALMER: No it's his son.
[Keith enters]
SENATOR PALMER: Dave let me call you back.
[Hangs Up]
SENATOR PALMER: Keith come here.
KEITH PALMER: What's up?
SENATOR PALMER: I know we haven't had a
chance to talk since last night and it seems like every time we do we're at
each others throats.
KEITH PALMER: Everything's okay between
you and me dad.
SENATOR PALMER: I guess you noticed that
we haven't been on the same page today.
KEITH PALMER: It's been hard to miss.
SENATOR PALMER: The pressure's on. It's
testing all of us.
KEITH PALMER: For sure.
SENATOR PALMER: That's what I wanted to
talk about. It stayed in my head what you said about of hours ago. About how Dr.
Faragamo has always been there for you when you needed someone and I wasn't.
KEITH PALMER: I'm sorry but that's just
how it was then.
SENATOR PALMER: That's all going to
change. Starting now. I know I can't earn your trust overnight. If you just
come to me when you need to talk, I promise you son I'll always be there.
KEITH PALMER: [Smiles] Thanks dad. So
what about Faragamo? Did the police say anything?
SENATOR PALMER: We haven't called yet.
KEITH PALMER: What are we waiting for?
SENATOR PALMER: We're not putting
anything off Keith. It's just something else has come up. Listen to me. We have
a security breach in our staff. We have to deal with that first.
KEITH PALMER: What kind of security
breach?
SENATOR PALMER: I can't tell you.
KEITH PALMER: [Upset] Dad. You can't
tell me anything.
SENATOR PALMER: Look Keith I have to be
able to make decisions around here without you challenging me.
KEITH PALMER: Look everything your
feeling, now’s the time I need you dad. Not just to talk to me, but to do the
right thing.
SENATOR PALMER: Keith.........I will do
the right thing at the right time.
KEITH PALMER: I'm sure you will.
***FADE OUT***
EXT. OUTSIDE THE SAFE HOUSE
[Jovan, one of the backup shooter's is
in a car on his cell talking to Andre Drazen.]
JOVAN: I found Bauer's wife and
daughter. They were moved to a safe house.
[Andre Drazen is sitting down still at
the cafe]
ANDRE DRAZEN: Where are you?
JOVAN: I'm almost in.
ANDRE DRAZEN: How many men are guarding
them?
JOVAN: I'm handling the situation Andre.
[Jovan has a dead agent next to him in
his car]
JOVAN: Rest assured, the women will be
dead soon.
ANDRE DRAZEN: Call me the minute it is
done.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
INT. CTU WORK STATION MAIN FLOOR
JACK BAUER:
JACK BAUER: What's wrong with the
system? My terminal is locked. I just downloaded all my files to here. Now I
can't..........DAMNIT.
JACK BAUER: Why can't I log in?
JACK BAUER: Tell me what?
JACK BAUER: I see.
JACK BAUER: Thanks. [Sighs]
JACK BAUER: By tomorrow I'm lucky I'm
not in federal custody. I'm only on provisional status until the end of the
day. As soon as Senator Palmer leaves the state I have to face these charges.
JACK BAUER: Thanks.............
JACK BAUER: Have you noticed anyone
accessing anything unusual on the servers?
JACK BAUER: I don't know, anything
received or relating to sensitive Intel?
JACK BAUER: Start looking.
JACK BAUER: I don't know just let me
know if you mind anything okay?
***FADE OUT***
[Keith is on the phone with Carl]
KEITH PALMER: All I'm saying is don't
test me.
CARL: I'm not testing you.
KEITH PALMER: I will do what I said.
CARL: Keith.
KEITH PALMER: I'm serious because I have
nothing left to loose. Not anymore.
CARL: I know you’re upset.
KEITH PALMER: That's right.
CARL: Okay we should talk.
KEITH PALMER: I'm glad you understand.
CARL: You know the Griffith Park
Observatory?
KEITH PALMER: Yeah.
CARL: Can you meet me there now?
KEITH PALMER: Yeah I can be there. Fifteen
minutes. [HANGS UP]
NICOLE PALMER: Be where?
KEITH PALMER: Nowhere.
NICOLE PALMER: Keith.
KEITH PALMER: I'm trying to protect you.
NICOLE PALMER: The last time you tried
to protect me someone died.
KEITH PALMER: Nicole, please.
NICOLE PALMER: I'm sorry. That was a
terrible thing to say.
KEITH PALMER: The less you know----
NICOLE PALMER: What's going on? Who were
you talking to on the phone?
KEITH PALMER: You trust me, don't you?
NICOLE PALMER: Trust goes both ways
Keith.
KEITH PALMER: Carl.
NICOLE PALMER: Why?
KEITH PALMER: Because I don't want to
spend the rest of my life with the regret I've been living with for years.
NICOLE PALMER: You didn't kill Gibson
intentionally.