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There are terrorists

planning to assassinate

a presidential candidate.

My wife and daughter have been kidnapped.

And people that I work with may be involved in both.

I’m Federal Agent Jack Bauer.

This is the longest day of my life.

: This is Dave Thompson with Jet Copter Three.

It’s just 9:00 on Primary Day in Southern California,

and freeways are looking pretty good.

The usual delays in the Sepulveda Pass southbound

but it loosens up at Culver.

We’ll have a complete report in six minutes.

Back to you, Bill.

Thanks, Dave.

In the news, we haven’t learned any more

about the incident at the San Clarita Power Plant

where Senator Palmer was rushed out this morning.

We’re told that the Senator was unharmed,

but Secret Service and the FBI haven’t released

any new information.

Get some drips.

I’m on it.

Find me a pulse.

I’ve got a pulse.

148, Freddy.

Pupils not reactive.

Respiration’s shallow.

48.

Let’s start two large four IVs, bilateral.

She’s lost a lot of blood.

We should start the other one.

All right. Stop at two there.

One, two, three, move her.

Ready?

Lift!

Excuse me.

Everyone, I’m sorry to tell you

that Jamey Farrell tried to commit suicide

a few minutes ago.

Fortunately,

she is still alive,

and they are doing everything they can

to keep her that way.

Now, look, I know it won’t be easy

to put this out of our minds, but we don’t have a choice.

We still have reason to believe

that Senator Palmer’s life is in danger

which means we all have to get back to work. Now.

Do you want to look at this?

Not now. Call Jamey’s mom.

Explain what happened.

Have her pick up Kyle.

CTU, Myers.

Hey, it’s me. Hold on.

Okay.

Did you get the car?

Yes, and I got the care package, too, thanks.

Jack, Teri called.

What?!

About 20 minutes ago.

Where is she? What’d she say?

I don’t know. She barely had time to say her name

before she got disconnected.

What happened?

She didn’t call back

and when I tried to redial, the number was blocked.

From what I can tell, she sounded all right.

The police have thrown a net over this entire area.

There’s nothing I can do to help Teri

until I get through it.

Well, maybe you should think about turning yourself in.

Tell your side of the story.

No. Gaines will keep Teri and Kim alive

as long as he thinks I can be useful to him.

If I’m in custody, I won’t be.

Scan the police frequency.

See if you can locate any of these roadblocks for me.

All right.

Just a minute.

Okay.

Jamey give you anything else?

Jack...

Jamey tried to kill herself.

Jack?

Did you hear me?

Jack?

Yeah.

You said she "tried"?

We sent her to County, but it doesn’t look good.

Are you sure it was a suicide attempt?

Yeah. She slit her wrists.

Where is her son, Kyle?

He didn’t see anything.

We’ve already called Jamey’s mom.

She’s on her way to pick him up.

Okay. Send someone down to County to question Jamey

in case she makes it.

Right now she’s still our best source of information.

Okay.

Damn it.

What? What’s wrong?

They set up a roadblock on Montana.

Nina, I could have used a heads-up here.

I’m sorry, they must have set it up

before I started scanning.

Find me another route.

All right, give me a second to pull up L .A. traffic.

Okay. You go to the window.

You let me know if somebody comes.

Tony, line three. Can you get it?

Almeida.

Okay. Looks like roadblocks

aren’t your only problem.

They sent a description of you to all the units

in the area.

Nina.

It’s Teri Bauer.

Jack, hold on a minute.

Teri.

Nina, thank God.

Where are you?

I don’t know, but I got hold of a phone.

Okay, is Kim with you? Are you all right?

Yeah, I’m fine. Kimberly’s fine.

Do you know where Jack is?

Okay, listen, I’m going to connect you

with him right now.

Leave the line open as long as you can

so we can set up the trace.

Do you understand?

Yeah.

Have Milo set up the trace on line three.

Jack, I’ve got Teri.

Patch her through.

Mom, someone’s coming.

He’s here!

Teri? Teri!

What do you want from us?

I think I left my phone in here.

You seen it?

No, I haven’t.

Jack, I’ve muted our side of the conversation.

Good. Have you set up a trace on the call?

Yeah, and I told Teri to leave the line open.

Good. Keep our side muted.

I don’t want to give away this phone.

You better not be lying, bitch.

Son of a bitch.

They moved everything in here. Damn it!

Rick, you see it anywheres?

No, no.

Got anything on that trace?

Latitude is somewhere north of the 10.

I should have a rough longitude in a couple of minutes,

though triangulating the longitude’s

going to be trickier.

This is Dave Thompson in Jet Copter Three.

We’re seeing some congestion in North Hollywood at Verdugo

around the Grant Street Elementary School.

Senator Palmer is due to make an appearance there,

and it looks like quite a few supporters

and media are hoping to catch a glimpse

of the presidential candidate,

who apparently is not letting this morning’s incident

interfere with his schedule today.

I don’t understand

the rationale behind it.

No, listen to me. Why?

Why defend something that

you don’t need to defend?

Maureen Kingsley is not coming out

with the story today.

She will.

We don’t know that.

Look, if not now, tomorrow.

If not her, someone else.

Our son is accused of murder.

The story’s too big to hide.

Mike...

He’s right, Sherry.

We need to control when and how

this story comes out.

One hour ago, someone tried to kill

my husband.

That bought us time, and we should use it.

The assassination attempt

might even work for us, if we break the story

about Keith.

It might put the public in a more forgiving frame of mind.

You’re making a mistake.

It’s my mistake to make.

No, it isn’t, David,

because you didn’t get here by yourself.

Do not go against me on this, Sherry!

Promise me!

I can’t promise you anything.

Jack, we’ve got

a preliminary read on the trace.

It’s a pretty big area.