24

Right now, terrorists are plotting 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.

Keep moving.

Neil, you two take the jeep.

Cut them off at the service road.

The rest of you come up behind him. Ira, Ira, I thought...

How could you let this happen?

We’re cutting them off at the service road

Bauer, his wife and daughter and Rick.

Make sure they don’t double back.

I thought if I brought him here, I could handle him.

I thought... Stop thinking.

Okay, we... we have to keep moving.

What if Dad is... No, your dad’s okay.

He told us to meet him by the water tower.

That’s what we’re going to do.

Come on, we just have to follow the creek.

Let’s go, come on!

I can’t.

Shut up.

You can and you will.

I’m slowing you down.

Yes, you are, so you better start speeding up.

Shh. Get down.

MAN (over radio): Waldorf, where are you?

Yeah. I got nothing.

MAN (over radio): Move up the west side, toward the ridge.

Shh. We can move.

Wait.

Get down.

What are we going to do, Mom?

We can’t go back. We can’t go forward.

They’re everywhere.

I think... we can catch the road further up

where it cuts through the woods.

Dad told us to follow the creek bed.

We don’t really have a choice, do we, Kimberly?

Go up here. Come on.

The subscriber you’re trying to reach...

Hey.

The property where they’re holding Jack’s family

was leased six months ago

by a company that doesn’t exist.

I have to go over the tax records.

You all right?

Jack’s still not answering his cell.

Well, he could’ve shut it off

to keep it from ringing.

Or maybe something’s happened to him.

If anybody knows how to take care of himself, it’s Jack.

Plus, our tactical unit

should be there in a couple of minutes.

Bundy’s heading up the operation; he’s good.

Maybe you were right.

I should’ve brought Green in sooner.

You let Jack make the call

because it was his family on the line.

What could you do?

Yeah.

Look, I’m sorry.

Since this whole thing got started

I guess I’ve been a little harsh.

A little?

Okay, maybe a lot.

I just... I’ve been afraid...

You don’t have to explain, all right?

You want to talk about us, we talk about it later.

No, I just want you to know that it’s nothing...

I understand

you’re bringing in Jamey Ferrule’s mother.

Yes, to pick up Kyle, her son.

Before she sees him

I want the two of you to question her.

If she has information that can help us protect

Senator Palmer, I need to know.

What makes you think she has any information?

$300,000 was deposited in her bank account

over the last four months.

They killed George Ferragamo.

That fire was no accident.

I want to talk to Maureen Kingsley

then go right to the D.A.

Wait until you have the facts before you go off.

The facts?

Ferragamo was killed so I could get elected.

You don’t know that.

Then what do you think happened?

I’m just saying let’s take a beat

to see how we should play this before we do anything.

Look, there’s only one way to play this, Mike.

Maureen Kingsley

is going to get the story of her career after all.

David... And after I talk to her

I want to see the D.A.

Shouldn’t you run this by Sherry?

Why? So she can try to talk me out of it?

She’s your wife, David.

This is her life, too.

She deserves to know.

Has the compound been cleared?

Yes, but there’s been a change of plan.

Meaning?

Meaning Bauer showed up here like I said he would.

You have it.

Not yet, but I will.

Congratulations, Ira.

You may have bought yourself a second chance.

My contract included killing Palmer

I want to make good on it.

The way you were talking

it sounded like you handed it off to someone else.

Bring me Bauer’s body.

Then we’ll talk about the Senator.

You’ll hear from me soon.

Drazen?

Yeah.

Either we eliminate Bauer

or Drazen eliminates us.

And that’s the only option here.

Basically.

Getting Bauer is not as easy as it sounds.

I heard him phoning in some GPS coordinates to somebody

and whoever that somebody is

I’m sure they’re going to be calling the cavalry in pretty soon.

I say we just cut our losses and get the hell out of here.

You don’t just get the hell out with these people.

They come after you and they keep coming

until they find you, no matter where you are.

And when they do...

Believe me, killing Bauer

is our only chance of staying alive.

They should’ve been here by now.

Come here. Sit down.

Easy, easy, easy.

Let me take a look at it.

Okay.

This is going to sting for a while

but you’re not mortally wounded.

The bullet passed straight through

it didn’t hit any bone

and it missed your major artery.

You got any loose clothing?

Yeah, in my back pocket.

I got it.

Take a deep breath.

Wait.

Hold on, honey, hold up.

Are you okay?

Yeah, no, I just...

I just want to check where we are.

We may have veered a little south.

We should’ve hit the road by now.

I can’t see it. Do you see it up ahead?

You don’t know where we are, do you?

Mom?

We’re lost, aren’t we?

No.

We should just

go straight.

It should be just up ahead.

Are you sure?

That will help stop the bleeding.

That’s good.

Just put it on the clean print.

Mike’s your adviser.

What’s his advice?

He agrees with me.

He thinks you’re making

a mistake by trying to take them on.

They’ve already covered up one death.

You don’t know what happened to Ferragamo.

But even if you’re right...

will turning this into a media circus

bring him back to life?

No, that’s not the point.

Your career

and your family-

you’re... you’re throwing away

everything you’ve built.

Without any hard evidence

of what really happened.

Police will find the evidence.

No.

They won’t, because Carl

and the people he works for-

they will twist the system

to get the result that they want.

That’s what they do, David.

And you’ll be left with nothing.

Oh, sweetheart, to fight these people

you need power.

The kind of power you will have

once you become president.

We knew from the start

that this was going to be an uphill race.

But we’re almost there.