24

Previously on 24.

People of America, you wake up today to a different world.

One of your own nuclear weapons has been used against you.

"Wake up today to a different world."

Do we take that literally-- that he'll set off the warhead before dawn?

A C.T.U. analyst named Chloe O'Brian secured a hard drive...

belonging to one of Marwan's associates.

This hard drive may contain information that could lead us to the warhead.

I will give you full authority to act as my proxy whenever you think it's necessary.

Mr. Koo, there's a man in your consulate by the name of Lee Jong.

We need to take Mr. Lee into custody immediately for questioning.

But Mr. Lee is a Chinese citizen. I can't just hand him over to you...

without going through channels.

Jack, is there any doubt in your mind...

that Lee is working with Marwan?

No, sir. The e-mails he sent left no room for doubt.

-Then we have to get Lee out now and find out what he knows. -Yes, sir.

No one connected with the government can

admit to knowing anything about this-- ever.

I got him. Hostiles in pursuit. Bring up the van.

Let's go.

Mr. President, the consul is dead.

He was shot when armed men broke into this building...

and took Mr. Lee with them by force.

Mr. Lee, tell me where Habib Marwan is. Damn it. We're losing him.

Paul, what is it?

I can drain off some fluid, but we need to get him into surgery now.

Jack? Jack, what's going on?

This man is our only connection to a stolen nuclear warhead. You've gotta save him now.

- I already have a patient. - You have a new one.

If you don't save him, millions of people will die.

- Jack! - I have my orders! I'm doing my job!

- - Paul's crashing.

- Jack, he's dead. - Jack, you son of a bitch! You killed him!

The following takes place between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.

Gauze. I can get in there.

Is he gonna make it? We'll do the best we can.

I need him coherent long enough to get the

information about Marwan and the missing warhead.

I know, Jack. You already made me aware of that...

when you forced me to sacrifice Paul Raines's life.

- One milligram atropine. - What is it?

Jack! I don't have time right now.

Hey, Jack. We need to leave. Let them do this.

Tape. I'm gonna have a milligram of atropine standing by.

- Doctor? - Gauze.

Gauze. You want me to run the stent right now?

I'll be right outside.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

How could you?

How could you kill him, Jack? How could you do it?

No. [ Sobbing Continues ] Come here.

No. No, I can't. I can't be near you right now.

Please, Audrey, just tell me what you want me to do.

Leave. I want you to leave, Jack.

Jack, you need to call the White House right away.

Mike Novick needs to speak with you. It's urgent.

Okay, fine. What?

Paul Raines just died. There was only one doctor,

and I had to make a choice between Lee's life and Paul's.

And I chose Lee.

You did the right thing, Jack.

You okay?

No, I'm not okay.

I'm sorry. Just tell me when Lee's out of surgery.

I will.

Mike Novick's office. This is Jack Bauer for Mike Novick.

Please hold.

Hello, Jack. Have you gotten anything useful out of Lee yet?

No, he's still in surgery. How's that coming along?

Not great, but he's hanging in there.

I don't have to tell you we took a huge risk getting this guy...

under the assumption that he can help us find the nuclear warhead.

Trust me, Mike. I know.

- We also have a new situation. - What is it?

When you broke into the Chinese consulate, Koo Yin, the consul, was shot.

That's not possible. My men never fired their weapons.

Then he was accidentally hit by one of his own people.

How badly was he hurt? He died, Jack.

Oh, my God. I want you to talk to the members of your team.

Make sure that each one of them has an alibi for where they were during the ambush.

Okay. This is an extremely incendiary situation.

I'm about to talk to President Palmer now.

We're trying to avoid a serious confrontation with China.

We'll handle it from here. Thanks, Mike.

How did this happen?

Mr. Buchanan, the network security module lit up.

Someone on the outside is trying to jam our satellite servers.

Could this just be a high network load?

No, it's definitely a denial of service attempt. What do you want me to do?

Did it do any damage yet? No, the Cisco system is self-defending.

Have one of your people use a security auditor tool.

Maybe it'll lead us to Marwan's network.

That was my point from the start.

Chloe, we're in active code.

We don't have time for your personality disorder.

Do you understand me? Chloe, yes or no?

Yes, sir.

This is Yassir. Is the warhead in place?

Yes, but we have a problem. I can't jam their satellite.

You assured me that you could handle it.

C.T.U. must have just installed new software.

This wasn't in place last week.

We're gonna have to move our schedule forward by an hour.

There won't be as many casualties if people aren't at work.

If you can't jam their satellite signal, they'll find us.

We can't let that happen. I understand.

How long are we gonna keep the president in the dark?

Eventually he's going to find out that you authorized a raid on the Chinese consulate.

We have to keep it from him as long as we can.

Were you able to find Jack? Yes, he's back at C.T.U.

The man they grabbed at the consulate, Lee Jong, is still in surgery.

Was he able to tell us anything about the warhead?

No.

What did Jack have to say about the Chinese consul's death?

It wasn't our people who fired the shot.

The Chinese won't care. He died as a result of our trespass.

We have to start constructing a scenario...

that doesn't implicate the United States government.

But they must know we did this.

We called the consulate about Lee Jong a half an hour before the abduction.

The Chinese don't want a confrontation any more than we do.

If we can create a scenario of plausible deniability, they may play along.

How do we do that?

Call C.T.U. Have them find out which anti-Chinese factions...

have attacked their embassies or consulates in the last five years.

Most of these groups you're talking about are Asian extremists.

I'm sure Bauer's team is predominantly American.

Bauer's team was masked. No one saw their faces.

Curtis, come here.

Listen up. The Chinese consul was shot and killed during Lee's extraction.

- How? We never got a shot off. - I know. I know.

It must have been friendly fire. We've gotta make sure all our alibis cross-check.

No one outside of this operation is to know that

we were anywhere near the Chinese consulate.

Understood? Jack, what's gonna happen? Are we gonna be brought into this?

I don't know yet. All I know is that now that the

consul's been killed, everything has changed.

It's our responsibility to make sure the United States government...

is never implicated in this operation.

Don't worry, Jack. Everyone here gets it.

Okay. Curtis, you advise the rest of the team.

You got it.

Yassir. They're ready for you to make the changes.

Do you think they'll find it before we launch?

Not if I move up the launch time.

They're looking for the warhead in their cities.

They have no idea that it's gonna be delivered by missile.

Morrison? Yes, sir.

Open up the guidance firmware. I'm going to upload a new instruction set.

Yes, sir.

Okay, go ahead.

All right. You'll be ready to start the launch sequence...

as soon as I've reprogrammed the onboard.

Good.

Jack, prep all your databases. When Lee comes to, we're gonna have to move quickly.

What about the warhead? We're meeting on it now.

Chloe, I need you to free up a server for a large D.O.D block transfer.

It'll be coming through a locked channel from Heller's office.

Has that been authorized?

No, not yet. I still have to talk to Audrey.

Well, that's gonna be weird. What?

Talking to Audrey. I mean, you had to do what you did, and her husband died.

It's probably destroyed your relationship with her.

Chloe, please, just free up the server. Okay.

Jack, I just want you to know that if you ever need anyone to talk to,

as a friend, I'm here for you.

Not now, but later, when things calm down.

Thanks.

Audrey, I'm sorry to bother you.

I need you to call Marcy, authorize a block transfer.

We need all pertinent D.O.D. databases sent over here to C.T.U.

Were you able to keep Lee alive?

Yeah, he's stabilized.

All right. I'll call Marcy.

Thank you.

All right. The warhead was stolen here, in eastern Iowa.

We don't yet know how it's being transported.

Are we monitoring air traffic? Yes.

So far nothing's been picked up.

Well, if they have to stay on the ground, how far could they have gone?

Based on our latest information, 300-mile radius,

which includes three metropolitan areas.

Have those cities been alerted?

The president wants to keep that information restricted for the time being.

We have raised local alert levels but haven't mentioned specifics.

Marwan and his people have control of a nuclear warhead.

We have to figure out when and where he's gonna set it off.

I want you looking at everything from satellite to local police.

We have a small window. It's still the middle of the night.

If Marwan leaves a trail, it's gonna be a hell of a lot easier to follow it now...

than in two hours when people start going to work.

Let's get to it.

Howard Bern.

[ Phone: Woman Speaking Mandarin ]

There's a program at Division you can filter those markers through.

It'll tell you which ones are good.

Yeah? I've got a Mr. Cheng from the Chinese consulate...

who wants to speak to Michelle.