- Tell me what you know. - The hitter has someone on the inside.
Victor Aruz told me before he died...
...the assassin's working with someone close to Hassan.
Someone hacked the U.N., downloaded security protocols...
...the schematics to the U.N. And Hassan's personal itinerary.
You get a name? - The owner is listed...
...as Meredith Michelle Reed. She's a reporter.
- Applied for clearance at the U.N. - We got a match.
- Everybody move back. - You need to come with us. This way.
Mr. President?
I can't believe she's part of this.
If this affair becomes public, it will destroy your credibility and everything.
I just spoke to my brother. I told him to deny the affair.
The reporter's claims need to be discredited.
CTU needs to continue to think she's my contact on the inside.
We have the wrong person.
I've been scanning the traffic footage outside Meredith Reed's apartment.
This man was going into the service entrance.
What if he used her laptop to break into the servers?
- He hailed a cab when he left. See the medallion?
Call the company, find out where it went.
Hands in the air, now! Against the wall!
Chloe tracked the man to a second location.
We didn't think you'd follow through.
So you had no choice except to steal weapons?
- Would you follow through if I asked? - I'm not debating this.
You wanna waste time chasing ghosts, knock yourself out.
Hello?
- Dana Walsh. I like that. - I told you to stop calling me.
Yeah, I know what you told me, Jenny.
You must be mistaking me for someone else.
That's funny, you sound like this girl I used to know from Rock Springs...
...named Jenny Scott.
- Hey, Mike, what's going on? - Mind if I come in?
Oh, Mikey.
Call Captain Ravello.
Tell him you're sick and I'm filling in for you.
Now, listen, you son of a bitch, there's no way...
- Oh, what's the matter with you? - Next time, I won't miss the bone.
Make the call.
This is Hastings.
Tell me you got something out of that reporter.
No. Continuing to press, but she's maintaining innocence.
She's a co-conspirator in an assassination plot. She's gonna deny it.
I need to tell the president we're making progress toward averting this threat.
Our only course is to go after Meredith Reed...
...with the evidence we have.
Our top analyst is decrypting a file from her laptop.
We're hoping it provides intel about the assassin she's working with.
It better provide something...
...because if your people fail and President Hassan is killed...
...this peace process dies with him. Do you understand me?
I understand your concern, but I assure you, we're on top of the situation.
I've dispatched tactical personnel to liaise with the U.N. Security forces...
...and stepped up the alert at the perimeter.
Fine. I'll have that to tell her at least. Let me know when that file is decrypted.
- Dana, you got a minute? - I thought you were going to the U.N.
I am. What's the status on that file decryption?
We ID'd the cipher. It's a standard ISSACS-Adler algorithm.
Requires a 12-character decryption key to unlock the data.
The search cycle has identified two characters already.
Should have the rest in about 30 or 40 minutes. Why do you ask?
Jack Bauer just caused a big scene with Hastings.
He thinks Meredith Reed may have been framed.
He must have gotten that from Chloe.
- I thought she'd dropped it. - Apparently not.
She has surveillance of someone exiting Reed's apartment.
Jack thinks this person may have planted the file on Reed's computer.
- You believe that? - I'm not sure.
If that evidence was planted, then the file you're decrypting...
...is irrelevant at best, and at worst a misdirection.
Cole, I traced the U.N. Breach to Reed myself.
The biometric scans of her interrogation all indicate that she's withholding.
I just don't see a frame here.
I hope you're right because Jack's going after this guy on his own.
Hastings sanctioned that?
Not exactly.
Agent Ortiz? We need to move out, sir.
- Be careful. - Don't worry.
Okay, I'm at the corner of Broadway and West 23rd in Queens.
- Any location on the suspect? - Negative. I talked to the cab driver.
All he remembers is dropping the fare at the corner.
- Nothing shows up on the archives. - I need something.
I've been searching for private security cameras in the area.
Not all are registered. Without the serial numbers, I don't have access.
I'll get out and look around on foot. Maybe we'll get lucky.
Stay on the line.
It's all right, Mags. It's gonna be okay, all right?
Keep your hand on the table where I can see it.
Who the hell are you? You're not a cop.
How did you manage to fool everybody, Mikey?
Or whatever the hell your name is?
Talk to me, you son of a bitch.
Shh.
Look...
...I don't want to hurt you, Jim, or Maggie.
I am just doing my job.
This is the captain calling back.
Just say what I told you to say.
Please don't make me do anything I don't want to do.
Okay?
Yeah.
- Hello. - Koernig, Captain Ravello. What's up?
Yeah, ahem, captain, sorry to drop this on you last minute.
I came down with some kind of bug. I gotta take a leave.
Could have told earlier. You're due at the U.N.
Yeah, I know. It's okay.
I asked Mike Farmer to cover my shift for me.
Farmer's already on in the morning.
He doesn't mind working a double. He could use the time and a half.
I told him he could use the bike that I pulled from the motor pool.
All right, I'll take care of the paperwork.
Look, you tell Mike to get his butt to Midtown. You got that?
Get better, will you?
Yeah.
- You did well. - I did what you wanted me to do.
All right...
...so do what you gotta do and leave us alone.
We're not gonna make any trouble for you.
- You still there? Jack, go ahead.
Hold on. Hold on.
I got two cameras overlooking the park, one pointing at the corner.
I'm gonna get you the serial numbers.
- Hey, man, what you doing? - Chloe, I gotta get back to you.
What's up? You lost, man?
I am. I'm looking for a friend of mine.
Unless you a cop, I suggest you look somewhere else...
...because this is our court.
We don't like strangers.
I ain't a cop, I'm not looking for a problem.
My friend was let off on that corner by a cab 20, 25 minutes ago.
I guess you didn't hear what I'm saying, did you?
I got a hundred bucks. Anybody can tell me if they seen this.
Anybody?
- I seen him. - Yo, shut up, Jay.
- What was he wearing? - That, green coat, black shirt.
- Where'd he go? - That light blue house across the street.
I seen him go up the steps to the stoop.
- Are you sure? - Yeah, I'm sure.
Man, what you doing, Jay? You don't know what's going down.
I don't know about you, but I got $100. It's your play. Let's go.
I'm about to take that hundred dollars. Give me the ball, man.
Jim!
Hello. Jack?
Got a call from one of your neighbors.
- Jim? - Hello, Jack?
Jack, what's happening? Are you there...?
Put the weapon down. Do it.
My name is Jack Bauer. I'm working on behalf of CTU.
I'm investigating a threat to the conference at the U.N.
- Lf that's true, drop your weapon. - Can't. The man I'm pursuing killed two.
I lower this weapon, I'll be sidelined...
- What are you doing? He's down. - Son of a bitch is a cop killer.
John, stop. We gotta call this in.
Not yet, we don't.
Help me get him in.
Come on. Help me get him in.
So where are we?
As of now, we've got half the decryption key.
That's all? Can't we accelerate the program?
- It's already running at capacity, sir. - Mr. Hastings.
Sir, we just found this among Meredith Reed's personal effects.
It's a dedicated key card, United Nations issue.
- Issued to who? - President Hassan and his family.
It accesses their private residence.
We've got her.
Dana Walsh.
This is security at Perimeter Gate 9.
You have a visitor.
- A visitor? - A Mr. Kevin Wade.
Says he's a friend of yours.
Miss Walsh?
Tell him I'll be right there.
So this, uh...
This CTU. This is some kind of government deal, huh?
- And law enforcement? - Miss Walsh is on her way.
Thanks.
Hey, Dana.
Look at you, all pressed and pretty.
- I think I like you as a blond. - What are you doing here?
- Leave me alone. - I told you not to hang up on me, Jenny.
Don't.
Don't call me that.
Oh, you want me to play along?
Okay, I'll play along.
I'm not gonna let you pretend you don't know me.
Fine.
You found me, so now what?
You think we're just gonna pick up where we left off?
- Why not? We had a good thing going. - No.
No, we didn't.
I was naive. I let myself be taken in by you.
- I am not that person anymore. - Yeah?
"CTU. Senior data analyst. "
Well, it sounds like an important job.
I'm thinking you always were the smart one.
How the hell did you pull this off? You steal a dead girl's birth certificate?
Look, I have money.
Not a lot, but some.
If that's what it'll take.
If you really still care about me...
...you'll leave me alone.
Say my name.
What?
If you're gonna beg...
...I wanna hear you say my name.
Just like you used to.
- Kevin. - Say, "Please, Kevin. "
Please...
...Kevin.
There's my bad girl.
Damn it. What do you want from me?
Place to crash for starters. I'm tired of living out of the van.
- No, that is not gonna happen. - Yeah? Well, now you don't want me...
...to tell everyone you work with your little secret, do you?
See, I don't wanna do that.
Come on.
It'll be fun having me around.
It'll be just like old times.
You'll come home...
...and we'll catch up.
Fine, fine.
You can stay the night.
I want you out tomorrow.
Whatever you say.
Do you want my address?
I already got it.
I'm gonna ask you again, Miss Reed...
...and this time, I want an answer.
Now, we know that this key card was issued...
...to President Hassan and his family at the U.N.
I wanna know where you got it.
Not another word until my attorney gets here.
You're already looking at a life sentence in a federal penitentiary.
So if this plot succeeds and Hassan dies, I promise you the death penalty.
If you give me the name of the assassin, then maybe we can cut a deal.
I told you I don't know anything.
- You know who you stole this card from. - I didn't steal it.
You manufactured it, cloned it somehow.
- No. - And used it to gain access...
...to the U.N. Security data. - L... I...
Where did you get it? Tell me.
He gave it to me.
Who?
- Who? - Omar.
Omar gave it to me.
President Hassan? Why would he do that?
So I could have access to his private residence...
...when he wanted to be alone with me.
You really expect me to believe you're involved with him?
Believe what you want. It's the truth.
This is Hastings.
- Put me through to Rob Weiss. Just a moment, sir.
What are you doing?
I need to speak with President Taylor to get permission to talk with Omar Hassan.
If there's something you wanna say, Miss Reed, now is the time to say it.
I'm sorry, Mr. Hastings.
Mr. Weiss is in a closed session, but they're expecting to break shortly.
All right, relay the message to have him call me as soon as he can.
Yes, sir.
Looks like you have a bit more time to reconsider your story.
You let me know when you're ready to change it.
I need your help. I've lost contact with Jack.
He called, we got cut off. I haven't been able to reach him.
This is your operation, Chloe. Yours and Bauer's.
I don't see why this should be my concern.
He could be in trouble.
You need to send backup.
Even if I wanted to, we don't have manpower.
I dispatched all field personnel to the U.N. For Hassan's protection.
I watched the interrogation. Heard what Reed said about her affair.
If true, it supports our idea she was framed.
How do you figure that?
It explains why the biometrics registered her deception...
...and why the insider in Hassan's camp chose her to divert our investigation.
Reed is lying.
- There is no affair. - But what if there is?
If President Hassan corroborates Reed's claim...
...will you send units to find Jack?
All right, fine. Just so you can hear for yourself, I'll have someone alert you...
...when Hassan calls me back. Is that good enough?
No, but it's better than nothing.
That couple you murdered upstairs were friends of mine.
- Good people. Mazoni, we can't do this.
What I can't do is watch another creep like this walk on a technicality.
All because some lawyer didn't file papers to the right clerk.
- Ugh! - John.
Happened more times than I can count.
You're new here, Phil.
Wait until you spend 15 years of your life...
...grinding your teeth in this job. You talk to me then.
What about that thing he said? About CTU?
- Did we find credentials on him? - No.
That's because he is a lying piece of garbage.
This was a home invasion robbery.
- Where nothing was taken. - Because we showed up!
Got a problem with what I'm doing?
Then go upstairs and wait till I'm finished.
Go. Now.
And remember, you don't call this in until I say so.
You stick to the story. He was resisting arrest. You got that?
You got that?
Just, uh...
...don't kill him.
I'll do my best.
Hey, Farmer, what are you doing here?
Koernig called in sick.
- Stomach thing. - No kidding?
I talked to him this morning. He was feeling fine.
Probably a few too many at lunch.
Continue to receive real-time updates here at the U.N.
CTU is confirming the link between the Stinger missile attack...
...and the assassination plot against President Hassan.
In response, we're gonna push the traffic perimeter out another six blocks...
...and close the Queensboro Bridge until noon tomorrow.
Now, roadblock assignments are on pages two and three of your packets.
Go ahead and double-check those now.
Now, CTU has also arrested an individual inside the U. N...
...who we believe is a part of the plot.
Hopefully, this will yield some information about the assassin himself.
Until then, we have to assume that he could strike at any time...
...and will stop at nothing to achieve his objective.
He's already killed five people that we know of, including two CTU agents.
Whoever he is, he's a professional...
...which means everyone is to be on high alert at all times.
History is happening upstairs, people.
And it's on our watch.
Our position remains unchanged, Madam President.
We will not allow NATO to transit supplies to Afghanistan through our territory.
But what about non-military supplies?
It is our belief that any NATO deployment in the region...
...military or otherwise, will lead to more extremism, not less.
Mr. President, uh...
...my director of counterterrorism here in New York...
...is requesting to speak to you on the phone.
- Now? - It's an urgent matter.
It's relating to the reporter who was arrested earlier.
Mr. Weiss will escort you to the conference room.
That is, unless you have any objections.
No, not at all.
This way, Mr. President.
Do I have to remind you of our conversation?
Omar, you must deny your involvement with this.
She has a name, Farhad. And I still can't believe that she can be part of this plot.
That should not be your chief concern right now.
If word of this affair gets out...
...not only is your political career over, but so is the peace process itself.
You know what you have to do.
- Thank you. Mr. President.
- Hello? - Mr. President.
This is Brian Hastings at CTU. I appreciate you getting back to me.
What can I do for you, Mr. Hastings?
Well, sir, I have a matter of some delicacy to discuss with you.
- Go on. - Thank you, sir.
I know that your time is valuable, so I'll come right to the point.
I understand Meredith Reed is writing an article on you...
...for the Sunday Magazine. - Yes, that's correct.
Do you know of any reason she would be in possession...
...of a key card to your residence at the U. N?
- Key card? - Yes, sir.
She claims that she got it from you.
And that your relationship with her is perhaps more than professional.
Mr. President?
Is there anyone listening to our conversation?
- Are we being recorded? - No, sir.
I'm speaking to you on a secure line.
Then, I will tell you what Miss Reed said is true.
Omar, what are you doing?
Sir, are you confirming a romantic involvement with Meredith Reed?
Mr. Hastings, I trust your complete discretion in this matter.
And I'm sure you understand the ramifications...
...if what I'm telling you becomes public.
Yes, sir, I understand.
I gave Miss Reed this key card for reasons I'm sure are clear to you.
I'm telling you all this in the interests of justice...
...because I'm convinced that Miss Reed is not part of this conspiracy.
Excuse me for asking, sir, but are you basing that certainty on anything...
...other than your personal feelings?
No, I suppose not.
I see. Well, thank you for your candor, Mr. President.
I assure you that nothing we discussed will be disclosed from this office.
I appreciate that, Mr. Hastings. Goodbye then.
Goodbye.
Have you any idea what you've done?
The honorable thing.
You said you'd send backup to Jack.
I said I'd consider it and I have.
Confirmation of the affair does not prove Reed's innocence.
It's a ploy she used gain access to the U.N. Security files.
Hassan's itinerary.
- In the meantime, Jack's still missing. - He's not missing.
You lost contact. His phone battery may have died.
Or more likely, he's in an area with bad cell reception.
There's pockets of them all over the boroughs...
...which you'd have known if you were from here.
If you're not sending someone, I'll go myself.
No, you won't. Your concern for your friend is admirable...
...but that file we got off Reed's laptop, it's almost decrypted.
And depending what we find, I'm going to need you here. Is that clear?
- Yeah. - Now, earlier today, you suggested...
...that I speak to you more clearly and directly.
You leave the building, you're fired.
Is that clear and direct enough for you?
- Hello? - We have a problem.
My brother confessed to the affair. I don't know if the frame's going to hold.
That's unfortunate.
CTU won't believe the file you uploaded to Reed's computer is genuine.
I agree it isn't ideal...
...but they will still have to act on what they find in any event.
There is no reason to diverge from the plan.
But you need to remain calm and play your part.
How much longer?
I promise you...
...your brother will be dead before the hour is out.
Don't move! Drop that. Now.
Officer, everything I told you before is true. My name is Jack Bauer.
- I'm a former federal agent. - He's lying, Phil. He broke my rib.
Contact Chloe O'Brian at CTU. She'll verify my identity and the threat.
- What are you waiting for? Shoot him. - Sit back down.
You wanna be pointing that gun someplace else.
I said don't move, either of you.
- I'm your partner. - No, this has gone far enough.
- I'm calling it in. You don't wanna do that.
Phil, put the phone down. Let's talk about this.
Shut up.
This is Patrolman Phillip Lu. I need to talk to Lieutenant Sell.
The officer upstairs has to be connected to the assassination plot.
You hear what he's saying about Koernig?
There's a connection. We need to find out what.
Both of you, shut the hell up.
Lieutenant, sir.
I'm at the scene of a double homicide.
One of the victims is a cop, a James Koernig out of Midtown Center.
No, it's definitely murder. Him and his wife.
We got a suspect in custody...
...11-447 Broadway, cross street is Astoria.
Ask him what Officer Koernig's assignment was today.
Please, innocent lives are at stake.
What have you got to lose?
And, sir?
I need a look-up on, uh, Koernig's duty assignment.
Yeah, transfer me over.
You screwed up. - What?
Yeah, it surprised me too.
You forgot to upload a Rijndael filter.
Without it, I can't break the encryption layer on the file remnant.
I'm sorry, I will upload it for you now.
Or I can just do it at your station.
Okay, fine.
Everything okay?
- What do you mean? - I don't know. It's not like you...
...to make mistakes. You seem a little distracted.
- Wedding jitters maybe? - No.
Just asking.
I mean, Cole's a nice enough guy.
But I see how you could start having second thoughts.
I've been curious to know what you find to talk about.
- Drop this. I'm not in the mood. - I don't mean anything by it.
All I'm saying is you and the Boy Scout aren't exactly intellectual equals.
Or is that what makes him your type?
See, you and me, for instance, we have a lot in common.
We speak the same language.
Mostly techno-jargon, granted, but, hey, it can always lead...
...to something much deep... - Damn it, Arlo.
That's it. We've got it.
Whoa, is that what I think it is?
Yes. Finish decrypting and put it up on the screen.
I've gotta go tell Hastings.
I don't care what he's demanding. You tell Miss Reed's lawyer to wait.
We can hold his client for up to 18 hours before formally charging her.
- Sir? - I have to go.
We've broken the encryption code on Reed's file.
The primary file component's up on screen.
Arlo's waiting for a second piece to finish rendering.
- What am I looking at? - Construction plans...
...for work carried out...
...at the United Nations eight months ago.
- U.N. Are you sure? - Positive.
Two I-beams were retrofitted to provide structural support...
...for additional interpreters' booths. There and there.
- Looks like the council chamber. It's below it.
The decryption's just about complete. It's loading to the main screen now.
It looks like a schematic for an incendiary. A bomb.
Pulse-detonated, modified to fit between the I-beams.
Sir, judging by the size, that's big enough...
...to drop the entire security council into the East River.
Get me Cole and Manners at the U.N.
All stations. We're implementing protocols...
...for immediate evacuation of the United Nations building.
We are code red. I repeat, this is not a drill, we are code red.
You need to consider that this intel is fake and why they wanted us to find it.
- I'm not taking chances. - Cole and Manners on the line.
Gentlemen, we have intel from the decrypted files...
...that an incendiary device has been placed below the council chamber.
Sir, I don't see how that's possible.
This building's been vetted for weeks. U.N. Security have swept the area.
Then they missed it.
Mr. Manners, you need to implement evacuation protocols immediately.
Cole, I want you on President Hassan, personally.
Yes, sir.
Hey. You, you, with me. Let's go.
Ladies and gentlemen, forgive the interruption. Attention, please.
We are evacuating immediately due to a possible bomb threat.
Security personnel will be receiving confirmation...
...on designated channels momentarily.
Evacuation will proceed out these doors...
...and down to underground parking, level B.
Speak only with your handlers.
- Omar. - Everything will be fine.
Madam President, you and Secretary Kanin need to move.
President Hassan, if you'll follow me.
Traffic control, I need route lockdown for northern exodus. All units confirm.
Unit 2 in position.
Unit 3 in position.
Unit 4 in position.
Unit 5 in position.
We're on our way out.
Move out. Move out.
Where are my wife and daughter?
Coming down the east stairwell now, sir. No more than two minutes behind you.
I won't leave without them.
With all due respect, my orders are to evacuate you now.
Omar, I'll wait and go with them.
Don't worry. I'll make sure they're safe.
Tarin, get my brother out of here.
Go. Let's go, get in.
All right, evac tunnel B. Move.
- Yes? - He's in the third car.
The motorcade's coming up the ramps now.
Vehicles are in transit.
Current location evac tunnel bravo.
Second Avenue teams should have a visual in five minutes.
Uncle.
- Where is Omar? - Went ahead. We'll take the next car.
- Is it true there's a bomb? - It's just a precaution.
Don't worry. Everything's gonna be fine.
- Right this way. - Okay.
Let's be quick. Hurry.
The guy who took his place? What was his name?
Mike Farmer. - Thanks.
Come on. Get out.
You were right.
There is a connection.
Sergeant Koernig was on the U.N. Security detail.
He called in sick about 45 minutes ago.
He was forced to make that call. You said someone replaced him?
A patrolman named Mike Farmer from the same unit.
That's your assassin.
You need to let me call CTU and I need to get to the U.N. Immediately.
This is going down now.
You can either stand here and do nothing or you can help me stop it.
- Make the call. I'll drive you to the U.N. - Thank you.
Where the hell you think you're going? He can't leave. He's a material witness.
Where have you been?
Listen to me. The assassin killed a police officer, took his place in security detail.
- I need to alert Agent Ortiz immediately. - I'll patch you through.
- He's in the middle of evacuating Hassan. - Evacuating him? Why?
Hastings' orders.
Evidence in Reed's computer indicated there's a bomb in the building.
Where's Hassan now?
Hassan's motorcade is heading up the ramps...
...about to pull out onto Second Avenue.
It's Cole. - Hang on.
You're on with Jack Bauer.
- What's going on? - Cole, stop Hassan's car now.
- What? - Assassin's part of the evacuation detail.
He's posing as an officer.
There's no bomb. They're luring him out of the building.
- You tell Hastings? - Don't have time. Stop the motorcade...
...before it hits the street. - Too late.
Hassan's car just exited the tunnel.
Cole, stop that car or Hassan's a dead man.
Cole?
Whose vehicle is that?
It's Cole, sir.
Cole, what the hell are you doing? Cole.
Agh!
Cole.
What was that?
What happened?
Cole, can you verify? Was Hassan hit?
Cole.