Season 5 Prequel

Living in Chicago, Jack Bauer meets with Chloe O'Brian to discuss a problem with his secret life.

Episode Guide
Jack Bauer] is on the phone to former President David Palmer thanking him about tipping him off on the Secret Service agent coming to kill him. Palmer says that he will proberbly never talk to Bauer. When the call ends, Bauer walks off.

Twelve Months Later

In Chicago, Jack is in a car with a hood up. he has grown his hair and looks unshaven. He parks the car and gets out, looking at the men in an oil tanker in front off him. He passes by them and enters a scrap yard where he waits behind some junk.

A blue car drives up and stops outside the junk yard. Chloe O'Brian gets out and walks into the yard but is pulled to one side by Bauer. Chloe explains that someone hacked into her computer and discovered that she had been looking at the autopsy report of the person she put in place of Jack's body. She believes that, although she deleted all information on her relation to Jack after his "death", the hacker must have put two and two together and figured out what had happened as Chloe had also got records of being in contact with someone in Chicago. Jack agrees that he must get out of the city before Chloe walks away. Jack stops her and asks how Kim took his death and Chloe explains that she was heartbroken.

Jack leaves and walks to his car as a motorcycle drives past. As Jack gets in the car, the motorcycle turns around and a black car comes out in front of Jack's. Jack reverses as the car chases him down a street until he is able to turn and attempt to lose the car. After a while, the car chases Jack into a scrap yard where Jack turns in front of a fork lift truck which makes the black car drive into it.