Day 1: 9:00am-10:00am

Jamey dies in the hospital. Teri Bauer gets ahold of a cell phone and calls Jack, giving him clues to her whereabouts. CTU's Acting Director, Alberta Green, arrives at CTU and declares Jack a fugitive. Jack follows a lead from Jamey's computer to Ted Cofell.

Episode guide
''There are terrorists planning to assassinate a presidential candidate. My wife and daughter have been kidnapped, and the people that I work with may be involved in both. I’m federal agent Jack Bauer. This is the longest day of my life.''

Previously on 24

 * Alan Hayes is attacked by Jack, and he shouts for Senator David Palmer to be pulled from the breakfast speech. Palmer is escorted into a limo, while Jack whispers that he didn't do it. Mike Novick then explains to Palmer that the man who created the disturbance at the power plant was Jack Bauer.
 * Jack Bauer pleads with Frank Simes that he can help find the assassin if he is put in touch with CTU. He then escapes, hopping a fence and calling Nina Myers. He explains that Secret Service had him in custody, but he got away.
 * Kim Bauer fights with Eli Stram until Teri Bauer tells him she won't fight him. Teri then tells Kim that they are going to get their lives back, before pulling out a phone and calling Nina, but hanging up suddenly.
 * Nina explains to Jack that Jamey Farrell is the the mole at CTU. Jamey refuses to say anything before she gets immunity, but as Nina and Tony check on her they find her wrists cut. Nina calls for medical help.

The following takes place between 9:00am and 10:00am, on the day of the California Presidential Primary.



09:02:01
Senator David Palmer sits in his limo listening to a news report about the incident at the power plant. Paramedics work on Jamey Farrell after her attempted suicide. They are able to get a pulse and she is brought to a hospital, but the paramedics are not optimistic. After Jamey is brought out, the workers at CTU look at Nina Myers for an explanation. She tells them about the suicide attempt and to keep working on the Palmer threat.

Jack Bauer calls Nina. Nina tells Jack about the call from Teri Bauer. Jack asks Nina to help him get around the police roadblocks. Jack asks about Jamey, and Nina says she attempted suicide. Jack finds a roadblock, and is able to turn around before being spotted.

At the compound, Teri makes a call to CTU with Kim Bauer on lookout. Nina is talking to Jack while Tony Almeida answers the phone. He tells Nina that Teri is on the line. Nina tells Teri to keep the line open so CTU can trace the call. She then connects Teri to Jack. Kim then says that someone is coming. Teri hides the phone, keeping the line open as Eli Stram and Rick Allen enter. Eli asks if they've seen his phone and they say no. Eli calls Kim a bitch which infuriates Jack. After looking, Eli leaves. Rick sees the phone when Eli is out of the room. When Eli enters again, he asks Rick, who says he doesn't see it. Milo Pressman is working on the trace but still needs more time.

09:09:30



Senator Palmer's motorcade arrives at the Grant Street Elementary School. Sherry Palmer questions David Palmer and Mike Novick about the Maureen Kingsley situation. David and Mike agree that the story is too big to cover up.

Jack is pulled over loading his gun and Nina gives him the initial location of the trace, but it's a large area. Jack turns his head as a police car passes by. Nina gives him a route to get past the police roadblocks. Nina asks Tony to unlock a socket, but he doesn't do it. Nina comes to Tony who shows her an e-mail from Jamey Farrell's computer, but it's encrypted. However, the subject is visible...Ted Cofell. Tony asks Milo Pressman to decrypt the email. He then gets a call. He tells Nina that Jamey died.

09:13:51...09:13:52...09:13:53...



09:18:17
Teri gets back on the phone and talks to Jack. Nina says it will take 20 minutes to place the location that the call is coming from. Jack then sees a police car speeding up behind him and the police ask him to pull over and Jack asks Teri to hold. He pulls over, but when the officers approach his car, Jack speeds off. He pulls into a parking lot and quickly parks before the cops see him. He gets out of the car and crouches behind a car. More officers arrive and he rolls under a car. He continues his conversation and Teri gives them some hints to her location. Jack talks with Kim and promises to find them. Eli and Rick come back. Eli asks where is phone is and Teri says she doesn't know. He goes for Kim and pushes Teri down. Rick comes to Kim's defense. Eli is fighting Rick when he hears a beeping. He finds the phone due to a dying battery. He asks who is on the phone, Jack simply responds by threatening him, "I am the last thing you will ever see if anything happens to my wife, or my daughter." Eli hangs the phone up. Jack asks if they got the trace and Nina responds no.

09:27:16...09:27:17...09:27:18...



09:32:12
Jack continues to hide from the police in the parking lot and is able to get into a car and hotwire it. He asks Nina how close they got and she says a 25 mile radius. Tony tells Jack about the name Ted Cofell. He's an investment banker in Los Angeles.

Ira Gaines asks Jamey for a status report, but first he receives a call from Andre Drazen. Drazen informs Gaines that he's coming to Los Angeles and that they cannot pass up the opportunity to kill Palmer and Bauer. Drazen tells him that this is personal for him.

09:36:49

Sherry Palmer calls Carl Webb about Maureen Kingsley. Carl is sitting in a room with David's financiers, Bob Jorgensen, Phil Tuttle and Frank Ames. He informs Sherry that they are "taking care of the evidence", and Frank looks worried.

Milo says that Cofell transferred one million dollars into Gaines' account. Jack is connected to Cofell's secretary who informs him Cofell is leaving before 10. Bauer hangs up after the secretary asks for his name.

09:39:04...09:39:05...09:39:06...



09:43:29
Tony informs Nina that Division is sending in Jack's replacement, Alberta Green. Nina seems frustrated. Nina gives Jack help getting through traffic.

Kim wants to know why her dad left. Teri tells him about the time two years ago when he left for what he called a training mission. Teri believes it was something else. She explains that he wasn't the same when he returned, so he and Teri split for a time.

09:46:25

CTU finds that Cofell is taking a private jet to Denver. As they are discussing Cofell's plan, Alberta Green arrives. Everyone gathers around Green who tells them that they are to protect Palmer and capture Jack.

David Palmer is talking to a class of students and Mike Novick tells David that Frank Ames needs to talk to him. David reluctantly takes the call. Ames tells David that George Ferragamo is accusing Keith of murder and that Carl will need to get rid of Ferragamo.

09:51:13...09:51:14...09:51:14...



09:56:08
Nina enters Alberta's office. Nina tells Alberta that she doesn't know where Jack is. Alberta pushes Nina further but she maintains her innocence.

Jack Bauer arrives at Cofell's office. Tracy tells him Cofell is on his way out. Jack races down over 14 flights of stairs to catch Cofell and he pulls the fire alarm to stop the elevator to get down in time. He approaches Mark, Cofell's chauffeur. He tells him he's a federal agent. Cofell gets out of the lift, tips the parking attendant, and gets into his limo. As Ted asks for the air conditioning to be put on, we see Jack Bauer is driving.

Split screen: Jack drives Cofell's limousine out of the parking garage. Teri strokes Kim as she rests. Sherry reads a story to the students. Alberta Green watches Nina from her office.

Teri wakes up with a pain in her stomach. She winces.

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Starring

 * Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
 * Leslie Hope as Teri Bauer
 * Sarah Clarke as Nina Myers
 * Elisha Cuthbert as Kim Bauer
 * and Dennis Haysbert as Senator David Palmer

Guest starring

 * Michael Massee as Ira Gaines
 * Tamara Tunie as Alberta Green
 * Željko Ivanek as Andre Drazen
 * Daniel Bess as Rick Allen
 * Karina Arroyave as Jamey Farrell
 * Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
 * Zach Grenier as Carl Webb
 * Silas Weir Mitchell as Eli Stram
 * Eric Balfour as Milo Pressman
 * Currie Graham as Ted Cofell
 * Ivar Brogger as Frank Ames

Special guest stars

 * Penny Johnson Jerald as Sherry Palmer
 * Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida

Co-starring

 * Tracy E. Wilson as Nancy (as "Cofell's Assistant")
 * Desmond Bull as Kid
 * Martin Morales as Lewis (as "Attendant")
 * Manny Perry as Cop
 * Maurice Dunster as Security Guard
 * Burke Stuart as Mark (as "Chauffeur")

Uncredited

 * Jenny Gago as Principal
 * Ryan Moore as Kevin

Background information and notes

 * Joel Surnow, executive producer and co-creator of 24, named an off-screen CIA character, Larry Hertzog, after the writer of this episode, Lawrence Hertzog. Lawrence has also written eight episodes of Nowhere Man, also produced by Surnow.
 * For dramatic purposes, it takes Milo Pressman a huge amount of time to trace Teri Bauer's phone, over twenty minutes, something that is done in mere seconds in later seasons. This may be explained by advances in technology over the many years that pass between each season.
 * The phone call that Jack makes to Nina, which later has Tony, Milo, Teri and Kim patched into, is seemingly the longest continuous phone call in 24, at just over 30 minutes.