24 Declassified: Chaos Theory/10:00pm-11:00pm

THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10 P.M. AND 11 P.M. PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. 10:00pm PST

''Bauer Residence

Peter Jiminez knocks on the door, and Teri Bauer, Jack's wife, answers. Jiminez apologizes for the late hour, and introduces himself, commenting that they have briefly met before. She invites him in, feeling as if she is letting him cross some sort of boundary.

In the living room, Peter admits that part of the reason he jumped at the chance to work at CTU was Jack's reputation, and now with him in prison, it seems that nobody is investigating the shooting from his side. He's been trying to see what he could to help on his own, and decided to start by asking if Teri knows anything that could point him in the right direction. Recognizing the visit as an interrogation, Teri replies that Jack barely discussed his work at home, and there may not be much she can tell him. Jiminez asks if Jack ever confided in her about problems at the agency, if there was anyone who might have set him up to take the fall. She tells him that their marriage has been going through a rough patch, and she hasn't heard anything about problems at work - but the one thing she does know is that Jack is capable of anything.

10:11pm PST

Federal Holding Facility, Los Angeles

After he and Ramirez are secured in their cell, Jack Bauer asks Lafayette to make a one-minute call to the outside, agreeing to forget about the fight and save him some paperwork. Jack tells him to contact Ryan Chappelle at CTU, and tell him he's calling because "things are going south," using that exact phrase. Lafayette leaves to make the call, but returns a few minutes later to tell Jack that Chappelle is in the hospital too, unreachable.

Fighting back panic, Jack assesses his situation: he had become a target of MS-13, and the prison was full of MS-13 convicts, who would keep coming at him until they finally put him down. Both Adam Cox and the warden, whom he could have turned to for help, were out of commission. By 10:18, Jack manages to form a plan of action.

10:18pm PST

Bauer Residence

Raised in Glendale, Arizona by his maternal grandparents, Peter Jiminez had cultured a polite schoolboy style, and his "aw-shucks habits" had become a valuable asset during interrogations. He leaves the Bauer house, certain that Teri had no information about personal conflicts at CTU - he had studied her closely while she was speaking, observing her body language.

Two blocks away from the house, a Crown Victoria pulls up beside him, the driver signalling for him to stop the car. Two men in blue suits emerge, introducing themselves as FBI agents Jason Fujimora and Holmquist. Fujimora gives Jiminez a terse order to lay off the Bauer case, saying that he's in jail for a good reason. Jiminez asks why the FBI cares about the Tintfass case, suggesting he might have been an informant, but the two agents leave without elaborating.

10:21pm PST

Intensive Care Unit, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles

Dr. Kris Czikowlis inspects Ryan Chappelle, writing on a notepad, when Christopher Henderson enters. Henderson introduces himself as one of Chappelle's colleagues, and says that he gave what he knows of Chappelle's medical history to the paramedics, although the two of them are not close. Czikowlis says that she plans to order blood work and other tests to determine if any drugs are in his system. Henderson shows her an ID identifying him as Homeland Security and asks her to let him know where the blood results are being sent. She agrees, then asks if his condition is related to his work, if he is a spy. Henderson laughs, and explains that he's just a bureaucrat, albeit an important one.

10:30pm PST

Union Station, Los Angeles

The Pacific Surfliner train from San Diego pulls into Union Station, with a mysterious, philosophical stranger aboard. He reflects on his love-hate relationship with trains: their precision could be a thing of beauty when they ran on time, and to quote Keats, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." But they often did not run on time, resulting in discord and chaos.

Stepping off the train into the crowd, the stranger notices a family of four: a man, woman, and their two twin girls. Each member of the family has their own designated roles - father-leader, mother-protector - but grab one of the girls, smash her head in, and their roles would change in an instant: the father would step in as the protector, while the mother leads the children away from danger.

A Jehovah's Witness spots the traveler, and offers him a pamphlet, asking if he has heard the word. Toying with the man, the stranger asks if his pamphlet will show him how to get to the Staples Center, and then offers a quote from Borges: "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." He bids the Witness good day, and walks away, estimating that it will take him another fifteen minutes to hand out the rest of his pamphlets.

Only ten minutes later, the Surfliner train explodes, just as the traveler enters a taxicab headed away from the station. A small explosion, made to look like a combustion of diesel fuel, but enough at this time of night to disrupt Los Angeles' public transportation service, as well as train service in Santa Barbara, San Diego, even cities as far away Santa Fe and Chicago. The family of four, while not injured, would have their lives forever changed in some small way by the ripple effect of his actions.

The stranger, Zapata, asks the driver to take him to the Staples Center, crowded up against the Los Angeles Convention Center on the south side of Downtown. There, he greets an associate, Francis Aguillar, who is surprised to see that he has changed his appearance: his head is shaved, and he wears green contacts. Zapata remarks that he has always envied the green eyes of others, and reminds Aguillar that, to the world, his name is Charles Ossipon. Aguillar tells him that everything he asked for is ready, and offers to take him to get something to eat. Before leaving, Zapata has a vision of the entire United States laid out before him, each point connected like the stops on a train station map - a single bomb detonated in the right place would affect millions. By tomorrow night, he would have done just that.