Jack Bauer on Day 8

This is a description of Jack Bauer's actions during Day 8.

4:00pm-5:00pm
Just after 4:00pm, Jack Bauer sat watching cartoons on the television with his grandaughter. Falling asleep, Jack reminded Teri that she should call him "grampa" rather than Jack, but she said he did not look like a grampa. Jack laughed, and changed the channel after Teri said the cartoon was boring. He flicked to a news channel about the Middle Eastern summit that President Taylor was holding, but Teri insisted that he changed it to a different cartoon. He obliged. Kim called and said she would be there soon to pick Teri up. Jack said that she reminded him of Kim as a child. At ten past four Jack went to the lobby with Teri to meet Kim and Steven. When they arrived, Jack announced that he was going to move back to Los Angeles with Kim as she had asked. Teri was overjoyed when Jack said he would fly back with them tonight, as and he walked them to the car Jack said he just had a few more things to pack. They drove away and Jack agreed to meet them in an hour.

Moments later, however, Victor Aruz came to Jack's room. An old informant of Jack from when he worked at CTU, he hoped that Jack could help with an assassination attempt against President Omar Hassan of Kamistan. Aruz had been shot and was bleeding. Jack said he needed an ambulance, but Aruz explained that he was the one who got the hitter into the country, but then the hitter tried to have him taken out, so he wanted him found out. He asked Jack to call CTU and vouch for him so he could cut a deal. Jack eventually agreed to help, but Aruz refused to give the name of the hitter. He said he knew how to find him and stop him before the assassination attempt took place, but he wanted a signed immunity agreement first.



Jack called Chloe O'Brian at CTU New York and told her about the hit. She informed Director Brian Hastings, who spoke to Jack. He asked how viable the intel was, and Jack said the threat shouldn't be taken lightly. Hastings spoke to Aruz and agreed to bring him in. He said he would send a chopper to pick them up. He gave them a location and they agreed to go there. Jack and Aruz began to make their way across the blocks to get to the chopper's location. Jack called Kim and said he might be late but he would still get the flight with them. As they continued on their route, Aruz collapsed from pain. Jack tried to redress his wound, but before he could get far he was intercepted by a New York policemen suspicious of the wounded man. However, the police were killed by the men chasing Aruz. Jack managed to fend them off for a while but he ran out of bullets and had to run.

They made it to a stairwell and called CTU, saying that they would not make it to the chopper's location as they were being pursued. Jack spoke to Cole Ortiz in the chopper who said that he would redirect the chopper to a closer pickup location. As they progressed up the stairs Jack told Aruz to tell him everything he knew about the hitter in case he didn't make it, but Aruz refused. Jack managed to take out the two men using a fire extinguisher from the wall. He took one of their submachine guns. They made it to the roof and met with Ortiz, who said that Jack needed to go in for a debrief. He refused, knowing he had to meet Kim at the airport. However, before the chopper could leave it was shot with a rocket launcher by Davros from a building opposite. Jack checked on Aruz, who was close to death. He said that there was someone on the inside close to Hassan, but he died before he could say anything else.

5:00pm-6:00pm
At the site of the chopper explosion, Cole announced that the two CTU agents, Johnson and Torres he was there with were death. Jack asked to speak with Hastings. He told him what Aruz had said before he died, and suggested that he trust him. Hastings said Jack had to go back for a debrief, and he eventually agreed. They arrived back at 5:16pm and Jack insisted that the debrief occur as fast as possible. Hastings informed him that they had the insider already; Meredith Reed, a journalist doing a profile on Hassan. Jack quickly called Kim to explain that he would be late as he had to give a statement for CTU. She said that they could pick him up as it was on the way. Jack said he would ask Chloe to get them a security pass, then he proceeded with his debrief with Chloe.



In the debrief, Chloe insisted to Jack that Meredith Reed, the woman they had in custody, was not the one working against Hassan. Jack said that it was not his problem, and asked to get on with the debrief. She showed him some evidence, which Jack pointed out was not substantial. He said that she should take it to Hastings and not her, but Chloe was sure that he would be more likely to listen to Jack than her. Jack agreed to talk to Hastings, who had the same opinion about the veracity of the evidence as Jack had. He refused to waste resources looking into the theory. Jack told this to Chloe, who said that she never let him down with all the things he asked her to do, and that he owed her this. He refused, and walked away. Meeting Kim outside, she told him that he should stay at CTU if he could help, and that he would not be letting her down. He eventually agreed to go back, and said he would get on a plane to Los Angeles as soon as he was done.

Back in CTU, Jack told Chloe that they needed to find out where the suspect went after he left Reed's apartment. Chloe couldn't find the car after searching through all traffic cameras within a five mile radius. She said that she could try looking at the drone archives but they were in Arlo Glass' station. Jack told her to hack in, which she did. She found out that the man hailed a cab after leaving the apartment, so they called the cab company to find out where it went. While she did that, Jack went to the armoury to get a weapon. Just as he collected it, Hastings arrived with armed guards and demand that Jack give the weapon back. When he explained that he was following the lead he brought to Hastings, the director said he was wasting time and resources. Jack threatened to say in his debrief that Hastings did not provide sufficient support during the operation which resulted in the death of two CTU agents unless he let him pursue the operation. Hastings agreed to let him go, saying that he would regret blackmailing CTU. Chloe told him where the cab dropped the hitter off, and Jack set off.

6:00pm-7:00pm


Jack arrived at the location but was unsure of which building the hitter went in. He saw some teenagers playing basketball nearby. One angrily told Jack to go away and that they hadn't seen anything. When Jack offered some money, Jay said that he saw the man Jack was asking about go into a house, which he pointed out to him. Jack headed over to the house and saw two dead bodies through the window. He called Chloe and told her, but he was confronted by Officer John Mazoni who thought him to be the man who killed the residents (after being called by a neighbour that heard gunshots). Mazoni tasered Jack, despite Jack's pleas to his parter, Phil Lu, that he was working with CTU.

Mazoni took Jack down to the basement and strapped him to a chair, preparing to beat him for being a cop killer (as one of the people killed in the house was a police officer). Phil was unsure, trusting Jack's story about working for CTU. Mazoni said that he was sick of "creeps" like Jack getting out on a technicality, and that Phil should wait upstairs if he had a problem. He told Phil not to call it in until he said so. Phil went upstairs, telling Mazoni not to kill him.

After a while Mazoni was still attacking Jack, but Jack managed to ram the police officer through a wall and small the chair he was chained to into a wall so it broke. He hit Mazoni with a piece of wood to keep him down but before he could do so again Phil came back and pointed his gun at Jack. Mazoni told Phil to shoot him, but Jack said that everything he told him was true and he was a former federal agent. Phil decided to call in the attack, and Jack told him to ask his superior what the dead police officer's assignment was for that day. He realised that he was part of President Hassan's security detail, which resulted in Jack realising that the person who filled in for him was the hitter getting close to Hassan. Phil agreed to take Jack to the UN and let him call CTU, which he did. Jack told Chloe that he knew who the assassin was, but Chloe said that the UN building was being evacuated. Jack got through to Cole and said that he needed to stop Hassan's car because the threat that caused the evacuation was a ruse so the hitter could get close to Hassan. Jack talked Cole into moving out of the motorcade and driving in front of Hassan's car, just managing to get there before Davros' bomb went off.

7:00pm-8:00pm
Jack made it to the site of the attack and managed to shoot Davros before he could kill Cole. Jack looked at the dead man's tattoos and realised that he must be a part of some gang. He sent images of the tattoos to CTU New York where they found out that the FBI had an agent, Renee Walker, who had worked undercover with the Russian crime syndicate, Red Square, that the tattoos showed membership of. As Jack arrived at CTU he told Cole to go to medical, which he said he would once the body of Davros had been brought in. Jack said he would debrief then try to catch a flight to Los Angeles. Cole thanked him and said it had been an honor.



Back inside CTU, Jack met with Chloe who told him that they were bringing Renee in. He said that he had tried to call her a few times but she never returned his calls, so he left it. He asked Chloe not to tell her that he was there, and he went to a room ready for his debrief. However, Jack saw her as he was leaving his debrief and, after hearing that she was going back undercover with the gang, he decided to go and talk to her. She seemed pleased to see him and apologized for never getting back to him. She said she was glad he was OK, and he told her that he didn't think it was a good idea for her to go back undercover as she was not ready. He said it was too important, but she ignored him and left for a briefing.

Jack interrupted the briefing to say that Renee was not fit for going undercover. Hastings said that there was no other option, and so Jack said that he would go undercover with her. Hastings agreed, and he left to set up the cover. Jack and Renee left to go to an informant of Renee's. In the car, Renee said that Jack didn't trust her, a claim he did not refute. They arrived and Renee went in to talk to him. Jack listened on comm, where after a brief conversation Jack heard screaming. He ran into the building and saw that Renee had cut off the thumb of her informant. Jack tried to shut down the operation but Renee refused, telling him to find something to stop the bleeding.

8:00pm-9:00pm


They managed to stop Ziya Dakhilov's bleeding. Jack planned to call Hastings to shut down the operation, but Renee said this was the only play and Ziya would go ahead with the buy because he loved money. After much debilitation, Jack agreed to go ahead with the plan. He went back to the car, just before Ziya woke up. He reminded Renee that he was listening to everything Renee said and did. However, she managed to talk Ziya into taking her to Vladimir Laitanan, the man who led Red Square and who could lead them to the uranium that the men attacking President Hassan wanted. Chloe called Jack and said that she had just found out that Ziya had a tracking bracelet, but Jack said Renee had taken care of it and not to worry.

While they were in the car, Ziya said he was surprised that Renee would want to see Vladimir after what happened. Jack called Chloe and asked what Ziya was talking about, and she began to look into it. She said that his cover profile was finished and she sent him the details. After they arrived at Vlad's location, Ziya went in alone to explain about Renee's deal. While he was away Jack asked Renee as to what Ziya was talking about, but she refused to explain. Instead, she insisted they went over the cover profile, which eventually Jack agreed to do, without questioning about Vlad further. Chloe later got back to him and said that Vlad had beaten Renee, and even tried to rape her. Jack said that he didn't think Renee was past all that had happened to her in the past, and she did not care what happened to her.

Ziya came back out and Renee went in with him. Jack listened as she gave random facts that Vlad asked her about to check her cover, details of which Jack assisted her with through her comm. However, Vlad shocked her by telling his men to tie her and Ziya up and put them in the trunk of his car. Jack lost comm on Renee, realising that the car must be reinforced breaking radio signal. Jack saw a car leaving and began to pursue it. He told Chloe that he would need tactical support and that they needed to assume that they were taking Renee somewhere to kill her. Jack spoke to Hastings and said that Vlad did not go ahead with the deal and the operation was over, so they had to engage with the vehicle. Hastings authorised the engagement, but just before they intercepted Jack received Renee's comm again. He realised that the car he was following was a decoy, and told her to find the real one. Jack heard on the comm Vlad and his men shoot Ziya and threaten to shoot Renee. She said that she did not care if she was killed because she had nothing to live for besides the deal. Eventually, Vlad decided not to shoot her and said that he wanted to make sure she was serious. Jack realised that her cover had worked and began to drive towards Renee's destination.

9:00pm-10:00pm
Jack arrived at where Vlad nearly executed Renee. He called Hastings at CTU and told him that Renee needed to be pulled out because she was a danger to herself and the mission. Hastings suggested that she was playing him and that they needed to find the nuclear rods. Jack said that he could force Vlad to tell them where they were, but Hastings was angered at the suggestion of torture. Jack then suggested offering him immunity; anything to get Renee out. Hastings reminded Jack that the syndicate were very secretive and unlikely to cooperate. Jack said that they had to find another way because he would not let Renee die because CTU did their job poorly. Hastings said there was no other way, and Jack said he could remove her when he goes in as the buyer and remain under in her cover. Hastings agreed as long as it didn't interfere with the mission. Vlad began to head back to his base to talk about the buyer, and Jack followed.

Renee told Vlad that the buyer wanted weapons grade uranium. She said she knew someone had smuggled some in recently and wanted some for the buyer. Vlad said he knew nothing about it, but could look into it depending on how much he would make out of it. She said that she trusted her buyer, Ernst Meier (who Jack was posing as), and had worked with him for years. Vlad demanded a good faith payment of $5 million from Meier, and to meet him. Renee said she would ask him, and Vlad gave her the room. Jack said he could be there within 30 minutes; he had to meet agent Ortiz at a staging area first. She said it was hard to be in the same room as Vlad, but she could handle it. Jack said he would be there as soon as he could.



Jack arrived at the staging area and Cole told him that the money was ready to be wired. He was confused as to Hastings orders about pulling Renee out once Jack was undercover, but Jack brushed it off and said he did not have time to explain. Renee told Jack that Laitanan was coming back. Jack listened as Vlad tried to apologize for abusing her in the past, but Renee angrily refused his apology. He tried to make a move on her, but Renee told him that was not what she came for. Vlad asked why she came to him then, and she said it was simply because he was connected. Renee asked if there was a place she could clean up, and managed to get out of the room. Jack began to move to the staging area.

As Renee got out of the shower, Vlad forced her to have sex with him. Jack told her that she did not have to do it, but she said it was the only way. She took her comm unit out of her ear and flushed it down the sink. Jack arrived at the meeting point, after having changed clothes and donning some glasses, introduced himself to Vlad's men as Meier. After proving himself to Lugo, Jack demanded to speak to Laitanan before giving them the money. He did so, and asked to talk to Renee but Vlad refused to let him. Jack prepared to transfer the money, and Lugo gave him the account number. After he transferred the money, Lugo and his men tried to take out Jack but luckily Cole was watching with a sniper from a distance and shot the three Russians. Lugo, on the floor, was forced to call Vlad by Jack, who told him to give him proof that Renee was alright. Vlad said he was willing to reconsider his attempt to kill him, and that he would go ahead with the deal. Lugo took Jack back to Vlad, after the latter said that he had underestimated Jack.

10:00pm-11:00pm
In the car, Cole called Jack who confirmed that he was heading to Laitanan's base without revealing who he was talking to to Lugo. Cole offered to send a backup team to the location but Jack warned him against it, fearing for what they might do to Renee if Laitanan and his men found out Jack was working with the government. By 10:05pm they had arrived at the base. Jack went in, holding Lugo hostage. Laitanan said there had been a misunderstanding and he wanted to do business, and Renee told Jack that he had already begun calling his contacts to ask about the nuclear rods. Jack demanded to speak to Renee alone, which Laitanan allowed once Jack gave him his gun.

Jack told Renee that they were going to try to take her out safely because he didn't think she was fit to continue with the mission. She said that she would continue and that if she stopped everything she had done so far would be for nothing. Laitanan came over and took Renee into his office with him, saying that they had to continue making calls. However he was unsuccessful with the calls, and began to drink more than Jack cared for. Jack said he should focus on the calls and stop drinking, but Laitanan said that he did what he wanted. He then went over and chastised Renee, who he had asked to cut bread, for chopping pieces too small. He guided her, pushing his body against his and looking to Jack to see his reaction. Laitanan then went over to Jack and asked about their relationship, but Jack told him to get on with the calls. Laitanan agreed but told Jack he had to leave the room.



Jack waited until 10:45pm for Vlad to progress with the calls. After hearing nothing for all that time, Jack suddenly heard a scream from inside Laitanan's office. He went in and saw Renee stabbing Laitanan in his chest multiple times. He ran over and pulled her off but Renee, confused, turned around and plunged the knife into Jack's stomach. Renee looked on, horrified, as he keeled over to the floor. Lugo came in and prepared to shoot Renee after seeing Vlad's mutilated body, but before he could do so Jack pulled the knife from his stomach and threw it directly into the henchman's throat, killing him. He shot another henchman before running over to Renee and hugging her as she wept.

Jack called CTU who were on their way to the scene. He explained that Laitanan called all his contacts and said that none mentioned the nuclear material. Renee said that Jack had been right and she could not handle it. As she began to cry she said that all she wanted was her life back, and that she had no-one. He told her that she still had him. They heard cars arriving and were surprised at the speed at which CTU had got there. They then realised that it was a group of Russians, and Jack deduced that they were one of Vladimir's contacts and had planned to kill him for finding out about the rods. Jack made Renee hide and explain the situation to CTU when they arrive, telling them to track him. She did so and Jack gave himself up to the Russians, saying he just wanted to do business. They took him, and several minutes later CTU arrived. Renee explained what had happened but Chloe said that they had seen no vehicles leave the compound, and so they could not trace Jack. Renee was horrified; worried for Jack's life. They were unaware that the Russians had escaped underground with Jack, leaving him on his own.

11:00pm-12:00am
Jack was taken to Sergei Bazhaev's compound. Bazhaev himself spoke to Jack, who had been tied up. Jack said that someone in Farhad Hassan's party had told him about the fuel rods, and he wanted to do business with Bazhaev. He offered him double what Hassan could give him; $250 million. Bazhaev asked Jack about the men he claimed to represent, but Jack said he was not at liberty to say. Bazhaev's men beat Jack, but he still refused to talk. Bazhaev said that he had never heard of Jack (still posing under the name of Ernst Meier) and suspected that he was a cop. Jack said that he was not, citing his merciless killings of Laitanan and his men as a reason why. Bazhaev said that as a child he had seen the KGB throw an entire family off the roof of a building, and therefore did not doubt he was a policeman. Bazhaev left, telling his men to torture Jack until he talked.

At 11:11pm, Jack had been hung by a bar to the ceiling and was being electrocuted by Bazhaev's men. He still refused to talk. The interrogator continued for over ten minutes, at which point Jack managed to turn the electricutor on the man and shock him enough to knock him to the floor, unconscious. After great strife, Jack managed to break the bar he was hanging on and took out the man by breaking his neck. He took his gun and tried the phone, but found it out of batteries.



He went along the corridor and found a fuse box. He short-circuited it, cutting the lights to the facility. Using the darkness to his advantage, Jack took out another member of Bazhaev's team, this time finding a phone that worked. He called Chloe and told her to trace the line and send a TAC team. He continued along the corridor and went up a flight of stairs, eventually coming across two more of Bazhaev's men. He shot them both and was attacked by Bazhaev himself, shooting a shotgun. Jack picked up an assault rifle from one of the dead men and barrel rolled under a table, shooting at Bazhaev. The Russian shot at the table several times, and eventually was convinced that he had Jack. As he came close to the table, Jack jumped out from under it and pushed it over Bazhaev, knocking him unconscious.

The TAC team arrived and gave Jack some intel on Bazhaev. He read it and went to speak to the man himself. He offered Bazhaev a deal, saying that he could reduce his prison sentence if he told Jack where the fuel rods were. Bazhaev said that if Jack could offer an immunity deal to him and his son, Josef, then he would tell him where the rods were. Jack spoke to the President, who agreed to give him it. Bazhaev gave the location of the rods, and Cole and his team went in. They found no rods there, and Bazhaev realised that his son Josef must have taken them to go ahead with the deal with Farhad.

12:00am-1:00am
Bazhaev called his son and told him that the police had found them out. Jack told Josef that he could have full immunity if he brought the rods back to them now. Eventually he agreed, and at that exact moment Farhad Hassan and his men shot him dead, taking the rods for themselves. Chloe was unable to trace the call directly in the time that Bazhaev was on the phone. Hastings ordered Jack and Bazhaev back to CTU. Jack spoke to Chloe on the phone on the way back to CTU, and asked about Renee. Chloe said she was still in medical, and patched Jack through to her. Renee was thankful that Jack was OK, and Jack made sure that she had answered well with regards to killing Laitanan. He said that she had done nothing wrong. After a few moments, she asked what Jack had meant when he said that she "had" him. Jack said that it meant as it sounded, and Renee smiled. He said he would see her soon.



Jack arrived back at CTU and heard that someone from the Justice Department was talking to Renee, sceptical about her story with regards to Laitanan's death. Angry, he went the the interrogation room and knocked out a guard, storming in and threatening Kristen Smith. He said that Renee was the only one who managed to get them close to the rods. He took Renee and left the room, intimidating a guard into backing down from shooting him. However, another guard came at Jack from behind and tasered him, stunning him to the floor.

Hastings summoned Jack to his office, where Jack rebuked him for selling Renee out to the Justice Department. Hastings said that they were just trying to establish the facts, but Jack inferred that it more of an attempt at a criminal prosecution, and that he was defending himself. Jack reminded Hastings that he had been the one to ask Renee for help and she provided it, and Jack was willing to call the White House to help Renee. Hastings said that the President wouldn't defend Renee on a murder charge. Chloe interrupted and said that Farhad Hassan was on the line, and put him through. Hassan said that his men had turned against him and now planned to use the rods against America in New York. He said that if CTU could help save him then he would help them get the nuclear material. Hastings agreed and hung up, telling Jack that he had to leave CTU.

Later, as Jack was leaving he heard the plan to try to extract Hassan. He quipped that the plan that agent Owen had devised would be insufficient, then walked out. Hastings followed him and asked what he meant. Jack said that by sending two teams after the rods and leaving only one to find Hassan would end up in firefight. Hastings said that Owen had his full confidence, but Jack rebutted that Hastings would not be talking to Jack if that were true. He offered to do the mission properly, so long as Hastings dropped the charges against Renee. Hastings said that he couldn't, but Jack told him that as Special Agent in Charge he had more pull than he was exerting. Hastings said that if Jack stayed until the whole threat was over, he was willing to drop the charges against Renee. Jack agreed.