Day 2: 8:00am-9:00am

It is approx. a year after the events of season one. Palmer has become President. Jack Bauer, deeeply distraught and depressed over the death of his wife, has quit CTU. He is also estranged from his daughter Kim who blames him for her mother's death. American intelligence learns of a plot to detonate a nuclear weapon in Los Angeles by the end of the day. An NSA operative contacts CTU and orders director George Mason to find Jack Bauer. Apparently Bauer worked undercover a few years earlier in a homegrown terrorist group that has ties to the bomb. Bauer is brought into CTU and reluctanly agrees to help them find the bomb in exchange for protection for his daughter Kim from the bomb. Bauer knows that he will need something to show the terrorists he once infiltrated that he is not the one that turned in their leader years ago. He has Director Mason arrange to have the main government witness against the Terrorist cells leader brought to CTU. Once there, Bauer calmly and cooly shoots him dead in an interrogation room. Once done, he requests a hacksaw to cut off the man's head to show the terrorists he is on their side and to gain their trust. The episode ends with a clean shaven Bauer heading to the terrorists location.