24 Declassified: Chaos Theory/12:00am-1:00am

THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 12 A.M. AND 1 A.M. PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.

12:00am PST

CTU Headquarters, Los Angeles

Jamey Farrell bursts into Christopher Henderson's office, exclaiming, "You won't believe what Jack Bauer just did."

12:01am PST

Little Java Café, West Los Angeles

Tony Almeida turns the corner onto Atlantic and pulls into a parking space a block away from the café. Bashir had been tracked to this location through his cell phone signal, traffic monitors, and Tony's visual confirmation. He gets out and walks around to the back door of the restaurant, where the cooks took trash out to the Dumpsters, and enters the kitchen. Looking through a window in the swinging door, he spots Bashir Riduan seated at a corner table with two other men. From his body language, it is clear that Bashir is reporting, not dictating, to one of the men, while the third speaks infrequently in supportive ways to the other stranger.

Wanting to know more about the leader, Tony flashes his badge to a busboy, and gets ahold of a white coat and a hairnet in order to pass as a restaurant employee. He heads out into the main room, a small space where every table is occupied. Tony makes for Bashir's table, but is interrupted by another patron asking him to get a clean fork. As he does so, he switches on a digital recorder in his pocket, then wipes the dirty fork on his pants and returns it to the guest. The man Bashir is speaking to finishes his cup of tea, prompting Tony to retrieve his empty cup. He carries it delicately, so as not to disturb the man's fingerprints on the handle.

12:19am PST

CTU Headquarters, Los Angeles

CTU holds an emergency meeting regarding the prison riot at the Federal Holding Facility. George Mason, newly arrived, asks Christopher Henderson about Chappelle's status. His tone with Henderson is somewhat cold; while on decent terms, they had both been prime candidates for Director of Field Operations, and Henderson occupying that position had caused an unspoken rivalry between them. Henderson replies that Chappelle is still comatose, as far as he knows.

Peter Jiminez breaks in, saying that if Jack escaped, he had a good reason, possibly to prove his innocence. Henderson says that the incident could cost Jack and CTU a lot unless they resolve it, and orders everyone to put together notes on cases they've worked with him - contacts, informants, safe houses - and give it to Peter. Both Mason and Nina Myers offer to review the information, since they've known Jack for a long time, but Henderson remains adamant, stating that he wants someone with fresh eyes like Jiminez to handle it.

12:22am PST

Los Angeles

In the back room of an abandoned thrift store, Jack Bauer and Emil Ramirez change out of their prison oranges and look for suitable clothes. Sirens pass outside, but for the moment they seem to have lost the police, who are more concerned with containing the hundreds of inmates still trying to escape. While Ramirez goes through the clothes, Jack sneaks to the phone at the storefront and dials a number.

12:25am PST

CTU Headquarters, Los Angeles

A receptionist forwards a call to the conference room, claiming that it's Jack Bauer on the line. She puts the call through. Jack immediately asks to speak with Ryan Chappelle, but Henderson says he's not available and tells Jack to turn himself in. Jack ignores him, and starts telling them that the whole thing is a setup, but the line goes dead mid-sentence.

12:27am PST

Los Angeles

Jack immediately hangs up the phone as Ramirez approaches, dressed in jeans and a Kobe Bryant basketball jersey. Jack lies that he tried to call some of his contacts, but couldn't connect, and hung up to avoid being traced. The two of them sit together in silence for a while, relieving the stress of the last hour. Finally, Ramirez asks why Jack chose tonight to break out of prison. Jack replies that his case was bad, and there was no way he would get his government job back anyway, so he had nothing to lose, especially with those gang-bangers after him. He says that he has one more phone call to make, then dials Teri's number.

Jack asks if Teri has checked the news yet, and then reveals that she's going to hear some things about him pretty soon; she'll need to bear with it. Concerned, Teri listens as Jack asks her a favor: he needs her get a saddlebag hanging in the garage, and take it to that place where they had a big argument - where Jack tried to make a big exit and crashed into a waiter carrying water glasses. Laughing and crying, Teri says that she remembers, and agrees to have the bag there by 2:00am.

After hanging up, Jack tells Ramirez that all his contacts across the city are burned - their only hope is to go to Ramirez's people, the ones he worked with on the embezzlement scheme. Ramirez initially refuses, but Jack reminds him that he's his only chance to avoid going back to prison. He plans to lay low for a while, let the search pass them by, then hot-wire a car and get out of the area.

12:36am PST

Federal Holding Facility, Los Angeles

U.S. Marshal Dan Pascal arrives at the outer gate to the facility and greets Lafayette, the senior corrections officer on duty. Lafayette reports that only two prisoners, Bauer and Ramirez, have escaped, and what's more, the video footage shows that they closed the gate behind them to keep others from getting out. Pascal asks Emerson, his deputy marshal, reports that the representative from CTU Los Angeles should arrive in about two minutes. Pascal recalls receiving two calls in quick succession around midnight: one briefing him on the prison riot and assigning him to the manhunt, the next from someplace called the Counter Terrorist Unit, telling him that one of their agents would be sent to provide support. To pass the time, he chats with Lafayette, until George Mason arrives and greets the two of them. Mason briefs Pascal on CTU's mandate and Jack Bauer's background. Much less confident than before, Pascal notes that Jack was caught once, and can be again.

12:47am PST

CTU Headquarters, Los Angeles

Tony arrives back at CTU, and hands the teacup from Little Java to the forensics team, ordering them to identify the prints on it as soon as possible. Next, he goes to Jamey's station and asks her for information on a group, but Jamey, without looking up, recommends Seth Ludonowski for the job, and suggests that he take advantage of the new analyst before he burns out. Tony goes over to Seth's station and orders him to compile everything he can find on Jemaah Islamiyah.

By the time Tony arrives at his desk, Seth has already forwarded intel on the group to his system. Jemaah Islamiyah - translated simply as "Islamic group" - was an Islamic fundamentalist group based in Indonesia, with the goal of establishing a Muslim theocracy across Southeast Asia. Their prior activities had included bombings of hotels in Bali and the Australian embassy in Jakarta. Tomorrow's Southeast Asian trade conference, and Bashir's meeting with a JI member, seemed to suggest that the group might be planning an attack in the city. A few minutes later, Seth calls the office to report a match on the fingerprints: the man at the cafe was Encep Sungkar, third in command of Jemaah Islamiyah.