Jack Bauer on Day 8

Day 8: 4:00pm-5:00pm

A retired Jack is first shown in a New York apartment sleeping on a couch with his grandaughter watching a TV. After discussing with his daughter Kim Bauer about moving to Los Angeles with her, her husband and her daughter, Jack is visited by a wounded Victor Aruz, a former informant of Jack's. Aruz tells him that he has information about a planned assassination on Omar Hassan the President of Islamic Republic of Kamistan who is meeting with US President Allison Taylor for peace talks.

Jack calls CTU NY and asks for assistance from Director Brian Hastings who sends Cole Ortiz and a helicopter to pick up Bauer and Aruz. The pair are intercepted first by New York policemen suspicious of the wounded man, and then by the assassins trying to kill Aruz. Bauer manages to kill the assassins in a stairwell, but when Ortiz arrives with the helicopter it is blown up, further wounding Aruz. Bauer gets Aruz to tell him that someone close to Hassan is planning the assassination before he eventually dies on the roof.

Jack goes to CTU where Chloe O'Brian debriefs him, and tells him they have arrested journalist Meredith Reed based on some evidence found on her laptop - a situation which Chloe believes was "too easy" and is suspicious of. After she pleads with Jack to help her with her theory, Jack begins to leave, but when Kim comes to pick him up, she convinces Jack that he should stay and help Chloe. Chloe and Jack track a mysterious man seen entering and leaving Reed's apartment, but before Jack can leave Brian Hastings has him arrested for trying to arm himself with CTU weapons. Jack blackmails Hastings, who lets him leave to investigate the cab with Chloe - a theory he doesn't believe in as he thinks Reed is guilty.