24 (2001–2010): Season 3, Episode 24 - Day 3: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. - full transcript

Jack and Chase corner Saunders' henchman Arthur Rabens in an active public school. Tony faces losing command of CTU and treason charges for saving Michelle. An emotionally broken President Palmer decides to drop out of the race fo...

"Previously on" 24.

Alan Milliken's prescription bottle
turned up with Sherry's fingerprints on it.

I can call Foxton.
He can make this all disappear.

All you have to do
is give me the okay.

- David put you up to this, didn't he?
- Sherry, l...

- The police think I killed Alan.
- Well, I told you to keep your mouth shut.

It's nobody's fault but your own.

" Oh, my God! Sherry!"

No!

You committed treason.

You facilitated the escape
of a man who was responsible...



for the death of Ryan Chappelle
and almost a thousand civilians.

With luck, the best
you can hope for is 20 years.

Tell me how to find your couriers, or I am
gonna put your daughter in that building.

You wouldn't dare.
She has nothing to do with this!

- "Neither do the people in those body bags!"
- "Dad, stop them! No!"

When your daughter's infected,
I'm gonna make you watch her die.

- Dad, stop them!
- Stephen, you're out of time!

Stop! Stop! I'll tell you!

- Where's the 11 th vial?
- "Los Angeles."

What's the target?

His instructions were to select a public place
where maximum casualties would be inflicted.

Target has stopped
moving. The target has stopped.

Drop the bag! Get on the ground, now!
Don't move!

- What's goin' on?
- Where is it?



- "Where's what?"
- Where is it?

- "Chase!"
- "What are you guys doin'?"

- "What's goin'on?"
- Jack, I got a signal.

Wh-What are you lookin'for?

It's just a transmitter. He's put it
on an innocent. This man is not Rabens.

Shut the station down now!

The following takes place
between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.

"This is Dessler."

Michelle, it's Jack.
We just lost Rabens.

He dumped the G.P.S. Beacon
onto an innocent.

- He still has the virus?
- We have to assume so.
We're sweeping the station now.

We've locked down
the entire building.

We're gonna start moving passengers
through monitored checkpoints.

How will you find Rabens?
We still don't have a sketch.

We need Saunders to make an I.D. Move him
over from Holding to Chloe's station.

We're setting up a live feed.

Okay. We'll be ready on our end.

Michelle, Gael Ortega's
wife, Theresa, is here.

All right, Jesse.
Send her in.

According to Chloe's statement...

you were working in parallel
to bring down Saunders...

even while you were
complying with his demands.

Yeah. That's right. I, uh...

I gave Chloe a recording of a conversation
between Saunders and myself...

Chloe also said you intentionally
scrambled the voice...

to slow down her progress.

Tony, did you put
Michelle's life...

ahead of public safety
or national security?

Yes.

I did.

He said he was exposed
to a virus.

Yeah, that's right.

Did he suffer?

No. No, he went quickly.

Gael.

He was a hero.

He tried to stop the virus
from being released, and when it was...

he just kept working...

till the end.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Can I pick up his things?

Of course.

- I'll go see what I can do.
- Okay.

Wait here.

- "Kim."
- Yes, Michelle.

That's Mrs. Ortega,
Gael's wife.

I need you to take her to his station
to pick up his personal belongings.

- "Sure."
- "Thank you."

Sit him down.

Hello.

Kim, I need you.
Saunders is here to I.D. Rabens.

Well, I'm with Mrs. Ortega.

Michelle said I could reassign anyone
I wanted to help me, and I want you.

So please don't make me ask again.

Um, fine. I'll get
Barry to watch her.

- Barry.
- "Yeah."

Please watch Mrs. Ortega
while she gathers Gael's things.

- Sure.
- Take as much time as you need.

Thanks.

Excuse me, Barry.
Can I get a signature?

Oh, sure.

Thanks.

- "Anything else for me?"
- "No, that's it."

Sir, could you
step up to the line.

Right here.

Chin up, please, sir.

Look at the camera.
Chin up.

Move in closer on 2-A.

Yeah, Jack. It's me.

- " Any matches, Michelle?"
- "No. Nothing yet."

- How far have you gotten?
- So far we've gone through
the first two sets of photos.

Next group is uploading now.
Stand by.

It's not him.

- Is there anything on this page?
- Try 3-B, closer up.

No. That's not him.

No.

Chin up, please.

- No.
- " Do we have a match?"

- That's a negative, Jack.
- I don't see him anywhere.

- "Okay, next."
- Yeah.

Turn to the front.

Head up, sir.

- Bring up 5-B.
- No.

- Are you sure?
- He's not here.

All right. Bring up the next page.

What about this one? No?

"Theresa, no!"

He killed Gael!
Don't you understand?

- I need medical!
- Michelle, what's going on over there?

- Saunders has been shot.
- What are you talking about?

- "Who shot him?"
- Gael's wife. Hold on, Jack.

I need medical here now!

- "Michelle, what is his condition?"
- Looks critical.

You do everything you can
to keep him alive.

He's our only
connection to Rabens.

- Chase.
- "Yeah."

He killed my husband!

- Jack.
- Talk to me.

- He didn't make it.
- Son of a bitch.

We'll get back to you.
Saunders has just been shot.

He's dead.

Don't move, ma'am. Don't move!

I didn't... He did kill...

He killed...

my husband.

Red Line service
is experiencing significant delays at this time.

Between the information we've gotten
from the captured couriers...

and our own intelligence, we've
been able to confirm that Saunders...

was the sole architect
of today's actions.

If we catch this last man...

Arthur Rabens, that'll be
the end of the threat.

And if not, we're back to square one,
and the virus is back on the market.

Find him.

Hello, Wayne.

Joseph, could you, uh,
give us a minute?

- Thank you, Joseph.
- Mr. President.

Well, did you get the prescription bottle
from Sherry's house?

Yeah.

Well, that's good.

David.

David, something horrible
happened, and I don't...

Sherry's dead.

What?

How?

Julia... She came in,
and she... she killed her.

Then she turned
the gun on herself.

- They're both dead?
- Yeah.

Listen. I'm not gonna try to pretend
that we can just put this behind us...

but the fact is...

the fact is that politically
we're free of everything...

free of Milliken's extortion, his death,
free of Sherry's involvement.

You're thinking
of the politics of this?

The mother of my children
has just been murdered.

And the woman that I loved
just killed herself in front of me.

I understand how you feel.

There's a story here, David. There's
a story that can tie this all together.

Alan Milliken was having
an affair with Sherry.

Julia found out,
and then she killed them both.

No. No. No.
I don't wanna hear it.

- "Your emotions are clouding..."
- No!

David, please just listen to me.

Leave me alone.

David, please.

Jeannie?

Yes, Mr. President?

Would you get my son and my daughter
on a conference line.

We're gonna separate the crowd
into units of 10.

I want an officer
assigned to each unit.

That officer's gonna be responsible
to make sure no one leaves that unit...

- unless authorized by me or another C.T.U. Agent.
- I understand.

Search every passenger...
every briefcase, purse, pocket...
then verify their identification.

- We'll be here all day.
- Not if we find them.

Yes, sir.

I want you to initiate
another search of the station...

including the tracks
a mile in each direction.

- Thank you.
- Yes, sir.

Jack. We're locked down.

We got two men at every exit.

Good.

Is there anything else
we can do right now?

No. Not until we get
an I.D. on Rabens.

Jack, listen.
About Mexico...

I hope you know I understand
you were just doing your job.

Look. It took me
a long time to understand...

that if you want to do this job well,
you have to stay detached.

If you can accept that,
you'll be fine.

Yeah. Well,
I have accepted it.

That's why I'm thinking
after today, I'm done.

I don't want to be
detached, Jack.

Not from Kim,
not from my daughter.

I'm gonna request
a transfer to the floor.

Are you sure about this?

I'd still be serving my country.

I can take care
of the people I care about.

I owe them that, Jack.

What'd Kim say?

I think she's willing to give it a try
as long as I'm not in Field Ops.

What do you think, Jack?

I'm the last person
you should be asking.

It's between you and Kim.

Whatever you choose,
I would support.

You're a good man, Chase.

Let's go. Let's go. Move it in.
Form a line here, sir. Fast.

We'll be checking your belongings
and your identification.

Sir, please. At the end.
Thank you, sir.

Take your glasses off.

You only have nine people in your unit here.
Where is the man in the brown jacket?

- I don't know.
- Chase, we have a passenger unaccounted for.

This is Jack Bauer. We have two L.A.P.D.
Officers down at the northwest exit.

I need transportation
to meet me on the corner.

Help!
We need somebody over here now!

I'm a federal agent. Did you see what happened?

- A carjacking.
- Did you get a make on the car?

- No.
- This is Jack Bauer.

We've got a civilian casualty
on Hope and 7 th.

Call 911!

- Did you see which way the car went?
- He went straight down there.

I need that transportation now!

Michelle, this is Jack. Rabens is out
of the station. I repeat... Rabens is out.

He was headed east on 5th Street less than
five minutes ago. I need to I.D. A stolen car.

- I want you to give me a D.M.V. Readout on a...
- "Frank Cassar."

Frank Cassar. Then I want you to set up
roadblocks in a five-mile radius...

and coordinate sat surveillance,
traffic cameras, everything we've got.

Yeah.

Brad, it's me. I need to talk to you now.

All right. I'll be right out.

I need to step out.

Brad, Rabens is gone.

He got through the perimeter
at the M.T.A. station.

- How the hell did that happen?
- "Doesn't matter how it happened."

It happened. We identified the vehicle
he carjacked as a light blue Malibu.

We set up a roadblock and uplinked
traffic cams and satellite sweeps...

but I need Tony to coordinate
the data flow with Tactical.

There's no downside here, Brad.

You know he's not a flight risk, and
he'd be a major asset to the operation.

- I could be brought up on charges if I let Tony out.
- We can't lose Rabens.

So unless you want to take responsibility
and run Tactical yourself...

you're wasting time, Brad.

We need you on the floor.

Come on, Chloe. Where's Rabens?

Just a second, Jack.
I think I've got a match.

A light green Malibu.
Intersection of 5th and Vanowen.

Okay. We're only a few blocks away.
We're gonna head over there now.

Adam, get me a closer
shot of that plate.

Doing it now.

I'm back in play, Jack.
Michelle got me up to speed.

Tony, how long till the plate's I.D. 'd?

- "Adam, do we have a match?"
- Yes, it's him. The plates match.

- Jack, it's him.
- Which direction is he headed?

- East on Del Mar, just past Franklin.
- That's the next block.

Right there! Right there!

Tony, we got him. He's headed south
on Manning towards the Chatham Center.

- We're gonna need backup.
- Copy that.

Tony, where's that backup
coming in from?

From the east and south
on a reciprocal course.

Okay. We just made a right.
We're headed west on De Soto.

Move that thing out of here now!

Tony, we've been cut off.
He's made a right onto Lawndale.

He's headed north. We're
about three blocks behind him.

We have three vehicles in the area ready
to cut him off. We're gonna corner him.

Jack, we got him pinned
on Chamberlain, just north of Palm.

Okay. Keep him there.
We're two blocks away.

He's running into the middle school
on Chamberlain. Main entrance.

Okay, Tony. We're coming up
on the middle school now.

Tony, he's in the school.
I gotta get back to you.

Tell the arriving teams
to secure the exits.

We cannot evacuate this school.
We run the risk of losing him. Let's move.

Haynes, cover the west exit.

- You get anything?
- "Nothing."

Cover your exit.
No one leaves this building.

Chase, take your man.
Search the auditorium.

All teachers and students are instructed...

to remain in their classrooms
and lock their doors.

To remain in their classrooms
and lock their doors.

I repeat... Remain in the
classrooms and lock the doors.

It's all right, children.
It's all right. It's all right.

Let's all go
to the front of the class.

Chase, this is Jack.
Second floor is clear. Do you copy?

Chase?

- Ah!
- No!

No, Chase. Just lay still.
Everything's gonna be all right.

It was the only thing I could do
to keep him from escaping with the virus.

Don't waste your time. It's not coming off.

- What are you talking about?
- Rabens didn't even try to remove it.

If he could unlock it,
he would have.

Tony, Rabens is dead.
The virus is in our possession.

But the dispersal device
has been activated. I don't see a timer.

- I've got no idea how long we've got.
- All right, Jack.

- I need you to find a secure
container... anything ain't tight.
- I can't do that.

- The device is attached to Chase's wrist.
- What?

I need you to put me in touch
with one of the teams...

that's been able to disarm
the device already.

- All right. I'll get back to you.
- Hurry.

Just support the device.

Jack, I don't know how this
is all gonna turn out...

but I want you to tell Kim
that I'm sorry...

Whatever you gotta tell Kim, you tell her
yourself. We're gonna get through this.

You just stay with me.
We're gonna get through this.

Jack, I'm patching you through.

Okay.

Roger Sommers here.

My partner had to fasten
the dispersal device to his wrist...

to stop the courier
from escaping with it.

I need to figure out how to disarm
the timer or remove the clamp.

Forget about the clamp. It's titanium. It's
also wired into the tamper proof mechanism.

Fine. Then let's disarm
the timer. What do I do?

There's a plate at the opposite end
of the clamp. You need to open that up.

Okay. I see it.

Chase, stay with me.
Stay with me!

Okay. I've got the timer. Three minutes,
51 seconds, counting down.

You should see six wires to the left.

Separate them from each other.

- Okay. Done.
- Okay.

The furthest to the left
should be red.

Cut it without making
contact with the others.

You ready?

I cut the red wire, but
the timer's still counting down.

That's okay. The timer
will stop at the next cut.

Locate the green wire.
It's in the group to the right.

Roger, I don't have a green wire.

What color wires do you have?

Orange, yellow, black and purple.

They don't match.

Jack, the devices don't match.

Don't panic and don't cut any more wires
until we can figure this out on our end.

Hurry. We're running out of time.

Jack, you need to go.

I'm not going anywhere
without you.

Do it.

They're gonna call back.

- You have to.
- They're gonna call back!

It's okay.

Ah!

This is Jack Bauer. We have a man down
on the third floor science lab...

northeast corner of the building,
requiring medical assistance.

Emergency, now!

Could you give us a minute, please?

Yeah. Sure thing. Come on.

What's going on?

I'm back in custody. Hammond's
taking me down to Federal.

No. No. They can't do this. Not after
everything you've accomplished today.

Michelle, I put your well-being
above the country's.

Nothing anybody can say
will ever change that fact.

But they can't...
they can't put you in prison.

Yes, they can.

And they will for a long time.
Believe me.

- Tony, don't talk like this.
- Michelle...

- I can't...
- Michelle...

- I won't give up on you. I can't.
- Michelle, don't do this.

Baby, you're alive.

And nobody else got hurt
because of what I did.

And that's more than I hoped for.

I can live with that.

Even in prison.

Tony, it's time.

- Thank you, Doctor.
- Sure.

Dr. Berman, radiology.
Dr. Berman, radiology.

This is Bauer.

Agent Bauer,
please hold for the president.

- Jack?
- Mr. President.

I wanted to thank you personally...

not only for what you've done today,
but for everything.

This country continues to owe you
a great debt of gratitude.

Thank you, sir.

I put you in an unimaginable
position earlier today...

when I asked you to take the life
of one of your colleagues.

Please forgive me for that.

Mr. President,
there's nothing to forgive.

It's what had to be done.

It wasn't the only
sacrifice made today.

I understand.

- How is Agent Edmunds doing?
- He's in surgery now.

It's going to be a few days before we know
whether or not he can use his hand.

When he's strong enough to talk,
I'd like to thank him personally.

He would appreciate that, sir.

You know, Jack,
men and women like you...

your courage and level
of commitment humbles me.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I'll let everyone know at C.T.U.
That you appreciated the job they did.

Jack, there's one more thing.

And please don't discuss this
with anyone until it becomes public...

but I wanted you to hear it
from me personally.

I've decided
not to seek reelection.

This will be my only term.

Mr. President, I hope you don't mind me saying
so, but I think you're making a mistake.

Well, mistake or not,
it's what I've decided.

When I'm a private citizen,
I hope we can become better friends.

That would be an honor, sir.

Thank you, Jack.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Come.

Mr. President,
the motorcade's ready.

Thank you, Aaron.

Thank you, Wayne.

Right in there.

- Dad.
- Hey.

Is Chase gonna be okay?

The doctors are very optimistic.

- They got him into surgery very quickly.
- Oh, thank God.

Come here.

I hear you and Chase
are gonna make some changes.

I'm very happy for you.

I thought you were
gonna be upset about it.

I'm so proud of you.

I'm sure whatever choices
you make will be the right ones.

Thank you, Dad.
Thank you.

You gonna be okay?

Um, yeah.
I'm gonna be fine.

There's some things
I have to deal with...

but I'm gonna be fine.

Are you gonna wait here
for Chase to get out of surgery?

- Yeah.
- I've gotta leave for a little while.

- I'll be back.
- Okay.

- I love you.
- I love you too, Dad.

Okay.

Dr. Wilson to nurses station.

Jack, you there?

Jack?

This is Jack.

I just got a call from District. They've
started interrogating Saunders's courier.

We could use your help.

Jack?

Yeah.

Jack, did you copy?

I'm on my way.