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5:02 A.M.-5:04 A.M.: As Teri and Alan watch from outside the operating room, Janet's BP starts crashing. The nurses call in Dr. Collier, who has them shock her with a defibrillator, but the first attempts fail. Jack calls Teri from his car to say he'll be there soon, and warns her not to let anyone suspicious see Janet as she may be in danger. More than you know, pal! After they hang up, Jack meets Nina and has her take the body in Penticoff's car to find out who he is -- which won't be easy since they mutilated his face, pulled his teeth and amputated his fingers. Jack tells Nina about Janet and asks her to keep it secret that he's going to the hospital. A helicopter he summoned arrives and picks him up, just as Tony comes charging out demanding to find out from Nina why Jack called for one without giving a destination. She tells him off.

5:04 A.M.-5:06 A.M.: Gaines tells Kimberly this is what happens when you lie and warns Rick not to ever lie to him. He hands Rick a shovel to get rid of Dan's body. Kimberly tries to appeal to Rick by saying he'll end up just like Dan if they don't work together, but he angrily shuts her up.

5:06 A.M.-5:10 A.M.: Palmer calls Carl to the hotel, and beats the truth out of him -- that he covered up Keith's crime and altered the hospital records. After making sure Palmer really wants to know the truth, Carl admits Keith came to him to confess murdering Lyle Gibson, but claimed it was self-defense as Gibson pulled a knife on him. Palmer asks why didn't they go to the police to confess if it was only self-defense, but Carl thinks it would have ruined his career anyway -- because Gibson was white. Palmer orders Carl out of his life and out of his family's life. Before he goes, Carl twists the knife by telling the senator that Sherry was in on the cover-up.

5:14 A.M.-5:16 A.M.: Kimberly gets another shovel and helps Rick dig, against his wishes. Rick lets Kimberly know he didn't want to leave Janet there, that no one was supposed to get hurt. Kimberly doesn't want to hear Rick's whining, she only wants him to think of a way to escape.

5:16 A.M.-5:19 A.M.: Jack arrives at the hospital, where he is met by head of security Claude Davenport. Jack thanks him for locking down the hospital so only staff can get in, then is reunited with Teri. Teri lets Jack know Janet is now stable, but not talking yet. Alan introduces himself to Jack. He's relieved that Janet pulled through, but isn't sure he wants Jack to interrogate her when she comes to. Teri is angry and Alan stunned when Jack treats Alan like a suspect by questioning if he knew who Kimberly and Janet went out with. Teri pulls Jack aside to tell him Alan was with her all night, but the conversation is cut short when Jack sees Davenport fighting with a guy who is trying to barge his way into the hospital so he can see his brother. The guy angrily walks past Davenport and Jack with a suspicious briefcase, so Jack jumps him and dumps out the contents: a bunch of pills, which he says are his medication. A nurse comes by to calm down the guy about the status of his brother, letting Jack know he's clean.

5:19 A.M.-5:22 A.M.: Sherry asks Palmer what Carl wanted. When he comes out with it, she believes Carl was just feeding him a story. Palmer puts her on the spot by sternly asking why SHE was feeding HIM a story. Sherry says they hid it from him because they were protecting his career, but he thinks she was protecting her own career. Sherry says they need to do everything they can to keep the truth from coming out, but he says it's too late. She reminds him then he'll be losing a lot more than the election, and asks if he really wants to send Keith to jail. He's got no answer for her.

5:27 A.M.-5:29 A.M.: Kimberly and Rick talk about how Dan and Janet acted like they were invincible, and how they wish they could turn back the clock (well, they could in episode 2). Gaines returns and orders Kimberly to come with him and Rick to finish the job. Jack calls Nina from the hospital to find out if she's got anything on the body. There's no ID yet, but the time of death was estimated between 11:00 P.M. and midnight last night. Nina tells him they're doing tissue samples to identify it, but Jack makes her call that off as it will take more time than they have.

5:29 A.M.-5:33 A.M.: Teri apologizes to Alan for the way Jack treated him. She says she's accepted how wound up he is. He thinks they'll be able to find Kimberly once Janet wakes up. Jack ends his call with Nina and pulls Teri aside to finally tell her why he was called to work last night -- and that Kimberly was kidnapped because of him. When Teri bursts into tears, Jack consoles her. She wants him to call the police, but he can't. Besides, he knows the kidnappers need Kimberly alive.

5:37 A.M.-5:39 A.M.: Jamey is not happy when Nina takes her off the key card assignment, gives it to Milo, an outside contractor, and reassigns her to forensics. Palmer wakes up his chief of staff, Mike, in the middle of the night to talk to him. Alan has good news for Jack and Teri -- Janet is out of surgery and has pulled through. Jack apologizes to Alan. Nina calls Jack to say they found a surgical pin in the body's ankle which is one-of-a-kind and should be able to identify it.

5:39 A.M.-5:42 A.M.: Mike reaffirms to Palmer that the minute Maureen Kingsley breaks the story, he's guaranteed to lose. But unlike Palmer, Mike doesn't think he should drop out, because he has responsibilities as the first African-American candidate. Mike tries to reassure Palmer that he wasn't a part of the coverup and didn't even know, but that's not reassurement to him because it just means he doesn't know anything about his family. Mike asks the senator if he really wants the job, then he needs to beat Kingsley to the punch and come out with the story himself at the breakfast...regardless of how that will make his family feel.

5:42 A.M.-5:47 A.M.: Dr. Collier tells Alan there's nothing Janet won't recover from, explains the complications in surgery, and is optimistic that she'll pull through. Jack asks Collier if he can ask Janet a few questions now. She's not comfortable with that, so she leaves it in Alan's hands. Alan says he'll go in first to make sure Janet is up to it. Jack gets a call, believing it's Nina. But it's Gaines, who threatens Jack won't see Kimberly again if he doesn't do what he's told. When Gaines makes it clear he's watching him, Jack looks around the hospital and spots the surveillance camera the terrorists intercepted. Gaines makes Jack smile at Teri and walk away from her towards the exit. Dr. Collier lets Alan in to see Janet and gives them time alone. In a daze, Janet says hi to her father -- until her vision clears up, she doesn't know who he is, and asks where IS her father. Before anybody can answer, Alan takes her oxygen mask and smothers her until she flatlines.

5:51 A.M.-5:54 A.M.: In the hospital's garage, Gaines orders Jack to get into a silver Taurus. Jack refuses to do anymore until he can talk to Kimberly to confirm she's okay. Gaines lets Kimberly have two seconds with him before he pulls her off the phone and tells Jack to take a metal box out of the glove compartment. Inside is a small transmitter, which Jack is told to put in his ear, then throw his phone out the window, pick up the keys, start the car, and go to CTU.

5:54 A.M.-5:57 A.M.: Nina calls Jack to check up, but obviously only gets his answering message. Alan returns to tell her what Janet "said" -- some boys got rough with them, she isn't sure if Kimberly got away, but she knows the address where they may be holding her. He thinks maybe they can take it to the police. Teri says Jack is the police, and panics when she can neither get through to him nor find him. She plans to go to the address herself, until Alan says she'll take her since Dr. Collier says Janet will be fine without him. They exit the hospital together as Teri continues to look for her husband. Rick pulls Dan's body into the grave he dug, as another captor returns Kimberly to the scene. Rick apologizes to Dan before he starts shoveling. Kimberly tells Rick she spoke to her dad, whom she believes will get them out of this. Rick is skeptical since Jack doesn't even know where they are. Kimberly grabs her shovel.

5:57 A.M.-6:00 A.M.: Milo goes to Jamey to ask if she used a certain method on the keycard, because it's faster than what she was doing. She's resentful of him. Nina tells Jamey they just made the identification. Teri and Alan are in his car, on their way to the address. Teri notices a deep scratch on Alan's wrist which she didn't notice before. Alan says he got it back at the furniture store. Nina calls Teri to say she can't get through to Jack. Teri says he went to take a call, and...wait a second, wasn't it from her? But Nina says she hasn't spoken to Jack in half an hour. She asks Teri that when she does find out where Jack is to tell him that they just found out the murder victim's name. It's Alan York.

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