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10:02 A.M.-10:08 A.M.: Kim frantically searches for, but ultimately locates Megan. The police come to Gary's aid, and he tells them that Kim kidnapped his daughter. As Mason drives north out of Los Angeles, Tony phones him with news that the LAPD located a suspect in Panorama City. District wants Mason to check it out on his way to Bakersfield. At the Northwest O.C., Lynne gives the President bad news; the predicted casualties are actually higher than they had anticipated, ruling out any possibility of a dirty bomb. The NSA now believe they are looking for a nuclear weapon.


Now a member of Eddie's crew, Jack questions why CTU is being targeted, but Eddie won't reveal any information. Suddenly, Jack's cell phone rings. It is Kim, but she has not heard any of the messages from her father because she lost her phone. Although Kim begs her father for his help, Jack tries not to give anything away within earshot of Eddie's crew. Instead, he tells her to go to her Aunt Carol's house. Kim doesn't understand why he is telling her to go all the way to San Jose. She then calls Tony, who informs her that Jack is working undercover. Tony asks her to get to CTU, and she says she will take a bus.



10:08 A.M.-10:09 A.M.: All of the phones in CTU get corrupted, thanks to Eddie's crew taking out the phone lines at a relay station. Eddie sends Jack to watch the road. He discretely attempts to call CTU to warn them, but he cannot get through. Jack instead calls the O.C., and asks to speak to the President.



10:09 A.M.-10:11 A.M.: Since Palmer is in the midst of a press conference, Lynne takes the call. Jack warns her of the attack on CTU. He asks her to have the building evacuated, and then hangs up when Eddie approaches. In the O.C., Lynne and Eric Rayburn presume that this hit on CTU is a diversion from the main nuclear attack. When Lynne tries to notify CTU, Rayburn stops her. He believes that doing so will blow Jack's cover and ruin his chances of getting close to Wald. Lynne is adamant about telling Palmer, so she asks Jenny Dodge to interrupt the press conference.



10:11 A.M.-10:12 A.M.: Two telephone repair workers arrive at the relay station, and find that the locks have been cut. Eddie's crew ambushes them, and Eddie shoots one of the workers. He then orders the other one to call his boss and say that he must go on-site at CTU to check the phone system.



10:16 A.M.-10:21 A.M.: Rayburn calls Tony with an order to copy and transfer all CTU database information about the nuclear threat onto NSA's server. Since he wants it done in under an hour, Tony has Paula work on sending the data over. She goes into Mason's office to use his computer. Michelle points out to Tony that if this order had only been precautionary, then other agencies would have received the same request. CTU was the only one asked to forward their databases.


Mason arrives at an industrial complex in Panorama City, where a vehicle was linked to someone on the terrorist watch list. The police at the scene break into the building, and see the remains of the area where the nuclear weapon was constructed. Suddenly, a gunman fires at the officers, and a shootout occurs, shattering the glass enclosure where the weapon was processed. Mason realizes that a powder has been dispersed in the air, and notices a radiation warning sign. He coughs as he calls out to a policeman to summon Hazmat, because this may be a possible hot zone.



10:21 A.M.-10:23 A.M.: Kim rides with Megan on a city bus toward CTU. Megan asks Kim whether she makes her own father mad. Kim reassures her that she is not the cause of Gary's anger, and promises that she will never let him hurt Megan again.



10:23 A.M.-10:25 A.M.: The telephone repairman pulls up to CTU, and the worker lies to the security guard that he is there to fix the phones. Although Eddie and his crew are in the back, they are cleared into the complex. The worker asks what the crew could possibly want from CTU. Eddie explains that they are taking back their country. "We're patriots," Jack says.



10:30 A.M.-10:34 A.M.: Kate gets a call from Ralph. He confirms that Reza didn't have contacts with the terrorist. He tells her he is obligated to notify the authorities at Homeland Security, and warns her not to tell anyone. When she hangs up, Marie and Reza playfully try to coax her into meet his cousin, but Kate pulls away forcefully. When Marie confronts her, Kate tearfully says that she only wants her to be happy.



10:34 A.M.-10:36 A.M.: Lynne is surprised to see Jenny hurrying through the O.C., as she had asked her to interrupt the President's press conference. Jenny tells her she slipped him a note regarding his urgent request, but Palmer did not respond.


As Eddie and his crew make their way into CTU, Jack waits in the van with the tied-up worker. He urgently writes a note warning that there are bombs being placed in the building.



10:41 A.M.-10:43 A.M.: Mason calls Tony from Panorama City to tell him about the lab where the terrorists have assembled the nuclear bomb. Everyone at the scene is being put through decontamination, but they still don't know if they were exposed to radiation. Mason will send Tony the fingerprints from the dead bodies to see if they match anyone on the watch list. Tony informs him that NSA ordered CTU's database to be transferred, but did not make the same request from other agencies. Mason agrees that this is not usual protocol.



10:43 A.M.-10:44 A.M.: Michelle approaches Paula in the restroom. Although she is worried about her friends and family living in Los Angeles, the frightened Paula knows that it is her duty to keep working.



10:44 A.M.-10:49 A.M.: Jack releases the phone worker with the note intended for Tony, explaining that he is a government agent working undercover. After the worker gets out, Jack cuts himself with his switchblade to create the impression that he has been struck in the head. Eddie and the crew return to the van, and find Jack knocked out. Eddie is mad that the telephone guy got away, but lets everyone in the van out before the building explodes.


As the van pulls away, Kim and Megan arrive at CTU. She tells the security guard that Tony is expecting her.



10:53 A.M.-11:00 A.M.: Lynne is angry that Palmer did not call her when the press conference broke. She confronts Rayburn about his keeping the president in the dark in regards to the CTU situation. Rayburn threatens her not to cross him. When Palmer comes into the O.C., Lynne tells him the news. Rayburn tries to explain that alerting CTU would expose Jack, because he had CTU transfer their intelligence so that the only losses would be infrastructure and personnel. Palmer says those losses are unacceptable, and he orders Lynne to notify CTU immediately. Rayburn tells the President that he believes he is making a mistake.


Michelle gives Tony the note from the telephone worker about the bomb, and Tony orders an immediate evacuation of the building. He gets the call from Lynne, and asks if this is the reason NSA wanted their data.


Kim and Megan are escorted out of the building, along with the other CTU workers. Tony runs up to Mason's office to save Paula, who is still trying to complete the data transfer. He tells her they need to leave now, then the bombs go off.


Eddie and the crew watch CTU from a distance, and congratulate themselves when they see the smoke cloud rise above the building.


A Hazmat doctor informs Mason that he has inhaled a high level of enriched plutonium. He may only have one more day to live.


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