THREE MONTHS AFTER THE END OF DAY 5
THE PENTAGON / WHITE HOUSE / CTU-LOS ANGELES
Audrey Raines is on a teleconference with President James Heller in the White House, Karen Hayes at Homeland Security, and Bill Buchanan at CTU Los Angeles.
HELLER: Any news, people?
KAREN: Unfortunately, no. As you know, China has launched their own satellites into orbit and are disrupting our signals. We believe he is being held in a prison on the Siberian border according to Howard Bern's testimony one year ago.
AUDREY: Bern, that despicable coward.
HELLER (nodding): Audrey, your end at DOD?
AUDREY: We've authorized an increase in reconnssaince flyovers of northern China from our bases in Fairbanks and Okinawa but the Chinese response has been increasingly aggressive and we are hesitant to risk the lives of our pilots.
HELLER: So there's nothing left for us to do right now but pray.
AUDREY (stifling a sob): Yeah.
PRESIDENT HELLER: Audrey, I promise that the resources of this country will be devoted to bringing Jack home. He's an American hero. (Pause) Bill, there is another matter at hand right now.
BUCHANAN: Yes, Mr. President?
HELLER: We've picked up a heavy increase in terrorist chatter around the world, and with the London Olympics beginning only weeks from now, we're not going to take any chances. The European Union has requested CTU backup and a CTU presence in its member states during the during of the Olympic Games to safeguard against any attack and to respond if anything were to happen. We're drawing up a list of CTU's most experienced agents and needless to say, Los Angeles has a disproportionate number given your distinguished history.
BUCHANAN: It's an honor I wish we did not have, sir, but whatever your orders are, we are ready to answer the call.
HELLER: This is a delicate situation as we will be operating outside of American borders, but again, this is a critical situation and we need the best we have. Bill, I know I can count on you and your staff.
BUCHANAN: Thank you, Mr. President.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ
There is a shot of a typical Middle Eastern-looking street and the camera zooms in on a cement building. A female Australian soldier named PRIVATE LAUREN SUMMERS is crying in a dilapidated apartment overlooking a crowded bazaar and the sounds of prayers and street vendors is heard. On the wall is a banner in both Arabic and English reading "Mesopotamia Jihad Brigade".
An Iraqi terrorist named BASHIR ARSHAD flips through Summers' personal things, and we see pictures of her with her parents on a beach, hanging out with her best friend at a mall, and lying on a bed with her cat. Lauren is a beautiful young women but she is covered with blood and acid-caused burns and shivering.
A second terrorist gets up from a rusty chair and holds a knife to Lauren's genital area.
TERRORIST: "We have shown you mercy because you were a woman, but I am tired of your silence. I will ask you one final time. What is the route your General Russell will be taking on his visit to Tikrit tomorrow?"
LAUREN: "Please….I….don't know….I just want to go home….please show some mercy, my Mum needs me, I only signed up so I could go to college…so I can take care of her, she's sick and…."
ARSHAD laughs.
BASHIR ARSHAD: The sweeter, sadder story you have, the more sensational the news when it reaches your country.
Bashir pulled hard on her red hair, ripping out several strands as Lauren lets down a wrenching, ear-splitting scream.
BASHIR: WHAT IS THE ROUTE AND TIMETABLE OF COMMANDER RUSSELL'S TRIP TO TIKRIT TOMORROW!!
Lauren continues to cry.
Suddenly the door opens and another terrorist, AL-SAMOUD bursts in.
AL-SAMOUD: "Abort the Tikrit attack, our friends in Europe have responded to our plan. Divert all the resources to that one."
BASHIR: "Are you sure these friends you have in Europe can be trusted. I hear there are infidels among them."
AL-SAMOUD: "But they share our goal. Allah is guiding me, shaheed, we will not fail. But keep up our other smaller attacks in Iraq to keep them off balance.
BASHIR: "Yes, Sheikh. Our people in the Green Zone will be alerted."
AL-SAMOUD: "Good."
He nodded at Lauren. "We don't need her anymore." He hands a gun to Bashir.
AL-SAMOUD: "You have earned this honor, mujahid."
Al-Samoud walks through the door and closes it behind him.
BASHIR walks over to Lauren.
BASHIR: "If I had my way, we will take you to the street and stone you, but unfortunately the police of the American puppet government are everywhere, so consider yourself lucky. Say goodbye to your mummy. We can be sure the video will be the higest quality.
BASHIR laughs evilly and motions for the other terrorist to hold up the Camcorder.
BASHIR (speaking into camera): "Death to all Crusaders! Allah Akbar! Iraq Akbar!"
He takes out a gun and shoots Lauren in the head, the soldier's body falling out of the chair and to the ground.
HEILONGJIAN PROVINCE, NORTHEASTERN CHINA
Jack Bauer is in a prison cell coughing. He takes out a long needle he had managed to hide inside his anus as he saw the Chinese soldier turn to the other side of the cell block. He also removes a map hidden in his body with a route to the Russian border.
The Chinese guard opens the door and grabs Jack to take him to his torture session. Jack takes out the nail and jams it into the man's eye, blood and fluid squirting out as he screamed. Jack broke his neck and grabbed his gun .
Two guards burst through the door and raise their guns at Jack but Jack takes the AK-47 assault rifle and mows them down, blood splattering everywhere. Jack goes down the cell block shooting out the locks.
JACK: Benjarong!
A Thai prisoner follows him and Jack hands him a gun from another fallen soldier. Another Chinese inmate picked up more weapons as the prisoners surged out of the block.
Jack and Benjarong burst into a guard office where there are four guards, all of them reaching for their sidearms. Benjarong and Jack each fire through the glass and pump the guards full of bullets. Benjarong and two Chinese prisoners go in and toss the weapons to more prisoners.
BENJARONG: "Jack, that's the armory." He points to a large bolted door. Jack takes out hand grenades from the drawers in a guard's desk and tosses it, blasting the door open. More Chinese prisoners go in and grab weapons, as do more prisoners from Thailand, speaking in Thai to Benjarong.
Jack and Benjarong then emerge onto the door, climbing up a ladder while scores of Chinese soldiers close in shouting. Jack tosses two grenades and sends the guards running. Most of them killed except three, whom Jack finished off with his assault rifle.
BENJARONG: "It's time we split up, Jack!"
JACK: "Yeah! Just keep your damned drugs out of America and let's keep it that."
BENJARONG: "You have my word!"
Jack jumps onto a tree outside the main prison building as Chinese troops fire guns and army humvees pull into the prison yard.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Audrey Raines carries a bag of groceries out of her car and into her comfortable suburban Maryland home. The song "Come Home Soon" by SheDaisy plays as Audrey kisses her children and pays the teenage babysitter. They are Jack's twin kids, a son and daughter.
AUDREY: "Don't worry, Daddy will be home. We just need to have faith."
In split screens we see Audrey taking care of the kids and looking at Jack's picture. Going along with the lyrics, Audrey rubs a necklace from Jack and kisses his picture by her bed and begins to read a bedtime story. In the other screen, we see Jack making his way through the desolate Chinese landscape and engaging in firefights with Chinese soldiers.
"Come Home Soon" is a slow, sad song and we see Audrey's tears and longing expression as Jack struggles to stay alive in the Chinese night, burying himself in woods and mud as the Chinese turn on searchlights.
As the song ends, we see Jack on top of a hill. Chinese soldiers are shouting. A Chinese soldier reloads too slowly and Jack zooms in on him and shoots him in the head, the Chinese soldier's head exploding in a red burst. Jack then slides down the hill and down to a razor wire fence. In the distance there is a Russian flag.
HE SACRIFICED EVERYTHING IN HIS SERVICE FOR HIS COUNTRY.
ALL HE WANTS IS A CHANCE TO START AGAIN WITH THE WOMAN HE LOVES.
BUT THIS ISN'T JUST ANY ORDINARY DAY.
NOT EVEN FOR JACK BAUER.