The following takes place from 3pm to 4pm
6 months after the assassination of President David Palmer
3:00
"Where is the disk?" A scratchy voice screams from the darkness, "Please tell me where the disk is" his voice is quiet and shaking, he then begins to lean towards the shape in the chair, "I will give you one more chance to tell me where the disk is. and if you don't tell me... I will have to resort to desperate measures"
Click*, a sudden light is turned on; the man in the chair closes his eyes tightly as his eyes begin to adjust. He looks up in anger, as he sees for the first time his interrogator. The light shifts on his face, back and forth as his face shifts from anger to fear.
"Do you think I am bluffing?" The interrogator says as he stares directly into the other mans eyes.
"Jack Baur"
3:02
"Michelle, where is Carrie?" Tony says walking towards his Co-Worker and Girl-Friend Michelle Dessler. "I haven't seen her all day"
"What's wrong with that?" Michelle says as she tilts her head and smirks
"I need her..."
"Excuse me?" Michelle says jokingly
"Michelle, I am sorry, this is neither the time or place... Something is going on in DC, and I need to find out what."
"What is it?" She says as her face goes serious
"Well, I don't have all the facts yet, but I got a call from Jack and he said he was interrogating someone who is linked to Kingsley and a woman named Yelena. I need to find out more about this Yelena woman"
"What does that have to do with Washington?"
"Jack couldn't tell me everything over the phone..."
"Why couldn't you use a secure line?"
"He just told me the basics," Then Tony began looking around him, he leaned in close to Michelle and whispered " Jack told me not to trust anyone but you, and..."
"Tony!" A voice yelled from behind him
He turned quickly "What?"
"You have a conference call from The President, Mike Novic, and... Roger Stanton"
"What? Roger Stanton? Why? What line is it on?"
"Line 3"
Tony turned around and looked at Michelle "Call Jack tell him he was right" he started picking up the phone
"Tony... I thought Roger Stanton was fired last year... he knew about the bomb"
He looked at her, and then looked around quickly, "Roger Stanton was fired last year, and he was imprisoned for treason... Call Jack now" He turned around and started walking up the stairs to his office.
Michelle quickly ran after him.
"Michelle what is it? I told you to call..."
A voice came in from the other end of the phone, "Please hold for President Prescott"
"Yes I'll hold," Tony said as he put his thumb and pinky finger next to his face like a phone, then he mouthed * call jack *
"Wait" Michelle whispered, "Who else was it? That I could trust?"
Tony moved the phone from his mouth, "Jack said you can trust Carrie, and someone from district is coming over to help" He moved the phone back to his mouth "Yes Mr. President I am here"
Michelle looks at Tony in shock and confusion as he closes his office door, "Carrie?!?!"
3:15
"I don't know what's going on, Jack." The man in the chair whispers in a shaky almost dead voice, he then looks in Jacks eyes as blood drips from his nose and cheek. "Whatever disk you are talking about is gone, It was destroyed in the attack" The prisoner looks back down at the ground, Silence fills the interrogation room the only sound that can be heard is the sound of his blood dripping on the floor, "I don't know what disk you want, If I still had it," He looks back up at Jack as tears fill his eyes, "I would have given it to you! Please just stop this, arrest me if you must, but I can't take this any more! Please..."
Jack sits down in his chair across from the man, "I told you, I am not going to ask you again. I will keep my word, I will not ask you again." Jack reaches into the darkness, * click*
"Please if I knew anything, I would tell.." His eyes widen as Jack takes the gun out of the darkness and places it on his forehead. "No, no, no, please, I will tell you anything you want, just ask, but I don't know about your disk!" His eyes close tightly as the gun is pushed harder into his head.
"I don't believe you!"
"If you kill me, then what? You won't shoot me... You would not shoot me... You think I am your only lead!"
Jacks finger moves ever so slowly towards the trigger, "You don't think I will shoot you?"
"Jack!" A voice says from the darkness
Jack pulls his gun away from the prisoners' head and puts it back in the darkness. He looks back at the voice.
The prisoner sighs in relief as he leans his head back against the chair
"It's Michelle Dessler!" * click click * the sound of footsteps coming closer to the prisoner, "She says it is important!" The man steps into the light
Jack turns back towards the prisoner "Ryan, you talk to her, I need a couple more minutes alone with this guy" Jack says
"It is Mr. Chappelle to you Jack, as long as I am still your boss, it is Mr. Chappelle" Ryan says as he turns back into the darkness, Jack turns slightly as a slight smile comes across his lips.
Jack walks towards the prisoner, "We have been tracking a woman named Mandy"
The prisoners eyes widen, "I don't know her, I have done work with her, but I don't know her..."
"Really?" Jack retorts quickly "She told us something completely different!" Jack says looking directly at the prisoner.
"Really?" The prisoner says calmly as he looks at Jack, "You have Mandy in custody?"
"Yes we have her in custody!" Jack says with sudden annoyance.
"No... You don't!" He leans forward and smiles, "How does a corpse talk?"
"Excuse me?" Jack says as he gets into the prisoners face "What did you say?!"
"You heard me, but if you're not sure play the tape ba.." Jack swings his fist into the prisoners face, then he reaches back into the darkness.
"Tell me what you know now!" He screams as he hits the prisoner in the face with his gun.
The prisoner is immediately knocked out.
"Mike! Wake up! Wake up now!" Jack points the gun to his head, "Wake up!" Then he turns the gun slightly and fires 1 single shot.
Mike does not respond.
"Let him sit here for a while!" Jack says as he turns toward the door.
3:30
Jack is walking down a long hallway when Ryan Chappelle stops him.
"Jack you need to talk to Michelle, for some reason she doesn't trust me!"
Jack looks at Chappelle as he takes the phone from his hand, "I don't either!" Jack then turns back down the hall. Half way down the hall Jack turns back around, "Mike knows Mandy is dead, find out how!"
He walks towards Jack, "You are not the boss of me! Do you understand? You ask him!"
"I am busy right now Ryan!" Jack says as he begins to walk back down the hall.
Jack gets to a door at the end of the hall and walks in, "Michelle?"
"Yes, Tony told me to call..." Michelle pauses.
"Hold on!" Jack locks the door and then sits down in front of a laptop, "I need Carries clearance code!"
"What?" Michelle whispers, "Why should we trust Carrie after all that she put us through?"
"You don't trust her, but we have to work with her... She may be the only person who can help us!"
"Help us with what?"
"6 months ago the nuclear bomb went off, and President Palmer was assassinated... We got who we thought was the mastermind, but we have reason to believe it goes a lot higher than that..."
"But what is the link to Carrie?"
"That is what I am trying to find out... I need her code!"
"I will talk to her as soon as I find her."
"She may be in danger, so find her now!"
"Wait!"
"What?"
"Tony said to call you because he is on a conference call with the President, Mike Novic, and... Are you ready for this? Roger Stanton!"
"What?!"
"I will go find Carrie!"
Jack hangs up the phone grabs the laptop and head out the door
3:50
Jack opens the interrogation door.
"How do you know Mandy is dead?"
Mike looks at him with almost closed eyes.
"How do you know Mandy is dead?"
"Yelena killed her!"
"Who is Yelena?"
Mike looks at Jack, "With your intelligence you should have known about her 3 years ago, but there is still some people working on the inside against you, covering her.."
"Who is she?!" Jack yells as he flips a table and pulls out his gun. "Who is Yelena?" he says quieter as he points his gun into Mikes face.
"You know her as Nina Myers, but my Government calls her Yelena"
Jack puts his gun back into his holster and looks at Mike, "Who else is covering her?"
"I don't know!"
Jack turns and exits the room quickly. When he is outside he closes the door and leans on it, he slowly falls to the ground as he covers his face and cries. When he is on the ground he removes his hands and looks straight at the wall in front of him, "Nina Myers!"
4:00
6 months after the assassination of President David Palmer
3:00
"Where is the disk?" A scratchy voice screams from the darkness, "Please tell me where the disk is" his voice is quiet and shaking, he then begins to lean towards the shape in the chair, "I will give you one more chance to tell me where the disk is. and if you don't tell me... I will have to resort to desperate measures"
Click*, a sudden light is turned on; the man in the chair closes his eyes tightly as his eyes begin to adjust. He looks up in anger, as he sees for the first time his interrogator. The light shifts on his face, back and forth as his face shifts from anger to fear.
"Do you think I am bluffing?" The interrogator says as he stares directly into the other mans eyes.
"Jack Baur"
3:02
"Michelle, where is Carrie?" Tony says walking towards his Co-Worker and Girl-Friend Michelle Dessler. "I haven't seen her all day"
"What's wrong with that?" Michelle says as she tilts her head and smirks
"I need her..."
"Excuse me?" Michelle says jokingly
"Michelle, I am sorry, this is neither the time or place... Something is going on in DC, and I need to find out what."
"What is it?" She says as her face goes serious
"Well, I don't have all the facts yet, but I got a call from Jack and he said he was interrogating someone who is linked to Kingsley and a woman named Yelena. I need to find out more about this Yelena woman"
"What does that have to do with Washington?"
"Jack couldn't tell me everything over the phone..."
"Why couldn't you use a secure line?"
"He just told me the basics," Then Tony began looking around him, he leaned in close to Michelle and whispered " Jack told me not to trust anyone but you, and..."
"Tony!" A voice yelled from behind him
He turned quickly "What?"
"You have a conference call from The President, Mike Novic, and... Roger Stanton"
"What? Roger Stanton? Why? What line is it on?"
"Line 3"
Tony turned around and looked at Michelle "Call Jack tell him he was right" he started picking up the phone
"Tony... I thought Roger Stanton was fired last year... he knew about the bomb"
He looked at her, and then looked around quickly, "Roger Stanton was fired last year, and he was imprisoned for treason... Call Jack now" He turned around and started walking up the stairs to his office.
Michelle quickly ran after him.
"Michelle what is it? I told you to call..."
A voice came in from the other end of the phone, "Please hold for President Prescott"
"Yes I'll hold," Tony said as he put his thumb and pinky finger next to his face like a phone, then he mouthed * call jack *
"Wait" Michelle whispered, "Who else was it? That I could trust?"
Tony moved the phone from his mouth, "Jack said you can trust Carrie, and someone from district is coming over to help" He moved the phone back to his mouth "Yes Mr. President I am here"
Michelle looks at Tony in shock and confusion as he closes his office door, "Carrie?!?!"
3:15
"I don't know what's going on, Jack." The man in the chair whispers in a shaky almost dead voice, he then looks in Jacks eyes as blood drips from his nose and cheek. "Whatever disk you are talking about is gone, It was destroyed in the attack" The prisoner looks back down at the ground, Silence fills the interrogation room the only sound that can be heard is the sound of his blood dripping on the floor, "I don't know what disk you want, If I still had it," He looks back up at Jack as tears fill his eyes, "I would have given it to you! Please just stop this, arrest me if you must, but I can't take this any more! Please..."
Jack sits down in his chair across from the man, "I told you, I am not going to ask you again. I will keep my word, I will not ask you again." Jack reaches into the darkness, * click*
"Please if I knew anything, I would tell.." His eyes widen as Jack takes the gun out of the darkness and places it on his forehead. "No, no, no, please, I will tell you anything you want, just ask, but I don't know about your disk!" His eyes close tightly as the gun is pushed harder into his head.
"I don't believe you!"
"If you kill me, then what? You won't shoot me... You would not shoot me... You think I am your only lead!"
Jacks finger moves ever so slowly towards the trigger, "You don't think I will shoot you?"
"Jack!" A voice says from the darkness
Jack pulls his gun away from the prisoners' head and puts it back in the darkness. He looks back at the voice.
The prisoner sighs in relief as he leans his head back against the chair
"It's Michelle Dessler!" * click click * the sound of footsteps coming closer to the prisoner, "She says it is important!" The man steps into the light
Jack turns back towards the prisoner "Ryan, you talk to her, I need a couple more minutes alone with this guy" Jack says
"It is Mr. Chappelle to you Jack, as long as I am still your boss, it is Mr. Chappelle" Ryan says as he turns back into the darkness, Jack turns slightly as a slight smile comes across his lips.
Jack walks towards the prisoner, "We have been tracking a woman named Mandy"
The prisoners eyes widen, "I don't know her, I have done work with her, but I don't know her..."
"Really?" Jack retorts quickly "She told us something completely different!" Jack says looking directly at the prisoner.
"Really?" The prisoner says calmly as he looks at Jack, "You have Mandy in custody?"
"Yes we have her in custody!" Jack says with sudden annoyance.
"No... You don't!" He leans forward and smiles, "How does a corpse talk?"
"Excuse me?" Jack says as he gets into the prisoners face "What did you say?!"
"You heard me, but if you're not sure play the tape ba.." Jack swings his fist into the prisoners face, then he reaches back into the darkness.
"Tell me what you know now!" He screams as he hits the prisoner in the face with his gun.
The prisoner is immediately knocked out.
"Mike! Wake up! Wake up now!" Jack points the gun to his head, "Wake up!" Then he turns the gun slightly and fires 1 single shot.
Mike does not respond.
"Let him sit here for a while!" Jack says as he turns toward the door.
3:30
Jack is walking down a long hallway when Ryan Chappelle stops him.
"Jack you need to talk to Michelle, for some reason she doesn't trust me!"
Jack looks at Chappelle as he takes the phone from his hand, "I don't either!" Jack then turns back down the hall. Half way down the hall Jack turns back around, "Mike knows Mandy is dead, find out how!"
He walks towards Jack, "You are not the boss of me! Do you understand? You ask him!"
"I am busy right now Ryan!" Jack says as he begins to walk back down the hall.
Jack gets to a door at the end of the hall and walks in, "Michelle?"
"Yes, Tony told me to call..." Michelle pauses.
"Hold on!" Jack locks the door and then sits down in front of a laptop, "I need Carries clearance code!"
"What?" Michelle whispers, "Why should we trust Carrie after all that she put us through?"
"You don't trust her, but we have to work with her... She may be the only person who can help us!"
"Help us with what?"
"6 months ago the nuclear bomb went off, and President Palmer was assassinated... We got who we thought was the mastermind, but we have reason to believe it goes a lot higher than that..."
"But what is the link to Carrie?"
"That is what I am trying to find out... I need her code!"
"I will talk to her as soon as I find her."
"She may be in danger, so find her now!"
"Wait!"
"What?"
"Tony said to call you because he is on a conference call with the President, Mike Novic, and... Are you ready for this? Roger Stanton!"
"What?!"
"I will go find Carrie!"
Jack hangs up the phone grabs the laptop and head out the door
3:50
Jack opens the interrogation door.
"How do you know Mandy is dead?"
Mike looks at him with almost closed eyes.
"How do you know Mandy is dead?"
"Yelena killed her!"
"Who is Yelena?"
Mike looks at Jack, "With your intelligence you should have known about her 3 years ago, but there is still some people working on the inside against you, covering her.."
"Who is she?!" Jack yells as he flips a table and pulls out his gun. "Who is Yelena?" he says quieter as he points his gun into Mikes face.
"You know her as Nina Myers, but my Government calls her Yelena"
Jack puts his gun back into his holster and looks at Mike, "Who else is covering her?"
"I don't know!"
Jack turns and exits the room quickly. When he is outside he closes the door and leans on it, he slowly falls to the ground as he covers his face and cries. When he is on the ground he removes his hands and looks straight at the wall in front of him, "Nina Myers!"
4:00