The following takes place between 9:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M.

Jack Bauer looked down at the New York skyline coming into view as his plane made its final approach into LaGuardia International Airport. He had spent the last year and a half overseas with Tony Almeida tracking the elusive Colin Tyler, former Secretary of Defense before James Heller and now a rumored high level arms and intelligence dealer. According to Tony, Colin had ties to everything that Jack had gone through since the virus attacks in Los Angeles and was the man who had leaked to the Chinese that Jack was still alive. They had recieved a phone call a week ago that Colin was supposedly meeting with an operative in German intelligence who was planning an attack on the United States in the next few days.

"Aren't you worried about being back in the States?" Jack whispered to Tony who shook his head.

"Eight billion people in the world Jack. I'm sure that nobody is going to be looking for a presumed dead former Counter-Terrorist Agent, alright?"

"Good. We can never be too careful though." Jack put on his sunglasses as the "Fasten Seatbelt" sign came on. Tony stood up and reached in the overhead compartment for his bag. Jack did the same and they followed the passengers out of the plane.

9:04 A.M.

Apartment in Lower Manhattan, NYC

The sounds of a screaming six month old filled the apartment of the newly remarried Morris and Chloe O'Brian, as they tried to get ready for work. The babysitter, Kathryn had just arrived several minutes earlier and was arguing with Chloe in the living room.

"Mrs. O'Brian, I really think that..." Chloe cut her off mid sentence.

"Okay first of all, it's Chloe, not Mrs. O'Brian. That just sounds...weird.Secondly, I told you last night to be here at eight, not eight-fifteen, and definetely not nine o'clock. You might not be able to understand the fact that our jobs affect national security being a college student and all, but they really are."

"I'm so sorry...Chloe." The young girl looked petrified,wondering if she really needed the money that bad. Chloe took a deep breath and scowled.

"Fine. Just don't let it happen again."

Morris came out of the other room holding their daughter Jessica who had stopped screaming for the moment.

"Good morning Kathryn. How are you darling?" he said cheerfully. Kathryn looked at Chloe, who was still pissed and back at Morris.

"I--I'm okay. Sorry I was late, sir. Traffic kind of sucked this morning."

"Don't worry about a thing." he smiled and handed Jessica to Chloe. "Looks like mummy needs a hug from her favorite little one."

Chloe smiled a bit as she held her daughter. Just then her cell rang. She shifted Jessica to one hip and grabbed her cell with her free hand.

"O'Brian."

9:09 A.M.

The voice on the other end of the phone belonged to James Heller, who was now director of CTU NY. He was highly irritated at the moment.

"Miss O'Brian, I expected you and Morris an hour ago. Where the hell are you?"

"Babysitter was late." She shot a look at Kathryn. "Is something wrong?"

"Damn right there is. We are in the middle of an active protocol and I need my two best network security analysts here."

"Sorry sir. We're on our way."

She hung up and prepared to face yet another long day.

9:09 A.M. (commercial break)

9:13 A.M.

CTU NY, James Heller's Office

Heller slammed the phone down as Audrey Raines entered the office carrying a black folder.

"You okay, dad?" she asked with concern.

"Yes, sweetheart. Just the usual nonsense. What's up?"

Audrey put the folder on the desk in front of him and opened it up. "I just got off the phone with Tom Lennox in DC. His sources tell him that Colin Tyler is going to be in the city today meeting with an as of now unknown associate who is planning an attack on United States soil. Heller flipped through the folder.

"What?! Tyler was SecDef before me. What the hell is he doing meeting with terrorists?"

"Lennox thinks that Tyler is working against the U.S.. He's rumored to be a high level arms and intelligence dealer overseas."

"It says here he has Chinese connections as well." Audrey looked noticeably uncomfortable at the mention of the Chinese.

"God help him if he had anything to do with your kidnapping and all the hell you were put through in China." he seethed.

"No dad. You blamed Jack for that one remember." she said her voice dripping with venom. Heller is stung by her comment and sudden change in attitude.

"That was for your own good Audie." He handed the folder back to her. "Soon as Chloe gets here have her dig up all intel on Tyler and his associates, rumored or factual. In the meantime, coordinate with NYPD and Secret Service about Daniel's visit to NYU today."

"Alright." She spun on her heels and walked out of the office back downstairs. Head of Field Ops, Chase Edmunds came over to her.

"Audrey, any word on who Tyler is meeting today or where the meeting is?"

"Not yet, but have your teams ready to move as soon as we get a location." Chase nodded and walked off. Audrey had Nadia Yassir scanning all cell networks trying to pick up a location on Tyler.

"Any luck?" She said as she stood over her.

"Not yet. One of the possible locations however from what I can gather after going over Tyler's phone records for the past 2 years could be a warehouse downtown that was raided six months ago by the NYPD after they got a phone call about a rumored terrorist cell having headquarters there."

"Did they find anything?"

"No, just a bunch of boxes. The warehouse belonged to a man named Karl Hoffman, spent five years in the German army, came to the United States illegally last year. Looking at Hoffman's records he made six calls in the last month to Tyler, so I'm guessing that we should start looking at him as the possible man that Tyler is meeting."

"Good work. Pass this on to Morris whenever he gets here."

9:20 A.M.

LaGuardia Baggage Claim

Jack and Tony stood waiting impatiently in line, hiding behind dark sunglasses. Jack looked at his watch and cursed.

"Dammit. The meeting is in thirty minutes. This is taking too long."

"We'll make it." Tony said matter of factly. He looked at the televison screen showing the morning news.

"President Noah Daniels is scheduled to give a talk on getting the country back to normal after the horrendous events a year and a half ago that cost over 16,000 Americans lives. Expect traffic in the city to be at a near standstill around noon and well into the afternoon. When we return, a look at sports and weather."

Jack reached down and grabbed his bag off the conveyor. Tony did the same as they began to walk outside. As they passed through the metal detector, Jack set the alarm off. They froze in their steps as a guard stopped them, his hand on his gun.

"Excuse me sir. I need to see your bag."

Jack put the bag down on the ground and began to reach inside his jacket.

"Put your hands up NOW sir!" The young guard pointed the gun at Jack.

"Relax son. I'm just showing you my identification.". Jack pulled out the identification Tony had given him and handed it slowly to the guard. He looked at it and then back at Jack and Tony, who smirked.

"U.S. Marshalls?"

Jack extended his hand. "Daniel Strickland, officer. My partner and I are in town from Los Angeles providing extra support for Secret Service for the President's visit." The guard handed Jack back his identification and let them pass. "Have a good day gentleman."

9:27 A.M.

New York University School of Medicine

Kimberly Bauer, now in her second year of medical school looks over her notes for her upcoming exam on communicable diseases and pathogens. She sits in a coffee shop on campus. Her thoughts are interrupted by the appearance of her boyfriend Eric Connor, also a second year medical student.

"Relax Kim. This exam is going to be a breeze." He put a cup of coffee in front of her and smiled. "Double mocha latte, your favorite."

"Thanks Eric. I just don't know how the hell I'm ever going to be a doctor if I can't even tell you what causes the ebola virus."

"Little monkeys like in that movie." Kim smirked. "Just do what I do? Have your daddy donate a million dollars to the school and that way they have to pass you."

"I don't even know where my dad is Eric." Kim looked down at her book in sadness. Eric reached for her hand across the table. "I'm sorry, I was just trying to make you laugh. You're gonna do fine on this test, it's in the bag babe."

Kim closed the book. "We gotta go. Test is in less than thirty minutes, and I don't want to be late. Then I'm meeting Mary Lynn at the quad to go to that speech after." She put her books into her bag and grabbed the coffee off the table. Eric put his arm around her as they left the shop.

"It's going to be a beautiful day. Just gotta believe that nothing will go wrong."

"That's what I'm afraid of Eric. In my life, something always goes wrong."

9:27 A.M (commercial break)

9:33 A.M.

Audrey is on the phone with Chloe who is stuck in traffic. Chloe has her laptop open trying to upload a file to Audrey while Morris is driving.

"I'm sending you what I have on all of Tyler's associates so far. We should be at CTU in like ten minutes or so. You sure this can't wait?"

"No Chloe. It can't. My father wants this taken care of before the President's visit today."

"Okay. Bye." Chloe hangs up on Audrey and Morris beeps his horn at the line of cars in front of them. She finishes sending the file to Audrey and closes her laptop, putting it back in her bag.

"Bloody hell, what is the holdup!?" Morris screamed to no one in particular.

"You're the one who wanted to move to New York Morris."

"Well love I thought that you had had enough of Los Angeles. We needed a fresh start." Chloe rolled her eyes.

"Audrey is pretty pissed at me."

"Why is that?"

"Does she really need to have a reason? I get that she got tortured and whatever in China but it wasn't my fault that her dad got that whole big restraining order on Jack."

"Have you heard from him?"

"No. I guess he doesn't trust me anymore to tell me where he is." Chloe replied with obvious hurt in her voice. The cars in front of them began to move. Morris turned on his turn signal and pulled into a parking garage a few feet away.

"Chloe, if Jack Bauer wants to be found, then you'll be the one to find him."

9:39 A.M.

Downtown Manhattan

Jack and Tony arrived at an abandoned warehouse across the street from where the meeting was scheduled to take place. Jack grabbed his bag out of the van that had been waiting for them at the airport and they headed to the roof to maintain surveillance. Tony got out his binoculars and looked around the street below.

"I don't see them yet Jack."

Jack looked at his watch and set up his sound equipment so that they could monitor everything going on at the meeting.

"Should be any minute now."

9:41 A.M.

CTU NY

Chloe walked past security and over to her station. Nadia stopped her.

"Where's Morris? I need his help going through these phone records." Morris appeared from behind Chloe.

"I'm here. What do we have?" He said as he sat down beside her. Chloe headed over to talk to Audrey.

"I need to find a link between Colin Tyler and Karl Hoffman. The only thing that I can find is a few phone calls but nothing credible."

"So why are we looking at Hoffman then? Maybe you should try to find something credible."

Nadia took a deep breath. "I'm tapped into Hoffman's cell. He just got a call five minutes ago about a business meeting that is taking place at ten this morning. If that is the meeting with Tyler then we need to find out the location and go and grab Tyler for interrogation."

"Then why didn't you just say that from the beginning then? It says here that Tyler has a son that goes to NYU, why don't we just call his son and say that we are someone from Daniel's administration and that we need to speak to his father immediately."

"Get Audrey to do it. She is the one with the most political experience. I'll go brief Heller." Nadia ordered Morris to do as she headed upstairs. Morris walked over to Chloe and Audrey and told them the plan.

"You really think this will work?" Audrey asked a bit unsure.

"It's worth a shot. Here's the number. Son's name is Eric."

9:41 A.M. (commercial break)

9:45 A.M.

New York University School of Medicine

Eric is sitting outside smoking a cigarette. Kim stood nearby talking on her cellphone, presumably to her roommate. His cell rings. He didn't recognize the number.

"Hello?"

On the other end is Audrey who is pretending to be TIffani Lawson, President Daniel's new assistant after Lisa Miller was fired.

"Is this Eric Connor?"

"Uh, yea. Who's this?"

"Tiffani Lawson, special assistant to President Noah Daniels. I need to reach your father Colin Tyler. Do you know where he is?"

"My dad? Last I heard he was in DC on special assignment but that was over three months ago. Why do you need him?"

"It's classified Mr. Connor. Do you have a number where we can reach him?"

"Just his cell number but I rarely call him on it."

"Can I have that number please Sir?"

"Uh yeah. 212-487-3279. Don't tell him I gave the number out though. He gets pretty pissed when he's bothered while on assignment."

"I won't. Thank you Eric." Audrey hangs up and Eric looks over at Kim who is still talking on her cell. He nods at her to tell her that its almost time for the exam to begin. She hangs up to whoever she was talking to and walked over to him. "Who were you talking to?" He shrugs.

"Just somebody looking for my father from DC. Let's go ace this thing okay."

They enter the building as a man steps from behind the bushes nearby. He gets on his cell.

"The kids have just entered the building. Eric got a phone call a few minutes ago. If this is going to go down then it needs to happen within the next two hours."

9:49 A.M.

CTU

Morris is busy tracing the cell number that Audrey just got from Eric. They see that Tyler is near the building that Nadia told Audrey about earlier that was raided by the cops in the past.

"I've got Tyler at the Hoffman warehouse. Satellite coverage confirms several black SUV's behind him with unregistered license plates."

Heller came downstairs after Nadia had debriefed him about what they had found so far.

"We have to assume that this is where the meeting is going to take place. Chase, get your team ready to move out to the location. Chloe get set up on Comm. Let's get this son of a bitch before we really have a serious problem."

Chase heads out the door with his team heading to the warehouse. The same warehouse that Jack and Tony are setting up surveillance on.

9:49 A.M. (commercial break)

9:52 A.M.

Downtown Manhattan

Jack ducks down as two SUV's pull up and Colin Tyler gets out of one of them. He is dressed in a black suit and Jack can see that he is obviously armed. Several men walk behind him and into the warehouse.

"We don't move until we find out who Tyler is working for, okay Jack?" Tony said oblivious to the fact that all hell was getting ready to break loose.

"Yea." Jack pulled the safety off his gun anyways.

9:53 A.M.

Interior of Hoffman Warehouse

Tyler walked in and was greeted by Karl Hoffman. He handed Hoffman a briefcase and stood in front of him with his arms crossed.

"Everything is in there Mr. Hoffman."

Karl nodded to his men who opened the briefcase and pulled out the documents inside.

"This gives us access to everything in Secret Service." Tyler nodded. "Now where is my part of the deal?"

Karl handed Tyler a bag. Tyler looked inside and handed the bag to one of his men. "Are you sure this will bring him out of hiding?"

"Trust me Mr. Meyers, this is the one thing that will provide you with guaranteed revenge for the death of your sister."

9:54 A.M.

Roof of Warehouse across the street

As soon as Jack heard what Tyler's real name he felt as if someone had kicked him in the gut. Tony looked at him.

"Meyers? Nina's brother??"

Tony had heard enough. He and Jack packed up their stuff and left the roof and headed downstairs. As soon as they opened the door to the outside a few CTU vehicles raced past them and agents jumped out of them fully armed. Jack and Tony shut the door quickly.

"Son of a bitch! CTU is here!"

9:57 A.M.

The men heard the commotion outside as the agents began to surround the building. Hoffman exchanged looks with Colin and they both began to head out the back. Chase and his team stormed the warehouse guns blazing.

"Secure the building." Chase yelled as he exchanged shots with one of Hoffman's men. He waited a few seconds for one of the men to run out of ammo and then he shot through the barrel that the man had been hiding behind. It burst into flames. The fire soon began to get out of control.

"CTU, this is Edmunds. We need Fire and additional TAC teams at this location. No sign of Hoffman or Tyler." He yelled to his men. "Everybody get out of here NOW!" Chase turned around and saw a folder laying on the ground. He reached down to grab it and jumped out of the open door just as the building exploded. Jack and Tony ran outside with Jack heading full speed after Tyler. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Chase laying on the ground.

"Chase. Is Tyler dead?" Jack shook an injured Chase.

"Jack? What the hell are you doing here?" the young agent asked in confusion.

"Did you find Tyler!!?"

Chase shook his head. "He must have gone out the back. All I found was that folder."

"What folder?"

Tony reached for the folder laying a few feet away from Chase. He opened it up. "Oh my god." he said in shock. "Jack!"

"Tony? I thought you were dead?" Chase looked at his former boss in shock as Jack helped him to his feet.

"Jack, we got to get the hell out of here. Look at this."

9:59 A.M,

Kim sat down at her desk preparing to take her test. At CTU, Chloe was pulling satellite coverage looking for Tyler and Hoffman. Audrey stood nearby talking to Nadia and Heller. Back at the warehouse, Jack opened the folder.

Inside was his personal history, as well as photo's of Kim, Audrey, and Chloe. There were maps and locations of where they would be during the day, Kim's school schedule, her dorm room. Pictures of Chloe and Morris's apartment, their daughter. Photo's of Bill Buchanan and Karen Hayes at their country home in Vermont.

"This ends today Tony. That son of a bitch doesn't make it out of New York alive.".

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