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Shot of the 24 logo, ticking slowly then faster and faster.
New shot, in gold lettering these words are shown, and read by Tony Almeida
"The following takes place between the hours of 6:00 P.M. And 7:00 P.M."
Cut to more words: "Events occur in real time."
Cut to: You see the skyline to Tokyo, Japan, in the morning. Clock appears ticking silently at the bottom of screen, reads: 10:00:01 - 10:00:02 - 10:00:03
Cut to warehouse, abandoned. The sun has brightened the place considerably, and we see a group of at least one hundred men and women wearing white robes sitting on their knees on the ground. It appears a ritual is underway, there is some ritualistic chanting among those praying, it is almost mesmerizing. Raised up higher than the rest, is a man wearing an all black robe, unlike the white that everyone else wore. Much like a Muslim woman's outfit, only the eyes were uncovered of the men and women. Three people wearing white walk up to the man wearing black and whisper in his ear, he nods. He walks into the back of the building, camera follows close behind. He opens a door and enters a room, nothing but a table in the middle.
Man in black robe, in perfect American English - "Is the payload being delivered?"
Man number 2 in white robe, in broken English - "Payload is being delivered, awaiting word from Hernandez."
Man in black robe nods - "Good, let's get going."
He walks out, closely followed by the other two.
Cut to: Los Angeles skyline, night, clock appears at the bottom reads: 6:04:12 - 6:04:13 - 6:04:14 Cut to LAX airport, screen shows wheels of a 747 touching down. Split screen, on the left shows plane landing, on the right shows an Asian man waiting inside the airport.
Cut to: A suburban home lit inside, piercing the darkness. The camera cuts to the inside, a man of about fifty-five is sitting in a chair reading a book. He is lean, he is in good shape for his age. Behind him we can see a Christmas tree, lights off but still decorated. His phone rings, he slowly gets up, not really wanting to answer it. Screen shot shows a close up of the man's hand picking up the receiver,
He says - "Hello?"
Voice on the other end is a man's voice, he says, "Is this Agent Herald Mann of NHSA?"
Mann - "I guess, why?"
Voice on other end - "This is Z."
Dramatic music begins as Mann's face shows recognition.
Mann - "I'm listening."
Z - "I have something for you, if you are interested in a long night?"
Mann - "Give it to me."
Z - "Not over the phone. Guarantee me a safe internet connection within ten minutes and it's all yours."
Mann - "Something to upload?"
Z - "Yeah."
Mann runs to his laptop, and fired it up while saying, "Stay on the line, I'll get back to you in a second."
Mann switched lines and began to dial a number.
Split screen: screen on left shows Mann on phone waiting, screen on right shows only a phone and a familiar ring tone as a woman picks it up.
Woman - "CTU, Dessler." We see the woman's face now.
Mann - "Michelle, I need a favor. You know who this is, I need you to secure my line. We've done this before, you know my IP status, I need you to do this right away."
Screen shows just Michelle, a bit annoyed. She begins typing away on her computer. Another favor for NHSA, she rolls her eyes. Cut back to Mann, meanwhile, he switched back to the other line.
Mann - "Z, preparing to receive information. What can you tell me?"
Z - "Nothing to he with a weak heart." Mann sighs and switches back to the other line, which brings the split screen back, Michelle on the right.
Mann - "Well?"
Dessler - "All set Agent Mann, now Homeland Security owes CTU."
He cut her off, switched lines and opened his Internet. His connection was now filtered and protected by a government agency.
Mann - "All set to receive."
Z - "Brace yourself, this is going to be fun. I'll call you at 2200 hours even, be there." Cut to black screen, clock ticks loudly - 6:11:45 - 6:11:46 - 6:11:47
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Split screens: 3 One on the left shows Mann at his computer, watching as information is being uploaded. One in the middle shows back view of Mann at his computer, we see over his shoulder that an upload status bar is nearly complete. One on the far right shows the Asian man standing by the passenger let off.
Clock in the middle ticks loudly: 6:15:52 - 6:15:53 - 6:15:54
Cut to Mann, and we see over his shoulder that upload is complete. Dramatic music begins in the background as Mann plugs away at the keys. The camera sweeps around and we see a shot of Mann's intense expression over the laptop's cover. He is typing, and typing, until suddenly he stops. He looks dumbfounded.
Mann - "Son of a bitch." He says it slowly and raises slowly. He begins to pace by his window and looks out. He checks his watch, grabs his laptop, the key around his key ring and runs out the door, laptop in hand, not locking the door.
Cut to: LAX Airport
Among a throng of people, a tall Asian man stands and looks around, people walking past him coming off the plane. He sees the other Asian, the one waiting for him, and smiles. They walk up to each other, embrace and walk off together.
Cut to: a grocery store. We see a sign that says "Smart Mart" and it isn't in a very crowded area at all. In front of the store, a white van pulls up.
Bottom of screen says in yellow lettering: Wellington Heights, California
A man emerges now from the left side of the van, the door slides open. We see this man's boots, and the camera pans up to show his face. He appears Hispanic. He is wearing boots, jeans, and a white T-shirt.
Split screen: one on the left shows security camera view of the man's entrance, screen on the right shows the camera following behind the man.
The man nods at the clerk, and says in slightly broken English - "Use bathroom, amigo!"
The clerk nods and smiles in the direction of the bathroom. Camera continues to follow the man from behind as he enters the bathroom. He then goes into the first stall and shuts the door. Now fast paced music begins playing as the man removes a silver cylinder from his pocket. It is a foot long, and flat. He unscrews it and removes a clear vial the size of the cylinder. Zoom in, we see an amber liquid. He puts the vial back into the cylinder and screws it back on. Now, we see he removes the top of the toilet, places that on the floor. Carefully, he places the cylinder into the toilet in a corner. He picks up the top, replaces it and flushes.
Split screen, on the right we see him exit the stall from the front and on the left we see a view from behind his head. He exits the bathroom, nodding at the clerk and exiting the building. The camera follows him as he enters the van, takes out a cell phone from his pocket, unfolds it, hits a button and says,
"It's a go."
Cut to black screen, yellow clock in the middle ticks loudly 6:31:03 - 6:31:04 - 6:31:05
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Split screens: 3
Clock in the middle ticks loudly 6:35:22 - 6:35:23 - 6:35:24
Left screen shows Mann in his car, from the dashboard. He is driving fast. Middle screen shows the two Asian men, each wheeling luggage towards the exit of LAX, and screen on the right shows shot from inside CTU Los Angeles. Cut to Mann driving. The shot we see is from the left, and we see on his passenger side, the laptop glowing blue. He pulls out his cell phone and dials. Screen splits now, left shows Mann on phone, right shows Michelle Dessler answering ringing phone.
Dessler - "CTU, Dessler speaking."
Mann - "Put me through to Almeida, now!"
Dessler puts the phone down, hits a button and when she does this, yet another screen splits away. Mann on left, Dessler in the middle, and on the right is Tony Almeida picking up his phone.
Almeida - "What?"
Dessler - "Agent Mann from NHSA for you."
Almeida - "Put him through."
Screen in the middle, of Michelle, disappears, and now it is just two screen shots of Mann on the left driving, Tony on the right sitting at his desk.
Mann - "I have something that will interest the CTU branch. This is high importance information. I have everything on a disk, and I am on my way to you now."
Almeida - "What's this about?"
Mann - "I can't tell you over the phone, man! I'll be with you in about fifteen minutes."
Almeida - "Can't you give me something? Who should I contact, what's going on?"
Mann - "Ah. Something big going down."
Almeida - "When?"
Mann - "Tonight."
Cut to Asian men, they are loading luggage into a small blue car. Clock silently shows 6:42:04 - 6:42:05 - 6:42:06
They enter the car, and begin speaking in their language. No subtitles. The driver starts the car and they pull out.
Cut to a new sight. Desert, lined with more than a dozen huge radio telescopes pointed skyward. Yellow lettering says: "Arizona - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute."
Cut to inside of institute. Main room is littered with computer consoles, and there are six workers currently on duty. Suddenly, alarms start blaring everywhere. A man, named John Owens, jumps up and begins running to the wall console that is sounding.
Owens - "Alright! Alright this is something!"
Shot zooms in to the computer, and in red the words "Signal Detected" is blinking. Everyone begins scrambling to his or her consoles except Owens, he is remains at the main computer.
Lisa Rodriguez from across the room - "John! Signal strength is really strong, appears to be coming from the North Western part of the sky. Working on the location. Someone contact Miller."
John walks to a wall phone and dials two buttons, no doubt calling someone within the building. Split screen shows an older man on the right answer the phone.
Owens - "Mr. Miller sir, we have a signal."
Miller - "That's a bunch of bull! You do this to me every month, I swear I will cut funding!"
Owens - "Listen! This can't be earthly!"
Miller - "We'll see about that won't we?"
Clock shows 6:48:19 - 6:48:20 - 6:48:21
Cut to Asian men. One in passenger seat's phone rings. He answers first in Japanese, then says in English - "Yes sir?"
Man on other line, English - "Everything is in place. Where are you?"
Asian #2 - "Currently heading to first planned stop."
Man on other line - "Contact me when there."
Cut to SETI in Arizona
Miller comes walking into control room.
Miller - "What do we know?"
Lisa Rodriguez, a woman in her mid forties, comes to him and says - "I got big news, sir. It appears this is an encrypted message!"
Miller - What is that supposed to mean?
Rodriguez - "Means that when we stop receiving the signal, or when the signal ends, we will have a digital coded message."
Miller begins to take it seriously - "Ok, ok find out what it says. Listen up everyone, nothing leaves this room, nothing!"
Rodriguez - "Do you think this is really from another world?"
Miller - "I don't know, do I look like a frikken scientist? If it's a message, I can't imagine how, or how we'd understand it."
Rodriguez - "From what I have been able to find out, it looks like it's coming from the North Western part of the sky sir, I have no idea how far away yet."
Miller - "How long will the encryption take?"
Rodriguez - "The signal, along with appearing to be encrypted, also seems to be winding down. Which means of course, that the signal will end when the message is delivered. In about five hours."
Miller - "Five hours! Screw that! Make it faster."
Cut to CTU, Tony Almeida walking down the stairs, heading to Michelle Dessler.
Tony to Michelle - "Agent Mann is on his way, says he's got something important. Request clearance for him and get Chapelle on the line." Tony walks on.
Cut to Mann, he is still driving. He is very close to his destination. He takes a right and we see the shot of his car driving past a road, only the camera stays sighted on the road as a dark van pulls out, seemingly waiting for Mann. Split screen, on the left shows Mann from dashboard camera, on the right shows dark van from outside front view. Cut to Mann, he looks in the rearview mirror, noticing the van. He is paranoid, and begins speeding up. The van continues to follow. Mann notices a red light ahead, and stops, van does too. A few moments later they continue, and the van continues to follow. Mann decides to try something, so he takes a right down a one way street, going the wrong way. The van does also, and Mann knows he's in trouble. Dramatic fast paced music begins as Mann steps on the gas, so does the van. Outside shot shows the van speed up along side Mann's car and SMASH right into the side and forces it off the road and into a fence. The impact works in the favor of the driver of the van, because Mann smacks his forehead into the steering wheel and is dazed. Four armed men wearing black uniforms jump out of the van and the lead man grabs Mann's door handle and pulls it open, and grabs the dazed Herald Mann by the shirt, throws him to the ground the camera cuts to a view from behind the lead man from the van. We see Mann kneeling on the ground, and the dark suited man aim the rifle above Mann's head. Close up of the assassin's hand as he pulls the trigger. Mann falls to the ground, we see a little blood. He is dead. The other men grab Mann's computer and another gets behind the wheel of Mann's car and backs out of the fence. The car is only slightly damaged from the fence, but there is a large dent from the run off.
Cut to split screens, 3, on the far left we see the Asian men in their car, in the middle we see Owens from SETI staring at a computer, one on the far right shows a shot of Almeida preparing a file, placing papers in it. Cut to the first man, that assassinated Mann, he has in his hand the desk with all the information Mann was bringing to CTU. He flips it in his hand and then sticks it in his pocket.
Cut to black screen, gold clock ticks loudly in the middle
6:59:57
6:59:58
6:59:59
7:00:00
Next week on "24" -
Screen shows Ryan Chappelle on the phone with Tony Almeida
Chappelle - "We got word that the plan landed about an hour ago at L-A-X, one of the names matches that of an international fugitive."
Tony - "Pretty daring of him, don't you think?"
Chappelle - "Not the first time."
Cut to Asian men in car, they are driving and the shots shows only briefly enough to see that they are stopping outside of a small shop.
Cut to Tony Almeida, he is in his office, on the phone. We hear the other line of his phone. It's a ring tone. Then another. Then another.
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"The following takes place between the hours of 6:00 P.M. And 7:00 P.M."
Cut to more words: "Events occur in real time."
Cut to: You see the skyline to Tokyo, Japan, in the morning. Clock appears ticking silently at the bottom of screen, reads: 10:00:01 - 10:00:02 - 10:00:03
Cut to warehouse, abandoned. The sun has brightened the place considerably, and we see a group of at least one hundred men and women wearing white robes sitting on their knees on the ground. It appears a ritual is underway, there is some ritualistic chanting among those praying, it is almost mesmerizing. Raised up higher than the rest, is a man wearing an all black robe, unlike the white that everyone else wore. Much like a Muslim woman's outfit, only the eyes were uncovered of the men and women. Three people wearing white walk up to the man wearing black and whisper in his ear, he nods. He walks into the back of the building, camera follows close behind. He opens a door and enters a room, nothing but a table in the middle.
Man in black robe, in perfect American English - "Is the payload being delivered?"
Man number 2 in white robe, in broken English - "Payload is being delivered, awaiting word from Hernandez."
Man in black robe nods - "Good, let's get going."
He walks out, closely followed by the other two.
Cut to: Los Angeles skyline, night, clock appears at the bottom reads: 6:04:12 - 6:04:13 - 6:04:14 Cut to LAX airport, screen shows wheels of a 747 touching down. Split screen, on the left shows plane landing, on the right shows an Asian man waiting inside the airport.
Cut to: A suburban home lit inside, piercing the darkness. The camera cuts to the inside, a man of about fifty-five is sitting in a chair reading a book. He is lean, he is in good shape for his age. Behind him we can see a Christmas tree, lights off but still decorated. His phone rings, he slowly gets up, not really wanting to answer it. Screen shot shows a close up of the man's hand picking up the receiver,
He says - "Hello?"
Voice on the other end is a man's voice, he says, "Is this Agent Herald Mann of NHSA?"
Mann - "I guess, why?"
Voice on other end - "This is Z."
Dramatic music begins as Mann's face shows recognition.
Mann - "I'm listening."
Z - "I have something for you, if you are interested in a long night?"
Mann - "Give it to me."
Z - "Not over the phone. Guarantee me a safe internet connection within ten minutes and it's all yours."
Mann - "Something to upload?"
Z - "Yeah."
Mann runs to his laptop, and fired it up while saying, "Stay on the line, I'll get back to you in a second."
Mann switched lines and began to dial a number.
Split screen: screen on left shows Mann on phone waiting, screen on right shows only a phone and a familiar ring tone as a woman picks it up.
Woman - "CTU, Dessler." We see the woman's face now.
Mann - "Michelle, I need a favor. You know who this is, I need you to secure my line. We've done this before, you know my IP status, I need you to do this right away."
Screen shows just Michelle, a bit annoyed. She begins typing away on her computer. Another favor for NHSA, she rolls her eyes. Cut back to Mann, meanwhile, he switched back to the other line.
Mann - "Z, preparing to receive information. What can you tell me?"
Z - "Nothing to he with a weak heart." Mann sighs and switches back to the other line, which brings the split screen back, Michelle on the right.
Mann - "Well?"
Dessler - "All set Agent Mann, now Homeland Security owes CTU."
He cut her off, switched lines and opened his Internet. His connection was now filtered and protected by a government agency.
Mann - "All set to receive."
Z - "Brace yourself, this is going to be fun. I'll call you at 2200 hours even, be there." Cut to black screen, clock ticks loudly - 6:11:45 - 6:11:46 - 6:11:47
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Split screens: 3 One on the left shows Mann at his computer, watching as information is being uploaded. One in the middle shows back view of Mann at his computer, we see over his shoulder that an upload status bar is nearly complete. One on the far right shows the Asian man standing by the passenger let off.
Clock in the middle ticks loudly: 6:15:52 - 6:15:53 - 6:15:54
Cut to Mann, and we see over his shoulder that upload is complete. Dramatic music begins in the background as Mann plugs away at the keys. The camera sweeps around and we see a shot of Mann's intense expression over the laptop's cover. He is typing, and typing, until suddenly he stops. He looks dumbfounded.
Mann - "Son of a bitch." He says it slowly and raises slowly. He begins to pace by his window and looks out. He checks his watch, grabs his laptop, the key around his key ring and runs out the door, laptop in hand, not locking the door.
Cut to: LAX Airport
Among a throng of people, a tall Asian man stands and looks around, people walking past him coming off the plane. He sees the other Asian, the one waiting for him, and smiles. They walk up to each other, embrace and walk off together.
Cut to: a grocery store. We see a sign that says "Smart Mart" and it isn't in a very crowded area at all. In front of the store, a white van pulls up.
Bottom of screen says in yellow lettering: Wellington Heights, California
A man emerges now from the left side of the van, the door slides open. We see this man's boots, and the camera pans up to show his face. He appears Hispanic. He is wearing boots, jeans, and a white T-shirt.
Split screen: one on the left shows security camera view of the man's entrance, screen on the right shows the camera following behind the man.
The man nods at the clerk, and says in slightly broken English - "Use bathroom, amigo!"
The clerk nods and smiles in the direction of the bathroom. Camera continues to follow the man from behind as he enters the bathroom. He then goes into the first stall and shuts the door. Now fast paced music begins playing as the man removes a silver cylinder from his pocket. It is a foot long, and flat. He unscrews it and removes a clear vial the size of the cylinder. Zoom in, we see an amber liquid. He puts the vial back into the cylinder and screws it back on. Now, we see he removes the top of the toilet, places that on the floor. Carefully, he places the cylinder into the toilet in a corner. He picks up the top, replaces it and flushes.
Split screen, on the right we see him exit the stall from the front and on the left we see a view from behind his head. He exits the bathroom, nodding at the clerk and exiting the building. The camera follows him as he enters the van, takes out a cell phone from his pocket, unfolds it, hits a button and says,
"It's a go."
Cut to black screen, yellow clock in the middle ticks loudly 6:31:03 - 6:31:04 - 6:31:05
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Split screens: 3
Clock in the middle ticks loudly 6:35:22 - 6:35:23 - 6:35:24
Left screen shows Mann in his car, from the dashboard. He is driving fast. Middle screen shows the two Asian men, each wheeling luggage towards the exit of LAX, and screen on the right shows shot from inside CTU Los Angeles. Cut to Mann driving. The shot we see is from the left, and we see on his passenger side, the laptop glowing blue. He pulls out his cell phone and dials. Screen splits now, left shows Mann on phone, right shows Michelle Dessler answering ringing phone.
Dessler - "CTU, Dessler speaking."
Mann - "Put me through to Almeida, now!"
Dessler puts the phone down, hits a button and when she does this, yet another screen splits away. Mann on left, Dessler in the middle, and on the right is Tony Almeida picking up his phone.
Almeida - "What?"
Dessler - "Agent Mann from NHSA for you."
Almeida - "Put him through."
Screen in the middle, of Michelle, disappears, and now it is just two screen shots of Mann on the left driving, Tony on the right sitting at his desk.
Mann - "I have something that will interest the CTU branch. This is high importance information. I have everything on a disk, and I am on my way to you now."
Almeida - "What's this about?"
Mann - "I can't tell you over the phone, man! I'll be with you in about fifteen minutes."
Almeida - "Can't you give me something? Who should I contact, what's going on?"
Mann - "Ah. Something big going down."
Almeida - "When?"
Mann - "Tonight."
Cut to Asian men, they are loading luggage into a small blue car. Clock silently shows 6:42:04 - 6:42:05 - 6:42:06
They enter the car, and begin speaking in their language. No subtitles. The driver starts the car and they pull out.
Cut to a new sight. Desert, lined with more than a dozen huge radio telescopes pointed skyward. Yellow lettering says: "Arizona - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute."
Cut to inside of institute. Main room is littered with computer consoles, and there are six workers currently on duty. Suddenly, alarms start blaring everywhere. A man, named John Owens, jumps up and begins running to the wall console that is sounding.
Owens - "Alright! Alright this is something!"
Shot zooms in to the computer, and in red the words "Signal Detected" is blinking. Everyone begins scrambling to his or her consoles except Owens, he is remains at the main computer.
Lisa Rodriguez from across the room - "John! Signal strength is really strong, appears to be coming from the North Western part of the sky. Working on the location. Someone contact Miller."
John walks to a wall phone and dials two buttons, no doubt calling someone within the building. Split screen shows an older man on the right answer the phone.
Owens - "Mr. Miller sir, we have a signal."
Miller - "That's a bunch of bull! You do this to me every month, I swear I will cut funding!"
Owens - "Listen! This can't be earthly!"
Miller - "We'll see about that won't we?"
Clock shows 6:48:19 - 6:48:20 - 6:48:21
Cut to Asian men. One in passenger seat's phone rings. He answers first in Japanese, then says in English - "Yes sir?"
Man on other line, English - "Everything is in place. Where are you?"
Asian #2 - "Currently heading to first planned stop."
Man on other line - "Contact me when there."
Cut to SETI in Arizona
Miller comes walking into control room.
Miller - "What do we know?"
Lisa Rodriguez, a woman in her mid forties, comes to him and says - "I got big news, sir. It appears this is an encrypted message!"
Miller - What is that supposed to mean?
Rodriguez - "Means that when we stop receiving the signal, or when the signal ends, we will have a digital coded message."
Miller begins to take it seriously - "Ok, ok find out what it says. Listen up everyone, nothing leaves this room, nothing!"
Rodriguez - "Do you think this is really from another world?"
Miller - "I don't know, do I look like a frikken scientist? If it's a message, I can't imagine how, or how we'd understand it."
Rodriguez - "From what I have been able to find out, it looks like it's coming from the North Western part of the sky sir, I have no idea how far away yet."
Miller - "How long will the encryption take?"
Rodriguez - "The signal, along with appearing to be encrypted, also seems to be winding down. Which means of course, that the signal will end when the message is delivered. In about five hours."
Miller - "Five hours! Screw that! Make it faster."
Cut to CTU, Tony Almeida walking down the stairs, heading to Michelle Dessler.
Tony to Michelle - "Agent Mann is on his way, says he's got something important. Request clearance for him and get Chapelle on the line." Tony walks on.
Cut to Mann, he is still driving. He is very close to his destination. He takes a right and we see the shot of his car driving past a road, only the camera stays sighted on the road as a dark van pulls out, seemingly waiting for Mann. Split screen, on the left shows Mann from dashboard camera, on the right shows dark van from outside front view. Cut to Mann, he looks in the rearview mirror, noticing the van. He is paranoid, and begins speeding up. The van continues to follow. Mann notices a red light ahead, and stops, van does too. A few moments later they continue, and the van continues to follow. Mann decides to try something, so he takes a right down a one way street, going the wrong way. The van does also, and Mann knows he's in trouble. Dramatic fast paced music begins as Mann steps on the gas, so does the van. Outside shot shows the van speed up along side Mann's car and SMASH right into the side and forces it off the road and into a fence. The impact works in the favor of the driver of the van, because Mann smacks his forehead into the steering wheel and is dazed. Four armed men wearing black uniforms jump out of the van and the lead man grabs Mann's door handle and pulls it open, and grabs the dazed Herald Mann by the shirt, throws him to the ground the camera cuts to a view from behind the lead man from the van. We see Mann kneeling on the ground, and the dark suited man aim the rifle above Mann's head. Close up of the assassin's hand as he pulls the trigger. Mann falls to the ground, we see a little blood. He is dead. The other men grab Mann's computer and another gets behind the wheel of Mann's car and backs out of the fence. The car is only slightly damaged from the fence, but there is a large dent from the run off.
Cut to split screens, 3, on the far left we see the Asian men in their car, in the middle we see Owens from SETI staring at a computer, one on the far right shows a shot of Almeida preparing a file, placing papers in it. Cut to the first man, that assassinated Mann, he has in his hand the desk with all the information Mann was bringing to CTU. He flips it in his hand and then sticks it in his pocket.
Cut to black screen, gold clock ticks loudly in the middle
6:59:57
6:59:58
6:59:59
7:00:00
Next week on "24" -
Screen shows Ryan Chappelle on the phone with Tony Almeida
Chappelle - "We got word that the plan landed about an hour ago at L-A-X, one of the names matches that of an international fugitive."
Tony - "Pretty daring of him, don't you think?"
Chappelle - "Not the first time."
Cut to Asian men in car, they are driving and the shots shows only briefly enough to see that they are stopping outside of a small shop.
Cut to Tony Almeida, he is in his office, on the phone. We hear the other line of his phone. It's a ring tone. Then another. Then another.
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