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Shot of the gold digital 24 logo, ticking slowly then faster and faster.
Cut to gold writing, black screen, says "Previously on 24", read by Tony Almeida
Cut to Mann answers phone, says - "Hello?"
Screen splits in half, shows Mann on the phone on the left, on the right has the name "Agent Herald Man" in the middle of the black half of split screen.
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."
Cut to Michelle, answering ringing phone - "CTU, Dessler speaking." Screen splits again to show "Agent Michele Dessler" on right side.
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 splits again to show the name "Agent Tony Almeida" on right side.
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 full screen of Hispanic man in bathroom stall, 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.
Cut to SETI in Arizona, the scene where the alarms go off. Screen splits to show John Owens, and his name is on the right side
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."
Cut to the black van forcing agent Mann off the road. Cut to assassin pulling Mann out and pulling the trigger. Next shot he has in his hand the disc 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, in gold it says the following, also read by Tony Almeida:
"The following takes place between the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M."
Cut to assassin #1, who killed Mann, he gets behind the wheel of the van, and waits for the other man to drive away with Mann's car. As soon as he does, assassin #1 takes out his cell phone and dials. After a moment,
Assassin #1 - "Yeah he's dead. Yes I have it with me. Right away."
He shuts the phone off, and puts the van in gear and drives away.
Cut to CTU, Tony Almeida's phone is ringing. He bursts through the door to his office and grabs the phone.
Tony - "Almeida."
Screen splits to show Ryan Chappelle on the right, leaning in his chair looking at a file.
Chappelle - "Heads up, guess what?"
Almeida looks busy - "What?"
Chappelle - "I'm sending you a full passenger list of an Asia Air flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles. One hundred and eighty on board, and one of them doesn't match up."
Over Tony's shoulder, his computer seemingly comes to life as the passenger list is uploaded.
Tony - "What's up?"
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. Izumi Masatoshi, age thirty. I want you to find out why he was on that plane, I want you to find out why he is in Los Angeles, then I want you to find him. Get some men out in the field, I don't like it."
Tony - "What's his crime?"
Chappelle - "Attempted murder of a co-worker at a chemical weapons lab."
Tony - "Scientist?"
Chappelle - "You guessed it."
Tony - "What is a rogue Japanese scientist doing sneaking into America?"
Chappelle - "Exactly. This guy isn't exactly an illegal either. In fact, he is an American citizen, also helped him get way past customs before being found out, by then it was too late. Find out whatever you can about him, and like I said, get some people out looking for him."
They hang up.
Cut to SETI in Arizona, control room. The scene shows Lisa Rodriguez walk up behind John Owens.
Rodriguez - "I just talked to Miller, he's thinking about whether or not to go public now."
Owens' head quickly snaps back in alarm - "What! That's stupid!"
Rodriguez - "I know. I think you should talk to him."
Owens sits for three seconds thinking, then he shakes his head and gets up, walking away.
Cut to Tony, he is walking apparently to the exit of CTU, to the parking garage. He looks at his watch, shakes his head in disapproval. He stops just before the exit, bangs a fist lightly against the wall and pulls out his cell and hits a button. We hear that there is no answer after five rings, and Tony slams his phone shut. He adjusts his tie, thinking. He has too much to do to mess around with Mann, he decides. He turns around and heads back.
Cut to black screen, gold clock ticks loudly 7:12:33 - 7:12:34 - 7:12:35
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Split screens: 2 Tony Almeida on the left, on the phone, setting up CTU agents to search for this Japanese man. Screen on the right shows the two Japanese men in the small blue car. Clock in the middle ticks loudly 7:16:54 - 7:16:55 - 7:16:56
Cut to CTU, Almeida hanging up the phone. Camera follows him out his office and down the stairs.
Tony - "Alright, listen up," he smacks his hands real loud "we have a situation." A crowd begins to gather around him, camera has close up of Michelle.
Tony - "Right now, we have a small operation going into effect, to help out local law enforcement in nabbing what could be a potential terrorist. Japanese scientist at large, landed at LAX over an hour ago. Somehow got past everyone. He needs to be caught, and no doubt when he is caught, he will be brought in here first. This has taken top priority for the moment, yet is not an out of control situation. That'll be all, get to work."
The crowd disperses back to where they belong, except for Michelle, she walks up to Tony. Screen splits so we can see both expressions
as Michelle whispers - "What's this about?"
Tony - "Chappelle doesn't like the timing. Feels we need to nab this guy, and very soon. I called out a few dozen men to find him, but it won't be for another hour before they are fully prepared, of course they can be sped up but that's what we're looking at."
Cut to small blue car, it stops outside of "Smart Mart" in Wellington Heights. Asian #2, the plane passenger, opens his door and steps out. Before shutting it though, Asian #1 calls Asian #2 by name: Izumi, and continues to say something in their native language. Izumi shakes his head yes, and shut the door. Camera follows behind as Izumi enters the store and walks past the clerk, nodding. Izumi knows where he's going it appears, he enters the bathroom. Screen splits, screen on the right shows the clerk, he begins to mop his floor, screen on left shows Izumi enter the first stall. Full screen now of Izumi, suspenseful music begins to play as he removes the top of the toilet and reaches in, pulling out the silver cylinder. He puts it inside his pocket and flushes the toilet. Camera shows him exit the bathroom, nod at the clerk and walk out the door, as the door shuts, the screen splits again. On the left we see Owens at SETI walking down a lightly lit corridor, on the right shows Izumi walking towards the car. Full screen shows Owens, at the end of the corridor knocking on an office door.
From behind the door, we hear the cranky Miller - "What the hell do you want?"
Owens - "Sir, I'd like a word with you."
Miller - "Well I wouldn't, now get the hell out of here!"
Owens enters the office, and sits despite Miller's look of disgust.
Owens - "I'd like to suggest that you do not go public with this signal."
Miller - "Who told you I was?"
Owens pauses, and hesitates, then - "Oh, well I didn't um. Well I didn't know for sure if you were. Don't."
Miller - "Don't do what?"
Owens - "Go public."
Miller - "Screw you kid. This is my big dream, this is my big chance. I might just be able to interrupt that weasel Prescott during his New Years Eve address. Wouldn't that be something?"
Cut to little blue car, speeding in the other direction.
Izumi, on cell phone, in Japanese but subtitles show what he is saying - "Payload delivered sir, awaiting my orders. Very well. Yes sir." He hangs up, and says something to the driver, yet we get no subtitles. Cut to loud ticking clock 7:39:21 - 7:39:22 - 7:39:23
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Split screens: 4
One on top left shows Almeida on the phone in his office, bottom left shows the Asian men driving still, on the top right shows Owens leaving Miller's office, and on the bottom right shows Assassin #1 driving the black van. Clock in dead center reads 7:44:03 - 7:44:04 - 7:44:05
Cut to Assassin #1, he says to Assassin #2 - "Where is it?"
#2 - "Not far from here, you know, next left and third house on the left."
Outside shot shows van go exactly where was said.
Cut to CTU, Tony's phone rings.
Tony - "CTU, Almeida."
Chappelle is on the other line - "Anything yet?"
Tony - "No sir, I just got off the phone with Dickson, says they can't find a trace of the guy at LAX, but they are ready to analyze security footage, we should get something from that."
Chappelle - "Too slow, what about away from LAX?"
Tony - "Sir, they have no idea where to even begin to look, it's not like footprints in the sand here. What's the hurry?"
Chappelle - "Well, think about it Almeida, New Years Eve, and we have an international fugitive with terrorist ties entering the United States without a care in the world."
Tony - "I have thought about that."
Chappelle - "That bastard needs to be caught, and before midnight."
Tony - "I know. But how? What can the LAX security footage do other than tell us what direction this guy took after he got off the plane?"
Chappelle - "Probably nothing. We need a better trained agent out there other than Dickson. We need a frikkin' bounty hunter out there. Got anyone in mind?"
Tony pauses - "I might. I'll work on it." Screen splits and on the right we see the Assassins exit the van as they are parked in a suburban driveway. Now at full screen, Assassin #1 tells #2 to wait, as he goes up to the door and knocks four times. A young Hispanic woman peeks through the door, which is chained locked. She shouts back - "Juan, It's Joe!" and shuts the door. We hear footsteps as a Hispanic man, named Juan, holding a gun unlocks the door and opens it, signaling Joe the assassin to enter. He does. Door shuts.
Juan - "Alright, give it to me."
Joe - "What about my pay first?'
Juan - "No, you get paid after I get the disc in my hands."
Joe takes the disc from his pocket and flips it to Juan man, who catches it.
Juan - "Good job. We now, with your help, have erased knowledge of the event. Now, if you'd like to double your money, we have another job for you."
Joe - ".I'm listening."
Cut to Asian men, they pull into a motel. It is an average dumpy Motel looking place. The car parks and they both exit. They walk slowly up to the third door on the bottom level and knock. Another Asian man opens the door, and they all embrace. Camera follows them inside and we see that there is not only one other Japanese man, but a total of ten sitting around, standing, everywhere. Fast pace music begins as the screens split up into 3. Current shot stay on the far left, middle shows Tony Almeida on the phone and the one on the right shows someone's phone ringing. Cut to full screen, phone ringing. The shot is zoomed in close to the phone, nothing much is seen in the background. It rings a sixth time, then a seventh, then an eight. Screen splits again, Tony on the left, ringing phone on the right. Finally on the tenth ring, a hand grabs it real fast. Still zoomed in on the phone's base, we hear the voice of the man answering off screen.
Man - "Hello?"
Tony - "Jack?"
Cut to black screen, clock loudly ticks
7:59:58
7:59:59
8:00:00
Next week on "24"
Screen shows Jack's face, he isn't thrilled.
Jack - "Tony. What do you want?"
Tony - "I want you to come to CTU, I need to talk to you."
Cut to Joe the Assassin, he is entering a door.
Joe, whistles - "Wow, just come on in, right?"
Cut to: we see a group of five friends, 2 women, 3 men, around a large crowd. A blonde white woman has her arm around a dark man, she says "Happy New Year."
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Shot of the gold digital 24 logo, ticking slowly then faster and faster.
Cut to gold writing, black screen, says "Previously on 24", read by Tony Almeida
Cut to Mann answers phone, says - "Hello?"
Screen splits in half, shows Mann on the phone on the left, on the right has the name "Agent Herald Man" in the middle of the black half of split screen.
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."
Cut to Michelle, answering ringing phone - "CTU, Dessler speaking." Screen splits again to show "Agent Michele Dessler" on right side.
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 splits again to show the name "Agent Tony Almeida" on right side.
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 full screen of Hispanic man in bathroom stall, 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.
Cut to SETI in Arizona, the scene where the alarms go off. Screen splits to show John Owens, and his name is on the right side
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."
Cut to the black van forcing agent Mann off the road. Cut to assassin pulling Mann out and pulling the trigger. Next shot he has in his hand the disc 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, in gold it says the following, also read by Tony Almeida:
"The following takes place between the hours of 7:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M."
Cut to assassin #1, who killed Mann, he gets behind the wheel of the van, and waits for the other man to drive away with Mann's car. As soon as he does, assassin #1 takes out his cell phone and dials. After a moment,
Assassin #1 - "Yeah he's dead. Yes I have it with me. Right away."
He shuts the phone off, and puts the van in gear and drives away.
Cut to CTU, Tony Almeida's phone is ringing. He bursts through the door to his office and grabs the phone.
Tony - "Almeida."
Screen splits to show Ryan Chappelle on the right, leaning in his chair looking at a file.
Chappelle - "Heads up, guess what?"
Almeida looks busy - "What?"
Chappelle - "I'm sending you a full passenger list of an Asia Air flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles. One hundred and eighty on board, and one of them doesn't match up."
Over Tony's shoulder, his computer seemingly comes to life as the passenger list is uploaded.
Tony - "What's up?"
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. Izumi Masatoshi, age thirty. I want you to find out why he was on that plane, I want you to find out why he is in Los Angeles, then I want you to find him. Get some men out in the field, I don't like it."
Tony - "What's his crime?"
Chappelle - "Attempted murder of a co-worker at a chemical weapons lab."
Tony - "Scientist?"
Chappelle - "You guessed it."
Tony - "What is a rogue Japanese scientist doing sneaking into America?"
Chappelle - "Exactly. This guy isn't exactly an illegal either. In fact, he is an American citizen, also helped him get way past customs before being found out, by then it was too late. Find out whatever you can about him, and like I said, get some people out looking for him."
They hang up.
Cut to SETI in Arizona, control room. The scene shows Lisa Rodriguez walk up behind John Owens.
Rodriguez - "I just talked to Miller, he's thinking about whether or not to go public now."
Owens' head quickly snaps back in alarm - "What! That's stupid!"
Rodriguez - "I know. I think you should talk to him."
Owens sits for three seconds thinking, then he shakes his head and gets up, walking away.
Cut to Tony, he is walking apparently to the exit of CTU, to the parking garage. He looks at his watch, shakes his head in disapproval. He stops just before the exit, bangs a fist lightly against the wall and pulls out his cell and hits a button. We hear that there is no answer after five rings, and Tony slams his phone shut. He adjusts his tie, thinking. He has too much to do to mess around with Mann, he decides. He turns around and heads back.
Cut to black screen, gold clock ticks loudly 7:12:33 - 7:12:34 - 7:12:35
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Split screens: 2 Tony Almeida on the left, on the phone, setting up CTU agents to search for this Japanese man. Screen on the right shows the two Japanese men in the small blue car. Clock in the middle ticks loudly 7:16:54 - 7:16:55 - 7:16:56
Cut to CTU, Almeida hanging up the phone. Camera follows him out his office and down the stairs.
Tony - "Alright, listen up," he smacks his hands real loud "we have a situation." A crowd begins to gather around him, camera has close up of Michelle.
Tony - "Right now, we have a small operation going into effect, to help out local law enforcement in nabbing what could be a potential terrorist. Japanese scientist at large, landed at LAX over an hour ago. Somehow got past everyone. He needs to be caught, and no doubt when he is caught, he will be brought in here first. This has taken top priority for the moment, yet is not an out of control situation. That'll be all, get to work."
The crowd disperses back to where they belong, except for Michelle, she walks up to Tony. Screen splits so we can see both expressions
as Michelle whispers - "What's this about?"
Tony - "Chappelle doesn't like the timing. Feels we need to nab this guy, and very soon. I called out a few dozen men to find him, but it won't be for another hour before they are fully prepared, of course they can be sped up but that's what we're looking at."
Cut to small blue car, it stops outside of "Smart Mart" in Wellington Heights. Asian #2, the plane passenger, opens his door and steps out. Before shutting it though, Asian #1 calls Asian #2 by name: Izumi, and continues to say something in their native language. Izumi shakes his head yes, and shut the door. Camera follows behind as Izumi enters the store and walks past the clerk, nodding. Izumi knows where he's going it appears, he enters the bathroom. Screen splits, screen on the right shows the clerk, he begins to mop his floor, screen on left shows Izumi enter the first stall. Full screen now of Izumi, suspenseful music begins to play as he removes the top of the toilet and reaches in, pulling out the silver cylinder. He puts it inside his pocket and flushes the toilet. Camera shows him exit the bathroom, nod at the clerk and walk out the door, as the door shuts, the screen splits again. On the left we see Owens at SETI walking down a lightly lit corridor, on the right shows Izumi walking towards the car. Full screen shows Owens, at the end of the corridor knocking on an office door.
From behind the door, we hear the cranky Miller - "What the hell do you want?"
Owens - "Sir, I'd like a word with you."
Miller - "Well I wouldn't, now get the hell out of here!"
Owens enters the office, and sits despite Miller's look of disgust.
Owens - "I'd like to suggest that you do not go public with this signal."
Miller - "Who told you I was?"
Owens pauses, and hesitates, then - "Oh, well I didn't um. Well I didn't know for sure if you were. Don't."
Miller - "Don't do what?"
Owens - "Go public."
Miller - "Screw you kid. This is my big dream, this is my big chance. I might just be able to interrupt that weasel Prescott during his New Years Eve address. Wouldn't that be something?"
Cut to little blue car, speeding in the other direction.
Izumi, on cell phone, in Japanese but subtitles show what he is saying - "Payload delivered sir, awaiting my orders. Very well. Yes sir." He hangs up, and says something to the driver, yet we get no subtitles. Cut to loud ticking clock 7:39:21 - 7:39:22 - 7:39:23
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Split screens: 4
One on top left shows Almeida on the phone in his office, bottom left shows the Asian men driving still, on the top right shows Owens leaving Miller's office, and on the bottom right shows Assassin #1 driving the black van. Clock in dead center reads 7:44:03 - 7:44:04 - 7:44:05
Cut to Assassin #1, he says to Assassin #2 - "Where is it?"
#2 - "Not far from here, you know, next left and third house on the left."
Outside shot shows van go exactly where was said.
Cut to CTU, Tony's phone rings.
Tony - "CTU, Almeida."
Chappelle is on the other line - "Anything yet?"
Tony - "No sir, I just got off the phone with Dickson, says they can't find a trace of the guy at LAX, but they are ready to analyze security footage, we should get something from that."
Chappelle - "Too slow, what about away from LAX?"
Tony - "Sir, they have no idea where to even begin to look, it's not like footprints in the sand here. What's the hurry?"
Chappelle - "Well, think about it Almeida, New Years Eve, and we have an international fugitive with terrorist ties entering the United States without a care in the world."
Tony - "I have thought about that."
Chappelle - "That bastard needs to be caught, and before midnight."
Tony - "I know. But how? What can the LAX security footage do other than tell us what direction this guy took after he got off the plane?"
Chappelle - "Probably nothing. We need a better trained agent out there other than Dickson. We need a frikkin' bounty hunter out there. Got anyone in mind?"
Tony pauses - "I might. I'll work on it." Screen splits and on the right we see the Assassins exit the van as they are parked in a suburban driveway. Now at full screen, Assassin #1 tells #2 to wait, as he goes up to the door and knocks four times. A young Hispanic woman peeks through the door, which is chained locked. She shouts back - "Juan, It's Joe!" and shuts the door. We hear footsteps as a Hispanic man, named Juan, holding a gun unlocks the door and opens it, signaling Joe the assassin to enter. He does. Door shuts.
Juan - "Alright, give it to me."
Joe - "What about my pay first?'
Juan - "No, you get paid after I get the disc in my hands."
Joe takes the disc from his pocket and flips it to Juan man, who catches it.
Juan - "Good job. We now, with your help, have erased knowledge of the event. Now, if you'd like to double your money, we have another job for you."
Joe - ".I'm listening."
Cut to Asian men, they pull into a motel. It is an average dumpy Motel looking place. The car parks and they both exit. They walk slowly up to the third door on the bottom level and knock. Another Asian man opens the door, and they all embrace. Camera follows them inside and we see that there is not only one other Japanese man, but a total of ten sitting around, standing, everywhere. Fast pace music begins as the screens split up into 3. Current shot stay on the far left, middle shows Tony Almeida on the phone and the one on the right shows someone's phone ringing. Cut to full screen, phone ringing. The shot is zoomed in close to the phone, nothing much is seen in the background. It rings a sixth time, then a seventh, then an eight. Screen splits again, Tony on the left, ringing phone on the right. Finally on the tenth ring, a hand grabs it real fast. Still zoomed in on the phone's base, we hear the voice of the man answering off screen.
Man - "Hello?"
Tony - "Jack?"
Cut to black screen, clock loudly ticks
7:59:58
7:59:59
8:00:00
Next week on "24"
Screen shows Jack's face, he isn't thrilled.
Jack - "Tony. What do you want?"
Tony - "I want you to come to CTU, I need to talk to you."
Cut to Joe the Assassin, he is entering a door.
Joe, whistles - "Wow, just come on in, right?"
Cut to: we see a group of five friends, 2 women, 3 men, around a large crowd. A blonde white woman has her arm around a dark man, she says "Happy New Year."
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