"The Following Takes Place Between 8.00 pm and 9.00 pm"
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(Jack and Tony search through CTU)
Jack: "Where are you you son of a bitch..."
(Jack enters CTU Archives Station)
Jack: "Paul- I need the security footage from the last half hour connected to Conference Room B-180"
Paul: "Sure, lemme just pull that up for you."
(Jack waits a long few seconds, as Paul makes a worried noise)
Jack: "What is it?"
Paul: "There's no footage of that. There isn't even a digital back-up. It's like somebody else has logged into this computer within the past few minutes."
Jack: "Have they?"
Paul: "It's impossible. I've been here the past two hours."
Jack: "Is there any way that anybody could have accessed these files?"
Paul: "Not without leaving a trace. I'll start up on that. What's this for?"
Jack: "A Detained terrorist subject has created an unauthorised absense from within our grasp. Many of the lives in this building are in danger."
Paul: "I'll get started on it right away."
(CUT TO: St. marks Hospital. Kim is carried in on a stretcher with a lot of blood from her gut. Kate is put into a body bag. Kim is in a lot of pain.)
Nurse #1: "Listen, we're gonna do the best that we can for you. You were lucky to get out alive."
(Kim cannot see that Kate is dead)
Kim: "Where's Kate? How is she..?"
Nurse #1: "We'll... tell you her progress after your surgery. Can you tell us who these people who shot you looked like?"
Kim: "They were.... wearing masks."
Nurse #1: "Do you know where they went?"
Kim: "Yes.. Ahhch... They're going to Los Angeles CTU..."
(A second nurse pulls out a walky-talky)
Nurse: "We need to inform the L.A. C.T.U that there are two masked men..."
(CUT TO: David Palmer. He watches the smoke rise from the debris. Dana Hilton approaches him.)
David: "How could this have happened? We have lost the lives of 12 people."
Dana: "Sir.. when you were on the phone to CTU, did they warn you of a terrorist threat occuring today?"
David: "The only people in danger are CTU members from the past four years."
Dana: "That would explain the bombing. Seven of the twelve deceased were bodyguards deplored from there.... Sir, although this is a terrible time, we need to talk to the press about the election result."
(Palmer is visably upset)
David: "Is that all the press can think about? People's lives have been lost and they can just think about the election?"
Dana: "Sir.. It chose our next President of the United States..."
David: "I.. I can't go through with this."
Dana: "There is talk of a recount though sir.."
David: "Dana... the whole reason the bomb went off is because of this election. If there was no Presidency, this never would have happened."
Dana: "Are you saying that there shouldn't be a government?"
David: "I'm saying that somehow the threat of the lives of CTU agents today is linked to the election..."
(It has just gone 1.30am at the British CTU. Head of C.T.U.K is Agent Phil Masters. He discusses the importance of the CD stolen with other agents. Just then, he answers the phone. It is Tony.)
Tony: "Agent Masters? This is Tony Almeida from the Los Angeles CTU"
Masters: "Hello Almeida."
Tony: "We are asking every CTU station in operation to check the speed of their bandwidth and data files. We believe that somebody has tampered with them, making connections between offices slower."
Masters: "We checked them eleven hours ago. Every CTU does checks at the same time every day."
Tony: "We have reason to believe it has happened within the last ten hours."
Masters: "I'll get right on to it. Another matter I was going to contact you with. We have got the best data technician in CTU to find out what was on the missing disk's files."
Tony: "That's excellent. With that information, we'll be able to find out who is in definite danger."
Masters: "But, if what you are saying about connection speed on the CTU server is true, how will we send the data?"
Tony: "Send it anyway. Just because it is slow, doesn't mean we dismiss it completely. It's the only data-to-data connection that we have anyway."
Masters: "That's fine. Tony. We'll send everything that Agent Pressman receives. Good day to you."
Tony: "Good day..."
(Only when he puts the phone down, Tony thinks "Pressman?" to himself. He calls Michelle over.
Tony: "Michelle... can you do a check on all the data technicians in CTU with the surname Pressman?"
Michelle: "Yeah, but at the rate our server's going, it could take a while."
Tony: "Just do it as fast as you can."
(CUT TO: Jack at archives.)
Paul: "I'm starting to make a decrypt of the hacker's ISP number."
Jack: "Do you have the first four digits?"
Paul: "The first three."
Jack: "Good, we can determine which country it's from. (Reads ISP number) 101.. it's based in the US then"
Paul: "Yeah. We just need to find out which state it's from..."
(A 4 appears to be the next digit.)
Jack: "101.4.. it's coming from Los Angeles."
Paul: "Our own state? But how. There are no higher ranking government building than CTU in L.A."
Jack: "We're fighting a war with ourself here."
("IP Number Trace complete" appears on the screen. Paul is shocked)
Jack: "What does that last bit mean?"
Paul: "It's from CTU..."
Jack: "I knew it..."
Paul: "We also have the information on which computer it came from..."
Jack: "Who's...?"
(Paul opens some files, and matches the number to...)
Paul: "Dessler. Agent Michelle Dessler."
(Jack barges out of the door. Using numourous split screen, we see Kim on a stretcher bed, Jack making his way up some stairs and Tony waiting for Michelle to finish the Pressman search. Michelle enters Tony's office.)
Michelle: "I've finished the search, Tony."
Tony: "What does it say?"
Michelle: "In all of CTU, only six are named Pressman. Only one works as a data technician. And that is the guy who died at 5pm today."
Tony: "My god..."
(Tony picks up the phone and calls the British CTU. There is no responce... that is because everybody in Masters office is dead. A shadowy figure picks up the ohne, and leaves it off the hook...
08:59:57
08:59:58
08:59:59
09:00:00...
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(Jack and Tony search through CTU)
Jack: "Where are you you son of a bitch..."
(Jack enters CTU Archives Station)
Jack: "Paul- I need the security footage from the last half hour connected to Conference Room B-180"
Paul: "Sure, lemme just pull that up for you."
(Jack waits a long few seconds, as Paul makes a worried noise)
Jack: "What is it?"
Paul: "There's no footage of that. There isn't even a digital back-up. It's like somebody else has logged into this computer within the past few minutes."
Jack: "Have they?"
Paul: "It's impossible. I've been here the past two hours."
Jack: "Is there any way that anybody could have accessed these files?"
Paul: "Not without leaving a trace. I'll start up on that. What's this for?"
Jack: "A Detained terrorist subject has created an unauthorised absense from within our grasp. Many of the lives in this building are in danger."
Paul: "I'll get started on it right away."
(CUT TO: St. marks Hospital. Kim is carried in on a stretcher with a lot of blood from her gut. Kate is put into a body bag. Kim is in a lot of pain.)
Nurse #1: "Listen, we're gonna do the best that we can for you. You were lucky to get out alive."
(Kim cannot see that Kate is dead)
Kim: "Where's Kate? How is she..?"
Nurse #1: "We'll... tell you her progress after your surgery. Can you tell us who these people who shot you looked like?"
Kim: "They were.... wearing masks."
Nurse #1: "Do you know where they went?"
Kim: "Yes.. Ahhch... They're going to Los Angeles CTU..."
(A second nurse pulls out a walky-talky)
Nurse: "We need to inform the L.A. C.T.U that there are two masked men..."
(CUT TO: David Palmer. He watches the smoke rise from the debris. Dana Hilton approaches him.)
David: "How could this have happened? We have lost the lives of 12 people."
Dana: "Sir.. when you were on the phone to CTU, did they warn you of a terrorist threat occuring today?"
David: "The only people in danger are CTU members from the past four years."
Dana: "That would explain the bombing. Seven of the twelve deceased were bodyguards deplored from there.... Sir, although this is a terrible time, we need to talk to the press about the election result."
(Palmer is visably upset)
David: "Is that all the press can think about? People's lives have been lost and they can just think about the election?"
Dana: "Sir.. It chose our next President of the United States..."
David: "I.. I can't go through with this."
Dana: "There is talk of a recount though sir.."
David: "Dana... the whole reason the bomb went off is because of this election. If there was no Presidency, this never would have happened."
Dana: "Are you saying that there shouldn't be a government?"
David: "I'm saying that somehow the threat of the lives of CTU agents today is linked to the election..."
(It has just gone 1.30am at the British CTU. Head of C.T.U.K is Agent Phil Masters. He discusses the importance of the CD stolen with other agents. Just then, he answers the phone. It is Tony.)
Tony: "Agent Masters? This is Tony Almeida from the Los Angeles CTU"
Masters: "Hello Almeida."
Tony: "We are asking every CTU station in operation to check the speed of their bandwidth and data files. We believe that somebody has tampered with them, making connections between offices slower."
Masters: "We checked them eleven hours ago. Every CTU does checks at the same time every day."
Tony: "We have reason to believe it has happened within the last ten hours."
Masters: "I'll get right on to it. Another matter I was going to contact you with. We have got the best data technician in CTU to find out what was on the missing disk's files."
Tony: "That's excellent. With that information, we'll be able to find out who is in definite danger."
Masters: "But, if what you are saying about connection speed on the CTU server is true, how will we send the data?"
Tony: "Send it anyway. Just because it is slow, doesn't mean we dismiss it completely. It's the only data-to-data connection that we have anyway."
Masters: "That's fine. Tony. We'll send everything that Agent Pressman receives. Good day to you."
Tony: "Good day..."
(Only when he puts the phone down, Tony thinks "Pressman?" to himself. He calls Michelle over.
Tony: "Michelle... can you do a check on all the data technicians in CTU with the surname Pressman?"
Michelle: "Yeah, but at the rate our server's going, it could take a while."
Tony: "Just do it as fast as you can."
(CUT TO: Jack at archives.)
Paul: "I'm starting to make a decrypt of the hacker's ISP number."
Jack: "Do you have the first four digits?"
Paul: "The first three."
Jack: "Good, we can determine which country it's from. (Reads ISP number) 101.. it's based in the US then"
Paul: "Yeah. We just need to find out which state it's from..."
(A 4 appears to be the next digit.)
Jack: "101.4.. it's coming from Los Angeles."
Paul: "Our own state? But how. There are no higher ranking government building than CTU in L.A."
Jack: "We're fighting a war with ourself here."
("IP Number Trace complete" appears on the screen. Paul is shocked)
Jack: "What does that last bit mean?"
Paul: "It's from CTU..."
Jack: "I knew it..."
Paul: "We also have the information on which computer it came from..."
Jack: "Who's...?"
(Paul opens some files, and matches the number to...)
Paul: "Dessler. Agent Michelle Dessler."
(Jack barges out of the door. Using numourous split screen, we see Kim on a stretcher bed, Jack making his way up some stairs and Tony waiting for Michelle to finish the Pressman search. Michelle enters Tony's office.)
Michelle: "I've finished the search, Tony."
Tony: "What does it say?"
Michelle: "In all of CTU, only six are named Pressman. Only one works as a data technician. And that is the guy who died at 5pm today."
Tony: "My god..."
(Tony picks up the phone and calls the British CTU. There is no responce... that is because everybody in Masters office is dead. A shadowy figure picks up the ohne, and leaves it off the hook...
08:59:57
08:59:58
08:59:59
09:00:00...