11:00 P.M.
Everyone is horrified. Anderson rushes over to Keeler and aims his gun at the head of the shocked President. Anderson shouts out to everybody that it wasn't supposed to be like this. The plan was just for the nuclear plants to melt down and McLennan-Forster was supposed to profit handsomely from the state of emergency. But it's all ruined. Anderson orders the tactical team to retreat to another part of Air Force One and for the plane to lift off. They refuse, but a grief-stricken Keeler complies with Anderson's demands.
11:05 P.M. Under a direct order from the President, the tactical team vacates the room. Anderson aims his gun at Keeler and calls McLennan from a corner. He informs McLennan that he is holding the President hostage, who has promised to disband the company. Now knowing that Trepkos was right, McLennan tells Anderson to call him back once the plane is in the air.
11:06 P.M.
Near the front of the plane, Jack and Curtis access their options. Anderson is a professional and wouldn't be so foolish to kill the President. Jack believes this crisis can be resolved peacefully. Air Force One takes off.
11:07 P.M.
In Washington, senior advisor Mike Novick informs Vice President Charles Logan about the hostage situation. Novick wants to prepare for Logan to be sworn into office in case the President doesn't survive.
Michelle directs her staff to make stopping Anderson their top priority.
11:08 P.M.
As Anderson calls McLennan, Keeler grips the handle of a chair, keeping an eye on his son's murderer. His voice shaking, McLennan tells Anderson that their stock has plummeted due to the news about their involvement with Marwan. The President's vow to destroy McLennan-Forster has already been released to the media. McLennan no longer intends on leaving Los Angeles. He wants the country to suffer for the loss of his reputation and his company. McLennan orders Anderson to steal the Nuclear Football and get off the plane.
11:10 P.M.
Anderson cocks his gun aimed at Keeler and demands the Football. Through gritted teeth, Keeler tells Anderson that the Football has been at his side the entirety of this crisis his boss has put the nation through. Smirking, Anderson picks up the Football located nearby and tells Keeler he'll be leaving him locked in the room. Screaming for his son, Keeler smashes the chair into Anderson's back. The President makes a run for it, but Anderson shoots Keeler in the leg. Without batting an eye, Anderson walks out with the Football.
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11:15 P.M.
Buchanan notices that Tony has been hostile toward him, and he asks if this has to do with Michelle. Buchanan says he and Michelle never worked as a couple, and he thinks it's because she still cares for Tony.
11:17 P.M.
Jack and Curtis slowly approach the conference room, guns drawn. Instead of Anderson, they find Keeler clutching his bleeding leg. Curtis phones CTU that they have rescued Keeler from Anderson, who is still at large. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief.
11:18 P.M.
Heller calls Vice President Logan with the good news. Jack interrupts Heller's call with the information that the Nuclear Football is missing. President Keeler yells out that Anderson has it.
11:19 P.M.
In a Secret Service supply room, Anderson finishes up the wiring of a device. He has his parachute back on. Packing up, Anderson calls McLennan to tell that he's moving out. He assures McLennan that he'll cover his tracks. Anderson scratches out the Football's transponder's magnetic force with a knife and leaves the room. The newly wired device is a bomb.
11:20 P.M.
Jack and Curtis spread their tactical team throughout the plane, searching for Anderson and the Football. Evading Secret Service, Anderson goes over to an exit and begins to set up the bomb.
11:21 P.M.
Jack, Curtis and a couple of SWAT members spot Anderson at the exit. They shoot at each other and the SWAT men are killed. Jack and Curtis are forced to take cover, allowing Anderson to set the bomb timer. Football in hand, Anderson unlatches the door and jumps off the plane. Jack goes to the timer by the exit door and sees that they only have twenty seconds. Curtis radios the other agents to get off the plane as he and Jack get into parachutes. They jump off Air Force One just as it explodes.
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11:27 P.M.
Anderson runs through the desert with the Football. McLennan tells Anderson that a Jeep will pick him up in fifteen minutes near an unmanned power plant. He will hand off the Football to a man named Lee Jong soon after that.
11:28 P.M.
Landing in the desert, Jack calls a thankful Audrey to report that Anderson is on the ground and with the Football. He needs Chloe to get a satellite read of the area. Audrey redirects a nearby CTU vehicle to Jack and Curtis's location. Audrey blames herself for Paul's condition. When Jack tells her to focus on her job, she replies that she can't block everything out like he does.
11:30 P.M.
Heller informs Vice President Logan that Air Force One split in two following the explosion and the separate pieces plunged to the ground. Since it is most likely that Keeler was killed in the crash, Heller advises Logan to assume the presidency. Novick tells his boss that he has already prepared the Cabinet. But Logan wants to make sure Keeler perished.
11:31 P.M.
Anderson runs to the power plant and breaks in. He calls McLennan to tell him that he's in position.
11:32 P.M.
Chloe tells Jack that she won't be able to get a satellite over the area for a half hour. By then it may be too late. However, Chloe has a satellite map and informs Jack that there is a reserve power plant nearby. Anderson could have headed there. Jack and Curtis run off to the plant, and Chloe tells them that backup is only a few minutes away.
11:33 P.M.
Jack calls Audrey to explain that he does care and that she should too. He apologizes for how it sounded. Audrey understands.
11:34 P.M.
Jack gets a call from Heller, who asks Jack if he can explain why Anderson would remove the Football from Air Force One. Jack thinks that Anderson is under orders from McLennan. But why he would want it is unknown.
11:35 P.M.
Anderson paces around the plant. Suddenly, Anderson spots Jack and Curtis approaching the plant. Anderson runs down to the lower level as Jack and Curtis discreetly enter the building. Jack tells Curtis that all that matters is recovering the Football.
11:37 P.M.
Jack and Curtis spread out through the plant to find the Football. Curtis sees Anderson and shoots at him, ordering him to drop the Football. Anderson shoots back and bolts for the stairs. Curtis loses him in the darkness.
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11:42 P.M.
Jack and Curtis comb the entire building, but do not find Anderson. Jack thinks that Anderson is still in the building because he may be waiting to hand off the Football.
11:43 P.M.
Chloe calls Jack to inform him that their backup has arrived. Jack and Curtis go outside to the vehicle, where two agents supply him with guns and ammunition. Jack orders these agents to accompany him and Curtis back into the plant to apprehend Anderson. They enter the plant and spread throughout the lower level. Jack spots Anderson, and orders him to stay still. Anderson shoots at the agents, and gunfire is exchanged. One of the agents is killed. Firing, Anderson sprints out of the plant. Jack, Curtis, and the other agent are in pursuit.
11:45 P.M.
As Anderson goes back out into the desert, McLennan calls him to inform him that his transport is approaching the plant. Anderson requests that it park a hundred yards away from the entrance since he is being chased.
11:46 P.M.
Jack, Curtis and the agent quickly move out of the plant and fire on Anderson as he runs up the desert dirt road. Anderson fires back, but doesn't stop moving toward his Jeep. The remaining CTU agent is killed, leaving just Jack and Curtis to shoot at Anderson. Jack hits Anderson in the leg. However, he keeps on moving. Eventually, Anderson gets to the Jeep waiting for him and climbs in.
11:48 P.M.
Jack and Curtis charge toward Anderson's Jeep, shooting at the vehicle. They order the men inside to surrender. However, two gunmen stick out their weapons and fire. Jack and Curtis kill them. Anderson takes control of the Jeep and fires his own gun, pinning them down as he drives away. Jack tells Curtis that they need to get to their vehicle right away.
11:49 P.M.
Anderson calls McLennan to inform him that he's in the transport. McLennan tells him that Lee is only a few miles away and waiting for the Football.
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11:54 P.M.
As he drives the Jeep down the dirt road, Jack calls Chloe to see if she has the satellite feed of the area. She doesn't.
11:55 P.M.
Anderson pulls up to a crossroads in the middle of a desert. Another Jeep is parked there. A Chinese man named Lee Jong gets out and approaches Anderson's van. Anderson gives Lee the Football. Lee thanks Anderson for the "gift." Lee gets back in his Jeep and has his men drive off.
11:56 P.M.
Anderson watches Lee leave with the Football. Suddenly, Jack and Curtis's vehicle appears and pulls up a couple of yards from Anderson. Jack and Curtis get out with their guns drawn and instruct Anderson to hand over the Football. Without hesitation, Anderson reaches into his Jeep as if to retrieve the Football. But instead, he takes out a RPG and fires it at the CTU vehicle. It explodes, sending Jack and Curtis blown down by the blast. As Anderson drives away, laughing, Jack throws a transponder into the bed of Anderson's Jeep without his knowledge. Jack informs CTU that he is not in possession of the Football and that he is tracking Anderson.
11:57 P.M.
At the White House, Novick tells another aide, Walt Cummings, that he is worried about Vice President Logan being unsure of himself. Cummings gets word that the rescue teams have confirmed that Keeler is dead. Logan goes out to a throng of waiting reporters.
11:58 P.M.
Jack informs Audrey that Anderson may have handed off the Football to another person and is planning to flee the country. He asks Audrey to get satellite coverage of the area. Audrey tells Jack that with the Football, McLennan will have access to warhead locations and activation codes. Although they started changing the codes once the Football was stolen, it will take another hour to clear the slate because there are thousands of warheads. Audrey confirms that if McLennan-Forster gets hold of a nuclear weapon and a matching activation code, then they won't be able to stop them.
11:59 P.M.
As Logan is sworn into office before the cameras, Jack calls Novick. Novick takes the new President aside to tell him that the Nuclear Football has fallen into the hands of terrorists.