The following takes place between 1:00am and 2:00am on the day of the Indianapolis 500.

The site of the explosion is still a mess. Pieces of the house are everywhere, and there are parts still burning. A helicopters is heard overhead as police sirens are near.

Back at CTU, Tom Wilhoat is furious, walking through the room.

"Sir, medics are landing now," Jim Bormann said, looking up at Wilhoat. "We should be able to regain contact shortly."

"Amber," Wilhoat said, pacing, "What caused the loss of transmission?"

"Shortly after the explosion our uplinks were knocked out. It's possible something happened to the van."

"Local law enforcement has locked down the neighborhood the explosion was in. No one leaves," Bormann shouts.

"Wiltshire, go through satellite feeds over the last 20 minutes and find out who went to this damn house!" Wilhoat screamed.

"Already on it, sir."

Wilhoat walked back up to his office, frowning.

---

Back at the house, the smoke is clearing as the helicopter lands and medics come out. Bobby emerges from the van, which has suffered some damage, covered with soot and some cuts, but okay. He looks around mystified at the damage.

01:04:57

He starts to walk over and survey the damage that has been done as police and firefighters storm the area.

He runs his hand through his hair and looks around, trying to find survivors. One of the medics holds him back, and takes him back to the helicopter. Bobby seems dazed.

---

At CTU, Wilhoat is in his office dialing a number on his phone. Jack Bauer walks in.

"Tom," Bauer says, "They need you back on the floor. One of the medics just found Bobby. He's got a couple nicks but he's okay for now."

Wilhoat, seeming to only be half listening, says "Okay. Um, can you get DoD and District up to speed? I'm trying to do everything, but we're low on staff as it is."

"Yeah." Bauer said. nodding. Wilhoat walks down the stairs.

01:06:38

"Have we got Bobby on a line yet?" Wilhoat asks.

"I'll get him for you now," Bormann said.

"How satellite imaging coming, Wiltshire?"

"It's coming, Tom," she says. "Give me a couple more minutes."

"That's all I have to spare," he said.

"You're on with Bobby." Bormann said.

"Put it over the speakers. I want everyone to hear this so we can make preparations quickly. Bobby. Are you ok?"

"I... yeah... I think I got hit on the head, but I'm ok. Nothing too bad."

"all right, Bob. What about the rest of the team?"

"Well, we were preparing to storm the house when we heard a loud buzzing. Deimer called the team back but the house exploded. They must have put the explosive on the gas main or something."

Wilhoat nodded at Amber, who began to type.

"all right, Bobby," Wilhoat said. "We're checking on that now. Did you see anyone?"

"No, there was no one in the area. It must have been triggered remotely."

"Bobby. Bobby. Is anyone else alive?"

"I... I don't know, Tom. There's no one here with me, it looks like Mahoney and Buckley are dead... they aren't even working on their bodies."

"What about Bulling?"

"Bulling's ashes right now, Tom. I'm sorry."

"What about Richards and Deimer?"

"I can hardly see... there are medics all over them. They're bringing Richards over on a stretcher now. They... they're still working on Deimer. I don't know if she'll be okay or not Tom. I'm sorry."

01:09:58...01:09:59...01:10:00...

01:14:24...01:14:25...01:14:26...01:14:27...

Splitscreen: Medics working on Deimer; Tom looking nervous; Bobby frazzled, Two teenagers ("Kew" and Logan) and in a White Oldsmobile Aurora driving.

"Did you hear that explosion? That was huge. I didn't think it'd be that big," Kew said.

"It lit up the sky man. We gotta get to the safe house, man." Logan says, sweating.

"We shouldn't take the main roads, we need to keep a low profile," Kew said. "It might take us a little longer, but I can plot us through roads no one drives on this time of night."

"Son of a bitch! It wasn't supposed to be that big!"

---

"We've got her stable. Lets move her now!" a CTU medic shouted. Deimer was unconscience and covered in soot. There was mask over he face assisting her breathing, and her heartbeat was far from regular. Two of the medics picked her up on a stretcher and moved her to the helicopter where Richards and Bobby were waiting. Bobby looked down at Deimer.

"They just brought her in, Tom," Bobby's voice echoed through the dead silent CTU Indianapolis office. "But she doesn't look too good. We're leaving now, we should be at the medical facility soon. I'll talk to you then."

Tom looked down at his feet as the sound of Bobby hanging up held in the air. "all right people, lets get back to work. I want us to find the people responsible for this, and I want the info now. Co-ordinate with team leaders and start searching the grids for a car matching the description Amber is going over now. I want to catch these people before they reach their next target."

Tom walked off as Amber stepped up.

"We're looking for a White Oldsmobile Aurora, last seen moving West on Crawfordsville road. I want teams on satellites..."

01:16:23

Tom walked into his office where Jack and Bormann were waiting for him.

"Have you called the DoD yet, Jack?" Wilhoat asked, rubbing his neck."

"I think you should look at what Bormann's about to present first." Bauer said.

"I backlogged our satellite to show our replay of the explosion. Take a look at this."

Bormann played back the frames they had of the explosion--which seemed much more massive than one would have expected.

"All signs point to a gas main rupture that was ignited," Bormann said. "But this is one of those neighborhoods owned by one builder... and that builder... Foreman Construction has a contract with AEP, the local electric company. The homes in this neighborhood are all electric only. That doesn't fit with what we're seeing here at all, and what we know about RDX."

Wilhoat looked upset and confused as he thought to himself.

"So we saw a gaseous like explosion, but there was no gas in the area?"

"Exactly," Bormann said.

"Jack, have you ever seen anything like this before?"

"No." Jack said, looking worried.

"I'll take care of that phone call to DoD. Good work, guys." He nodded, suggesting they leave. Bormann handed Wilhoat a file before she also left as Wilhoat looked at the phone nervously.

-- 01:19:04

Bauer and Bormann walk out and of Wilhoat's office and go downstairs. Bauer walks up to Amber.

"Anything else new?" Bauer asked.

"We've gotten a track on the people responsible for blowing up the Bulling house, we're sending police to intercept.

"Wait, they're driving?" Bauer said, inquisitively.

"It looks like they're going across town," Amber said. "They're already a pretty good distance away from the house."

"Call off the police cars. Let me follow them." Bauer said.

"What? Why?"

"If I can follow them, they might lead me up the food chain. They just completed their job, and they're going to report in."

"And if they don't?"

"Then we don't have to deal with policemen's rules."

"Let me clear it with Wilhoat."

"There's no time, if I want to intercept them, I have to leave now."

Amber frowned and looked around the room. "Fine, but it's my ass on the line here, you better get results."

"You're the one who looked up my file for Tom, right? If you read any of it, you'd see I get results." Bauer said and walked out of CTU.

---

Tom Wilhoat was in his office, looking through Jack's file, flipping through papers, nothing coming up important, until he stops on one page and sets it down. He looked out the window to see Jack was no longer in CTU. He looked back down and frowned.

---

Jay Peters' cell phone rang. On the other end was a older man who was balding but had a dark ring of hair and a bushy beard named Stan Smith.

"Yes?" Peters said, impatiently.

"The police are no longer bringing the two men in, they've been called off."

"That seems odd," Peters said, frowning.

"I agree. I think they're being traced."

"Well, make sure they can't be traced."

"Yes, sir."

---

Wilhoat walks out to his window to see CTU Medical rushing into the office, bringing in several patients, including Deimer. Bobby enters and looks around, befuddled.

01:23:14

01:27:39

SPLITSCREEN: Wilhoat walking downstairs, Kew and Logan driving, Smith and his men loading things into a van.

Wilhoat walks up to Amber.

"Amber, have you seen Bauer?"

"He left." Amber said sheepishly.

"What? Where did he go?"

"Tom, don't get mad..."

"Dammit, Amber!"

"I told you not to get mad."

"Well, Amber, if this was the first time I might not have but this is..."

"Save me the lecture, Tom. He talked me into letting him track down these men on his own. I figured we better help him, since he is so close to the Secretary of Defense."

"Amber, these decisions have to go through me. You know that!"

"He was going to leave one way or another, Tom. There's nothing we could do stop him, so we might as well help him."

"I'd write you up for this any other day, Amber. But, quite frankly, I don't have the time today. Just... be smarter."

Bormann walked up and came up to Tom.

"She's in Medical 2, Tom."

"Thanks, Jim. Amber, bring me back down here when Bauer gets close."

"all right."

"Bobby!" Tom whistled. Bobby walked up to him and Wilhoat began to walk to medical.

"What happened, Bob?"

"We were just about to enter and it went off. There was about two seconds warning. Richards is in pretty bad shape, Deimer's not looking good either. Mahoney and Buckley are dead."

Tom stopped and looked down. He shook his head. "Go find Bormann and do you're official debrief." Tom continues to medical.

--- 01:29:58

"He's going to find out soon enough," Keeler said on the phone to James Heller. "What do we do then?"

"This project was started secretly by the DoD ten years ago, and you're the first president to know about it. This operation is top secret and not exactly legal, Mr. President."

"Well, he's going to start asking questions soon enough."

"Let me answer them, just pretend you don't know anything."

"all right," Keeler said. "Don't let me down, James."

---

Wilhoat walked into medical, where Rachel Deimer is laying on a bed, unconscience. Dr. Marcus Petty.

"She's going into surgery in a few minutes. We're prepping right now," Petty said. The doctor looked at Tom and bit his lip. "You have about three minutes."

Wilhoat walked up to Deimer and Petty left the room. He brushed the sot covered hair from Deimer's face and looked down at her, trying not to cry.

"Hey..." Tom said, looking down at Deimer. "You...you are going to be okay... if you can hear me... I've been a fool... and I'm going... I'm going to make it right. Rachel... you've got to make it."

The door swung open as Dr. Petty reentered. Tom looked down and grabbed Rachel's hand.

--- 01:33:45

Bauer got on his cellphone and dialed to a number.

"Tunic."

"Amber, you have me on tracker?"

"Yes, Jack. You're pretty far behind."

"Get into the stoplights system," Jack said. "And send the data down to my PDA. "

"all right," Amber said. "I'll get someone on that. We'll also send down where we think they're going, based on our current intel. We think they're going on back roads, which means they're going somewhere far and don't want to be followed."

"I got something," Bormann said. "I was able to get info on the car, it belongs to a Stephen Kew of Avon. It's one of four cars registered to the family. It's the cheapest of the four. Insurance is filed for a 17 year old."

"Jack, it's a kid." Amber said.

"all right." Jack nodded, a bit disturbed. "How did Tom take this?"

"Not well."

"I'll talk to him when I get back. all right, get me that data."

--- 01:37:34

"We've got confirmation, the cops have been called off."

"all right," Stan said to his lower man. "I'll take care of it, you guys need to meet up with Peters."

"You sure everything is going to be all right?"

"It will be fine. Just let Peters know what happened and tell him I'm sorry."

"Anything else you want passed on?

"No."

01:38:43...

01:42:58...

SPLITSCREEN: Doctors working on Deimer, Keeler looking out of a window, Kew and Logan in a car, Jack following, Amber looking at a screen with trackers.

Wilhoat is in the glass window of the surgery area, looking over as doctors are working on Deimer with a sad look on his face. Bormann walks up behind him and looks at him. Wilhoat spots him in the reflection of the glass and turns around.

"A John Thompson is on the phone," Bormann said.

"Thanks Jim," Wilhoat says, and takes the phone. "John, it's Tom Wilhoat. How are you doing?"

---

"What's our status?" Bauer said.

"We're moving Delta teams into that side of town." Amber said. "They'll be less than ten minutes out of anywhere."

"Where's Wilhoat?"

"He's looking over Deimer, the chief of staff. She was hurt in the explosion."

"Well get him down here! They could stop any second!"

"He'll be down here when he comes down Jack. I don't want to push him right now."

--- 01:47:21

"Thank you John." Wilhoat said. "I owe you one." He hangs up the phone and Bormann looks at him.

"Who is John Thompson?"

"An old friend in the army."

"What did you need him for?"

A long pause hung in the air, and then Wilhoat finally spoke.

"Think she'll be ok?" Wilhoat asked

"What, Tom?"

"Rachel. Do you think she'll be ok?"

"We can only hope..."

"Yeah."

---

Kew picked up the his cell phone and hit a speed dial.

"This is Kew. We'll be there in a couple minutes."

"Good," Stan said.

01:48:11...

...01:52:47...

SPLITSCREEN: Kew and Logan driving, Jack driving in his car, Wilhoat watching Deimer, Stan sitting and waiting, Amber is getting nervous.

Marcus Petty walks up to Wilhoat and shakes his head.

"Listen, Mr. Wilhoat..."

SPLITSCREEN: Petty and Wilhoat and doctors working on Deimer.

"We're not going to know anything for a couple hours... maybe you should get up to the floor."

"all right, you'll call me if there is any change?"

"Of course, Mr. Wilhoat."

Tom nodded and started to walk off.

---

"We have to be getting close," Jack said. "Call Tom."

"Jack, I..."

"Now!"

Amber picked up the phone and called Tom.

"Tom, Jack's closing in."

"I'm on my way up," Tom said.

---

Logan and Kew pull into a parking lot and stop the car.

"They've stopped Jack. Jackson Industrial Complex."

Wilhoat walked up behind Amber.

"Bormann, start working on the money trail."

"Understood."

"Amber, realign a satellite so we can get inferred," Wilhoat said.

"all right."

"Jack, I want you to hold back until we know what you're up against," Wilhoat said.

"I'll be outside in less than a minute."

"We'll try and have satellites by then."

---

Kew and Logan look around and walk up to Stan who is waiting for them.

"Did you complete the deal?"

"Yes. It's done. The explosive was more powerful than you said."

"Sorry about that," stan said, not seeming to care.

"Well, where's our money?"

"Right here," Stan said, picking up a briefcase. "We're you followed?"

"No," Kew said. "There was no one behind us.

SPLIT: Kew getting the briefcase, Jack watching via a scope, Amber adjusting satellites, Stan stepping back.

Kew opens the briefcase to find it is totally empty. As he is about to ask what is going on, he is shot by a sniper, and Logan is shot next. Stan runs into the building as the sniper lowers his rifle.

"Jack's moving in!"

"Jack, what's going on?"

"Shots fired... I repeat shots fired. Send in the delta teams!"

02:00:00