Bill put the phone back down on the receiver and looked at Cheng Zhi,
"Jack Bauer has escaped CTU."
Cheng let out a sarcastic laugh and looked at Bill,
"CTU is pitiful, you can't even contain one man."
Curtis interrupted,
"CTU is pitiful? Four of your officers couldn't arrest him."
Cheng's smile quickly turned into an angry frown,
"I don't have time for this, I want a station set up for me now. I need to alert the consulate and warn them about Bauer so they can warn authorities. I expect CTU to do the same."
Cheng walked out of the conference room and was met by the four officers that he came with. Bill looked at Curtis,
"What do you and Jack know?"
Curtis looked around the room,
"Look it's not that I don't trust you guys, but think about it. Someone knew how to interfere with out satellites and delete video's from our archive. It could be somebody on the inside, it's better that I not say anything until Jack or CTU finds something. If Cheng finds out what we know then it could be bad."
Bill sighed and Audrey looked at Curtis then Bill,
"He is right, we need to be on high alert."
Bill nodded,
"I agree, It just makes things harder being out of the loop."
Karen looked at the room,
"I'm going to make a call with President Gardner."
Karen began to walk out of the room and Curtis grabbed her arm to stop her,
"Let me call Gardner."
Karen looked at him and Curtis let go of her,
"Why? Is he involved with what you know?"
Curtis looked back with apologetic eyes,
"Just let me take care of it."
Curtis walked out of the conference room and began to dial a number on his cell phone, as he was dialing Kim walked by him and went into the conference room. Finally an operator picked up,
"This is Curtis Manning of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, identification 837A24. I need to speak to President Gardner."
Curtis let him self into holding room one and locked the door as the operator answered,
"One moment please."
Curtis leaned up against the cold cement wall, and looked over at the food they left for Jack and realized he didn't touch a bit. Gardner's voice finally came through the receiver,
"Agent Manning you were the agent who picked up Jack Bauer correct?"
"Yes."
"Is this a secure line?"
"Yes sir."
"What can I do for you then?"
Curtis cleared his throat,
"Cheng Zhi of the Chinese consulate came to CTU about seven minuets ago with a signed paper by you allowing him to be in here and take Jack Bauer into custody."
"Yes."
"Well Jack did what you said, he escaped CTU before they could arrest him."
"Good good, do you have any leads."
Curtis hesitated for a minuet,
"No, he is going in after Logan."
President Gardner let out a heavy sigh,
"I was afraid of that, do you think it's a good idea to let Jack question him alone?"
"We don't really have any other choice sir, we can't support Jack in this at all."
"Do you think Jack will.."
Gardner didn't finish the sentence but Curtis did,
"Kill him? No. Jack wants to be free again, he won't do anything to jeopardize that, he just wants to prove his innocence."
"He is already jeopardizing it by escaping CTU and going after Logan."
Curtis sighed,
"Is there any way you can get the Chinese to back off?"
"With out directly getting them pissed.. No. If the Chinese found out I told Jack to get out of CTU they will not be happy."
Curtis sighed,
"I understand, we will have to go with the Chinese."
There was a pause,
"I should go sir, I will try to update you but it won't be often. It's going to be hard to get around the Chinese."
Before Gardner could respond there was a knock at the door, Curtis quickly hung up his cell phone and put it into his pocket. Curtis walked over to the table, grabbed a piece of chicken and put it in his mouth, he walked to the door and opened it and saw Cheng Zhi standing at the door,
"What are you doing in here?"
Curtis looked back at the table, then back at Cheng Zhi and finished chewing.
"I was finishing my lunch? Do you mind?"
Cheng looked at him and said,
"I don't want you wandering off."
Curtis walked right by him and walked back into the conference room,
"Has local law enforcement been informed?"
Chloe looked at Curtis,
"Yeah, we have teams on the ground looking for Jack too."
Cheng walked into the room,
" We have our units out on the ground too."
Curtis looked at Cheng,
"I'm going to go out and try to find him."
Cheng stopped him,
"No your not."
Chloe looked up,
"I got him on satellite, he is on Glen Morris road going towards L.A. central park."
Curtis looked at Cheng,
"Have one of your men go with me, I am going."
Cheng looked at Curtis for a second then back at one of his men,
"Tseng, your going with agent Manning."
Cheng looked at Curtis,
"I want him to drive."
"Fine"
Curtis walked out into the main lobby and started walking towards the exit, Tseng followed behind Curtis and the exited out of view.
Aaron looked at Martha and smiled as he rubbed her cheek, he then looked down at his watch and looked back up at her.
"Sweetheart I have to go, with the air plane explosion I have to be back with Gardner."
Martha let out a frown then kissed Aaron one last time as he began to get back up,
"Have you heard anything on Bauer's situation?"
"Last I heard was President Gardner was letting the Chinese take him into custody."
Martha stood up with a blanket wrapped around her body,
"This isn't right, both you and I know Bauer didn't do this."
Aaron put a light black jacket around him and said,
"I know, but Gardner wants to make sure there is no confrontation between the U.S. and the Chinese. And you have to admit it does look fishy, Jack would want revenge, or the U.S. could want revenge for the Chinese coming on American soil and kidnapping a U.S. Government agent."
Martha sighed,
"I know, I know. I just hope everything turns out ok."
Aaron smiled and rubbed Martha's shoulder,
"I have to be back with Gardner within the next two hours so I better get going. Call me when you land in Massachusetts."
Martha nodded as Aaron turned and walked out the door.
President Logan threw a folded pair of pants into his travel bag, he then grabbed a folded up shirt and threw that in there too. Logan heard something on the T.V. out in the living room that caught his attention, he quickly clicked the T.V. on in his room and began to listen.
"Jack Bauer, the man who was traded for two Chinese prisoners today has escaped the custody of Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. Police are currently tracking him on the free way heading towards Los Angeles Central Park. More information when it comes in."
Logan stared at the T.V. for a second then he quickly walked out into the living room and looked at one of the Secret Service agents Gardner had assigned him.
"You need to get me out of here now."
"Why?"
"Jack Bauer is heading towards central park, we are only five minuets away from there. He is coming for me."
"Mr. President we have no reason to believe he is coming after you, we have already been warned on the situation. If we feel it is necessary we will move you."
"Damn it, that wasn't a suggestion it was an order!"
The agent looked at him with a cold glare,
"I don't take orders from you any more."
Logan tried to rush past the agent but he quickly grabbed him and forced him to the ground. The other agent came over, they both picked him up and threw him back into his room.
Curtis looked over at the Chinese officer driving the car and said,
"Take the next left, you can get to Central park faster."
"I'll keep going the way I'm going now."
Curtis looked at him,
"Do you want to cut him off or not"
The Chinese officer looked back,
"Who is driving?"
Curtis quickly drew his gun and pointed it to the officers head,
"In about two seconds I will be driving. Take this left now!'
The officer swerved the car and it sharply turned left. They drove down the road for about a minute and it turned into a woodsy area. Curtis shoved the gun harder into his head,
"Pull the car over now."
"You won't get away"
Curtis clicked the hammer back,
"Now."
The officer pulled the car to the side and finally came to a slow stop. Curtis quickly drew the gun away from his head, took his other hand and slammed the officers head into the steering wheel. Curtis quickly flung the door open and ran around to the other side of the car. He took the officer out, took his gun and cell phone then popped the trunk open. Curtis dragged his body to the trunk and dumped it inside. He closed the trunk, got back into the car and turned around to get back onto the main road. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number.
Jack looked into his rearview mirror as he could see the faint flashing of police lights. He heard the cell phone Curtis gave him ring and he grabbed it off the passenger seat,
"Curtis?"
"Yeah, Jack listen. They are tracking you on satellite, the Chinese are forcing our hands in this"
"I know, is there anything you can do?"
"There may be, just keep your line open. When I call back and tell you I want you to get off the free way, do it."
"What are you going to do?"
"Do you remember Milo Pressman?"
Jack thought for a minute,
"Yeah he was a computer analyst when I ran C.T.U."
"Well he has been doing some small work for us, I think he may be able to shut down CTU'S communication systems. Including their satellite feeds."
"Ok, all I need is about five minuets. I am meeting a friend Chase Edmunds, he is going to help me."
"I'll see what I can do."
Curtis hung up the phone, opened it back up and dialed Milo's number. It rang a few times then he finally picked up,
"Hello."
Curtis began to speak,
"Milo, its Curtis Manning from CTU. I need you to do something."
"Do you need me in"
"No, I need you to block CTU'S communication systems. Including their satellite coverage."
Milo responded in a harsh tone,
"Let me get this straight, you want me to hack into a federal government agency? Why do you need these things blocked"
"I don't have time to explain, it's for Jack Bauer that's all I can tell you."
There was a pause,
"I can have it done in two minutes."
"Hurry."
Chloe looked up at Audrey, then she quickly glanced at everyone else in the room.
"L.A.P.D. is closing in on Jack now."
Cheng looked at her,
"Tell them to hold Jack until one of our teams can get there."
Karen rose up from her chair and firmly placed her hands on the table in the middle of the room,
"Why can't our team just bring him back here?"
Cheng sort of laughed and looked at her in a cocky manner,
"You expect me to let Mr. Bauer come back here while he already escaped once? I'm not stupid Miss Hayes, he will be taken by our men back to the consulate. If you don't like it call your President."
Karen sat down and rubbed her face hard, she was close to ignoring the Presidents orders and having security take them out. She then looked up at Audrey,
"Audrey, would you go and tell Kim what's going on?"
Audrey nodded,
"Sure, no problem."
Audrey walked out and Karen looked at Cheng,
"I promise you, once you get Jack this won't be easy for you. CTU will be doing what ever we can to prove Jack had nothing to do with this."
"Is that a threat?"
Karen got up and walked past him,
"It's a promise."
Curtis was driving down the road when his cell phone rang. Curtis picked it up and said,
"Yeah."
"It's Milo, if I want to do this it will take me a half hour, there is no way it's getting done."
"Shit"
There was a pause as the Chinese officers phone started to ring,
"I got to go, thanks for trying."
Curtis came to a quick stop and pulled over to the side of the road. He crawled into the back and put the back seat down leading to the trunk. Curtis smacked the officers face and he quickly snapped his eyes open,
"You got a call, answer it. If you say anything wrong I will shoot you."
Curtis tossed him the phone, the officer shook his head and flipped the phone open.
"Yeah?"
"It's Cheng, what took you so long to answer?"
The officer quickly responded,
"We stopped and got gas, I went inside to pay and didn't want to take the call in front of people."
"Well anyway, L.A.P.D. is closing in on Bauer. I want you and Agent Manning to go pick him up from the officers. You will leave Manning there and a officer will bring him back to CTU. You will bring Bauer back to the consulate."
"I understand."
"I will call when they have Bauer."
The officer hung up the phone and handed it to Curtis. Curtis looked at him,
"What did he say?"
The officer told him and Curtis thought for a second,
"This presents an opportunity."
Curtis closed the seat real quick and dialed Jack's number.
Jack quickly flipped his phone open,
"Are we clear?"
"No, it would of taken Milo too long. We have another opportunity though."
"What?"
"Let your self be arrested, the Chinese officer I'm with has orders to pick you up. I will be in the car with him."
"Ok, I'll call Chase and tell him to wait till he hears from me."
"There is no time Jack, give me his number I will call him."
"1874, 555,4565"
"Find a way to make your car stall or something."
Curtis hung up the phone and started dialing Chases' number.
Jack quickly put his seat belt on and embraced himself for what he was about to do. He slammed on the breaks and the car behind him slammed into him sending Jack forward. Jack slammed into the car in front of him and his car spun out on control and slammed into a guard rail. Horns started blaring and Jack slowly drew his head up and looked at the accident he had just caused. He unbuckled his seat belt, flung the door open and fell out of the car. He looked around him as the driver who hit him started walking towards him,
"What the hell is your problem pal?"
Jack looked at him and said nothing, the man angrily grabbed Jack by the shirt and began to scream.
"What the fuck is your problem? I just bought this car."
Jack quickly regained his strength and punched the man in the side of the throat, the man collapsed to his knees and then rose to try and tackle Jack but Jack just side stepped out of the way. The man went to throw another punch and Jack grabbed his fist, twisted it then sent his elbow up into his wrist. Shattering the mans wrist and forearm. The man fell to the ground and began to scream in pain. Jack looked behind him as he heard Police sirens. He leaned against his car and waited till the Police reached him.
Everyone in the conference room watched the satellite screen as Jack's car was suddenly involved in an accident. Chloe gasped and covered her mouth,
"Oh my god."
Cheng walked into the room,
"What happened?"
"Jack was just involved in a car accident."
Cheng looked at Chloe,
"Are the police there yet?"
Chloe gave him an evil look and didn't even answer.
Four police cars came to a screeching halt and cops rushed out of them and pointed their guns towards Jack. One of the cops began to speak into a megaphone,
"Jack Bauer, put your hands up now."
Jack looked around him, all the people who were watching. He then looked at the man who he had injured and looked back up,
"We don't want to hurt you, do it now."
Jack raised his hands into the air and one of the officers rushed in towards him, threw him into the ground and slapped cuffs on him. The officer pulled him up and began to push him towards one of the police cars.
Curtis finished his sentence,
"I will have Jack call you once we are safe."
"Ok." responded Chase.
Curtis closed his phone and as soon as that happened the Chinese officer's phone rang. He opened the back seat again and tossed him the phone and pointed his hang gun at his head,
"Remember one wrong word."
The officer flipped the phone open,
"Did they get Bauer?"
"Yes, he is about two minuets from you. Keep going up that road and you will find the police."
"Ok."
Curtis whispered,
"Tell them I escaped."
The Chinese officer looked at Curtis for a minuet,
"Agent Manning got away from me."
Cheng grew angry,
"What! What are you talking about?"
"He put the gun to my head and told me to stop the car, he thinks he is helping Bauer."
"I don't have time for this, just make sure you get Bauer."
"Yeah."
He hung up the phone and tossed it back to Curtis. Curtis looked down at him,
"You will be driving, I will be hiding back here. I will have my gun on you so don't try anything. Get in the drivers seat and go."
The officer got in the driver seat and Curtis crawled into the trunk but left the back seat open a little bit so he could hear and see the officer.
Cheng walked into back into the conference room and looked at Bill and Karen,
"CTU is going to be in a lot of trouble after this is all over. Your agent Curtis Manning just put a gun to Tseng's head and escaped. He thinks he is helping Bauer, so I suggest you try and get a hold of him."
Chloe looked up at Cheng,
"We can get a hold of him but it will have to be on a private line. He won't take a call from CTU."
Cheng looked at her,
"Do it on speaker phone."
Bill looked at Cheng,
"I will make the call, Chloe go get me a clear cell phone from the tech room."
"Ok."
Bill looked back up at Cheng,
"You know, we are going to prove Jack is innocent. All charges on us will be dropped, you and I both know he didn't do this."
Cheng got right up in his face,
"I don't know anything, and neither do you. This is why we are trying to find out who is responsible, and you are making it difficult."
Bill grew angry,
"I'm making it difficult, if you weren't here we could be getting a lot more done!"
"If I wasn't here, you would be bending all kinds of laws and going behinds every ones back to protect Mr. Bauer."
Bill looked as if he was ready to his Cheng so Karen got in between the to,
"Listen, once this is resolved we can go over the legal issues. Right now all we need to worry about is getting Jack to the consulate and finding Curtis."
Cheng looked at her and stepped back and leaned against the wall. Chloe walked back into the room and handed Bill the cell phone,
"It's clean."
"Ok."
Bill flipped it open and dialed Curtis' number.
Curtis closely watched Tseng as he drove. His cell phone started ringing and he quickly shoved his hand into his pocket and flipped it open,
"Jack?"
"No Curtis it's Bill."
"Bill why are you calling me? Do the Chinese know?"
"No, we have a code green. Going after Jack is useless, come back to CTU."
Curtis recognized the code and it meant that Cheng was listening and he shouldn't say what he was really doing.
"How did he get caught?"
"He got into a car accident, the Chinese officer you were driving with is on his way to pick him up now."
Curtis sighed,
"Damn it, I will come back now."
"Be prepared Curtis, the Chinese will probably want you arrested for threatening one of their officers."
"I understand, thanks for the heads up."
Curtis hung up his cell phone and looked Tseng,
"How far?"
"Right up here, I can see the police officers now."
He pulled the car up and parked along the officer and one came up to his window,
"Are you Tseng with the Chinese consulate?"
Tseng nodded his head,
"Yes."
The officer slipped him a piece of paper,
"Sign this."
Tseng took the paper and the pen and signed on the lines and gave it back to the officer. The officer looked back and shouted,
"Bring Bauer."
Tseng watched as one of the officers pulled Jack out of a cruiser and walked him over to Tseng's car. The officer opened the passenger side door and pushed Bauer inside. He tossed Tseng the keys to Jack's cuffs and looked at Tseng,
"Make sure the consulate let's us know what happens with him"
Tseng smiled,
"Will do."
Tseng put the car in reverse, made a three point turn and took off. About a half mile down the road Curtis climbed out of the trunk and his gun to Tseng's head,
"Pull over and un cuff him now."
Tseng pulled the car to the side of the road, reached over and un cuffed Jack. Curtis handed Jack Tseng's gun and Jack said,
"Thank you Curtis. Did you call Chase."
"Yeah he is waiting at a Cumberland Farms five minuets from here."
"Ok."
Jack looked at Tseng and said,
"Get in the back and cuff your self. Now."
Tseng and Curtis switched places and Tseng cuffed him self. Jack took his cell phone from Curtis and dialed CTU'S number and put it to Tseng's ear, and pointed his gun towards his head with his other hand.
"Tell Cheng Zhi you are on your way back now."
Tseng waited until someone picked up,
"CTU Audrey Raines."
"This is Tseng, I need to speak to Cheng."
The was silence then Cheng picked up,
"Do you have Bauer?"
"Yes, I'm on my way to the consulate now."
"Good, I will have Lei, Yenji, and Mahni meet you at the consulate. I want to stay here until they find agent Manning."
"Ok."
Tseng nodded and Jack closed the phone. Jack got back into the seat as Curtis took off. He flipped the phone back open and dialed another number,
"Yeah?"
"Chase it's Jack, Curtis got me out. Were on our way to you. Do you have a PDA?"
"Yea."
"Enter these co-ordinates, this is where we will be heading."
Jack told him the co-ordinates and Chase entered them,
"That is five minuets out from central park so about eight minuets from where I am. What is there?"
"President Logan."
3:00:00
Cheng finished talking to the Chinese officers and Bill walked over to him
"Jack Bauer is on his way to the consulate now."
"I know, I just got off the phone with Tseng."
"So, are you going back to the consulate now?"
Cheng looked into the conference room then back at Bill,
"No, I will be staying here until Mr. Manning arrives."
Bill was really irritated at this point,
"May I ask why?"
"The man pulled a gun on one of my officers and forced him to pull over, I want to know what him and Bauer had planned."
"Does it really matter? Bauer is in your custody and Curtis is on his way back. You got what you want."
"Mr. Manning isn't here yet is he? I want to be sure he is here. It would be a shame for me to get to the consulate and find out I have to come back here."
"Mr. Zhi this is"
"Enough! I am staying, end of discussion."
Bill turned and marched into the conference room,
"We are not letting him slow us down any longer!"
Everybody looked up at him and Karen walked up to him and grabbed his arm,
"What's wrong?"
"He is staying until Curtis gets back. He wants to make sure Curtis isn't pulling something, which is a load of bull shit. We should be helping Jack."
Karen looked at him then back out the window at Cheng,
"We can't do anything Bill, the President ordered us to let him cooperate."
"Until we got Bauer."
"We do have Bauer!"
"Curtis pulled a gun on one of his men, what do you expect him to do? Just let it slide? You know he is going to take action against Curtis."
Bill slammed his hand down on the conference table and looked at everyone then he looked back at Chloe,
"Pull the satellite up please."
"Why?"
"Jack isn't just going to let himself get turned in, he has to be doing something."
"He got into an accident, what else do you expect him to do?"
"Chloe, just pull it up now."
"No need to shout."
"Chloe I'm not shouting just pull it up."
Chloe started typing and the image of the accident came up on the monitor,
"Fast forward to Jack getting into Tseng's car and taking off."
Chloe clicked a few buttons and typed something and the video started going forward. They watched for a few seconds and the car pulled over,
"Stop, go back to that."
Chloe slowly rewound the tape and zoomed in. The video showed Curtis getting out of the back seat of the car and into the drivers seat. Bill looked at Karen,
"I knew it, Jack and Curtis are up to something. They're not coming back here."
Bill quickly walked out of the conference room and towards the armory. Audrey quickly followed behind him,
"Bill what are you doing?"
Bill ignored her and walked up to the armory door, entered the password. The door beeped and Bill went inside,
"Bill, what are you doing?"
Bill walked over to a cabinet, opened it and pulled out a silenced tranquilizer gun. He then turned towards Audrey,
"I'm getting Mr. Zhi out of our way."
Audrey just looked at him,
"Bill you can't. the Pres.."
Bill pushed her out of the way,
"I don't give a shit about President Gardner right now. We should be honoring Jack right now, but instead this Chinese diplomatic asshole, is here slowing down CTU and forcing Jack to run from something he shouldn't be running from"
Audrey grabbed Bill and pushed him back,
"You think I don't know this Bill! This is the man I love, but you can't pull out a damn gun and shoot a Chinese government official, you will go to jail Bill."
Bill looked at Audrey and rubbed his forehead,
"You're right."
Audrey looked down at the gun in Bill's hand,
"Give me the gun Bill."
Bill looked at Audrey then back at the gun. He saw Cheng walk by and looked back at the gun.
"Bill, give me the gun."
Bill handed Audrey the gun and she put it back in the cabinet.
"Come on."
Bill looked up, cleared his throat and walked out of the armory.
Curtis pulled the car behind the abandon building across the street from the Cumberland Farms they were going to meet Chase at. Jack got out of the car and opened the back seat and looked at Tseng,
"Someone will pick you up soon"
Jack then drew his hand back and punched Tseng in the neck sending him into a deep sleep. Curtis got out of the car and looked at Jack,
"You ready?"
Jack nodded. They both went out from behind the building and walked across the street to the store. Jack looked at Curtis,
"Do you have a couple bucks? I need something to eat and drink."
Curtis went into his wallet, pulled out a five and handed it to Jack. Jack looked around the parking lot and saw a Green Ford Explorer with Chase inside and pointed to it,
"That's Edmunds over there. Do you want anything inside?"
"Grab me a water."
Curtis began to walk over to the Explorer and Jack walked inside the store. He went to the refrigerator and grabbed a 20 oz grape Gatorade and a bottle of water for Curtis. He grabbed two honey and oats granola bars and walked up to the register. Paid for his items and walked back outside towards Chases' car. Chase was standing outside of the car, Jack put his stuff on the hood of the car, shook Chases' hand and embraced in a quick friendly hug. Chase looked at Jack and smiled,
"Jack it's good to see you."
Jack smiled,
"You too, I don't want to be rude but let's talk in the car."
Chase nodded,
"Of course."
Jack got in the passenger seat and pulled out Tseng's cell phone and began to dial a number.
"Who are you calling?" Curtis asked.
"CTU."
"Why?"
"They are going to find out sooner or later, were far enough now to where we can get Logan. Once I am done questioning him we will bring him back to CTU."
"Do you really think he can prove you're guilty."
Jack looked back at him,
"I know."
Jack put the phone to his ear,
"CTU Audrey Raines."
"Audrey, it's Jack."
Audrey looked up at everyone around the conference table,
"Jack, why are you callin…"
Cheng quickly snatched the phone out of Audrey's hand,
"Mr. Bauer? How are you using a phone?"
"Agent Manning helped me escape. Your officer is in a car behind an abandon building across the street from the Cumberland Farms on Tanner street."
"Mr. Bauer"
"Mr. Zhi shut up for a minuet. I am going to give you evidence that I didn't have that plane shot down, I am on my way to retrieve it now."
"What evidence?"
"I can't tell you right now, but believe me. I will prove it to you, just let me get it to you."
"Mr. Bauer, you expect me to let you do this. After you have assaulted four of my officers, one more than once?"
"You have no choice now do you? You can come after me but I can assure you, if it comes down to it I have the resources to allude you. It's your call."
Cheng looked around at everyone in the room,
"Mr. Bauer, I refuse to assist you at all in this charade. Turn your self in now or I will be forced to send more people after you."
"I got away from your people once, and I can do it again."
"So be it, you're forcing me to send L.A.P.D. after you once again."
"Like I said Mr. Zhi, it's your call. Not mine."
Cheng heard a click on the other line and he slammed down the phone,
"Call L.A.P.D. and tell them his location."
Karen looked up at Cheng,
"I don't take orders from you."
Cheng looked at her,
"Fine, I'll do it myself."
Cheng stormed out of the room, Karen buried her face into her hands and sighed.
Jack ripped open one of granola bars and took a bite into it and looked over as Chase began to speak,
"Jack I just want you to know, between me and Kim.."
Jack finished chewing and interrupted him,
"Chase, Kim told me everything so don't worry about it."
Chase glanced over at him quickly,
"Oh she did."
Jack nodded,
"I think she wants to talk to you."
Chase kept staring at the road,
"Is she at CTU?"
"Yeah, you can talk to her when we go there."
Curtis interrupted,
"You're still going there even though Zhi will take you into custody."
"He won't."
"How do you know?"
"I have it figured out."
Chase looked back over at Jack,
"So you want to fill me in on why we are going to President Logan."
Jack looked at him,
"Where are you working at now Chase?"
"I'm working for L.A.P.D. S.W.A.T."
Jack looked at him,
"So you're risking your job to help me?"
"Yea, my team was actually suppose to be out looking for you. But once I got your call I took off."
Jack looked at Chase,
"Chase I don't want you risking your job you don't have to do this."
Chase looked at the road then back at Jack,
"Jack you know I would do anything to help you, I just want to know what's going on."
Jack nodded,
"What do you know about Logan stepping out of office?"
"He was having family issues, why?"
"What I tell you, no one else can know."
There was a pause,
"The real reason President Logan is no longer President is because he was helping the terrorist with the Nerve gas attacks a month ago."
Chase looked surprised,
"What?"
"It's too long to get into but he thought it was suppose to eliminate some terrorist cells and take advantage of the new bill he signed with the Russians. It back fired horribly."
Chase was silent,
"David Palmer's death was a result of Logan's mistake."
Chase grew wide eyed and looked at Jack,
"So Palmers death was all part of Logan's plan.. Why?"
"He knew information about Logan's plan."
"Damn it." Chase whispered,
"I'm sorry, I know how close you too were."
Jack nodded,
"Well the reason I had to fake my own death was because a year and a half ago a CTU team and my self broke into the Chinese consulate in L.A. An important Chinese official was killed during the raid, and the Chinese found out I led the raid."
Jack took another bite of his granola bar and began talking again,
"The Chinese wanted to arrest me after they found out, and of course I had no choice. But Palmer informed me that the secret service agent coming to get me was ordered to kill me, so I couldn't give the Chinese any information. Tony and Michelle Alameda helped me escape."
Chase looked at Jack,
"Was there death's apart of his plan too?"
"Yea, he had them killed, Palmer, and they tried killing Chloe. The only people who knew about me faking my death. They tried setting me up for Palmers assignation."
Jack paused and finished his granola bard,
"But Chloe informed me she was being chased and I got to her before they could get her."
Chase sighed,
"I was informed on why you are wanted now. So you think Logan can prove you're innocent?"
"Yes."
Chase sighed again,
"If you want out of this I understand."
"No I want to help you."
Cheng paced back and forth in holding room two,
"Jack Bauer is proving to be more difficult then we thought"
Graham shifted into his chair,
"Good that is exactly what I want."
Cheng looked confused,
"What do you mean that is what you want? We had an agreement. We help you and we get Bauer back in jail."
"The deal is still on, I just have bigger things in plan for Bauer"
"What would they be"
"That, I cannot tell you Mr. Zhi."
"I think I deserve to know what's going on, we let Bauer out of jail for thi."
The phone clicked, Cheng angrily slammed his phone closed and walked back out into CTU."
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