The Following Takes Place Between

11:00am and 12:00pm on the day of

United States Presidential Elections

Imperial Valley, California

Underground Presidential Bunker

11:00pm

The First Lady, Victor and the rest of President Garrison's cabinet were looking on as the president began to answer the tough questions at the press-conference. As the world watched the president's final press-conference, Victor was called into the situation-room by one of his assistants. His assistant gave Victor a briefing-packet of the election as well as the U.S. soldiers who were stationed in Russia and were coming home.

Victor looked to be disgusted by what he was reading, at least when it came to the election portion of the packet.

Victor then asked, "How long ago were these poll numbers recorded?" His assistant responded, "About an hour ago sir."

Victor was beside himself, he then closed the doors to the situation-room and said, "These numbers are NOT acceptable, you hear me?" Victor then threw the briefing-packet on the table.

He then said, "All the work, all the hard work we put...hell, that I put into getting Paul elected and for what?" Victor's assistant said, "Sir, I think you need to calm down." Victor said, "No, I'm not calming down, Paul is out there in front of the country and is giving Americans every reason in the book not re-elect him. He's going back on everything he's worked for in his first term, including the Russian Compact Act."

11:06am Victory continued, "If Paul doesn't end the Russian Act, you can bet your ass Governor Richardson will if he becomes president. These poll numbers are not good."

Victor's assistant then said, "Well sir just give it time, it's still the morning and things can change. The president will be meeting with the U.S. Troops who were stationed in Russia. They'll be arriving in a couple of hours and once America sees that, the president's numbers will go up."

Victor didn't believe that, he felt that something had to be done, a more affirmative action. Victor then said, "Look, if we're going to have any hope of winning this election, we need to make some changes."

"Changes sir?

Victor then said, "Let the president know I stepped out for a moment. I'm going to make some calls."

Los Angeles, California

A Disclosed Location

11:09am

"Jack, I just wanted to say in case we die...I'm sorry again about Kim. I know how much she meant to you." Chloe said as she was sitting up from the confines of the handcuffs she had on her wrist. She was still a little groggy from the chloroform but she was able to see that her and Jack were locked somewhere, in some facility.

Jack responded, "Chloe, we're going to get through this alright."

"But their probably going to kill us right? Why else would they want us."

Then Jack said, "They're not going to kill us, they want something otherwise we'd be dead already. Just stay calm. What were you doing at the apartment anyway?"

"I already told you earlier at the funeral, I had to give you something. It was..." J

Just then, one of the CIA agents walked in and grabbed Jack.

11:13am As the agent walked Jack down the dark hallway, Jack started to get a sense of where he and Chloe were. It looked to be an old abandoned elementary school, or maybe a high school.

Jack kept saying, "You can take me alright, just leave Chloe out of this."

The agent took Jack into a room that had dozens of computer monitors and security cameras. Jack asked, "What do you want with me?" The agent sat Jack in a chair, at that same moment the Attorney General and Agent Reese walked in the room.

Agent Reese said, "We're not going to kill you Mr. Bauer." Jack said, "Alright fine, then stop screwing around and tell me what the hell is going on. What do you want with me?"

Agent Reese responded, "First let me introduce myself, I'm CIA Agent Reese and I believe you know the Attorney General. I also wanted to say sorry about the way we brought you hear but let's be honest, you've wouldn't of came any other way...

….I'll get straight to the point. We have reason to believe that there will be a terrorist attack sometime today and it'll happen on U.S. soil. We received this information through various websites months ago but we didn't take it seriously until a man by the name of Adrik Ivanov stole a private Russian ship and came to America."

Agent Reese showed his picture on the monitor and Jack recognized him instantly. Jack traveled the world and spent a great deal in Russia so he knew that Ivanov was a terrorist in his own country.

Agent Reese continued, "As you're probably already aware of, Ivanov has been a terrorist in Russia for a couple of years, he used to be in the Russian military but opted out of his contract when President Garrison developed the Russian Compact Act."

11:19am Jack said, "What evidence you do have that supports that Ivanov is the one behind this threat?" The Attorney General said, "On the private ship he stole, he smuggled dozens of defense weapons that were already on the ship. The ship was destroyed by allies of Ivanov, a week ago."

Jack was getting frustrated, "Well what the hell do you need me for? If he's on American soil just find him and question him."

Agent Reese responded, "We already have him Jack, he's here. We've been questioning him for days, we've tried electric shock and water-boarding but none of it has worked. To get the answers we need from him, we need a more forceful approach...and that's where you come in."

Jack looked puzzled cause he knew exactly what they were asking of him. He then asked a rhetorical question, "You want me to torture this man? Look Agent Reese I don't know what the Attorney General has told you about me but I'm decommissioned, I don't work the government anymore. I haven't for years."

The Attorney General said, "Mr. Bauer, we know your history but we need you to do this now. For the good of the country."

"For the good of the country? Damn you people, how dare you. Why don't you people get it? My daughter died, I was just at her funeral and I hadn't seen her in years. But see that's the thanks I get from working with you people. That's what I get for being in the military, working for CTU, working for the FBI and working the Presidents. What do I get? Heart-ache...

Trust me, I don't regret anything I've done in my life but if I did, its that I regret this world even needs people like me. When is it ever enough? I'm tired of this."

The Attorney General said, "A nice speech Mr. Bauer but that doesn't change the fact that we need to get answers from this man and we need to do it now."

11:25am Jack got up from the chair, walked up to the Attorney General and kneed him in the groin. Agent Reese quickly said, "Jack I'm sorry about your daughter, really I am and I know these are extreme circumstances but we wouldn't be asking this if we didn't know that it could help. Please Jack. Once this threat is averted I give you my word that we'll let you go back to where ever you were or were going. We need you Jack, you're the only one who can do this. None of us are trained in that area."

Jack started to get tears in his eyes, he just wanted to go but he knew that if an attack did happen then he might feel responsible knowing that he could of done something.

Jack took a deep breath and said, "Alright fine, I'll work with you. But you should let Chloe go." Agent Reese said, "I'm sorry Jack but you know how this works, we need to keep her here. We technically don't exist Jack, not even the president knows about this operation. But as I said before, you have my word, when all this is over we'll let you and Ms. O'Brian go."

Jack walked up to Agent Reese and starred into his eyes and said, "That's all I need is your word because if any of you give me reason to doubt this entire thing...I will kill you. That's not I threat, its a promise. Now, where's Ivanov?"

Agent Reese responded, "Down the hall."

Jack said, "Show me."

Glendale, California

11:29am

As Stephen was at home going through some of Kim's things, he felt a sense of lose in the house. His wife was dead and she was never coming back home; he looked at pictures of him and Kim when they first got married and when Kim was in the hospital after she had Teri. Stephen just couldn't shake the fact and neither could his daughter.

He heard her crying in the bathroom. He walked in and said, "Hey honey, you alright?" Teri responded, "I don't know daddy, I miss mom a lot, I really missed her earlier."

Stephen wiped the tears from his daughter's eyes and said, "I know honey, I miss her too but we can't stop living, your mother would want us to move on with our life. Do you remember what she said to you before she left six months ago?"

Kim had left for an internship program in Europe. Stephen wanted Teri to stay in school so he decided to stay.

Teri said, "She told me to always think about her when I'm sad."

"Exactly honey, you can still do that now. That's what I do but I can hear your stomach growling though. You need to eat some breakfast, you didn't eat earlier."

11:34am Suddenly, the phone rang.

It was Dr. Shaw from the Glendale Morgue. He said, "Mr. Wesley, I'm calling in regards to your request you made the day after your wife's death. You wanted to know more information about how she died?"

Stephen went into the bed-room, closed the door and said, "Yes, everything has still been a little cloudy about how she died. I know it was a car accident and that she died in London but..." Just then Dr. Shaw interrupted, "Mr. Wesley, excuse the interruption but your wife died in Moscow, not London."

Stephen didn't understand, he said, "Wait a minute, the death-certificate that was sent to me clearly stated that my wife died in London and not Moscow. I'm looking right at the paper."

Dr. Shaw responded, "Well sir, this is what was sent to me the day of Ms. Bauer's death I've checked three times already. I can call..."

Stephen then interrupted and said, "Doctor, what else does that death-certificate say?" As Dr. Shaw started reading, Stephen's heart sank cause everything that was sent to him was falsified. The place, the day, the date and the time were all wrong. It was as if Kim had two different death-certificates. Stephen was a medical doctor as well so he knew that something was very wrong.

Stephen quickly got off the phone with the doctor and called Alex Turner, the man who recruited Kim for the internship. He then told Turner that he was heading over to his house to look at some of Kim's files that Tuner still had. Stephen had to get to the bottom of this.

He then said to Teri, "Honey get your things together, you're going to stay with Aunt Carol for a few hours."

Los Angeles, California

A Disclosed Location

11:39am

Jack had took off his black suit that he had wore for the funeral and put on a T-shirt along with some jeans. Jack walked into the interrogation room and Agent Reese closed the door behind him. Jack knew that there was only one objective and that was to get this information out Ivanov fast.

Jack pulled the black cloth off Ivanov's face and Ivanov instantly recognized who Jack was.

He said, "Well look at this, the famous Jack Bauer, I've heard a hell of a lot about you and seen you on the television once or twice. How much are they paying you Jack?"

Jack starred a hole into the man he was getting ready to torture. Ivanov, who was sweaty, with blood constantly coming out of his nose said, "I heard about what you did all those years ago. You killed people in my government, lord knows it needed to be done but in saying that..."

Ivanov continued after he spit some blood out, "I've realized, it was you along with your misguided president that changed my country forever but today you and your country will be the ones who will suffer."

Jack smirked slightly and said, "You know, I've heard all this crap before from men like you. I'll admit, the fact that you've lasted this long is pretty good but that's all about to change. Let me be honest with you, I know you want to be here cause you're trying to prove something but I don't have time for that. You see, I don't want to be here, I would rather be laying in bed crying my eyes out but I can't."

Jack then said, " So I'm only going to ask you this once. What is the attack and when and where is it going to take place?"

Ivanov gave a smirk of his own and said, "Come on Jack, you're going to have to try a little harder than that. You're a little bitch compared to those other agents."

11:48am Jack's blood began to boil and his heart started racing. He said, "You sure you want to go down this path Ivanov?"

Ivanov supply replied, "Let's see what you can do?"

Jack cut the piece of rope that tied Ivanov's hands together. The Attorney General, Agent Reese and the rest of the CIA agents that were watching, wasn't sure exactly what Jack was going to do.

Jack grabbed Ivanov's left hand and whispered in his ear, "Remember, you wanted this."

Jack then broke Ivanov's pointer finger in half. Suddenly everything became surreal, as if Jack and Ivanov were the only two in the building. Everyone outside the room knew it was going to be brutal but that feeling got a lot worse once Jack started.

Jack yelled, "What's going to happen today?" Ivanov could only scream in pain as Jack broke another finger.

Glendale, California

11:53am

Stephen didn't know exactly what he was looking for but with Turner's help he figured that he could make some sense out of the mystery that was now Kim's death.

"This is the last box of files that I could find." Turner had said to Stephen as they were both looking through files of the internship that Kim and Turner went on. Turner then said, "You know Stephen, maybe the morgue did make a mistake in the death-certificate."

Stephen said, "But that doesn't make any sense, you told me, over the phone, that the internship was in Moscow, right? If that's true then why would they send something that says totally different. I'm a doctor Turner, I've written and signed off on death-certificates several times, I know how this works."

Stephen was getting frustrated and said, "I don't think there's anything here, I'm going to have to go to the morgue to see Dr. Shaw."

Turner responded, "Are you sure, I mean you should be with your daughter right now." Stephen said, "No, I'm sorry Turner but I need to figure this out for my wife's and daughter's sake. I need you to come with me so I can confirm certain dates with the doctor."

11:57am Turner then said, "I'm sorry Stephen I can't do that, you need sit down." Just then Turner pulled out a gun and pointed it towards Stephen's stomach. Stephen sat down and didn't really know what to make of the situation. He then quickly put the pieces together, there was a lot more behind Kim's death and whatever that was, Turner was going to make sure that Stephen did not know about it.

Turner tossed a pair of handcuffs and instructed Stephen to put them on. Turner then said, "I'd hurry up and put those on, you don't want to make your daughter an orphan."

12:00pm