24 s01e20 Episode Script

Right now terrorists are plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate.
My wife and daughter have been targeted and people that I work with may be involved in both.
I'm Federal Agent Jack Bauer and today is the longest day of my life.
You know, Jack, I take back what I said.
It's getting dull.
- That helicopter made a fly-by for a reason.
- Maybe, maybe not.
Come here, help me with this.
There's nothing here.
We're wasting our time.
Alexis tried to pay off a power company official to cut off the electricity at this location at 7:20 for a reason.
They want something here, have gone to extremes to shut it down.
Mason.
Excellent news.
Half an hour.
Don't let anyone in or out until we get there.
Alexis Drazen's out of surgery.
We should be there when he wakes up.
You go ahead.
Jack, we were fed misinformation.
The address in the file.
The time Morgan gave you.
The whole thing.
Look around.
There's nothing here.
Nothing.
- Maybe.
- But you're going to stick around anyway? It's 7:03, George.
I want to be here at 7:20.
You can send a car back for me, okay? I promise, I won't disappear on you.
I don't have time to argue with you.
Oh, my God.
You sit right here.
Stay right there.
- Who the hell was that guy? - I don't know.
- Who the hell was that guy? - I don't know.
Teri, it's okay.
I'm rIght here.
Listen to me.
Take a breath.
I can't.
I saw the car explode.
- Teri.
- There was nothing left! Kim is alive.
She got out before the explosion.
I talked to her.
All right? She was fine.
She was worried about you.
Now I need your help.
I need to get you back to CTU.
Come on.
- Oh, my God.
- I need your help, Teri.
Come on.
What did she say when you talked to her? Where is she? - We don't know.
She wouldn't say.
- What? After the safe house, she didn't trust us.
I don't blame her.
- Get in here.
- We have to find her-- Believe me, we're looking.
Get in the car! Where's Jack? Does he know what's happening? He's out on assignment.
I should hear from him soon, though.
- Myers.
- It's me.
I found Teri at the Bauer house.
Someone was trying to kill her, I took him down.
Send a team over there in case he's got backup.
Of course.
is she all right? She will be.
She's suffering from temporary memory loss.
She's got a friend with her, too.
A pretty good one, by the way he's acting.
Wait a minute.
Are you sure? Who is this guy? His name is Phil Parslow.
She vouches for him.
She's known him for a long time.
He was hit, but not too badly.
- Okay.
Where are you? - Twenty, thirty minutes away.
Take him to the clinic.
I'll send someone to question him.
- I think you should bring Teri here.
- Okay.
Don't I get a phone call? Let's go, lock them down.
Come on.
- I need to talk to someone.
- Don't we all? Don't listen to the bitch.
She lies.
You'll get a chance for that after we put you through.
Come on with me.
You're mine.
They're going to ask you about Frank and the deal.
- I don't know anything about it.
- Tell them that.
You were just at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
I should tell them about everything else, too.
I mean, what happened today.
After the safe house, I'm not sure if I can trust anybody.
- You trust me, right? - Yeah, and look where it got me.
I trust you, I know you're trying to do the right thing.
Okay, then listen to me.
Tell them everything.
What happened at the safe house has nothing to do with this.
Whatever you tell them, I'll back it up.
Including my part in it.
- You're going to get in trouble.
- Then I'll get in trouble.
It's about time I faced up to what I did.
All right.
You're up.
How are you feeling? I'm fine, Daddy.
Relieved, actually.
I think that maybe living with a secret is harder work than I thought.
I'd be lying to you if I told you the hard work was over.
You're going to be asked some questions we all are, that we'd rather not deal with.
But if we stick together we'll get through it.
Could you give your mother and me a few minutes? I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt your celebration.
You could have joined it.
I'm not in the mood to celebrate the end of your campaign, David.
You just gave your concession speech.
That remains to be seen.
Do you really think people want a president who acts like some guest on a bad afternoon talk show confessing his sins publicly? It's always possible that they want someone honest.
Mike seems to think I still have a shot.
It's Mike's job to tell you what you want to hear.
Mine is to tell you the truth.
You're not qualified to tell me the truth.
It took 13 minutes for you to tear apart everything that it took us Why don't you just let me mourn that loss, okay? Fair enough.
I only hope your conscience comforts you when you finally realize this is all over.
You mean the campaign or us? Confirm, Alpha 1.
This is Alpha 1.
Bauer's gone below.
Positive it was Bauer? Yes.
What's he doing here? He wasn't invited, that's for sure.
My name is Jack Bauer.
I work for CTU.
I know who you are, Agent Bauer.
I checked you out.
My name is DeSalvo.
D.
O.
D.
Whatever this place is, it's obvious that no one's supposed to know it's here.
You seem to have found it okay.
This is a prison facility.
Class 3 detention center.
What the hell are you doing here? At 8:00 a.
m.
this morning there was an assassination attempt on Senator Palmer.
I'm the lead investigator.
I was following the thread.
It led me here.
I need more than that.
The people that want Palmer dead bribed someone from the power company to shut down the electricity to the grid that you're hooked into.
They were ordered to do this at 7:20.
Something's going to happen here then, isn't it? Mr.
DeSalvo, you better listen to me.
The people behind this assassination attempt are ex-military Serbs.
Working for a family called Drazen.
It's a vendetta.
They've killed a lot of people and will kill more unless we do something.
Please, sir, I'll ask one more time.
What is happening here at 7:20? A prisoner's being delivered by chopper.
Who? His identity is classified, even from me.
They move him every few weeks randomly.
What do these Drazens want with him, anyway? It's hard to tell unless I know who the prisoner is.
They might want to kill him.
They might want to set him free.
Either way, you've got about five minutes.
- Call for backup.
- Backup can't get here in five minutes.
Call anyway.
If I'm wrong, you've gone through a little trouble.
I'll take the heat for that.
If I'm right, you've saved every life in this building.
Please.
Have Wycoff call me ASAP.
Thank you.
What's your personnel here? Three guards plus a maintenance man, two technicians.
- Are they weapons-trained? - They've never fired a weapon in their lives.
The Drazens don't know that.
Issue them full service gear.
Have them stand by.
To do what exactly? To make this place look more secure than it is.
At least until backup arrives.
It's almost time.
Three minutes.
- You still haven't heard from your brother? - No.
He was to verify his meeting with the power company man.
If there was a problem, he would have called.
You seem anxious, Harris.
I thought professionals didn't get anxious.
Professionals get very anxious when a plan goes off the tracks.
- There's nothing wrong with the plan.
- Then what's Bauer doing here? Just get your men ready.
It's time.
Come here.
No.
Like this.
All right, let's get moving.
Keep the stock in tight, keep your weapon down.
- You're going to be all right.
- Okay.
- Any word on the backup? - They're looking into it.
Weapon.
We good? Yes, sir.
- Let's go.
- All right.
Put your men in front of the lights so they can be seen.
Form a line right in front of the lights.
Look like you're ready for something.
You said there'd be a warden and three guards.
I count eight, including Bauer.
- They're expecting us, Andre.
- Doesn't matter.
The power's going down in 25 seconds.
The sudden darkness will disorient them.
- What if there is no darkness? - There will be.
Go! Eight more seconds.
Five, four three, two, one.
Perimeter lights are still on.
Damn it! - All right.
We're still going.
- No.
Security's twice what we anticipated.
The lights are on.
We'll be cut to pieces.
- Get ready to move.
- We have to stand down.
- My money, my decision.
- My crew.
They'll obey my orders.
All right.
Plans have changed.
Stand down.
Sit down.
My father's Jack Bauer.
Sit.
He's the director of the Los Angeles Bureau of CTU.
Counter Terrorist Unit.
Have you heard of it? I can't say that I have.
Do you want the number? What I want is information on Frank Allard and his plans to buy and distribute I don't know him.
I met him for the first time a couple hours ago.
Do you know that someone tried to kill David Palmer this morning? Yes.
Aren't you curious how I know about it? I don't know.
Maybe because it's been on the news the last 12 hours.
I didn't realize that.
I was kidnapped by the same people who are trying to kill Senator Palmer.
I know this sounds crazy.
They kidnapped my mother, tried to get my father to help them but he rescued us.
And then he dropped you off at Frankie's so you could what, earn spending money dealing drugs? No.
They brought us to a safe house, but it was attacked.
And I think they captured my mother again.
Okay.
She told me you had an active imagination.
- She wasn't kidding.
- Who? Your friend, the one we picked you up with.
Melanie? No.
She's not my friend.
She thinks I'm after her boyfriend.
You can't believe anything she says about me.
I'm going to stick you back in the holding cell.
Maybe that will convince you not to screw around.
Call this number.
Tell them I am Jack Bauer's daughter and that I'm here.
Ask them if they think I'm screwing around.
Come on.
DeSalvo, wait.
Just because they haven't attacked doesn't mean they won't.
Maybe this is a crock and there's nobody there.
Drazen's crew is out there.
They didn't shut down the power.
They're working on a contingency plan.
Trust me, I know these people.
I've requested backup.
Not much else I can do.
There is.
Let me talk to that prisoner.
Forget it.
I can't give access.
My orders are explicit.
I can't even speak to him myself.
Do you understand everything happening here is connected to the assassination attempt on Palmer? If you don't let me interrogate him, Palmer's life is in danger.
Do you want that responsibility? You are welcome to go over my head if you want, but I can't help you.
Now, I got to process this guy.
Wait.
- You said you worked for the D.
O.
D.
, right? - And? Can I borrow your phone? Yes, I want to clear every interview that Nicole gives.
Yes, personally.
Whenever possible, I want to be there.
Let me know.
Is it as bad as Sherry said it would be? predIcted a sharp drop in Senator Palmer's numbers It's not turning out that way.
Our instant polls indicate that the Senator's base of support Is holding steady in most areas of the country and in some cases, It's actually increasing.
When asked if the Senator's disclosures made them more lIkely to vote for him in the general election less likely, or made no difference at all, 22 percent said "More LIkely " while only 18 percent said "Less LIkely.
" Looks like you were right.
over the coming months seems to indicate that voters approved of Senator Palmer's honesty before a national television audience of Senator Palmer's honesty before a national television audience a little more than a half hour ago.
Senator.
It's a Jack Bauer.
He says it's urgent.
Thank you.
Jack, it's me.
- Did you get anything from Alexis? - No.
He's out of surgery now but I followed a lead we got from his hotel room.
- I'm going to need your help.
- Go on.
I'm at a Class 3 detention facility.
It's a prison that doesn't exist.
Neither does the prisoner they brought in.
- Who's the prisoner? - That's where I'll need your help.
The Department of Defense runs this place.
You want me to pull strings-- I need access to the prisoner as soon as you can make it happen.
The facility's located in Saugus at the address you gave me.
The warden's name is DeSalvo.
He's reasonable, but his hands are tied.
- I'll do what I can.
- Thank you, sir.
Come on, you son of a bitch, turn around.
Damn it, that prisoner's identity is classified! I told you I need to know who that prisoner is.
No.
It's impossible.
You recognize him? That's Victor Drazen.
Who is he? A man I killed two years ago.
All right, listen.
You're asking me to risk my job, maybe go to jail.
I need some quid pro quo.
What's your connection to this guy? What I'm about to tell you is secured information.
Two years ago, a congressional subcommittee decided that Victor Drazen was the key threat to the peace in Bosnia.
They authorized a mission to take him out.
I led that mission.
When we got there, things went wrong.
Today, I found out that his wife and daughter were killed in the attack.
I thought we'd killed Victor, but apparently, I was wrong.
Now his sons want to break him out.
More than that, they want to exact a revenge on me.
Earlier today, his people kidnapped my wife and daughter.
We got them back.
They're safe for now.
But if Victor Drazen escapes from here I lose any leverage I've got of keeping his people away from my family.
- I'll make another call.
- We don't have time for calls.
We need to take this prisoner and move him ourselves now.
I said I'll make a call.
- We still need to cut the power.
- But your brother hasn't contacted us yet.
He would have called by now if he were alive.
We should assume Alexis is dead.
There may be another way, though.
The substation for this sector is a half mile from here.
A few ounces of C-5 should be sufficient.
To save tIme, we'll go in through the front.
The idea is not to attract attention.
The idea is to get my father out of prison.
This is the best chance we'll ever have.
These don't match.
Hold on.
- Where's Jack? I thought he was with you.
- He opted to stay in the field.
- In Saugus? - The address he got from the Drazen file.
What's he doing? Why didn't he come back with you? I don't know.
He's a stubborn guy.
He insisted on staying.
Meanwhile, Alexis Drazen came to at the hospital so I headed over there to interrogate him.
He hasn't talked yet, but I cut off his morphine.
He should be chatty in about an hour.
You didn't tell Jack about his family? - What are you doing, George? - What are you doing? Last time I checked, it wasn't a part of my job to have to explain myself to my subordinates.
Unless they've called off the hit on Palmer's life you should be working on securing his day's agenda, right? Looks like he's going to be our next president.
Thank you.
Senator David Palmer has already carried New York and with the polls closing shortly here in California.
Everyone's outside celebrating the latest poll.
Come on out, sweetheart.
What is it? What's wrong now? Before, when you said it was over and I asked you what you meant, the campaign or me? What I said came out of wanting to protect my family wanting to protect you.
You can't hold that against me.
You can't hold that against me.
Sherry.
You're an amazing woman.
Smart, determined, sure of yourself.
You always know what you want.
But you don't want me, not really.
I don't think you've wanted me for a very long time.
- That's nonsense.
- Is it? Maybe if everything with Nicole and Keith never happened but it did happen.
And you kept the truth from me for all these years.
I don't think you could have done that without pulling away.
And now.
Now I can't help thinking that I don't trust you anymore.
And if I can't trust you how could I love you? Well, David you may not love me, but you will never leave me.
You take all the time you need to get yourself together and then you come out and you greet all the people who have given up every day and every night of their lives for the last year to put us in office.
- Us? - Yes.
That's right.
Us.
Because come January, when you're being sworn in make no mistake about it this woman here will be standing right next to you.
Open up, two.
Move away from the door.
Now.
Hey, Martinez, settle down over there.
One thing I don't get.
If Drazen was the target, what's he doing here? Someone thought he was more valuable alive than dead.
By "someone," you mean one of our people? He's probably been feeding them intelligence.
Why put you and your men through the charade of trying to kill him? Because they wanted the rest of the world to think he was dead.
My mission was set up to fail from the start.
I lost every man I went in there with.
DeSalvo.
Yeah, he's right here.
I understand.
We got permission to move Drazen? No.
That request is still working its way up the chain of command.
But D.
O.
D.
says you can interrogate him.
- Good.
- Bauer? Five minutes.
Fine.
My name is Jack Bauer.
You'll have to pardon my surprise.
I saw you die.
I watched you enter a building.
Nobody could have survived that explosion.
Our intelligence told us the building was empty when you entered.
Your fight is with me.
Not my wife not my daughter, but with me.
Please, leave my family alone.
Mr.
Drazen you have already lost your wife and your daughter.
You don't need to lose your sons, too.
My sons are soldiers.
Then they will die for nothing.
We know about the rescue plan.
It was scheduled for 7:20.
We stopped it.
We've called in for backup.
If they try again, sir, they will die.
Then you have nothing to worry about.
Call it off, Victor.
How can I? The same way you've been communicating with them this entire time! Call it off or your sons will die! Call it off or your sons will die! All right.
We'll move him.
Is there another way out of here, not on the schematic? - A fire or flood egress? - Yes.
Good.
- I'll get my men ready.
- Arm them like we did before.
Get up.
We're evacuating the prisoner.
Grab your weapons, have personnel convene in Quarter C.
Yes, sir.
Stop.
- Move out.
- Let's go.
Get against the wall.
The power's down in the west quadrant.
Copy that.
They are here.