24 s02e24 Episode Script

You may not be able to contact me.
- Why? - Chappelle became a problem.
I had to take him out of play and they're onto me.
- They'll take me out soon.
- Who do I contact if I need help? Michelle is setting up an off-site station.
- You're under arrest.
Where's Dessler? - I can find her.
Affirmative, Central.
She's in custody.
Kim? Hello? - Who are you? - I'm Kate Warner.
Your father sent me to come getyou.
Why would my dad send someone he'd just met to come get me? He trusts me.
The sooner we leave, the sooner you and your dad can be together.
The Attorney General said you'd want me for your counsel.
- What have they told you? - You've been removed from office.
The evidence was manipulated by a man named Peter Kingsley.
I need you to find out all you can about him.
- What happens now? - We got one last play.
Deliver Kingsley.
He's far too dangerous, and you'll never get close to him.
You're right.
I won't, butyou will.
Kingsley doesn't know Hewitt's been killed.
If you say you can deliver him, that should get his attention.
I want the tapes thatyou made of our conversation.
I'll give you Alex Hewitt in return.
All right.
LA Coliseum, gate 18, 30 minutes.
- What support will you get from CTU? - As of now, none.
Ow! Jack? Jack! - You OK? - Yeah.
(engine splutters) Come on.
Dammit.
The car won't start.
We gotta get out of here.
My seat belt's jammed.
Mrs Palmer, I'm gonna need your help.
Mrs Palmer, please don't do this.
I'm sorry, but I have to take care of myself.
When I'm free I'll call an ambulance.
- You can't do this! - I don't have a choice.
You're a very impressive man, butyou see everything as either good or bad, just like David.
- The world is so much more complicated.
- No, it's simple.
There's a war about to start and you're the only person who can help me stop it.
- What about the president? - He turned away from me.
After 25 years of building a life together, a family, he turned me away.
Eventually they will connectyou to this conspiracy.
That bomb was never supposed to go off.
None of this was supposed to happen this way.
I know.
I believe you.
You can put an end to it now.
If you help me get Kingsley, your husband will get his presidency back.
That will be because of you.
Mrs Palmer, please.
Goddamnit! What do you want me to do? There's a knife in the glove box.
Help cut me out.
Come on in.
(Mike) This is much better.
It's simpler.
We gotta be able to explain this thing.
- I need to talkto you, Mike.
- I'll be down in five minutes.
Mike.
It's important.
Excuse me.
What is it? It's a file on Peter Kingsley.
They pulled it up a few minutes ago.
Peter Kingsley, the man Jack Bauer thinks is behind the bomb.
There's a record of phone calls he made, as recently as six hours ago, to a soldier named Jonathan Wallace.
Wallace was a member of the Coral Snake brigade.
He apparently killed his own men.
I know who Wallace is.
The planes have passed over their final checkpoint and will reach their targets within the hour.
Our primary targets are all military, but one includes a command-and-control centre inside a residential area.
As smart as our weapons have become, there may be some collateral damage.
You mean civilian casualties.
Yes, sir.
- There's no way to avoid these? - I'm afraid not.
Then it's something we're just gonna have to live with.
(phone rings) Ryan Chappelle.
- Ryan, this is Mike Novick.
- How can I help you, sir? I knowthere's been some confusion today about the veracity of the Cyprus audio.
Not really.
Our teams came to the same conclusion as Langley.
Do you know if Bauer's still trying to find evidence that the recording was fabricated? Yes, but he's operating outside our authority.
I wantyou to assist his investigation.
- Sir, I don't even know where he is.
- Then find him.
I'm not sure why you're asking me to do this.
I was told we're at war and to proceed accordingly.
We're not at war yet.
You have 30 minutes to report backto me the findings of Bauer and your efforts.
- But sir - That's a direct order, Ryan.
You have my channel.
Call me back on this line.
That's all.
- (Kingsley) I'll be on the plane in an hour.
- Why the delay? The bomb detonating in the wrong location created a little extra work.
Nothing to worry about, I hope.
Not at all.
I won't bore you with the details.
Bore me.
I still have to take care of Alex Hewitt.
Hewitt is the only one who can bring this whole thing down.
- You told me you'd have him by now.
- I wasn't able to find him.
But I'm taking care of it.
Don't worry.
Sit down, both of you.
You don't need Michelle here.
She was acting under my orders.
- I can defend myself, Tony.
- I said sit down.
I need you to get me in contact with Jack Bauer.
Oh, I see.
Jack got some support above you and now you're being squeezed, right? Can you do it or not? What's goin' on? Bauer's evidence might actually have some relevance.
- Which means we were right.
- No.
You damn near put me in a coma.
That's assault.
I'll tell you what.
You drop the charges against us and we'll help you.
Come on, Ryan.
You of all people knowthat's your best move.
- Fine.
- In writing.
All right, in writing.
Just get me in touch with Bauer.
- Shouldn't we call for help? - I'm not working under CTU's authority.
- To them I don't exist.
- So we're out on our own.
Completely.
- Are you all right? You need some help? - He got hurt.
- Can you get us to a hospital? - Uh, yeah, yeah, sure.
- Mrs Palmer, you need to drive.
- What do you mean? - Sorry, but we need your car.
- Hey, easy, all right? Go ahead, take it.
Thank you.
They're ready, sir.
- Miss Warner.
Hi.
Carrie Turner.
- Hi.
Kate.
- You must be Jack's daughter Kim.
- Where's my dad? He's still in the field.
Wait here.
I'll tell Ryan Chappelle you're here.
- I'll handle this.
- I thoughtyou were in custody.
I was released.
Kim, I heard what happened to you.
Are you all right? Yeah, I guess so.
Look, I just wanna see my dad and make sure he's OK.
No, he's not here right now.
He won't be back for a couple of hours.
- Does he know I'm here? - No.
We'll tell him when he phones in.
- Jack insisted we call as soon as we get here.
- He's just not reachable now.
I'll have Carrie take you back and getyou situated.
I'll be there in a minute.
Hey.
It's gonna be OK.
OK.
Miss Warner? I don't know if you're aware of this but your father came back here after we released him.
Why? He wanted to talkto your sister before she was taken away.
- They brought Marie back here? - Yeah.
You lied to me? You killed Reza? You tried to kill your own sister? You were willing to set off a nuclear bomb in a city with ten million people? You tell me why.
Because I need to understand.
Tell me that they forced you to do it, that they brainwashed you, that they threatened you.
You can tell me thatyou didn't know whatyou were doin'.
There must be a reason.
(Kate) There is no reason, Dad.
I can't accept that.
I couldn't either.
Until I looked into her eyes and she pointed a gun at me and started to pull the trigger.
Trust me, Dad.
She's not gonna give you any answers.
She can't.
At least, nothing that we could ever understand.
Dad Come on.
Let's go.
Kate.
You think you'll be safe out there.
You won't be.
(phone rings) - Jack, it's Tony.
- Tony, you back in play? Yeah.
Jack, Kim's here at CTU.
- She's safe.
- Thank God.
Don't tell her what's going on.
- Just say I'll be back as soon as I can.
- I will.
- Jack, this is Ryan.
We need to talk.
- You son of a bitch.
You stopped that chopper picking up me and Hewitt.
- Hewitt's dead.
I hold you responsible.
- Listen, things have changed.
You got full support.
Give me your mission profile.
I've set up a meeting with Kingsley.
We're gonna meet him at the LA Coliseum, gate 18.
Mrs Palmer will wear a wire and make him confirm that the three countries had nothing to do with the nuke.
Stand down until you get some support.
Our people will be there soon.
We don't have time.
Kingsley's expecting the meet to go down now.
You need backup.
If you wanna help me, get me voice prints of Kingsley and Mrs Palmer for authentication.
Done.
- And a live audio feed to the White House.
- You want an audience with the president.
Yes.
All right.
Keep the line clear.
- Copy.
We're pulling into the Coliseum now.
- We need to get a SWATteam to his location.
(Jack) Pull over there.
Wait here for me.
Come on.
Let's getyou wired.
Take your jacket off your shoulder.
This is a wireless transmitter.
They won't knowto look for it.
They won't be able to trace it.
- This is crazy.
We shouldn't do this alone.
- We don't have another choice.
Remember, Kingsley doesn't want to leave here without Hewitt.
That's gotta be to our advantage.
(interference) OK, say something.
I'm scared.
OK, it's working.
- Yes, Mike.
- Mr President, I am against any delay in our military actions.
I have been from the start.
But there is a good chance we'll receive evidence soon the Cyprus recording is false.
We know Second Wave brought the nuke into the country and we know they're sponsored by these three countries.
What am I missing? I don't have all the details, but I just learned about a possible link between Second Wave and a man named Peter Kingsley.
Who is he? He's apparently part of a consortium of oil interests with contracts in the Caspian Sea.
An oil consortium's behind the nuke? Bauer believes he can get a confession from Kingsley.
He's set up a live audio feed.
Our bombers are due to drop their payloads in less than 20 minutes.
Bauer's meeting Kingsley any minute.
(Michelle) This is the live voice print.
And this is the voice file we have on record which will prove that it is, in fact, Sherry Palmer.
- It's confirmed.
- The one below is Kingsley? - Yeah.
- Are you guys getting this? - We're good here.
- Howfar out is our backup? - They're 11 minutes out.
- That's too long.
We've gotta go now.
- Just wait.
- We can't.
We're already ten minutes past the meeting time.
Is Prescott ready? Tony's on with the White House.
They're setting up a live audio feed.
OK, good.
We are set to go.
How are you doing, Mrs Palmer? What's to prevent Kingsley from shooting me? He won't do anything until he gets Hewitt.
But the moment he realises we don't have Hewitt I'll be covering your back.
That's not very comforting considering the condition you're in.
I may not make it out of this.
I'm not gonna lie to you, Mrs Palmer.
That's a possibility.
I'm doing this for David.
You knowthat, don'tyou? Yes.
Will you tell him that? In case something happens.
I'll take care of it, Mrs Palmer.
You've gotta go now.
- Mike.
- Yes, sir.
We just finished setting up the feed.
I hope this isn't gonna be a waste of our time.
Believe me, Mr President, so do I.
(Palmer) What's going on, Mike? The president and I thought you should be part of this.
Along with Prescott and the Attorney General, we will be listening to a live feed.
- Of what? - A sting operation against Peter Kingsley.
It appears he wasthe architect of today's bombing and the delivery of the Cyprus audio.
- Bauer found Kingsley.
- Yes.
But it won't be Bauer who'll be talking to Kingsley.
What difference does it make as long as we get him to incriminate himself? What is it, Mike? It's Sherry who'll be talking to Kingsley.
I don't understand.
It seems that Kingsley recruited her some months ago.
She was part of this.
Sherry was working with this man, Kingsley? It appears that way, sir.
To detonate a nuclear bomb and start a war? No.
It's unclear how much she knew, or how deep she was in it.
We just have to hope she can extract a confession from Kingsley.
So now Sherry is working with Jack Bauer to bring down Kingsley? Yes.
And at considerable riskto herself.
Scott, don't do anything until I tell you to.
- We need Hewitt.
- Understood.
- Where's Hewitt? - He's safe.
Where is he? You lied to me.
You wanted this bomb to go off all along.
You used Roger Stanton and you used me.
Yes, I did.
Well, now I'm tied to you, and the nuclear detonation.
I want safe haven.
- That's your problem.
- Well, I just made ityours.
Because you won't see Hewitt until I'm safe.
- Don't horse trade with me.
- Don't insult my intelligence.
- We got a match on Kingsley's voice.
- Ryan, you got it.
You're not going anywhere till I have Hewitt.
That doesn't work for me.
(Sherry) I'll call you on this line to give you Hewitt's location after I'm safely away.
You don't need to know where I'm going.
- We're not getting what we need here.
- She'll get it for you.
- Nowthere's the matter of the recordings.
- They're right here.
Every phone conversation between you and me.
No.
I want all of them, including Cyprus.
Why Cyprus? You had nothing to do with that.
- Insurance.
- Insurance? Once the country goes to war, the government will never let that be exposed.
Hewitt is the only one who can hurt us.
- Because he forged the Cyprus recording.
- Right.
- You gotyour proof.
Let me go ahead.
- Get it confirmed from the White House.
- She can't stay much longer.
- Are you satisfied? CTU wants to know if that's enough to prove it.
Have you confirmed this is live and the voices have been authenticated? Yes, sir.
- So that's it.
- Yes.
When I land I'll call you.
(Kingsley) Hm.
You're bluffin'.
You don't have Hewitt, do you? - Oh, yes, I do.
- No, you don't.
Scott, take her out.
Kill her.
Run, Sherry! Come on.
Come on.
Mrs Palmer, get out of here.
Go! (gun clicks) Jack Bauer.
You've caused me a lot of trouble today, Jack.
You're not gonna give me Hewitt, are you? Our bombers are three minutes from the targets.
(man on radio) Initiating sequence six one tango one.
Target in view.
Weapons lock.
Are we go for a strike? Are we go for a launch? We are awaiting command.
Abort the attack.
Abort, abort.
What do you mean, Kingsley's dead? How could that happen? I warned you not to use him.
So we did use him and he failed.
But it won't matter.
Once the war starts we'll be OK.
- It isn't going to start.
- Why's that? The president found out about the Cyprus recording and called off the attack.
There isn't going to be any war, Max.
Well we're going to have to do this another way.
- Another way? What are you talking about? - You'll find out.
It'll start today.
It's me.
Go ahead.
The cabinet has annulled its earlier action.
I have instructed the Secret Service to resume its charge of serving you as President of the United States.
I see.
I've also tendered my resignation, effective immediately, and those members of the cabinet who voted againstyou have also agreed to resign.
Jim.
Gentlemen, ladies we came dangerously close to war today.
That all of us reacted emotionally to the nuclear detonation is understandable.
But leaders are required to have patience beyond human limits.
The kind of action we nearly took should only be exercised after all other avenues have been exhausted.
After the strictest standard of proof has been met.
By casting me aside so quickly, you effectively lowered those standards.
And that was a profound mistake.
It was not, however, a mistake you're likely to make again.
Therefore I do not acceptyour resignations.
We have a nation to heal today.
And all of you play a vital role in that healing process.
(Prescott) Mr President I don't know what to say.
There's nothing to say.
We have workto do.
That'll be all.
- Jenny, set up a press conference.
- When? As soon as you can.
And I want it public.
I want to speakto the people directly.
They deserve my assurance.
Yes, sir.
Mike, I wanna thank you again for calling CTU in the 11th hour.
Of course, Mr President.
Butyou should have been with me to the end.
That's what I expected of you.
That's why I appointed you.
I'm relieving you of your post, effective immediately.
Yes, Mr President.
Thank you, sir.
I can't take all the credit myself.
It's a great team George Mason put together here.
Yes, I will.
Thank you, sir.
Tony.
That was District Director Vaughn.
He's so happy with what we did here today he doesn't know where to start.
That's great.
So what's up, my friend? Well, um it's like this.
Either fire me or get out of my chair.
The chair's all yours.
- Hey.
- Hey.
The new shift is here.
They've been brought up to speed.
I was thinking I'd get my brother and go home.
Michelle, um there's a handful of people who made a big difference today.
You're one of'em.
You made some tough choices and went up against me.
You were right.
Thanks.
So, um why don'tyou go home and get some rest? Michelle.
See you tomorrow.
- I'll need to see the contents of your bag.
- I'm Kate Warner and this is Kim Bauer.
Excuse me.
- Hey, honey.
- Daddy.
It's gonna be all right.
I know.
I love you.
I love you too.
Dad? I'm gonna take care of you.
(Palmer) I urge you in the strongest terms not to indulge any rumours or theories thatyou may have heard, or may soon hear.
Once the facts are known, I will present them to you myself.
Until then, knowthat we are all safe and that we will continue to be safe.
The most patriotic thing that we can all do today is to keep living our lives.
So I urge you all, go backto work, go backto school.
Because the freedom we enjoy, the freedom that we earn every day, is the very thing that will defeat our enemies and keep us strong.
God bless America.
God bless us all.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr President! Hi.
Excuse me, Mr President.
Thank you.
Mr President.
- Hi.
- Thank you.
- God bless you.
- Thank you.
(phone rings) - Yes.
- It's done.
Thank you.
(Palmer breathes heavily) (Jenny) Mr President? (screaming) The president's down! We need medical assistance.
Help! - Mr President? - (shouting and commotion) Mr President? lt'll be all right, sir.
We need an ambulance! Help! (Palmer gasps for breath)