24 s05e15 Episode Script

Previously on 24.
I'm issuing an executive order, imposing a curfew on all civilians in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
This curfew will be effective immediately and will be enforced by the military.
They're talking about this like it's an illegal action.
Don't worry, Mr.
President.
I'm in control of the situation.
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that he proposed this whole thing to set you up for a fall? Hal's only motivation is what's best for the country.
There's going to be a fallout.
And you know it.
You're here to shut this place down, aren't you? - I told you before, the White House - I know what you told me before.
Now tell me the truth.
CTU is being absorbed by Homeland, which means from now on, every operational decision needs to go through me.
There's something from my brother I need to give you personally.
I should be there within the hour.
You coming here? I know it sounds impulsive, Aaron, but I'd rather see you sooner than later.
I'm hoping there's somewhere we can meet discreetly.
Does she have the schematics and the access codes? Yes.
Everything we need.
Release the Sentox here and 200,000 people die.
The decryption key is Charlie-Alpha-3-9-Alpha.
It worked.
This is what you wanted.
Drop the gun! I'm with the German Federal Intelligence Service.
I've been undercover for the last six months, gathering Intel on Collette's clientele.
If we don't find Bierko, hundreds of thousands of innocent people will die here today.
Let him go! He's given us what we want! Put your hands up! As for the data I sold to Bierko, it's something that I received from a contact from the Department of Defense.
- What's his name? - Her name? Audrey Raines.
You were lying to me.
She sold me the information, Mr.
Bauer.
Apparently, she had a price.
Chloe, I need you to do something for me right away.
Check out Audrey Raines's activities in the last 18 months.
- Audrey? Why? - I'll explain later.
I'm particularly interested in any unusual connection between her and Christopher Henderson or Walt Cummings.
You think she has something to do with their conspiracy? I don't know what to think.
Please do it quickly.
- Audrey.
- Yes, sir? I'm afraid I have to take you into custody.
What? I don't understand.
Am I being arrested? - Detained.
- On what grounds? Collette Stenger's been passing information to Bierko, information he apparently intends to use in his next attack.
She claims she got the information from someone at D.
O.
D, and she named you as the source.
She's lying.
That's impossible.
We already uncovered one mole in the White House today, Audrey.
I have no choice.
What kind of information did Stenger say I gave her? I've told you as much as I can at this point.
Prep Ms.
Raines for interrogation.
Does Jack know that I'm being detained? Yes.
He sanctioned it.
It's the truth.
Audrey Raines was my contact at the Department of Defense.
You met with her face-to-face? Yes.
Good, then you'll be able to recognize her when you see her.
Of course.
She identified Ms.
Raines from photographs on the way here.
If you were lying to me, I'm gonna make this the worst day of your life.
You understand? Put her in Holding.
Burke's interrogation methods should only be used as a last resort.
The situation warrants a more aggressive approach.
Then do the same thing to Collette Stenger.
Stenger is protected by an immunity agreement.
We can't touch her unless the information she's provided turns out to be false; then we can nullify the agreement.
So we can torture our own people, but we can't touch a criminal? I've known Audrey Raines for years.
I trust her implicitly.
So does everyone else.
Maybe that's the problem.
Bill, we don't have the luxury of time.
Intel indicates that an attack is imminent within an hour.
Tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans are at risk, and we just got information that Audrey Raines knows about it.
Karen, the decision is yours.
But any adverse consequences that result from insufficiently aggressive action taken now will come down hard on you.
What is Agent Burke doing here? We're talking about authorizing the medical interrogation.
- On Audrey? - Yes.
That's ridiculous.
I'll handle the interrogation.
I can't allow that.
Karen, I brought this to you.
I called it in.
You can't pull me off of this now.
Your emotional involvement with Ms.
Raines is not exactly a secret, Jack.
That has nothing to do with this.
That's right.
You always put the work first.
You never let your feelings get involved.
Is that what happened with Nina Myers? Nina Myers was a mistake I've never denied that but she was deep cover for years before I even met her.
She fooled a lot of people for a long time, not just me.
Well, maybe Audrey is fooling people, too.
You might be right, Karen, but if I were you, I would think twice about who you're willing to invasively interrogate.
Audrey Raines is the senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, James Heller, who happens to be her father! And if you were wrong, he's gonna eat you alive.
At least let Jack talk to her for ten minutes first.
She deserves that much.
If she's guilty she doesn't deserve anything.
That's the point.
She hasn't been proven guilty.
After she's been prepped, you can see her for ten minutes.
But at the first sign you're less than objective, you're out.
Understood.
Thanks, Bill.
I don't believe Audrey is guilty of anything, Jack.
Neither do I.
The one thing we do know is, Bierko is going to release the Sentox in the city sometime in the next hour.
If Audrey knows anything that can help us find him, she needs to tell us now.
Keep an eye on the traffic patrol.
Bierko's gonna need to move those canisters.
He's gonna need transportation.
With the curfew in place, I might get lucky and pick up a trail.
Yeah.
Hey, break it up! Break it up now! Gentlemen, I said, break it up! Take their uniforms and weapons.
Now we have a police escort to the target, the curfew won't be a problem.
Chloe, walk with me.
You were doing background on Audrey? - Yeah.
- What have you got? You're not going to like it.
I found the connection between Walt Cummings and Audrey.
What kind of a connection? They dealt with each other a few times the usual stuff between D.
O.
D.
and the White House.
But there is something else.
What? Chloe, what? They both stayed at a place called the River Hotel in Pikesville, Maryland, last April.
So? So, Pikesville isn't exactly a hot spot with top-ranking federal officials.
It wasn't a coincidence that they were there the same night.
Chloe, what are you trying to say? They didn't just stay in the same hotel, but they stayed in the same room.
How could you possibly know that? Because I e-mailed photos of them to the manager.
He recognized them both.
He showed me phone bills, room service receipts.
I can show you a few if you want.
No.
I'm sorry.
I believe you.
It doesn't mean she was part of their conspiracy, but it doesn't exactly look that good either.
Make copies of everything you've got and put them in a folder for me.
- I will.
- Thanks.
Excuse me.
My name is Shari Rothenberg.
- I work in Section Five downstairs.
- I know where Section Five is.
Right.
Uh, Mr.
Buchanan told me to report to Chloe O'Brian.
Is that you? You're gonna have to wait a second.
Um, I'm here to replace Edgar.
I understand he died in the attack.
Yes, he did.
Well, if he was a friend of yours, I'm sorry.
Thanks.
He worked at Station Six.
It's right there.
Are you familiar with the Gavilan matrix analyzer? Yes, I am.
Use it to make sure our databases are current.
Some of them may have fallen behind in the past couple of hours.
No problem.
- Jack.
- Sit down.
Sit down.
Have you ever had contact with Collette Stenger? No.
She says that you provided her with information from the D.
O.
D.
I know.
Bill told me.
That's ridiculous.
You know it.
Jack, you're wasting time that we don't have.
I had to ask CTU so that I could interrogate you.
I have a job to do.
If I don't do it, Burke will, and I promise you, you do not want to see him walk through that door.
Fine.
What kind of information did she say I gave her? She said you provided her with a structural schematic of Bierko's next target.
What kind of structure? She didn't know.
She just delivered the package.
She claims that I gave her information, yet she can't tell you what that information is, and that's enough to make me a suspect?! Damn it, Audrey! You know what this nerve gas does? They are planning another attack.
We will not ignore any leads.
I have nothing to do with these terrorists.
How did Collette Stenger get your name? I don't know.
My father is the Secretary of Defense.
I'm an easy target.
Maybe she's trying to use him or embarrass him.
Is he involved? Oh, Jack, you know him better than that.
You worked with him.
He would never do anything outside the law, and neither would I.
The two men that we know are part of the conspiracy are Walt Cummings and Christopher Henderson.
Have you had any contact with these men? Christopher Henderson.
I have never heard I'd never heard of him before today and, um Walt Cummings I have met a couple of times, yes.
- Where? - Um, D.
O.
D.
briefings.
- That's it? - Yes.
- Are you sure? - Yes, I'm sure.
Open it.
The River Hotel, Pikesville, last April.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Um We happened to be there at the same time.
We may have had a drink or two together.
You weren't having drinks with him.
You shared a room with him.
You slept with him.
Yes.
I was still recovering from losing you, Jack.
He, uh He had just separated from his wife, and I slept with him once and then I broke it off.
- Why'd you break it off? - Jack, please, it's complicated.
Why did you break it off?! Because he wasn't you.
Why did you lie to me when I asked you the first time? 'Cause I, I was I was afraid that you'd think less of me, that you wouldn't be able to forgive me.
Because you slept with someone after you thought I was dead? Because I slept with someone who turned out to be a traitor, Jack.
Is that the only time you spent with Cummings? Yes.
Did he ever talk to you about a terrorist attack, nerve gas? No.
He ever mention Christopher Henderson? No.
- Damn it, Audrey! - Jack, I Jack! - Tell me the truth! - I am telling you the t You've already lied to me once.
You tell me what you know, or I promise you this will become very unpleasant.
I'm telling you everything.
Do what you have to do.
Damn it, Audrey.
Tell me the truth! Jack.
I am telling you the truth, I swear.
This is over! You understand? This is over! If you ask me, she broke him and not the other way around.
Karen.
He didn't push her hard enough, and you know it.
- He's protecting her.
- She's innocent.
We have to be certain.
I am certain.
Jack is certain.
- Well, I'm not.
- Karen.
Send Burke in.
I have to do this, Bill.
I can't waste any more time, and make sure that Jack doesn't interfere.
Okay, I'll pass that on.
Shari.
That was the agent at Bierko's safe house.
The place is empty.
Forensics is still looking, but they don't expect to find much.
Upload that information onto the subnets.
Oh.
Right.
I checked your file.
You're not qualified for Level Three work, and that is Level Three.
I'm provisionally qualified.
It's all in my supplemental file.
Go ahead and check it if you want.
All right, Shari.
First mistake, I yank the provisional and you're out of here.
What's with him? Two years ago we both worked in the San Francisco office.
There was a sexual harassment thing.
Miles? It was subtle at first, and then it got really bad.
Finally filed a grievance.
What happened? He got off with a warning.
These things are really hard to prove.
They said we didn't have enough evidence to go to trial.
I can't get into any details.
The file is sealed.
Don't worry.
I don't need details.
But I guess I'd better not make any mistakes.
Yeah.
What's going on? I'm sorry.
This is out of my control.
Karen wants to push Audrey a little harder.
No, her interrogation is over.
Jack, I'll try to stall her as long as I can.
Jack, I have orders to take Miss Raines to Holding for further interrogation.
I don't care about your orders.
That's not gonna happen.
Get out of my way.
Get out of my way.
Jack, stop it! Jack, don't make this any harder than it is.
Bill, do something! Bill! Bill! - Hello.
- Mr.
Henderson, it's Brennan.
Is Wayne Palmer dead yet? - No.
- Explain.
We rolled his car, but he survived and got away.
It was sloppy work.
We'll make it right.
Well, you damn well better.
You know what's at stake.
Yes, sir.
This is Wayne Palmer.
At the tone, leave a message.
Steve, has Wayne Palmer come through a checkpoint within the last half hour? Yeah, he was cleared through Checkpoint 6, 30 minutes ago.
What, he's not here yet? No, he's not, and I can't reach him on his cell.
If you're worried, I can send out an alert.
No.
Actually, he kind of wanted to keep his visit under the radar.
I think I'm going to go out there and take a look myself, in case he had car trouble or something.
Do me a favor.
Keep this between us, would you? - Yes, sir.
- Thanks.
Thanks.
You need to calm down, Jack, and remember who's in charge.
Audrey Raines is innocent.
She slept with a known conspirator and lied about it.
That doesn't concern you? She slept with him once and lied about it because she was embarrassed.
That hardly makes her part of this conspiracy.
Why did Collette Stenger name her as the source? She must have gotten Audrey's name from Henderson.
Why would Henderson want to implicate Audrey? Henderson doesn't want to implicate Audrey.
He's coming after me.
He's trying to make me lose focus.
And he's trying to pull you off target.
And he's done it.
These plans must have been made some time ago, when Henderson had every reason to believe you were gonna be killed.
Karen, listen to me.
This is what I do for a living.
And the first rule of engagement is that you have a contingency plan.
And this is his, and it's working.
You're getting ready to interrogate Audrey Raines when you should be interrogating Collette Stenger, because she still has information that we don't have! Stenger has immunity.
She's being protected by a federal marshal.
That's your doing, Jack.
You made that deal! I know.
But if I can prove that Collette Stenger is withholding information from us, that act alone negates her deal.
I'll be able to start questioning her again.
She will give me Henderson.
And once I have Henderson, he will lead us to the nerve gas, and that's what we're supposed to be focused on! What are you suggesting we do, Jack? Let me and Chloe find proof that Collette Stenger is lying to us.
If we don't, you lose nothing.
But if we do, we can stop this thing from happening, I promise you.
Karen, please.
Excuse me.
These matrix sweeps are partials only.
Where's the rest of the data? I thought matrix data could be sent unfiltered.
That's not protocol.
I thought it was all right in house.
Only if it's authorized.
Who authorized it? I did.
She did it under my authority.
I take full responsibility.
- I don't believe you.
- Believe what you want.
That would be sloppy, O'Brian.
You don't work like that.
She told you about my alleged sexual harassment, right? Well, she's lying.
Listen No, you listen.
There are 17 canisters of nerve gas about to be deployed somewhere in Los Angeles, and we're trying to find them.
If you interrupt our work one more time, I'll file a complaint with Division.
Then you'll see what protocol's all about.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Chloe, we need to help Audrey.
We don't have much time.
How? We need to find the connection between Collette Stenger and Henderson.
We found Collette's name on Henderson's computer.
It's not enough.
We need proof that they had direct contact, preferably more than once.
You think Henderson gave Collette Audrey's name? I'm sure of it.
I want you to use outside agencies, including foreign.
- Put it on a priority channel.
- I'm on it.
We have an important delivery.
There's no delivery scheduled.
I'm gonna need to call this in.
Stay out here and watch the perimeter.
Who's in charge? I am.
We need access to the control room.
Can you take us there? What are you guys doing here? Can you take us to the control room? Yeah.
It's that way.
Good.
Keep cooperating and no more of your friends will die.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
Mikhail, take the canisters to the main distribution tank.
Quickly! This is it.
- Sam, what's going on? - Ah, Sam I'm not an engineer, but I know enough, so you'd be wise not to try to deceive me.
What we're doing here is very simple.
We're going to release a certain substance so that it flows into your pipelines.
What kind of substance? That's not your concern.
But at the pressure which currently prevails in these pipes, the substance will react chemically with the gas and become inert.
So I need the pressure reduced by about 50%.
Sam, don't do it.
Do you understand what I want? You want PSI cut by half.
Exactly.
And how long will it take? Could take an hour.
You don't seem to care very much for your friends, do you, Sam? No, no, don't! I might be able to do it in 30 minutes.
You have 15.
Better get started.
Don't move! Drop the gun.
Now! Move away from it.
Now get on your knees.
Mr.
Palmer.
It's Aaron.
Oh, God.
Aaron, what are you doing out here? I was looking for you, sir.
So are some other people.
Let's go.
Ms.
Raines, we know you conspired with Mr.
Cummings.
I didn't.
Who else in the White House was involved? - I don't know.
- You know, Ms.
Raines.
- I don't have have any names.
- You're gonna give me a name I swear I don't know, I We don't have the time, Ms.
Raines.
Give me a name! I don't I swear.
I don't know.
Chloe, what have you got? I found some masked entries in Collette Stenger's cell phone.
- The decryption program - Come on, Chloe.
Bottom line: Henderson placed eight cell phone calls to Collette Stenger within the past three months.
- Where's Collette Stenger now? - Holding Room 3.
Bill, we have a connection between Henderson and Collette Stinger.
She received eight calls from him that she didn't tell us about.
That voids her agreement.
It's off.
That's for the president to decide.
Call the president! You need a rescinding order to question her, Jack.
Get him to back off of Audrey! Get me the president.
What's your connection with Christopher Henderson? I have an immunity agreement signed by your president.
She's right.
She can't be questioned.
We have proof that she withheld information.
Her deal's been rescinded.
The order's on its way.
When it gets here, she's all yours.
An innocent woman is being interrogated because of her.
Look, I'm sorry, sir, but you have to go.
We know you lied to us.
We know that you did not get the schematics from Audrey Raines.
Henderson told you to use her name in case you got in trouble, right? You do not want to try me.
Yes.
He tell you why? No.
He's using you.
He wanted you to get inside my head.
It worked.
Now I'm upset.
You have three seconds to tell me where the target is, or I will kill you.
Where's the target?! A natural gas distribution center.
There are dozens of those in the city.
Which one? I don't know.
I swear.
I don't know.
I don't.
Jack, what's going on? Bierko's targeting a natural gas distribution center, but we don't know which one.
Natural gas? He can use it as a delivery system for the Sentox.
He can get it into people's homes.
I need you to get Chloe on it.
We need to find out which one.
Right.
The rescinding order will be here in 15 minutes.
Good.
Give it to the marshal.
He'll be looking for this, too.
Please, no more.
I'm begging you.
Please.
Don't do that.
Please Please.
I'm telling you the truth.
You're bringing this on yourself.
No! - Stop it! Make him - This can end whenever Let her go! Shut it down now! Jack! You are finished in here.
She is innocent.
You can confirm it with Buchanan.
I said you're finished.
Get out! Audrey, are you all right? I don't know.
It's over.
I promise you, it's over for good.
My God, what's happening to me? What's happening? Henderson set you up to get at me, to throw me off his trail.
Come here.
I'm so sorry.
Jack, the only thing that got me through this was knowing that you would come.
I knew you would come.
I'm so sorry.
Bauer.
Jack, it's Bill.
Chloe's got some information.
Go.
- Jack? - I'll be right there.
Yep.
Bill, I want you to send someone over from medical to Interrogation 1 to tend to Audrey Raines.
Okay.
Thanks.
I'll be right back.
Okay.
Our satellite covers only 60% of the distribution centers.
If our target's not in that grouping, we're out of luck.
Can we redirect any other satellite? I'm trying.
Did you identify the distribution center that they're gonna hit? We're pulling in more satellites.
Our analysts tell us once the Sentox hits the main tank, it goes right into the pipes, where it becomes impossible to stop.
From there, it goes straight into people's homes.
How many casualties are we talking about? The largest centers serve 90,000 people.
We could have twice that many casualties.
If our Intel is correct, we have 15 minutes.
Okay, I'll prep a team with Curtis.
We'll go airborne.
We'll be ready as soon as you ID a target.
Mr.
Buchanan? There may be a faster way.
I was a chem.
major at Cal Tech.
Most toxins become inert under high pressure.
The PSI would have to be lowered before the nerve gas was introduced.
Chloe, can you monitor the pressure levels at the distribution centers? Yeah.
I have citywide readings of them all.
Hold on.
Wilshire Gas Company.
The PSI has dropped to 75% in the past ten minutes.
We have to assume that's it.
I'll tell Jack.
- Great work, Sherry.
- Congratulations.
Thanks.
Did you see the way his hand brushed across my shoulder as he walked by? What? That was wrong.
He shouldn't have done that.
- What is it? - Get down! Get in the car! Chloe, what's the PSI level? PSI level is down to 57%.
Another seven is all they need to deploy the Sentox.
- How long will that take? - Four, maybe five minutes.
Jack, the PSI level can only be adjusted from the main control room.
It's the large building in the center of the complex two floors down from the roof.
Copy that.
Okay, we'll insert here.
We'll advance to the control room, locate and secure the canisters.
We're almost there.
The noise from the plant should cover our descent.
We're ready.
Good.
Get back here.
How much longer? A few more minutes.
I can't lower the pressure any faster without risking a shutdown.
Chloe, it's Jack.
Do you have any heat signatures? Yes, but I can only scan from the exterior of the site.
There are two guards patrolling the perimeter.
I've given the pilot an approach vector to keep you from their line of sight.
- Maintain this position! - Go! - CTU, the team's away.
- They're on the roof.
The PSI level is down to 54%.
CTU, we're inside.
Jack, Bierko will be ready to deploy any minute.
Copy that.
Silencers off.
Bierko! He's moving! Cover me! Curtis, the Sentox is already in the system.
Who's in charge here?! Listen to me.
You have Sentox nerve gas running through your pipeline.
Can you shut down the pumps? By the time we power down, gas will be in the main tanks, then it's out into the city.
Where's the closest pipeline that feeds those tanks? Just out the door to your left.
It'll have a red arrow on it.
Give me the C4 and a timer, then get these people out of here.
Jack, what are you doing? In order to deliver the Sentox, it had to mix with natural gas.
If we could ignite that gas before it leaves the plant, the Sentox will be incinerated.
Bill, this is the last chance we've got to stop this threat.
The Sentox has been in the system for one minute.
You have 50 seconds before it gets out.
Charge has been set.
Curtis, are you clear? Just about.
Keep going.
Jack, are you clear? Jack? Jack, respond.
Come on, Jack.
Jack, you okay? Curtis, I got a visual on Bierko.
Jack, you won't have time before the main tank explodes.
Right now he's our only connection to Henderson.
Jack! Bill, he's going in.
Bierko! Jack, that's it.
The main tanks are going.
Get out!