Sherry Palmer tells Alexander Trepkos that she will join him. Trepkos gives her the address of the person she is to kill. Sherry recognizes it as Congressman Frederick Keyes. Outside his apartment, Sherry hesitates while aiming a rifle at Keyes. "This is for betraying me, David," Sherry says before pulling the trigger.
Ryan Chappelle briefs his people at the Counter Terrorist Unit about the status of the virus. He tells them that Max is in possession of it and is headed to Los Angeles. Their only lead is Nina Myers, who thinks that Max will meeting with a man named Marcus Alvers.
Max tells Alvers that Nina is out of the picture. Alvers says that she could point CTU to both of them.
While being tortured, Nina Myers moves back while Richards is injecting a needle, causing it to hit an artery. Nina escapes from the medical ward but is cornered by Kim Bauer. Jack Bauer intervenes and shoots Nina while she lies on the ground.
3:00 A.M. - 4:00 A.M.
3:00 A.M.
Tony and Michelle wonder whether Jack shot Nina only out of vengeance. Tony doesn't think Jack would have risked the mission.
3:01 A.M.
Chappelle enters the transformer room where Nina's body lies dead on the ground. He angrily questions Jack about what happened. Chappelle takes Jack to review the video surveillance that would confirm he was only defending himself. Chase comes in to comfort Kim. Kim didn't witness her father in self-defense against Nina because he made her leave the room.
3:04 A.M.
In the seedy night club, Max lets a man named Saunders come into the back room. As Saunders takes the vials filled with the virus, Max questions why he chose a limited target and not a large one that could inflict the most casualties. Saunders explains that this was not his objective. He only wants to send a message.
3:05 A.M.
Tony lets the rest of the CTU staff know that Jack killed Nina when she tried to escape. He instructs them to widen their search for Max now that there is new information about detonating devices stolen from Russia. Tony believes that Max and Alvers will use these devices to disseminate the virus.
3:06 A.M.
Saunders shows Max and Alvers how to work the detonating device. Saunders belittles how Max could trust that Jack Bauer would turn against CTU. He accuses Max of being stupid and almost ruining the mission. Saunders only gives Max and Alvers half of the $200 million they were to be paid because of the screw up in Mexico. They will receive the balance after they hit the hotel with the virus.
3:08 A.M.
Chloe finds that one of Max's bank accounts had been activated from a local server only a few minutes ago. Kim and Adam work on tagging the location.
3:09 A.M.
Chappelle reviews the security footage, and Jack insists that he shot Nina because she was reaching for her gun. Chappelle accuses Jack of standing in front of the camera to obscure any visual record of what really happened. Although Jack is angry that Nina was released after killing his wife, he only tried to prevent her from shooting at Kim. Chase interrupts their argument to inform them that they have a live lead on Max and the virus. Jack prepares to go out into the field, but Chappelle stops him because Jack is the subject of an internal investigation. Both Jack and Chase convince Chappelle that Jack is needed on the case. Chappelle reluctantly lets him leave.
--Commercial Break--
3:15 A.M.
Trepkos watches the news report of Congressman Keyes's assassination. Sherry arrives and Trepkos congratulates her on a job well done. Sherry asks Trepkos what the "more important" mission is. She is interrupted when Trepkos gets a phone call. It is Saunders. He asks how Sherry is faring with her murder of Keyes. Trepkos tells Saunders that she is doing well. Sherry asks whom Trepkos was talking to. Trepkos ignores her.
3:18 A.M.
As Jack loads the truck with Chase, Kim approaches him. She gets assurance from Jack that he was forced to kill Nina because she was a threat to them.
3:19 A.M.
Palmer and Wayne are horrified as they watch the news report on Keyes’s death. “This is getting personal,” Palmer grumbles, holding back tears. Keyes had been a longtime friend and influential Congressman. Palmer is certain that Max is behind this, but can’t imagine how killing Keyes serves his presumed goal of unleashing the virus. Wayne quietly informs the President that the media is demanding a statement. Palmer agrees to issue a written one within the hour, expressing his condolences and desire for justice, but only that. Wayne leaves to work on the statement, and Palmer places a call to Keyes’s widow.
3:21 A.M.
Sherry asks Trepkos what he wants her to do. He tells her to relax because she won't be needed for an hour or so. But Sherry presses the point. Trepkos relents and tells Sherry that she will be infecting President Palmer with the virus. Sherry is speechless. Trepkos senses her unease and reminds Sherry that she joined them expressly to remove Palmer from office. She just assassinated a U.S. Representative. But Sherry, deeply conflicted, says that as much as she hates Palmer and wants to end his presidency, she’s not sure she can assassinate him. Trepkos counters that Palmer treated her like a dog and deserves to die. Sherry assures him that she hates Palmer’s guts, but does not want to cause pain to Keith and Nicole, her children. Trepkos says that he has a family too. He understands her dilemma. “Fine then, I’m a reasonable man,” Trepkos says. “We’ll find another way.”
3:23 A.M.
As Adam tracks the location of Max's account access, Kim delivers the coordinates to Chase over the phone. He is driving with Jack, who thanks him for urging Chappelle to let him stay on the case. Jack asks if Chase spoke to Kim about his baby. Chase says that Kim is handling it fine. He wants Jack to stay out of it because he and Kim truly care about each other.
3:25 A.M.
Alvers arrives at the Chandler Plaza Hotel by taxi. He has a briefcase in his hand. Alvers enters the lobby and calls Max to tell him it will take another 25 minutes.
--Commercial Break--
3:30 A.M.
Trepkos tells Sherry that he and Max understand her reservation at killing Palmer and hurting her children, but she still assassinated Keyes. “You crossed the Rubicon,” Trepkos says, and she will need to kill again to remove Palmer. But he assures Sherry that it won’t be the President. Sherry is relieved. Trepkos informs Sherry that she will instead be infecting Gerry Whitehorn, Palmer’s press secretary. With an opening on the staff and the President facing the severe crisis they are about to unleash, Palmer will have no choice but to take on Sherry as an advisor in an emergency capacity. Just as she sought three years ago, she will be a key player in Palmer’s political demise. Sherry eagerly agrees. Trepkos orders Sherry to call Palmer in a few minutes and tell him that she’ll be back in an hour with important information on Peter Kingsley.
3:32 A.M.
Wayne is worried that he is becoming less of an asset to Palmer's Administration, but Palmer assures his brother that he doesn't trust anyone more. Wayne gets a call from CTU that Jack is leading the operation with a lead on the virus.
3:33 A.M.
Jack and Chase arrive at the Chinatown street where Chloe has tracked Max's account transaction. The SWAT team at the site has sent an undercover officer into the seedy nightclub. The officer spots an armed guard outside a door, but he is taken hostage before he can notify the team outside. The guard strips his radio, and Max shoots the officer. Jack and Chase lead the raid on the club. Jack pins Max to the ground, and orders the other SWAT guys to leave the room.
--Commercial Break--
3:40 A.M.
Jack wants to know where the virus is, but Max is angry that Jack was able to fool him in Mexico. "He knows who you are," Max tells Jack, referring to his cabal’s leader. Max refuses to tell him anything else, and Jack asks him who he is afraid of. Max makes a contemptuous remark that Jack can't protect him because he couldn't even protect his own family. When Max does not tell him where the virus is, Jack has Chase slice Max's palm with a knife. Max passes out. Jack orders Chase to repeat it when Max wakes up.
3:42 A.M.
Tony and Chappelle call Jack. He tells them that he has Max, but that the virus has already been passed on to his leader. However, Max did reveal that whoever is behind this threat knows Jack very well. Jack has Tony cross-reference all his contacts with what they already uncovered about the virus. The CTU forensics team finds an incubator with no contamination and some prints and hairs that they will send to the lab. The agents also find Max's laptop that has the full schematics of the Chandler Hotel. Jack tells Tony that they have a possible target, but that they shouldn't evacuate the hotel just yet. First they need to contain the virus. Tony orders an NHS team sent to the hotel.
3:44 A.M.
Tony notifies Phillips, the head of security for the Chandler Hotel, that there might have been a toxic substance released in the building. Tony orders him not to allow anyone in or out of the hotel. Alvers may already be in the building.
3:45 A.M.
Tony stops Michelle as she leaves CTU with Gael and a group of agents. Chappelle explains that Tony will need to control information flow at the office, and with Michelle's past experience, she is the best person to lead the team on-site. Tony is hesitant to let her go, but she knows it is the best thing to do.
--Commercial Break--
3:51 A.M.
Michelle phones Tony from the car. He tells her that the NHS team won't be there for another 20 minutes. Tony orders her not to go into the hotel until NHS brings biohazard suits. She hangs up annoyed, and tells Gael that things haven't been right since Tony got back from the hospital. Gael says that Tony was unhappy that he couldn't talk to her about their secret plot against the Salazars.
3:52 A.M.
Alvers walks through the Chandler Hotel dressed as a maintenance man. Phillips is suspicious because he doesn't recognize him. He has his assistant check the man out.
3:53 A.M.
Michelle calls Phillips from outside the hotel. No one has spotted Alvers yet. She can't enter until the hazmat suits arrive. Michelle feels guilty that Phillips's people don't have any hazmat suits and are trapped inside. Gael finds an image of Alvers on the hotel's security camera. Michelle tells the other agents on the team that she can't order anyone in because it goes against protocol, but she is going in to try to stop the virus. Gael grabs some gear and follows her. Others go with him.
3:54 A.M.
Phillips unlocks the door to allow Michelle and her team to enter the building. Phillips says that they may have spotted Alvers.
3:55 A.M.
Alvers enters the ventilation room and opens up his tool kit. He takes out the detonator and inserts a virus-filled vial inside of it. Alvers sets the detonator into place below a fan that blows air into the building.
3:56 A.M.
Michelle finds Phillips's assistant dead in the hallway of a pump room. She holds someone who appears to be a maintenance man at gunpoint. It is really Alvers. He makes a run for it, but Michelle takes him down and handcuffs him to a pipe. Alvers admits that the virus has been released into the central ventilation unit. Michelle radios Gael, who heads for the area.
3:58 A.M.
Gael finds the detonator underneath the whirling blades of the main fan. He radios Michelle that the virus is in a vial, and that it is hooked to some kind of timer. Gael opens up the fan unit, but before he can grab the vial, the detonator goes off. A fine, white powder sprays into his face and up into the air conditioning shaft.
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