Sherry Palmer assassinates U.S. Representative Frederick Keyes. President David Palmer tells Wayne that this is getting personal.
Trepkos informs Sherry that she will be infecting President Palmer with the virus. Sherry refuses, not wanting to cause pain to her children. Trepkos compromises and says that she will be infecting Palmer's press secretary. Palmer will have no choice but to take her on as an advisor. Sherry agrees.
Stephen Saunders denies Max half of his payment in punishment for the screwup in Mexico. He tells Max that he and Alvers will get the rest of their money after they hit the hotel.
Jack Bauer apprehends Max and discovers that the Chandler Plaza Hotel is the likely target for a release of the virus.
At the Counter Terrorist Unit, Tony Almeida contacts the head of security at the hotel and informs him of the virus threat. No one is to be let in or out of the building.
Michelle Dessler captures Marcus Alvers and finds out where the virus is, but Gael Ortega is unable to get to the device before it releases the virus into the ventilation system.
4:00 A.M. - 5:00 A.M.
4:00 A.M.
Gael notifies Phillips that the toxic substance has been released into the ventilation system of the hotel. Meanwhile, Michelle grills Alvers. She learns that there are eleven more vials of the virus, but Alvers does not know the locations where they are to be released. Michelle gives Tony the news. He is shocked to find out that she is inside the hotel. He orders her to leave the building, but she refuses.
4:05 A.M.
Jack tries to get Max to reveal who he is working for. Max is willing to die rather than tell him. Chappelle calls Jack with information about the eleven other vials of virus. Jack handcuffs Max to a rusty pipe. He and Chase discuss that there may be a possibility of containing the virus inside the Chandler Hotel.
4:08 A.M.
Tony briefs Dr. Nicole Duncan as she heads to the hotel with her team. Chappelle tells Tony that no one is to leave the hotel because that may spread the virus. He orders that anyone attempting to escape will be shot and killed.
4:09 A.M.
Michelle arranges for her team to shut down hotel operations and jam cell phone signals so that no one can make contact to the outside. This is to prevent a mass panic. Michelle apologizes to Gael for putting his life in danger.
4:10 A.M.
Phillips asks a bellhop named Margolis to stay on after his shift. Phillips doesn't let on the seriousness of the situation.
4:11 A.M.
Max manages to loosen the rusty pipe and release his handcuffs. He sneaks out of the nightclub. Kim calls Jack. She is monitoring Max from her computer's tracking locator because Jack had placed a transponder in the bandage on Max's hand. Jack and Chase head out to follow him.
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4:16 A.M.
Palmer orders Wayne to notify the California governor of the virus at the Chandler Hotel in case he needs to mobilize the National Guard.
4:17 A.M.
Trepkos hands Sherry a bag of the tools she will need to infect Whitehorn with the virus. He assures her that the vials of the virus are disguised and will not be found by Secret Service. Once she’s in, he will call with instructions on how to assemble the virus dispersal device. Trepkos gives Sherry a PDA and a code to remotely activate the detonator. He wants Sherry to be with Palmer when she plugs in the code so that when the biohazard detectors go off, she will be swiftly evacuated along with the President. Fingerprints and hair follicles on the device will make it look like Whitehorn was working on it when it accidentally went off. Whitehorn will die a traitor and Sherry will become Palmer’s trusted advisor once again. Sherry is gleeful. Trepkos is pleased Sherry has no qualms about killing Whitehorn. Sherry leaves to carry out her mission.
4:19 A.M.
Max gets in his car and drives away from the nightclub. Jack and Chase call Tony as they follow Max. They are hoping Max will need his boss to help him escape. Jack says that the virus may have been altered, so there is a possibility that Michelle will have a chance of survival.
4:20 A.M.
Max calls his leader, Stephen Saunders. Saunders asks whether Jack was one of the agents interrogating him. In order to avoid being followed to Saunders, Max cuts a sharp U-turn and takes another route.
4:21 A.M.
Saunders hands one of his henchman a cell phone. He instructs the man to release the vial of virus when the phone rings twice.
4:22 A.M.
Concerned about Michelle, Tony questions Dr. Duncan about the potential fatality rate. Dr. Duncan has no answers about Michelle's fate.
4:23 A.M.
Michelle and Gael find that the entire hotel is contaminated. Gael begins to show symptoms when his nose bleeds.
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4:29 A.M.
Since the virus is supposed to have a fourteen hour incubation period, Michelle wants Alvers to tell her what he did to alter the virus. He promises to tell her if she kills him once the symptoms start.
4:30 A.M.
Sherry goes through security at the District offices. The agent at the metal detector checks a cassette recorder in Sherry’s purse. He plays back a voice recording and it passes as legitimate. He also scribbles two dry erase markers on a piece of paper to confirm their legitimacy. Sherry is cleared in. She then calls Trepkos, who orders her to go to a room upstairs that doesn’t have surveillance.
4:31 A.M.
Michelle calls Tony to let him know that Alvers admitted to adding an accelerant to the virus to significantly shorten the incubation period. Gael is already showing symptoms. Tony begins to get emotional, but Michelle stops him.
4:33 A.M.
Margolis the bellhop questions Phillips about what is going on. Phillips evades the truth. Margolis goes searching for an exit.
4:34 A.M.
Michelle calls the quarantined Gael to check on his health. She tells him that NHS will soon send in a doctor. Margolis sees Gael and overhears his conversation. Panicked, he pulls a fire alarm. Margolis opens a drawer to grab a set of keys and he finds a gun. He takes it.
4:35 A.M.
Phillips tells Michelle that he thought the fire alarm was disconnected. Michelle orders the agents and hotel workers to prevent the guests from exiting by blaming it on a false alarm.
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4:41 A.M.
Max lets Saunders know that he's not being followed. Saunders gives him the location where he can come in. Meanwhile, Kim tracks Max's movement and gives Jack the coordinates. Jack instructs her to send for the follow teams.
4:42 A.M.
The hotel guests start to fill the lobby, and Michelle directs them back upstairs. One man demands to be told what is going on because he is prohibited from leaving the building. Another woman says that she saw people with gas masks outside. Michelle lies and says that a toxic substance was released outside the hotel. She tells them that it is safe inside the building. Phillips alerts Michelle that someone opened a fire door on the west side of the hotel, and Michelle goes to search for that person.
4:44 A.M.
Michelle comes upon Margolis trying to unlock a door. He pulls his gun on her. Michelle tells him the same story she fed to the other guests, but he doesn't believe her. She finally admits that there is a toxin inside the hotel and that everyone will be sick. Michelle warns Margolis that he will be responsible for spreading the disease if he leaves the building. He calms down and gives her his gun.
4:46 A.M.
Phillips calls Michelle. One of the guests has started to show symptoms. The woman is bleeding from her nose and mouth.
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4:50 A.M.
With gloves on, Sherry carefully places a small hair follicle in the cassette recorder. She then places a call to Palmer to tell him that her Halliburton contact called back to express some concern about the validity of the Kingsley documents, but that she’ll be in his office in a few minutes. Sherry takes out the two vials of the virus from the decoy markers and begins to place them in the recorder. However, she stops, suddenly suspicious. Sherry urgently calls Trepkos to ask if she could get infected handling the virus. Trepkos assures her that she won’t. Sherry abruptly realizes that Whitehorn’s office is right across from Palmer’s. She’s not assembling a dispersal device; she’s assembling a bomb. Sherry yells that Trepkos lied to her. They intended to have her killed in the explosion, along with the President. Trepkos admits that she’s right and apologizes, but sternly orders her to complete her mission. She can remotely detonate the bomb from a safe distance. Sherry refuses, wanting the satisfaction of seeing Palmer taken down through her own machinations. “While we’re prepared to destroy Palmer through political means, this is the only guaranteed way to ensure that he’s removed,” Trepkos explains. “And the more satisfying.” Sherry is sickened at the betrayal. Trepkos warns Sherry not to turn against him. Suddenly, the PDA warms up and starts a one minute countdown. Trepkos explains that he already had a vial of the explosive liquid buried deep within the recorder as a contingency. Unless Sherry agrees to place the bomb herself, it will explode and the debris will crash down on Palmer and kill him. Sherry painfully thinks this over. Resolve washing over her, Sherry hangs up on Trepkos and runs for the exit. She quickly calls Palmer and warns him about the bomb. Palmer is confused, but Sherry screams at him to get out of the building and he hurries out of his office with Wayne. Sherry bolts past the baffled agents at the gate and heads outside, where she is hit by a headshot from a sniper across the street. Secret Service agents grab Palmer and rush him away, but not before he sees Sherry’s dead body on the pavement. Upstairs, the PDA countdown reaches zero but the bomb does not go off. A stunned Palmer gives the agents the room number where Sherry said had a bomb. Agents rush there, but are relieved to see the vials of liquid outside of the recorder and the PDA flashing zero. They report the news to Palmer, who is already riding in the getaway limo. The President and Wayne can’t believe what happened. Secret Service Agent Pierce informs Palmer that they should be all clear in a few minutes. Palmer calls his children with the grim news about their mother.
4:54 A.M.
Jack and Chase watch Max walk from his car to another waiting car. A man in the car hands Max a briefcase. Inside the briefcase is a bomb. Jack watches as the car explodes, and he rushes to the wreckage. Jack's cell phone rings. It is Saunders, but Jack doesn't know him. Saunders threatens to release eleven other vials of the virus in return for Jack's help. "I need you to put me in touch with a friend of yours," Saunders says.
4:56 A.M.
Chaos ensues when a number of the hotel guests begin getting nosebleeds. One of the irate people throws a trashcan at the front door and smashes the glass. Michelle fires her gun into the air to make the man move away from the window. She threatens to shoot him if he tries to leave, but he doesn't believe her. As the man makes his way out, Michelle fires two shots into his back. The other guests are in shock.
4:58 A.M.
Jack calls the President and explains that the man holding the virus wants to speak to him. They will probably have to give in to the man's requests. Saunders tells Palmer that he will release the virus and kill a good portion of the American population unless his demands are met. Saunders says that he will call Palmer again.
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