There are terrorists planning to assassinate a presidential candidate. My teenage daughter has been kidnapped, and the people that I work with may be involved in both. Im federal Agent Jack Bauer. This is the longest day of my life.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING…
Disc 1
12:00 am - 1:00 am
Moments after discovering his daughter Kimberley has snuck out of the house, Jack Bauer is called into work. As head of the Counter Terrorist Unit office, hes told that an assassination attempt will be made on the life presidential candidate David Palmer & its up to his team of agents to keep Palmer alive. Meanwhile, Jacks wife, Teri, also sets out to find their daughter.
1.00am - 2.00am
Teri receives a phone call from Alan York who says that his daughter Janet is a friend of Kimberleys and that she is also missing. The two parents join forces to try and find the girls. Even as Jack is secretly called out of the office and given an encrypted key card containing information on the Palmer hit that could lead him to a dirty agent within his organisation, the explosion of a 747 over the Mojave Desert becomes yet another piece in the puzzle.
2.00am - 3.00am
Kimberley & Janet realise they are in danger after it becomes clear that their 2 dates have kidnapped them. Despite the threat on his life, Senator Palmer sneaks out of his hotel to meet a reporter who has damaging information that could affect his campaign. Back at the office, Jack has Jamey, a member of his team, decrypt the key card.
3.00 am - 4.00am
Convinced that Jack needs to be relieved of his command, one of his team members, Tony, calls George Mason who arrives and puts the CTU under lock-down. With the help of his second-in-command, Nina, Jack slips out & heads for an address listed on the key-card. Once there, he encounters a shooter who hints that Kimberleys disappearance is part of a bigger plan. Meanwhile, the two boys deliver Kimberley to a man named Ira Gaines.
Disc 2
4.00am - 5.00am
Jack follows the arrested shooter to the police station in hopes of interrogating him only to find that Mason has arrived and taken control of the situation. But, when the shooter says that he will talk only to Jack, Jack learns that he must break the shooter out of jail in order to learn who has kidnapped Kimberley. Back at the hotel, Senator Palmer learns more about the threatened news leak that could hurt his campaign.
5.00am - 6.00am
Jack meets Teri & Alan York at the hospital where Janet has been admitted. But their reunion is cut short when Jack receives a phone call from Gaines telling him to follow his instructions if he ever wants to see his daughter alive again. Back at CTU, a dead body found in a car trunk is identified as that of Alan York. When Nina calls Teri and asks her to pass on this information to Jack, Teri suddenly realise that she is also in danger.
6.00am - 7.00am
Now, under constant surveillance from Gaines, Jack goes back to CTU where Nina inadvertently gets in the way of Gaines plan. Teri tries to escape from York, but her call to CTU only brings more help for York. Meanwhile, Palmer tries to convince his family that they need to tell the press about a secret personal tragedy from their past before its too late.
7.00am - 8.00am
In order to save his wife & daughter, Jack is ordered to deliver a briefcase to a man at Senator Palmers rally. Realising this man must be the assassin, Jack struggles to find a way to protect both Palmer and his family. Back at CTU, Nina & Tony think they have found the traitor within their midst.
Disc 3
8.00am - 9.00am
Although he prevents Palmers assassination, Jack is taken into custody where his story of his kidnapped wife & daughter is not believed. Knowing his family will only be kept alive if he is free to help Gaines, Jack knows he must escape. Back at Gaines compound, Teri & Kimberley struggle to stay alive, while at CTU the traitor reveals that the whole unit has been wired so Gaines can watch their every move.
9.00am - 10.00am
When a new boss, Alberta Green takes over the CTU, Nina secretly continues to help Jack locate Teri & Kim while Jack tracks down investment banker Ted Cofell, a man who is mentioned on the decrypted key card. A shocked Senator Palmer learns that one of his assassins may be willing to commit murder in order to protect his campaign.
10.00am - 11.00am
A man named Andre Drazen contacts Gaines. Clearly disappointed that the mornings events did not go as planned, he threatens to relieve Gaines of his assignment. Across town, Jack kidnaps Cofell & after hearing Cofells Serbian accent, has Nina break into an old case file profiling a secret mission Jack was on in Belgrade & Kosovo 2 years ago. Then Jack meets Cofells contact: the man who claimed to be Alan York!
11.00am - 12.00pm
While Green pressures Nina & Tony to reveal Jacks whereabouts, York leads jack to Gaines compound where Jack attempts to rescue Teri & Kim without backup from CTU. Meanwhile, Senator Palmers plan to prevent a murder fails & he begins to suspect his wife may have a hand in the conspiracy.
Disc 4
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Jack confronts Gaines who, realising he has failed Drazen?s assignment chooses death over helping Jack. Back at CTU, Nina & Tony interrogate the mother of the traitor & learn of a secret bank account containing deposits from Belgrade. They also learn that additional assassins may be making their way to LA.
1.00pm - 2.00pm
While Jack is questioned at the CTU, Teri & Kim are taken to the clinic to be examined. Meanwhile, certain he recognises the name Jack Bauer, Palmer has Jacks background investigated. When he discovers that Jack is the sole survivor of a secret mission that he authorised 2 years ago, Palmer becomes convinced Jack is out for revenge and insists on talking to Jack face to face.
2.00pm - 3.00pm
After Jack convinces Palmer he is not trying to kill him, they go over the Operation Nightfall file. The goal of the operation was killing a man named Victor Drazen & a startling piece of information convinces Jack & Palmer that they are both being targeted. Meanwhile a scare at the clinic results in Teri & Kim being whisked away to a safe house.
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Jack learns that one of the assassins, Alexis Mecir, is actually Victor Drazens son & has become intimate with one of Palmers aides. In an attempt to find the man ordering the assassinations, the aide agrees to plant a tracking device in Alexis wallet. Back at the safe house, Teri & Kim discover that their location is no longer secret or safe.
Disc 5
4.00pm - 5.00pm
During their escape from the safe house, Teri & Kim become separated and the traumatic events of the day result in Teri passing out & then awakening with amnesia. Assuming her mother has been re-kidnapped, Kim conducts her own search for information concerning her mothers abductors. When the plan to track Alexis backfires, Jack pretends to be Alexis in order to keep a rendezvous with one of Alexis contacts.
5.00pm - 6.00pm
Against his familiys wishes, Senator Palmer decides to go public about the secret scandal surrounding his family. Even as Alexiss brother, Andre, sends another assassin to the Bauer residence in hopes of finding Teri & Kim, a confused and scared Teri meets Dr.Parslow, a man who says they are good friends. Unaware of the danger that Teri is in, he offers to give her a ride home.
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Alexis contact turns out to be a power company worker who was being paid to shut off the electricity to a power grid out in the middle of an empty field. As Jack & Mason follow up on that lead, Kims search for information lands her in jail, even as Palmer?s press conference disclosure could ultimately put his own son in jail.
7.00pm - 8.00pm
As Kim tries to get the police to call CTU, Jack discovers that the empty field where the power grid is located to be located actually houses a secret underground government prison. He also finds out that the nights scheduled arrival is none other than Victor Drazen, the man Jack supposedly killed two years before. Now Jack is convinced Victors sons are coming to break him out.
Disc 6
8.00pm - 9.00pm
Jacks fears are proven true when Andre Drazen breaks into the underground facility to rescue his father. With Jack as his prisoner, Victor calls CTU, but Mason tells Victor that his son, Alexis, is still alive. Back at the police station, the police finally let Kim go, but her drive to CTU doesnt go as planned.
9.00pm - 10.00pm
Jack has Nina connect Victor Drazen to a hospital phone so that he can talk directly to Alexis. Nina then advises Palmer of the situation. Palmer urges Mason to arrange the exchange Drazen proposed: the return of Jack for the return of Alexis. Although Alexis is delivered, Drazen holds onto Kim and tells Jack he needs to do one last thing if he wants to see his daughter again.
10.00pm - 11.00pm
Jack arrives at Palmers hotel with a phone on which Drazen will call and ask Palmer to unfreeze $200,000,000 of his assets. When Palmer tells Jack that Drazen knows that is impossible, Jack grabs the phone and throws it off the balcony. It explodes seconds later. Realising Drazen will never give up, Jack suggests having the television news report that Palmer died in the explosion, leaving Jack to offer himself up in exchange for Kim.
11.00pm - 12.00pm
When Jack arrives at Drazens location, he calls and asks to speak to Kim. Andre angrily refuses and says that they know that Palmer is not really dead. Stunned, Jack hangs up & immediately calls Nina to tell her that theres still a traitor inside CTU. Momentarily uncertain of how to proceed, Jack is suddenly shocked into action when Nina calls back with the tragic news.