Season One Episode Guide
Episode Eight
7:00am - 8:00am
7:00 A.M. Having been shot, but saved by the flak jacket that Jack gave her, Nina wanders off from the industrial area, dazed and bruised.
Palmer tells his wife Sherry and son Keith that he plans to admit the truth about the Gibson murder in his breakfast speech. They're not pleased.
The assassin Jonathan arrives for the Palmer breakfast at the San Clarita power plant. With the face and identification of Martin Belkin, he's admitted in by the Secret Service.
Gaines, talking through an earpiece, directs Jack to pick up a briefcase. When Jack begins to waver, Gaines briefly puts Teri on the phone. He sends Jack to the San Clarita power station.
7:08 A.M. Gaines sends Jamey an instant message. At the Counter Terrorist Unit, Jamey grabs her handheld device and goes into a bathroom stall. Gaines watches all this on a surveillance monitor. Through the handheld, Jamey tells Gaines that Milo's aware that he has the wrong keycard, but she'll handle it. She's shocked when Gaines informs her that Nina's dead.
7:11 A.M. Teri's brought to the shack where Kimberly's being held. Kim explains that she met Rick and Dan through Janet.
7:17 A.M. Nina finds a phone and dials Jamey. Jamey's not at her desk to answer it. Nina then calls Tony, asking for Jamey. Tony's about to hand the phone to Jamey, but overhears her telling Milo that Nina's at an all-day meeting.
When Tony questions Jamey, she claims to have just spoken to Nina. Tony senses she's lying, and tells Nina about what Jamey said. Nina realises that Jamey cannot be trusted, and explains to Tony about CTU being infiltrated. He sends a car to pick her up.
7:25 A.M. Jack arrives at the power plant. While clearing Jack for entry into the breakfast, Secret Service Agent Pierce asks Jack to open the briefcase. Inside is a laptop computer. Although Jack's unsure of what the computer really is, it safely powers on. The Secret Service allows him entry into the event.
Jessica, Palmer’s press assistant, recognises Jack from high school and greets him warmly. Jack nervously moves away from her, as Gaines orders him to wait for his contact. Jack makes eye contact with Palmer, but resists the urge to warn the Senator. Palmer moves on, and gets introduced to the man posing as photographer Martin Belkin.
7:29 A.M. As Kimberly sleeps, Rick brings breakfast to the women. Knowing that he's the one who kidnapped her daughter, Teri hits him. As Rick tries to explain, Eli interrupts. He warns Rick not to make friends with the two women because they won’t be around much longer.
At the power plant, Jessica approaches Jack again. He attempts to write a warning on his business card, but Gaines sees this and orders one of his men to break things up. Jack realises that he's still being watched, and pockets his card. Gaines directs Jack deep into the building. Tony kisses Nina when she arrives at a CTU back door. He takes her into a secure room with no active cameras.
She briefs him on Teri and Kimberly’s kidnapping. Tony's sure that it has something to do with the Palmer case. Since their official mandate is to protect Palmer, they both decide that they must warn the Secret Service.
7:36 A.M. Jonathan, who's masquerading as Martin Belkin, enters the room where Jack's waiting and opens up the briefcase. Under the laptop computer are gun parts. While Jonathan puts on latex fingerprint patches, he orders Jack to assemble the gun so that his fingerprints will be on it. Jonathan begins to leave with the weapon stored in his camera bag, but Jack pulls his own gun on the hitman. Jonathan warns that Jack's family is in jeopardy if he's stopped. Jack lets the man leave.
7:41 A.M. To set a trap, Tony makes sure he's within earshot of Jamey when he tells Milo that Jack did swap the key card. Tony contacts Agent Pierce at the Secret Service to inform him that Jack's a threat to Palmer. Pierce is to take any appropriate action.
From the secure room, Nina watches on surveillance monitors as Jamey approaches the bathroom with her handheld device. Tony waits outside the bathroom. Nina, through an ear mic, directs Tony as he grabs Jamey and takes her out of the bathroom. Because the surveillance cameras are on a 20-second rotating loop, Gaines doesn't see Tony and Jamey.
7:44 A.M. Agent Pierce pulls Palmer aside and warns him that a CTU agent at the event may be a threat. Pierce wants to remove the candidate from the premises, but Palmer decides to proceed. He's eager to make his speech. Pierce notifies his agents that they're to detain Jack. Tony brings Jamey to the secure room. She's surprised to see Nina alive. Although Jamey at first plays dumb, Tony and Nina threaten her with murder and treason charges.
Jamey admits that she's been passing messages. She wants to talk to a CTU lawyer, before she'll reveal who her employer is. Tony and Nina worry that they don't have much time to help Jack.
7:52 A.M. At the desert compound, Teri tries to find an escape route from the cabin prison. Aware that they both might be killed, she tells Kimberly that she loves her.
While Jonathan puts Palmer in his target range, one of the Secret Service agents approaches Jack. Knowing he doesn’t have much time, Jack reaches for the agent’s gun. The agent quickly disables Jack, and notifies the other agents through his headset to cover Palmer. Jack feigns innocence out loud for Gaines’ benefit. The Secret Service quickly swarm Palmer and remove him from the podium.
Jack begs Gaines for mercy, claiming he wasn't involved, but when the Secret Service pins Jack to the ground, the transmitter falls from his ear.
Gaines orders Eli to kill Teri and Kimberly, and then notices an instant message from Jamey. Nina and Tony, have seen the disturbance at the Palmer breakfast on television. They instruct Jamey to tell Gaines that the CTU ordered Jack’s arrest because they've been tailing him all night long for insubordination.
Gaines realises this is plausible, and hangs up on Jamey. As Eli's about to kill Teri and Kimberly, Gaines orders him to keep the women alive.
7:59 A.M. At the power plant, the Secret Service take Jack into custody.
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