24 Episode 3.21 Day 3: 9:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M.

Jack, Chase and the SWAT team wait outside the building. When Saunders doesn't emerge, Jack orders the apartment to be gassed. Jack is surprised to learn that Tony moved every agent to the front instead of positioned on all sides. Jack calls Tony to question his judgment, but Tony blames it on a staff error. Chase goes inside to find that Saunders is gone.

9:04 A.M.

Chloe asks Tony why he told Jack that someone on his team made a mistake.

9:05 A.M.

Tony goes into the tech room and deletes satellite imagery of Saunders leaving the building. Saunders calls Tony on his cell phone and demands the release of Jane. Saunders threatens to kill Michelle if his daughter is not handed over.

9:06 A.M.

Tony hangs up to take another call from the President. He has to give Palmer the bad news that Saunders escaped. Palmer is adamant that Jane Saunders be surrounded with tight security.

9:07 A.M.

The President sees a news report about his campaign opponent, Senator Keeler, losing endorsements because the public feels Palmer is handling the raised threat level instead of playing politics. Palmer isn't concerned. "The only thing that matters is stopping Stephen Saunders,"he says gravely.

9:08 A.M.

Jack and Chase are confused as to how Saunders got out without them noticing. They leave the scene to go back to CTU. Jack confirms with Chloe that Saunders had definitely been in the building.

9:09 A.M.

Kim and Jane arrive at CTU. They are informed that Saunders has not been captured.

9:10 A.M.

Michelle is taken by Saunders's henchmen to a holding room. She is bound and gagged.

9:15 A.M.

Going through the satellite footage, Chloe notices that a few frames are missing from the view of Saunders's building. She approaches Adam, who is talking with his virus-infected sister. Chloe surmises that Saunders has a mole inside CTU who had access to the imagery. She won't notify Tony until she has more information.

9:17 A.M.

Jane Saunders is afraid that Jack will hurt her, but Tony promises that he won't let anyone harm her.

9:19 A.M.

Saunders calls Tony and asks to speak to his daughter. "You have my wife. I want to talk to her first,"Tony replies, threatening to kill Jane if anything happens to Michelle. Saunders lets Michelle briefly talk to Tony. Then Tony puts Jane on speaker phone. Saunders tells her not to believe what the U.S. government says. He is only doing things in "good cause."Tony picks up the phone and tells Saunders that he will have to go through clearances to get Jane out of CTU.

9:21 A.M.

Adam confirms that someone inside Tony's group purged the frames on the surveillance feed, but he doesn't know who it is. Chloe gets a call from Dr. Macer who does not know the whereabouts of Michelle. The agent assigned to Michelle is not answering his phone.

9:22 A.M.

Adam warns Tony that someone from his group has breached security. Tony asks him to lock the agency down. Chloe then tells Tony that Michelle can't be found. Tony gives a fake explanation that he secretly moved Michelle to another location.

9:23 A.M.

Tony gives Chloe a record of a call he just received from Saunders. He doesn't want her to tell Adam about it.

9:28 A.M.

Senator Keeler asks his chief of staff to use contacts at the Pentagon to find out what is really going on with the raised threat level. Keeler gets a surprise call from Sherry Palmer. She wants to see him about a high-value proposition.

9:29 A.M.

Jack and Chase enter CTU, and are shocked to find out that someone inside the agency intentionally wiped out the satellite frames which allowed Saunders to escape.

9:30 A.M.

Tony tells Jane that she will be moved very soon. Jack summons Tony from the holding room.

9:31 A.M.

Jack interrogates Tony on the theory that there is a mole inside CTU. Tony is against setting off any alarms at Division. Jack offers to call Brad Hammond at Division, but Tony says he already has a conference call scheduled with Hammond and will fill him in then. On his way up to his office, Jack stops at Adam's desk. Adam verifies that no conference call has been booked with Hammond.

9:32 A.M.

Sherry enters Keeler's campaign headquarters and offers him a way to win the election against her ex-husband. She explains that she was an accessory to the murder of Alan Milliken, and that Palmer lied to the police in order to hide it. Sherry has the prescription bottle that Milliken was reaching for when he suffered a heart attack. She knows that Palmer will drop out of the race if Keeler blackmails him for the evidence. In return, Sherry wants a job on Keeler's White House staff.

9:41 A.M.

Wayne tells Palmer that one his sources claims Sherry met privately with Senator Keeler. Although Wayne wants to assign someone to find out the reason, Palmer insists that they ignore it to focus on the virus threat.

9:42 A.M.

One of Saunders's techies sees that CTU is trying to access his location through the cell phone. Saunders wants Michelle to tell him how CTU is attempting to find him. Michelle bravely refuses to answer. Saunders calls Tony again and warns him that he's slicing Michelle's face unless Tony stops the phone trace.

9:43 A.M.

Tony calls Chloe to shut down the phone trace.

9:44 A.M.

Jack accuses Tony of lying to him. He knows there was no scheduled call with Hammond. Tony admits that he was the one who made the mistake, and he tried to cover it up. Jack says he is taking away his command of CTU.

9:46 A.M.

Adam lets Tony know that he's been trying to narrow down who has been working with Saunders from the inside. Tony says that Jack took over CTU from him.

9:47 A.M.

Tony calls Saunders in a panic with news that Jack is now in charge. Saunders advises him to get Jane out of the building or else Michelle will be killed.

9:52 A.M.

Jack informs Kim that Tony has stepped down because he is hiding something from him. Jack wants Kim to monitor all stations and to flag communications. He doesn't know who else to trust.

9:53 A.M.

Chloe tells Tony that she was able to pull voice track on his call with Saunders but that she hasn't listened to it yet. Tony becomes worried.

9:54 A.M.

Tony sees Jack calling Adam, and he turns on the audio feed at Adam's desk to listen in. Jack has Adam give Kim access to his volumes because she's monitoring something. He asks Adam to send Chloe to his office. Tony calls Adam and says that he is on the line with Chloe. Adam mentions that Jack is looking for her, and Tony offers to pass that information on to her.

9:55 A.M.

Inside the tech room, Chloe pulls up the voice track and hears Tony ask Saunders to speak to Michelle. Chloe becomes alarmed and picks up the phone to notify someone. Her line is dead. Tony has locked down the tech room and its systems. Chloe becomes trapped inside.

9:56 A.M.

Jack announces to the crew that he is taking over command of CTU because Tony has stepped down. Meanwhile, Tony goes into the holding room for Jane Saunders. He knocks out the security guard and takes Jane out.

9:57 A.M.

Kim notices that Chloe hasn't refreshed her system. She notifies Chase and Jack of this unusual circumstance. They can't get a feed on the tech room where Chloe is working because someone has blocked the access.

9:58 A.M.

With a known hostile on the inside, Chase and Jack call for a security sweep of the entire building. They override the access code to the tech room, and find Chloe locked inside. She tells Jack that Saunders is using Michelle as leverage to get his daughter out. Jack radios for a location on Tony, but he is not found.

9:59 A.M.

As Tony drives Jane out, Jack locks down the CTU complex. He learns that Jane is missing. Tony phones Saunders to tell him that he's out. He has less than thirty minutes until the satellite will spot him.

Senator Keeler requests to speak to President Palmer in person.