24 Episode 5.04 Day 5: 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Neither Curtis nor Buchanan is able to make contact with Jack. They assume he's been captured or killed. Curtis must reconfigure his assault plan.

10:01 A.M.

Beresch addresses Jack by name, and asks him what CTU's plan is. Jack answers that CTU is waiting for his signal to attack. Jack emphasizes that the U.S does not negotiate with terrorists, but Beresch knows that Logan is weak. Beresch pushes Derek aside and asks for another hostage. Jack begs Beresch to allow him to buy more time before he kills another innocent victim.

10:04 A.M.

The White House gets word that CTU lost contact with Jack. They watch as another hostage is shot in front of the camera. Beresch accuses Logan of signing a "corrupt" treaty with the blood of hostages. The President is horrified, and he offers to postpone the summit in order to save the people. Cummings advises Logan to stay on course because the terrorists will never release the hostages.

10:06 A.M.

Evelyn encourages Martha to show Logan the paper transcript that will prove the Palmer phone conversation was doctored. Knowing that her husband is preoccupied and that he believes she is unstable, Martha wants to wait until after the treaty is signed. She slips the paper into her bra for safe keeping.

10:07 A.M.

Curtis tells Diane that he doesn't know whether Jack and Derek are safe.

10:08 A.M.

Beresch watches a news report about the President moving ahead with the treaty. He orders Jack to convince CTU that he has revised the assault plan to another entry. Beresch threatens to kill Derek.

10:09 A.M.

Lynn McGill from District arrives at CTU and abruptly assumes control over the chain of command. He even takes Buchanan's office.

10:11 A.M.

Forced by Beresch, Jack calls CTU and explains that he was forced to end the earlier transmission. Jack tells Curtis to set up in another exit. He stresses that he is in "flank two" position. Buchanan and Curtis make changes to their plans.

10:17 A.M.

Curtis lets Buchanan know he needs another fifteen minutes to reposition. McGill summons Buchanan up to his office. He wants to review the playbook before he approves the mission. Buchanan bristles, but agrees.

10:19 A.M.

Beresch believes that the White House is not giving in because they think they have an option with CTU's attack. Derek blames himself for Jack getting captured. "This is not over," Jack says with certainty.

10:20 A.M.

Novick brings the President the good news that CTU regained contact with Jack. Even though the mission is proceeding, Logan isn't convinced that the hostages won't be killed.

10:21 A.M.

Logan walks out to meet Suvarov and he tells him that the rescue attempt will move forward. Suvarov says that if they are both unable to deal with these terrorists, then the treaty will become a mockery.

10:22 A.M.

Cummings asks Evelyn about Martha retrieving a document with highly sensitive intelligence protocols. Evelyn says that it was only a transcript of a call with Palmer. Cummings threatens Evelyn with prosecution for aiding a criminal act. She tells him that Martha has the document inside her blouse.

10:23 A.M.

Logan worries about CTU's ability to bring down the terrorists in the short time he has before the treaty will be signed.

10:24 A.M.

CTU watches as Logan arrives at the stage a minute ahead of schedule. When Chloe asks if they should warn Curtis, Buchanan snaps at her. She thinks that Buchanan is convinced they won't be able to save the hostages.

10:29 A.M.

Logan addresses the hostage situation to the reporters. He is emphatic that they will not let the terrorists win.

10:30 A.M.

Novick checks in with Buchanan, who asks him to slow down the ceremony. Novick refuses.

10:31 A.M.

Beresch guarantees Nathanson that everything will go according to plan. The White House is under the false impression that their assault will save the hostages. Nathanson warns him to carry out the threat regardless of whether the treaty is signed.

10:32 A.M.

McGill questions Buchanan on the sudden attack alterations. He is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding Jack's decision. McGill wants to review all the transcripts of Jack's phone transmissions.

10:33 A.M.

As Curtis gets his teams ready to attack, McGill asks Chloe to unlock a node in the call logs. She is rude to him, and complains to Spenser that he is a hindrance. Spenser says that McGill is known for firing much of his own staff for incompetence.

10:34 A.M.

One of Beresch's men finds Chevensky's dead body and the keycard he was hiding. Jack sees Beresch discreetly pass the keycard to a male hostage in a yellow tie. The man pockets the card and pretends to huddle in fear with the others.

10:39 A.M.

Beresch has Jack answer his ringing cell phone, where Curtis lets Jack know that his teams are in place. Jack reiterates that he is in the "flank two" position. Jack hesitates and then finally gives Curtis the green light to move in. Curtis counts down a minute to launch, not knowing that bombs are set up where his men are about to enter.

10:40 A.M.

McGill rushes into the CTU situation room and demands that the assault be stopped. He found that Jack was using a code to indicate that an agent is making a communication under duress. Although nothing came up on the filters, McGill points out that "flank two" was the code back when Jack was an active agent. Chloe confirms this, and Buchanan tells Curtis to abort and go back to the original set up.

10:42 A.M.

Beresch doesn't understand why CTU is late in attacking. He makes Jack call CTU, and Buchanan tells Jack that there was a malfunction. They will be ready to launch the attack any minute.

10:43 A.M.

As Logan and Suvarov sign the treaty, Nathanson calls Beresch. Nathanson orders him to kill all the hostages because it is now too late. Suddenly, the wall where Beresch's men are waiting for CTU explodes. The men fire back but there's no one there. CTU SWAT teams attack from behind and take out the gunmen.

10:44 A.M.

Jack grabs a gun from one of the men and starts shooting. Jack hits Beresch in the hand to wound him before he can commit suicide. Beresch makes his way to one of his fallen men and detonates the vest. He is dead. Curtis alerts CTU that they have secured the terminal. The remaining hostages are unharmed.

10:45 A.M.

Novick passes the good news to President Logan, who makes an announcement to the press. "The rescue operation that I authorized was successful," he boasts.

10:46 A.M.

Jack hugs Derek. "I have to finish this," he says before sending him to the command post. Jack looks among the hostages and realizes that the man with the yellow tie is gone.

10:51 A.M.

A tearful Derek reunites with his mother. He tells her that Jack saved not only his life but all the hostages' lives. Diane asks an agent if she can see Jack, but the agent has instructions to escort them back to CTU.

10:52 A.M.

As soon as the treaty is signed, Martha urgently requests a few minutes alone with Logan. He promises to speak to her after the ceremony. She demands to be paid attention to, exclaiming that she is not crying wolf. "Do not ruin this moment for me," Logan dismisses. Cummings approaches the distraught Martha, who helplessly says that the situation is more dangerous than the President knows. Cummings presses her for information, but she will only talk to her husband.

10:54 A.M.

Buchanan apologizes to McGill for brushing him aside because his thoroughness helped save the day. McGill asserts that it was Buchanan's insistence about Jack's integrity caused him to double check. Yet McGill still wants Jack taken into custody because he hasn't been fully cleared of Palmer and Michelle's deaths. Audrey pipes in that the evidence and Chloe's testimony prove that he is innocent, but McGill notes that the video surveillance of Jack near the assassination site was not doctored. McGill orders Jack to be brought in for questioning.

10:55 A.M.

Jack tells Curtis about the missing hostage with a keycard who was working with the terrorist. Curtis has been ordered to bring Jack into custody.

10:57 A.M.

The man with the yellow tie enters a subterranean tunnel below a hangar. He shows his keycard to a gunman and tells him that Chevensky is dead. The two climb into a hole drilled into the floor where a giant metal holding container is kept. The yellow tie man inserts his keycard and the top is opened to reveal several canisters. The gunman checks the canisters for radioactivity. The yellow tie man calls Nathanson and says that they are moving the canisters out.

10:58 A.M.

Cummings slips into Martha's room and grabs her from behind, putting a chloroform-soaked cloth over her mouth. Martha's screams are muffled and she loses consciousness. Cummings takes the paper transcript from her bra.