2:00AM-3:00AM (24 season 5)

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This article is about Hour 20 on Day 5 of the Fox Network TV series 24.

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“2:00AM-3:00AM”
24 episode

Episode no.	Season Day 5 Episode 20
Guest stars	Jude Ciccolela, Jayne Atkinson, Paul McCrane, Stephen Spinella, Kirk Acevedo, Richard Gilliland, Kirk B.R. Woller, Andrew Hawkes, Blake Robbins, Stephanie Erb, David Batiste
Written by	Joel Surnow & Michael Loceff
Directed by	Dwight Little
Production no.	5AFF20
Original airdate	May 1, 2006
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Bill Buchanan tells Karen Hayes that Jack Bauer is at the airport. The TAC team arrives at Buchanan's house. They demand to see Chloe O'Brian, but she has escaped. She arrives at a hotel and reports to Hayes. Chloe calls Jack about the air marshal that is on the plane, as well as a German passenger who has a connection to Henderson, and tells Jack their seat numbers. Jack knocks the air marshal unconscious, impersonates him, and then forces the German passenger to accompany him into the baggage compartment.

Graem calls President Logan and asks him if Jack has been found yet. Martha Logan wants Mike Novick to get her medications. He then talks to the President and demands to know what has been going on. The President tells him that it is none of his business, but he then lies and tells Mike that there's trouble with his marriage.

Meanwhile, the pilot turns on the seat belt sign and the flight attendants make sure everyone is in their seat for massive turbulence. They discover a passenger is neither in his seat nor in the bathroom, and then the air marshal falls out of his seat. The flight attendant wakes him up and he tells her they need to find the man who sat next to him and knocked him unconscious. He discovers his gun is missing.

Mike confronts Martha saying he suspects a cover-up, but she doesn't reveal anything.

The German passenger tells Jack he has not talked to Henderson in months. The baggage compartment begins to depressurize on the air marshal's order, so Jack tells Chloe to patch him through to the pilot. Jack identifies himself to the pilot and tells him to restore air pressure to the baggage cabin, but the pilot refuses to do so after consulting with his co-pilot. Jack then pulls on several cables that manipulate the tail fins, causing the plane to lose balance; the pilot then acquiesces to his demand. Jack exits the baggage compartment, orders the air marshal into the baggage compartment, leaves the German passenger below, and takes the flight attendant with him and orders everyone into the main cabin. He tells the pilot to maintain a holding pattern, so that he has enough time to look for the suspect. The pilot, however, refuses to do so and tells Jack he will land the plane.

The President tells Graem that Jack hijacked a diplomatic plane and tells him to apprehend Jack when the plane lands. Miles voices his concern about Karen to Mike, but Mike agrees with Hayes's actions. The President tells Hayes that Jack has to be taken down, dead or alive.

Chloe finds out that the co-pilot, Scott Evans, was a last minute replacement, and belongs to Omicron International, Henderson's firm. She tells Jack and patches him through to the pilot on a secure channel. Jack tells the pilot about the co-pilot, but he doesn't believe Jack. However, the pilot's suspicions are raised, and as he's about to leave the cockpit, the co-pilot assaults him with a flashlight. Jack is able to enter the cockpit, and after a brief struggle, he retrieves the recording from the co-pilot.

Martha, heavily under the influence of her prescription drugs, telephones Logan, and asks him why he did not go to her for help, but he tells her that he has to take another call; it is Graem, who tells the President he intercepted a call from Chloe O'Brian to Karen Hayes saying Jack has the evidence implicating the President. Graem tells the President that if he does not order the plane shot down, he will go to prison for treason and murder.