Jack takes drastic action to gain the cooperation of the only man who knows how to save Kim, but Mason’s interference threatens to ruin Jack’s advantage.
Kim is delivered to Gaines and she learns just how ruthless he can be when he’s crossed. Meanwhile, Teri and Alan watch over Janet in surgery.
Palmer talks to the reporter who plans to break the story about Keith and she shows him proof to back up her claims.
Jack breaks out of a locked down CTU so he can follow a lead from the key card. George Mason puts pressure on Jamie and Nina to learn of Jack’s whereabouts.
Palmer discovers who the source is that leaked the story about his son.
Rick and Dan argue about how to handle Janet, while Teri and Alan run into an obstacle as they try to help their daughters.
Jack learns the identity of the agent who may be working against him. He acquires Jamie’s help to get evidence.
Palmer finally learns of the damning story about to hit the press, involving his son and a possible murder several years ago.
Kim and Janet manage to escape their captors. Kim is able to get a message to Teri, but an accident results in her recapture.
Tony calls for outside help when he decides that Jack should be relieved of his command.
Jack’s plans to find Kim are sidetracked when he gets a call from Walsh, who is being stalked by assassins connected with the Palmer hit. Jack comes to Walsh’s rescue and Walsh gives him a key card containing valuable information.
Palmer learns of the possible threat against his life, but slips away from his security in order to learn more about a damaging story that is about to hit the press.
Dan and Rick start to become violent when Kim refuses to make a phone call for them.
Mandy meets with the man behind the Palmer hit, but her partner holds things up when she demands more money for the ID.
It is California Presidential Primary Day in Los Angeles and the longest day of Federal Agent Jack Bauer’s life is about to begin. Jack has just patched his family back together after a trying separation. Midnight finds Jack playing chess with his teenage daughter Kim. As she goes to bed, Jack gets a call from Nina Myers, his coworker at the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, telling him to come in for an emergency meeting. Jack has no choice but to report in, but he and his wife Teri learn that Kim has snuck out before he leaves.
Kim and her friend Janet York drive to an empty furniture store where they party with a couple of college guys whom they recently met. Kim enjoys herself at first, but starts to become suspicious of the two men when they won’t take her home.
At CTU, Jack learns that an assassination attempt is being planned against Senator David Palmer; the first African-American presidential candidate with a serious shot at the White House. Jack’s boss and friend, Richard Walsh, warns him that people in their own agency may be working with those who plan to kill Palmer.
Senator David Palmer is making his plans for Primary Day when he receives a strange phone call that puts him in a bad mood.
Jack shows how far he’s willing to go to do his job when he blackmails District Director George Mason in the hopes of learning information about the Palmer hit.
Teri receives a call from Janet’s father, Alan York, and the two decide to go out looking for the girls.
A European photographer makes pleasant conversation with a beautiful woman on a plane bound for LA. The two end up in a lustful encounter, but more sinister plans come to light that involve a stolen wallet and the destruction of the airplane.
Easy Company enters the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, once home to Hitler’s top officers. They find the town deserted and rush on to capture Hitler’s famed „Eagle’s Nest“ before the French can get there. Here they learn of the German army’s surrender.
As Nixon battles alcoholism, Easy Company enters Germany. A concentration camp near Landsberg is discovered by a patrol. This site leaves many soldiers both shocked and disgusted at what they’re witnessing at the hands of the Nazi Germans. The episode was based on the liberation of Kaufering IV in the area of Hurlach.
Easy Company carries out a dangerous mission in Haguenau as David Webster returns from a hospital. Together with new replacement 2nd Lt. Jones, he eventually (re)integrates with the other soldiers, whose experiences at Bastogne have made them weary and closed off from Webster due to the fact he didn’t try and leave hospital early unlike other soldiers in the company.
Easy Company battles near Foy, Belgium, losing numerous men. In the episode, the actions of 1st Lt. Norman Dike, the Company’s commander, are examined and questioned. Serving as narrator is 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton, who attempts to keep the morale of the men up as they endure their trials in the forest near Foy.
Easy Company experiences the Battle of the Bulge and have to hold ground near Bastogne while running low on ammunition and other supplies. The episode focuses on medic Eugene „Doc“ Roe as he helps out his fellow soldiers where he can, while also scrounging for medical supplies, of which the Company is dangerously low.