Last Time: Mount Rushmore was saved when Jack was able to detonate the toilet hanging from Lincoln\u2019s nose with the help of his gun. The people inside the limo that grabbed Manilow off the streets of Las Vegas got fed up with him and threw him in the trunk. Jack and Curtis got sidetracked in Indianapolis by falling for the old \u201cRemote-Controlled-Stock-Car-Going-Around-The-Track\u201d trick. RoboEdgar accidentally dropped the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the front yard of someone north of Indianapolis. Jack and Curtis chased the Marwan Brothers to the Field Museum in Chicago. The Marwans are somewhere inside, and Jack and Curtis have just arrived on the front steps.<\/p>\n
The following occurred between 5 am and 6 am, and was filmed before a live studio audience.<\/p>\n
5:00 am \u2013 A guard inside the Field museum sleeps at his post as Jack and Curtis pound on the doors. No matter what they do they can\u2019t get the guys attention. Jack finally yells, \u201cCubs win the World Series!\u201d, and that\u2019s shocking enough to wake the guard up. The guard walks over to the door and Jack and Curtis mouth the words \u201cLet us in\u201d and start doing an elaborate pantomime trying to show that they want to get into the museum. The guard just stands there watching them. He uses an intercom and tells them, \u201cNo mimes\u201d. Jack realizes the guard can hear them and tells the guard they need to get inside right away, and that it\u2019s an emergency. The guard tells him that there are public restrooms down the street. Jack tells RoboEdgar to guard the entrance. Jack turns and shoots open the lock on the door. Jack and Curtis run into the museum, and the guard says, \u201cThe men\u2019s room is on the second level!\u201d<\/p>\n
5:02 am – Julian is convinced he can find the secret to curing his brother’s pending onset of Zombie-itis, and runs frantically through the museum looking for the Tutankhamun exhibit. Under the lights of the museum, Marwan looks about as healthy as an Olympic athlete who participated in 1904.<\/p>\n
5:04 am \u2013 Jack and Curtis run through the museum trying to figure out where the Marwans are headed. They stop outside the museum gift shop. Jack tries to reach Chloe on his JackPhone, but he can’t get a signal. He turns around and sees Curtis messing around with a coin stamping machine. Curtis says he’s just trying to get a souvenir of their trip, and shows Jack the coin. It’s of the King Tut exhibit. Jack tells Curtis they have to get a disguise and walk into the exhibit to try and take the Marwans by surprise, because he’s sure that’s where they’ll be.<\/p>\n
5:06 am \u2013 Julian and Marwan are searching through the King Tut exhibit when Marwan suddenly stops and points at a mummy. Marwan says, \u201cHey! I know him! In the afterlife, that guy owes me money!\u201d Julian stares at his brother for a second, and tells him they have to move quickly to find the recipe for the cure.<\/p>\n
5:08 am \u2013 Jack and Curtis have broken into the gift shop. They both are putting on disguises to see if they can sneak into the King Tut exhibit posing as service staff. Jack finds a beard and glues it on. He tells Curtis to hurry up. Curtis emerges from the other side of the rack wearing a full King Tut costume, complete with head dress. He tells Jack that he could set down perimeters in style with that kind of outfit. Jack says that he’ll have to go in first with a service cart to see if he can see the Marwans. After that, Curtis will have to follow. Curtis asks what he should do. Jack looks him up and down and tells him that he should walk like an Egyptian.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
5:13 am \u2013 Julian walks to a portion of the exhibit with giant stone tablets hanging inside a glass case. The label on the outside says \u201cBelieved to be a tablet of ancient medicines and cures\u201d. Julian excitedly tells Marwan that he thinks he found the recipe. He starts copying down the hieroglyphics onto a note pad. Marwan steps up and looks at the tablet. Marwan laughs, and says that it’s not a tablet that explains medicines at all. Marwan says, \u201cSee here? It says, \u2018East Nile Guy seeks West Nile Gal for fun, food, and eye make up exchanges.\u2019 It\u2019s a personal ad!\u201d.<\/p>\n
5:15 am \u2013 Jack enters the exhibit wearing a maintenance jumpsuit and pushing a cart. The Marwans are in the far part of the exhibit and don\u2019t see him. Jack slowly moves towards the Marwans. Suddenly, we hear someone singing:<\/p>\n
\u201cNow when he was a young man,
\nHe’d never thought he’d see,
\nPeople standing in line,
\nTo see the boy king\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Curtis. He walks into the room singing and dancing, trying to blend in as if he\u2019s part of the exhibit. Needless to say, the Marwans see through this immediately, and start shooting, knocking Curtis to the floor. Jack tries to return fire, but only gets a couple of shots off before the Marwans escape. As they\u2019re running towards the entrance, Marwan tells Julian, \u201cDon\u2019t worry brother, it will all be over soon!\u201d<\/p>\n
5:16 am \u2013 Jack goes to see if he can help Curtis. There\u2019s large dent in the medallion he\u2019s wearing, but he seems to be OK. He tells Jack that probably wasn\u2019t the best entrance he could have made, and Jack agrees.<\/p>\n
5:18 am \u2013 The Marwans run through the museum, out the exit and slam straight into RoboEdgar. They fall to the ground, and RoboEdgar looks to see what happened. Thinking quickly, he tells RoboEdgar that there\u2019s a great pizza place around Wabash and Ohio. RoboEdgar ignites his rocket boosters and takes off. Julian turns on a hand held radio, and tells someone to be ready for them.<\/p>\n
5:20 am – The Marwans jump into Jack\u2019s car, hotwire the engine and start to drive away. Jack and Curtis burst through the doors of the museum, dive for the car and are only able to grab it by the bumper as the car peels away. Curtis and Jack hang on for dear life as the car goes down the street. Sparks shoot all over the place from all the metal on Curtis\u2019 costume. Jack looks up and sees a bumper sticker that reads, \u201cHow\u2019s my driving?\u201d<\/p>\n
5:22 am \u2013 The car continues down the road, with Jack and Curtis in tow. After narrowly avoiding getting hit by traffic, tail-gaters, and various pieces of road kill, the car screeches to a halt, forcing Jack and Curtis off the bumper. They both tumble into a wall.
\nThey\u2019re at the entrance to Navy Pier. Marwan and Julian don\u2019t even notice that Jack and Curtis were with them the whole time as they race for the doors to the building.<\/p>\n
5:23 am \u2013 Marwan and Julian each run to a different door. Julian takes out his gun, shoots the lock, and runs inside. Marwan looks at what Julian did, shrugs, and simply opens the door. Marwan shakes his head. Julian\u2019s only reaction is to tell his brother to hurry up. They go running down up the escalator and out of sight.<\/p>\n
5:24 am \u2013 Curtis and Jack regain consciousness outside of Navy Pier. Jack gets up first and checks to see that Curtis is OK. Jack goes running to one of the doors and slams straight into the glass, which knocks him backwards. Jack shakes his head trying to regain his senses. He sees the other door with broken glass, goes through it, and runs for the escalator.<\/p>\n
5:25 am \u2013 At the top of the escalator, Jack stops to listen. At first he doesn\u2019t hear anything. Then, off in the distance, he can hear some carnival music start up. He goes running towards the music. He runs through some doors and sees that the Marwans are on a giant Ferris wheel nearly at the top. He runs over to the controls of the machine and shoots it, leaving the Marwans stranded at the top.<\/p>\n
5:26 am \u2013 Jack uses the JackPhone to tell Curtis where to meet him. Jack hears a noise, and looks up. It\u2019s a helicopter, heading straight for the Marwans! A rope ladder rolls out, and both of the brothers climb onto the rope. Jack tries to shoot them but amazingly misses. He tries to shoot the helicopter and misses. He looks at the gun, points it at a nearby flower pot and shoots. It shatters. Reassured that the gun is actually working, and tries to take aim at the helicopter, which is already out of range. As the helicopter flies away, Marwan waves at Jack.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
5:31 am \u2013 Jack phones Chloe to see if she can spot where the Marwans are headed next. Chloe tells him that they\u2019ve hooked into Chicago\u2019s police dispatch and there\u2019s some sort of commotion going on near Wabash and Ohio, which is only a few blocks away. He tells her to try and find the helicopter that just left Navy Pier.<\/p>\n
5:32 am \u2013 Outside of Navy Pier, a traffic control officer is writing a ticket for the car that the Marwans stole from Jack and Curtis. Jack and Curtis run out of the building and see the officer. Jack points up in the sky, and yells, \u201cLook! A turtle!\u201d The officer looks up. Jack and Curtis jump in the car, throw it into reverse, and drive off before the officer can turn around to see what happened.<\/p>\n
5:33 am \u2013 Jack drives down Grand Ave, turning sharply on Wabash. On the corner is Pizzeria Uno, which already has people lined up outside of it, even at this hour. As Jack gets out of the car, a restaurant employee tells Jack that he can order his pizza now, and it\u2019ll be ready by the time they get inside. Jack ignores this, and asks Curtis what he thinks they should do. Curtis says that he\u2019d order the mushroom and green pepper pizza. Suddenly there\u2019s a loud crash just north of where they are standing.<\/p>\n
5:35 am \u2013 Jack and Curtis run up the block and see RoboEdgar outside of Pizzeria Due. RoboEdgar is standing in front of a man with a hot dog cart. RoboEdgar looks really mad. Jack gets between the man and RoboEdgar and asks what\u2019s happening. The man looks extremely mad and says, \u201cThis moron wants KETCHUP on his hot dog! There\u2019s a lot of things I\u2019ll do. I\u2019d shovel snow in my underwear. I\u2019d roller skate down Lake Ave. I\u2019d even swim in Lake Michigan. But I will NOT serve KETCHUP on a hot dog!\u201d Jack finally placates the hot dog guy by buying 50 hot dogs, \u201call the way\u201d. Curtis mumbles something about it being a little weird that hot dog vendors are out at this time in the morning.<\/p>\n
5:37 am \u2013 Back at CTU, Chloe has calculated the flight path of the helicopter that left Navy Pier. Suddenly the monitor she\u2019s viewing scrambles. She looks up and all the other monitors in CTU are scrambled too. Bill comes out of his office. He asks everyone who\u2019s been doing pier-to-pier downloads again. Chloe yells up to him that she thinks that they\u2019ve gotten some kind of virus in their system, and it\u2019s shutting all the machines down. She tells him to call Jack to let him know that as best as she can tell, the Marwans are headed to Washington, DC. She tells Bill that she has to get to a working computer to help Jack, and that he better warn the White House.<\/p>\n
5:39 am \u2013 Chloe runs out of the building, throws a pop can into the \u201cMrs. Fusion (Slogan: \u201cIt kicks Mr. Fusion\u2019s butt\u201d), jumps into her car, and drives away.<\/p>\n
5:41 am \u2013 Curtis looks like he\u2019s going to be sick. The hot dog guy says he\u2019s never seen anything like it. RoboEdgar is has just finished off his 50th hot dog. Jack says that they need to get going to Washington, DC right away.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
5:46 am \u2013 There\u2019s a large canvas covering the entire Lincoln Memorial. The canvas has a sign on it that says, \u201cRenovation sponsored by The Hokey Pokey Toilet Company\u201d. We hear hammering and banging, but can\u2019t see what exactly is happening at the Memorial. It suddenly stops, and we hear screams from inside the work area, and Julian comes racing out.<\/p>\n
5:47 am – A streak like a shooting star races across the sky right over the Memorial headed right for the Washington Monument. We can faintly hear two men screaming as the streak passes by.<\/p>\n
5:48 am \u2013 The streak is on a collision course with the Washington Monument, but at the last moment, we see an arm reach out and grab the tip of the Monument. The streak turns around the top of the Monument several times, and finally stops. It\u2019s Jack, Curtis and RoboEdgar. Jack tells Curtis, \u201cRemind me to NEVER hitch a ride with RoboEdgar right after he eats\u201d.<\/p>\n
5:49 am \u2013 Julian continues to run from the Memorial as if he\u2019s seen a ghost. He pulls out his cell phone and makes a call as he runs. He\u2019s headed heading straight for the Washington Monument.<\/p>\n
5:50 am \u2013 RoboEdgar takes them safely to the base of the Monument, and Jack tells Curtis to get rid of the Egyptian disguise. Curtis starts to do so. Jack tries to take off the fake beard he\u2019s been wearing since they were at the museum, but it\u2019s really glued on tightly, and he can\u2019t remove it. He tells Jack, \u201cYou\u2019ll just have to leave it that way until we have time to take it off properly\u201d. Jack tells Curtis that he does NOT like looking like Grizzly Adams, and continues to try and remove the beard.<\/p>\n
5:52 am \u2013 Elsewhere in Washington, a limousine stops in a parking lot. Two large men get out of the car. They go to the back of the car, open the trunk, and pull Manilow out of the back. They take him back to the car, and throw him inside. For the first time, we see that Hollywood and Janosz are the people that grabbed Manilow off the street in Las Vegas. Hollywood is speaking on the phone, and tells the person on the other end of the line, \u201cJust take care of it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Hollywood turns to Manilow and says, \u201cI want you to cooperate with us. If you don\u2019t, you\u2019re going to get hurt\u201d. Manilow nods, and asks what he has to do.<\/p>\n
5:54 am \u2013 Hollywood says, \u201cWe need someone on the inside of the White House, now that you\u2019re gone. The Marwans are working on their part of the plan, but if it fails, we need someone on the inside to help cover things up.\u201d Manilow says, \u201cI\u2019m the right person for the job! I remember where nearly everything is in the White House. I lived there before, you know\u201d. Hollywood says, \u201cDon\u2019t be stupid. I\u2019m talking about Janosz here. I need to get him a job inside the White House as some sort of security consultant. The news of your part in what happened with the Russian President yesterday hasn\u2019t reached all of the security personnel yet, so you\u2019ll be able to bring Janosz into the White House. He\u2019ll take it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
5:56 am \u2013 Manilow says, \u201cThey\u2019ll never believe that he\u2019s not a spy! I mean, listen to him talk! He\u2019s got outrageous French\u2026er, Portuguese, er, Arme\u2026uh, whatever that accent is, it\u2019s not going to work.\u201d Hollywood says, \u201cThen you\u2019ll have to figure something out, because you need to get him into the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n
5:58 am \u2013 Manilow and Janosz are pushed from the limousine just outside the White House. Manilow tells Janosz, \u201cFollow me\u201d, as they walk towards the guard house.<\/p>\n
5:59 am \u2013 Jack\u2019s JackPhone rings. It\u2019s Chloe. She says, \u201cJack! A virus hit the computers at CTU! I can\u2019t do any of my surveillance from there. I had to drive home to get onto the public Internet to see what I could find to help you. I\u2019ve found a website that might help us catch the Marwans!\u201d<\/p>\n
6:00 am \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME: THE FINAL EPISODE OF \u201c24 \u2013 THE NEXT DAY!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"