24 - Day 8: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

A man, Victor Aruz (Benito Martinez), returns home to find that he is being targeted for assassination by a Russian operative named Davros (Doug Hutchison). He seeks help from Jack Bauer, interrupting Jack's decision to fly back to L.A. to live out a quiet life with Kim, her husband Stephen and daughter Teri. Aruz claims that President Hassan of the Islamic Republic, who is currently at the UN building working on a treaty with President Taylor, is going to be assassinated soon; he and his confederates helped smuggle the assassin into the country and are now being killed off by this same assassin. Jack agrees to help and receives support from CTU director Brian Hastings and Field Ops director Cole Ortiz, Aruz demands immunity from prosecution in exchange for his information and is granted that when suddenly Davros launches an RPG at Aruz and the CTU agents successfully killing Aruz. Before his death Aruz tells Jack that the assassin has a mole close to Hassan, but can reveal nothing more before he dies. This mole is implied to be reporter Meredith Reed, who is having an affair with Hassan and causing tension between him and his brother / chief of staff, Farhad (Akbar Kurtha).