24: 12.00 Midnight-1.00am

As the clock strikes midnight on the day of the California presidential primary election, Jack Bauer, who heads the Los Angeles division of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) is informed of an assassination threat on Senator David Palmer, a Democratic Presidential nominee who happens to be black. As Jack and his team of experts begin investigating the plot, his daughter Kim sneaks out to go to a party and his wife Teri goes in search of her with the father of Kim's friend - Alan York. However, what they find only leads them to be increasingly concerned. And Senator Palmer faces his own problems when he is informed of an allegation that a reporter is going to air regarding his son.