An hour later Jack reached the strange man. As Jack approached he said, “Hi, my name is -“

“Shut up!” said the stranger. “We only have 1024 words to pull this scene off! You, camera man, get the hell over here!”

(camera waddles over).

“OK Jack, as you know the terrorists are making a nuclear bomb to destroy D.C. However they messed with me and now they’re going to pay. They fiddled with the codes to make the bomb stop, but I have the codes to stop they’re WMD .”

“Right, but how did you get these codes?”

“I’m an ex-terrorist.”

“Why did you quit?”

“Poor dental, but that’s not the point. The point is that with the codes I have you can stop the terrorists even if they activate the bomb!”

“Thank you kind stranger. One more question: why did you pick midnight? Why not a more convenient time of day?”

“Because meeting at midnight is a cliche and the writer isn’t very creative. Good bye Jack. We might meet in a climatic moment of the episode. Until then.”

“Until then.” Jack turned around and left to the CTU