Chloe regains consciousness and persuades Jack not to shoot Suvarov as it would start a war. Jack capitulates and he decides to follow her plan to get the evidence of Russian involvement to media all over the world, ordering her to shoot him so she can leave the building without being suspected of involvment. She hesitates, and in the heat of the moment Jack brings his own handgun to his temple; however before he can commit suicide Chloe shoots him in the chest at point blank range.

Seconds later C.T.U. agents storm the room. Pillar suspects her of complicity with Jack but cannot find the card on her. Jack, in order to delay Pillar a few seconds longer pretends to whisper something about the card, and as Pillar bends down to try to ascertain what Jack is muttering, Jack bites his ear off. Despite the creative diversion Cole and Chloe are arrested before they can upload the data on the card, which Logan later presents to President Taylor, who watches Jack’s video. Logan implies to her that they must have Jack killed if the peace is to last, and she acquiesces.

However at the signing ceremony, she changes her mind about the treaty just before signing it and confesses that she has been involved in a conspiracy to bury the various crimes committed throughout the day. She attempts to have Logan’s ambush of Jack’s medical convoy called off, but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Logan finds out that his involvement is known. He kills Pillar and then attempts to commit suicide. At CTU, Chloe takes charge again and locates Jack. He is just about to be executed when Taylor orders his assassins to stand down and get out.

On the phone, she apologizes to Jack and explains to him that she has already withdrawn from the peace treaty signing and that she will soon announce her resignation and will accept her punishment, whatever it may be. She tells him that he will have to do the same, but advises him to get out of the country as the Russians and Americans will both be after him. Both Chloe and Taylor promise to buy Jack as much time as they can for him to escape, but neither are sure exactly how much he’ll have. Jack, seen on the drone’s camera monitor at CTU, thanks Chloe for having had his back all these years and makes her promise to protect Kim. She does so and orders Arlo to cut the drone’s video feed. When he does, the screen goes black and the clock counts down instead of up, from three seconds to a series-concluding 00:00:00.

“Day 8: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.” is the 24th episode of season 8 of 24, the series finale and the 192nd episode overall. It originally aired May 24, 2010 on FOX.