An FBI agent and a Special Operations interrogator must force a terrorist suspect to divulge the locations of three nuclear weapons that are set to detonate somewhere in the United States.

Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.

When the U.S.S. Missouri welcomes aboard the musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage, the visitors throw a party. Led by a rogue CIA operative and a turncoat officer, they're really commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew, except for one man, who claims he's just a cook.

Eighteen months after the murder of his wife, Jack Bauer is estranged from his daughter, Kim, and no longer works for the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. But a phone call from the President of the United States sends a reluctant Jack back to CTU for a briefing. There the head of CTU secretly tells him about a nuclear plot involving the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles within the next 24 hours. Jack finally agrees to go undercover...