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06:17pm On location. 911.
An ambulance arrives to attend to Maropis. A diabetic, he checks his blood-sugar level but finds that it's actually fine. The paramedics put him in a neck brace and Maropis is taken to the trauma center at Los Angeles County and USC Medical Center. He stays in the hospital until about noon the next day and is back on the set two days later. The 24 crew won't finish the scene until he's fully recovered the following week.

08:07pm On location. Making plan B.
Maropis is gone, but shooting continues. ''We're gonna roll with the punches,'' says director of photography Rodney Charters. ''So we'll use his body double and shoot everything else that doesn't include a close-up of him.'' Sutherland is back crawling on the ground, this time being kicked by Maropis' double, Jon Braver, who finds himself in the odd position of being chastised by the boss for not abusing him hard enough. ''This is taking way too long,'' says Sutherland, ticking off the quick beats. ''It should be boom, kick, boom, boom, kick!''

08:52pm On location. Outside warehouse.
With the fight finally over, everyone is sent outside while the stuntmen coordinate an upcoming shoot-out scene. Sutherland relaxes with his favorite on-set hobby: playing chess under the heat lamps.

10:02pm On location. Overtime.
Word filters down to the crew that filming will likely go until 2 a.m. and will include a final shoot-out sequence and Sutherland's end of a phone-call scene to Schroder, who'll add his part later.

12:52am On location. Dinner.
After a few deafening takes, and many bloodless death spins from the stuntmen, the shoot-out is captured. With only a skeleton crew needed for the last phone-call shot, everyone else heads outside to the heat lamps to eat pizza before heading home.

01:52am On location. And...cut!
The final shot nabbed, the crew wraps, to return that afternoon at 3. As he turns his gun and bulletproof vest over to the prop master, Sutherland says, ''Once I started to see the show was doing well and had the potential of doing five, six, seven seasons, I went, Okay, this is a real burn. Just realize the next six years of your life is gonna be this, and it'll be done some day, and a year after it's done, you'll miss it. And you'll be really glad you can look back and say, 'That was actually a really amazing part of my career.'''

06:15am Howard Gordon's home.
Gordon again half-watches the same Yummy Yummy Wiggles DVD while taking notes on the script for episode 20. And another day in the life of 24 begins. Beep...beep...beep...