Daybreak

Jason Whittaker's secrets are no longer safe - not even inside his own head. While he was unconscious after a staged car accident, someone implanted a tiny chip in his brain that transmits his thoughts, and now the villain Dervishi is stealing submarine launch codes right out of Jason's mind. With federal agents minutes from arresting him, NSA agent Jillian Marshall defies her orders and races Jason to the hospital, where he chooses a risky surgery over a safer fix - even if removing the chip could cost him his life. But the famous surgeon assigned to the operating room, Dr. Rusk, is secretly the man who planted the chip in the first place. Then Whit's phone buzzes with a threat: hand over the codes, or a bomb goes off in fifteen minutes. A cryptic note leads Whit, Jillian, and Connie to room 14 in the hospital basement... where they find a bomb big enough to level the building, its screen counting down eleven minutes to go.

Found on 28 Hours Album 73 · 6 episodes

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0944 A Friend in Need When a rare baseball card gets handed to a pizza driver as a tip, Jay drags Zoe on a frantic three-hour scavenger hunt across town to get it back before his parents find out.

0945 Knox on Sacrifice On his podcast, Pastor Wilson Knox explores what sacrifice truly costs through three interwoven stories - one of which holds a secret his old friend Whit never knew he'd witnessed.

0946 Morning When a rare watch vanishes from Triple J Antiques and a stranger turns up injured outside the shop, Jason Whittaker discovers the burglary is only the first move in a much larger scheme.

0947 Afternoon When Odyssey's most famous antique dealer vanishes without a trace, the people closest to him discover that nothing - and no one - around him is what it seems.

0948 Evening With Jason Whittaker missing after a double kidnapping, the people of Odyssey chase scattered clues - a green sweatshirt, a strange calendar, and a shady arms dealer - toward a truth hiding in plain sight.

0949 Dead of Night While hiding from enemies inside a television station, secret agent Jason Whittaker and his allies race to unmask a traitor as stolen launch codes put a fleet of Navy submarines in deadly peril.

0950 Daybreak With federal agents closing in and thousands of lives at stake, Jason Whittaker must race against his own mind to stop an enemy who can steal secrets straight from his thoughts.

0951 Final Minutes With a bomb ticking inside Odyssey Memorial Hospital, surgeons race to remove a mind-reading implant from Jason Whittaker's brain while a traitor hides among the rescuers.

0952 Game Night Connie's strictly rules-only game night - no work talk, no complaining, no competitiveness - proves harder to survive than anyone expects, even for the host.

0953 Renee Renewed A brilliant intern's shortcut to a breakthrough invention forces her to choose between scientific ambition and the trust of her mentor.

0954 Legally Wooton When Wooton discovers that a beloved cartoon character sweeping Odyssey's birthday-party scene is secretly his own long-lost creation, the gentle artist must decide how far mercy goes in fighting for what's his.

0955 Value in the Process A brilliant young programmer schemes to skip ahead of a class far beneath his abilities, only to find that the real lesson isn't in the curriculum.

0956 Tough Call When a video of her church testimony unexpectedly goes viral, Olivia Parker reluctantly steps into the role of online mentor - and connects with a mysterious caller hiding a secret that could upend her famous family.

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Minor characters & crew 2 more roles

2 supporting roles

Joseph Calhoun Phil Morris William Rusk Actor Unknown

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Chris Anthony Host Kathy Buchanan Writer · Director Luke Guenot Sound Designer Zach Schneider Sound Designer Nathan Hoobler Producer Dave Arnold Executive Producer

The story

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Jason Whittaker is in terrible danger before this story even begins. He has guarded secret submarine launch codes for more than ten years, but he was kidnapped in a staged car accident, and his friend Jillian Marshall - who revealed she is really an agent with the NSA - helped get him back. Since then, a missile has been fired from a Navy submarine, Jason's fingerprints have mysteriously appeared at the Pentagon, and a horrifying truth has come to light: while Jason was unconscious, someone implanted a tiny computer chip in his brain. The device reads his thoughts and transmits them to the enemy. Jason himself is the leak.

Now the NSA is sending agents to arrest Jason, but Whit argues that locking him up will solve nothing - as long as Jason can think, the shadowy villain Dervishi can keep stealing codes straight out of his head. Together, Whit, Jason, Jillian, and Connie piece together another mystery: the recent break-in at the antique shop was never about money. The thief was lifting Jason's fingerprints off the cash register keys so they could be planted at the Pentagon to frame him. With federal agents only two minutes away, Jason begs Jillian to get him to the hospital so the device can be removed. Torn between her orders and what she knows is right, Jillian grabs her keys and goes.

The car ride is a battle inside Jason's own mind. Dervishi's team already has one launch code and is closing in on the longer one, and Jason can feel his thoughts being tugged back toward the submarines. Connie tries to distract him with cheerful chatter, but she keeps accidentally saying "sub" - sub sandwiches, substitute teachers - until Jason has to beg her to try something else. Whit finally suggests Jason fill his head with songs and poetry instead.

At Odyssey Memorial Hospital, Jillian learns she has been put on administrative leave for disobeying orders, but she doesn't regret it: "It was the right thing to do." Dr. Calhoun meets them along with Dr. Rusk, a famous neurosurgeon who trained him. Scans confirm a minuscule device sitting right on Jason's hippocampus. Rusk pushes hard for a safer option - an injection to short-circuit the transmitter - and warns that removing the chip could leave Jason comatose or kill him. But only removal is completely certain to work, and Jason refuses to gamble with thousands of lives. If dying is what it takes to keep others safe, he is willing. He signs the release and the surgery is scheduled. Jillian tells him, "You're an idiot," then adds, "And I've never respected you more." Remembering Whit's saying that character is built one block at a time, she declares, "You're pretty much a pyramid, Jason." Then Whit, Jillian, and Connie join hands and pray, asking God for wisdom for the doctors and peace in a situation that feels completely out of control.

What none of them knows is that Dr. Rusk is Dervishi's secret agent. It was Rusk who implanted the device and stole the fingerprints, and now he promises Dervishi he will delay the operation - and if that fails, he will be in the operating room to make certain the chip is never removed. Dervishi, furious that the plan is unraveling, orders Sky Feldstein to set "Plan D" in motion.

Moments later, Whit's phone buzzes with a text from a blocked number: hand over all the codes now, or a bomb will explode in fifteen minutes somewhere in town, in a place full of people Whit loves. Whit refuses to ask Jason for the codes - he knows his son would never trade the world's safety for his friends'. Instead they scramble to evacuate Whit's End, the church prayer group, and the schools. Then comes the flash of insight: the hospital sign reads Odyssey Memorial Hospital - OMH - matching the note "OMH014" that Sky once jotted down. Room 14, in the basement. Jillian produces an old key card from when she applied for a job at the hospital, and they race for the service elevator. Upstairs, Dr. Rusk stalls the surgery until Dr. Calhoun threatens to operate alone, forcing Rusk to fall in line.

In basement room 14, Whit and the others find a bomb big enough to destroy the entire hospital. Whit sends Connie running to security to clear the building, calls the bomb squad, and stays behind with the ticking device. The countdown screen glows with the chilling words: "Eleven minutes to go."