24 season 2... how did it end???

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Jack saved the day.

It ended with President Palmer getting poisoned

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The staff of CTU watches the mushroom cloud
billow on a monitor, while the President sees the
glow in the distance from Air Force One. From
the deserted road, Kim is certain that her father
died in the explosion. She cries to herself.

Safe from the blast in the desert, Jack lights
flares to signal the chopper that will pick him up.
Once inside, he asks the pilot to connect him to
Tony at CTU so that he can contact his daughter.
However, radio transmissions and cell phones
are down because of the nuclear blast.

Tony tells his staff at CTU that George Mason
thanked them in advance for their hard work.
Tony encourages them to continue working even
though it has been a hard day already. Yusuf
Auda, the visiting Arab liaison, approaches Tony
after the speech to question why he has yet to be
allowed to participate in the investigation. Tony
manages to brush him off. Since Michelle is still
interrogating Syed Ali, Tony asks Carrie to
handle the audio verification of Ali's tape that
confirms three Middle Eastern countries hired
him.

Michelle plays the tape for Ali, but he denies that
the Cyprus conversations ever took place. He
claims to have been in Berlin at the time, saying
that he never met the men on the tape. The
bomb was a Second Wave operation only.

Tony consults with the audio techs about the
tape. Their findings indicate that the voices are
real and have not been spliced together. The
evidence shows that it is a genuine and accurate
record of a conversation. Michelle enters the
meeting and informs Tony of what Ali is claiming.
She thinks that they should investigate further
because there is some possibility that the tape
has been doctored. Carrie interjects in
disagreement, saying that physical evidence
trumps the word of a terrorist. She then questions
Michelle's limited abilities as an interrogator.
Tony says he will present both sides to the
President for his decision.

Novick debriefs Palmer on the detonation and its
lack of casualties beyond the pilot. The President
learns that Jack Bauer was not the one who
manned the plane. Lynne informs them that CTU
confirmed the Cyprus tape, providing proof that
the three Arab countries' ministers gave Syed Ali
support for the bomb. She tells them that, as
expected, Ali denied the conversation ever took
place. Given the evidence, Palmer has no other
choice but to respond militarily. He gives an order
to issue a statement about the nuclear blast. He
then calls for an emergency session of Congress
in which he will ask for a formal declaration of
war.

Tony asks Michelle about the tension between
her and Carrie. He agrees that Michelle does not
have the proper training to handle Ali.
Regardless, Michelle still believes that there is
reasonable doubt warranting the pressing of Ali.
Tony says that Ali will be further interrogated
when he is shipped to Guantanamo, but Michelle
thinks that will be too late.

Palmer meets with his Joint Chiefs of Staff via
videophone from Air Force One. General
Bowden, who is aboard the plane with the
President, informs him that they can be ready to
begin a rolling start with surgical strikes that
same day. It will take eight to ten weeks to get
the ground troops into the Middle East. Lynne
interrupts to tell Palmer that Deputy Prime
Minister Barghouti is calling for the second time
since the bomb exploded. He does not know that
the United States is planning to invade his
country, and Lynne advises Palmer to speak with
him or else the man may jump to his own
conclusions. The President exits the briefing
room to take the call. The Deputy Prime Minister
pledges his country's full support against Second
Wave because they have been trying to capture
Syed Ali for years. He asks the President to not
rush into a response against his country. Palmer
says they are merely gathering evidence at this
time.

A battered Syed Ali is carried out of CTU. Jack
enters the facility, and Ali curses at him as he
passes. Tony gives Jack the phone number of a
San Jose sheriff who is waiting for Kim at her
aunt's house. Michelle then approaches Jack to
ask for his help. She believes that the President
is planning a major military action based on what
was found on Ali's recording. From what Ali told
her, she is not sure whether he isn't telling the
truth. Since Jack was effective at breaking him
once before, she wants him to try interrogating
Ali again. Jack has Michelle track down Kim with
the San Jose number, and he goes off after Ali.
Carrie witnesses this exchange from the other
side of the room.

Jack catches up with the CTU agents taking Ali
outside the complex. He admits to Ali that they
staged the killing of his son, and Jack promises
that he will be allowed to speak to his family
when he arrives at Guantanamo. Jack then asks
about the validity of the Cyprus recording. Ali
says that what he told Michelle was true. Jack
thanks him and walks away. Suddenly, a single
shot rings out. Ali falls dead from a bullet wound
to the head. Jack and the CTU agents scan the
surrounding area to discern where the gunshot
came from.

Tony and Jack discuss who would have known
that Syed Ali was being transported. The leak
could have come from anywhere because the
whole intelligence community knew Ali was
captured. Tony suggests that the shooter is from
one of the three countries implicated on the
recording, but Jack is convinced that this incident
makes it even clearer that Ali was telling the truth
about the audio being faked. They argue over
this, and Tony thinks that Jack is implying that he
is not fit to run CTU. He tells Jack to worry about
Kim and let them handle the situation alone. Jack
moves off, realizing he's going to have to get
involved himself.

Kim walks up to a closed convenience store sees
a payphone. She attempts to make a call but all
the circuits are busy. When she hangs up, a man
who works there comes up behind her. Frank
Davies allows Kim to use the store's restroom.
When she goes in, he locks the two of them
inside.

Palmer resumes his meeting with the Joint Chiefs
as Bowden briefs them on the possible
scenarios. He predicts ten to thirty thousand
American casualties. Palmer gets a call from
Jack and takes it in the next room. Jack informs
the President that Ali has been assassinated,
which suggests that the Cyprus recording is not
genuine. Palmer tells Jack that he needs hard
proof immediately.

Jack calls Michelle, and she mentions that an
intelligence officer is in the office from one of the
target countries. He goes to look up Yusuf's
background when Kate spots him as she is
brought into CTU. She is surprised to see him
alive, but is relieved because the bomb has been
detonated safely.

Novick comes to Palmer to give him the good
news that Bowden downgraded his casualty list.
The President is not fazed. He has more
pressing matters on his mind, and relays his
fears to Novick that they may be acting too
hastily in starting a war. Novick wants to side with
the facts, but even he is unsure whether the
proof is not a lie.

Jack enters the men's room where Yusuf is
washing up and he introduces himself. Yusuf is
resistant because he has been excluded from the
investigation. Yet Jack asks whether it is possible
that the tape found in Ali's house may have been
compromised. Yusuf wants to learn what it is that
Jack knows because it most likely incriminates
his country. Jack is not at liberty to say anything,
hoping that Yusuf will help without receiving
information in return. Yusuf leaves in a huff.
Jack's cell phone rings. An unknown man
identifies himself as the one who planted the
bogus tape and shot Ali. The man demands Kate
Warner, and he instructs Jack to take her from
CTU and bring her to a specific warehouse.

Kim is in the convenience store restroom when
she hears someone banging on the door to be let
in to buy supplies. Davies tells the man named
Garcia that the store is already closed, and he
calls the police when Garcia becomes
threatening. "It's starting," Kim says. Davies
presses her to find out what that means, but
before she can answer, the door shatters. Garcia
smashes a shopping cart through the glass. He
lunges at Davies and grabs his throat. Kim pulls
out her gun and fires into the air. She orders
Garcia to let go of Davies and leave. Yet when
faced with having to actually shoot him, Kim
relents. Garcia takes the gun away from her and
fills the cart with food and supplies.

Jack calls Michelle from inside CTU. He thinks
that there may be another way to prove that the
Cyprus tape was faked, and he asks for her help.

Garcia offers to pay for the goods in the store. He
is not a criminal, but wanted to fend for his
pregnant wife waiting in the car outside. He tells
Davies to turn on the news, and they see reports
that a nuclear bomb has exploded. Davies asks
Kim if she knew about this all along. Suddenly,
the police arrive and draw their weapons on
Garcia's wife in the car. Garcia calls to them, and
Davies reaches for the gun in Garcia's hand.
Garcia accidentally discharges Kim's gun and
Davies falls down bleeding. The cops order
Garcia to exit the store, but he grabs Kim as a
hostage.

Michelle goes into a CTU holding room where
Agent Baker is debriefing Kate. Michelle tells
Baker that one of his files needs to be attended
to, and she follows him out of the room. Jack
slips into the holding room and tells Kate that he
urgently needs her to come with him. Yusuf
watches this occur. So does Carrie, who
immediately picks up the phone to notify Tony.

Tony blocks Jack from leaving the building at
gunpoint. Jack asks him to put the weapon down.
When Tony doesn't comply, Jack takes it away
forcefully and Tony is knocked out cold. Jack
grabs Kate's arm and ushers her roughly through
the exit door.


Jack takes Kate to the CTU garage. She stops
him to inquire about what is going on. "Do you
trust me?" he asks. She does, and gets in his
car. Meanwhile, Carrie finds Tony trying to lift
himself from the ground where he fell and injured
his ankle. He warns her to notify security. The
guard doesn't get the information in time,
allowing Jack and Kate to escape from the
complex. Jack explains to her that a world war
may be started over phony evidence. The man
who claims to have forged this evidence wants
Kate for some unknown reason. Jack has no
other choice but to use her because he is running
out of time and options.

Carrie lets Tony know that Jack got out. She has
already notified both the LAPD and FBI. Carrie
then says that she thinks Michelle was helping
Jack because she distracted another agent so
that he could get to Kate.

Palmer, Lynne and Novick disembark Air Force
One in Los Angeles and get into a waiting
limousine. Lynne connects Palmer to Vice
President Jim Prescott who is in Washington.
Prescott informs the President that he will be
meeting with the British ambassador and that he
plans to tell him about the U.S. preparing to
retaliate for the nuclear bomb. Palmer asks
Prescott to refrain because there may not be an
attack. Although there is possibility that the
evidence might be false, Prescott thinks it is too
late for them to turn back on military action. Yet
Palmer is adamant about his decision. After he
hangs up, both Novick and Lynne express their
reservations to the President about letting the
fate of the country hang on Jack Bauer.

Greatest show ever

And Season 3 is even better

it ended after 24 hours

At the convenience store, Kim tries to stop the
bleeding in Davies' chest. She appeals to Garcia
to give himself up to the police. He is terrified.
Suddenly, Davies stiffens. Kim attempts CPR,
but Davies dies.

As he drives towards a warehouse in Studio City
to deliver Kate, Jack notices that he is being
trailed. He turns the car into an alley, and the
other car follows. Jack pulls his gun on the driver.
It is Yusuf. After he watched Jack take down
Tony, Yusuf knew that Jack is not on board with
what CTU has been doing. Yusuf states once
again that his country is not responsible for the
bomb. He offers to help Jack clear up the facts.

Tony, walking on crutches, asks Michelle if she
helped Jack kidnap a witness. Michelle tells him
that she did not intentionally draw the agent away
from Kate Warner. Michelle claims that Carrie is
trying to sabotage her because they don't get
along.

The police phone the store to urge Garcia to
come out, but he refuses to exit peacefully. They
put his wife on the phone, and Garcia tells her to
leave the city so that she can be safe from the
oncoming war. He then orders the police to take
his wife to Monterey. Once she arrives there, he
will release Kim.

Jack pulls up to the warehouse where he is to
meet the caller and takes out a gun. He instructs
Kate to remain in the car. In case of emergency,
she is to dial him on the car phone. He promises
to protect her. Jack goes up to the entrance
underneath a neon sign and enters the building.
Inside he finds Captain Jonathan Wallace, a
member of the Special Ops team from Fort
Benning. He shows Jack the Coral Snake tattoo
on his forearm as proof of his membership in that
squad. Then Wallace sits down at a table with his
hands visible to Jack. Wallace was the seventh
commando who took out his own platoon so that
they couldn't prevent the bomb from detonating.
Wallace admits responsibility for that, as well as
for planting the Cyprus recording so that the
bomb was blamed on the three countries. His
goal was to start a war by forcing the United
States to attack the Middle East. The people who
hired Wallace control oil in the Caspian Sea, and
a war in that region would quadruple their
holdings' value. However, those same people
tried to kill Wallace an hour ago and he fears for
his life. Because Warner Industries has a
Department of Defense variance, board member
Kate can authorize his departure out of the
country. While he is talking to Jack, Wallace
secretly taps his foot against a plug in its socket
underneath the table.

That plug causes the neon sign outside the
warehouse to flicker. This signals a man with a
gun to approach Kate as she waits in Jack's car.
The man orders her to get out. Suddenly, Yusuf
appears and smacks the man over the head with
his weapon. The man drops unconscious. Inside
the warehouse, Wallace tells Jack that he holds
the source recordings before they were mixed
down to create the faked Cyprus tape. Suddenly,
Jack's cell phone rings and he answers it. "It's for
you," he says calmly, handing it to Wallace.
Yusuf is on the phone, and he tells Wallace that
the man he sent for Kate has been knocked out.
Wallace hangs up, and says to Jack that he won't
turn over the evidence unless Kate comes with
him to personally authorize the charter. He
admits that he will have to kill Kate once he's
reached his destination. Jack says that he won't
let that happen, and doesn't give in to Wallace's
demands. Wallace gathers his weapons to leave.
With no other choice, Jack stops him. He radios
Yusuf to bring Kate in.

Setting up at District Headquarters in Los
Angeles, Novick tells Lynne that he wants to talk
to Jack Bauer himself. Although Lynne disagrees
with Novick going behind the President's back,
she gives him the number of CTU. Novick calls
Tony asking to be connected to Jack. Tony,
however, informs him that Jack illegally took a
witness from the site and can not be located.
Novick asks to be notified when they find him.

Carrie briefs Tony on the hunt for Jack. He has
not made contact with anyone and has not been
spotted on satellite. The Warner house and office
are also being watched. She asks about
Michelle's involvement, and Tony questions
whether she had concocted the stories because
they are not friendly. Carrie says that she saw
Michelle and Jack speaking conspiratorially
before he took Kate Warner. Believing her story,
Tony has Carrie put a filter on all of Michelle's
communications to see if Jack tries to reach her.

The police take Garcia's wife away from the
convenience store. Garcia blames Kim for
pointing the gun at him and starting the whole
ordeal. She tells Garcia that she was only afraid
because her father died in the explosion that
rocked the city. The police call Garcia and beg
him to let Kim go because his wife has been
delivered to safety. He says that he will kill Kim if
they raid the store. As he talks to the policeman,
Kim runs out and manages to lock herself in a
back room. The police help her escape outside,
and Garcia panics.

Yusuf ties up the man who tried to kidnap Kate.
The man says that there were no other
accomplices, and Yusuf knocks him out cold.
With Kate in tow, Yusuf sweeps the outside
perimeter to make sure there are no other men.
He notifies Jack of this, as Jack waits inside with
Wallace. Wallace tells Jack that he was at Fort
Benning when Colonel Samuels unsuccessfully
tried to recruit Jack for Coral Snake. Samuels
had called Jack "a born killer."

Working at her station, Michelle gets an error
alert from the backup server on her computer.
She calls Carrie to ask if she received the same
alert, but Carrie says the problem must be on her
end. Michelle goes off to find a solution. Carrie
then walks over to Michelle's station. She
redirects Michelle's links to outside
communications so that she can track them on
her computer.

Novick tells Palmer about Jack's improper
activities. In an attempt to focus the President on
the war at hand, Novick suggests that Jack may
have suffered an emotional collapse from the
day's events. Palmer, however, trusts that Jack is
doing what is necessary to prove that the Cyprus
recordings are not authentic. He orders Novick to
find Jack.

Wallace tells Jack that, once he and Kate have
escaped, he will notify him where the evidence is.
Yusuf brings Kate into the warehouse. Jack
reluctantly tells her that she has to go with
Wallace. Kate thinks that Jack is giving her up.

Carrie listens in when Michelle receives a phone
call from a man named Danny. Danny asks
Michelle if he and the children are safe from the
nuclear bomb, but she can't give him any more
information. Michelle tries to calm Danny down,
but he threatens to call Carrie to find out what's
going on since she won't tell him anything.
Michelle thought that he stopped speaking to
Carrie. Danny concurs because he thinks Carrie
is a bitch. He abruptly hangs up. Carrie deletes
this call from her database file.

The SWAT team surrounds the convenience
store, and the police tell Garcia to give up his
weapon. He doesn't come out, and the cops raid
the building. Kim watches in horror as gunfire
ensues. A medical team is called in.

Since Palmer is in a briefing with CTU Director
Chappelle, Novick and Lynne meet with Vice
President Prescott via videophone. Prescott
informs them that the British ambassador is
frustrated because the United States is planning
an attack against the Middle East without
coordinating with his country. Prescott asks
Novick what is going on with the plans for war,
questioning the President's softness on the issue.
Novick believes that Palmer is capable of making
the right decision and is committed to the military
action. Yet the President only wants to cover
every base. The Vice President hangs up, and
Novick tells Lynne that, with the planes in the air
ready to begin the attack, it will be a disaster to
turn them around based on one CTU agent's
claim of evidence. Lynne wonders what they are
going to do next.

Wallace orders Kate to get in the trunk of his car.
She won't go, but Jack urges her to do it for her
own safety. She looks at Jack and obeys. Yusuf
whispers to Jack that he put the tracker on the
car. Suddenly, the car windshield shatters.
Gunfire comes from above the warehouse.
Wallace, Jack and Yusuf return fire.

As Jack, Yusuf and Wallace fire back at the
gunmen in the buildings above, Jack pulls Kate
from the trunk of Wallace's car. He takes her into
the warehouse with Wallace, while Yusuf darts
off into an alley. Wallace tells Jack that the
shooters must be the follow up team sent by his
employers when their first attempt to kill him had
failed. Stocking up on ammunition, Yusuf radios
Jack from the car. He will try to get to a better
vantage point to see how many men are still out
there. Wallace won't let Jack call CTU to warn
them about the Cyprus recording, but when more
snipers appear, Wallace gives in to Jack's
demand for help. Jack phones Michelle's cell
phone. She warns him not to phone any agency
numbers because she is being monitored. He
needs her to track infra-red satellite at the
warehouse to find out how many men are
surrounding them. Michelle gets to work.

Outside the convenience store, Kim is forced to
explain to Deputy Raynes that the gun Garcia
used to accidentally shoot Davies was hers. She
admits to being a murder suspect who escaped
from police custody.

At District Headquarters in Los Angeles, Palmer
and his staff watch news reports about violence
erupting across America after the nuclear bomb
detonated. Although he is not allowed to use the
Army on U.S. soil, Palmer gives the order to
bring troops in to help. Lynne informs the
President that their bombers will reach the Middle
East in less than five hours.

As Michelle researches Jack's request, Carrie
questions what she is doing on the satellite.
Michelle switches screens on the monitor and
sends Carrie away. Carrie runs up to Tony to tell
him that Michelle is not only accessing a mod-sat
screen, but that she received an open call that
did not lock onto their log. He has Carrie find out
what Michelle was looking at.

As they wait inside the warehouse for help from
Michelle, Jack assures Kate that they will get out
of there. He explains that Wallace wanted her for
her access to a cargo plane, but that he would
not have let Wallace take her.

From a monitor, Carrie watches Michelle as she
collects satellite telemetry and images.

As Deputy Raynes drives her from the crime
scene, Kim asks about Miguel and Officer Brown
who were hurt in the patrol car accident. Raynes
doesn't know anything about either of them, but
tells her that she can make a phone call when
they arrive at the stationhouse. Kim says that she
has no one to call because her father was the
one who flew the plane with the nuclear bomb.

Carrie analyzes the data that Michelle has been
tracking and informs Tony. He assumes that Jack
can be found at the coordinates on the satellite.
However, Michelle has been covering herself by
tracking over a hundred different quadrants.
There's no way to distinguish which one she's
really studying. Tony tells Carrie that he will
handle this his own way.

Michelle goes into the restroom and phones Jack
from her PDA phone. She quickly synchs him the
map of the warehouse with the location of the
shooters. As she leaves, Tony is waiting for her
outside the restroom. He cautions her that they
have been monitoring communication and asks
point blank where Jack is. Michelle says that she
doesn't know, but that Tony should notify the
President to not act on the Cyprus recording until
Jack has finished his investigation. Tony warns
her to tell him what information she knows.
Michelle again denies helping Jack.

Jack and Wallace analyze the map Michelle
beamed over and figure out an escape route
from the warehouse. Jack arms Kate with a gun.
He then radios Yusuf with the locations of the
gunmen and his plans.

Lynne asks the President how long he plans to
wait for Jack to find the evidence. The Secretary
of Defense feels that he is losing flexibility to
begin attack and wants to launch pre-strikes.
Palmer orders that there be no pre-emptive
strikes, giving Jack all the time he needs to
disprove the tape. Novick then alerts the
President that civil unrest is becoming alarming.
Militia groups in Marietta outside Atlanta, Georgia
are joining forces in racially motivated attacks
against Middle-Eastern people. Unfortunately,
there is not enough police or military to cover
every hot spot around the country. Palmer
instructs his team to send all of the Eastern
Georgia National Guard to Marietta and to inform
the media about it. Palmer plans to let the public
see the government's response in protecting its
citizens against racism.

With the go-ahead from Jack, Yusuf throws
smoke grenades into the alley near the
warehouse and he begins firing toward the roof.
Jack and Wallace come out and fire in the same
direction. They now know where the shooters are
located. Yusuf goes for the car. Kate gets
separated from them. She spots one of the
snipers coming towards her, but the man doesn't
see her. She aims her gun but is unable to shoot.
The man turns around to face Kate and she kills
him. Jack grabs her and makes a run for the car.
Wallace follows, and as he climbs in the car, he
is hit in the neck by a gunshot. Yusuf peels out
and they escape. Jack checks Wallace's wound
and finds that the bullet is still inside his body.
They need to get to a hospital, but Wallace
insists on going directly to the airport. He asks
Jack to suppress the bleeding. Kate gets the
CTU first aid kit from the glove compartment and
Jack applies gauze to Wallace's wound.

Palmer and his staff watch news reports of riots
taking place in Marietta. The President enacts a
curfew and orders the National Guard to start
making arrests. Novick suggests that the
President make a statement to the public. Palmer
agrees.

Tony, who has received word from the LAPD
about gunfire in Studio City, has Carrie check the
location against what Michelle pulled from the
satellite. He then approaches Michelle and asks
her if it's where Jack was located. She
acknowledges that it is true, and tells Tony that
Jack can only get his proof if CTU stays out of
the situation. Tony says that they don't even
know if Jack is still alive. Michelle picks up her
phone and dials Jack, telling Tony that the
number is not traceable. She hands the phone to
him. Jack tells Tony that he has been ordered by
the President to prove that the Cyprus recording
is a fake. The man who can give him that proof
won't deal with CTU. Jack knows that the man is
not using him to escape because commandos
tried to kill him for making the deal. Tony insists
on Jack bringing the man into CTU. Jack refuses
and hangs up.

Deputy Raynes takes Kim into the Sheriff's
station and hands her off to Sergeant Amis. Amis
asks Kim about Megan Matheson's kidnapping.
Kim admits that she did this because Megan was
being abused. Amis informs her that Gary
Matheson confessed to killing his wife Carla.
Although she and Miguel tried to escape from
police custody, Kim had been truthful in telling
Officer Brown about the bomb. She is free to go.
Amis lets Kim call CTU so that they can clear her
through legal channels.

As they drive towards the airport, Kate phones
ahead to prep a cargo transport authorization.
She explains that, since she is an officer of her
father's company, she will also be on the flight.
Wallace begins to seize, and Jack begs him for
the evidence. Wallace loses consciousness. Jack
plugs into the car's GPS to find the nearest
medical center and has Yusuf head there.

Kim calls Tony at CTU and asks for his help in
clearing her charges. She is shocked to find out
that Jack is still alive. Yet when she asks to
speak with him, Tony says that Jack is not
reachable.

Yusuf pulls up to a clinic, and Jack barges in past
the front desk with Wallace in tow. Although the
clinic is not prepared to deal with such a serious
wound, Jack demands that the doctor treat
Wallace.

Kim gets the number for Miguel's hospital room
and calls him. When she tells him that they will
probably be cleared of all charges, Miguel is
surprisingly not excited by the news. She inquires
about his health, and he says he is fine. Yet
Miguel doesn't want to see her anymore, and Kim
is confused by this. He hangs up without telling
her that his right leg has been amputated.

Michelle goes to Tony expecting to be fired. He is
angry with her for not doing her job. They still
don't even have Jack or the evidence to prove
the recording was forged. Michelle apologizes for
her actions, and Tony dismisses her from his
office.

No, ya think ?

General Bowden briefs the President on the
status of the bombers as they head towards the
Middle East. Palmer is reassured that the planes
can be ordered back at any time. The Joint
Chiefs of Staff, however, would rather have a firm
decision. Lynne and Novick inform the President
that the crowds in Marietta grew out of control,
and that the National Guard shot rubber bullets.
Two people were killed. One was a young Middle
Eastern boy who was trying to flee with his
family. Palmer is saddened, and asks Lynne to
find out the boy's name. He then orders Novick to
tell the National Guard to not back down. They
are to restore order in the Marietta neighborhood.

The doctor examines Wallace's x-rays, telling
Jack that he is not authorized to perform surgery
to remove the bullet. Jack assures him that the
clinic will not be shut down because saving
Wallace's life has something to do with the
nuclear bomb that went off. He also asks that
Wallace not be sedated because he needs him to
talk. Kate gets a departure time for their flight,
and Jack guarantees that he will get on the plane
with her if that's what it takes to protect her.
Suddenly, Wallace calls off the doctor's
treatment. He tells Jack that he's not going to
make it. Wallace whispers to him that the original
source files to make the Cyprus recording is on a
memory chip. When Jack asks where that chip is,
Wallace says, "It's inside?" Before he can finish
his sentence, Wallace stops breathing. The
doctor attempts to restart his heart through
defibrillation, but Wallace dies. Jack doesn't know
what to do, and rests his head in his hands.
When he lifts his head up, he is facing the light
box holding Wallace's x-ray. Jack notices a
shadow on the x-ray at the bottom of the rib
cage. He goes over to Wallace's dead body.
There is a stitched scar in the same spot. Much
to the horror of the doctor, Jack grabs a scalpel
and slices the skin where the scar is located. He
reaches his hands into the body cavity and pulls
something out. "I got it," he says as he holds up
the blood-covered microchip.



As a general briefs the war room on the military
plan, Vice President Prescott questions whether
Palmer is indeed behind the air strikes. Palmer
informs the Joint Chiefs and Cabinet members
that he is waiting for CTU Agent Jack Bauer to
provide hard evidence to prove that the Cyprus
recording was fabricated. The general advises
the President that, in order to be effective, the
first strike must be a surprise. Waiting any longer
will only increase U.S. casualties. Palmer agrees
that they must proceed with the plan.

Yusuf examines the microchip under a
magnifying glass. Jack calls the President, but
his staff will not put him through until the meeting
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff is completed. Jack
then phones Tony to tell him that he is bringing
into CTU a chip with the evidence. He asks Tony
to notify the President. Yusuf alerts Jack that
there is a transponder on the chip, which is how
they must have found Wallace at the warehouse.
Yusuf is familiar with this kind of tracker and
attempts to dismantle it without destroying the
audio files.

Michelle gets another frustrating call from Danny,
but she has no news for him. Tony comes up to
tell her that Jack called and has found the
evidence. She urges Tony to warn the President.
He says that he is thinking about it.

Yusuf separates the tracker from the chip just as
the men looking for Wallace arrive at the urgent
care center. Jack takes the tracker, and tells
Yusuf and Kate to meet him a few blocks away
with the chip. If he is not there in fifteen minutes,
they are to deliver the chip to CTU. As Jack runs
out of the clinic, the men see on the handheld
GPS monitor that Wallace has moved. They
head towards where Jack went. One of the men
sees Wallace's dead body in the patient room,
finding the hole in Wallace's chest. Yusuf and
Kate, hiding in the room, sneak out unnoticed.

After the meeting with the Joint Chiefs, Novick
informs the President that the California governor
wants National Guardsmen dispatched in the
state because of erupting violence. Lynne
patches Tony through to the President as she
and Novick listen in on speaker. Tony tells them
that Jack claims to have found the source
recordings edited together to make the Cyprus
tape. Although Jack says that they are authentic,
Tony can not be sure. Palmer tells Novick and
Lynne that he wants to call off the attack. Novick
tries to convince the President that his lack of
response to a nuclear weapon going off on U.S.
soil may cause him to be perceived as weak.
Lynne also makes note that the Pentagon's
assessment shows that stopping and then
restarting the military operation will cost
thousands of lives. Yet Palmer is steadfast in his
decision not to attack.

Tony tells Michelle that he informed the President
about Jack's evidence. She thanks him for doing
the right thing, but Tony wants to confirm that the
chip is real when Jack brings it to CTU.

As Yusuf drives towards Jack's meeting point,
Kate tries to phone CTU. All the circuits are
clogged and she can't get through. Yusuf
comments that they are too busy preparing war
against his country. They pull up to the location
to look for Jack. Meanwhile, the henchmen follow
their GPS monitor into the basement of the clinic.
There is no sign of Jack, but they find the tracker
that was removed from the chip. The men see
Jack running outside and one of their cars
catches him. One of the men named Ronnie
Stark shoots Jack with a taser. He falls to the
ground. On Stark's orders, the men carry Jack's
limp body into the clinic.

After Novick informs a general with the
President's decision not to launch the attack,
Lynne asks him if he knows about a meeting that
the Vice President called. She only heard about it
second hand, and has not informed Palmer.
Novick has no idea either, and says he will try to
find out its purpose.

The men strip Jack and search his clothes with a
metal detector. They induce him to vomit, and
run the metal detector over the excrement. Stark
takes out a medical case full of scissors and
scalpels. He receives a call from Peter Kingsley,
who is flying in a helicopter over Los Angeles.
Kingsley seems to already know that the man
they are holding is Jack Bauer. He asks to speak
to Jack, and offers Jack money for the chip. Jack
will not relent. Kingsley instructs Stark to get Jack
to break because they do not have much time.

Stark dips a scalpel in ammonia and slices into
Jack's abdomen. Jack's scream is muffled by the
gag in his mouth.

Michelle asks Carrie to unlock the software on
her system to allow her to run point analysis on
the chip Jack is bringing in. Carrie says she will
do it herself, but Michelle insists that she just do
as she is commanded. Michelle accuses her of
trying to sabotage her work, and Carrie says that
Michelle is doing the same. Tony witnesses this,
and summons Michelle to his office. He asks
what is going on between them to interfere with
their work. Michelle admits that she and Carrie
were friends when she worked for her at Division.
Her brother Danny left his wife and children for
Carrie, who then dumped him. Danny lost his job
and his family, and tried to commit suicide. Tony
asks Michelle to help keep the office running
despite what is between them. Michelle gets a
call. Danny is at CTU to see her.

Michelle asks Danny what he is doing there. He
says that he tried to call, but the phones weren't
working. He only wanted to apologize for yelling
at her. Michelle wants him to leave, but Danny
sees Carrie across the room. He yells at Carrie
for not returning his calls. Both Michelle and Tony
try to step between them, but Danny lunges for
Carrie and wraps his hands around her throat.
Security guards have to pull Danny off, and
Michelle watches, horrified.

Novick tells Lynne that he found out the Vice
President is personally calling cabinet members.
They both assume it is about the President's
decision to call off the attack. Novick says that he
is secretly meeting with a Defense Department
official named Jesper Isberg who has
information. Although Novick tries to keep her out
of it, Lynne insists on being present for the
meeting. Novick tells her to go to a storage room
on the fifth floor and wait.

While a medic checks out Carrie, Tony goes to
Michelle, who is crying in a corner. She is upset
about her brother, and the emotions from the
day's events come flooding over her. Tony
comforts her and they kiss. Carrie interrupts to
tell Tony that Chappelle is looking for him.

Stark opens another wound in Jack's side but
Jack is defiant. Stark then takes a hot cauterizer
and burns Jack in the spot where he has been
cut. Jack screams in pain through the gag until
he loses breath. One of the other henchmen pulls
Stark off to prevent him from killing Jack. Stark's
cell phone rings. It is Kingsley, checking on the
status of the chip. Stark says he is still working.

Novick enters the fifth floor corridor and meets
Lynne. He asks her if she knows about Section 4
of the 25th Amendment, where the cabinet can
vote to remove a President from office if they
determine that he is unfit to fulfill his duties. The
Vice President would then become acting
President. Lynne is alarmed that Prescott would
do such a thing. Jesper Isberg arrives, and
Novick makes him wait outside. Novick then asks
Lynne where she stands with regard to Palmer's
decision. Lynne says that, although she does not
agree with the President, she is loyal to him and
believes that Prescott should be charged with
treason. Novick calls in Isberg and steps out of
the room. Isberg blocks Lynne from the door.
Lynne is shocked that Novick is aligned with
Prescott. He tells her that Palmer would not listen
to reason and that he can't stand by while the
President's indecisiveness could cost American
lives. Novick tries to justify to Lynne that he is
doing this for the good of the country. Although
she puts up a fight, Isberg locks Lynne in the
room. Novick orders him to not let her out unless
Isberg hears it from him directly.

Yusuf tells Kate that they should bring the chip to
CTU since Jack never showed up. As he is about
to drive away, Yusuf is pulled out of the car by a
group of men. They accuse him of being an Arab
who bombed the United States. Yusuf grabs one
of the men and trains his gun on him, warning the
other men to get down on the ground. As Kate is
getting back into the car, she sees another man
come up to Yusuf with a brick. She tries to warn
him, but the man knocks Yusuf to the ground.
The men beat him mercilessly. When Kate tries
to stop them, they smack her. She falls, dazed.

Tony phones Chappelle in his car. He tells Tony
that he is coming to CTU with a few key people
from Division to help out. Tony then calls
Michelle to see how she is doing. She apologizes
for her actions, but he says he is not sorry for
what they did. Michelle is concerned about what
Carrie will do with the news. Tony says that it is
none of her business.

Stark orders the unconscious Jack to be woken
up. He brings up Kim, suggesting that Jack
wouldn't want his daughter to be an orphan.
Stark has one of his men hit Jack with the taser.
Jack writhes in pain. Stark instructs the man to
do it again, but the man says that Jack is no
good to them if he is dead. Stark takes the taser
and does it himself. Jack's eyes roll to the back of
his head and his body goes slack. Stark orders
the men to wake him up, but when they snap
poppers under Jack's nose, he does not stir. One
of the men says that Jack is dead. With concern
rising, Stark tells the men to cut Jack's binds and
let him down. Stark frantically administers CPR
on Jack, and yells for the men to find
epinephrine.



While Stark shocks Jack's chest with a
defibrillator, one of his henchmen searches the
clinic for epinephrine. Kingsley phones again and
another henchman named O'Hara takes the call.
O'Hara is forced to tell Kingsley that Jack is
flatlining, and Kingsley gives him the order to fix
it. The doctor is ushered in at gunpoint to
administer epinephrine to Jack. He applies the
defibrillator paddles and revives Jack. Stark is
relieved, and inquires to O'Hara about what
Kingsley wanted. "He said I just got promoted,"
O'Hara says before shooting Stark point blank.
The doctor is horrified. O'Hara leans over and
asks Jack for the chip.

Novick tells Vice President Prescott that Palmer
is still in the dark and that he managed to get
Lynne out of the way before she could warn him.
Novick expresses doubt that he is doing the right
thing, but Prescott assures him that history will
recognize their accomplishments. When Novick
hangs up, Palmer comes into his office. He asks
the President if there is anything he can say to
make him change his mind about delaying the
war, but Palmer is sure of his stance. He thanks
Novick for standing by his unpopular decision.
When Palmer inquires about Lynne, Novick tells
him that she wasn't feeling well. Lynne,
meanwhile, bangs on the closet door begging
Isberg to let her out. She opens a storage cabinet
and finds a blowtorch among the tools.

The men who attacked Yusuf go through his
pockets and steal his money and watch. They
find the chip, and although they don't know what
it is, they grab it as well. Kate begs the men to
give her the chip. She offers them money from
her house. They pile her into their car and drive
off. Yusuf uses whatever strength he has to drag
his bloodied and broken body to a nearby
payphone. He dials 911, but the automated voice
tells him that all circuits are busy.

O'Hara orders the doctor to give Jack an injection
of Beroglide to paralyze his diaphragm. When
O'Hara is distracted by a phone call from
Kingsley, Jack pleads with the doctor to untie
him. The doctor hesitates, fearing for his life, but
starts to loosen the ropes on Jack's wrist. O'Hara
returns and makes the doctor inject the
Beroglide. Jack gasps, unable to breathe.

Michelle meets Ryan Chappelle when he arrives
at CTU. Since all phone services are down, he
warns her to save satellite phone usage for their
highest priorities. Chappelle commends Tony for
not letting Jack's ideas about the Cyprus
recordings alter their mission. Yet Tony tries to
tell Chappelle that Jack may not be wrong.
Chappelle threatens Tony. Either he goes
against Jack, or Chappelle won't support his
permanent placement as CTU Director.

Lynne starts a fire in a trash bin. When the
smoke alarm goes off, Isberg enters the closet.
Lynne smacks him with a fire extinguisher and
bolts out of the room. Isberg follows her to the
stairwell and grabs her, but Lynne falls over the
railing. She lands a few floors down, struck
unconscious.

Palmer tries to phone the Vice President, but is
told that he is unreachable. He turns to Secret
Service Agent Pierce who stands guard. Since
Pierce is a seasoned veteran of the White
House, Palmer asks for his opinion on the
situation. He wants to know if Prescott is
planning something behind his back. Pierce is at
first hesitant to answer the President. Yet he
warns Palmer to trust his own instincts.

Kingsley is in his office when Alexander Trepkos
enters. "Max is very unhappy," Trepkos says.
Since their project depends on military action,
Palmer's withdrawing the attack is a setback.
Kingsley tells him not to worry about Palmer's
response or about Jack's delivering proof that the
Cyprus recording is false.

As Jack hyperventilates from the Beroglide,
O'Hara presses him about the chip. Jack doesn't
answer, so O'Hara punches him the face. O'Hara
orders the doctor to double the dosage with
another injection. As he prepares the syringe, the
doctor gives Jack a slight nod. "I'll tell you where
the chip is," Jack finally says. O'Hara leans over
Jack and the doctor slams the syringe into
O'Hara's back. O'Hara stumbles, giving Jack
enough time to free his hands from the rope.
Jack grabs O'Hara's gun and shoots the other
henchmen. Jack pulls on his pants and demands
to know from the dying O'Hara who was on the
other end of the phone line. O'Hara says Peter
Kingsley's name and Jack shoots him dead.
Suddenly, Jack staggers. He has trouble
breathing.

Novick comes into Palmer's office. The President
asks him if Prescott is avoiding him, but Novick
blames his unavailability on the events of the
past eighteen hours. Palmer wants Lynne to go
over his statement, and Novick says that he will
deliver it to her. He exits and goes into another
office.

Novick dials Prescott from a satcom phone and
asks if he is still moving forward. Novick warns
him that Palmer is becoming suspicious because
the Vice President hasn't returned his calls.
Prescott says that he will call Palmer. He tells the
anxious Novick to keep things together on his
side.

Jack takes O'Hara's phone and walks through
the clinic. He dials CTU and gets Michelle.
Although Jack tries to tell her about the chip,
Michelle only hears static. Michelle notifies Tony
that Jack called but that the signal was lost. He
instructs her to trace the source of the call. Tony
gives Chappelle the news, but Chappelle does
not want Jack distracting their resources. Tony,
however, is siding with Jack.

Novick listens as Palmer speaks to Vice
President Prescott over speakerphone. The
President offers Prescott the chance to
personally address the military attack with him.
Prescott acknowledges that, if he had something
to say, he would come to the President first. After
he hangs up, Palmer admits to Novick that he
doesn't trust Prescott. Agent Pierce comes in to
notify Palmer that Lynne is in critical condition
after falling down stairs. He takes the President
to her. A look of panic washes over Novick's
face.

Michelle tells Tony that Jack called from a cell
phone somewhere between Studio City and
Encino. They check a map to see where he might
be headed. Tony does not want Michelle to use
the satellite for fear of raising flags with
Chappelle. He has her monitor police channels
instead. Carrie secretly watches them speak.

Jack takes O'Hara's car and drives to where he
was supposed to meet Yusuf and Kate. He spots
Yusuf near the payphone. Although he is
bloodied and battered, Yusuf manages to tell
Jack that someone took the chip with Kate to her
house. Yusuf dies before Jack can rescue him.

Kate leads the men with the chip to her house.
They open the door and the security alarm rings.
They order her to shut it off, and she gives them
the code. The men demand the money she
promised.

Palmer and Novick run outside the federal
building where Lynne is being taken away on a
gurney. She has suffered a concussion. Lynne
tries to form a word but nothing coherent comes
out. She raises a weak hand and points toward
Novick. Novick steps forward and takes her
hand, pretending to comfort her. The EMTs whisk
her into the ambulance.

Carrie warns Tony that Chappelle will find out
that he and Michelle are wasting time looking for
Jack. She says that she won't tell Chappelle if
Tony gives her Michelle's job. Tony calls
Chappelle over and announces that Carrie is
trying to use extortion to get a promotion. She
argues that Tony and Michelle are still searching
for Jack Bauer against orders. Chappelle
dismisses Carrie, then admonishes Tony. Tony
makes it clear that, as acting CTU Director, he is
trying to garner all the facts. He gives Chappelle
the opportunity to relieve him of his duties if he
does not agree with his decisions. Chappelle
says that there is no one else to fill in at the
moment. "I don't like insubordination," he tells
Tony.

Kate opens the safe in her closet, and the men
pull out some cash and a diamond bracelet. Kate
asks for the chip as promised, but they are
reluctant to let her go. Kate runs off as they fire at
her. The men catch up to her and throw her to
the ground. Jack appears and shoots one of the
fleeing guys. She tells him that they have the
chip, and Jack pursues the other two through the
house. He calls out to them through a bathroom
door asking for the chip. The men are afraid, but
refuse to hand it over. One of them says that if
Jack comes in he will smash the chip.

Novick watches via videophone as Prescott
gathers the Cabinet members in the White
House. Prescott tells the group that the meeting
will be closed from the President. The purpose of
the meeting is to decide whether Palmer is unfit
to continue as President of the United States
based on his response to the day's events.




Jack pleads with the men in Kate's house
through the bathroom door, telling them what is
on the chip and why he needs it. One of the men
implores the other to give up the chip, and his
friend accidentally fires his gun. Jack breaks
down the door and enters the bathroom. He
holds the guy and grabs the chip. Jack has Kate
get something to tie the men up.

Palmer tells Novick that he just learned that the
bombers did not return to their bases as he
ordered. Novick sullenly invites the President to
join him in the conference room. Palmer senses
his aide's unease, and asks Novick what is going
on. Novick finally admits that the cabinet
members are questioning whether Palmer is fit to
continue as Chief Executive of the country.

Palmer enters the conference room to find a
video screen with panels of feeds. A group of
cabinet members, lead by Vice President
Prescott, is assembled in the White House
bunker, with the Secretary of State filmed on a
plane and the Secretary of Agriculture in a limo.
Prescott tells Palmer that they are invoking the
25th Amendment, which states that the Vice
President and a majority of the cabinet can
determine whether that the President can be
discharged of powers if he is not capable of
performing the duties of his office. He says that
they have decided Palmer's actions over the day
warrant such a query. The Secretary of State
interjects to state that they are all not in full
agreement just yet. Palmer explains that the
Amendment was designed to deal with the
situations where the President is ill or
incapacitated. Prescott informs him that their
interpretation is backed by the Attorney General.
He insists that Jack Bauer has not turned up the
evidence to disprove the Cyprus recording, and
that waiting will only risk tens of thousands of
American lives. Although they do not agree with
his policy decisions, Palmer maintains that he
can not be labeled disabled. Prescott intends to
show that the President's refusal to authorize
military action is a symptom of his erratic
behavior. The Secretary of State says that
Palmer should be given the chance to explain
himself in order to answer their questions.
Palmer consents to this, on the condition that, if
he is exonerated, then Prescott should resign as
Vice President. Prescott agrees.

Tony informs Chappelle that a source told him
that the President called off the military offensive
more than an hour ago. Chappelle acknowledges
that he was aware of this, but says there is a
strong possibility that the White House will
reinstate the attack order.

Michelle gets a call from Jack at Kate Warner's
house, and she grabs Tony. Jack informs them
that he has the chip but that he can not read
what is on it. Michelle attempts to access it over
the server. Jack then asks Tony to run a
background check on Peter Kingsley and to
cross-reference it with oil industry players. Tony
tells him that, although Palmer called off the
military strikes, for some reason the order may
get reversed.

Prescott brings the reporter Ron Wieland into the
proceedings. Wieland recounts that he was
detained by Secret Service after he investigated
the possibility of a terrorist attack. Although he
understands the reason he was held captive,
Wieland feels it was a violation of his First
Amendment rights. He says that Sherry Palmer
came to visit him and offered to give him access
to the O.C. if he sat on the story. Wieland got the
sense that Palmer was not in control of the
situation. The President calmly explains that he
was balancing the need for public safety, and he
tried to rectify the situation with a remedy that
had legal precedent.

Michelle walks Jack through overriding the chip's
access, but he only gets a screen full of numbers
and symbols. He checks the hardware and
realizes that the chip has been damaged. He
sends whatever data he pulled up to Michelle so
that she can run it through a retrieval program at
CTU. Meanwhile, Tony gets a call from Kim
looking for her father. She is in a police car on
her way to the Matheson house to pick up her
belongings. Tony puts her through to Jack. Kim
tells Jack that she misses him, and Jack assures
her that he will see her soon.

Palmer asks Novick how long he has known
about Prescott's plan to get him out of office.
Although Novick claims to still be on his side,
Palmer accuses him of aligning with the Vice
President. Novick begs him to change his stance
on the attack, but Palmer conveys that the trust
between them is gone forever.

Prescott calls on another witness who is at the
O.C. in Oregon. The haggard face of NSA head
Roger Stanton appears on a monitor, and he
describes how he was tortured on orders from
the President. Palmer accuses him of lying about
the location of the nuclear bomb. Stanton
explains how he arrived at the O.C. to find his
underling Eric Rayburn had been fired for
wanting to bring in the military. He says that
Palmer was immediately adamant about not
using military action. Stanton believes that
Palmer's indecisive and erratic behavior made
him terrified of any military engagement. He
thinks that Palmer wanted to convince himself
that he could avoid war by showing that an
American was behind the bomb threat.

Chappelle questions why Tony ordered I.T.
people to work on a retrieval project. Tony
explains that Jack found the chip that could show
that the Cyprus file was forged, but that the chip
was damaged. Chappelle steps away and calls
the White House. He leaves a message for the
Vice President.

Prescott plays a video of Stanton's torture at the
O.C. The group shudders at what they see.
Palmer tells the cabinet that he did order the
torture, but that Stanton ultimately confessed to
knowledge of the bomb. Stanton says that he
made that confession only because he was
weakened by the torture. Palmer informs them
that Stanton also gave information about the
Coral Snake team and the bomb at Norton
Airfield. However, Prescott says that there is
nothing more on the tape. Palmer insists there
has been deliberate sabotage of evidence
because he questioned Stanton further. Prescott
gives Palmer the opportunity to present evidence
on behalf of his defense, but Palmer says he has
not been given time to do so. He deems his
extreme actions warranted by the day's events.
An aide hands Prescott a note, and Prescott
informs the group that CTU Division Chief Ryan
Chappelle just sent him an urgent message. Jack
Bauer has evidence to prove the inaccuracy of
the Cyprus recording. Prescott calls for the group
to wait for that evidence to be analyzed. Palmer
breathes a sigh of relief.

Chappelle checks on Tony and Michelle's
progress. They tell him that they did not find the
audiofiles, but that they can figure out who
programmed the information. Chappelle makes a
comment that Jack wasted their time, and he
walks off disgusted.

Kate becomes upset. She feels like everything
that happened today was her fault because her
sister may have started a war. Jack comforts her,
explaining that there was nothing she could have
done to prevent it. Suddenly, Jack's cell phone
rings. Tony and Michelle tell him that,
unfortunately, there were no audio files left on the
chip. However, Michelle did find junk code that
may have been put there by the chip's
programmer. She traced the sequence to a
hacker named Alex Hewitt. He has a file with the
FBI, and may have been the one who fabricated
the recording. Jack asks for Hewitt's last known
address, and he tells Kate that he is going off to
track down a lead.

Palmer is connected to Chappelle and Jack, who
tells Palmer that the chip was damaged and can
not prove that the Cyprus tape is a fake. He also
says that a man named Peter Kingsley is part of
a group manipulating events to instigate a war in
order to control the Middle East oil. Palmer asks
Jack for hard evidence, and gets Jack's
assurance that he is absolutely convinced that
the Cyprus recording was forged.

Palmer turns back to the cabinet members on the
monitor to tell them that the evidence is not yet
available but will be in the future. Regardless,
Prescott calls for a vote. Novick pulls Palmer
aside to beg him to change his mind and
authorize an attack. Palmer refuses once again.
The cabinet begins their voice poll, deciding for
or against Palmer being allowed to remain in
office.

As he pulls up to Hewitt's loft, Jack calls Tony for
a briefing on the suspect. While working for the
State Department, Hewitt had been caught
manipulating files. He attempted suicide in
custody and was recently released from a
psychiatric prison. Tony tells him that Hewitt has
no connection to Kingsley.

With a split in cabinet members, the deciding
vote falls upon the Secretary of State. He goes
against Palmer. Prescott tells Palmer that he can
appeal this decision before Congress in four
days. Until then, Palmer must remove himself
from the decision making process. Secret
Service Agent Pierce arrives with two Marines.
They escort Palmer to a holding room -- not as
bodyguards but as wardens.

As the bombers make their way toward the
Middle East, Prescott is sworn in as President of
the United States.

Jack enters Hewitt's ransacked loft. There is no
one inside. He hides behind an alcove when he
hears footsteps approaching the door. Sherry
Palmer comes into the loft and calls out for Alex
Hewitt.



Jack watches from a hidden alcove in Alex
Hewitt's loft as Sherry Palmer instructs her
bodyguard to look for Hewitt.

A military advisor briefs Prescott on the bombers'
location. Prescott orders the advisor to proceed
with the attack as planned. "Yes, Mr. President,"
the man responds. Meanwhile, Novick enters the
room where Palmer is detained and asks his ex-
boss for the war key codes. Palmer hands over a
small wallet with a key card. The military officer
known as the "Football" takes the card and slides
it into a portable scanner. The codes are
confirmed.

Chappelle calls the CTU staff into a meeting to
bring them up to date on the presidential
transition. Tony questions whether Palmer was
taken out because of his stance on the attack,
suggesting that what Jack is doing has now
become even more relevant. Chappelle orders
him not to expend any more resources on Jack.
Tony secretly tells Michelle that he's going to
reach out to someone on Prescott's staff in the
instance Jack does get the proof he's looking for.

Jack hears Sherry tell her bodyguard that Peter
Kingsley's people must have removed anything
important from Hewitt's loft. Jack knocks out the
bodyguard and handcuffs him. He pushes Sherry
to the couch and asks what she is doing there.
She says that she is working on Palmer's behalf,
but Jack doesn't believe her. Although she knows
that Jack is looking for Hewitt because he
created the tapes, Sherry refuses to answer any
of his questions. Jack fires his gun at her and hits
the wall. Sherry admits that she knows that
Hewitt is an audio technician who was hired by
Kingsley to fabricate the Cyprus recording.
Kingsley wants the United States to start a war
with the Middle East because of his oil interests
there. Jack realizes that his bullet hole in the wall
let a stream of light into the darkened room. He
goes over to the hole and fires more rounds,
calling out to whomever is inside to come out. A
frightened Hewitt emerges with his hands in the
air. Hewitt pleads with Sherry to help him, and
she advises him to not say anything in front of
Jack. Jack sticks the barrel of his gun to Hewitt's
neck. "You're going to talk to me now," he says.

Jack tries to get Hewitt to admit that he forged
the Cyprus recording, but he won't reveal
anything. Hewitt will only speak to Sherry
because she promised to help him. Jack turns to
Sherry seeking the truth. She acknowledges that
she wants to protect herself because she will be
incriminated on Hewitt's tapes. Sherry had
wanted to enact revenge on her ex-husband by
bringing down his presidency. Kingsley only
coveted money, and told Sherry that the bomb
would never go off. She sought out Hewitt in
order to remove herself from the connection to
Kingsley. Sherry demands immunity from Jack,
and says that the only criminal that needs to be
prosecuted is Hewitt. Jack gets Hewitt from the
other room so that Sherry can deal with him.

In his confinement room, Palmer explains his
situation to Secret Service Agent Pierce. Alluding
to Pierce's son being in the Navy, Palmer asks
for help in contacting Jack.

Michelle assigns Carrie to work on one of her
duties and won't explain to her why she is doing
so. Carrie believes she is really trying to help
Jack behind Chappelle's back. Tony comes up to
inquire about the situation between the two
women, and he persuades Michelle to explain
herself. Michelle admits to doing a task for
District. After Carrie walks away, Tony tells
Michelle that Carrie probably doesn't believe her
lie. Carrie then approaches Chappelle and tells
him her suspicions. She feels that Tony is unfit to
run CTU because he and Michelle are working
with Jack.

Jack phones CTU and Tony brings him up to
speed on Prescott pushing Palmer out of office.
Jack asks him for a helicopter to pick up Hewitt.
Although Chappelle is breathing down his neck,
Tony agrees to send a chopper. Sherry,
meanwhile, promises Hewitt that she will get him
full immunity for his crimes and assures him that
she will protect him from Jack. Sherry notifies
Jack that Hewitt will testify by demonstrating the
audio technology.

Tony tells Chappelle that Jack has captured the
guy who created the Cyprus recording and that
he needs a helicopter to bring him in. Chappelle
refuses, and Tony attempts to argue Jack's case.
Chappelle informs Tony that he is being
reassigned because he has become a liability to
their mission with the start of the war. Chappelle
orders Tony to be out of the office in fifteen
minutes.

Hewitt gets his computer full of audio software
ready to go. He plans to do a another sample of
the Cyprus recording to prove that the previous
one was a fraud. Jack guarantees Hewitt that he
will be fine, and Hewitt becomes suspicious. He
questions whether Jack and Sherry made a deal
together to set him up. Hewitt asks to speak to
Jack privately and Sherry becomes defensive.
Hewitt is curious about Sherry's intentions, but
Jack reassures him that she only wants to help
him.

Accompanied by a police officer, Kim enters the
Matheson house to get her things.

As Tony begins to pack up his office, he gets a
call from a satellite phone secure line. Palmer
requests that he be connected to Jack, and Tony
patches him through. Jack tells Palmer that he
found the man who engineered the Cyprus
recording and that Sherry is there with him. Jack
does not explain further, and Palmer cautions
him not to trust her. He asks to speak to his ex-
wife. Sherry tells Palmer that she is merely trying
to help him, and that she and Jack are his only
hope in preventing this war. Palmer warns her to
stay out of Jack's way.

After Palmer hangs up, Jack demands that Tony
quickly get him the helicopter. Tony turns to
Michelle and asks for her help.

Gary Matheson is in his house when he sees a
police officer outside. Gary does not realize that
Kim is also in the house.

Novick comes into the holding room and takes
the satellite phone away from Palmer. He has
Agent Pierce placed under arrest.

Kim packs clothes in her room. She does not
know that anyone else is there. Gary creeps up
the stairs to his bedroom with a holster he
apprehended from the police officer. He packs
money, a passport and a stash of drugs. Kim
hears noise from the house and calls out for the
officer. She walks up to the master bedroom but
finds it empty. She goes back to her packing.
Gary hides in a corner, realizing that Kim is in the
house.

Michelle and Tony make a plan. She calls
Chappelle to tell him that someone is waiting for
him in a holding room. Chappelle goes into the
room, but only Michelle is there. Suddenly, Tony
comes from behind Chappelle and puts a
chloroform rag over his face. Chappelle falls
unconscious, and Tony sends Michelle off to
dispatch the helicopter. Tony takes out a syringe
to drug Chappelle.

As they wait for the chopper, Sherry tells Jack
that she is trying to clear her name in order to
protect Palmer's public image. Jack informs her
that Palmer has been stripped from the
Presidency and that Prescott is now in power.
Sherry is shocked. Tony phones Jack's cell with
news that the chopper is on its way. Jack asks
for the Attorney General to be brought in
because Sherry wants to cut a deal when
Hewitt's testimony incriminates her. Sherry hears
this and confronts Jack because they had
discussed another scenario. When she tries to go
to Hewitt, Jack forcibly grabs her and orders her
to stay away from him.

Kim exits her room and sees through the window
that the police officer is lying face down in the
outside bushes. She grabs her bags and spots
Gary downstairs. Kim panics and darts into
another room. Gary comes up the stairs and
points the gun at the closed door. He opens it,
but Kim is not inside. Gary sees the door for the
attic and climbs up the stairs. When he gets to
the attic, Kim smacks him in the head with a can
and Gary drops down unconscious. Suddenly,
the attic floor gives way and Kim falls through to
the bedroom. She grabs Gary's gun and cell
phone.

Kim calls CTU and begs Michelle to put her
through to Jack. A frightened Kim tells her father
that Gary Matheson killed the police officer that
brought her there. Jack instructs her to get out of
the house, but when Gary starts to stir to
consciousness Kim becomes terrified. Jack tells
her to shoot Gary. She fires one shot into him,
and Jack tells her to shoot him again. She does,
and Gary is killed. Then Jack has Kim go
downstairs because he is going to send someone
to get her. Kim obeys and hangs up the phone.
Jack calls Kate, asking her to phone the police
and pick up his daughter. Meanwhile, in the loft,
Hewitt tries to leave. Sherry stops him. Jack
orders them to separate, but phoning CTU
preoccupies him. Hewitt goes to escape again
and Sherry steps in his path. Hewitt stabs her
with a screwdriver and makes a run for a hidden
door. Sherry lies on the ground, bleeding, but
Jack goes after Hewitt instead. He follows him
into a darkened tunnel.




With Chappelle still unconscious, Tony keeps
Carrie preoccupied with other work. Brad
Hammond from Division calls looking for
Chappelle, and Tony tells him that Chappelle
"stepped out."

Jack chases Hewitt through the loft's secret
tunnel, telling him that he can cut a deal once
he's brought into CTU. Jack promises him that he
will be kept alive if Hewitt helps prevent the war.
Hewitt breaks open a glass window and runs out
onto the roof of his building.

From his office, Kingsley speaks to someone
named Max and assures him that the war will
increase their oil holdings dramatically. A woman
named Eve informs Kingsley that Hewitt was not
found when his people went to the loft to pick up
all the recordings and data. Kingsley is worried
that Hewitt could blow their whole operation.

Hewitt climbs to a raised level of the roof and
pulls up the ladder so that Jack can not reach
him. Jack, clutching his aching chest, manages
to shimmy up the drainpipe and chase Hewitt to a
ledge. When Hewitt pulls out a gun, Jack draws
his in return. Jack pleads with him to drop the
weapon, but Hewitt raises it instead. Jack fires,
wounding Hewitt in the leg. Hewitt is startled and
falls over the ledge onto another landing. Jack
checks the leg wound and assures him that he
will be fine once the helicopter arrives. Jack then
realizes that blood is pouring out from Hewitt's
head.

Jack phones Tony, who warns him that he may
be unreachable because he had to remove
Chappelle from becoming an obstacle. He tells
Jack to contact Michelle in the field on a remote
access.

As Michelle walks toward the exit, Tony hands
her an access card. Carrie stops Michelle and
asks about Chappelle's whereabouts. She
accuses Michelle of doing something
underhanded, but Michelle lies her way out of the
situation. Michelle leaves the CTU building.

Counselor Brian Jacobs arrives to see Palmer.
Jacobs explains he can appeal the cabinet's
decision but that it will take time. Palmer gives
him Kingsley's name as the one who manipulated
the evidence. Jacobs agrees to vigorously
pursue this lead regardless of how much Novick
is impeding the investigation.

Michelle calls Tony from a CTU van and warns
him that Carrie is onto them. He tells her to
contact Jack herself because Hammond has
arrived from Division with a phalanx of agents.

Hammond questions Tony about Chappelle's
disappearance. Hammond locks down CTU
based on a report by one of Tony's own staff
members accusing him of supporting a rogue
agent against Division's orders. Tony spots
Carrie glaring at him.

Jacobs informs Novick that Palmer will oppose
his removal from office by proving that Peter
Kingsley falsified the Cyprus recordings. Jacobs
requests access to intelligence databases in
order to make the connection to Kingsley. At first
Novick resists, but Jacobs appeals to Novick's
history with Palmer. Novick finally agrees to set
up a computer station for him to use.

Carrie leads a pair of Division agents through
CTU and they come upon a holding room where
the lock has been reconfigured. They kick the
door in and find a weakened Chappelle struggling
to stand.

Jack waits for the helicopter on the roof as he
tries to keep Hewitt lucid. Jack spots the CTU
helicopter and waves at it. Meanwhile, Carrie
briefs Chappelle on what she has found -- the
helicopter that Tony requested for Jack.
Chappelle orders her to bring the chopper back
to CTU. As Jack flags down the helicopter, the
pilot reverses direction and flies off. Jack calls
Michelle, and she tells him that Hammond
recalled it because he put the office in lockdown.
Jack then runs over to Hewitt, but Hewitt is
already dead.

Jack asks Michelle to set up an interface with
Hewitt's computer, and he heads back to the loft.

Novick comes into Palmer's holding room to
solicit a favor. U.S. stealth bombers have been
spotted over Turkey's airspace, but that country's
Prime Minister will not grant a flyover for the
planes unless he receives a personal request
from the President. The Prime Minister has not
been told that Palmer was discharged from
office. If Palmer speaks to the Prime Minister
under the pretense that he is still President, the
planes will not be attacked.

When Jack returns to the loft, Sherry yells at him
for leaving her after she was stabbed. Her
checks her minor wound and treats her. Since
Hewitt is dead, Jack will need her to get him
closer to Kingsley. Sherry will tell Kingsley that
she can deliver Hewitt because he still does not
know that Hewitt is dead. Suddenly, Jack falls
back in pain, placing his hand to his chest.
Sherry asks him what is wrong. Jack admits that
Kingsley's men stopped his heart when they
interrogated him. She encourages him to see a
doctor, but Jack insists that she help him get to
Kingsley. Sherry is to offer to trade Hewitt to
Kingsley in exchange for the evidence that
implicates her. Knowing that Kingsley will require
proof, Jack tells Sherry that Hewitt will do the
talking.

Kingsley speaks to Max again, and assures him
that the American government most likely does
not have the source files for the Cyprus
recordings because the bombers are still on
course for the Middle East. Kingsley guarantees
that Hewitt will be found and eliminated.

Chappelle has Tony placed under arrest. He
inquires about Michelle's participation, and Carrie
offers her services to find her.

Michelle calls Jack when she is connected to
Hewitt's computer. He tells her that Hewitt
described his program as one that can recreate
any voice. However, Hewitt's database has
samples of thousands of voices. To save time in
finding which one is Hewitt's, Jack asks Sherry
when she last spoke to him. Michelle retrieves a
taped phone call between Hewitt and Sherry from
the pervious night. The recording is of Sherry
asking Hewitt about his relationship with
Kingsley. Michelle gets a sample for the
integrator to recreate Hewitt's sound, and she
need only to type phrases in a separate file to be
spoken in Hewitt's voice. Michelle sees CTU
agents outside her van, and quickly leads Jack
through the process. The agents raid her van just
as Jack sees the program he's looking for on
Hewitt's monitor. As Jack calls out for her over
the phone line, Michelle is carted away in
handcuffs.

Palmer is lead down the federal building hallway
by Novick to a conference room. From a monitor
in the White House bunker, Prescott thanks
Palmer for his help. Palmer tells him that he is
only doing this to save the military men flying in
the planes over Turkey. Palmer is then
connected over the phone to the Turkish Prime
Minister to grant his personal request.

Kate enters the Matheson house looking for Kim,
who raises her gun in fear. "Who are you?" she
asks suspiciously. Kate explains that Jack sent
her, and she proves it by describing the events
that happened to Kim. Kim is wary to believe this
stranger, but Kate assures her that Jack trusted
her enough to send her for his daughter. As Kim
lowers the gun, Kate approaches her cautiously.

Michelle and Tony sit imprisoned in a CTU
holding room. Tony insists on taking all the blame
by saying that she was only following his orders.
Michelle won't let him lie for her because she did
what she thought was right. She tenderly takes
his hand.

Novick ushers Palmer back into his confinement
room, and tells him that Prescott will keep him
there until he makes his formal announcement at
a press conference. Novick awkwardly mentions
to his former boss that he granted Jacobs'
request for low security access on Palmer's
behalf. Novick slinks out of the room as Palmer
stands stoically.

As Kate drives to CTU, Kim asks her what her
relationship is with her father since she only just
met him the previous day. Kate has no clear
answer. Kim says that she wants him to be
happy since her mother died. Kate tells her that
she also lost her mother.

Although Sherry is hesitant, Jack makes her call
Kingsley with a prepared script. Sherry demands
from Kingsley the tapes that he made of their
conversations, and she offers up Hewitt in return.
Kingsley requests that he speak with Hewitt
directly, and Sherry feigns going to another room
where her bodyguards have him held. She holds
the receiver to a computer speaker and Jack
plays back the generator of Hewitt's voice
insisting to Kingsley that he didn't say anything.
Kingsley asks to speak with Hewitt again, but on
Jack's orders, Sherry refuses. Kingsley finally
relents, and gives Sherry a neutral meeting place
on Figueroa Street to meet. Jack hangs up the
phone and he and Sherry head for the location.

Kingsley tells his confidante Eve that Sherry has
Hewitt. Although he suspects that he is being set
up, he has no other choice but to meet her. He
will set up shooters at the place, knowing that
Sherry and whomever else she is working with
won't leave there alive. Kingsley tells Eve that he
will see her in another country the following
week, and when Eve leans in to hug him,
Kingsley grabs a knife off the desk to kill her.

As they drive, Sherry chides Jack for not having
a CTU backup at the Figueroa Street meeting
place. He is forced to take down Kingsley
himself. Sherry notices that Jack has trouble
focusing on the road, and she demands that he
pull over. Jack rebuffs her because there is no
time. Suddenly, Jack winces and the car
swerves. His body contorts in pain and Jack
loses control of the car. Sherry grabs the steering
wheel as they veer off to miss an oncoming van.
Jack's body goes limp and the car careens off the
road into an embankment in the riverbed basin.




Although he is unhurt in the car crash, Jack
becomes trapped when his seat belt locks up.
Sherry gets out of the car without helping him,
telling him that she has to take care of herself
first. He pleads with her because she is the only
one who can stop the war. Sherry at first refuses
because Palmer turned against her. Yet Jack
makes an appeal to her that Palmer will learn
that she was the one responsible for getting him
back his presidency. Sherry gives in, and cuts
Jack out of the seat belt.

Attorney Brian Jacobs shows Novick a file on
Kingsley. The information proves that he made
calls within the past few hours to Coral Snake
member Jonathan Wallace. Novick realizes that
Wallace is the one who killed his own men in an
effort to detonate the nuclear bomb.

Prescott is briefed on the military attack. The
bombers are set to reach their target within the
hour. Prescott readily accepts the fact that there
will be civilian casualties.

Novick calls Chappelle, instructing him to provide
assistance for Jack on finding the evidence about
the Cyprus recording. Chappelle is confused
because he is under the impression that the
country is already at war, but Novick insists that
Chappelle locate Jack as soon as possible.

Kingsley phones Max and tells him that he is still
looking for Alex Hewitt. Max is alarmed because
Hewitt is the only one who could bring down their
operation. Kingsley assures him that he will take
care of Hewitt.

Chappelle goes into the room where Tony and
Michelle are being held. He demands that they
put him in touch with Jack. They agree to help
him if he drops the charges against them.
Chappelle acquiesces.

Jack and Sherry leave the scene of their car
crash. He lugs the audio equipment weakly,
leaning on Sherry for support. Jack tells her that
they are functioning without CTU authority. A
driver approaches them and offers his help. Jack
pulls out his gun and steals the man's car. He
gets into the passenger seat while Sherry takes
the wheel.

Kate and Kim are ushered into CTU and met by
Carrie. To Carrie's surprise, Tony takes over. He
informs Kim that Jack is not reachable. Tony then
tells Kate that her father returned to CTU after he
was released from custody because he wanted
to see Marie.

At a holding cell, Bob Warner speaks to his
daughter Marie through a plexiglass wall. She
looks back at him coldly and does not speak. He
tries to get an answer from her about why she
threatened their family and tried to start a war,
but Marie remains silent. Kate enters, and tells
her father that Marie can not provide any reason
that they would understand. After Bob leaves,
Marie calls for Kate. "You think you'll be safe out
there?" she says. "You won't be."

Tony calls Jack with news that Kim is safely at
CTU. Chappelle gets on the line to tell Jack that
he now operating with full support, but that he is
to wait for backup before proceeding. Kingsley,
however, is expecting the meeting at the Los
Angeles Coliseum to go down immediately and
Jack can not wait for backup. He asks Chappelle
to obtain audio voiceprints of both Kingsley and
Sherry to be used for authentication. Jack also
wants a live audio feed with the President.
Chappelle grants these requests, and sends a
SWAT team to the location.

Jack and Sherry arrive outside the Coliseum. He
wires up Sherry with a transmitter.

That was completely pointless. He had a scar after it, but that was it. They never followed up with the criminal masterminds behind the whole thing.

Novick alerts Prescott that there is a strong
chance they will have evidence forcing a delay in
military actions. Although the Second Wave
terrorist group brought the nuclear weapon into
the United States, a link has come up between
the group and Peter Kingsley. This may
exonerate the Middle Eastern countries that have
traditionally backed Second Wave and are facing
attack. This also points the finger at an oil
consortium who is behind the bomb. Novick says
that Jack Bauer will get a live audio confession
from Kingsley.

At CTU, Michelle matches Sherry's voice over
the live transmitter to the voiceprint they have on
record for her. Although the CTU backup is
minutes away, Jack needs to proceed because
Kingsley is waiting. Sherry admits to Jack that
she is afraid of being killed. He guarantees that
Kingsley will not do anything until he gets Hewitt,
and after that, Jack will watch her back. Sherry
finds little comfort from this because of Jack's
health. Jack admits that there is a possibility that
she may not survive. Sherry asks him to convey
to Palmer that she is doing this only for her ex-
husband, and makes her way toward the
Coliseum complex. Still at the car, a sudden pain
grips Jack in the chest.

As Prescott is set up on a live audio feed at the
White House, Novick arranges the same at the
federal building in Los Angeles. Palmer is
brought in to listen. Palmer is impressed that
Jack found Kingsley, but he is taken aback when
he learns that Sherry is the one to deal with him.
Novick explains that Sherry had been recruited
by Kingsley, but that she is now working with
Jack at considerable risk to herself.

Sherry walks onto the grounds of the Coliseum
sports arena. She does not see a sniper in a
tower above who takes aim at her.

As Jack sets up beneath the stands, Sherry sees
Kingsley approach her. A cadre of guards
surrounds him. Kingsley whispers into a radio for
his sharpshooter to wait until they get Hewitt.
Sherry tells Kingsley that Hewitt is safely hidden.
As she speaks, listening in is CTU, the White
House and Palmer. Kingsley admits that he used
her to ignite the nuclear bomb. She demands that
she receive safe haven in return for handing over
Hewitt. Michelle, meanwhile, confirms that
Kingsley's voice matches up. Sherry gives
Kingsley a cell phone, telling him that she will call
him with Hewitt's location once she is free.
Kingsley gives her the recordings of their phone
conversations. She then asks for the Cyprus
recording as insurance. Kingsley doesn't
understand why she would want that tape since
Hewitt is the only person who can indict them.
Kingsley states that Hewitt was the one who
forged the recording. Hearing this, Tony asks the
White House for confirmation to move on
Kingsley. Prescott hesitates.

Back at the Coliseum, Sherry again tells Kingsley
that she will call him when she lands at a secret
location. Kingsley doesn't believe that she really
has Hewitt, and he instructs his sniper to fire.
Nothing happens. Kingsley looks up to the tower,
but his sharpshooter is gone. Just as Kingsley's
other guard draws his gun on Sherry, Jack
appears in the above tower with the sniper rifle.
He shoots at the guard and kills him. Jack yells
for Sherry to run. She takes off, and Jack aims at
the other guards. Kingsley ducks behind a wall
and fires at Jack. Palmer is horrified by the
gunfire he is hearing over the live feed. From his
high vantage point, Jack takes out all but one of
Kingsley's men. He leaves the tower and grabs
Sherry as she waits under the bleachers in a
tunnel. The last of Kingsley's guards charges at
Jack in the tunnel, and as they fight, Jack loses
his weapon. Sherry runs for cover. Jack
proceeds to struggle with the guard, and knocks
away a gun from the man's ankle holster. Jack
snaps the guys' neck, and the guard falls dead.
Jack is jolted with another, much stronger pain in
his chest. He stumbles to the ground as Kingsley
slowly approaches. Jack reaches for the gun that
fell from his attacker's holster and aims weakly at
Kingsley. The chambers of the gun, however, are
empty of bullets. Recognizing Jack, Kingsley
raises his gun. Suddenly, shots from a CTU
helicopter ring out. Kingsley falls down dead. The
SWAT team raids the Coliseum and attends to
Jack.

Palmer listens in as Prescott orders the attack to
be aborted.

A man named Trepkos phones Max with news
that Kingsley has been killed and that the
President called off the war. Max says that they
will have to go another way. Trepkos is unsure
about what he means. Max tells him that he will
soon find out because it will start today. Max
hangs up and calls someone else. He gives the
unknown person the go-ahead.

Before a video screen of the assembled Cabinet,
Prescott informs Palmer that they have decided
to annul the earlier action. Palmer is reinstated
as President. Prescott also tenders his
resignation along with the other Cabinet
members who voted against Palmer. Palmer tells
them that he is not accepting their resignations.
Although they did not act as leaders, he knows
that they will never make those same mistakes
again. Palmer then orders an immediate press
conference. He thanks Novick for making the call
to CTU at the last possible moment. However,
Palmer is disappointed that Novick did not stand
by him. He relieves Novick from his post.

Chappelle happily tells Tony that the District
Director is pleased with their actions. Tony
demands that Chappelle get out of his chair.
Chappelle makes the gesture, giving Tony his job
back. Michelle comes in, and Tony thanks her for
making the right choices even if she had to go up
against him. He sends her home, saying "I'll see
you tomorrow."

As he lies on a gurney, Jack sees Kate and Kim
arrive at the Coliseum. Kate watches as Kim runs
over to him, crying. Jack tells Kim that everything
will be all right. Kim kisses her father's head, and
says that she will take care of him.

At a press conference outside the federal
building, Palmer pronounces to the public that
the nation is safe. As he makes his way through
the cheering crowd and accepts handshakes, a
woman calls for the President. She reaches her
hand out to him. The woman is Mandy, who was
hired by Ira Gaines the previous year in the plot
to assassinate Palmer. Palmer clasps Mandy's
hand in a kind shake. She leaves the crowd and
walks alone into a stairwell. Using tongs, Mandy
peels off a sheer layer of some substance from
the palm of her right hand. She places the filmy
peel into a metal container. Mandy phones Max
and says, "It's done."

After reaching his limo, Palmer looks down at his
right hand. The flesh on it has been eaten away.
His breath is shortened and he falls to the
ground. The crowd panics as the Secret Service
agents scan the scene with their guns. Palmer
gasps for air helplessly.

You're welcome


--T

you're insane! I'm thankfull man [if I ever get thru this all]

so what happened after Palmer got poisoned? I visited fox.com/24 but it ends there and there's never any mention about it in season 3!

Well....we are iced in here....can't leave the house....and that is unusual for Atlanta, Georgia so I had nothing better to do

As for the end, I really thought that it would carry through to this year, as well, but I have not seen any mention of it this year and I never miss an episode (24 is the reason that I bought TiVo). The word "Palmer" hasn't even been muttered so far this year....I think he is too busy doing Allstate Commercials! :orglaugh

--T

LOL!

What season are you in now, we got season 3 on here now (about ep. 15/16). I've seen mention of season 4 in the US already but that'll take a year before it appears here lol.

It's up to season 4 now with an all new cast besides Jack. As for Palmer, he'll be showing up near the end of the season. Last 6 episodes I think.

Again, with DETAILS please

DOH....you are right.....I guess I had a brain fart on the 3rd season...hehehe....what I should have said was that there was no mention of the poisoning last year and no mention of Palmer this year.

We are on like Episode 6 or so in the 4th season. No Kim this year so far, either....I hate that because I think she is HOT...but her character is a freakin idiot.


--T

They did show his hand all fucked up a few times, but that was it. I thought they stole his handprint to do some crazy biometrix fooling, but nothing ever came of it.

All new cast? So no more annoying Kim? No more bitchy Chappelle?

I must admit the "best" bad guy yet was Amador, that guy played his role excellent! I have yet to figure out what will happen to him (of course he will die/get arrested)

2 new episodes airing tomorrow evening

Kim is hit yeh but insanely stupid... I'm happy she's gone now she can work on her own hardcore homevideo

So strange that nothing came from the poisoning, you'd think they have plans when they shoot scenes lol

wow thats detailed

Yes...we got rid of annoying Kim but we kept annoying Chloe from Season 3. You might want to consider getting them on DVD so you dont miss an episode....but let me warn you from experience....once you watch the first episode of the dvd then you should be sure you have nothing else planned for about 3 days because you will not want to stop to do anything but sleep.


--T

I don't want to give anything away but something happens to Chappelle in season 3, so you won't be seeing that guy in season 4.

Oh, and what I should have said was there's an all new cast beside Jack and Chloe.

yeh you'd at least think Palmer would nearly die and [insert drama here]

lame move IMO... it keeps me wondering

no not Chloe! She's like the uberbitch... I couldn't stand her from the start!

The reasons you give me is exactly why I haven't bought the DVD's (yet). It will keep me up for 24 hours straight and deprive me of any social life I have left

I'll have to get them soon tho, I have only seen 1 and 2 partially plus it's simply a great series to have on DVD

wow seems like most of the cast will get wiped out lol...

I've seen ep. 15&16 just now... Michelle got to the Chandler Plaza Hotel and Gael is nearly dying.

I'm curious to know who the guy is that wants to order the pres around... have not seen him before (I think)