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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.