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Kim frantically searches and finds Megan. The
police come to Gary's aid, and he tells them that
Kim kidnapped his daughter.
As Mason drives north out of Los Angeles, Tony
phones him with news that the LAPD located a
suspect in Panorama City. District wants Mason
to check it out on his way to Bakersfield.
At the Northwest O.C., Lynne gives the President
bad news: the predicted casualties are actually
higher than they had anticipated. Ruling out any
possibility of a "dirty bomb," the NSA now
believes they are looking for a nuclear weapon.
Now a member of the crew, Jack questions why
CTU is being targeted. Eddie won't reveal any
information. Suddenly, Jack's cell phone rings. It
is Kim, but she has not heard any of the
messages from her father because she lost her
phone. Jack tries to not give anything away in
earshot of Eddie's crew. Although Kim begs for
Jack's help, he tells her to go to her Aunt Carol's
house. Kim doesn't understand why he is telling
her to go all the way to San Jose. Kim then calls
Tony, who informs her that Jack is working
undercover. Tony asks her to get to CTU, and
she says she will take a bus.
All the phones in CTU get corrupted as Eddie's
crew takes out the phone lines at a relay station.
Eddie sends Jack to watch the road. He
discreetly calls CTU to warn them, but he can not
get through. Jack instead calls the O.C. and asks
to speak to the President.
Since Palmer is in the midst of a press
conference, Lynne takes the call and is warned
of the attack on CTU. Jack asks her to have the
building evacuated, and then clicks off when
Eddie approaches. At the O.C., Lynne and Eric
Rayburn presume that this hit on CTU is a
diversion from the main nuclear attack. When
Lynne wants to notify CTU, Rayburn stops her.
He believes that doing so will blow Jack's cover
and ruin his chances of getting close to the
Second Wave terrorist Joseph Wald. Yet Lynne
is adamant about telling Palmer, and she asks
Jenny Dodge to interrupt the press conference.
Two telephone repair workers arrive at the relay
station to find that the locks have been cut.
Eddie's van ambushes them, and Eddie shoots
one of the workers. He orders the other one to
call his boss to say that he must go on site at
CTU to check the phone system.
Rayburn calls Tony with an order to copy and
transfer all CTU database information about the
nuclear threat onto NSA's server. Since he wants
it done in under an hour, Tony has Paula work on
sending the data over. She goes into Mason's
office to use his computer. Michelle points out to
Tony that if this order had only been
precautionary, then other agencies would have
received the same request. CTU was the only
one asked to forward their databases.
Mason arrives at an industrial complex in
Panorama City where a vehicle was linked to
someone on the terrorist watch list. This complex
is the same place where the nuclear bomb was
being built by Marko's team. The police at the
scene break into the building, and they see the
remains of the area where the nuclear weapon
was constructed. Suddenly, a gunman fires at the
officers and a shootout occurs. Mason realizes
that a powder has dispersed in the air and he
notices the radiation warning sign. He coughs as
he calls out to a policeman to summon HAZMAT.
This may be a possible hot zone.
Kim rides with Megan on a city bus toward CTU.
Megan asks whether Kim makes her own father
mad. Kim reassures her that she is not the cause
for Gary's anger, and promises that she will
never let him hurt Megan again.
The telephone repair van pulls up to CTU, and
the worker lies to the security guard that he is
there to fix the phones. Although Eddie and his
crew are in the back, they are cleared into the
complex. The worker asks what the crew could
possibly want from CTU, and Eddie explains that
they are taking back their country. "We're
patriots," Jack says.
At the Warner house, Kate gets a call from her
private investigator, Ralph Burton. He confirmed
that Reza did have contact with the terrorist.
Burton is obligated to notify the authorities at
Homeland Security, and he warns Kate not to tell
anyone. When she hangs up, Marie and Reza
playfully coax her to meet his cousin, but Kate
pulls away forcefully. Marie confronts her, but
Kate tearfully says that she only wants her
sister's happiness.
Lynne is surprised to see Jenny hurrying through
the O.C. She had asked her to interrupt the
President's press conference. Jenny had slipped
him a note about Lynne's urgent request, but
Palmer did not respond.
As Eddie and his crew make their way into CTU,
Jack waits in the van with the tied up worker. He
urgently writes a note of warning that there are
bombs being placed in the building.
Mason calls Tony from Panorama City to tell him
about the lab where the terrorists have
assembled the nuclear bomb. Everyone at the
scene is being put through decontamination, but
they still don't know if they were exposed to
radiation. Mason will send Tony the fingerprints
from the dead bodies to see if they match anyone
on the watch list. Tony informs him that NSA
ordered CTU's database be transferred, but did
not make the same request from other agencies.
Mason agrees that this is not usual protocol.
Michelle approaches Paula in the restroom.
Although she is worried about her friends and
family living in Los Angeles, the scared Paula
knows it is her duty to keep working.
In the van, Jack releases the phone worker with
the note intended for Tony, explaining that he is a
government agent working undercover. After the
worker gets out, Jack cuts himself with his
switchblade to create the impression that he has
been struck in the head. Eddie and the crew
return to the van and find Jack knocked out.
Eddie is mad that the telephone guy got away,
but gets everyone in the van out before the
building explodes. As the van pulls away, Kim
and Megan arrive. She tells the security guard
that Tony is expecting her.
Lynne is angry that Palmer did not call her when
the press conference broke. She confronts
Rayburn about his keeping the President in the
dark about the CTU situation, and Rayburn
threatens her not to cross him. When Palmer
comes into the O.C., Lynne tells him the news.
Rayburn tries to explain that alerting CTU would
expose Jack. He had CTU transfer their
intelligence, so that the only losses would be
infrastructure and personnel. "Those losses are
unacceptable," Palmer says, and he orders
Lynne to notify CTU immediately. Rayburn tells
the President that he believes he is making a
mistake.
Michelle gives Tony the note from the telephone
worker about the bomb, and Tony orders an
immediate evacuation of the building. He gets the
call from Lynne, and asks if this is the reason
NSA wanted their data. Kim and Megan are
escorted out of the building along with the other
CTU workers. Tony runs up to Mason's office to
save Paula, who is still trying to complete the
data transfer. They are caught inside the building
when it explodes. Eddie and the crew watch CTU
from a distance, and congratulate themselves
when they see they smoke cloud rise above the
building.
A HAZMAT doctor informs Mason that he has
inhaled a high level of enriched plutonium. He
may only have one more day to live.
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