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Kim and Miguel try to explain their story to the
highway patrolman, but he doesn't understand
why they are fleeing the city instead of seeking
help from the police. He places them under
arrest.
Tony escorts Reza, Marie and Bob Warner into
the ruins of CTU. Bob asks if he can speak to
Tony privately, but Tony dismisses him. Although
both Reza and Bob's stories have contradicted
each other, Tony lets Mason know that there is
definitely some connection to Syed Ali. Mason
gives him permission to do whatever it takes to
find the answers.
In the O.C., Stanton inquires to Lynne about
Sherry's provisional security clearance. At the
retreat, Sherry finds out that the reporter Ron
Wieland is missing. She presses Palmer about
his being held hostage, reasoning that the man's
disappearance will only raise more questions.
Sherry offers her assistance in trying to persuade
Wieland to accept an exclusive on-air interview.
Before being taken away in a squad car, Kim
appeals to the officer to not bring Megan back to
Los Angeles. Yet, despite Miguel's pleas, she will
still not reveal why it is unsafe. She gives the cop
Jack's information and asks him to contact her
father. The policeman says he will call once Kim
has been processed. She fears it will be too late.
At the Crescent Collectibles store in Visalia, Nina
attempts to get information from Faheen. As she
speaks to him in Arabic, Michelle's translator
deciphers the conversation for Jack over the
monitor. Faheen, however, won't disclose
anything, and Jack gets impatient. He drags Nina
back to the car so that they can head back to Los
Angeles. The other agents won't let Jack leave
with Nina alone, and they raise their guns to
make him retreat from the car.
Paul Koplin, the boss of Kate's private
investigator Ralph Burton, comes to the Warner
house to see her. He is familiar with the files that
link Reza to Syed Ali, and he attaches some kind
of transmitter to the back of Bob's computer.
Kate is slightly alarmed to see that Koplin is
carrying a gun, but she shows him the records
that she is having trouble accessing in the
computer.
Roger Stanton stops Armus as he is escorting
Sherry to a restricted area in the O.C. She
assures the dubious Stanton that she has been
granted right of entry, and she goes into the
holding room where Wieland is being kept.
Sherry promises Wieland that, if he does not
reveal anything about the rumors he had
threatened to broadcast, he will be given
permission to report from inside the O.C. No
other journalist has ever been allowed to do so.
In the van transporting the nuclear device,
Basheer gets off the phone and informs Marko
and Omar that "Everybody is ready" for them to
deliver the bomb. The van suddenly gets a flat
tire and they are forced to pull over. They realize
that there is a part missing that would detract
from fixing the tire. A pool man pulls over and
offers them his assistance. Basheer accepts the
man's help.
As they ride back to Los Angeles on the CTU jet,
Nina tries to persuade Faheen to cooperate with
Jack and about the bomb. Michelle is still having
their conversation in Arabic translated into Jack's
earpiece. Faheen tells Nina he is not afraid to die
for his cause, and he calls her a traitor. Yet Nina
still has a piece of a gift card in her hand that she
grabbed when she entered Crescent Collectibles.
It is unseen by anyone else. Jack takes Nina
aside. She confirms that she did not know
anything about the nuclear bomb, but she has no
other information about the plan.
The pool man kindly puts a spare tire on Marko's
van, and Basheer thanks him graciously by
offering to pay. The pool man doesn't accept the
money, and gives Basheer his business card
instead. Marko, who is staring at a group of
children playing nearby, tentatively gets back into
the van.
While driving Kim to the station, the highway
patrolman discusses the situation with another
policeman on the phone. He then informs Kim
that Miguel told another officer that they were
leaving town because some kind of bomb is
going off in Los Angeles. Kim pleads with the
man to call her father at CTU and keep Megan
away from the city. Sensing that perhaps Kim is
not lying, the patrolman calls dispatch and asks
to be put through to the FBI. The dispatcher says
that they have been unable to contact the FBI
because of jammed lines. The policeman begins
to suspect that something is indeed wrong.
Sherry returns to the retreat to report back to
Palmer. Wieland will not conform to their
demands. Palmer dismisses her, but Sherry asks
why he won't give her a second chance. She
admits that she once got caught up in the political
power, but she has now realized her limits.
Sherry only wants to help him so that she can
regain his confidence. Palmer accepts her help
again, with the caveat that she receive nothing in
return.
As he drives, thoughts go through Marko's head.
He pulls the van off the road and Basheer
reprimands him. "I don't want to do this. I don't
want to kill anyone," Marko says. Basheer shoots
him in the chest, and gets out to retrieve Marko's
body. Yet when Basheer gets to the other door,
the still living Marko shoots him back. They both
fall out of the van dead. Omar sees the two
men's bodies and is confused about what to do.
In Bob's computer, Koplin finds transaction
records confirming that Reza withdrew money.
There is also a consulting check made out to
Syed Ali for $475,000. Koplin then uncovers
government files on the database, which Kate
merely attributes to Bob's government clients.
Suddenly, the files begin to auto-delete
themselves, and Koplin hits some keys to freeze
them. The screen becomes filled with ASCII
codes, and Koplin recognizes them as encoded
coordinate addresses. The only people with files
such as these would have government security
clearance. Kate is confused as to why this would
be on her father's machine.
Tony comes into the CTU interrogation room
where Bob Warner is being held and turns on a
tape recorder. Bob admits that he is working as a
consultant for the CIA, and he gives Tony the
contact code of his liaison there. Because of its
international investment business, Bob's
company passes information back and forth to an
unknown source. Yet Bob does not know Syed
Ali or how there would be any record of him
doing business with him. Tony goes to verify
Bob's story and alerts Mason of the discovery.
Michelle gets a call from the California Highway
Patrol. They have Kim in custody for a charge of
murder. She phones Jack on the jet and
connects him on the line with Kimberly. Kim
explains what happened. She is sure that Gary
must have killed Carla. Although Jack vows that
someone from CTU will retrieve her, Kim wants
him to come himself. Jack notices that Nina and
Faheen are engaged in a hushed conversation
on the other side of the plane. With Kim still on
the line, Michelle translates their conversation for
Jack. Nina said that she has the power to save
Faheen's family from being rounded up by U.S.
forces. Yet Michelle can't pick up any more of
what they are saying because they are talking
too quietly. Jack asks Nina what Faheen just told
her. "Everything," she says before slitting
Faheen's throat with the shard of gift card she
was palming. Jack leaps out of his seat to
restrain Nina while the other agents rush to stop
the bleeding in Faheen's neck. Faheen dies.
Nina, who now is the only one who knows where
the bomb is, stipulates that Jack re-route the plan
to San Diego so that she can flee the country.
She will only tell him the information when they
are on the ground. Mason, who has been
listening on the phone, gives in to her demand
because they are running out of time. Jack insists
that they will hold her until they can confirm the
validity of what she divulges.
Michelle tells Mason that she picked up a name
from the recordings of Faheen's muted admission
to Nina. Michelle connected the name Marko
Khatami to Syed Ali. Mason goes over to Reza,
grabs him by the neck and pins him to the wall.
Reza says that he does not know Marko
Khatami, and Mason calls him a liar. Tony pulls
Mason off, as Marie goes to Reza's aid.
At the highway patrol station, the officer leads
Kim and Miguel out of their holding rooms and
tells them that they are being transferred to
someone at CTU. She asks about Megan,
insisting that the little girl not be taken back to
Los Angeles. The policeman once again pushes
Kim to reveal what is going on, and she finally
admits that there is a nuclear bomb loose in the
city.
Michelle tells Tony that she was not able to
retrieve anything else from the tape. Noticing that
she is rattled, he inquires about her well being.
"We're going to survive this day," Tony says
warmly.
Palmer asks Lynne what she thinks about Sherry
being around. She says that she will defer to
anything he wants. They are interrupted by a live
news broadcast. Wieland is reporting that there is
an imminent threat to national security by Middle
Eastern terrorist cels working with the possible
involvement of domestic terrorist groups. Wieland
also confirms that the President knows about this
and is not telling the American public. Palmer
asks Mike Novick how Wieland got out, and he
demands to see Armus, who had been
overseeing Wieland's captivity.
As Kate walks Koplin out of the house, she
wonders why her father didn't already know
about Reza's illegal involvement if he was
supposedly working with the government. Bob
wouldn't have let his daughter marry Reza if he
had been under investigation, and he had always
treated Reza like a son. Koplin says that he
knows Tony Almeida and will call him. Suddenly,
two men appear in the yard and attack Kate and
Koplin. The men inject something into their necks
and toss the limp bodies of Kate and Koplin into
a parked truck. It pulls out of the Warner
driveway.
As a shackled Nina sits on the CTU jet, Jack
recalls to Nina a fond memory of his wife Teri in
the days before she was killed. "That's what you
took from this world, Nina," he says. "That's what
you took from me and my daughter." Suddenly,
an explosion rocks the plane and an alarm
sounds. The jet jostles, and bodies are tossed
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