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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.
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