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Kim makes her escape into the Angeles Crest
National Forest, and hides from the rescue
helicopters under some brush.
As Agent Richards and Reza lie dead in the
Warner offices, Marie guts the hard drive from
her father's computer. Her cell phone rings. It is
Syed Ali, who informs her that the van drivers
Basheer and Marko are dead. He needs her to
retrieve the bomb's trigger from Marko's work
locker in Burbank and bring it to Omar, who now
has the van. Ali warns Marie to change her
appearance, and she dutifully obeys his orders.
Ali then enters a mosque for what he believes will
be his last prayer service.
Jack drives Kate to the closest mosque and
preps her for identifying Ali. He reveals that Ali is,
in fact, a suspect in a nuclear terrorist attack on
the city. Mason phones Jack with news that Kim
disappeared into the forest after the accident.
Jack begs Mason to find her.
Novick learns that there is not enough evidence
to take action against Stanton. It will also take too
long to obtain a warrant. He advises the
President to immediately remove Stanton from
his post, and deal with the ramifications later.
Novick also intimates that he should do whatever
possible to get Stanton to reveal what he knows
about the bomb. Meanwhile, Sherry phones
Lynne to ask what is being done about Stanton,
but Lynne has not been apprised of the situation.
Sherry urges Lynne to find out.
The CTU SWAT team sets up in a parking
structure near the mosque. Jack instructs the
team leader to not make a move until the prayer
service has ended because they need to grab Ali
on his way out of the building. Yet they still do not
even know if they are at the correct place. Kate
offers to go into the mosque wearing a hijab over
her face to see if Ali is indeed inside.
Stanton is denied access into the government
files on his computer. Colonel Lamb and a pair of
MPs approach him. Lamb places Stanton under
arrest on the authority of the President for
conspiracy to commit treason. As he is escorted
out, Stanton's eyes meet Palmer's. Lynne comes
into the President's office to tell him that Sherry
has been trying to reach him. When he takes
Sherry's call, she asks what he will do about
Stanton. Palmer informs her that he is having
Stanton questioned, but Sherry says that she
disagrees with his hasty decision. Despite her
help in gathering information, Palmer refuses to
include her in the process or let her influence
him.
At CTU, Tony admits to Michelle that he is happy
about her opening up to the possibility of a
relationship. Although he has been reluctant to
start another office romance, he is willing to see
what happens. They are interrupted by an alert
about Bob Warner becoming violent in the
interrogation room. Bob demands to be freed
because he believes that Reza is lying about his
involvement with the terrorists. Tony orders him
to stay calm. When Bob asks about his
daughters, Tony tells him that Kate is with one of
their agents but he does not reveal what is
happening.
As Kate puts on the traditional Muslim dress,
Jack briefs her on what to do inside the mosque.
Once she spots Ali, she is to leave the building.
Jack hands Kate a device to trigger the SWAT
team should she feel she is any danger.
Kate enters the mosque and, as she makes her
way to the women's section, scans the room full
of men praying. She spots Ali, and hurriedly
makes her way out of the building as he looks up
at her. Jack stops Kate as she exits, and she tells
him that Ali is inside.
At the O.C., Novick briefs Palmer about the last
phone call Stanton made -- it was to Colonel
Sanders at the CIA headquarters. Palmer enters
the holding room where Stanton is being kept
and informs him that he has been connected to
the nuclear threat. The President offers Stanton a
deal to reveal what he knows in return for
immunity. Stanton claims to have done nothing
wrong, and says he does not know about the
bomb.
Jack gives the CTU agents Kate's description of
Ali, and deters the team not to move until Kate
picks out the terrorist from the men leaving the
mosque. The agents ready themselves at all
points surrounding the building. As they wait
across the street and focus their binoculars on
the entrance, Jack thanks Kate for her courage in
assisting the investigation.
Kim makes her way through the forest, but stops
when she hears the sound of an animal. She
flees when she sees a cougar in the distance, but
her ankle gets caught in an animal snare. The
cougar follows her, and it stands on a rock above
and stares at her. Kim is silently trembling as the
animal watches her.
Palmer returns to his retreat and speaks with one
of the Secret Service agents named Simmons
who had once served in a special unit out of Fort
Myerson performing covert ops for the CIA.
Palmer asks Simmons to act outside of his duties
of the Secret Service under his direct orders. He
is to use any means necessary to extract
information from NSA Director Stanton.
Michelle gets word that Reza and the agents
guarding him were murdered. The last time the
agents communicated with CTU, Marie Warner
had just arrived. Tony phones Jack with the
news, and suggests that they treat Kate as a
possible suspect. Jack, however, is sure that
Kate knows nothing about her sister's terrorism
activities.
Marie enters a lumber mill wearing a short
brunette wig. She approaches the foreman about
obtaining something from her boyfriend Marko's
locker. The foreman is reluctant to open it, but
Marie seductively offers to show him her
appreciation for his help. They go into the man's
office, close the blinds and lock the door.
Roger Stanton is restrained in a chair with his
bare feet submerged in a tub of water. Holding
defibrillator paddles, Secret Service Agent
Simmons questions him about his involvement
with the nuclear bomb. Stanton calmly denies
any knowledge, and Simmons zaps him on the
temples. Palmer watches unflinchingly from a
monitor in his office.
Tony informs Bob Warner about Reza's murder
and the suspicion of Marie as the killer. Bob
doesn't believe this story, and accuses Tony of
trying to trick him.
As the worshipers file out of the mosque into the
night, Jack readies his team. Kate watches the
entrance through binoculars, but does not spot
Ali among the men. Jack becomes alarmed when
the mosque is emptied, and he questions Kate.
She assures him that she did not see Ali, and
Jack wonders if she might have been spotted
when she went inside. He orders his team to raid
the mosque, and he brings Kate with him. A glow
of light flares from an adjoining room, and the
agents find a man engulfed in flames. Jack
extinguishes the fire as another agent covers the
body with a blanket.
The foreman in the mill allows Marie to access
Marko's locker. She retrieves the trigger and
leaves.
The dead man in the mosque is wearing the
clothes that match Ali's description, and the
agents believe that Ali has committed suicide.
Yet Jack notices that the pants on the corpse are
too short, and he realizes that this is not Ali. He
alerts the agents surrounding the building that Ali
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