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As the techs scan the decoy bomb for clues,
Jack tries questioning Omar. Omar, however,
does not speak English. Jack puts in an urgent
request for a translator.
At CTU, tufts of Mason's hair fall out from the
radiation sickness. He gets Jack on the phone
and inquires about the search at the airport. Jack
asks him for a reverse-time satellite to track the
delivery of the decoy, but the weakening Mason
seems not to have heard him. Jack implores
Mason to step aside if he is not fully functioning.
Right now they need someone capable in
command. Mason lets Jack know that there was
a seventh commando who may have escaped.
The seventh member of their team must have
shot the soldiers at close range, and Jack asks
Mason to find the identity of that man. Omar
begins to say something in Arabic, but no one
can understand him because the translator has
yet to arrive.
From the airport holding room, Kate calls her
father. Bob Warner is still being held at CTU.
They are both shocked that Marie is linked to the
terrorists. Kate hangs up when Jack comes in to
ask her for help in talking to Omar.
Palmer fills in Novick on what Stanton said about
Sherry's involvement in the conspiracy. The
President has Sherry summoned, and he tells
her that he knows about Stanton bringing the
bomb into the country. He then questions if she is
working with Stanton. Sherry denies it, claiming
that she only met Stanton that afternoon. Palmer
knows that is not true. Since she alleges to love
him, he asks her to come clean. She admits to
being approached by Stanton because he
wanted to know Palmer's weaknesses. Sherry
only obliged in order to gain Stanton's
confidence. She did it to protect Palmer, not hurt
him. She asks her ex-husband to allow her to
prove her innocence.
Kate translates that Omar only participated in the
terrorist plot because Syed Ali promised to pay
his family. Kate then asks Omar about the
second bomb, but he doesn't understand her
dialect. The translator arrives and asks Omar the
same question. He says he doesn't know
anything.
When Kate is leaving the hangar, she sees a
group of people being shuffled into another
building because of the airfield lock down.
Among the crowd, Kate sees a woman with short
brown hair. She recognizes the woman as her
sister Marie.
In the bomb shelter, Kim asks McRae about what
he heard on the radio regarding the nuclear blast.
He tells her that the transmission died before he
could get any news. Kim is eager to contact her
father, but McRae dissuades her from leaving the
shelter. He offers to try his shortwave radio. Yet
when he puts on the headphones, he can hear
the Los Angeles radio stations in full force.
McRae pulls out the antennae connection from
the radio and it goes static. He tells Kim that he
could not pick up anything because the radiation
has affected the antennae. Kim sobs in fear, and
McRae comforts her.
Mason meets Carrie Turner, the new
programmer brought in to replace Paula
Schaeffer. He asks her to report directly to him.
Carrie, who has noted Mason's failing health,
says that she heard he will not be around much
longer. He smiles at her frankness, and tells her
to instead report to Tony and Michelle. Carrie
informs him that she used to be Michelle's boss
at District, but that this will not cause any
problems. Suddenly, Mason passes out and
collapses to the floor.
Kate goes into the building where people are
being checked in by security and subjected to
metal detectors. She spots Marie slipping out a
back door. Yet when she goes to follow her, Kate
is stopped by a guard. She flashes the badge
given to her by CTU, and tells the guard to radio
Jack Bauer about Marie. Kate goes out the back
door and is startled when Marie pulls a gun on
her and demands her badge. Marie tells her
sister that Syed Ali helped her see the hypocrisy
of this country and of people like Bob Warner,
who worked for the CIA. Kate calls her sister
ungrateful for everything she and their father did.
She believes that Marie has been brainwashed
by lunatics. Marie slaps Kate, and again asks for
her badge. This time she threatens to kill her.
Suddenly, a shot rings out. Jack has hit Marie in
the arm. He approaches with a team of agents
and they secure Marie.
Marie is brought to an emergency building at the
airport. She screams in pain from the gunshot.
Kate asks why her sister is not being treated for
the pain, and Jack explains that they need her
cooperation because she may be the only one
who has information. After Marie is handcuffed to
a chair, Jack asks where the bomb is but she is
resistant. Once she reveals the information they
are looking for, they will have the bullet removed
from her body. Marie screams in agony, and Kate
winces at the sound of her sister being tortured.
Marie still will not give Jack anything, saying that
she is not afraid to die. Jack doesn't believe her,
and he says that she doesn't have the look of
people willing to give up their lives for their
cause.
While McRae fiddles with his radio under
headphones, Kim finds a television set on a shelf
in the bunker. She turns it on and sees that all
the stations are fully operational. The local news
does not show anything out of the ordinary. Kim
realizes that she is in danger.
Tony pulls up a bio of a special ops soldier
named Jonathan Wallace, who is believed to be
the seventh commando in the Coral Snake unit.
Michelle forwards the info to Jack and the White
House's O.C. Carrie comes over to greet
Michelle, and there is some tension between the
two. Michelle, establishing the lines of authority,
hands Carrie some files to analyze.
Mason approaches Tony about taking over
command because he doesn't feel well enough to
continue. He asks Tony to say goodbye to the
staff for him, and hands him access codes for
CTU and Division. He has already talked to
Chappelle at District. Tony has been named the
new Director. Mason wishes Tony luck and
leaves quietly.
Tony settles himself into Mason's office. He alerts
the CTU staff of Mason's situation and the new
chain of command. Tony tells the crew that they
can not mourn until they get through this crisis.
Jack has Agent Goodrich give Marie something
temporary for the pain because he needs her
lucid for more questioning. He then asks Kate to
remind Marie of the other things she used to love
so that they can break through whatever
brainwashing Syed Ali did to her. Although Marie
is a bit groggy from the painkiller, Kate strokes
her hair tenderly. She pleads with her to stop the
bomb, but Marie says she can't. The Demerol
wears off, and Marie sobs when the pain returns.
Jack won't dispense more painkillers until she
gives them information. Marie finally relents. She
tells Jack that the bomb is in a suitcase being
transported by a green van to the Arco Towers
downtown. Marie knows it will detonate in three
hours because she saw the timer. Jack wants her
to describe the timer, and Marie hesitates. Jack
knows that there would not be a visible timer on a
bomb that size. Marie claims that she is not lying.
Jack becomes convinced that Marie is trying to
lead them astray and that the bomb is still on the
site. He orders teams to initiate a grid search of
all the buildings at the airport. Jack and the
agents head out to search, leaving Marie alone
with Kate. "They're not going to find it in time,"
Marie says. "We're all going to die."
Novick sets up a video call for the President with
Steve Hillenburg, a CIA operative at Langley.
Sherry watches the monitor as Hillenburg
confirms her story. Sherry contacted him four
months ago because Stanton was trying to
recruit her to undermine the Administration.
Hillenburg operated without the President's
knowledge in order to protect both Palmer and
Sherry. He says he has photographs, taped
conversations and debriefs to corroborate her
claims. Palmer asks where the meetings took
place, and Sherry says that it was in a hotel room
for the first month. She quickly tells Palmer that
she did not sleep with Stanton. "I didn't ask,"
Palmer says, and hangs up with Hillenburg.
Sherry pleads with Palmer to believe that she
was not part of Stanton's conspiracy. Palmer
doesn't know whether she's telling the truth or
not, but he knows that he can not trust her. He
orders her to leave and threatens to arrest her if
she resists.
As McRae sets up a cot, Kim scans the room and
spots a hunting knife. She asks McRae to get her
another aspirin, and when his back is turned, she
hits him in the head with a flashlight. She draws
the knife on him and demands that he let her out,
saying she knows that the bomb didn't go off.
McRae disarms her, and pleads that he wasn't
going to hurt her. He only wanted some
company. Kim says that she does not want to
stay, and McRae becomes enraged that she is
rejecting him. Kim begs him to let her go. He
hands her a flashlight and a gun to guard against
the wilderness. He opens the door and gives her
directions to the trail. Kim runs out.
As Jack drives through the airfield, he sees signs
of gunfire ahead. The CTU radio reports that one
hostile is down. Jack pulls up, and Goodrich
directs him to the bomb wrapped in an Army
green duffel bag. The N.E.S.T. technician
confirms that the bomb is nuclear and has a
trigger. Jack radios for an evacuation of the site.
The tech realizes that the weapon is armed, but
he doesn't know how long before it will detonate.
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