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Alberta Green notifies the CTU staff that Martin
Belkin is now a suspect in the Palmer
assassination attempt. She asks Nina whether
she has heard from Jack, but Nina denies
speaking to him.
Jack, meanwhile, drives Ted Cofell in a
limousine. Cofell realizes that his regular driver is
not behind the wheel, and reaches for his cell
phone. Jack locks the doors, pulls over and
draws his gun on the man. Cofell feigns
innocence, claiming not to know about either
Gaines or Jack's family. Jack waits while he has
Nina put together an interrogation file on Cofell.
Rick asks Teri and Kim not to say anything to him
because Eli has sent him in to get information.
Rick quickly leaves the shed, and Eli questions
him outside. Not liking Rick's empty answers, Eli
beats him up.
Nina is secretly researching Ted Cofell's
background when Alberta Green approaches
with a question about the passenger list of the
plane that went down. An empty seat in First
Class was actually filled by Martin Belkin, and
Nina has determined that a lookalike assassin
was actually at the breakfast. Suddenly, Jack
calls Nina again. Nina pretends that the caller is
someone from FBI, and Alberta asks to speak to
the agent. Nina is about to be caught in a lie,
when Tony distracts Alberta to come to his desk.
Nina goes back to Jack's call and gives him the
small amount of background on Cofell she could
find. She describes Cofell as an ambitious control
freak, and because he is so tightly wound, Nina
advises that he could probably be persuaded
with the threat of pain.
Jack gets inside the limo's backseat and
questions Cofell again. Cofell admits to being on
his way to a meeting with a machine tool
businessman before he is to arrive at the airport.
Jack has Nina run the name of Kevin Carroll.
When he threatens to torture Cofell, the man still
pleads innocence.
Andre Drazen arrives at the desert compound,
unhappy with how Gaines has mishandled the
operation. Drazen threatens to pull the plug, but
gives Gaines thirty more minutes to find Jack. If
Gaines does not succeed, Drazen will enact a
contingency plan to complete the assassination
against Palmer and kill Jack. He will then order
Gaines to get rid of Teri and Kim. Nearby, Rick
overhears the whole conversation.
Palmer is interrupted at his school visit when
Mike Novick gets Carl on the phone. Although
Palmer demands to speak to him in person, Carl
brushes off any insinuations and says that he is
not available. When Palmer threatens to spread
information about him, Carl agrees to meet.
Nina tells Jack that she found six people with the
name Kevin Carroll, and one does work for a
machine tool company. She suggests that
perhaps Cofell is innocent. Jack, however, is
insistent that Cofell is somehow involved. With no
other lead to go on, Jack drives Cofell to meet
with Carroll.
Teri - Kim abdominal pain
As Jack drives, he doesn't notice Cofell pull out a
hidden Micro Tech Halo II knife.
Still posing for reporters at the elementary
school, Palmer pulls Sherry aside and asks if she
has recently spoken to Carl. She says that Carl
claimed to "take care of the evidence" against
Keith, but that she doesn't know what that phrase
means. Palmer is upset that she did not tell him
about this, and alludes to a time when she
deceived him seven years ago. Novick informs
Palmer that he has checked into Jack's
background and found many gaps in his history
that are classified. Palmer asks if one of those
gaps was in the summer from two years ago.
Novick is surprised that Palmer knows that, but
before he can ask about it, Palmer says they
have other things to deal with first.
Jack pulls the limo into an empty parking garage
where Cofell is supposed to meet Kevin Carroll.
Jack gets in the backseat to wait, and Cofell
lunges at him with the knife. Jack fights him off
and punches Cofell. Cofell curses at Jack in a
foreign language, and Jack recognizes it as
Serbian. Cofell tells Jack that he deserves what
is happening to him and that he will pay.
Suddenly, Cofell suffers a heart attack. Jack
holds the man's medicine to entice him into
revealing more information. When Cofell goes
violently silent, Jack forces the medicine into his
throat. Cofell spits the pill out. As Jack pounds
his chest unsuccessfully, Cofell dies.
Nina consoles Jack, but he believes that this hit
on Palmer has some personal connection to
himself. He has Nina find a link between his old
field assignments and Cofell's background,
specifically looking at Operation Nightfall where
Jack was in Belgrade and Kosovo. Jack props up
the deceased Cofell in the back seat.
Since Alberta Green probably suspects that they
are already helping Jack, Tony asks Nina
whether they should just admit to what's been
going on. Nina holds firm to standing by Jack's
wishes. She does not want all of CTU involved
for fear of unearthing another mole like Jamey.
Tony doesn't like it, but he accepts her decision.
Teri is trying to keep the sleepy Kim awake when
Rick enters. He gives the women Dan's gun that
was left in the van. Teri understands that this
time, Gaines intends to kill them.
While Jack waits in the driver's seat, another car
enters the parking garage. The man known as
Alan York gets into the backseat, not noticing
that Cofell is dead. Jack locks the doors and
turns to Kevin Carroll, who had been posing as
York. Jack doesn't flinch when Carroll draws a
gun and shoots repeatedly at the partition. The
partition doesn't shatter because it's bulletproof.
Jack speeds off, jerking Carroll back and forth in
the backseat, and then quickly slams on the
brakes. Although Jack is held in by his seatbelt,
Carroll slams, head first, into the partition.
Jack traps the unconscious Carroll with tape and
asks about Teri and Kimberly. Carroll tells him
that they are safe, but if they don't get there soon
it may be too late. Since Jack is no longer under
their control, there is no point in keeping Teri and
Kim alive. If Carroll brings him to his family, Jack
will allow him to walk away alive. If not, he will be
tortured. Carroll agrees to direct him.
With the half-hour passed, Drazen has Gaines
get rid of Teri and Kim. His contingency plan
does not involve them. Gaines orders Eli to kill
the women.
Carl arrives at the elementary school, and
Palmer slips away from the reporters to speak
with him. Palmer chides him for harming anyone
in the name of his candidacy, but Carl claims that
he never had any choice in the matter. The
people that want Palmer in office will do anything
to get him there. Palmer then leaves an urgent
message on George Ferragamo's answering
machine.
Eli comes into the shed, and Teri draws the gun
on him. She fires, but the gun chamber is empty.
Eli grabs Teri and pulls out his own gun. She
knocks his gun aside and he flips open a
pocketknife on Kim. Teri grabs the gun and
shoots Eli. He falls dead. Since anyone listening
will assume Eli meant to kill two people, Teri fires
a second shot to simulate the second murder.
They hide Eli's body. |
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