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Having been shot (and saved by the flak jacket
that Jack gave her), Nina wanders off from the
industrial area, dazed and bruised.
Palmer tells his wife Sherry and son Keith that he
plans to admit the truth in his breakfast speech.
Sherry and Keith are not pleased.
The assassin Jonathan arrives for the Palmer
breakfast at the San Clarita power plant. With the
face and identification of Martin Belkin, he is
admitted in by the Secret Service.
Gaines directs Jack to pick up a briefcase. When
Jack begins to waver, Gaines briefly puts Teri on
the phone. He sends Jack to the San Clarita
power station
Gaines sends Jamey an instant message. At
CTU, Jamey grabs her handheld device and
goes into a bathroom stall, as Gaines watches all
this on his surveillance monitor. Through the
handheld, she tells Gaines that Milo is aware that
he has the wrong keycard, but that she will
handle it. She is shocked when Gaines informs
her that Nina is dead.
Teri is brought to the shack where Kimberly is
being held. Kim explains that she met Rick and
Dan through Janet, and she is upset to learn that
Janet has died.
Nina finds a phone and dials Jamey. Jamey is
not at her desk to answer it. Nina then calls Tony,
asking for Jamey. Tony is about to hand the
phone to Jamey, but overhears her telling Milo
that Nina is at an all-day meeting. When Tony
questions her about her information, she says
that she just spoke to Nina. Tony senses she is
lying, and he tells Nina about what Jamey said.
Nina realizes that Jamey cannot be trusted, and
explains to Tony about CTU being infiltrated. He
sends a car to pick her up.
Jack arrives at the power plant. While clearing
Jack for entry into the breakfast, Secret Service
Agent Pierce asks Jack to open the briefcase.
Inside is a laptop computer. Although Jack is
unsure of what the computer really is (a bomb?),
it safely powers on. The Secret Service allows
him entry into the event. Jessica, Palmer's press
assistant, recognizes Jack from high school and
greets him warmly. Jack nervously moves away
from her, as Gaines orders him to wait for his
contact. Jack makes eye contact with Palmer and
resists the urge to warn the Senator. Palmer
moves on, and gets introduced to who he thinks
is photographer Martin Belkin. No one knows that
this is the candidate's intended assassin.
As Kim sleeps, Rick brings breakfast to the
women. Knowing that he is the one who
kidnapped her daughter, Teri hits him. As Rick
tries to explain, Eli interrupts. He warns Rick not
to make friends with the two women because
they won't be around much longer.
At the power plant, Jessica approaches Jack
again. He attempts to write a warning on his
business card, but Gaines sees this and orders
one of his men to break things up. Jack realizes
that he is still being watched, and pockets his
card. Gaines directs Jack deep into the facility to
a closet.
Tony kisses Nina when she arrives at a CTU
back door. He takes her into a secure room with
no active cameras. She briefs him on Teri and
Kimberly's kidnapping, and he is sure that it has
something to do with the Palmer case. Since
their official mandate is to protect Palmer, they
both decide that they must warn the Secret
Service.
Jonathan comes to the room where Jack is
waiting and opens up the briefcase. Under the
laptop computer are gun parts. While Jonathan
puts on latex fingerprint patches, he orders Jack
to assemble the gun so that his fingerprints will
be on it. Jonathan begins to leave with the
weapon stored in his camera bag, but Jack pulls
his own gun on the hitman. Jonathan warns him
that his family is in jeopardy if he is stopped. Jack
lets the man leave.
To set a trap, Tony makes sure he is within
earshot of Jamey when he tells Milo that Jack did
swap the key card. Tony contacts Agent Pierce
at the Secret Service to inform him that Jack is a
threat to Palmer. Pierce is to take any
appropriate action. From the secure room, Nina
watches on surveillance monitors as Jamey
approaches the bathroom with her handheld
device. Tony waits outside the bathroom. Nina,
through an ear mike, directs Tony as he grabs
Jamey and takes her out of the bathroom.
Because the surveillance cameras are on a 20-
second rotating loop, Gaines does not see Tony
and Jamey.
Agent Pierce pulls Palmer aside and warns him
that a CTU agent at the event may be a threat.
Pierce wants to remove the candidate from the
premises, but Palmer decides to proceed. He is
eager to make his speech. Pierce notifies his
agents that they are to detain Jack.
Tony brings Jamey to the secure room, and she
is surprised to see Nina alive. Although Jamey at
first plays dumb, Tony and Nina threaten her with
murder and treason charges. Jamey admits that
she has been passing messages, but won't
reveal who her employer is until she talks to a
CTU lawyer. Tony and Nina are worried that they
do not have much time to help Jack.
At the desert compound, Teri tries to find an
escape from the cabin prison. Aware that they
both might be killed, she tells Kimberly that she
loves her.
While Jonathan puts Palmer in his crosshairs,
one of the Secret Service agents approaches
Jack. Knowing he doesn't have much time, Jack
reaches for the agent's gun. The agent quickly
disables Jack, and notifies the other agents
through his headset to cover Palmer. Jack feigns
innocence out loud for Gaines' benefit. The
Secret Service quickly swarm Palmer and
remove him from the podium. Jack begs Gaines
for mercy, claiming he was not involved, but
when the Secret Service pins Jack to the ground,
the transmitter falls from his ear. Gaines orders
Eli to kill Teri and Kim, and then notices an
instant message from Jamey. Nina and Tony,
having seen the melee at the Palmer breakfast
on television, instruct Jamey to tell Gaines that
the CTU ordered Jack's arrest because they
have been tailing him all night long for
insubordination. Gaines realizes this is plausible,
and hangs up on Jamey. He receives another
phone call. Instead of his usual bravado, he talks
to this unknown person with deference. Gaines
informs the mystery caller that he has a backup
plan that will be put into effect the same day. As
Eli is about to kill Teri and Kimberly, Gaines
orders him to keep the women alive.
At the power plant, Jack is taken into custody by
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