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At the Palmer power plant breakfast, Jack is
apprehended by Secret Service. Other Secret
Service teams quickly remove Palmer and Sherry
from the power plant. Despite the hysteria,
Palmer is not concerned about any threat to his
life. Meanwhile, Jack tries to explain to Secret
Service Agent Simes that he is working to protect
Palmer. He warns them about the assassin,
Martin Belkin, but they still do not trust him.
Tony and Nina interrogate Jamey. She gives up
Gaines' name and admits to setting up the
surveillance cameras inside CTU. Jamey agrees
to call Gaines on a land phone line. Gaines,
meanwhile, is in a panic because he can not
reach Jonathan, the assassin, but he calms when
Jamey tells him that she will find out what
happened to Jack. Nina has Milo research
Gaines' identity, putting him in charge of all
Jamey's projects.
Jack admits the truth to Simes about his family's
kidnapping and the plot to assassinate Palmer,
but Simes doesn't have the authority or the
inclination to release him. Simes orders him sent
to the District office for questioning. As Jack is
being led out of the power plant, he daringly
escapes from the Secret Service agents by
turning on valves to blow steam into their paths.
Although he is still handcuffed, Jack is able to
steal one of the agents' guns and make it out of
the power plant. Jack stops an oncoming car,
gets in, and at gunpoint, forces the terrified driver
to pull away.
Jack directs the driver, a waitress named Lauren
Proctor, to park at a construction site. They break
into an office so that Jack can use the phone.
Jamey divulges that she accepted three hundred
thousand dollars to provide Gaines information,
claiming that her low pay at CTU was not enough
to raise her son as a single parent. Yet she will
not give them any more information until she
receives immunity in writing. Nina gets a call from
Jack. He apologizes for shooting her, explaining
that they wanted him to kill her for what she
knew. Nina tells him that Jamey has confessed to
her participation in the plot. Jamey is put on the
phone with Jack, and he promises that he will
help her. Jamey still won't budge until she gets
her immunity. Jack instructs Nina to bring in
Jamey's son, and he asks for a car and gun to be
sent to him. Lauren asks Jack who he is, but she
doesn't believe him when he tells her about his
situation. He admits that he needs the police to
think that he may do something crazy. Lauren
doesn't want to be involved, and after giving him
her keys, goes to leave. Jack pulls a gun on her
to make her stay.
Sherry and Palmer return to their hotel suite, but
Keith is not there. Sherry tries to persuade her
husband to fight against Maureen Kingsley's
breaking the story about Keith allegedly killing
Nicole Palmer's rapist. Palmer is angry at Sherry
for keeping this a secret for the past seven years.
Tony apologizes to Jack for his earlier behavior,
and Jack tells him that by turning him in to the
Secret Service, he helped save Palmer's life.
Jack then has Lauren break his handcuffs with a
pair of bolt cutters.
Mike Novick (Palmer's Chief of Staff) informs
Palmer that a CTU agent named Jack Bauer
apparently assaulted a Secret Service agent and
that this Bauer claims the move was mis-
interpreted. He goes on to explain that after
Bauer was apprehended he escaped. Palmer
recognizes Jack's name, but can't place how he
knows him.
Back at Gaines' compound, Eli, one of Gaines'
henchmen, starts to make advances at Kim. Teri
tries to stop him but is knocked to the ground.
Kim valiantly defends herself as Eli keeps
coming. Teri interrupts by offering herself
instead of Kim by saying, "I won't fight you." Eli
accepts. Kim is in shock when her mother leaves
with Eli.
Sherry persuades Maureen Kingsley to hold off
on the Keith story by offering up another story for
her -- that a government agent was involved in a
conspiracy to kill Palmer.
Teri returns to the shed. Kim is hysterical. Teri,
with strength and resolve calms Kim and then
shows her a cell phone that she stole when she
was Eli. She calls Nina, but has to hang up when
one of Gaines' thugs comes into the shed.
Keith returns to the hotel suite. Palmer tells his
son that he has asked his lawyers to clear his
name, but Keith finds little comfort in that. Novick
informs Palmer that Maureen Kingsley is sitting
on Keith's story. Although Maureen won't say
why, Palmer knows that Sherry had something to
do with it. Sherry feigns innocence.
While waiting at the construction site, Jack
begins to doze off. Lauren is about to leave when
he wakes up and catches her.
Nina and Tony threaten Jamey by telling her that
her son, Kyle, will see her in shackles and
accused of treason. They tell her that Gaines
would have eventually gotten to Kyle to prevent
Jamey from testifying. Jamey begins take in the
full magnitude of the damage she's done and
feels the weight of her situation beginning to
crush her.
When Secret Service arrives at the construction
site, Jack asks Lauren to get the car that's been
sent by CTU. She goes outside and, instead of
helping Jack, points the Secret Service in his
direction. Jack flees out a back window, narrowly
escaping the agents. He runs to the waiting CTU
car and drives off.
Milo reports to Nina and Tony about what he's
found on Gaines' identity. He begins to suspect
something when they tell him that Jamey's son is
being brought in. As they head to the secure
room, they discuss the option of bringing Milo
into the fold. They find Jamey on the ground,
bleeding from her left wrist. A broken coffee cup
is on the floor. She has tried to take her own life.
Suddenly, Jamey's handheld device rings. It is
Gaines calling. Nina and Tony look at the ringing
device as they try to revive Jamey. |
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