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At the Sixth Street Bridge, Saunders tells Jack
that the eleven other vials are being held by men
instructed to release the virus at noon. They
cannot be called off. Saunders will give him their
locations only if he receives a guarantee from
President Palmer that he will be allowed to
escape freely to North Africa.
CTU agents take Tony into custody. Jack
promises that he will do what he can for him.
Jack asks Jane Saunders to try to convince her
father to stop the virus.
Jane approaches Saunders and begs him to
prevent people dying from the virus. Saunders
knows CTU is trying to manipulate him, and he
explains to Jane that what he is doing will better
the world. Saunders will not relent, and Jane
breaks down in tears. Jack watches her run off.
Palmer phones Sherry and offers her a "seat at
his table." He asks to meet her in person. Palmer
hangs up and calls Wayne, who is outside
Sherry's house. Palmer will distract Sherry as
Wayne looks for the incriminating prescription
bottle.
Jack and Saunders arrive at the Chandler Plaza
Hotel via helicopter. Jack shows him the body
bags full of innocent victims. Saunders is
unmoved. Jack summons Chase to bring out
Jane from a second helicopter. Jack threatens to
send Jane into the infected hotel if Saunders
does not give him information on finding the other
vials. Saunders believes that Jack would not
harm the girl, but Jack gives the order for Chase
to send her into the building. Jane cries out for
her father, and Jack warns Saunders that he will
watch his own daughter die. Saunders finally
gives up and says he will comply. Saunders tells
Jack that the vials are tagged with GPS codes so
that they can be tracked. He has memorized all
eleven locator codes. Jane is removed from the
hotel entrance before she can be infected.
With the GPS signals traced, CTU has ten of the
eleven vials in their sights. Saunders confirms
that the missing vial is in Los Angeles, and the
courier was instructed to release the virus in a
public place that would ensure the maximum
number of casualties. Saunders only knows the
man by an alias, Arthur Rabens. Jack has Chase
bring Saunders back to CTU to work with a
sketch artist to get a description of the courier.
Jane is to stay at the hotel site.
Jack phones Adam and has him search for
aliases of Rabens. Adam puts Tony's
replacement, Brad Hammond, on the line. Jack
brings Hammond up to speed and asks him to be
lenient on Tony. Hammond refuses. Jack
compares Tony's current situation to what he
went through a few years ago. Jack had gone
rogue to save his family who were captured by
Victor Drazen. It was Tony who worked with Jack
and Gael to set up this operation this past year,
and Tony should now be used as an asset on the
case. Hammond is not swayed by Jack's
argument.
Everyone watches silently as Tony is escorted
into CTU in handcuffs. He is locked in a holding
room. Hammond tells Tony that his act of treason
is punishable by the death penalty. His best
possible outcome is twenty years in prison. This
fact sobers Tony.
As Wayne and Foxton wait for Sherry to leave
her house, Wayne's phone rings. It's Julia
Milliken, who is upset because the police are
coming to arrest her for her husband's murder.
She is distraught, knowing the President lied to
protect Sherry. Julia begs Wayne for help, but he
is distracted when Sherry gets in her car and
pulls away. He hangs up on Julia.
Wayne and Foxton break into Sherry's house.
"I'm Chief of Staff to the President of the United
States, and I'm committing a burglary," Wayne
says to himself.
Jack and Chase watch a video feed as the first of
the ten located couriers is taken down. The vial
of virus is successfully apprehended.
Wayne and Foxton can't find the prescription
bottle in Sherry's house.
Sherry meets with Palmer, and he offers her a
job as a high-level consultant at the White
House. Sherry is angry because what she wants
is to be his First Lady again. Surprisingly, Palmer
readily agrees. Sherry becomes suspicious, and
accuses Palmer of having other motives. She
says she is going to help Keeler instead, and
leaves.
Palmer phones Wayne with a warning that
Sherry is on her way back. Foxton finds a hidden
cellar with a safe. He calls a contact that may
have a manufacturer override code for it.
Chase lets Jack know that two more of
Saunders's men with the virus vials were
apprehended, but a third courier in Denver was
making a phone call when he was killed. Chloe
confirms that Rabens is in Los Angeles and is on
the move. Jack and Chase head toward him.
Michelle asks Hammond why she is being denied
access to Tony. She finds out for the first time
that Tony hindered the investigation by allowing
Saunders to escape. She's stunned.
CTU intercepts all the other ten couriers. Chloe
leads Jack and Chase as they follow Rabens.
According to the tracking, they are directly behind
the target. Neither Jack nor Chase sees a car.
Jack realizes that Rabens is in the subway
underground. Chloe accesses the metro system,
but Jack does not want the train stopped
because it will tip Rabens off. He asks her to
have both an undercover team and a Hazmat
team in place.
Foxton's contact walks him through the steps to
open the safe. Wayne hears Sherry return home.
Foxton finally gets the safe open but there's no
medicine bottle inside. Despite the impending
danger of them being caught, Foxton refuses to
leave empty-handed. Sherry sees Wayne in her
house and accuses him of doing the President's
dirty work. Foxton leaps out from behind a wall
and knocks Sherry out. He finds the evidence
bottle taped to the small of her back.
Jack, Chase and a throng of agents enter the
subway station. When they are in position, Chloe
has the train released to arrive. Rabens's vague
description is fed to the agents over their
earwigs.
Chloe alerts the agents that the target is moving
off the train and is headed up the stairs out of the
underground station. Chase follows, but doesn't
know which man it is. Jack narrows it down to
four men. When Chloe notes that Rabens has
stopped, Jack sees a man looking at the subway
map.
Jack gives the order to the agents, and he kicks
the man down at the subway map. Chase
sweeps the man's shopping bag with a wand and
discovers the transmitter is inside a pack of
cigarettes. The man claims he doesn't smoke.
Rabens was on to them, and he slipped the
transmitter into another passenger's bag. Jack
radios for the station to be locked down.
Wayne and Rabens run out of Sherry's house.
Suddenly, Julia pulls up. Wayne goes back to
follow her. Julia goes in just as Sherry is
regaining her consciousness. Julia threatens to
shoot Sherry because she has been accused of
murdering her husband. Wayne enters and
pleads with Julia to put the gun down. Sherry
says that she can get the President to pardon
Julia so that she never spends a day in jail.
Although the argument seems persuasive, Julia
plugs two shots into Sherry and kills her. Julia
then turns the gun on herself and takes her own
life. Tears rush down Wayne's cheeks as he
cradles Julia's dead body.
Chase reports to Jack that everyone who has
exited the subway is still detained in the station.
Jack orders him to start searching the trains.
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