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Jack and Chase roam the woods, searching for
Nina. Chase radios Jack when he sees a light.
He goes to check it out and finds a dead delta
team member. Nina comes upon Chase and
takes his weapon. She orders Chase to radio
Jack a code six, and he obliges. Suddenly, Nina
is cold cocked by Jack. He makes Chase go to
the airfield so that he can "interrogate" her. Nina
claims that she can help him find Amador in Los
Angeles.
Although Jack looks like he is about to kill Nina,
he instead calls CTU to tell Tony that he has
captured her alive. Jack thinks she must know
something.
Tony tells Chloe that Chappelle wants to see her.
He then phones Kim to let her know that her
father and Chase are returning to Los Angeles
with Nina.
Chloe comes into Chappelle's office, refusing to
speak about the baby. He accuses her of
violating agency rules, and he threatens to
perform a blood test to find out who the baby
really is. Chloe still won't reveal what is going on,
so Chappelle places her under guard while they
run tests on the child.
Wayne lets Palmer know that Amador escaped in
Mexico with the virus. He is a known arms
dealer, so it is unclear what his motivation is for
bringing it back to Los Angeles. Palmer is
interrupted with a call from Sherry. She says that
Kelly, the man willing to go public about Milliken's
past, has disappeared. She believes Milliken's
people got to him. Sherry is on her way to see
Milliken's wife, Julia. Palmer is adamant that she
not go there, but Sherry promises to stay away
from Milliken and only talk to Julia.
Jack arrives at the Las Nieves airfield with Nina.
Chase is a bit surprised to see Nina still alive.
Jack knows that Amador is already out of
Mexico, so they board a Navy plane headed for
Los Angeles.
Aboard his own private jet, Amador phones a
man named Marcus Alvers. He tells Alvers to be
ready because he has the virus.
Sherry calls Julia Milliken, who gives her the gate
security code to enter the property. Sherry orders
her to disable the security cameras.
Julia goes into her husband's bedroom to find
him watching the news. She tucks him in and
kisses him goodnight.
Jack asks the restrained Nina what she knows.
She says that Amador always deals with a man
named Alvers when it involves business on the
west coast. However, she has no idea who he is
or how Amador contacts him. Jack asks Tony to
run a check on the name.
Chase is cold towards Jack, and he accuses him
of not trusting him with the secret Hector deal.
Jack explains that when he pulled the trigger on
Chase, he was taking a chance that Salazar
would not give him a loaded gun. Thankfully, that
proved true. Those kinds of choices are always a
factor in the field. Now they must keep their focus
on stopping the virus. Chase backs down, and
wonders whether Nina really does knows more.
Jack wants to wait to see if Alvers is a real lead.
CTU techie Dalton Furelle finds a connection
between Amador and a man named Marcus
Alvers. These two men were once suspected of
manufacturing weapons-grade Anthrax but were
not convicted. They have also been seen
together numerous times over the last few years.
Tony assigns Michelle to hook Dalton up with
manpower from Division to trace Alvers.
Tony calls Jack with news on Alvers. Now they
have to find him. Nina decides to admit to Jack
that she knows more, and that she can help him
find Alvers before he meets with Amador. She
wants Jack's word that he will help her case with
the Department of Justice. He agrees. Nina gives
up a Felco prefix number that, when dialed, gives
an internet socket where Alvers can be reached.
After Jack follows her direction, nothing happens.
With a slight smile, Nina tells Jack to wait.
At CTU, everyone's system locks up. All the
computers go down. Tony warns the group that
there is a self-propagating code leaking into their
database. Back on the plane, Nina informs Jack
that his dialing actually triggered a worm that will
bring down agency connectivity. "Until I say
otherwise, your entire anti-terrorist computer
network is jammed," Nina says calmly.
Jack gives Tony the heads-up that Nina
embedded a worm into CTU's system when she
worked there. They don't know what Nina wants
in return to stop it. Jack suggests they assign
Chloe to the task of saving the network, but Tony
explains that Chloe has been asked to step
aside.
Nina tells Jack that she wants the plane to return
to Mexico. Once it turns around, she'll slow down
the spread of the worm. When she's safe in
Mexico, she will give him the final kill code to end
it. Jack knows that if the CTU computers go
down, undercover agents around the world will
be exposed. Nina warns him that they can't solve
the worm internally.
Tony appeals to Chappelle for allowing Chloe to
work on the worm. Chappelle begrudgingly
agrees, and lets her go from custody. With Adam
and Dalton's help, Chloe gets to work on the
system.
Sherry arrives at the Milliken estate and lets
herself in through the gate with the access code.
Sherry sneaks into the service porch and lightly
taps on the door. Julia opens it. Sherry proposes
that Julia help her prove that Milliken was
involved with Kelly's disappearance and,
possibly, his murder. If Milliken goes to prison,
then Julia will get everything. Sherry needs
Milliken's cell phone to see who he has called in
the last few hours, but Julia is afraid to go into his
bedroom. Sherry takes charge and does it
herself.
Sherry tiptoes into Milliken's bedroom and goes
to the nightstand next to where he is sleeping.
She grabs the phone and rushes out.
Chloe hurriedly leads the group in de-worming
the system. She is upset, however, that Adam
and Kim stabbed her in the back by going to their
bosses. Chloe says she went out on a limb in
order to protect her friend's baby. "What friend?"
Adam asks. Before Chloe can answer, her
monitor beeps, signaling that the worm is now
speeding up. Chloe tries another tactic.
Sherry reads off Milliken's last dialed calls to
someone over the phone so that they can be
tracked. She tells Julia that they are now done. If
any of those calls can be traced to Kelly, then
they will have something on Milliken. Suddenly,
Milliken enters the room and sees Sherry with his
wife. Sherry pointedly asks him about paying off
Kelly to keep quiet about his daughter's death.
"We can end it now, and you can back off David,"
she threatens.
With Jack out of earshot, Chase tells Nina that
Jack will kill her if she tries to play him. Jack
brings over a laptop and shows Nina that the
worm is now spreading faster. It will bring down
the whole CTU network in a few minutes. If she
wants any leverage, she will have to stop it. Over
Jack's phone, Nina gives Chloe instructions. This
slows the worm down for another 20 minutes, but
does not stop it completely. Nina warns Jack to
turn the plane around or the worm will finish its
task. Jack insists that they are going to land in
Los Angeles and that she will help him find
Amador.
Milliken and Sherry fight, and he starts to cough.
When he loses his breath, Julia runs to get his
pills. Sherry stops her. Milliken stumbles out of
his wheelchair and gasps for air as he reaches
for the bottle. Sherry and Julia watch him die on
the ground.
Julia is horrified, but Sherry convinces her to say
that she was in her bedroom when Milliken died.
This was an accident. "You're free of him," she
says. Although Julia is unsure about lying, Sherry
says she has no other choice if she doesn't want
to spend her life in prison. Sherry instructs Julia
to call 911 after an hour and pretend like she just
found her husband's body. Julia can never reveal
that Sherry was there.
Chloe works frantically to stop the worm, but it is
unsuccessful. Tony calls Jack to tell him that they
will need to go back to Mexico to get Nina's
assistance in preventing this worm from bringing
down the CTU system. Jack turns to Nina for
more help, but she remains silent. Chase
wonders if they should just give in to her
demands. The plane begins to rise, and the pilot
lets Jack know that he got orders from Tony to
return to Mexico.
Jack points his gun at the pilot to make him land
the plane in L.A. Tony sees the plane's descent
and radios the cockpit. He tells Jack that he is
ordering the plane to turn around so that they can
get the kill code. As Tony and Jack argue, Chloe
makes some headway into defeating the worm.
She succeeds, and Tony lets Jack know that they
are back to being fully functional.
Jack goes to Nina smiling. She doesn't believe
him when he says that the CTU system is
working. But as the plane lands, Nina sees from
Jack's relieved expression that this is true.
Chappelle commends Chloe on her work. Yet he
says that she is still going to be handed over to
the police. Chloe is alarmed when she sees the
baby being taken by Child Protective Services.
She agrees to tell Chappelle who the father of
the baby is.
Chappelle releases Chloe after he gets his
information. Kim comes up to her and asks what
happened. Chloe says that since she told
Chappelle the truth, there won't be any charges
pressed. Kim asks who the father is. Chloe
answers that it is Chase. |
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