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Wayne defends the idea of offering up Chappelle
to Saunders, but Palmer is afraid of permitting
the terrorist to dictate his actions.
Jack enters CTU with the hard drive from MI-6.
Chappelle explains how he's trying to trace
Saunders's money trail. Jack is interrupted by a
private call from the President.
Palmer informs Jack that Saunders wants
Chappelle's body delivered to the downtown train
yard. Jack is confused by Saunders's request,
but he knows that the President has no other
choice. Jack hopes to find Saunders before they
are to hand over Chappelle.
Jack orders Chloe to transfer the search for
Saunders from District back to CTU. She
reluctantly agrees to hide this from Chappelle.
Tony has the suicide capsules delivered to
Michelle. She breaks down emotionally to him.
Tony wishes he could be there with her.
Jack asks Tony whether Chappelle and
Saunders have any connection because
Saunders just demanded that the President kill
him. Tony downgrades Chappelle's security
clearance in case he becomes a flight risk. They
decide not to tell anyone else.
Chappelle questions Jack on what Palmer
wanted from him. Jack admits the truth about
Saunders's request. Chappelle is confused
because he does not know Saunders. Jack
thinks that the money trace proves that he may
have been on the right track. He will try to
capture Saunders before the hour is up, but he
asks Chappelle to turn over his files to Chloe
right away.
Chappelle frantically tries to access Saunders's
offshore bank account, but it's encrypted.
Chappelle wonders if he is being targeted by
Saunders because of some lead he may have
found. Jack encourages him to send the file to
Chloe so that she can complete the work.
Michelle is saddened to see Phillips become
infected with the virus. He begs Michelle to let
him call his wife, but she is not allowed to grant
him that wish. Michelle tells the other hotel
guests that there is no chance of recovery once
symptoms have appeared. The estimated time of
death is within six hours. She offers the suffering
people suicide pills if they decide they want such
an option.
Michelle is alerted to another situation. One of
the guests can't find the man she came to the
hotel with. The woman doesn't know the man's
name because she met him in a bar and they
had a one night stand. He disappeared after the
fire alarm. Michelle calls for a forensic team to
dust the woman's room for fingerprints.
Tony lets Jack know that Chase has a strike
team assembled. There is also a helicopter ready
to take Chappelle to the train yard across town.
Chloe tells Jack that the decryption may take
ninety minutes. He won't tell her why it is so
important, but he wants her to work faster. Kim
offers to help Chloe. Jack notices that Chappelle
is missing.
Chappelle is prevented from leaving CTU by a
security guard. He tells Jack that he is only going
outside for a cigarette. Under authority of the
President, Jack orders Chappelle to a holding
room.
Michelle warns Tony that an unidentified man
has slipped out of the hotel. The man is probably
unaware that he was exposed to the virus.
Michelle goes through the encounter with the
woman to find more clues. The woman hands
over her belt and the agents find another set of
fingerprints on the buckle. Michelle sends the
prints to CTU for analysis.
A man named William Cole slips into his house
and awakens his wife. He tells her that he
worked late. Cole goes in the bathroom and
notices blood dripping from his nose.
Chloe decrypts Saunders's bank account and
Kim sees that Saunders is listed as having
several addresses across the country. One is in
downtown Los Angeles. Saunders called a
transfer from that location forty-five minutes ago.
Tony alerts Chase to raid the apartment. Jack
commends Chloe and Kim for their work.
Jack informs Chappelle about the lead on
Saunders. Chappelle's elation turns into dread
when Jack takes him to a waiting helicopter en
route to the train yard. They still need to be in
place for Saunders's deadline.
Gerry Whitehorn, Palmer's press secretary, says
that a reporter from the Los Angeles Times is
asking whether a toxic accident at the Chandler
Hotel is connected to the White House's red alert.
Wayne tells Whitehorn the truth about the virus
so that he can handle the media onslaught.
Palmer warns him not to go public until they
know the virus is contained.
Up on the roof of CTU, Jack and Chappelle are
stopped by Chase. He questions why Jack is not
going with him to grab Saunders. Chappelle says
that Jack is wanted for more interrogation by
Division. Chase accosts him, and Jack tells him
to back off.
Chase and another agent arrive at the parking
structure across from where Saunders has been
traced. Chase sees three men outside the
building, and he thinks he knows a way to bring
down the guards before they can warn Saunders.
Since all flights from LAX have been grounded,
Saunders learns that only three of his couriers
made it out to various American cities. This
revises his casualty projections down to five
million dead within the first forty-eight hours.
Adam comes up with 300 potential matches to
the partial fingerprint from the hotel. Tony has
him send all the photos to Michelle so that the
woman can go through them. Chappelle calls
from the helicopter to check on Chase's status.
As the chopper lands at the train yard, Tony
patches Chappelle and Jack in to Chase's comm
feed.
Outside Saunders's apartment building, a street
sweeper passes between a guard and a car.
Chase and his agents shoot the guards amid the
confusion. They enter the building as another
strike team goes up the fire escape to the roof.
Chase enters the apartment, but it's empty, save
for a switching mode that has been relaying calls
from this location.
As he listens to the unsuccessful raid over the
intercom, Chappelle's optimism deflates.
Suddenly, Jack's cell phone rings. It is Saunders,
who orders Jack to leave Chappelle's body in the
van that will soon be arriving at the train yard. "If
you don't follow my directions, I will release the
virus immediately," Saunders says.
Dr. Sunny Macer brings a suitcase full of suicide
pills into the hotel and offers them to the virus-
stricken guests. An agent brings Michelle to the
room where the woman is looking through the
photos matching the fingerprint. The woman
identifies one of the faces as the man she spent
the night with.
A perspiring Cole notices his face is ashen. From
inside the bathroom, he tells his wife that he has
to go to leave for work.
Jack phones Adam at CTU and tells him to check
the satellite imagery on his location. He wants
him to follow the black van coming toward the
helicopter.
Jack helps the shaking Chappelle from the
chopper. The two men walk through the yard.
Jack asks Chappelle if there is anyone he wants
to talk to before he dies, but Chappelle says no.
Jack makes Chappelle get on his knees, and
Chappelle begs to be given the chance to take
his own life. Although Jack is at first hesitant he
hands over his gun. Yet Chappelle is unable to
pull the trigger. Jack takes the gun and fires point
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