Day 7 Offical Spoilers

After an 18 months gap 24 returned last night in the USA. We will see the new series tonight on SKY1 at 9 pm. Here are the spoilers from the first two episodes and there will be two tomorrow as the USA are getting a 4 hour premier:

1. 8:00am - 9:00am
   
   Michael Latham, an engineer who was abducted, is in a warehouse being forced to work on a firewall module by a man named Masters. Meanwhile, Jack gives testimony to a Senate Hearing in Washington, D.C. about human rights violations by the recently disbanded CTU. He answers questions posed by Senator Mayer but refuses to regret the choices he made as a CTU agent because he only did what was necessary to prevent terrorists from killing innocent people. The hearing is interrupted by FBI Agent Renee Walker. She has a subpoena to obtain Jack immediately. At FBI headquarters, Agent Larry Moss briefs his team while analysts Janis Gold and Sean Hillinger prepare for Jack's arrival. Masters monitors air traffic control systems about a flight headed for New York. When Jack arrives at FBI, Larry explains that they need his help with an investigation. The CIP firewall protecting the national infrastructure might be breached. Renee shows Jack that one of the men behind the threat is Tony Almeida. Jack cannot believe that Tony is still alive. Apparently, Tony was rushed from CTU after Jack saw him "killed." Tony enters the warehouse and Masters tells him that they have accessed air traffic control, but their CIP module is spotty. Tony orders Latham to make the module work or else they will kill him. In the Oval Office, President Allison Taylor watches newscasts about General Juma's "ethnic cleansing" in Sangala, Africa. She discusses with her Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin that she is adamant to send troops in to stop Juma. Taylor's husband Henry doesn't think the invasion will go over well with the press and he offers to handle a reporter. Ethan privately tells the President that Henry may not be up to the job because he's still not over the death of their son, Roger. Latham gets the module to work. FAA air traffic controllers notice a blip in their system. Renee thinks that Tony is angry about his wife's murder and wants justice. Jack is sure that there is a logical explanation, but he agrees to help the FBI find Tony. Word of the air traffic control interception comes in, and the FBI notifies the White House. In the White House situation room, President Taylor argues with her generals and cabinet members about the invasion. She is interrupted with news about the FAA breach. Taylor is suspect about the timing of this event and her decision on Sangala. Henry receives a call from the private investigator he hired to look into Roger's "alleged" suicide. Roger's girlfriend might be hiding something and Henry wants to talk to her personally. Henry asks his Secret Service tail Agent Gedge to escort him somewhere and keep it off the manifest. With full access to the FBI intelligence, Jack realizes that Tony must have forged an access card and may have used an old CTU informant named Schector, who is in Washington. Jack knows that Schector will call his lawyers if the FBI goes in with a warrant. Larry accuses Jack of wanting to resort to his torture methods instead. Renee offers to accompany Jack to see Schector. She promises Larry that she will keep Jack on a short leash. Jack and Renee go to see Schector, who knows what Jack is capable of. Schector claims he doesn't know that Tony is alive nor did he help steal a device to breach the firewall. Renee tries to bargain, but Schector refuses to budge. Jack grabs the gun from Schector's bodyguard and holds Schector at gunpoint to find out about Tony. Renee begrudgingly gives Jack the go-ahead to "do whatever it takes." Schector is in fear when Jack holds a ballpoint pen to his throat. Schector is about to tell them about Tony when shots fire through the window. Schector falls dead. The phone rings, and Jack answers. It's Tony, who tells Jack to stay away. The flight to New York begins to descend as the FAA controllers lose communication with its pilots. Yet the pilots don't know anything is wrong. Tony speaks to them as if he is an air traffic controller. He instructs Masters to change the flight's course.

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Episode originally aired 1/11/09


9:00am - 10:00am

1. The FAA still cannot get in touch with the flight but notice that it is changing its course. They hear a recording of Tony speaking to the pilots, and notify the FBI. Renee radios Larry Moss and she informs him that Schector was shot. He sends a SWAT team. Jack questions how Tony knew that he was there, suspecting a mole in FBI. Renee isn't sure what to believe, but the agents on the ground know that the sniper is still on the scene. All of the FAA screens suddenly lock. Tony instructs Masters to send another airplane into the same landing pattern as the one heading for New York. Tony calls the FAA manager and says, "I want you to see what we can do." The FAA controllers see that the two planes are about to crash into each other on the runway. Suddenly, Tony orders one of the planes to pull up. This avoids a collision. The FAA screens are unlocked. "Whatever we do next will be the real thing," Tony says. A man named Emerson arrives at Tony's hideout and he is shown the module. Emerson asks Tony about the FBI intrusion, and Tony says he can handle Jack. Yet Emerson refuses to tell Tony about the end goal of their mission. White House Press Secretary Angela Nelson informs reporters that the President supports protecting the African country against Juma and is meeting with former Sangala Prime Minister Matobo. President Taylor assures Matobo that she will help his rebel faction but she demands that be Juma dealt with in a court of law instead of held to a summary execution. Ethan informs the President about the near miss on the runway and Tony's involvement. They don't yet know what he wants. Taylor calls for an emergency meeting with Homeland Security. The sniper calls Tony and says that he is trapped inside the building. Meanwhile, the SWAT teams swarm outside in the hunt to find him. Agent Lennert radios his whereabouts to the tactical leader outside. He finds the sniper and tells him he's there to get him out. Lennert gives the sniper an FBI jacket and instructs him where a car is waiting. Lennert radios that he is clear. Outside, Jack sees a man in an FBI jacket sneak off. Jack notices that the man is wearing construction boots instead of the regulation black agent boots. He points him out to Renee as the sniper, and she confirms that all her agents are accounted for. Jack stops her from notifying the tac leader until she knows how deep the Bureau has been compromised. He suggests they go after him alone. Renee and Jack take a car and follow the man, who drives off. Emerson shows the module to Colonel Dubaku of Juma's army. Homeland and NSA brief the President about the implications of a potential threat to the CIP firewall. Ethan Kanin gets a call from Secret Sevice Gedge that Henry Taylor is going to confront Roger's girlfriend because he doesn't believe he committed suicide. Gedge says he is concerned about Henry's state of mind. Janis tells Larry that Renee and Jack left the scene of the crime. Larry becomes alarmed and calls Renee. She claims they are following up on a lead. Larry calls her on the lie, but Renee asks him to trust her. Larry still has Janis perform a triangulation to track Renee's walkie. Renee asks Jack how far he was prepared to go with Schector. She wants to know how he justifies the things he has done. Jack doesn't answer, and points out that he is helping her find Tony. Henry arrives at Samantha Roth's office and she meets him on the roof. Gedge is in close proximity. Henry asks about the $400,000 wired to an offshore account after Roger's death. Did someone pay her to keep quiet? Samantha says that the money is really that of a relative and she helped hide it. She says that she loved Roger and isn't lying. Jack and Renee follow the sniper to Tony's hideout on a boat. Renee gives Jack a gun and they surround the sniper before he enters the gate. Jack attacks the guy and demands to know if Tony is there. Jack shoots the surveillance camera guarding the door. Tony sends men out to check the entrance, and Jack and Renee fire at them. They enter the boat where Tony is. Renee sees the computers deleting their files. Jack chases Tony outside and calls for him to stop. Tony looks at Jack and starts to run. Jack catches him and they fight. Jack holds Tony, and Renee says that the device is gone and the files have been deleted. Jack demands to know where the device is but Tony says nothing. Suddenly, Larry arrives on a chopper and sees that Jack has Tony in custody. "What the hell happened to you?" Jack says to his friend in frustration.

1. 10:00am - 11:00am
   
   
   Colonel Dubaku demands that the President withdraw troops in Sangala. If she does not do so, he will authorize use of the CIP module to infiltrate the U.S infrastructure. Renee tells Larry that there may be a mole within the FBI. Jack questions Tony, who brings up how the U.S. government allowed Jack's wife Teri to be murdered. This infuriates Jack, who slams Tony against the wall. No one in the FBI can see Tony whisper the phrase "deep sky" in Jack's ear. Jack knows that this is an old CTU code name.
   He slips out of the interrogation room and dials a number. Bill Buchanan is surprised when Jack calls. Chloe is working with Bill, who explains to Jack that Tony is deep undercover to break the corruption in the government helping Dubaku. Bill, Chloe and Tony are working outside any agency.
   Janis catches Sean in the server room and she thinks he is working with Tony as the mole. He says that his wife is on one of the planes under siege and he is just circumventing protocol to make sure she lands safely.
   Samantha Roth calls Henry Taylor and says that Roger was murdered. She asks him to meet.
   Jack knocks Renee out and takes her FBI keycard. As Chloe guides him over his cell, Jack uses the card to get Tony out to the FBI garage roof. They engage in gunfire with the agents, and use a car to crash two stories below. Buchanan picks them up and they escape.
   
   Episode originally aired 1/12/09
   

11:00am - 12:00pm

• 11:00am - 12:00pm

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   The President charges Larry Moss with making Jack and Tony the FBI's top priority. She has less than two hours to meet Dubaku's demands. Back at Buchanan and Chloe's hideout, they show Jack that Tony has befriended a private contractor named Emerson. He was the one who recovered Tony's body from CTU and saved his life in order to recruit him as a traitor. Tony explains that he was really working for Emerson perpetrating crimes because he was angry about what happened to Michelle, but when he discovered Emerson was working for Dubaku and the CIP device might kill innocent Americans he grew a conscience. That was when he went to Buchanan to expose the corruption inside the U.S. government.
   They need to get Tony back into Emerson's crew to finish the job. Tony calls Emerson and tells him that Jack is on board after helping him escape. Emerson is skeptical and plans to kill Jack. Yet Jack turns on a thug set to kill him and claims he has nowhere else to go. Emerson accepts.
   President Taylor is forced to tell former Prime Minister Matobo that she has to decide whether to withdraw her troops or else endanger American citizens. Ethan Kanin advises her to succumb to Dubaku's demands, but she fears letting Sangala down.
   Jack and Tony's first assignment is to capture Matobo.
   Samantha tells Henry that Roger was framed for trading inside SEC information, and that the same men who did this killed him and made it look like a suicide. Roger had uncovered bank records revealing that senior White House Administration officials were doing business in Sangala and had a vested interest in the U.S. military actions there. She gives him a thumb drive with all of the data.
   Renee enlists Janis to go with her to a hospital where an accomplice of Tony's is laid up. The man asks for his lawyers, but Renee has Janis distracts them. Breaking federal law, Renee blocks the man's ventilator to get him to tell her about Tony and the CIP module. She informs Larry that she discovered Tony's crew is going to abduct Matobo. Renee heads to the residence as Larry sends backup.
   Larry alerts Matobo's head of security, who places Matobo and his wife Alama into a safe room. Emerson and his men arrive and realize that the room can only be opened from the inside. Jack and Tony know they must get Matobo out in order to have a chance to access Dubaku.
   
   Episode originally aired 1/12/09
   

12:00pm - 1:00pm


Larry Moss briefs Agent Remick about the Matobo situation. He learns that Tanner's lawyers are going after the FBI and calls Renee, who is on her way to the scene. "We got the information we needed," is her only answer. Larry demands that she return to the office, but she refuses, blaming herself for Jack's escape. Renee shuts off her mobile phone. Sean speaks to his wife, who has landed. She wonders if he had something to do with her flight getting priority. He says she got lucky.
Locked in the safe room, Matobo tells his wife Alama that the people who have come for them work for Dubaku. He will not give up the names of his allies. She realizes that they want to use her to get him to talk. Alama encourages him to be the leader that the people of Sangala need. Sean calls Matobo's security guard, and Emerson sees the FBI number on the man's phone. Tony and Jack are insistent that they cannot leave without Matobo. Jack thinks he can flush him out with gas before the SWAT teams arrive.
Jack whips up something in the kitchen and blows it into the safe room's ventilation. Emerson warns Matobo, who doesn't want his wife to be sacrificed. Alama is afraid to die and opens the safe room door. Emerson's team carries them out into a waiting van.
Tanner's lawyers arrive at the FBI, but Larry doesn't let them question Janis because of the national emergency. Meanwhile, Renee arrives at the Matobo house and calls Larry about the abduction. One of Emerson's men finds her and takes her hostage. Renee curses at Jack, who convinces Emerson not to kill her, and they load her into the van as well. They pull away before the SWAT team arrives. "I can't believe I trusted you," Renee sneers at Jack.
Despite Ethan's argument, President Taylor still wants to authorize the military action in Sangala because she refuses to give in to terrorist blackmail. She is shocked to learn that Matobo was abducted by Jack and Tony, which now affects the U.S. invasion. Yet Taylor wants to find Matobo first before she meets Dubaku's deadline.
Janis picks up that there's something going on between Sean and another girl in the office named Erika. She assigns Sean a task. Larry is upset that Renee has been captured.
Emerson gets a call from Nichols. His source at the FBI said that Renee found out about their Matobo abduction by breaking Tanner. They detour to a construction site to kill Renee.
Janis notes to Sean that she thinks Larry has feelings for Renee.
Dubaku is concerned that the American troops have not withdrawn in Sangala. Nichols encourages him to use the CIP device to cause another attack and convince the President otherwise.
Agent Gedge tells Henry he will have a friend help decipher the thumb drive, and they head to the friend's house. Henry says he cannot take the evidence to his wife until he can prove his theory about his son's murder. They arrive at a condominium and Henry sees photos of his son on the mantle. Putting on rubber gloves, Gedge tells him that it is Samantha's apartment. Henry realizes that Gedge killed Roger. Suddenly, Henry falls down, almost paralyzed. Gedge spiked his coffee with a neuromuscular paralytic. Gedge says that Roger was "looking into things he shouldn't have."
Gedge calls another agent, Vossler, who is tracking Samantha. Their plan is to make it appear she killed Henry. Vossler approaches Samantha and says that Henry believes she is in danger. She goes with Vossler to her apartment.
Sean intercepts a call with mention of Renee. They hear Nichols instruct Emerson to kill her. Meanwhile, the van arrives at the site. Emerson instructs Jack to shoot her. Jack walks her out toward a ditch, and whispers in her ear to trust him. He points his gun at the back of her head and fires. Renee falls to the ground, still alive but with blood on her neck. Emerson sees Jack roll her into the ditch and place a plastic tarp over her body. Emerson orders Jack and Tony to bury her. Renee watches silently in fear as they shovel dirt on her.

1:00pm - 2:00pm


Larry expands the search for Jack and Tony because they abducted Renee. Sean intercepts a phone call saying that Renee can be killed because they don't need her. Buchanan and Chloe arrive at the construction site where Tony has sent them. They dig up Renee, who is passed out. Buchanan pumps her heart and injects her heart with adrenalin to start it. Renee breathes. They explain that they are working with Jack, outside of any agency to uncover Dubaku's breach of the U.S. government. They plan to use Matobo to get to Dubaku.
In the van, Jack asks Emerson why he hasn't told Tony how he got him out of CTU. Emerson says that he was helped by Christopher Anderson, who purposefully missed Tony's artery when he "killed" him. Anderson wanted Tony alive. Emerson says that Tony chose to stay with his team because he was angry about what the government did to Michelle.
When the van arrives at a hangar, Emerson grabs Jack from behind. Tony pulls his gun on Emerson, saying he doesn't want to kill the Matobos. Jack urges Tony to take the shot and he does so reluctantly. Tony rushes to Emerson's side to tend to his wounds. Emerson refuses to forgive him. He then dies.
Jack calls Buchanan and tells him to come. He informs the Matobos that he is really working to stop Dubaku, and he needs to deliver both of them to Dubaku to get inside.
Ethan advises President Taylor to prepare to pull back troops because they need Matobo's support, and he is now missing. She is firmly against this.
Dubaku orders Nichols to dump all of Emerson's crew. With no caving from the President, Dubaku wants to next target an airplane heading for Washington. He calls the White House and tells Taylor to look out the window. She sees two planes collide and fall to the ground. He threatens to harm more if she does not comply. The President meets with the Cabinet, who all agree that they need to withdraw their troops because they cannot protect Americans from Dubaku. Taylor does not give in. "We will not be blackmailed," she says sternly to the discordant Homeland Security chief Tim Woods, asking for his resignation.
Buchanan drives to the hangar. As Chloe fits Matobo with a transmitter, Jack tells Renee that she would have never believed him had he told her the truth earlier.
In Samantha's condo, Henry Taylor sits on the couch paralyzed. When Samantha arrives home, she is surprised to see him there. He is unable to speak. Gedge stabs her from behind, as Henry watches helplessly. Ethan calls Gedge, looking for Henry. He is furious that Gedge allowed Henry to get near her, and Ethan orders him to return him to the White House. Gedge hangs up and puts Henry's fingerprints on the knife used to kill Samantha.
Tony greets Nichols at the hangar, telling him that Jack and Emerson are dead because he wants to keep the payment for himself. Tony hands over the Matobos. As Nichols' men are about to shoot Tony, Jack takes them out. Tony sends Nichols off with the Matobos. Chloe is tracking them.
Gedge rigs a rope to make it look like Henry hung himself. Henry musters up whatever strength he can and fights him. The two fall over the loft balcony, and Henry lands on Gedge, who is killed.
Annoyed that President Taylor will not give up, Dubaku sets up the next target -- a chemical plant in Ohio that, with a leak, will kill almost 18,000 people.

The Matobos are brought to Dubaku's hideout inside an office building. Meanwhile, Renee helps Jack, Tony and Buchanan infiltrate the building where they have tracked Matobo. At the FBI, Janis looks for potential firewall breaches and she sees weird activity over Kidron, Ohio. She calls the plant manager at a chemical plant there, and he mentions that his he has lost control of safety valves on toxic insecticide tanks. When he tries to shut down the tanks, they do not respond. Janis tells him to evacuate the premises. The President is briefed that half the town of Kidron would be killed by the plant leak.
Janis pulls up the operating procedures of the tanks and walks the plant manager through releasing pressure on the valves. Unfortunately, it leaks the insecticide into the sealed room where the plant manager is. He sacrifices himself to save his workers.
Dubaku sees Jack and Tony entering his building. Fearing he will be caught, he orders the CIP module to be disengaged so that they can escape. At the FBI, Sean sees the firewall breach close. Janis notifies the plant manager, who says that the tanks are shutting down. Yet he is already infected and dies on the scene.
Jack, Tony and Buchanan raid Dubaku's hideout in a shootout. Renee rescues the Matobos. The CIP device is destroyed. Dubaku grabs Latham, the captured engineer who built the CIP device, and rigs him with explosives. When Jack and his team find Latham, Dubaku sets off the bomb and escapes from the building.
Ethan Kanin is annoyed because he cannot get in touch with Agent Gedge or Henry Taylor. With the national security threat still in place, Ethan reluctantly tells the President that her husband is missing after trying to drudge up information on their son's death.
Agent Vossler hears the Secret Service radio alert for Gedge and tries to call him. The ringing wakes Henry. Vossler holds Henry at gunpoint. Dubaku calls Vossler and orders him to bring Henry to him alive.
Jack convinces Buchanan that they need to bring in help from the feds to find Dubaku. He believes that Matobo can help them access President Taylor because they don't know who else they can trust. Matobo calls the President and asks to meet her privately at the White House. She is confused, but agrees.
Jack is surprised when Tony leaves instead of accompanying him with the Matobos.
Dubaku arrives at his apartment and there's a knock at the door. It is his girlfriend, an American woman named Marika, who calls him "Samuel." He hides his gun. She reminds him that he is supposed to come to her place for dinner. When she leaves, Dubaku calls Vossler to arrange for Taylor to be brought to him.

President Taylor makes a speech to the nation about the terrorist attacks and she pledges her commitment to Sangala. Meanwhile, Vossler brings Henry to Dubaku. Henry accuses Dubaku of murdering his son. Jack, Buchanan and Renee bring Matobo to the White House. Renee and Matobo assure the President that Jack is on her side. Jack explains that there is a mole inside her Administration working with Dubaku and he needs to go around the FBI and Homeland to uncover the source. Dubaku calls President Taylor and tells her that he has captured her husband. He demands she withdraw her forces in Sangala and deliver Matobo to him. He starts to cut off Henry's finger to get her to acquiesce. Ethan learns that Gedge helped abduct Henry and killed Samantha. This confirms Jack's story, and he pledges to try to bring Henry back himself. Taylor is unsure if she can trust him. "With all due respect, Madam President, ask around." Jack says. She agrees.
Jack asks Renee to search Gedge's phone records, and she says she will need Larry to do it. She calls Larry's cell and begs him not to tell anyone she is alive because the FBI is corrupted. Yet Larry wants to meet her in person to prove that she is not under duress.
At the FBI, Sean doesn't understand why the President is ignoring the fact that the CIP is still out there. He thinks they are being kept out of the loop. Janis realizes that Sean is having an affair with Erika, and he confesses that it is true.
Renee and Jack go to Lafayette Park to meet Larry, who says that Gedge spoke to Vossler and that Vossler used to be Special Forces in Sangala. Jack questions whether Vossler has a family, and wants Renee to go to his house. Larry thinks that forceful interrogation is not the way to go, but Jack is insistent because it is "necessary." Larry faces off with Jack about Renee turning into a torturer like him.
Dubaku gets a call from his girlfriend Marika and claims he will not make dinner because he has a "stack of shipping requests." Marika's sister Rosa accuses her of not knowing anything about "Samuel" the importer. Although Rosa is trying to protect her, Marika will not listen.
Renee arrives at Vossler's house and takes his wife and baby hostage at gunpoint. She handcuffs the woman to the table, not allowing her to tend to her crying child.
Larry searches Vossler's location and Jack follows, crashing into Vossler's car. Vossler will not give up Henry's location, and Jack calls Renee who puts her phone on speaker. Vossler speaks to his wife, who is frightened. Renee goes to the baby out of the woman's eyesight with her gun, and Vossler is forced to confess to Jack where Henry us. Renee has tears in her eyes as she gives the woman her baby. When Vossler attacks Jack with a knife, Jack fights back but Vossler is stabbed in the stomach. Jack leaves him and hijacks a car on the street. He calls Renee and tells her about Vossler's death. She admits that she cannot handle this, and Jack asks if she wants out. She is determined to stay.
Ethan and Buchanan devise a plan to send a Matobo look-alike to Dubaku in order to buy time.
Sean asks Larry why Homeland is lowering their security level when the CIP device is still at large. Larry brushes him off. Renee calls Larry and asks him to keep Vossler's death quiet. He is furious that she is going against the rules like Jack.
Rosa calls "Samuel" and says that she knows that no one with his name has emigrated from Sangala. She threatens to tell Marika the truth unless he breaks up with her.
When the Matobo decoy arrives at the meeting site, Dubaku gives the order to blow up the car. Taylor watches in horror over the satellite.
Jack and Renee meet at the location Vossler gave up behind a grocery store. Dubaku calls his men at the hideout and order them to kill Henry. Before they do anything, Jack and Renee raid the premises and a gunfight ensues. One of the guards shoots Henry in the chest. Jack rushes to his side and has Renee call for an ambulance.

As Jack works to keep the wounded Henry Taylor alive, the police and EMTs arrive and take over. Jack calls the President and tells her about her husband's condition, and that Dubaku has fled and will probably try to leave the country. The President tells Ethan Kanin she wants to be by Henry's side at the hospital; he objects, but she insists, and Bill Buchanan offers to take responsibility for her security, along with Chloe. Their government clearance is provisionally reinstated, again over Ethan's objections. Dubaku meets Marika behind the diner where she works. He tells her that his passport visa expired months ago and he has to leave the country - and he wants her to come with him. Tonight. She doesn't want to leave Rosa behind, but Dubaku claims that she will join them later. Marika finally agrees. He tells her to go home to pack and wait for his call. Dubaku then calls Ryan Burnett, a suited man in a government office who is arranging an FAA flight path for just two passengers on Dubaku's orders. Burnett thinks Juma will be displeased, but Dubaku says the mission is over. They arrange to meet to get Dubaku his passports and itinerary, at the Roosevelt Continental Hotel. At the hotel, Dubaku realizes that Burnett has men positioned to take him out, and tells him that if anything happens to him or to Marika, a data file containing the names and bank transactions of everyone involved will be sent to the Justice Department. Outmaneuvered, Burnett complies.
Larry calls Agent Walker. He's horrified at what she did, and that Vossler ended up dead. Vossler's wife had to be sedated and the child is being treated for psychological trauma. Walker is shaken, but continues to work with Jack, who has found a possible safe-house address for Dubaku. Meanwhile, Marika arrives home and finds Rosa asleep in front of the TV; quietly, she begins to pack. Meanwhile, Chloe arrives at the FBI, ostensibly to help shore up the CIP firewall. Janis doesn't trust her. Larry shows her to a workstation where she'll be able to track Jack and Renee via satellite. Larry then offends Chloe by implying that Jack's dangerous and gets his associates killed. Chloe tells him to worry about Dubaku rather than Jack.
Rosa wakes and finds Marika packing. Marika tells her that they're going to live with "Samuel" in Belize. Rosa knows he's lying, but Marika won't listen. Suddenly, Jack and Renee burst into the room and hold them at gunpoint, demanding information on Dubaku. Marika claims not to be able to recognize a photo of him, but Rosa identifies him. Marika begins to cry.
President Taylor arrives at the hospital, where the doctor tells her that Henry's chances aren't good. She comforts Henry, and tells him he was right about Roger's death. As he's wheeled into surgery, she asks Bill Buchanan to have her daughter Olivia brought here; they haven't spoken in years.
Marika reels as she learns the truth about Dubaku. He calls, and Jack begs her to answer the phone. Although she's terrified, she gets through a conversation with him. He's sending a driver for her and won't say where they're going. To Rosa's horror - as well as Renee's - Jack asks Marika to go with the driver; they'll track her from a mile behind via the GPS in her cell phone. Marika agrees. Jack calls Larry, who puts him through to Chloe, who will be doing the tracking. Meanwhile, Janis is trying to log into the conference room server, and her suspicions are aroused when she can't. She asks Sean for the digital beta key, afraid that Chloe is being considered as a replacement for her. Sean refuses - until Janis threatens to expose his office affair with Erika.
Olivia Taylor is having a business meeting when she is interrupted, much to her annoyance, by Aaron Pierce. She won't go with him; she refused Secret Service protection long ago. However, her confrontational stance evaporates when Aaron tells her that her father has been shot - information that is currently confidential.
As Marika prepares to leave, Renee tries to give the frightened girl a code she can dial if she gets into trouble, but Jack angrily cuts her off - do nothing that will raise the driver's suspicion. The driver arrives. Marika gets in the car. Just as Jack and Renee begin pursuit via directions from Chloe, Janis gains access to the computer Chloe is using. Chloe's screen glitches out for a moment; shortly after it returns, she realizes there's been a security breach - somebody in the office knows exactly what they're doing.
Meanwhile, Jack and Renee find themselves trapped in a roadblock formed by the Metro Police, who arrest them based on a warrant sent out from the FBI - or rather, from the mole there. Larry calls the police captain and demands that they be released and insists he has the authority to revoke those warrants. Janis returns the passkey to Sean, who then calls Burnett. Sean's the mole; he's been tapping into Larry's phone and knows exactly what's going on. Burnett tells Sean about Dubaku's blackmail, so now Sean is also invested in helping Dubaku get away. Burnett calls Dubaku and tells him that Marika has been turned by the FBI, but they've managed to temporarily stall the surveillance team. He offers to have his driver take care of her, but Dubaku, angry and betrayed, says he'll take care of her himself.

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Erika confronts Sean; she's discovered that he issued the warrant on Jack and Renee's vehicle. He said he did it to sideline them so Dubaku could get away, and not to worry, he has things under control. Meanwhile, Agent Walker berates Jack for thinking of Marika as an asset rather than as a human being. They have to protect her. At that moment, Marika meets with Dubaku, who reveals he knows she's been working with the FBI. He destroys her cell phone - and then forgives her. He tells her the FBI showed her lies; he brought peace to Sangala. He convinces her to come with him. Jack and Renee are finally released by the D.C. police, and they resume their pursuit; though the cell phone signal is gone, Chloe gets an image on satellite. Jack drives straight through a city park to catch up with Dubaku, but they end up cut off by traffic. As Marika realizes the FBI won't be rescuing her, she suddenly grabs the wheel. Dubaku's van swerves wildly, then flips over.
As Jack and Renee race towards the vehicle, it explodes. Jack wants to get Dubaku, but Renee pulls her gun on Jack to force him to help her free Marika from the wreckage. Dubaku is badly injured; Marika is dead.
As President Taylor agonizes over her guilt for what happened to Henry, Bill Buchanan reports on the situation with Dubaku; if he dies, their chances of uncovering the conspiracy die with him. Bill urges her to return to the White House for her own safety; her daughter will also be re-routed there.
As the EMTs work on Dubaku, Jack makes them revive him. Jack threatens to torture Dubaku's family if he doesn't give up the names of everybody involved; Dubaku agrees, but passes out. As the EMTs work on him, they detect something metal under his skin. Jack demands he be cut open then and there, and a computer chip is found. Jack calls Larry Moss and says he thinks he found the list, but it's not a sort of drive he's ever seen before -- he can't directly upload it. Instead, Jack gives it to a chopper pilot and tells him to put it directly into Moss' hands. Sean, who can listen in on every phone conversation at the FBI offices, tells a panicking Erika there's a situation -- their names are on that list -- but he's got it under control. As soon as Chloe downloads the information, he's going to crash the entire system from the mainframe room and force every computer to completely reformat, wiping them all clean. He needs Erika to help bypass all the safety protocols. She agrees.
At the hospital, as Dubaku is being operated on, an officer gives Renee a plastic bag with Marika's personal effects. She doesn't understand how Jack can just do what's "necessary." Is it really that easy for him? Meanwhile, Chloe receives the drive and recognizes it as a PX-3. They only have one shot at downloading it, because it has an auto-erase function.
In the mainframe room, Erika panics for a moment, then remembers how to bypass the security protocols. The system crash begins, and Chloe is powerless to stop it. She and Moss race for the mainframe room. Erika confirms to Sean that the reformat was successful. He kisses her -- then shoots her point blank. He then shoots himself in the arm and throws the gun over to Erika's body. When security arrives with Chloe and Moss, he claims that everything was Erika's doing; he tried to stop her. Chloe confirms that the servers have been wiped clean; Dubaku's files are gone. However, it soon transpires that Chloe has recovered the files; she was running a mirror file on an off-site server. Sean tries to escape before his name is found on the list, but he's too late, and he is arrested by an angry and betrayed Moss.
Rosa arrives at the hospital and is horrified to find that her sister Marika is dead. She accuses a tearful Renee of killing her. Jack, who just got off the phone with Bill, tells Renee they did what they had to do, and now it's over -- the list was recovered and arrests are being made. Renee thinks Jack sounds inhuman. Doesn't he feel anything? When his wife died, did he feel that? She slaps his face, asking if he can feel it. She then collapses, sobbing, onto his shoulder. He tries to comfort her by telling her she'll learn to live with it. Disgusted again, she says she doesn't want to learn to live with it. He then tells her that if she ever pulls her gun on him again, as she did by Dubaku's van, she'd better intend to use it. "I did," she says.
At the White House, President Taylor is reunited with her long-estranged daughter, Olivia. She tells her that her father is in critical condition; the bullet went through his lung. Olivia wants to go to the hospital to be with him, but the President won't let her; she won't risk anything happening to Olivia as well. They nearly get into an argument, but Bill Buchanan interrupts. He tells the President that they have Dubaku's list, and he asks her to talk to Senator Mayer about Jack; he doesn't deserve to spend his life in prison just because the Senator is on a personal crusade. The President doesn't promise anything, but says she'll think about it.
Jack sits on the steps of the Capitol building; Tony Almeida joins him. He warns Jack that it's not over; an attack is planned in D.C. -- not by Dubaku, but by Juma, who is panicking as he realizes that he's about to lose control of Sangala. He wants to strike at the U.S. to rally his people behind him. He's telling Jack rather than the FBI because the attack is coming at nineteen-hundred hours and there isn't time to wade through the FBI's procedures and protocols. The target is high profile and the attack will be high impact. One of the people involved is Ryan Burnett -- Senator Mayer's Chief of Staff. Tony's certain that the Senator himself is not involved. Jack says that Burnett's on Dubaku's list; they'll need to get to Burnett before the authorities do. Tony's already got a tail on Burnett, and asks for Jack's help.
Senator Mayer tells Burnett he's going to the White House because the President wants to speak to him about Jack Bauer. He doesn't like the timing of it. He wants Burnett to come with him. As Burnett gathers his laptop, his cell phone beeps. There's a text message: "Units in place. Operation on schedule."

Disguised as an orderly, Udo, a soldier of Juma's, sneaks into the hospital where Dubaku is recuperating and poisons him with a lethal injection that induces a heart attack. Meanwhile, President Taylor watches Juma on television giving a defiant speech about the American invasion of Sangala. The recording was probably made before the invasion, so where is Juma now?
In a warehouse near the Capitol building, Juma secretly assembles his men. Young Laurent, Dubaku's son, is among them. Udo calls to report on Dubaku's death. Juma tells him that Laurent must never know of his father's cowardice.
At the FBI, Chloe gets a call from Jack, who asks her to delete Ryan Burnett's name from the list of corrupt government officials. She hesitates, but does so just before Janis enters, asking to help with processing the list, and lingering at Chloe's station just a little too long for comfort.
Tony and Jack arrive at the White House. As a still-wanted felon, Tony must wait outside. Meanwhile, Burnett calls Juma asking if the attack can be delayed because he's stuck at the White House. Their call is interrupted as he's welcomed by Ethan Kanin. Kanin asks Senator Mayer to quietly drop his prosecution of Jack Bauer in exchange for the President's support of his war crimes bill. If he doesn't play along, the President may simply pardon Bauer. Mayer is outraged.
Jack arrives at Bill Buchanan's office and pulls a gun on him, demanding to know Burnett's whereabouts. Bill won't divulge the information without knowing what's going on, but Jack doesn't want to implicate Bill in this. Bill tells Jack that he's throwing away a chance to walk away with a clean slate, but Jack says there's no other way. He knocks Bill out with a sleeper hold.
Renee calls Larry and tells him that she believes Dubaku was murdered. She bristles angrily when Larry suggests the theory is actually Bauer's. She should be the one calling the shots, not him. A hospital security guard brings Renee a security photo of the mysterious orderly's license plate.
Janis has discovered that a name has been deleted. Chloe insists on "investigating" this herself, further inflaming Janis' suspicions. Chloe calls Jack and warns him that time is running out. In the West Wing, Senator Mayer tells Burnett to prepare a press release that will make it politically toxic for the President to pardon Bauer; they can use the fact that her husband was shot to make it look like President Taylor is acting emotionally and not rationally. The Senator is summoned to the President's side. Burnett calls Juma and tells him he's leaving now; he's to rendezvous with Juma at 21:30 hours. However, Jack bursts into the room and tasers Burnett.
Janis goes to Larry. She has found the deleted name and even unscrambled Chloe's cell phone conversations with Jack. Chloe is arrested. As the President talks to Senator Mayer about Jack, Larry calls the White House and conveys his belief that Jack is illegally interrogating Burnett as they speak. And indeed, Jack is tasering Burnett again and again.
Just as Jack is about to get a confession, a security team bursts in, accompanied by the President and the Senator. Jack tells the Senator that whatever happens now is on his conscience, but the Senator is even more outraged to find that Jack's source is Tony Almeida, a wanted fugitive. Ethan Kanin advises the President to trust Bauer, but she ultimately has him arrested. She offers Burnett immunity from prosecution for treason if he talks, but Burnett stays mum.
Renee tracks Udo's car to the warehouse were Juma and his soldiers are stationed. She reports this to Larry, who tells Janis to scramble a chopper and then call the metro police. Renee eavesdrops as Juma continues to hide Dubaku's death from Laurent. Juma orders the soldiers to move out; Larry and his men are still ten minutes away. The soldiers board a cabin boat. As the boat sails away from the dock, Renee leaps off the pier and just barely manages to scramble aboard. However, she accidentally drops her cell phone into the Potomac.
Buchanan revises and calls Tony. They bring each other up to speed. Immunity for Burnett was the only plan. Tony's original intel source is now dead. Meanwhile, Renee spies on Juma showing tactical maps to his soldiers, but she can't see the maps. The boat drops anchor and the soldiers suit up in scuba equipment, diving into the water. Lauren stays behind to stand guard. Renee sneaks into the cabin to find that the target is the White House. Laurent nearly catches her, but she dives off the boat and desperately begins to swim for shore as Laurent fires at her. Juma and his men swim into an underwater catacomb and drill into the rocks above. They pull themselves up into a dry tunnel. As Laurent pursues Renee through the water, Juma and his men are ready to carry out their attack on the White House.

Olivia Taylor still wants to go see her father in the hospital. Aaron Pierce persuades her to stay put at the White House, as her mother, the President, has ordered this for her own safety. Meanwhile, the President plans to tell the public the truth about a second attack that is looming. Larry calls and tells her that Juma's involved and that he's lost contact with Renee.
Renee climbs out of the Potomac. She finds a park ranger and tells him to call and report an imminent terrorist attack at the White House, but the ranger is cut down by bullets from Laurent's gun. Renee flees, Laurent in pursuit. Meanwhile, in a holding cell, Jack pleads with Bill Buchanan to torture Burnett until he talks. Bill is sorry, but he just can't do that.
With the help of an inside man, Juma and his men break into the White House. They shoot down a detail of Secret Service. With nine minutes until the next Secret Service roll call, they must find the President.
Laurent catches up with Renee, who tells him that his father is dead by Juma's hand. Laurent doesn't believe her. Just as he's about to strangle her to death, he's shot dead by Larry and the FBI men who have finally arrived. Renee says that she knows Juma's target.
Back at the White House, Jack is in handcuffs as Bill leads him away. Larry calls to inform Bill that the White House is the target. Bill immediately uncuffs Jack and tells him to do exactly as he says. As Juma and his men kill the President's press secretary, Secret Service agents inform the President that the White House is under attack. They spirit her away to lockdown, meeting up with Jack and Bill on the way. Bill takes the President's tracker in order to draw Juma away from her while Jack and the other agents continue to head for lockdown. Juma quickly finds and captures Bill, realizing that he's been tricked.
Jack and the President make it to the lockdown room just as Juma is catching up with them. The President orders Jack not to close the door until her daughter can join them, but it's too late and the security doors close. Aaron Pierce will have to find another way out of the building with Olivia. Suddenly, the phone cuts out -- Juma has blocked all communication in and out of lockdown. The Secret Service, led by Agent Hovis, are bearing down on Juma's men, but Juma bluffs that he's captured the President and will kill her if they don't back off. Hovis has no choice but to call off his men. Juma then has his men fan out to take hostages and seal off the exits.
As he hides with Olivia in an air vent, Aaron Pierce realizes that Juma must be bluffing. They have to find a way to get word to Hovis as soon as possible for his men to retake the building. Juma's number two and tech support, Ngozi, says that if the specifications they got from Hodges are correct, it will take him about ten to fifteen minutes to get through the doors of the lockdown room.
Larry and Agent Hovis brief each other on the situation. Hovis' men can move in at any time, but the order must now come from the Vice President. Meanwhile, the hostages, including Bill and Senator Mayer, are rounded up. Jack and the President scan the faces on a closed circuit monitor for Olivia, but she's not there. Jack realizes that Juma must have had inside help and that Juma is on a suicide mission.
Ngozi tries to break the lockdown door's access code but Jack shorts out the lock. Explosives will take too long, so Juma must find another way in. He calls Jonas Hodges of Starkwood, who had provided the codes and other information he needed to infiltrate the White House. Hodges isn't going to help, but Juma says that Hodges won't get his shipment if he doesn't find Juma another way in. Hodges tells him to find Olivia Taylor in order to pressure the President.
Larry and Renee urge Vice President Hayworth to give Hovis clearance to retake the building, but he won't act until he is absolutely certain that the President is safe. As Juma's men search the hostages for Olivia, she and Aaron see that there's no way out. Aaron says he can at least get a signal out from the windows upstairs in the Residence. He wants to leave Olivia in a secure place but she insists on coming with him. En route to the Residence, Aaron is shot. He sends Olivia to a window to flash Morse code with a flashlight, but both she and Aaron are captured.
Ngozi finds a fiber-optic camera in the chandelier. He brings Olivia to the camera and tells the President that if she doesn't open the door, he will kill Olivia slowly, carving her up piece by piece. The President wants Jack to open the door. Jack protests. She asks him if he could stand by if his own daughter was being butchered. He says that he couldn't, but he's not the President of the United States. She orders him to open the door.
Just as Juma is about to cut out Olivia's eyes, the door opens. Jack is led to sit with the other hostages. The President asks Juma to release the hostages now that he has her. Juma slaps her hard across the face and tells her that she doesn't give orders. As he leaves, Juma commands Udo to get the camera ready for the President's statement. This will be the last statement she will ever make.