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Production on 24 has been suspended so Kiefer Sutherland can undergo a "minor elective procedure" after a cyst near his kidney ruptured last week.
"While Kiefer Sutherland is frustrated to miss even one day of work, he and Fox decided together that it would be best to complete this minor elective procedure now as a precaution as opposed to six weeks from now when production wraps," said Evelyn Karamanos, his publicist. "He looks forward to returning to work next week."
The cyst ruptured earlier in the week. The 43-year-old actor, who plays Jack Bauer, missed work Friday, but production continued without him.
In a statement, Fox said the week off should not disrupt the broadcast of 24 this season.
The season's eighth episode is scheduled to air Monday at 9/8c.
Dana takes another surreptitious call from Kevin, who is partying with Nick at a strip club. Kevin's not going away after all; he wants to continue their criminal partnership. Nick grabs the phone and threatens her. Things get worse for Dana when Arlo accuses her of cheating on Cole with Nick. If she doesn't tell Cole, he will. In a debriefing, Chloe covers for Dana, but then tells Dana she can thank her by focusing on her work and putting aside whatever's troubling her. Jack's in trouble and they need to find him.
Jack is brought before Bazhaev, still pretending to be German arms dealer Ernst Meier, and makes a $250 million offer for the nuclear rods, claiming his people intercepted communications from Farhad Hassan. Bazhaev suspects him of being a cop, especially as Jack won't say who he is working for, and orders Dimitri to make Jack talk. Bazhaev then talks to Josef, who has just finished burying his brother. Bazhaev tells Josef to keep Oleg's cross necklace. "To remind you of him."
Hastings reports to President Taylor. The only reason they think Jack is still alive is that he wasn't killed at the point of abduction. He doesn't know the odds of recovering the rods. Meanwhile, Samir, one of Farhad's operatives, calls Farhad. They're waiting for the rods. General Wasim has reported that Hassan's crackdown is accelerating. Soon, all the insurgents will be arrested. When will the rods arrive? Soon, says Farhad, and hangs up - but then Bazhaev and Josef arrive, and tell him the rods will be delayed until they find out who "the German" is. Farhad protests, but Josef holds a gun to his head and tells him he's being ungrateful. It is the first time Josef has defended his father since Oleg died. They throw Farhad out, telling him to go wait for the rods with his men.
Renee returns to CTU, where Hastings angrily rounds on her. Why didn't she tell him about her suicide attempt? He wants a full report... and a psych evaluation. Meanwhile, Dana tells Cole she needs to talk to him. Cole is busy, but Arlo "helpfully" says he'll cover. Dana tells Cole there's stuff about her past she's never told him. Cole says it doesn't matter. They are interrupted; Hastings needs to see him. Dana makes a decision. She simply tells Cole she's figured out what to do.
At the UN, Kayla tries to convince her father, Hassan, that he should not have arrested Tarin, and confesses that they are in love and have been seeing each other for a year. Hassan is shattered. He believes Tarin has been trying to influence his judgment through Kayla. He orders her not to see him again, ever. "What's happening to you?" Kayla wonders in despair.
Jack is strung up, barefoot and hanging by his wrists, and Dimitri tortures him, alternately running current through his body and sticking his finger in Jack's stab wound. Eventually, Jack plays possum. When Dimitri comes at him with the electrical clamps again, Jack swings his legs up and scissors Dimitri's arms, forcing them back so that Dimitri electrocutes himself. Jack then swings his legs up to the piping he's chained to and starts inching his way down the pipe until he reaches a joint. He kicks it loose and frees himself as Dimitri is recovering, but Jack quickly kills him and uses his knife to get free of his remaining restraints. As Jack makes his way through the restaurant, he hears Bazhaev sayins he's going to give Farhad the rods no matter what. He finds the fuse box and plunges the building into darkness. Bazhaev and his men are on the alert, but Jack gets the jump on the first of them to check the fuse box, knifing him and taking his gun and cell phone. He calls Chloe and asks her to run a trace on the cell to find his location. A firefight ensues. After Jack takes out most of his men, Bazhaev comes after Jack with a shotgun, but Jack ultimately gets the drop on him.
At CTU, Dana's left. Arlo tells Cole she said she had to manually reboot a relay at another station. Chloe looks up intel on Bazhaev to send to Jack. Renee and Chloe are relieved that Jack's okay. At the restaurant, Bazhaev won't talk. Jack tells him it's all over, but if he cooperates, he can get his sentence reduced... as well as for both of his sons. Bazhaev, beginning to sob, says he shot his own son, like a dog, and now it was for nothing. Then he hardens. He'll cooperate, but only for full immunity for himself and Josef.
Jack initiates a conference call with Hastings and President Taylor, and they all agree that given the timeframe, there's no other choice. Jack hands Bazhaev the phone. "The President of the United States wants to speak with you." Meanwhile, Cole asks Arlo what he's been implying about Dana, and Arlo shows him stills of Dana meeting with Kevin in the parking lot, Kevin's hand on Dana's check. Cole asks Arlo for a cell trace, but Dana's not answering. She's gone to meet Kevin and Nick at the strip club... and there's a gun in her purse. Cole leaves a message saying to call him, and then, preoccupied, joins the SWAT team he's just been put in charge of.
Kayla tries to see Tarin before he is transported to the embassy, but Nabeel won't let her in. She reminds him that Train got him his job, and Nabeel promises to try to find her a minute to speak to him before he is taken away. Meanwhile, Cole's team finds the truck where Bazhaev has told them the rods are, but instead they find Bazhaev's men, shot dead, and a cross necklace. They call Jack and Bazhaev, and Bazhaev pales.
Josef has the nuclear rods, and calls Farhad. He warns Farhad that his father will know soon what he's done; in fact, he's made sure his father will know. He'll be there in five minutes. "Just have my money ready."
Freddie Prinze Jr has said that there are no plans for him to star in a spinoff of Fox series 24.
Speaking to E!, Prinze also hinted that he would not be returning to the show for another season.
"I wouldn't get your hopes up for a spinoff. Nobody has even mentioned a spinoff or hinted at that," the 33-year-old said.
He added: "As far as I know, that's not happening. If this answers the question more clearly, I'm preparing for pilot season."
Prinze currently plays CTU agent Cole Oriz on 24.
Well guess who gets to meet The Grim Reaper in a few weeks thanks for the spoiler Freddy. :mad:
Bazhaev and Jack, with CTU listening in, call Josef and manage to convince him to return the nuclear rods. However, Farhad and his men have been watching from a rooftop. Josef is shot and killed, and Farhad takes possession of the rods. Chloe traces the call to Central Queens. Samir, Farhad's sniper, crushes Josef's cell phone, but not before Farhad's voice is heard by CTU.
As Bazhaev is brought to CTU for interrogation, Jack calls Renee, who affirms that she's sticking with her story that she acted in self-defense. Jack confirms that he'll be there for her. Meanwhile, Rob Weiss calls and tells Hastings that somebody needs to take the fall for today's mistakes, and it can't be Hastings. Weiss got Hastings his job, so if Hastings goes down, so does Weiss. Over Hastings' objections, Weiss suggests that Renee take the fall. He's sending over Kristin Smith from the Justice Department and tells Hastings to stay out of her way.
Cole and his field team have no leads. Dana's still missing, so Cole has Arlo send him her coordinates using her phone's GPS. Meanwhile, Dana, a gun in her purse, has followed Kevin and Nick, who are having sex with strippers in the back of their van. Hastings tells Arlo to track Dana down and let him know when she's found. Arlo says nothing. Kristin Smith arrives, and she has no time for Hastings' reservations about selling Renee out. So far as Kristin is concerned, there are discrepancies between Renee's statement and the forensic evidence, and she's here to set the record straight. She asks for access to the interview to be restricted, but wants a record of it for herself in case of legal proceedings. Chloe is upset that she can't be in the room, but Hastings orders her back to work.
Samir brings Farhad and the rods to a boat warehouse and meet with another man, Ali. They can't get the rods out of the country, so Ali suggests using them here, against the Americans. Farhad is initially aghast. This would bring on an American invasion of their country. However, he appears to be persuaded by Samir's argument that America will always be their enemy, and that the peace process was just another method of American invasion, with Hassan kept in power with American guns and money.
Kristin interrogates Renee. Though Renee insists she acted in self-defense, Kristin points out that she stabbed Vladimir fifteen times. The first blow alone would have been enough to subdue him. Kristin accuses Renee of using the mission simply to seek revenge on Vladimir, and brings up her near-murder of Alan Wilson, which got her fired from the FBI in the first place. Renee begins to cry, as Kristin exhorts her to do the right thing. Finally, she relents, and begins signing a confession, while a conflicted Hastings watches on the monitor screen.
Jack arrives. When Chloe tells him that Renee's being interrogated, he immediately realizes that she's being set up. He attacks the security guard outside the interrogation room, knocking him out and using his palm print to gain access. Jack grabs Kristin and pins her to the wall by her throat. "How dare you," he snarls, "After everything she's sacrificed. After everything she's lost." He warns Renee that they're setting her up. Renee says it's too late. Jack grabs her arm and says they're getting out of there. He opens the door to leave, but the guard has recovered and is pointing a gun at him. Jack tells him to put it down before he gets hurt. The guard appears to comply, but the moment Jack passes him, he tasers Jack into submission. He and Renee are apprehended.
Farhad finds that Samir does not yet have a detonator, and offers to call a professor he knows who will help. Ali leads him to a secure phone he can use, but en route, Farhad ambushes Ali, grabbing a winch handle and slamming him off his feet. Ali manages to stab Farhad in the thigh, but Farhad manages to escape his reach, and begins to run.
Jack is brought before Hastings. Jack asks if it's now procedure for CTU to hang their own. Hastings insists they're just asking Renee some questions, but Jack knows he's covering his own ass. He wants to take this to the President. Hastings wishes him luck with that. The President doesn't condone murder; she even prosecuted her own daughter. Chloe interrupts: Farhad Hassan is on the line. He warns Hastings of the impending attack on New York, and begs for Hastings to have CTU rescue him before he is hunted down. Hastings asks Chloe to put Cole on the rescue team, but Chloe says he didn't come back; he's following a lead. Hastings tells her to put Owen in charge. Chloe is dubious.
The strippers finally leave Kevin's van, which is just what Dana's been waiting for. Dana draws her gun and exits her car with steely determination, but just then, Cole pulls up and demands an explanation, making it quite clear he thinks she's sleeping with Kevin. Dana, cornered, gets in his car... and finally begins to tell him her secret. "My name isn't Dana Walsh. It's Jenny Scott."
As Ali hunts Farhad, Samir arranges to travel with the rods to a secure location. At CTU, preparations are made for Farhad's rescue. Owen, the team leader, is quite young and inexperienced. On the theory that the rods are still in proximity to Farhad, he's sending two teams to locate the secure the rods, while a third team is tasked with evacuating Farhad. Standard procedure, in and out. Jack interrupts, saying there's nothing standard about it. He points out that the rods will be long gone by the time they arrive, and that makes the situation dicey.
Jack offers to lead the team to bring Farhad in, on the condition that all charges against Renee are dropped. Hastings says he can't help; the investigation of Renee was instigated by the White House. Jack says that as director of CTU, he has more juice than he thinks he does. Especially with a nuclear weapon on play. Hastings considers this, then accepts Jack's offer - but only if Jack's in play until today's entire situation is resolved. Jack agrees.
Dana confesses everything to Cole, including the robbery and blackmail. He sees her gun and realizes what she was going to do, and is horrified and angered. Cole takes Dana's gun, and grimly gets out of the car and stalks towards Kevin's van, Dana following him, pleading with him not to do this. Cole yanks open the van's side door and takes their shotgun. He gives them two choices. The first: go to jail for grand larceny and aggravated assault. Kevin says if he goes to jail, so does she. Cole says he's guessing she's prepared to live with that. Second choice: he lets them go, they keep their money, and if he ever sees either of them again, they're dead. Kevin agrees.
As Cole closes the van door, Nick reaches under a mattress and pulls out a knife and a gun. Kevin tells him to give it up, they're done... so Nick stabs him in the belly, wounding him grievously. He exits the van in pursuit of Cole, but Kevin yells out a warning just in time: "JENNY!" Cole whirls around and shoots Nick dead. Dana runs to Kevin and cradles him in her arms as he apologizes. "I shouldn't have come back." Cole watches, conflicted, as she comforts him.
Kiefer Sutherland has reportedly been cleared to return to work on Fox’s 24.
Production on the show was put on hold two weeks ago after Sutherland suffered a ruptured cyst. The actor underwent an outpatient procedure and is now recuperating.
"Kiefer's been cleared to return to work, and we resume production March 1," a network spokesman told E! Online.
Fox doesn't expect there to be an interruption in the series's broadcast schedule. The current season is set to wrap in May.
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Kayla is given two minutes to speak to Tarin before he is transported to the embassy. He tells her that men loyal to him, including Bashir, will help him escape and lie low until the Americans grant him asylum. Meanwhile, Dana tells Cole to leave and let her take the blame for all she's done and the deaths of Kevin and Nick, but Cole insists on a cover-up.
At CTU, Hastings calls the President and tells her that they've got a new lead in Farhad, who has warned them of an imminent attack on New York. He also speaks privately to Weiss, and tells him he won't be pursuing charges against Renee. Jack and his team are en route to get Farhad, who calls to say his enemies are close. They need to hurry.
President Taylor meets with President Hassan at the UN and tells him that she needs IRK security files before Jack reaches his brother, in order to be able to identify the men who turned on him. Hassan is reluctant, but Taylor threatens a US attack on his country if the nuclear attack on New York is not thwarted. Hassan agrees.
As Tarin is transported to the embassy, Nabeel confides that he doesn't believe that Tarin is a traitor, but he must follow orders. Tarin says he understands... and then uses a handcuff key and gun given to him by Bashir in order to escape. As Tarin has the car pull over and handcuffs Nabeel and the driver in the back of the van, Hassan calls. Train says to let it ring. At the UN, Hassan tells his aide from the IRK to send a security team to track Nabeel down. Tarin then calls Kayla and tells her to meet him at the Teodore Hotel in ten minutes.
Farhad is found and shot by Ali just as CTU arrives. Ali runs, and reports to Samir that Farhad's no longer a problem. Jack tries to question Farhad, but he's going into shock. Jack yells at the medic to keep him alive. Meanwhile, the President teleconferences with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If the bomb goes off in New York, they could be looking at casualties in the tens of thousands, and the area could be uninhabitable for forty years. However, there's no time for a city-wide evacuation, so they agree to keep the threat from the public... but to evacuate the UN, as it's a possible target. They'll resume the peace conference from a safe location.
The IRK find Nabeel's van, and Nabeel tells Farhad that someone helped Tarin escape... and that he heard Tarin call Hassan's daughter. Hassan calls Kayla, but she doesn't answer. She's at the hotel, happily reuniting with Tarin. He has a meeting with an American lawyer in two hours... two blissful hours they can spend together, alone.
Back at the boat warehouse, Farhad has died. Their only option now is to pretend he's still alive and transport his body to a hospital, while leaking to the news that he's being questioned there. Hopefully, the leaders of the operation will arrive and try to take him out... and CTU will be waiting. Hopefully, they'll be able to use the IRK files to identify the men before they can actually attack.
Cole and Dana weight down the bodies of Kevin and Nick and sink them in the swamp. They're not worth Dana going to jail for. "What about us?" asks Dana. "I don't know," seethes Cole. Meanwhile, Ali and Samir see a news report that Farhad has survived. Ali offers to make things right, but he'd be too conspicuous. Instead, they'll send Marcos. His mother's American. Marcos is in the cargo hold of a truck. He calls his mother and begs her to leave the city and go to their Aunt Shelley's. She's reluctant, but he insists, saying he'll meet her there and explain everything. Samir enters as he's hanging up and tells him, "It's time."
Jack's team is ready to begin the fake transport of Farhad to St. Julian's hospital. Jack notices that inexperienced Agent Owen seems nervous and tries to reassure him. Owen, full of false bravado, says he's fine. "Let's do this." They bundle into an ambulance and take off. They arrive at the hospital without incident. Chloe has tapped into the hospital's security cameras, and has facial recognition software up and running. As Farhad's body is taken to his room, Marcos, now disguised in hospital scrubs, straps a bomb to his chest armed with C-4.
At the UN, Hassan asks for Farhad's body to be returned to his country for a proper burial, once this is over. Taylor agrees. She tells him they're evacuating the UN, but Hassan won't leave, not while his daughter is missing and unaware of the impending nuclear attack. Taylor understands. Their recent hostilities draining away, the two leaders shake hands, then embrace.
At the hospital, Jack gets a call from Renee, who is free to go. Jack tells her that he wants to be with her when all this is over. Hastings calls and says that facial recognition has identified Marcos Al-Zacar, an American-born undercover IRK agent. Chloe notices a detonator is his hand. She thinks she can disarm it, but she needs time to identify the model.
Marcos is approaching the entrance Agent Owen is guarding, and Jack calls him tells him to do whatever Marcos asks. They need him alive. Marcos arrives, and Owen is visibly nervous. Marcos says he has a bomb, and asks Owen to give him his weapon and lead him to Farhad. If anybody asks, he's a doctor and he's been cleared. Owen agrees, as Jack whispers encouragement in his ear via his comm.
Hassan calls his wife Dalia, and tells her that Kayla may be in danger. He's taken aback to find that Dalia knew Kayla was seeing Tarin. He needs her to call Kayla; she's angry at him for thinking that Tarin was part of the conspiracy, but maybe Kayla will talk to Dalia. However, Tarin and Kayla are making love, and do Dalia's call also goes unanswered.
Chloe needs to see the vest; the detonator isn't enough. Owen stops in front of a security camera and says he doesn't believe Marcos has a bomb. If Marcos wants Farhad, he'll have to prove it. Marcos opens his vest, and Chloe gets a visual. They only have about thirty seconds before Marcos and Owen reach Farhad's room. The scramble code is found, and Arlo runs it through the mobile comm. It'll take a few seconds. Meanwhile, they've reached the room. Marcos orders Owen onto the floor as Arlo confirms that the vest is disarmed. Marcos pushes the detonator button. When nothing happens, he takes his gun and fires several rounds into Farhad's chest. Just as he notices that the heart monitor is showing no change in Farhad's condition, Owen gets up and tackles him.
Jack and his team rush in, but Marcos flings himself out the window rather than be captured. With Jack in pursuit, he barricades himself into an oxygen chamber, then calls Samir, reporting that it was a trap, and the bomb is jammed. Samir will talk him through manually detonating his bomb to avoid capture. Jack asks if Marcos can hear him. Marcos smashes the camera, leaving CTU with no way to see or hear what Marcos is doing.
As Marcos works to detonate his vest, CTU estimates that it'll take 40 minutes to cut into the chamber where he's barricaded himself. Jack says they need him alive. As they observe Marcos on internal cameras, they realize that he's already reconfigured one out of four circuits he'll need for detonation.
Chloe reports that Marcos was raised in Harlem. His mother's American, but his father's from the IRK, and committed suicide after being interred by the Palmer administration for fourth months on unproven charges of connections with extremists. Marcos began spying on the US shortly afterwards. Jack says to bring in his mother. Hastings orders radiation sensors be set up at all access points to Manhattan.
Cole and Dana return to CTU. On the elevator, Dana pleads with Cole to react to what's just happened. He's never broken a law in his life. Cole is stoic and says they need to get through this national crisis first. They'll talk later. Hastings confronts them and tells them their careers are hanging by a thread. He sends Cole to lead a team to get Marcos' mother; Dana will now be subordinate to Chloe.
Ali reports to Samir that he's tapped into the hospital's security cameras and is monitoring Marcos' progress. Samir is about to bring the nuclear rods into Manhattan. They have a plan to shut off CTU's radiation sensors. The truck with the rods pulls into a warehouse on the waterfront.
Dana gets back to work, and is a bit careless. Chloe upbraids her for it, but then tells her she knows Dana must feel weird reporting to her, and she's glad Dana didn't get fired. Arlo apologizes for ratting Dana out to Cole, and asks about the other guy, who Dana says is "gone." Arlo once again smarmily hits on her, telling her she can "trade up" if things don't work out with Cole.
Owen gets the video intercom working; Jack can now talk to Marcos. However, Marcos cannot be persuaded that he is misguided. He thinks America is arrogant to dictate what countries can and cannot have nuclear weapons; he also refers to Kamistan as his country. He came here prepared to die, and that's just what he's going to do. He returns to his work... and completes rewiring another circuit.
As Tarin and Kayla, in hiding at the hotel, lie in bed together, Tarin says that although getting asylum can take a year to eighteen months, they'll be safe under U.S. law from the moment they file the application. However, he won't be able to work in the U.S. legally until the asylum is granted. He can't provide for her in the way she is used to. She says she doesn't care. Her mother calls again. She says she should really answer, but Tarin playfully grabs the phone away, then says she needs to wait to talk to her family until after the lawyer gets the asylum application in. As they roll in bed together, Dalia leaves her another frantic message. She then meets with Hassan, and, tears in her eyes, berates him for his paranoia, which has driven their daughter away while the city is under attack. Hassan realizes that she is right. He will do everything in his power to find her and make her safe.
Elaine, Marcos' mother, is packing to leave when there is a knock at her door. It's Cole, and when she answers, a team of armed CTU agents burst in. Cole notes her suitcase with suspicion and she tells him about Marcos' call urging her to get out of the city. Cole informs her that Marcos is working with the IRK, and that he's currently barricaded at the hospital with a suicide vest he's trying to detonate. Horrified, she voluntarily joins Cole and his team as they hurry back to the hospital.
Dana apologizes to Hastings again, but afterwards, she gets a call from Bill Prady... Kevin's parole officer. She claims not to know who Kevin is, but he got her number from Kevin's cell phone records, and he insists on a quick personal meeting with her. She has no choice but to agree, and then she calls Cole, who is unsympathetic. "I don't know if I can do this," she says. "What, lie?" he coldly counter. "Come on, we both know you're good at it."
Marcos now has three circuits active. They've got less than ten minutes; they won't be able to drill into the room in time. Marcos' mother arrives and pleads with him to stop this; his father would have never condoned violence. Ali and Samir, watching through their tap, are sure she won't be able to talk Marcos down, and they're right. However, Chloe discovers their tap.
As a sobbing Elaine is taken away, Marcos gets the fourth circuit primed, but before he can detonate it, the tap is cut... and Jack tells Marcos that if he detonates that bomb, and the attack goes ahead on Manhattan, Jack will make sure that Elaine dies, slowly and painfully. He'll escort her to the bomb site and make sure she dies of radiation poisoning. Marcos is finally cowed; he surrenders.
Ali can still see into the room with binoculars, and reports that Marcos is surrendering, but he's still wearing the vest. Samir tells him to transmit the failsafe. As Marcos agrees to tell Jack everything, a 30-second countdown appears on his jacket. Everyone but Marcos and Jack are evacuated. As Jack frantically works to disarm the bomb, he pleads with Marcos to give up his information. Marcos finally says that the person who knows the plan is Tarin. Two seconds left; Jack can't defuse the bomb. He shoves Marcos back into the chamber and just barely manages to wedge the door partially shut. The bomb goes off, killing Marcos and knocking Jack off his feet.
Jack Bauer calls Hassan and tells him that Tarin has been named as a co-conspirator. Hassan explains about Tarin's escape. Dalia, horrified, tries to call Kayla again. Tarin is in the shower, so Kayla picks up, just to reassure her mother that she's okay. Dalia tells her that her father's suspicions of Tarin were correct after all. Kayla doesn't believe her at first, but Dalia manages to convince her, and Kayla tells her where they are.
Kayla hangs up just as Tarin gets out of the shower. He catches her on the phone, but she says she just wanted to reassure her mother, and didn't say where they were. Tarin says it's time to go and formally request asylum. Kayla tries to delay, but Tarin tells her to get dressed. Kayla gathers up her clothes and goes into the bathroom to get dressed, arousing Tarin's suspicion. Why can't she get dressed in front of him? She says she wants to clean up first, and then locks the bathroom door, beginning to panic.
At CTU, Cole says he can have a tactical team at the hotel within twenty minutes. Jack says the NYPD can get there faster. "Have them set up a perimeter until we arrive. And make sure they understand Tarin Faroush needs to be taken alive at all costs."
Michael Madsen has signed to guest star on Fox's 24.
The 52-year-old will play Jim Rucker, a former military officer with a connection to Jack Bauer, reports TV Guide.
The Kill Bill star will begin a short arc on the show as it approaches the end of its current season.
Madsen is also known for his roles in the films Reservoir Dogs, Species and Thelma & Louise.
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As CTU sends Jack to the hotel where the NYPD are already setting up a perimeter, Kayla stays in the bathroom, desperately trying to delay Tarin. However, Tarin gets a call from Samir, who tells him that Marcos may have compromised him. Tarin realizes that Kayla must know the truth. With Jack still eight minutes away, Tarin breaks into the bathroom and grabs Kayla.
Jack tells NYPD Sergeant Amis to hold his position, but Amis ignores him and leads his men in. They are quickly shot by Tarin, who takes the comm of one of the fallen officers and tries to impersonate him. However, Jack is onto him and warns the remaining officers.
Tarin and Kayla make it to a waiting cab. Chloe has just gotten satellite drones online, and the cab is tracked to an underpass where there are no cameras. Jack and Cole approach the cab... which is now empty. Jack realizes the terrorists will try to contact President Hassan next, now that they have his daughter as a hostage. Elsewhere, Samir calls Ahman, a bomb maker, who asks where the nuclear rods are. Samir says they're outside the city; they haven't disabled the radiation detectors yet, but he's got it taken care of.
Bill Prady arrives at CTU to see Dana, who once again asks Chloe to cover for her for a few minutes. They meet in a holding room, where Prady asks about Kevin Wade. Dana admits to knowing him, but claims she met him at a bar a few days ago and cheated on her fianc?e with him. This is why she lied on the phone. She claims not to have met Nick, who Prady knows was traveling with Kevin. However, Prady just a couple of hours ago got a call from the NYPD about a break-in at a police evidence lock-up. An officer was left in a coma, and the prints on the weapon belong to Nick. And where Nick goes, Kevin goes. Dana sticks to her story and says she needs to be back at her desk. Prady asks if he can talk to her supervisor, and notes Dana's discomfort with interest. He then offers to stay put and wait for Dana to have a moment to talk further. She reluctantly agrees.
Jack and Cole meet with President Hassan. Dalia is furious; how could CTU have allowed their daughter to be kidnapped? Hassan tries to calm her. After all, it was their own people who carried out the kidnapping. Jack asks what it is Tarin might be trying to leverage out of him, but Hassan doesn't know. They get permission to monitor Hassan's calls.
A blindfolded Kayla is led into an office in the vault of an abandoned bank, where Samir is waiting. Her blindfold is removed and she is roughly tied to a chair and gagged in front of a video camera, while Tarin looks on with concern. Samir calls Hassan and asks for File 33. Hassan claims not to know what that is, but Samir is sure Hassan is lying because the Americans are listening in. When Hassan denies knowledge of File 33 again and demands to speak to his daughter, Kayla is put on screen. Samir, wearing a ski mask, puts a plastic bag over Kayla's head, beginning to suffocate her. Samir gives Hassan fifteen minutes to hand over File 33, or Kayla will die. The bag is removed and the screen goes dark.
Hassan reluctantly shows Jack and Hastings File 33. It contains operational details of all U.S. anti-nuclear defenses, including the radiological detection arrays, gathered by his country's spies over the years. Jack urges him not to give up the file. What about his daughter? With all due respect, Jack says, Hassan's family brought this threat to the U.S.
Chloe interrupts; they may have a lead to Kayla's location. A subway noise was heard in the video feed, and Arlo ran a crosscheck with real-time train positions. They've got to be near the F Train station by the Williamsburg Bridge. Jack plans to head there with Cole and a tac team, while Hastings sends a second team and aerial coverage. Jack tells Hassan to stall if they call back; CTU will create a fake File 33 for him to send. Hassan says they'll see through that, but Jack thinks it will buy them time.
Back at the bank, Tarin is having second thoughts. He tells Samir that they will never send the file... and if they don't, what then? Killing Kayla was never part of the plan. Samir says that Tarin had assured him that his feelings for Kayla wouldn't get in the way of their mission. Does Samir need to have somebody else deal with her? Tarin shakes his head no, and Samir tells him to stay strong. Tarin can't meet Kayla's reproachful, terrified gaze.
Jack is minutes away, but they've only got 30 seconds to find Kayla. Arlo interrupts and points to someone -- Prady, who has left the holding room. Who's that? Nobody, says Dana, who grimly lead him back to the holding room to talk. Prady wants to know about the security cameras at the robbed lockup. It seems they malfunctioned exactly when Nick was robbing the place. He must have had help. Prady knows that all the video feeds are archived at CTU; can he please have them on a thumb drive? Dana, shaking, agrees. She then calls Cole and tells him it's over. She's going to give Prady the info. Cole tells her to wait until he gets back, but she says no; she doesn't want him to get into more trouble trying to protect her. She begins to cry and she tells Cole she loves him, then hangs up. Jack notes Cole's distraction, but Cole claims that nothing is wrong.
Dalia tries to give strength to a worried Hassan. He can stall them; he has a gift to make people listen when he talks. At the bank, Tarin tells Kayla the deadline has arrived, and he begins to lead her back to the vault. She begs him to stop, in the name of the love she knows he has for her. Tarin hesitates outside the vault, conflicted, then suddenly reaches a decision. He grabs Kayla, shouting "Go!" They begin to run the opposite direction with Samir's men in pursuit. Tarin fights their way out, stealing the keys of a man he disables. They exit the building and Tarin locates the car. As they get in, Tarin gives Kayla his phone and tells her to call CTU. However, Tarin is shot dead. Kayla screams, but has enough presence of mind to slide over to the driver's seat, lock the doors and drive away. Samir shoots at the car's tires as she peels away, but he's too late. She has escaped.
Kayla calls CTU, not knowing where she is, and wanting to make sure her father knows that Tarin died helping her escape. The CTU team pinpoint her position and give her directions to CTU. Jack, Cole and their team arrive at the bank to find it deserted. There's a tunnel system; Arlo's got drones on all the exits. He sees Samir and two others exiting the building.
Hastings congratulations everyone on their good work, and makes a point of saying it again to Dana... but Dana's distracted, watching Prady watch her. The drone gets a picture for visual recognition just before Samir and company get into a car. One of the men is Tarin, still alive after all. In the car, Samir tells Tarin that he did the right thing. Kayla will die for a good cause.
Meanwhile, Jack realizes that it's a setup. What's the best way to disable the radiological detectors? Take out CTU. Kayla's car must have a bomb. Too late to stop her; she's already in the entrance tunnel. As Jack and Cole tell Chloe she cannot lose the car that Tarin is in, Kayla pulls up to the entrance. She is quickly yanked from the car by a team of CTU security guards. A bomb is found in the car. It's an EMP, set to go off in just ten seconds. Jack, on comm, orders them to close down the systems to protect the drones, but there's no time. Security guard Gerrard gets in the car to try to move it, but he's too late. The bomb goes off with a flash. The electromagnetic pulse kills Gerrard and sends everyone in the vicinity flying, shattering CTU's glass doors. The lights at CTU pulse, then fade out. Arlo loses track of Samir as the power goes out. Jack loses all communication, and tells Cole, "We need to contact NSA. The terrorists just took out CTU."