Tony Almeida calls Jack and tells him to give up as he will not find anything. He then breaches air traffic control with the help of Michael Latham, taking over control of a commercial flight.
Tony says Emerson spoke to his person inside the bureau, who says he's in the clear. Tony asks the details of the next job, Alan Tanner says let him know when he arrives. He was shot on the boat.
ColonelIké Dubaku is wondering why President Allison Taylor hasn't withdrawn her naval forces from Sanagala but Nichols claims that she just briefly received his demands. Then Dubaku says that maybe it's time for a more "forceful" demonstration.
Henry Taylor meets with Samantha Roth and she offers him proof that his son was murdered after he found a corrupt account that belonged to an unnamed member of his wife's administration. Samantha gives Henry a memory stick with the incriminating information that Roger found.
At the hospital, Walker tries to get information out of Tony's accomplice, Alan Tanner. When Tanner refuses to speak, Walker tortures him to get the information. She then calls Moss and tells him that Tony has plans to kidnap Ule Matobo.
David Emerson receives a call from Tony telling him Jack Bauer will work for him. He then informs Tony that their next job is to kidnap Matobo, and deliver him to Dubaku.
Emerson raids Matobo's residence, while Matobo and his wife escape to a safe room. Jack realizes that the safe room will be hard to penetrate; and Tony emphasizes the importance of capturing Matobo in order to reach Dubaku.
As Gedge is trying to kill Taylor so it looks like a suicide, he regains movement and struggles with Gedge. They both fall from a second floor on a table and Gedge dies.
Prime MinisterUle Matobo assures Tony and Bill that they can trust President Taylor, despite the corruption in the government. He proceeds to call her and arranges a private meeting with her.
ColonelIké Dubaku prepares to leave the country and threatens Ryan Burnett with revealing the names of everyone helping him if he was caught.
Dubaku's girlfriend, Marika Donoso agrees to meet with him so Jack and Renee can track him.
During the pursuit, Marika causes a crash and Dubaku ends up critically injured. Before being taken to the hospital, Jack retrieves a memory stick from under his ribcage and informs Larry Moss about it.
Jack Bauer meets with Tony Almeida, who informs him of the imminent attack that will follow. He also tells him that Burnett has information about the attack.
While Burnett is getting ready to leave, he receives a message notifying him that the attack is about to begin.
Jack Bauer holds Bill Buchanan at gunpoint and informs him of the next attack. He demands to know where Ryan Burnett is and starts torturing him to find what is the target.
PresidentAllison Taylor watches in horror as Juma threatens to mutilate her daughter in front of her eyes. She orders Jack Bauer to open the lockdown door.
Juma orders his men to place Jack with the hostages, and then strikes the President across the face.
Jack Bauer approaches Larry Moss with information that Bill gave him before dying about someone from outside aiding Juma. He suggests to Larry that they must further interrogate Ryan Burnett.
PresidentAllison Taylor tells Ethan Kanin her idea of bringing her daughter, Olivia, as a special adviser. Ethan disagrees with the idea because of Olivia's past actions during her mother's campaigns.
When Ethan approaches Olivia with the offer, she attacks him for allowing all this corruption to reach her mother.
Jack Bauer is taken to question Burnett. While he is doing so, Quinn infiltrates the hospital room paralyzing Jack with a nerve gas, kills Burnett, and gets back out.
When Jack recovers movement, he realizes he is being framed and escapes just as Larry enters the room. Jack calls him from outside and assures him he didn't do anything and that the threat is not over yet.
Ethan Kanin is threatened by reporter Ken Dellao who plans to reveal the information about Ryan Burnett's murder and Ethan's involvement to the public.
Ethan berates Olivia Taylor when he thinks she was responsible for the leak. .
Larry Moss informs Ethan Kanin of Mayer's death, and their assumption that Jack killed him. Kanin blames Moss, but the latter says it was Kanin's fault for allowing Jack out of FBI custody.
FBI Agent Renee Walker is brought up to speed. She asks where Jack is, but Moss does not know. She divulges all Jack told her about Quinn and Burnett, and the connection with Starkwood.
Jack Bauer tells Tony about Starkwood and the WMD in Sangala. They go to the Port of Alexandria and try to stop the WMD being taking by the Starkwood mercenaries.
Tony Almeida engages with the men whilst Jack goes after the truck with the biological device. Tony is captured and recognised. Jack gets the weapon and calls Moss. He sees there is a leak and stops it, but exposes himself to the WMD.
The weapon is stolen by the Starkwood employees via a helicopter.
Jack Bauer asks Larry Moss to let him go with them to Starkwood but Larry refuses to because he doesn't wanna risk him showing symptoms there.
After searching the Starkwood warehouse where Greg Seaton alleged the weapons were, Larry and his men are ambushed by Stokes and several platoon of Starkwood mercenaries requesting them to leave their property.
At the FBI Headquarters, Jack Bauer informs Douglas Knowles that Jonas Hodges is in possession of a bioweapon and that he was contaminated when trying to intercept it. Jack assures him that the weapon is on Starkwood's compound and asks if he has any idea to where it is and Knowles says that he might.
Jack Bauer has a seizure which means he is getting worse. When a possible treatment comes up that involves his daughter, Jack rejects it, not wanting to involve her.
Jonas Hodges argues with Doug Knowles. He claims that he treated Doug like a son for 20 years, but when he feels he is going to betray him anyway, takes a glass bottle and bashes him on the head with it. Hodges then throws him over a railing onto the floor below, killing him.
PresidentAllison Taylor answers Jonas Hodges' call who threatens her with using some Python-5 missiles they seized during a Starkwood operation in Pakistan. He tells her he has three of the missiles already armed with the bioweapon, and aimed at cities on the Eastern seaboard. Then, he tells her to keep this conservation secret and to turn her F-18s around and that if she doesn't comply, he will have no choice but to launch those missiles.
After this, President Taylor urges Admiral John Smith to call off the air strike immediately.
Jack Bauer collapses due to the prion variant pathogen symptoms. Dr. Sunny Macer gives her a pack of syringes to mask the symptoms, but suggests an experimental treatment using stem cells from a close relative like his daughter. Jack rejects it not wanting to involve her.
Kim Bauer meets with Jack and tells him that Renee Walker told her about the experimental treatment. Jack tells her he is not willing to take the chance.
President Allison Taylor tells Jack that Jonas Hodges has 13 Python missiles armed with the pathogen. Jack tells her that Tony Almeida is inside the Starkwood compound and will blow up the RP-7 rocket fuel tanks to destroy the missiles.
Tony Almeida holds Stokes at gunpoint so he can lead him to the fuel depot. After wiring the tanks with C-4, he has to fight with Stokes but right when the missiles are about to be launched, Tony overpowers him and detonates the explosives.
President Taylor tells Hodges that his missiles are destroyed as he is arrested. Hodges assures her that the crisis is not over yet and that she is up against something bigger than she imagines.
Galvez tries to smuggle a canister of the pathogen outside Starkwood and kills an FBI agent to do it, but not before he warns Larry Moss.
At the FBI Headquarters, Renee Walker is informed by Larry of the stolen canister. He tells her to alert DC police while he pursues Galvez on the helicopter.
When Larry and Tony get out of the chopper, Galvez manages to shoot Larry with a shotgun. When Tony approaches him, he smothers him instead of helping him.
Olivia Taylor discusses with her mother about the possible fate of Jonas Hodges. She says he's positioning himself for a deal. She begs the President not to go through with a pardon.
Jonas Hodges is locked up in a cell under the White House when he is visited by Cara Bowden, who is posing as his attorney Patricia Eames. She tells him that the prion variant was not for personal use, and that he may have jeopardized the rest of the conspirators.
She hands him a pill and threatens his family if he doesn't digest it.
During transport, Hodges takes the pill and goes into cardiac arrest. His escort yells at the driver to re-route them to West Arlington Hospital.
Renee Walker tells Jack that Galvez had to know their search patterns because he had ample time to set up the building with explosives. Jack has a sudden realization that Tony may have been Galvez's partner.
Jack confronts Tony, but starts having a seizure. Tony tells Jack that he never wanted to hurt him, but he wanted him to stay out of it.
Paramedics arrive. Tony tells them Jack is having a seizure and walks off as Jack watches, shaking uncontrollably.
Taylor tells them about Jonas Hodges saying he was only "a small cog in a big machine". Jack tells her he wants to interrogate Hodges, but Taylor doesn't want it to be an interrogation.
Olivia Taylor is informed of the witness protection immunity agreement that will be given to Hodges in exchange for his cooperation. She argues with her mother saying that Hodges killed Roger Taylor and thousands of American citizens.
Aaron Pierce picks up the agreement that Olivia drafted for Hodges. When he is about to leave, she infers for Aaron to kill Hodges. When Aaron is shocked, Olivia immediately apologizes for what she just said.
Olivia calls Martin Collier and asks him to remember a time when he said that any "problem can be eliminated". They then agree to meet face to face.
Jonas Hodges is in FBI medical being interrogated by Jack Bauer. Hodges says all the attacks would be done by framing Muslims. Then when the government can no longer be helpful and citizens would demand drastic measures. Jack yells for Hodges to give names for the co-conspirators but Jonas tells him he doesn't know.
Tony Almeida convinces Cara Bowden not to wait six months for an attack, suggesting that they should use the mess created by Hodges to their advantage.
Cara discusses the idea with the group of conspirators and tells them about using a Muslim to frame for the attacks.
Tony and his crew break into Jibraan Al-Zarian's house and tells him to keep his mouth shut as he puts a gun to his face.
Kim Bauer meets with her father for the first time in three years. She expresses her desire to try an experimental treatment for his illness using her stem cells, but Jack turns her down, not wanting to put her at risk. When his symptoms act up, he begs her to leave before he gets worse.
Olivia has a change of heart and withholds payment from Collier's hired assassin. However, Jonas Hodges is killed in a car bomb outside FBI headquarters soon after.
Chloe calls Jack and tells him that there is evidence suggesting Al-Zarian is innocent and is being set up.
Jack and the FBI agents burst into Al-Zarian's apartment, allowing Hamid the opportunity to break a mirror and stab the man guarding him in the throat.
Jonas Hodges is killed in a carbomb outside FBI headquarters.
Olivia Taylor, terrified, meets with Martin Collier and asks him why his assassin went ahead with the hit even after she withheld payment. He replies that he authorized the action, since "it's what [she] wanted."
Kim Bauer makes conversation with a friendly couple while waiting at the airport.
Cara Bowden calls Jack Bauer and shows him a live video feed of Kim, revealing that her operatives are with her and will kill her unless he breaks Tony out of FBI custody.
FBI Agent Renee Walker is held at gunpoint while Jack Bauer prepares to break Tony out of the FBI convoy. He tells her that Almeida's people are threating Kim's life.
Kim Bauer attempts to secure Bob Peluso's laptop from the burning wreck of his car. He tries to hold her arm to keep her from escaping, but she makes it out with some minor burns.
Kim tells Renee that the laptop might help them track down where Jack is being held.
Impressed by Tony's resourcefulness, Alan Wilson agrees to meet him face-to-face to vet him for a larger role in his organization, but warns Cara that if he becomes suspicious, he'll have no choice but to kill Tony.
Tony's doctors explain that Jack Bauer only has a few hours to live, but that the pathogen can be harvested up to two hours after his death.
While the doctors prepare to move him, Jack snaps into action, killing two of them with a scalpel and the other by breaking his neck, and escapes the compound.
* The "Previously on 24" segment did not air on the original network broadcast of this episode.