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10:02 A.M.-10:07 A.M.: Alberta Green announces how Secret Service think the photographer, Martin Belkin, may be in on the assassination attempt, as he hasn't been seen since the breakfast. Nina tells her she hasn't heard from Jack. Kevin calls Cofell, because something important has come up and he needs to be met at a parking garage. After getting off the phone with Kevin, Cofell tells Mark his change of plans, but Mark doesn't acknowledge them, and Cofell soon figures out that he's not talking to Mark. When he voices his protests, Jack locks the doors automatically so Cofell can't escape. Cofell pleads for his substitute chauffeur to stop the car. Jack doesn't comply until Cofell pulls his cell phone out of his pocket to dial for help.

With the car in park, Jack draws his gun, makes Cofell give him the phone, exits the vehicle, comes around the back, sits next to Cofell, and orders him to sit on his hands. Cofell thinks Jack wants money, so after smacking him across the face, Jack sets the record straight. Cofell pretends that he doesn't know who Gaines is, nor what Jack is talking about, as he's just a businessman. Jack doesn't believe him, since his limousine has a bulletproof divider; Cofell explains it's for protection from people like him. Jack cocks his pistol, explaining to Cofell that it's his last chance to tell him where his family is, but Cofell continues to declare his innocence. Jack backs off and has Cofell stay put while he calls Nina, who opens a secure line. After she fills him in on what's up there, he says he's got Cofell. She thinks that was stupid of him, and doesn't know how much longer she can cover, since Green isn't buying any of it. Jack ignores it, and asks her to put together as best of a Cofell interrogation profile as she can in five minutes. He hangs up, and drives Cofell to a new location.



10:07 A.M.-10:13 A.M.: Teri believes that Nina and crew were able to get the trace before the phone went dead, while Kimberly doesn't. Rick comes in, and apologizes for what happened. Teri goes to thank him, but he stops her, claiming that since Eli sent him in to interrogate them it's better that they don't say anything, as he can't tell Eli what he doesn't know. Kimberly asks Rick what Eli is going to do to them. Rick does not answer and leaves. Kimberly is able to spy on Eli and Rick from a slat in the wall, and sees Eli kick the crap out of Rick for saying the women didn't tell him anything. Nina quickly halts work on the profile when Green comes over. Green says she's been reviewing the report of the first-passenger list of the 747, and they don't add up. Nina explains they were altered to make it look like there was an empty seat, but CTU feels there wasn't one. Nina states that Martin Belkin was in that seat and died in the explosion, and a lookalike assassin took his place at the breakfast. What Nina has been unable to figure out yet, was how the lookalike got a legitimate ID. While the two are talking, Jack calls Nina. Nina says hi to Bill, then, just in case she needs his help, tells Tony it's Bill Warner at the Bureau. She does need his help as Green wants to talk to Bill, so Tony walks over to distract Green with something else. With her out of the way, Nina gives Jack what little she managed to come up with in the short time he gave her -- Cofell is the oldest of three children, father died when he was a boy, went to college at 16, first in his vice president of his company three years later, got a heart condition, not generous with money. She guesses he's passive aggressive. Her parting words that the threat of pain can be more effective than pain itself for the kind of person she perceives Cofell to be give Jack his next plan.



10:17 A.M.-10:20 A.M.: Cofell continues to stalemate. He tells Jack he was meeting a businessman named Kevin Carroll, who sells machinery. Jack wonders why he was meeting him in a parking garage, but Cofell doesn't know, as it was Kevin's choice. Jack calls Nina to run a background check on Kevin Carroll, which is probably an alias. Then he pulls out a towel, drenches it in water, rolls it up, and enlightens Cofell on how the Soviets punished prisoners in the Russian Gulags with makeshift torture devices. They'd shove wet, twisted towels down their throats, hold onto one end, wait until their stomachs started digesting the towel, then pull it...and their stomach linings, out. Cofell fearfully questions what kind of man Jack is. Jack says he doesn't want to hurt him, he just wants his family. Cofell hands Jack his wallet, so he can see a picture of Cofell's family. Cofell repeats that if he knew something, so would Jack.



10:20 A.M.-10:25 A.M.: Gaines and Drazen meet in a deserted location. Gaines assures Drazen that they'll be ready for Jack this time, but Drazen thinks he and his people made a mistake bringing the Americans into this, and pulls the plug on Gaines' involvement. Gaines doesn't understand how Drazen could quit something that's been so important to him for over a year, but Drazen says he's not quitting; he has a contingency plan. Jack and Palmer will both be dead by the end of day, and tell Gaines it's no longer his concern. Gaines begs for just two more hours to find Jack. Drazen gives him thirty minutes. If Gaines doesn't find Jack by then, he'll have to kill Teri and Kimberly, pull his people out, and Drazen will take over. Rick, who's standing nearby,hears every word. Drazen calls someone, and talks to them in Serbian.

After the was dismissed, the principal of the school chats with Palmer, and offers him some suggestions on his educational program. Mike interrupts to hand Palmer a phone. Carl's on the other line, none too happy about his former boss needing his help. Palmer asks to see him in person, because he got a tip that George Ferragamo's life may be in danger. Carl thinks Frank Ames told him that, and brushes it off. Palmer threatens to blackmail Carl if he doesn't come meet him at the school. Carl says he'll be there by hour's end. Jack calls Nina back to see what she's learned. She's found six Kevin Carrolls, one of whom does sell machinery. Jack feels it has to be a cover, but Nina thinks he may have the wrong Ted Cofell, especially since Nina's email was partially erased. More than that, she feels Jack's judgement is affected. After he ends the call and starts the car, he tells Cofell they're going to see Kevin.



10:30 A.M.-10:34 A.M.: Teri's pain returns. Since Kimberly knows she's not okay, Teri admits her stomach's been hurting her. Kimberly wants to ask the kidnappers for help, but Teri won't let her. Cofell carefully flips down a cushion in the back seat, revealing a secret compartment. He removes a knife and returns the cushion to its upright position, with Jack none the wiser. After talking with the principal, Palmer pulls Sherry over to ask if she's spoken to Carl since he was fired. She says she did; she asked him if he could find a way to stop Maureen Kingsley, and he replied that he'd take care of the evidence against Keith. She says the reason she hid this was because she wasn't sure what Carl meant. Palmer thinks it's yet another secret in the grand scheme of things that proves how disloyal she is. Palmer checks up with Mike, who tells him he scoped out Jack as requested, and found the usual gap-ridden agency file. Mike is stunned when Palmer asks if one of those gaps coincides with the summer of two years ago. Palmer won't say how he knew that.



10:34 A.M.-10:37 A.M.: Jack orders Cofell to shift over to the opposite seat, so he can come on back and visit. Cofell decides to use the opportunity to kill Jack and readies his blade. Jack catches Cofell mid-lunge, twists the knife out of his hands, and breaks his wrist. The knife now in Jack's possession, he angrily demands to know what kind of businessman keeps a Microtech HALO in his car. Cofell is so annoyed over his broken wrist that he slips up, and his Serbian accent surfaces, when he curses at Jack. Since he spent that time in Belgrade, Jack recognizes it immediately, and attempts to get more out of him. Cofell bitterly taunts Jack about how he deserves what's happening to him, and how he will pay. Jack lets his temper get the best of him, and rams Cofell in the chest with the back end of the knife, putting Cofell into cardiac arrest. Jack holds Coffell's heart pills in his hand, claiming he'll hand them over right after finding out where his family is. But Cofell would rather die. Realizing his key witness is about to croak, Jack forces Cofell's medication in his mouth. Cofell spits them right out, then goes limp. Now in a panic, Jack loosens Cofell's shirt and tie and attempts CPR, begging him to please be alive.



10:41 A.M.-10:44 A.M.: Nina consoles a teary Jack, who worries that he won't be able to find Teri and Kimberly now. Nina wonders if Kevin Carroll may know something. Jack isn't sure he's even coming, since he's late. Jack knows the terrorists have a personal agenda against him, but doesn't know what for. He wants Nina to dig as deep as she can into two things: Cofell's background and a two-year-old assignment he did in Belgrade and Kosovo called "Operation Nightfall" and then crosscheck the files against each other. After hanging up and pulling himself together, he starts making Cofell look presentable. Tony goes to Nina with a proposition: since Green already knows they're lying, they might as well come clean. Nina sternly refuses, because Jack said no and because they can't be sure that Green is any more on the level than Jamey was.



10:44 A.M.-10:48 A.M.: Teri interrupts Kimberly's nap, because they have to be on their guard. Rick barges into the shed with a badly-bruised face. He gives them Dan's pistol, which he says is loaded, and offers Kimberly another apology. He's on his way out when an ungrateful Kimberly blasts him for suggesting they shoot their way free. He has nothing more to say to her, and leaves. Teri is a little more appreciative, and cocks the gun before hiding it in her pants. She senses their execution will be taking place soon. Jack sits and watches from the driver's seat in Cofell's limo while another car pulls up. Kevin gets out of his vehicle and enters the back seat of the limo. He apologizes to Cofell, not knowing he is deceased, for being late, before the doors mysteriously lock. Kevin is taken by surprise when Jack greets him by name, then turns around to ask where his wife is. Kevin quickly draws his gun and fires six shots at Jack's head. The bulletproof glass divider stops every one of them. After Kevin runs out of bullets, Jack decides to take him on a little joyride around the parking garage, throwing him all over the backseat before Jack slams on the brakes and sends him face first into the divider.



10:51 A.M.-11:00 A.M.: Jack has used the time Kevin was unconscious to tie him up with duct tape. Jack wakes him up, leaves him prisoner in the back seat and returns to the front. Kevin, whose face is banged up, says his family are safe when asked, but when he won't say where they are, Jack punches him. After being shown who's boss, Kevin warns him that there's no reason for his accomplices to keep Teri and Kimberly alive now that he's of no further use to them. Kevin wants to strike a deal: he tells Jack where they are and Jack lets him go. Jack says he will let him go, after he sees his family. Kevin laughs at Jack's arrangement, so Jack tells him he'll see if he's as good at withstanding pain as he says he is.

Gaines' half hour is up, and Drazen takes over. Gaines summons Eli and orders him to kill the women. While Palmer is answering questions for the principal outside the school, he spots Carl. He excuses himself again and goes over to talk to Carl privately. Palmer puts him on the spot about his not-so-subtle promises to murder Ferragamo. Carl plays coy at first, then denies that's what he meant. Palmer tells Carl that he didn't give his permission to go killing people willy-nilly. Carl doesn't need permission. Instead, he warns Palmer how powerful "they" are, while reminding that he doesn't work for him, they both work for "them." But Palmer feels Carl is the only one whom that applies to. Palmer ends the conversation, then calls Ferragamo. Kimberly fears that her father isn't coming to rescue them. Eli comes into the shed to tell her and Teri that their time's up. After promising to make it fast, Teri pulls out the gun Rick gave her, points it at a shocked and surprised Eli, and pulls the trigger, only to find out it's not loaded. Eli tears the gun away from Teri, grabs her throat and begins strangling her with one hand while reaching for the gun in his back pocket with the other. Kimberly stops him, his gun falls to the floor, and Eli stops choking Teri so he can take care of Kim first. After he's got her pinned to the ground, he pulls out a switchblade and attempts to stab her. Before he could, Teri retrieves his loaded pistol and shoots him in the back. Kimberly gets up to go stand by her mother, as Eli dies. Teri shoots him one more time after he's dead, explaining to Kimberly that whomever sent Eli in was expecting to hear two shots. Teri has Kimberly help her hide the body. Jack is driving while Kevin gives directions. Jack asks where they're going. Kevin says they're off to see his family.

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