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As Wayne continues his speech to the country, Karen puts a smackdown on Lennox for proceeding with his plans to set up more detention centers without Wayne's permission. Lennox says the constitution is irrelevant in the face of the current threat. The two have more heated words before Lennox walks away. He goes to his assistant, Reed Pollock, and tells him he needs to make Karen go away. Pollock says he's waiting to hear from a few more people.

Nadia complains to Bill about a new security mandate that forces any worker at CTU with a Middle Eastern background to work with an added redundancy. Bill says he'll take her grievance to the president, but he won't exempt her from the policy.

Jack continues to smother Graem with the trash bag. Graem sobs and admits that their father cut himself off after the bomb detonated. Graem says their dad went looking for Darren McCarthy. The connection CTU found between Philip and Gredenko had to do with a contract that involved dismantling the old nuclear bombs from the Soviet Union. They hired McCarthy, but didn't check him carefully enough. Jack figures that McCarthy stole the remaining nukes and supplied them to Fayed. Graem says Philip put together a team and is staking out McCarthy's office. Jack tells Graem they are going to find him. Graem refuses to leave his family, but Jack forces him. They walk out past Marilyn, who shares a quick glance with Jack.

Jack calls Chloe and has her dispatch two units to McCarthy's address. Graem blasts Jack for selling out the family.

Milo tells Bill they've been monitoring the ground since the nuke blast, but there has been no sign of Fayed. Bill figures they can track Fayed if they look in the opposite direction of the fall-out. Nadia figures Fayed will have technology that will allow him to monitor the fall-out, so they can look for a signal that way. Chloe tells Bill about the call from Jack and he tells her to keep looking for Gredenko.

Graem continues to insist that Jack not give CTU the full story on Philip. Bill calls and Jack tells him to run a trace on McCarthy. Graem believes that Jack is coming after him personally and that their father will get caught in the middle. Graem again blasts Jack for being disloyal to the family "If I were you, I wouldn't talk about loyalty," Jack growls.

McCarthy talks to his contact looking for a name of someone who can program the trigger. His girlfriend blasts him for wasting time when they could be escaping. McCarthy threatens to kick her out of the car if she continues to be negative.

At Anacostia, Samuels sends photos of the suspects to CTU. Morris says he can't cross check them until he gets a manifest from Nadia. Milo asks her about the manifest, but she says she's backed up and won't explain why. Milo goes to Bill and asks about Nadia's slow work. Bill is evasive at first, but Milo presses him and he tells Milo about the added security measures that are tying Nadia's hands. Milo is outraged, but Bill says there's nothing he can do. Bill calls Karen and vents his anger about the new measures. Karen says she knew nothing about them and that they are more of Lennox's paranoid delusions.

Walid and Salim continue to talk about the nuclear blast as Sandra and Samuels listen. Salim tells him that they smuggled in a cell phone in order to contact people on the outside. Samuels calls for a tap on a cell tower.

Pollock gives Lennox a list of names. Lennox approaches Karen and tells her that she must resign immediately. "What are you smoking?" Karen asks with a sarcastic laugh. Obviously, he's not smoking anything, because he'd be a lot more fun if he were. Lennox says that Bill had Fayed in custody 14 months ago in Seattle, and Bill signed off on his release. Karen remembers that there were 20 detainees in custody and they didn't have enough evidence to hold Fayed. Lennox asks why the incident ended up blue-coded in a dead-end file. He says many people are ready to testify that Karen sequestered the file in order to protect her husband. Lennox knows it won't look good since one of the detainees detonated a nuclear bomb. Karen says Lennox also has skeletons in his closet, but Lennox knows it will take her too long to get any proof. He tells her to turn in her resignation within the hour.

Morris continues to complain to Nadia about her slow progress. Milo interferes and covers for Nadia, claiming he borrowed some of her processors. Milo tells Nadia that he knows of her extra redundancy. He logs her in under his user ID, which is illegal. Nadia thanks him and gets back to work.

Karen goes to Wayne and submits her resignation, effective immediately. Wayne is confused and somewhat upset, but Karen won't elaborate. Wayne guesses it has something to do with Lennox, but she won't confirm it. Karen tells Wayne that he knows what the right thing is to do and she has no doubt that he will continue to rise to the challenges of the day. Wayne buckles under and accepts her resignation. She asks him if she can be reassigned to L.A. and Wayne grants her military transportation. As Karen leaves, Pollock approaches her with a report, but she tells him to give it to Lennox.

Jack calls Chloe with a list of license numbers of the cars in McCarthy's parking lot. He tells her to send one team over to guard the building as he and Graem enter.

Walid sees Heydar reading a text message on his cell phone. He walks past Heydar and pretends to trip. As Heydar helps him up, he lifts the phone from Heydar's pocket. Samuels gives Walid a number to dial a number so CTU can access the call logs. Sandra asks Samuels to pull Walid out now that he's got the phone, but Samuels wants to wait until they get the list. Chloe tells Samuels there are many numbers and it will take a few minutes to check them. Samuels tells Walid to put the phone back.

Chloe calls Samuels and says the guys Walid is undercover with aren't connected to anyone important. She says the phone had a web browser and that's how they knew about the nukes. Samuels orders the guards to extract Walid. In the yard, Heydar realizes his phone is gone. He points at Walid and accuses him of taking the phone. Some men grab Walid and they find the phone. They begin to beat Walid savagely as the guards run to help. The guards pull the men off Walid. Sandra weeps as she sees Walid, badly beaten.

Chloe tells the team to wait outside and keep watch. Inside, Jack and Graem locate McCarthy's office and log on to his computer. Jack finds McCarthy's employment contract with BXJ, but sees an electronic shredding trail. They hear a noise and Jack cuffs Graem to a lamp as he goes to investigate. Jack scuffles with a man and is clobbered from behind by another. A tall man tells them to stop. It is Philip Bauer.

Philip asks Jack what he's doing and Jack tells him that he's looking for McCarthy. Philip tells his men to go get Graem and Jack gives them the keys to the cuffs. Jack blasts Philip for not calling CTU when he learned about the bombs. Philip says he just wanted to keep Graem out of jail, so he tried to find McCarthy privately. Graem enters and tells Philip that Jack wants to turn them over for prison. Jack calls CTU, but Philip tells him to keep Graem out of it. Graem and jack argue and Philip finally agrees to let Jack call in CTU. Jack starts to call, but Graem has other plans. He nods to the guards, who suddenly grab both Jack and Philip. "I'm glad we can all finally put our cards on the table," Graem says. He orders his men to take Jack and Philip outside.

McCarthy and his girlfriend check into a motel. McCarthy's contact calls him and says he's found someone who can build the triggers, though he'll have to force him to do the work. McCarthy tells him to text him everything they know about the man.

Graem's men lead Jack and Philip outside, where they see the dead CTU agents. "Call me when it's over," Graem tells his men. He gets in a car and leaves as his men cuff Jack and Philip and load them into another car. Tick, tick, tick...