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Our security police have completed their initial sweep of the capital city.

Sixty-five known members of the opposition

have been arrested and are being questioned.

Have you learned anything?

- Were any of them working with my brother? - It's too early to tell.

Kayla, your father is a great man,

but Farhad's betrayal has changed him.

- What can we do? -

The president says you may be involved with his brother.

- He's ordered me to detain you. - I'll talk to him.

President Hassan's crackdown isn't just a response to the attempt on his life.

There are unsecured nuclear materials in play.

C.T.U. is running an undercover operation to retrieve them as we speak.

I've got something. It's an N.Y.P.D. evidence lockup.

A local vice group just impounded 120,000.

I help you do this, and you never call me again.

That's beautiful, man. Absolutely beautiful.

It's a cop.

You're gonna have to slip past him.

I'm at the warehouse at... Nick!

Kevin, stop him!

I hear there are materials for sale.

Talk straight. What materials?

- Nuclear rods. - Nobody deals in nuclear rods. Nobody.

We have a problem. Vladimir Laitanan knows about the fuel rods.

Come on, Vladimir. Push them harder. Somebody knows something.

No one knows. There's no one left to call.

Look, it's over! What is wrong with you?

Renee, stop. Stop.

- They're Russian. - What are you doing?

I need to let them take me.

When C.T.U. gets here, you tell them to start tracking me from the air.

These people are gonna lead us to everything we're looking for.

I'm unarmed. Don't shoot. We can do business.

Where's Jack?

The Russians took him.

He said that you'd be monitoring him from the air.

- We haven't seen anything. - Where is he?

Yeah? Where the hell are you?

You said you would call me as soon as the two of you got clear.

I'm sorry, sweetheart. I forgot.

We-We got caught... We got caught up celebrating our score.

Celebrating? You put a police officer in the hospital.

Hey, that wasn't me. That was Nick.

Look, why do... Why do you gotta focus on the negative?

We're flush a hundred and twenty grand.

Why don't you just come down here,

have a drink, celebrate with us?

We're at a club in Jersey City called Starlight.

- All right? We'll work out your cut. - What cut?

I don't want anything from you, Kevin.

We're done.

I want you to put my key in my mailbox...

and get the hell out of my life like you promised.

Yeah, that... That's not gonna happen.

What does that mean?

This is a sweet operation we got going here.

You getting the access codes and... and us pulling the jobs.

W-W-Wait. We had a deal, Kevin.

You promised me I do this one thing for you, and then you leave me alone.

I-I know, and I... and I... And I meant that, all right.

But things change, okay? And-And...

But we can get rich off of this, Jenny.

You can't do this to me, Kevin.

Jenny, please...

Look, bitch, you're in this up to your neck.

You want your boss, you want your boyfriend...

finding out you're not who you say you are?

You're gonna be our golden goose, okay?

- Hello? - Dana. What are you doing?

We've got a situation. You need to be on the floor.

Dana. I heard you, I will be right there.

Who was that on the phone just now?

That's none of your business. Actually, it is.

When you start sneaking away to make phone calls or leave the office...

Making me cover for you... It becomes my business.

Now, who was that? Kevin?

How the hell would you... Are you spying on me?

Look, you want to step out on your fiancé, it's fine with me.

God knows I've got no love for the guy.

You have no idea what you are talking about. I am not cheating on Cole.

Whatever you want to call it,

you'd better start telling your boyfriend what's going on, or I will.

Now, come on.

Our undercover operation just went south. What's happened?

Jack Bauer was grabbed by an unknown group of armed Russians.

We think they're the ones in control of the nuclear rods.

Are we tracking them? We can't.

They took Bauer through an underground access behind the building.

Without aerial support, the best my people could do...

was track 'em to a drainage junction near Avenue Y and Ocean.

They must have had a vehicle standing by.

Jack's cell phone was trashed at the scene.

There has to be something at the site to help us I.D. the vehicle.

Tire treads, transmission fluid, oil residue?

No, there's nothing, sir. Trail's gone cold.

What about Walker? Didn't she get a good look at these people?

I don't know, sir.

Frankly, she's pretty messed up right now.

- Blaming herself for Jack's circumstances. - Well, she should.

She crippled this operation when she murdered her contact.

Without Vladimir Laitanan, we have no lead to finding Bauer or the nuclear materials.

You get her back to C.T.U. for debriefing.

- I want to know what the hell happened. - Yes, sir.

You might want to consider running a psych eval on her when we arrive.

Count on it.

You were supposed to be coordinating with N.S.A., monitoring chatter.

I know. Something came up. I had to take care of it. What was so important?

It's my fault, Mr. Hastings.

I asked Dana to recover a data log I accidentally deleted from Archives.

I didn't have clearance. I'm uplinking to N.S.A. servers now.

All right. Just get on it.

Roll back any chatter within the last 20 minutes.

Right now, that's all we've got.

Let me know if something turns up.

I need to brief President Taylor.

Thank you.

You can thank me by putting aside whatever it is that's bothering you...

and helping me find Jack.

He's my friend, and he's in trouble.

Take him down the hall.

Where is Vladimir? Dead.

So are his men.

The German said they tried to rip him off.

Did he also say how he knows about the fuel rods?

Who are you? Ernst Meier.

I've been looking for you to make you an offer.

You know who I am? No.

All I know is that there's a very powerful man in the Russian syndicate...

who's been trafficking weapons-grade uranium, specifically U-235 fuel rods.

After the nasty business with Laitanan,

these men brought me here, so I'm just assuming you're that man.

Where did you get this information?

I represent a consortium of private interests.

They intercepted communiqués within the Islamic Republic.

From whom?

Farhad Hassan or someone in his camp.

In either case, you're doing business with the wrong people.

And who are these people... The ones you work for?

I'm sure you can understand I'm not at liberty to say.

You should be less concerned about who I work for...

and more concerned about the deal they're willing to offer you.

I'm not interested in your offer.

$250 million, half of which is ready to be wired to you immediately.

The other half you will receive upon final acquisition of the fuel rods.

You pose a very difficult problem for me.

You show up out of nowhere, knowing far too much of my business,

yet I have never heard of you.

You've never heard of me because I'm good at what I do.

What I'm concerned about is that you're a cop.

I just killed three people back at that garage.

Vladimir Laitanan, I stabbed in the eye. You really think I'm a cop?

As a child, I saw K.G.B. throw an entire family off the roof of a building,

two of them small children.

I know what cops are capable of.

So I ask you again, who do you work for?

I'm sorry. I can't tell you that.

Dimitri, work on him until he's ready to tell us everything.

No, we can make a deal.

We can still make a deal!

No! No!

No!

You have buried your brother's body?

It's Oleg's necklace.

You gave it to him at his confirmation.

You keep it... to remind you of him.

I'm glad you're back.

We may have a problem. What is it?

There is a man down the hall who claims to be an arms broker.

He knows about the nuclear rods.

How could he?

He says there was a leak from Farhad's people, but I wonder.

Until I know for certain who and what this man is,

I've stopped the transport of the rods.

They've been redirected to a weigh station off the Wantagh Parkway.

I'm sure Farhad can't be happy about that.

I haven't told him yet.

Perhaps we should tell him together.

How long do you plan to hold him off?

That depends. On what?

On how long it takes Dimitri to break this guy.

No. Okay, Mr. Policeman.

I'm not a cop. I swear to you.

Please don't do this.

Tell me what you know.

- -

We are exhausting all efforts to ascertain who took Bauer and where.

But until any progress is made,

we just have to hope that Jack can find some way of salvaging the operation on his end.

What even makes you think he's still alive?

Only the fact that he wasn't killed at the point of abduction.

Mr. Hastings, I need a realistic assessment.

What are the odds of finding and securing these nuclear weapons within the next few hours?

I can't answer that, ma'am, but the longer we're out of touch with Bauer,

the less likely our chances.

All right, Mr. Hastings. Continue to coordinate with my office.

I want updates every 30 minutes.

Yes, ma'am.

I just spoke to General Wasim. He's very worried.

Your brother's crackdowns back home are intensifying.