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Tell me what you know. The hitter has someone on the inside.

Victor Aruz told me right before he died...

that the assassin's working with someone very close to President Hassan.

Someone hacked into the U.N. database.

They downloaded security protocols, schematics to the U.N...

and Hassan's personal itinerary.

Did you get a name?

The computer's owner is listed as Meredith Michelle Reed. She's a reporter.

Applied for a security clearance at the U.N. We've got a match.

Everybody move back! - Mr. President, you need to come with us. This way.

- What's goin' on? - Mr. President.

I can't believe she's part of this.

If this affair becomes public, it will destroy your credibility...

and everything that you've worked for.

I just spoke to my brother. I told him to deny the affair.

The reporter's claims need to be discredited.

C.T.U. needs to continue to think she's my contact on the inside.

We might have the wrong person.

I've been scanning through the traffic-cam footage...

from outside Meredith Reed's apartment building.

This man was going into the service entrance.

What if he went through her apartment and used her laptop to break into the servers?

He hailed a cab when he left.

See the medallion? Call the cab company. Find out where it went.

Hands in the air! Now! Against the wall!

Chloe tracked the man in the surveillance photo to a second location.

We didn't think you'd follow through with an investigation.

So you had no choice except to steal weapons from the armory.

Would you have followed through with an investigation if I'd asked?

I'm not debating this. You want to waste your time chasing ghosts, knock yourself out.

- Hello? - "Dana Walsh." I like that.

I told you to stop calling me.

Yeah, I know what you told me, Jenny.

You must be mistaking me for someone else.

That's funny, 'cause you sound a lot like this girl...

I used to know from Rock Springs named Jenny Scott.

Hey, Mike, what's going on? Mind if I come in?

- Oh! Mikey. - Call Captain Ravello.

Tell him you're sick and I'm filling in for you.

Listen, you son of a bitch, there's no way...

What's the matter with you?

Next time, I won't miss the bone.

Make the call.

This is Hastings.

Tell me you've gotten something out of that reporter you arrested.

No, sir. I'm continuing to press her, but she's maintaining her innocence.

She's a coconspirator in an assassination plot. Of course she's gonna deny it.

I need to be able to tell the president we're

making progress toward averting this threat.

Sir, our only course is to go after Meredith Reed with the evidence we have in hand.

Our top analyst is decrypting a file we obtained from her laptop.

We're hoping it provides the intel we need about the assassin she's working with.

It better provide something, because if your

people fail and President Hassan is killed,

this peace process dies with him.

Do you understand me? I understand your concern, Mr. Weiss.

But I assure you we're on top of the situation.

I've dispatched tactical personnel...

to liaise with the U.N. security forces...

and stepped up the alert with N.Y.P.D. at the perimeter.

Fine. I'll have that to tell her at least.

Let me know when that file is decrypted.

Dana, you got a minute?

I thought you were on your way to the U.N.

I am. What's the status on that file decryption? We I.D.'d the cipher.

It's a standard Isaacs-Adler algorithm.

Requires a 12-character decryption key to unlock the data.

This search cycle has identified two characters already.

Should have the rest in about 30 or 40 minutes.

Why do you ask? - Jack Bauer just caused a big scene with Hastings.

He thinks Meredith Reed may have been framed.

He must have gotten that from Chloe.

- I thought that she'd dropped it. - Apparently not.

She has surveillance of someone exiting Reed's apartment building.

Jack thinks this same person may have planted the encrypted file on Reed's computer.

- And you believe that? - I'm not sure.

But if that evidence was planted, then the file you're decrypting...

is irrelevant at best and at worst a misdirection.

Cole, I traced the U.N. breach to Reed myself.

The biometric scans of her interrogation all indicate that she's withholding.

I just don't see a frame here.

I hope you're right, because Jack's going after this guy on his own.

- Hastings sanctioned that? - Not exactly.

Agent Ortiz? We need to move out, sir.

- Be careful. - Don't worry.

Okay, I'm at the corner of Broadway and West 23rd in Queens.

Any location on the suspect?

Negative. I talked to the cab driver directly.

All he remembers is dropping the fare at the corner.

- Nothing shows up on the aerial archives. - I need something to go on.

I know. I've been searching for private security cameras in the area.

Not all of them are registered. Without the

serial numbers, I don't have access to them.

I'm gonna get out and look around on foot.

Maybe we'll get lucky. Stay on the line.

It's all right, Mags. It's gonna be okay, all right?

Keep your hand on the table where I can see it.

Who the hell are you? You're not a cop.

How did you manage to fool everybody, Mikey...

Or whatever the hell your name is?

Talk to me, you son of a bitch!

- No! -

Look, I don't want to hurt you, Jim, or Maggie.

I am just doing my job.

This is the captain calling back.

Just say what I told you to say.

Please don't make me do anything I don't want to do.

Okay?

Yeah.

Hello.

Koernig, Captain Ravello. What's up? Uh, yeah.

Captain, sorry to drop this on you last minute.

I just came down with some kind of bug. I got to take a sick leave.

Could've told me earlier, Jim. You're due at the U.N. in 20.

Yeah, I know. It's okay.

I asked Mike Farmer to cover my shift for me.

Farmer's already on in the morning.

He said he doesn't mind working a double. I guess he could use the time-and-a-half.

Anyway, I already told him he could use the bike that I pulled from the motor pool.

All right, Sergeant. I'll take care of the paperwork.

Look, you tell Mike to get his butt to Midtown. You got that?

Get better, will you?

Yeah.

- - You did well.

I did what you wanted me to do.

All right? So do what you got to do and leave us alone.

We're not gonna make any trouble for you.

You still there? Jack, go ahead.

Hold on. Hold on.

I got two security cameras overlooking the

park. One's pointing straight at the corner.

I'm gonna get you the serial numbers.

Hey, man, what you doing?

Chloe, I got to get back to you.

What's up? You lost, man?

Actually, I am. I'm looking for a friend of mine.

Well, unless you a cop, I suggest you look somewhere else.

'Cause this is our court, and we don't like strangers on it.

I ain't a cop, and I'm not looking for a problem.

My friend was let off on that corner by a cab 20, 25 minutes ago.

I guess you didn't hear what I'm saying, did you?

I've got a hundred bucks anybody can tell me if they've seen this guy.

Anybody?

- I seen him. - Yo, shut up, Jay!

- What was he wearing? - That... green coat, black shirt.

Where'd he go?

That light-blue house over there across the street.

I seen him go up the steps to the stoop.

You sure? Yeah, I'm sure.

Yo, man. What you doing, Jay? You don't even know what's goin' down.

I don't know about you, but I got a hundred dollars.

It's y'all play. Let's go.

Man, I'm about to take that hundred dollars. Give me the ball.

Jim!

Hello. Jack?

Got a call from one of your neighbors.

Jim!

Hello. Jack?

Jack, what's happening? Are you there...

Put the weapon down now. Do it.

My name is Jack Bauer. I'm working on behalf of C.T.U.

I'm investigating a threat to the peace conference at the U.N.

- If that's true, drop your weapon. - I can't.

The man I'm pursuing killed two people in this house.

If I lower this weapon, I'll be sidelined. That can't hap...

- -

What are you doing? He's down. Son of a bitch is a cop killer.

- John, stop! We've gotta call this in.

Not yet we don't.

Help me get him in.

Come on! Help me get him in!

So where are we?

As of right now, we've got half the decryption key.

That's all? Can't we accelerate the program?

It's running at capacity, sir.

Mr. Hastings. Sir, we just found this among Meredith Reed's personal effects.

It's a dedicated key card, United Nations issue.

Issued to who? President Hassan and his family.

It accesses their private residence. We've got her.

Dana Walsh.

Ms. Walsh, this is Security at Perimeter Gate 9.

You have a visitor. A visitor?

A Mr. Kevin Wade. Says he's a friend of yours.

Ms. Walsh?

Tell him I'll be right there.

So this, uh... this C.T.U., this is some kind of government deal, huh?

That law enforcement? Ms. Walsh is on her way.

Thanks.

Hey, Dana.

Look at you... all pressed and pretty.

I think I like you as a blonde.

What are you doing here? I thought I told you to leave me alone.

And I told you not to hang up on me, Jenny. Don't. Don't call me that.

Oh, you-you want me to play along?

Okay, I'll play along.

But I'm not gonna let you pretend you don't know me.

Fine.

You found me. So now what?

You think we're just gonna pick up where we left off?

Why not? We had a good thing going.