Blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip. 24. Previouslys. Palmer's cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment on him. PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig ascends. Chappelle "reassigns" Soul Patch. Soul Patch chloroforms Chappelle. Spawn goes back to pick up her things at NoDaddyNo Manor, and encounters DaddyStopTouchingMe. Over the phone, Kiefer talks her through a double tap. Alex "Hightops" Hewitt shanks Lady Mac and escapes.
CTU. Bitchelle runs into Soul Patch in the hallway. He asks her how Chappelle is doing. According to Bitchelle, he's still unconscious. "The drug I gave him is short-acting," says Soul Patch. "I'm going to have to give him another shot soon." I guess Chappelle got the same Fast-Release Demerol that Marie got. Gee, do you think they're laying the groundwork for the fact that Chappelle is going to wake up in the middle of this episode? "How long can we keep pumping him full of that stuff?" asks Bitchelle. Okay, Bitchelle? Soul Patch just "pumped him" at 5:47 AM. It is now 6:01 AM. That's a whopping fourteen minutes. Talk to me when he's been unconscious for as long as Jennifer North was in Valley of the Dolls when she went to Switzerland for that sleep cure. Soul Patch assures her that they only need to keep Chappelle conscious for as long as it takes to get Kiefer and Alex "Hightops" Hewitt back to CTU -- half an hour. They discuss the possibility of Bi-Carrie-ous blowing the whistle. Hey, here's a suggestion: Fire the ambivalently sexual hall monitor, already. She doesn't seem to do anything at CTU except stalk Bitchelle and refuse to follow orders. Have personnel show her the door. And then? When the sexual predator shows up to take her place, just have Soul Patch or Bitchelle take him or her into the broom closet or whatever and get him or her off. Take care of the sexual tension early on. Get it out of the way, and the Nosy Parker will lose interest and focus on their work. But no. CTU is like a KFC in a bad neighborhood. No one gets fired. Well, except for Soul Patch. And even he was only "reassigned."
Anyway, Soul Patch claims that Bi-Carrie-ous shouldn't be a problem, since he's given her a Whatever Task to keep her busy. Their conversation is interrupted by a male extra, who informs Soul Patch that Brad Hammond is on the line. For those of you who don't remember Brad Hammond, he was the guy from Division who came to inspect the premises. So, wait -- has he been up all night too, or is he just at work the day extra early? So get this. Brad Hammond is so anal-retentive, he is freaking out that he can't get a hold of Chappelle…who has been missing for fifteen minutes and counting. Doesn't anyone have any idea how easy it is for your average high-level executive to hide? I mean, fifteen minutes is how long it can take for your secretary to put you through to the voicemail system. Fifteen minutes is how long it takes for me to go the bathroom, wash my hands, and grab some coffee from the coffee room. Waah! I can't find Chappelle. Dude, he's taking a leak. He's having his assistant hold his calls while he plays with his Zen sand garden. He's praying a really intense game of Freecell. He's…away from his desk. Jeez, where was Brad Hammond when an entire division of the United States Army was out of reach for an entire episode? I mean, hasn't anyone seen Nine to Five lately? Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda were able to hide their boss for months. Anyway, Soul Patch plays dumb and promises Brad that he'll have Chappelle call him as soon as he returns. Brad is temporarily mollified by that promise. Soul Patch warns Bitchelle that Division "knows something's up." "So what are we going to do?" asks Bitchelle. Soul Patch stresses the importance of getting Hightops there as soon as possible.
Speaking of Hightops, back at A Beautiful Loft, Kiefer is chasing Hightops through what looks like a tunnel made out of translucent rice paper. I guess it's an art installation in his neighbor's apartment or something. One thing about these industrial loft buildings: There's always someone living in one of the units who has a trust fund and does installation art "for a living." Like, when was the last time you bought a piece of installation art? Where is some art collector going to put Rice Paper Tunnel #41, by Terence Trust Fund? His dining room? As Hightops runs further into the maze, he bashes the light bulbs with his flashlight along the way so that Kiefer won't be able to find him in the dark. Hey, why don't you bathe in the Mississippi River so the dogs won't smell you either, Harriet Tubman? Unfortunately for Hightops, Kiefer is carrying a flashlight. It's not a big flashlight, by the way, for those of you who need to know these things. He also tries to slow Hightops down with the Sutherland Velvet Siren Call. "If you don't come with me, you know EvilChrisElliott will kill you," purrs Kiefer through the rice paper maze. "I just did what they told me," says Himmler Hightops, pausing at a hiding place atop what appears to be the interior of a Styrofoam reproduction of the Temple of Dendur. He unwraps a gun and keeps running. "Your only way out is to let me take you…to CTU," calls Kiefer. Actually, that ellipsis was mine. He continues to beg Hightops to trust him and let him help him cut a deal in exchange for testimony. But not even the Sutherland Velvet can prevent Hightops from climbing up onto the roof through a series of cement tunnels. Kiefer chases him out into the morning light. He is nowhere to be seen amid the L.A. cityscape.
Back at EvilChrisElliott's Evil Condo, EvilChrisElliott is getting acupuncture on his face from a slinky Asian chick. And we all know that the combination of Asian healing arts and sexuality is a signifier of evil. Because only someone sick enough to blow up Los Angeles just to make a profit would also be the sort of person who'd do something decadent like have acupuncture in his own home office. And I would just like to say that I don't really trust attractive acupuncturists. Acupuncturists should either be elderly Chinese men who can barely speak English or middle-aged lesbians. If she's really hot, makes house calls, and she's wearing a black slip dress, send her back. She's evil. Anyway, while the Acuprostie puts needles in his face, ECE is talking to Max on the phone. Apparently Max is even more powerful than EvilChrisElliott. Jeez, I wish the chain of command would finish with one single "big bad," already. I'm getting tired of seeing an endless chain of the man behind the man behind the curtain. Last season at this time, we'd known about Drazen for several hours. Drazen was the big bad. This is the penultimate episode, and we just found out that EvilChrisElliott has a boss. If Max has a boss, I'm going to scream. ECE assures Max that once the U.S. goes to war, his stock value will go up. Meanwhile a, um, pneumatic young lady wearing lots of Southwestern jewelry lets herself into EvilChrisElliott's office. Apparently there are all these rumors that Terrorista Mandy would be back on 24 in the final episodes. I would venture to guess that this character, who is named "Eve," is the cause of these rumors. Last season the actress who plays Eve, Nina Landey, played a character named "Amanda." Apparently "Amanda" was some girl who Foreign Accented Terror Boss and Little Terror Brother were checking out in a restaurant and noting that she looked like their dead sister. I'm thinking that someone said "the actress who played Amanda is back" and that telephone-gamed into "Mandy is back." Or who knows? Maybe Mandy is coming back and this is all unrelated.
Anyway, this girl who kind of looks like Mandy but isn't her is wearing a tank top under a jean jacket and has long straight dark hair and, as I said earlier, a really impressive pair of breasts. And it's not just me who thinks this. The forums have been calling her Chesty McTitsalot (tm Suekel). Chesty is there to report on the ransacking of Hightop's loft. She was able to collect all of the incriminating source recordings, but she couldn't find Hightops himself. "Remember," Chesty reminds EvilChrisElliott by way of an excuse, "everything including Hewitt was supposed to have been vaporized last night." Hey, that's right! So then why are the two of them still in L.A., and why the hell didn't EvilChrisElliott cancel his home acupuncture appointment? EvilChrisElliott reminds Chesty of the importance of getting rid of Hightops. "If he gets brought in and testifies, there's going to be no place for us to hide," says ECE. The acupuncture needles in his "third eye" twitch violently.
Back at A Beautiful Loft, Kiefer spies Hightops on another, higher level of the roof. He runs over and attempts to climb a ladder to where Hightops is standing, but Hightops grabs the ladder before Kiefer can mount it. That's right. I just said "mount." Kiefer leans against the wall and clutches his chest. I guess the epinephrine and the Beroglide caught up with him. He shakes it off and climbs a pipe instead. Yeah, that's right, I just said "climb" and "pipe." He gets up to where Hightops is, and pursues him to the tippity-top of the building. Hightops is trapped. There's nowhere to go but down from where he's standing. Kiefer runs over to him, clutching his chest some more. Hightops pretends to surrender. He asks Kiefer if he'll really be safe in CTU custody. Kiefer gives him the velvety WordOfKiefer…until he sees the gun in Hightops's hand and shoots him in the leg instead. Hightops flails around, not quite believing that Kiefer shot him, and finally falls off the tower onto another rooftop twenty feet or so below. Kiefer runs down some stairs to him and attends to his injuries, but Hightops is convulsing. Kiefer strokes his Jew 'fro and begs him to hold on. He'll get medical attention at CTU. "Is there any other part of your body besides your leg that still hurts?" asks Kiefer. "My head feels wet," says Hightops. Uh-oh. Kiefer feels the back of Hightops's head. There's lots of blood back there. Kiefer holds Hightops' hand and waits for the chopper. The time is 06:09:42 AM.
The time is 06:14:07 AM. Klockwise from the top left, EvilChrisElliott has removed those needles from his forehead, Kiefer tries to sweet-talk Hightops into staying alive, and Palmer sits in his cell. Back on the roof of A Beautiful Loft, Kiefer calls Soul Patch, informs him that Hightops is injured, and asks him to send an emergency medical team along with the chopper. Soul Patch tells Kiefer that the chopper on its way doesn't have an EMT on board, but it does have a medical kit. He also warns Kiefer that he might not be reachable in the near future. "Chappelle became a problem so I had to take him out of play," says Soul Patch, explaining further that Division might be onto him, and subsequently they may be talking him out soon. Bitchelle, however, is being sent out into the field, where she'll be helping Kiefer from an offsite station. Soul Patch gives Kiefer her closed cell number.
Back at CTU, Soul Patch hobbles over to Bitchelle and hands her a key card that will get her "into the van," and tells her to give him a call when she's set up. On her way out the door, who does she run into but HallMonitorCarrie? Carrie wants to know where Bitchelle is going. Bitchelle, instead of saying, "None of your business, stalker-bitch," explains that she's getting something from her car and she'll be right back. Carrie also wants to know where Chappelle is. She, like Brad, is freaking out that she hasn't seen him in twenty-eight minutes. Bitchelle promises to tell Chappelle to get in touch with Carrie if she sees him. "And if you don't see him?" says Carrie, blocking Bitchelle's escape route with her arm. "What's that supposed to mean?" asks Bitchelle. Carrie explains that Bitchelle called Chappelle in to see some guy named "Rudin." According to Carrie, Rudin never spoke to Chappelle. "Well, of course he told you that," says Bitchelle. "He wanted to see Chappelle to complain about you." Snap! "Stay out of my business," says Bitchelle. "You'll do a better job."
A Beautiful Roof. Things are getting a little blurry for Hightops. Kiefer tries to assure him that everything's going to be all right. The chopper can be heard in the distance. Kiefer begs him to hang in there as he gets up to signal the chopper.
Meanwhile, at CTU, HallMonitorCarrie tells a fully conscious Chappelle about the chopper that's picking up Kiefer. "Shall I have them detain Kiefer?" asks HallMonitorCarrie. Chappelle tells her not to arrest Kiefer. "I don't want to waste anymore resources on him," says Chappelle. "Just get the chopper back here." HallMonitorCarrie orders the chopper to come back to CTU without landing on A Beautiful Roof. Back up on A Beautiful Roof, the chopper turns around and leaves Kiefer stranded on top of the building and trying to summon them back with the Sutherland Velvet. Unfortunately, the sound of the rotary blades drowns out Kiefer's velvety plea, and the chopper disappears. Kiefer calls Bitchelle and asks why they didn't get picked up. Bitchelle explains that Brad locked them down. "I don't care," says Kiefer. "Hightops is dying!" He runs back to check on Hightops, and he's dead. The time is 06:23:46 AM.
The time is 06:28:12 AM. Klockwise from the top left, Bitchelle gets settled in her new temporary work station, Palmer sits around in that detention room some more, and Brad and Chappelle decide what to do about Soul Patch. Back at A Beautiful Roof, Kiefer calls Bitchelle, who is sitting in this trailer that looks like a really sleek meth lab, and tells her to get ready to "interface" with Hightops's computer. "What about Hightops?" asks Bitchelle. "He's dead," mentions Kiefer kasually. Bitchelle expresses her condolences…or whatever it is you express when some guy dies who's about to stop a war.
District. Palmer's Detention Room. PoorMan'sHumeCronyn enters, and sits down with Palmer to discuss a "matter of national security" with him. "As I'm not the commander in chief anymore," says Palmer, "I don't see how that would be relevant." PMHC continues regardless, telling Palmer that they've got a problem with the Turkish government. Apparently, the stealth bombers headed toward the Middle East are approaching Turkish airspace, and the Prime Minister of Turkey refuses to give "flyover" permission unless he can speak with the President personally. "The Prime Minister hasn't been told that I've been removed from office," says Palmer, slowly catching on to the fact that PMHC is about to ask him to call the Turkish Prime Minister and pretend to still be the President. PMHC explains that they can't tell the Turkish government about Palmer's removal before they inform the American people. "No, that wouldn't be right now, would it?" says Palmer mockingly. PMHC explains that the planes could be attacked if they got into it with the Turkish Air Force. "This phone call, no matter how distasteful it may be for you, sir, could prevent those planes from being attacked," says PMHC. And yet again 24 is the victim of its own prescience. They dreamt up a war with the Middle East that happens to be broadcast right after our own real war with the Middle East ended, where, like, Iraq didn't even fight back, let alone "attack stealth bombers" successfully. Like, that war was such a joke, the media had to fake the seizure of Jessica Lynch to make it look like we actually had a formidable opponent. The planes could skywrite "Turkey Sucks" over Istanbul and no one would give a shit. We could have -- I don't know -- Carrot Top make the phone call and we'd have permission in a microsecond. But back in the 24-verse, gajillions of lives will be lost if Palmer and only Palmer doesn't get on the horn with Turkey and sweet-talk that Prime Minister into letting the U.S. have a flyover. Palmer just sits there staring at PMHC's imploring face. That damn scar on his face right under his eye just totally makes him look like the crying Indian Chief in that litter PSA.
Back inside A Beautiful Loft, Lady Mac is panting on the ecru suede couch. And…yeah. Lady Mac panting after being "penetrated" by a sharp object. Draw up your own sexy metaphor. Go ahead. You know you want to. Hey, by the way? Whatever happened to Lady Mac's bodyguard? Kiefer knocked him out over an hour ago and he's nowhere to be found, unconscious or otherwise, and no one has said a damn thing about it. Kiefer enters. "Why did you leave me like this?" whines Lady Mac. "I've been stabbed!" Kiefer checks out her gash and concludes that the wound is "superficial" and the bleeding has already stopped. Lady Mac asks after Hightops, and Kiefer informs her that he's dead. "What are we going to do now?" shrieks Lady Mac. Kiefer has only one idea left. He needs Lady Mac to help him deliver EvilChrisElliott to CTU. Lady Mac warns Kiefer that EvilChrisElliott is too dangerous and too protected. "You'll never get close to him," she says. "That's right, I won't," says Kiefer. "But you will." Apparently, EvilChrisElliott still thinks Hightops is alive. If Lady Mac can make ECE think that she's got Hightops, they can use him as a bargaining chip. "There is no way I'm going to do this," barks Lady Mac. Kiefer is about to tell her that she is damn well going to do this when he clutches his chest again and falls to the ground. Lady Mac gets concerned and asks him what's up. Kiefer claims that he's fine and there's nothing to worry about. Lady Mac insists on knowing what's going on. Kiefer admits to her that his heart stopped back at Doc In The Box. Lady Mac wants Kiefer to see a doctor. Kiefer wants to get ECE first. Lady Mac refuses again. Kiefer insists that Lady Mac is going to help him, and that he'll do "whatever it takes" to make her cooperate. He tells her to call ECE and offer to trade Hightops for any incriminating evidence he has on her. "He'll want proof that I have Hightops," warns Lady Mac. "Then he'll get it," says Kiefer, playing with Hightops's computer. "Hightops is going to talk to him."
Back at EvilChrisElliott's Evil Condo, ECE is talking to Max again, and frankly, I'm really not getting into him as the Big Bad at all. He's totally wearing a faggy white v-neck sweater and lounging on a yacht. And not even in a particularly sinister way. ECE informs Max that the chip with the source recordings doesn't seem to have landed in government hands. "Has that Federal Agent been intercepted?" asks Max. "No," says ECE, surmising that something must have happened to him since he wasn't able to deliver the chip to the President. "So Hightops is the last loose end," says Max. ECE promises that Hightops will be found and eliminated. "Clean this up," warns Max, hanging up.
CTU. Soul Patch is hanging out on the floor when he sees Chappelle emerge from the holding room with Brad, HallMonitorCarrie, and a team of agents escorting him. He tries to limp away, but runs into another agent and decides he doesn't have a chance. "I don't need to tell you you're under arrest," says Chappelle. "Where's Bitchelle?" Soul Patch tries to downplay Bitchelle's involvement, but Chappelle still remembers that Bitchelle was the bait to get him into that room. "I can find her," says HallMonitorCarrie. She claims that Bitchelle is probably somewhere offsite helping Kiefer. They can trace her through her access code. Chappelle orders HallMonitorCarrie to do just that, and has Soul Patch placed in a holding room.
Back at A Beautiful Loft, Kiefer calls Bitchelle at The Crime-Fighting Meth Lab and gives her network access to Hightops's computer. Bitchelle finds the audio software that Hightops used to fake people's voices, but she's never seen anything like it before. First they have to dig around in Hightops's audio files. They find a tape of Lady Mac calling Hightops the night before, and start playing it. It's totally the phone call that Lady Mac made to Hightops warning him that EvilChrisElliott was going to get him since Hightops wasn't killed by the B-O-M-B. You know, it would be really funny if they found a tape of Hightops just having an uneventful phone conversation. "Whatcha doin?" "Not much, just having a Cobb salad and watching American Idol." "Do you think Clay's gonna win?" "Man, what is up with that boy? He looks like a lesbian!" From the tape of Hightops's voice, Bitchelle has enough info to create a "phonetic template." All Kiefer has to do is type what he wants to say into the computer, and it will be spoken out loud in Hightops's voice. They are putting the finishing touches on the set-up when there's a pounding on the door of the meth lab. Bitchelle stays calm and helps Kiefer set up the software. She waits until the agents burst in the door, make her take her hands off her keyboard, and place her under arrest. The time is 06:37:15 AM.
The time is 06:41:43 AM. Klockwise from the top left, a video screen shows an animated reenactment of the stealth bombers approaching the Middle East, Lady Mac languishes on the ecru sofa, and Kiefer kontinues to figure out Hightops's audio software. Back at District, Palmer is escorted into a conference room. On the way, they run into some girl named "Heather," who I guess is someone's assistant. Palmer says hello, and "Heather" avoids his eyes, obviously having heard the news. "Hello, Mr. President," she says, and immediately apologizes for her gaffe. "It's okay, Heather," says Palmer. He takes a seat the conference table. At the head of the table is a videophone image of PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig. "I realize how awkward this is," says PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig, thanking Palmer for his help. "Make no mistake," says Palmer. "I believe you're making a gross and tragic error," and he's only doing this for the men in those planes. PMHC patches in the Prime Minister via videophone. "Hello, Mr. President, "says the Turkish Prime Minister. "I've been trying to reach you for some time." Palmer smiles tightly.
NoDaddyNo Manor. Cate, looking fresh and shapely after taking a bath and changing into her own clothes, breezes by the dead officer in the patrol car and walks into the interior calling for Spawn. There is no answer, so Cate starts to go upstairs and look through the house. Spawn, however, is there. She's just hiding under the stairs. What is this filter they're putting over the camera? It totally makes the light refract like a Cindy Sherman photograph. Finally the two ladies come face to face. "Who are you?" says Spawn menacingly. You see, Spawn is demonstrating The Law of Spawn, whereby Spawn will always be nice to the person or party whose about to fuck her over, while being cold and threatening to the people who are there to help her. Cate introduces herself and explains that she's there to take Spawn to CTU at Kiefer's request. Spawn raises her gun and points it at Cate. "How do I know that?" she asks, cocking the gun. Cate repeats the events of the last hour to Spawn -- the self-defense killing of DaddyStopTouching me, et cetera -- as proof of her familiarity with Kiefer. Spawn is puzzled…like a mynah bird who catches sight of her own image in a mirror. "Do you work at CTU?" she asks. Cate answers that she does not. "My family was involved with what happened today," says Cate. Spawn wonders aloud why Kiefer would send a total stranger to pick her up. "He trusts me," says Cate, convincing Spawn to put down the gun and get into her car.
CTU. Holding Room. Yet again they're not separating the suspects, Bitchelle and Soul Patch, but instead placing them in a room together with a camera trained on them. Bitchelle paces a room for a little while and finally asks Soul Patch what he thinks they're going to get charged with. Soul Patch doesn't know. "They could push for treason if they wanted to," he says. Soul Patch lowers his voice so the surveillance equipment can't hear him and tells Bitchelle that he's going to tell Chappelle she had nothing to do with what he did. "No," says Bitchelle, not letting Soul Patch lie for her. "I did what I thought was right." They hold hands. Aw!
Division. Palmer is brought back to his holding room. PMHC thanks him for helping him out. Palmer asks how much longer PoorMan'sAlexanderHaig is going to hold onto him. PMHC tells Palmer that he'll get to go after the press conference…and that he's giving him a computer workstation to use. Palmer just looks out the window and says nothing. PMHC slinks out of the room with his tail between his legs. The time is 06:48:03 AM.
The time is 06:52:33 AM. Klockwise from the top left, PMHC does work at his desk, Bitchelle and Soul Patch "do time," and Kiefer tries to figure out the audio software some more. In the purple Catemobile, Cate and Spawn drive to CTU amidst an uneasy silence. "So what's going on with you and my dad?" says Spawn catatonically. "Out of everyone he knows, he called you?" "I don't think he trusts many people," says Cate. "He trusts you," says Spawn, insinuating that Kiefer and Cate didn't just meet today. Cate affirms that she did just meet Kiefer that day. "Well, yesterday, really," says Cate. "I don't resent it or anything," mumbles Spawn like she's Marlon Brando. "It's been a long long time." Cate brings up the death of Bride. "I lost my mother too," she says. "When I was about your age." And as some people in the forums have pointed out, if Marie, Cate's younger sister, was in college when their mother died, Cate is being generous by suggesting that she lost her mother at Spawn's age, who isn't even in college yet. The memory of Bride's death makes Spawn pause.
A Beautiful Loft. Kiefer hands Lady Mac the phone and reminds her to "say everything [Kiefer] told her to say." Lady Mac looks scared. Back at EvilChrisElliott's Evil Condo, Chesty is in the middle of a call confirming that none of the teams looking for Hightops has found him yet. EvilChrisElliott is a mixture of relief and frustration. The phone rings. It's Lady Mac. After EvilChrisElliott makes sure that they're on a secure line, Lady Mac asks for the tapes ECE made of their conversations in exchange for Hightops. ECE demands to talk to him. "You'll have to hold on," says Lady Mac. "My bodyguard has him restrained in the room." What? The bodyguard friggin' vaporized into outer space, already. Kiefer types something into the computer. Lady Mac announces Hightops is ready to talk, and a computer-generated voice of Hightops comes through over the phone, claiming that he hasn't told anything to anyone. ECE asks Mecha-Hightops a couple of questions, but Kiefer can't type that fast so Lady Mac takes the phone and asks if they have a deal or not. ECE wants to speak to Mecha-Hightops again. Lady Mac, thinking quickly on her feet, doesn't let him speak to Mecha-Hightops out of fear that the call could be traced. ECE demands again to speak to Mecha-Hightops. Lady Mac threatens to allow Hightops to talk to as many people as he can. Kiefer gestures to her to get off the phone. Finally ECE relents and proposes that they meet at the L.A. Coliseum in thirty minutes. They hang up. Kiefer congratulates Lady Mac on her good work. "I get this feeling I'm being set up," says ECE to Chesty, who, in this shot, is super-chesty. ECE confides in Chesty that he feels that Hightops is just bait to get ECE out into the open. "So what are you going to do?" asks Chesty. ECE vows to kill Lady Mac plus anyone she's working with and then leave the country. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asks Chesty. ECE tells Chesty that she's already done enough already, and promises to see her week. They embrace affectionately, and ECE expresses his affection for Chesty yet again. However, there's a letter opener lying on the desk, and ECE grabs it surreptitiously. Uh-oh.
Meanwhile, in yet another Kiefmobile, Lady Mac and Kiefer are driving to their destination and Lady Mac is shocked to discover that Kiefer doesn't have CTU backup to help him. "You don't expect to take ECE down by yourself," says Lady Mac. Kiefer maintains that CTU will back them up once they get the goods on ECE. Lady Mac says that it will be too late by then and that ECE will have them killed. Kiefer gets another chest pain. Lady Mac tells him to pull over. Kiefer disobeys her. Split screen images of Kim, Cate, Palmer, and Soul Patch appear on the screen. An image of ECE standing over Chesty McTitsalot's dead body appears on the screen. Kiefer has a heart attack. The new Kiefmobile swerves and almost hits a U-Haul. They crash into an embankment and end up in Thunder Road, that empty aqueduct that's always featured in movies like Grease. Lady Mac screams and tries to take the wheel, but it's to no avail. The time is 06:59:58...06:59:59…07:00:00.