Electric blue Kiefer promo, featuring shots of Palmer and Spawn. Due to some graphic violence, viewer discretion is advised. 24. Previouslys. Brother Palmer had an affair with some powerful billionaire's wife played by Gina Torres, and now this billionaire is asking Palmer to remove his brother from his staff. Palmer refuses, despite threats of repercussions. Soul Patch says lots of stuff about technology that I can't follow. PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie and her lips as big as all outdoors help out Special Agent Charlie Brown. Kiefer and the Salazars lose the V-I-R-U-S auction to Nina, and now Kiefer is reduced to begging for his life. The following takes place between 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM.
We open on a pair of hands. Bound hands. As in "my hands are tied, Gustave -- I can't let you recap America's Top Model because it's on at the exact same time as your current show, 24, so stop asking!" The camera pans down to reveal that these hands belong to Special Agent Charlie Brown, who is still being tortured by Ron Jeremy. An artful trail of blood seeps down Charlie's face as Ron Jeremy holds up a two-pronged fork-like object that looks like something that should be advertised in the Brookstone catalog as an Ionic Nose Picker. Ron presses a button, and these super-fake-looking blue flames shoot out of the prongs. Seriously, it looks like the special effects from some Saturday morning science fiction show for kids. Ron asks him if other agents are coming. Charlie refuses to answer. Ron lifts Charlie Brown's sweatshirt to reveal a tattoo that looks (to me) like the hammer and sickle from the Soviet flag. He applies the Ronco Ionic Nose Picker to Charlie's bare chest, causing him to shake it like a Polaroid picture.
Back at CTU, frantic xylophone music plays as all the major players except Kim are in a conference room, trying to find a way to reconnect with Kiefer. Adam the Woman Hater thinks he can use satellite technology to figure out Kiefer's new location, but according to Soul Patch, it will take too long to be useful. Just as everyone is starting to feel stumped, Crystal Gael's cell phone/palm pilot rings. According to caller ID, it's Hector, so Soul Patch orders everyone to go to work to find Hector's location by tracing the call. Potato Face and Adam the Woman Hater get on that while Bitchelle and Soul Patch hook up their earpieces so they can listen in. Crystal Gael picks up and, thinking quickly on his feet, tells Hector that he hasn't been able to call him lately because he's been at Division with the bureau chief and couldn't talk. Meanwhile, Hector has this look on his face like someone just told that the meatball sub he ate was made out of human excrement. "Ees something wrong?" Hector asks. "If there was, we wouldn't be having this conversation," says Crystal Gael smoothly. On Hector's side of the split screen, the camera pulls back a bit to reveal that Kiefer is in the same room as Hector and can hear what he's saying. "We have a problem," says Hector. "The seller double-crossed us. We have a second bidder." "A second bidder?" says Crystal Gael for the benefit of Soul Patch and Bitchelle, even though they can hear Hector's side of the conversation on their earpieces. "A woman named Nina Myers," says Hector, explaining about the auction and how they lost. At the mention of Nina's name, Bitchelle gasps and clutches her pearls. It's like Reiko Aylesworth herself is thinking, "Sarah Clarke's back? Shit, I thought that bitch was gone forever. I thought I was the sexy brunette of this show. They promised!"
Hector puts Kiefer on the phone. Kiefer gives Crystal Gael Amador's cell phone number and asks him to trace Amador's location so they can locate Nina Myers. Kiefer hands the phone back to Hector, who tells Gael about Special Agent Charlie Brown showing up. "You have him?" asks Gael. "Yes," says Hector. "Alive?" asks Gael. "Yes, alive," says Hector. He asks Gael if Charlie Brown came with backup. Gael replies that Charlie is in a different department and he doesn't have access to that information. Hector starts to lose it and demands that Gael get access. "What do we pay you for?" asks Hector. Gael replies that he might blow his own cover if he asks for said access. "The best bet is to keep Charlie Brown alive until we find out," says Gael craftily. They hang up, and Adam has Hector's location. Soul Patch tells Bitchelle to tell the Delta Units to "adjust their positions and wait for further orders."
Bitchelle exits, and Soul Patch follows her out onto the floor and stops at Spawn's desk, where Spawn is working all by herself -- like the kid with learning disabilities who has to have her own special tutor. You'd think that Soul Patch might be coming over to confront her about her accusations of his incompetence, but that seems to be all but forgotten. "We've found your father," says Soul Patch. "He's undercover with the Salazars. He's fine." Spawn breathes a sigh of relief like she just found out that Domino's will make an exception and deliver them a pizza that's half veggie and half Hawaiian. What she really wants to know about is her boyfriend. Soul Patch tells her that Special Agent Charlie Brown been captured. "Capturedisheokay?" asks Spawn. You know, Elisha? Commas and other punctuation, such as question marks and exclamation points, are usually an indication that you are to pause briefly in the middle of a sentence. What you really should be saying is, "Captured? [short pause] Is he okay?" You're welcome. Soul Patch can only tell Spawn that Charlie is alive, but the Salazars are "holding him." "What do you mean by 'holding him'?" asks Spawn. It means they're all giving him a big hug to welcome him to Mexico, Spawn -- what the fuck do you think it means? Soul Patch explains that they are probably interrogating him. Spawn's attention drifts to her computer screen, as though maybe a picture of a really cute puppy came up on her web browser. She turns back to Soul Patch, who is now probably thinking that she really is retarded, and thanks him for "not keeping" the news from her. He pauses at her desk some more. "Do you need anything else?" asks Spawn. "No," says Soul Patch. "Just making sure you're okay." As Soul Patch walks away from Spawn's desk, Bitchelle comes up behind him. "Did you tell her?" she asks. Soul Patch confirms that he told her about Special Agent Charlie Brown, but not Nina. "She doesn't need to know about that now."
Casa Abandoñito. The jeep containing Kiefer, Hector, and Hartmano pulls up to their temporary quarters. The men get out, and Hartmano asks Kiefer how long it will take for Crystal Gael to trace Amador's phone. Kiefer says that the trace will take ten minutes. Hartmano then tells Hector to call their "client" and tell them there's going to be a delay. Everyone splits up to go do whatever it is they have to do. Little Sergio emerges from inside Casa Abandoñito and catches up with Hector. "My sister says we're going," says Sergio. "She says she's taking me and my father away from here." Can I just ask what is up with people under the age of 21 in the 24-verse? They're all really dumb. Like, "box of rocks" dumb. And if they're not really dumb, they're really inconvenient…like Sergio is, right now. Like, I realize that Hector taught you how to shoot a gun a few hours ago and everything, but did you have to rat out your sister? Anyway, Hector is all, "Did she say when this would happen?" "Soon," answers Sergio. "But I don't want to leave you, Hector!" Hector promises Hector he'll never let that happen. He sends him back to bed and tells him not to mention this to anyone else.
Back inside Casa Abandoñito, Kiefer finds himself alone with PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie, who is at the sink doing dishes. Jesus Christ, it's an abandoned farmhouse! Why the hell are you doing dishes? "How is Charlie?" asks Kiefer. "Holding on," answers PMAJ. Kiefer tells Angelina that the menfolk are going to pick up the V-I-R-U-S soon, and that she should use that opportunity to take her family and get out of there. They stop talking when Hector enters. Kiefer exits, but remains in earshot. With Sergio peering from behind some curtains, Hector confronts Angelina about what Sergio just told him. "You planning on going somewhere?" Angelina pretends to laugh this off. "He was being bad," she explains. "I told him I was taking him away from here. I was just trying to keep him in line." Hector believes her. Or at least pretends to. "He is a good boy," says Hector, having a laugh with Angelina. "Don't scare him like that." Hector leaves. Angelina heaves a big sigh of relief, making her lips even larger like a misogynist Picasso painting.
Back at CTU, Chappelle enters Soul Patch's office and tells him that he's just heard the news about them being back in touch with Kiefer. "How close are we to the V-I-R-U-S?" asks Chappelle. "We have the phone number of the seller," says Soul Patch, explaining how they are tracing Amador's phone so that Kiefer will be able to track him down. Chappelle tells Soul Patch that he'll "bring Division up to speed." "There's one more thing," says Soul Patch, telling Chappelle about Nina's role in the deal. "I thought we had her restricted to North Africa," says Chappelle, expositing the terms of Nina's exile pardon. "Apparently she slipped out," says Soul Patch. "Does Spawn know about this?" asks Chappelle. Why all the sudden concern for Spawn's feelings? From Chappelle, even? Soul Patch tells Chappelle that Spawn doesn't know about Nina, and he'd like to keep it that way. "Keep me updated," says Chappelle, exiting. Meanwhile, Bitchelle is gingerly climbing the stairs to Soul Patch's office. "I owe you an apology," she says, closing the glass doors behind her. Soul Patch tells her she doesn't. "If you felt that I wasn't fit to do my job," he says, "then you had a duty to report it. But you should know that I would never risk the effectiveness of this unit to prove how tough I am." She tries to explain further, but he cuts her off by taking a phone call…which happens to be from someone downstairs requesting Bitchelle's presence on the floor. She stands there for a while, but she can't cut through Soul Patch's iciness. Finally she exits.
Meanwhile, over at Potato Face's desk, Potato Face is on the phone with someone who has just given her some bad news. "What do you mean you have to go?" asks Potato Face of the unseen caller. "Sarah, I can't just get up and leave. I am in the middle of a crisis right now." Unable to persuade "Sarah," Potato agrees to cooperate and slams the phone down.
Back in the shed behind Casa Abandoñito, Ron Jeremy and a cohort of his have kicked it up a notch with the torture of Special Agent Charlie Brown. Because I guess they've tried everything up until this point: holding a football down on the ground for him to kick, only to remove it before his foot makes contact; giving Lucy five cents to play psychological games with him; ruining his kites, et cetera. Now they are just beating him in the abdomen with what looks like an axe handle. Hector enters and cuts the binding around his hands. They drag him over to a wall and slam him up against it. "CTU doesn't have any records of your travel plans," says Hector. "Did you come here by yourself?" Charlie Brown refuses to answer, so Hector takes out a gun and shoots it through Charlie's hand. Charlie screams in pain. "Keep at it," says Hector to Ron Jeremy as crazy zither music plays in the background. "If he doesn't crack soon, use gasoline." The time is 10:13:05 PM.
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The time is 10:17:30 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Soul Patch works at his desk, Kiefer does something intense, and Adam the Woman Hater and Crystal Gael stare at their computers. Back at Division, if that's where Palmer still is, Palmer is being briefed by that military-looking guy on the latest attempts by CTU to capture the V-I-R-U-S. Brother Palmer interrupts and asks to speak to Palmer alone. Military Guy leaves the room, and Brother Palmer tells Palmer that he just got off the phone with "Sullivan," who apparently is a congressman who is "pulling his vote" on a healthcare bill that Palmer is trying to get passed. "How many Senators have we lost?" asks Palmer. "Three," answers Brother Palmer. "All protégés of Milliken's." Okay, writers? You need to remember that you are writing plotlines for a real-time format. "Inside the legislative process" does not make for a good "real-time" plotline. Especially when it's almost 10:30 Pacific Time, making it 1:30 AM in Washington D.C., where this healthcare bill is supposedly being voted on. Yes, there are all sorts of ugly situations that happen behind the scenes when lawmaking happens. It's not like it's portrayed in Schoolhouse Rock. There are highly paid lobbyists, rich people who are owed favors, and all sorts of ugly situations that inspired that saying, "Crafting a piece of legislation is like is like making a sausage -- you really don't want to know exactly how they do it." However, it's not like some fat cat can call up every congressman and say "vote against Palmer" just because. It doesn't work that way. Also? Healthcare? Get your ass out of the Clinton administration, writers. This is not 1992.
Brother Palmer points out to Palmer that Milliken is showing Palmer that while he had the power to start Palmer's career -- despite the fact that we never heard his name mentioned during Season One when Palmer's "career" was beginning, ahem -- he also has the power to end it. Um, failing to pass a healthcare bill is not going to ruin Palmer any more than his association with Dr. Anne was going to. Are these writers paying attention to anything that actually happens in American politics? Clinton failed to pass a healthcare bill and he got re-elected quite easily. "David, you can't afford to lose this debate and fail at getting the most important piece of legislation of your presidency through," says Brother Palmer. "We'd be handing Keeler this election!" Palmer is still in denial. He maintains that he can still pass the bill through the Senate. Brother Palmer argues that Palmer has no choice but to fire him to save his political career. Palmer refuses to yield to Milliken's demands on principle. "For personal revenge he's willing to kill a piece of legislation that's good for this country," says Palmer. "We can't let that happen." ["Um, Palmer? That happens every day -- which you should know, since YOU ARE A FORMER SENATOR. It's like he lives in a 'Goofus & Gallant' cartoon." -- Sars] The phone rings. It's another senator. Presumably calling to say he's pulling his vote as well.
Back at CTU, Potato Face runs out to the CTU parking garage -- the place where everything bad that can happen, will. She comes up to a minivan driven by a teenaged girl. "I have every right to be angry with you," says Potato Face to "Sarah." "I told you this is a family emergency," whines "Sarah." "Well, there are two family emergencies now, aren't there?" snaps Potato Face, whereupon she reaches into the back of the minivan and pulls out a baby. Seriously. She actually pulls out a baby. I'm not making this up. I swear. "Your job is in serious jeopardy," says Potato Face, heading back into CTU with the baby and its various accoutrements. "Whatever!" retorts "Sarah."
Casa Abandoñito. Hector, Hartmano, and Kiefer convene in front of the house to wait for Gael's call. Hartmano asks Hector how the interrogation of Charlie Brown is coming along. "He can take a bullet in his hand and still not say anything useful," replies Hector. This piece of information gives Kiefer pause. Finally Hector's cell phone rings. Crystal Gael informs them that Amador is "seven miles north of Palo Verde, moving west along the rural highway." Kiefer has no idea where he'd be going, and asks Gael to call him if Amador stops somewhere. Hector and Hartmano want to get everyone together and go ambush Amador. Kiefer argues that they should hang back and follow him to Nina, since they don't know if he has the V-I-R-U-S on him or not. Once Nina has the V-I-R-U-S, Kiefer wants to take it from her himself. "You are not going anywhere alone," says Hartmano. "I'm not letting you out of my sight." He orders Kiefer to hand him the phone, and tells Hector to stay at Casa Abandoñito. The two men will go alone. Kiefer is to drive.
Back up in the one of the bedrooms of Casa Abandoñito, PoorMan'sAngelinaJolie tucks Little Sergio in…again…and tells him not to worry. She peeks out through the bedroom door and sees Hector stationed outside. Little Sergio falls asleep…again…and all of a sudden, in yet another violation of the "real-time" format, Angelina is suddenly outside the farmhouse, sneaking back to the shed. Her colossal lips serve as her antennae as she watches Kiefer and Hartmano get into a jeep and drive away. Once they are out of sight, Angelina finds her father and tells him that they are leaving soon. Juan Voight doesn't want to leave, but Angelina insists. She brandishes that knife she took during last week's episode, and tells him to damage the other trucks so that Hector's henchmen can't follow them. she goes over to the torture shed and asks the man standing guard to light her Marlboro Light. While he searches his pockets for some matches, she knocks him out with the butt of his rifle and drags him out of sight. The time is 10:23:44 PM.
The time is 10:28:09 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Spawn's attention is caught by something shiny at her workstation, Adam the Woman Hater and Crystal Gael are lovers -- pass it on! -- Special Agent Charlie Brown moans on the floor, and Hartmano and Kiefer drive the Sala-car to Amador's lair. Cut to a swanky restaurant. Peachy-beige walls, little lamps with tassled shades at every table, Corinthian pillars, and lots of dried flowers everywhere. In other words? Just the place to take an ex-lover in order to convince her to get her husband to stop ruining your brother's political career. Or is it the perfect spot to re-seduce some guy you once had a fling with by promising to get your jealous husband to stop ruining his brother's political career? I can't decide! Another thing that confuses me is why everyone thinks Gina Torres is so hot. I don't mean any disrespect to the many posters on the forums who are excited about her being cast on this show, but I don't get it. She looks like every other generic "hot" black woman on television. Anyway, Brother Palmer asks Milliken's wife to call off Milliken's dogs by threatening to leave him. Milliken's wife is willing, but only if Brother Palmer becomes her lover again. "Come back to me," says Mrs. Milliken. "It worked once, it can work again." "It never worked," says Brother Palmer. "Not for me." "Then I'm afraid I can't help you," says Mrs. Milliken. Wait! The only thing standing between this country having a national healthcare program is Brother Palmer's unwillingness to fuck Mrs. Milliken a few times? Bollocks! I am a freelancer. I am tired of paying out of pocket for my crappy health insurance. And I have had sex with far less attractive people than Gina Torres, let me tell you. I am pissed at Brother Palmer! I want health insurance, and I want it now. Brother Palmer needs to pull it out and make Mrs. Millken scream. I don't give a shit if he can't get it up. They can have outercourse, goddamn it! Hell! I will fuck Mrs. Milliken myself. It costs $185 to visit my allergist. Fuck her, Brother Palmer! Do it for ME!!!! Close your eyes and think of the cost of a prescription for Zyrtec without a co-payment, for fuck's sake!
Back at the torture shed behind Casa Abandoñito, Ron Jeremy pours gasoline on Special Agent Charlie Brown's hand -- the hand that Hector just put a bullet through, mind you. I had no idea that gasoline worked like salt or rubbing alcohol on broken skin, but I am taking their word for it. ["Hey, if Brother Palmer could get to that restaurant in ten minutes…" -- Sars] Charlie screams some more. Ron Jeremy demands that he talk. Yadda yadda. Angelina enters and tells Ron Jeremy that Hector sent her to see if Charlie Brown would talk to her. She pretends to interrogate him, but she's really handing him that knife that she stole from the kitchen. "He's a stubborn one, isn't he?" says Angelina to Ron Jeremy. Ron Jeremy laughs, but stops laughing as soon as Angelina throws a bucket of gasoline at him. He goes down as Charlie Brown stabs him with his good hand. "Check his pockets," says Charlie to Angelina. She rummages around and finds a cell phone. She also grabs his gun. Charlie Brown goes over to the fire and grabs a hot poker. "What are you doing?" asks Angelina. "I gotta stop the bleeding or I could die," says Charlie. He proceeds to put the poker to his hand in order to cauterize the bullet wound. Ouch. Couldn't he have just found a rag or something? Angelina hands Charlie Ron Jeremy's gun, and they hobble out to the car, where Juan Voight is waiting with Dumb Little Sergio. Everyone gets into the truck and hides in the back except Juan, who is sitting in the driver's seat. Two henchmen come by and ask where Juan is going. "Hector wants me to pick up something for him," says Juan. The henchmen are wary and want to know more details. Juan tells them it's none of their business. Charlie Brown, who is listening from the truck bed, stands up and shoots the two henchmen. The gunfire is heard by Hector, who comes running out of Casa Abandoñito and starts firing at the truck. Charlie fires back at Hector. The truck takes off. Hector screams his lover's name and tries to chase them in his car, which Juan has sabotaged…along with all of the other vehicles parked at Casa Abandoñito. Just when the truck has gotten a sufficient distance from Casa Abandoñito, Special Agent Charlie Brown turns to thank Angelina. But she's got a bullet wound in her head. She's dead. The time is 10:35:37 PM.
The time is 10:40:02 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Palmer drafts a memo asking Brother Palmer to have sex with Mrs. Milliken, Chase tries to remember what gets head blood stains out of cotton, and the CTU computers narrow down Kiefer's location in Whatever, Mexico. Back in Chloe's office, seventies made-for-TV movie of the week music plays while that baby cries at her desk. Chappelle enters and asks Chloe if the Delta teams are ready and in the area. Chloe confirms this, and they have some other Whatever Military Strategy discussion. As he turns to leave, he hears the baby cry. I guess 24 doesn't have any "comic relief" music readily available, so instead we get these violins shrieking as Chappelle stops and scans the room for the source of the noise. Finally he sees the baby hiding under Chloe's desk. "Is this your child?" says Chappelle. "Yes, and she hasn't been interfering with my work," says Potato Face. "And technically there's no specific rule against bringing her in here." Chappelle cuts her off. "There's no specific rule because it's common sense," says Chappelle. "Now get rid of it." Potato Face explains that her babysitter flaked on her, but Chappelle isn't having any of it. "I want the baby out of here now!" he says. "Or find someone else to do your job." "Parents are a protected group, Mr. Chappelle," says Potato Face. "This is not fair." Chappelle exits, shaking his head.
Meanwhile, on the CTU floor, Crystal Gael gives more specific instructions to Kiefer on Amador's location. Kiefer and Hartmano pull up to the location, which turns out to be an abandoned church. I've got to go to Mexico for a vacation. From what I'm seeing on this show, it sounds you don't even have to pay for a hotel or anything. You just find an abandoned building and move right in. They're fully furnished and everything. They park and turn off their headlights. Lo and behold, a car pulls up. It's Nina and her henchmen. As they get out of their car and enter the church, Kiefer convinces Hartmano to let him go in alone. "If I go in alone, I might succeed," says Kiefer. "If the two of us go in, we'll both get killed." He gives Hartmano the night vision goggles and tells him to watch him from the Sala-car. While Hartmano watches through the night vision goggles, Kiefer does the velvet creep over to the building, barely evading the guard's detection. When he does finally get to an open window, he hears Nina and Amador going over the terms of their deal. According to Amador, Nina will be called in a half an hour with the location of the V-I-R-U-S. As soon as she gets the call, she is to transfer half the funds into Amador's account. Nina doesn't like "jumping through all these hoops," but Amador assures her that the hoops are there for both of their protection. Amador leaves -- in one of those VW buses that my mother drove me around during the mid-seventies when I was eight years old -- and Nina is alone with her henchmen inside the abandoned church. All of a sudden, a guard spies Kiefer and makes him put his hands up. Kiefer assures the guard that he's unarmed and then knocks him out (or kills him?) with some martial arts moves and takes his gun. When some other guards come around to see what the racket is all about, Kiefer shoots them. Inside, Nina hears the gunshots. One of her guards escorts her to an exit, but Kiefer shoots the guard and stops Nina at gunpoint. Hartmano watches as Kiefer leads her back into the church. "Don't worry," says Kiefer. "If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead by now." A guard enters the church. As Kiefer turns around to see who it is, Nina knocks him out with her briefcase. The time is 10:47:15 PM.
The time is 10:51:43 PM. Klockwise from the top left, Palmer drafts some more futile legislation, Soul Patch stares at his computer, Kiefer takes a nap on the church floor, and Potato Face takes care of her Tater Tot (tm Aatrek). Back at CTU, Adam the Woman Hater -- who really hasn't been given anything, plotwise, to do in a long time -- dashes up the stairs to tell Soul Patch that Special Agent Charlie Brown is on the phone. Juan Voight's truck has broken down, so Charlie tells Soul Patch that Kiefer left with Hartmano to find Amador and the V-I-R-U-S. Soul Patch promises to send a chopper. "Tell the chopper I'm bringing two people out with me," says Charlie Brown. "And the body of the woman who helped me escape." I guess Angelina can go in the luggage compartment. Soul Patch tells Charlie that the chopper is only ten minutes away. They hang up. Sad music plays as Juan Voight grieves in Spanish over Angelina's body.
Back at the church, Nina, her hair sort of pulled back in a scrunchie, wakes Kiefer up, having bound him to a chair while he was unconscious. "If you didn't come to kill me," she says, "then why are you here?" "I need to talk to you alone," says Kiefer. "That's not going to happen," says Nina. Kiefer asks her how much she is being paid to deliver the V-I-R-U-S. Nina replies that she is being given two million. "The Salazars are willing to give you a lot more…ten times more," says Kiefer. Nina's henchman perks up at this conversation and warns Nina not to proceed with the deal. Nina tells him to shut up. "What happens when my buyer doesn't get his V-I-R-U-S?" asks Nina, pacing the floor. "You know he's just going to hunt me down and kill me." Kiefer points out that with the money the Salazars are willing to pay her, she can disappear and never be found. "What about you?" asks Nina. "The Salazars are paying me enough money to do whatever I want for the rest of my life," says Kiefer. Nina doesn't believe him. She still thinks he's working for CTU. "You're not the type of guy to sell out," says Nina. "You're the type who'd do anything for their country." Kiefer says he gave up his soul in order to capture the Salazars. "And what was waiting for me?" says Kiefer. "No one! Nothing." "What about Spawn?" asks Nina. Kiefer explains that she never forgave him for what happened, and therefore he already lost her. He says he intends to give Spawn most of the money so she can get through the rest of her life. Nina asks him how she can be sure he won't kill her afterwards. She killed his wife, after all. "I broke Felipe Hartmano out of an American prison," says Kiefer. "I can never go back there again. This is my one shot at a big score." He swears that all he wants to do after the deal is disappear. "You've wasted enough time, Nina," says her henchman. "You kill him or I'm calling you in." Nina makes her way over to Kiefer and waves her gun in his face. At the last minute she turns the gun on her henchman and fires at him, killing him. "What are you up to, Kiefer?" she asks, without missing a beat.
Back at Division, Brother Palmer enters and breaks the news to Palmer about his unsuccessful attempt to get Mrs. Milliken's help. Brother Palmer offers to resign again. "This is my mess," he says. "I'll take the heat." Palmer insists that he won't let Milliken pull his strings. "I've been doing some thinking," says Palmer. "There is an alternative." According to Palmer, if Milliken wants to play dirty, he will have to lower himself to Milliken's level. "By doing what?" asks Brother Palmer. Palmer asks Brother Palmer to leave the room for a moment, picks up the phone, and makes a call. Lady Mac answers, wearing a peignoir set and some nasty bangs. "Sherry?" he says. "I need your help."
The screen splits into fourths. Klockwise from the top left, a chopper picks up Special Agent Charlie Brown and Angelina's family, Lady Mac prepares to meet with Palmer, Spawn stares at her computer, and Hartmano watches Kiefer and Nina from the car. Back inside the church, Nina has just gotten confirmation over the phone that Kiefer did indeed break Hartmano out of prison. "I'm not that man you knew before," says Kiefer. "I don't know about that," says Nina, kneeling down in front of Kiefer and putting her hands on his velvet thighs. "But for twenty million dollars, I can keep an open mind." She asks him if he's going to be able to forgive her for killing Bride. "If I wanted revenge, I would have killed you already," says Kiefer. "All I want to do is finish this deal and disappear for good." "Convince me," says Nina. They make out. The time is 10:59:58…10:59:59…11:00:00 PM.