Without waiting to be dismissed, Kiefer starts to head for the other exit. Wow, he never would have dissed Palmer like that. Logan stops him, asking what he should do now. "I need to be debriefed," Kiefer says, although knowing the President, that's probably far more true of Logan after the morning he's had. Kiefer says CTU can take it from here. Uh, what? Not twenty minutes ago, he said he wanted to see this through. But now he hits one obstacle and decides he wants to take his ball and go home? He must really hate being around Logan. But the explanation he gives is that and he wants to disappear before his daughter finds out he's alive. Can't blame him there. "In fairness to her," he clarifies. Oh, right, sure, that too. Logan begs Kiefer to stick around, admitting, "You and I have a complicated history." Kiefer looks away awkwardly as Logan goes on to say that he knows Kiefer must still be motivated by some respect for the President's office and love of country. He makes a personal appeal, promising all the access and support Kiefer needs. He doesn't specifically say he won't order Kiefer's arrest in the middle of a sensitive operation, but I think it's kind of implied. Kiefer turns and looks thoughtfully at the nearest video monitor, which is still displaying a freeze-frame of Erwich, back when he was still wearing his yellow tie and was thus still Yellow Tie. Gosh, I hope this isn't too confusing. Let's hope Kiefer brings him in before we lose all track of who the guy is.
Right now, Erwich is standing around in a park somewhere to a parked van with his guys. One of his henchmen, who has less of a Russian accent than I do, is explaining that the arming mechanisms on the gas canisters have been tampered with, which means they have no way of using them. Okay, then! Great season! Good night, everybody! "Rossler will have a way," Erwich says. Stupid Erwich. The henchman argues that their real enemy is Russia, and they should be trying to get home (which in his case sounds like it's probably Ohio or something) instead of fucking with the U.S. Erwich responds to this thoughtful input by knocking the guy to the ground and pulling his gun on him. "Question my orders and I will kill you, do you understand?" So I'm sensing that this is more of a top-down organization. He says the ports have been closed and they're all fugitives now. "If we can't use the gas against Russia, we will use it against America." Yeah, I guess we're going with Erwich's plan, then.
McGill's on his way out of his stolen office at CTU when his cell phone rings. It's some skeleton in a blonde wig, calling from a pay phone. The pay phone even has graffiti on it so we know it's in an extra-bad bad neighborhood. McGill is obviously not happy to hear from this mystery woman today of all days -- isn't it always "today of all days" on this show? -- especially when she turns out to be asking for five hundred dollars. She claims to be "clean," and all I can say is it's a good thing she isn't trying to claim that in person, because, damn. She adds that she's trying to put her life back together, and asks if she can come over to CTU. When McGill says no, she snottily asks if he's afraid she'll embarrass him. "Yeah, I am," he duhs. Heh. She starts weeping desperately and threatening to hurt herself if he doesn't help her. Dear McGill: Don't help her. Tough love, M. Giant. She does make herself useful by working in the exposition that she's McGill's sister. Thanks for clearing that up. In regard to her connection with McGill, I had mentally narrowed the possibilities to her being a sibling, an ex-girlfriend, or McGill's boss at Division. McGill agrees to meet her in a parking lot across the street from CTU in twenty minutes. Good plan. Just call him McGullible.