By M. Giant
Even with Kiefer in his hideout, Vladimir's not doing so well on tracking down those rods. He prefers to drink, grope Walker, and taunt Kiefer. And even when he does get a hold of Sergei Bazhaev, his countryman is no help. Bazhaev blows off Vladimir, postpones the delivery of the rods, and then… well, we'll come back to that. Finally, after coming up empty, Vladimir finally pushes Walker too far and she stabs him to death with a bread knife. The same clusterfuck also gets Vladimir's two surviving goons killed and Kiefer stabbed, although he recovers in record time even for him. Kiefer thinks they have enough to work with and that he and Walker are done for the day, but then the Russian hit squad Bazhaev sent shows up. Kiefer lets them take him, on the assumption that CTU will be able to track him from the air. But since the bad guys took him out by the sewer tunnels, that's not going to work. What do we say about assuming, Kiefer?
Dana's dodging work to run ops on that little robbery for Kevin (who's even dumber than she is), and people are starting to notice. Worse, Nick gets greedy and they hang around the evidence lockup too long, ending up beating down a cop so they can make their belated escape.
And on the U.N. front, President Taylor keeps the peace deal together and then spills word of the contraband uranium to the British delegate for some reason. Meanwhile, Hassan lets his security chief think he's talked him down from the ledge he's on, but he's just going further into the dark side. And Hassan still has plenty of people who will follow his most paranoid orders. Will even the security chief's relationship with Hassan's daughter help him now? Well, she's already showing signs of growing a pair, which is one of the biggest surprises so far.
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