By M. Giant
Marcos is busy tinkering with the detonator on his explosive vest, and it looks like he's going to have it working again before CTU can drill him out. So it's all about talking now.
Cole and Dana return to CTU, where Hastings rips them new ones and demotes Dana to the newly created position of Chloe's Bitch. Cole, on the other hand, is dispatched to pick up Marcos's mom. They both assure Hastings that their personal crises are over, but then Dana gets a call from Kevin's parole officer, who knows Kevin and Dana had been talking. And he wants to meet Dana ASAP. Cole leaves it for Dana to handle, which is a pretty major display of trust under the circumstances.
Kayla is still in bed with Tarin and dodging her mother's calls as well as those from Hassan. But Dalia at least gets through to Hassan, and convinces him that he's fucked up and needs to fix things.
Marcos's mom makes an heroic effort to talk Marcos down, but when that doesn't work, Kiefer steps in to threaten her life to Marcos. That's enough to get him to come out in one piece, but not until after he's already re-armed the bomb. Kiefer races to disarm it again, but the other terrorists blow it up remotely. Kiefer is only able to get one piece of information from Marcos before that happens, but it's a doozy -- the terrorists are working with Tarin after all. I should have known.
Dalia finally gets through to Kayla and manages to convince her that Tarin really is one of the bad guys, and she gives up their location. Too bad Tarin wants to leave almost at once. Man, Hassan is going to be impossible to live with after being proven right on this.
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