Jack is captured by the terrorists, who use Derek as leverage to force him to compromise CTU’s assault operation.
Logan refuses to give into the terrorist demands as the time of the co-signing of the treaty draws near. Martha tries to tell her husband of the evidence she uncovered about her phone call with Palmer, but Walt interferes with her efforts.
A new representative from District arrives at CTU and begins to undermine Buchanan’s authority.
Jack conceals himself inside the airport hanger and surveys the Russian separatists, feeding information to Curtis and his assault team.
The terrorists begin executing hostages in an attempt to make Logan cave into their demands.
Martha discovers that all traces of her conversation with Palmer may not have been erased.
18 months have passed since the events of Day 4. With the exception of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler and Chloe O’Brian, the world believes that Jack Bauer is dead. Jack is living near L.A. under the name of Frank Flynn, working on an oil rig and living with Diane Huxley and her teenage son, Derek.
In L.A., David Palmer is visiting his brother Wayne, when he is killed by an assassin’s bullet. As CTU scrambles to gather more information, an exploding car bomb kills Michelle and injures Tony. Chloe is also pursued by an unknown figure, but she eludes him and manages to contact Jack for help.
President Charles Logan and his wife Martha are visiting L.A. and are planning to sign an important arms treaty with the president of Russia. Martha seems to be unstable and is badly shaken by the news of Palmer’s murder. Logan refuses to heed CTU’s warnings of possible danger and call off the summit.
Jack is forced to take Derek along for the ride as he meets with Chloe and fights off a group of men who want him killed. He forces one of the men to confess that Jack has been deliberately framed for the murders of Palmer and Michelle.
Jack and Chloe infiltrate Wayne Palmer’s penthouse where David Palmer was assassinated, in the hopes of finding a clue to his murder. Jack convinces Wayne to cooperate and finds some information in Palmer’s memoirs that leads him to the airport where the Russian president is about to land.
CTU and Secret Service attempt to capture Jack, but they only find Chloe as Jack and Derek slip through their grasp.
Martha tries to convince her husband that she received an important phone call from Palmer the night before his death, but a tape of their conversation seems to contradict her claims.
Jack goes to the airport to find a lead, but a group of renegade Russian terrorists take hostages, including Derek, before he can act.
When SG-1 travels to an Asgard Protected Planet, Colonel Mitchell is accused of a murder he did not commit.
The struggle between Adama and Cain is temporarily put on hold while the two Battlestars combine forces for an assault on the Cylon Resurrection Ship. Apollo faces a momentous decision and Baltar takes an interest in Gina, the Cylon prisoner.
When Earl and Randy try to return a stolen wallet they find out taking the money had cost two newlyweds their honeymoon. In an attempt to make things right Earl takes over for the groom at his fast food restaurant. After time Earl finds out the boss is a jerk and Earl wonders how such a man with a luxurious house and beautiful wife could not be affected by the only thing he believes in, Karma.
Recap:
Earl and Randy wake up one cold morning at the hotel, Catalina alludes to the fact that they may be being carbon monoxide poisoned and leaves the room. Randy discovers that Earl was right when he said Randy “wasn’t ready for a pet” after discovering dead “Mr. Fishy” (the goldfish) in a sealed plastic bag in his pocket. Earl however discovers number 202 on his list, “stole a wallet from a guy at a gas station.”
We flash back to “a few years ago” when Earl was “hanging out in a gas station bathroom, waiting for some guy to drop his pants and provide me with an opportunity.” Earl screams a little too loud and a little too enthusiastically when he discovers just how much money is in the wallet and has to cover by announcing to the bathroom that “they have my favorite brand of toilet paper in here, soft stuff.”
Earl admits to having stolen a lot of wallets in his day, but also admits that this particular one was the mother load. And, it seems when you find yourself with a lot of money you go to Jasper’s. What is Jasper’s you may well ask? “Jasper”s is kind of like the mall, only it’s in a storage unit and everything there was stolen from the mall.” The gang spends the thousand dollars they had on many things that day and according to Earl, they were living like kings. But back to today, when faced with the reality of having to give up his helmet bought that day long ago, Randy asks Earl why he can’t just give the guy back his wallet with a thousand dollars of his lottery money stuffed in it. Earl explains to Randy that the items were bought with stolen money a
After a team from Atlantis goes missing, the expedition finds itself in the middle of a Genii coup.
Robin accepts Ted’s invite to a friend’s wedding, but thanks to Ted, the couple may never make it down the aisle.
As the Ori plague spreads rapidly, SG-1 hopes that the Prior who caused the disease may hold the key to its cure. Gerak tries to rally the Jaffa to the Ori’s cause, prompting Teal’c and Bra’tac to initiate a resistance.