24 - 5-6

The episode opens with Dubaku confronting his girlfriend, Marika, in an alley about working for the FBI to take him down. She tries convince him that she's not, then gives up ten secounds later, tries to run away. Dubaku catches her, and instead of killing her, this evil madman tries to convince her that all he wants to do is go away with her, that he is thought of as a hero in his country. She ends up agreeing, and gets into Dubaku's car with him. This scene was much better if you have "Power of Love" stuck in your head.

Jack Bauer and Renee Walker meanwhile are in police custody for two minutes before the FBI gets them to go away. And they are off in pursuit. Dubaku smashed Marika's cell phone, but Chloe can still access traffic cameras that somehow is able to record conversations in back alleys. The FBI must have some great videos on homeless people. Dubaku's driver manages to out race Jack Bauer, so he must have some sort of superpower. However, he is still vulnerable to getting clawed in the face by a scorned woman, and the car crashes after Marika's attack. Somehow, the car catches fire, and although Jack would rather see an innocent girl burn alive in the name of protecting this country, Walker remembers her promise to protect her and tries to rescue Marika. She pulls her gun on Jack, who would much rather torture Dubaku. For some reason, Jack doesn't instinctively shoot Renee in the face and decides to help. The power of Jack choosing to save an innocent over torturing the guilty is so great that the car explodes. Renee tries to perform CPR on the fallen Marika, but it is too late.

Jack, remembering his primary objective to torture, threatens to kill Dubaku's family if he doesn't talk. Dubaku tells him that he has a list of corrupt government officials, and Jack puts two and two together and decides to cut the renegade African open to obtain the file. He fetches Police Officer #1 to deliver the file to Chloe. Minutes later, Chloe has the file. Moss and Chloe engage in a heated debate on the levels of Lincoln/Douglass and Kennedy/Nixon about how smart is it to open the most important data file they will likely ever see in an office that they know is corrupted and filled with agents who specialize in hacking into complex systems. Actually, the debate is more on the levels of Bush and a waiter at a hot dog stand. They immediately decide to download the data onto one of the FBI computers.

Turns out, there are two moles in the FBI office. Billy Walsh and the girl that looks like Uma Thurman. Billy convinces Uma to hack into the system and erase the file, and also manages to get her to make out with him even though their lives are potentially in danger. Uma doesn't find this fishy, and kisses the destroyer of Vincent Chase's career without even suggesting that maybe they should get the hell out of the building. This is what Billy wants, and fires a shot into her stomach, killing her. He shoots himself in the arm as a cover, but we know from Entourage that Billy isn't good at coming up with believable stories. Soon enough, Chloe recovers the data file, and Billy is caught in his web of lies.

It seems like the threat is over and everyone gets their just desserts. Even the President has to deal with her catty daughter, who refuses to accept advice as much as her mother does. The show winds down, even showing the obligatory sunset over the Washington Monument, as Jack sits down on the steps with the Capitol Building behind him, and reflects on the day that had just passed. After ten hours or so, this is the shortest day that Jack has ever had.

But then Tony sits down next to him. He reveals that Dubaku was just a pawn, and that there is an even greater super terrorist named General Duma who is in charge, and that he has infiltrated the government through the Aide of Senator Major (the guy in charge of the Senate Commitee on Not Torturing People), Brian Burnett, who was Billy Walsh's contact to Dubaku. He tells Jack to meet him at the corner of 1st and Constitution, an intersection that is very symbolic to the plot line of this story. I believe it refers to the revolutionary moment when Thomas Jefferson, with the help of Ben Franklin, electroshocked the King of England into freeing the colonies.

So despite the capture of Dubaku, the saga of Jack Bauer continues. It turns out that this show will not be changed to 10 after all. It will however be changed into "Everyone In America Is Somehow Connected To International Terrorists".