And now a quietly horrified President Taylor reads the prepared propaganda against the backdrop of a Sangalan National flag – a flag soiled with the invisible stain of tyranny and inequity. The Vice President, the FBI, and the rest of the nation hear her words in disbelief. No one can stop the live feed, not even the FBI. But this is the chance Jack has been waiting for. Allison is also ready to react, even as she is still reading her statement. But Bill tells Jack that he had earlier overheard a conversation between Juma and someone on the outside who appears to be helping Juma. Bill says that Jack that is the best man for the job of finding the mystery co-conspirator – and he instantly gets up and charges to the lockdown room.
Bill quickly knocks down one of Juma’s soldiers, and grabs his weapon. He shoots the gun towards the ceiling, and just as quickly the combination of bullet spark and methane gas cause a terrible explosion and several of Juma’s men go down. Jack is up and fighting, Pierce is already shepherding the President and First Daughter to a safer area, and the FBI and standby Secret Service move in as soon as they saw the explosion, over the feeble protests of the Vice President. In the darkened rooms of the West Wing, Moss’s team dispatches all of the soldiers. Jack has a bead on Juma – warns him not to move, but the arrogant dictator advances – and Jack shoots him dead.
And then it’s one of those moments were you suddenly already know the outcome, just as Jack knows that Bill will be dead when he reaches him. Jack sinks to the floor, as the weight of one more friend’s death squeezes the spirit out of him. Renee sees him in his distress from a distance; while she is busy with the attack clean up. When she gets a chance to see Jack, he tells her what he knows about Juma, that he was not working alone.
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