While Bill is giving a congratulatory speech at CTU, Jack calls in to Chloe to beg her for schematics for the nukes. After the appropriate amount of scowling, she manages to sneak onto Morris’s ‘puter and finds the Secret Squirrel files she needs. She uploads the stuff to his swiped cell phone, just in time for the commercial break! Whew!
Now that Wayne is ensconced back into the Oval Office, he calls in Veep Daniels to break up with him:
“It’s always been a marriage of convenience. Now that the crisis is over, I’m asking you for a divorce your resignation.”
Daniels flat out refuses but Wayne won’t back down. He tells the Veep that he’s learned from him – sometimes brute force is effective. Touché Mr. President!
And sometimes sneaking around is not effective, as Chloe finds out. Morris had installed a logging program on his computer to detect if anyone had tried to access his hard drive. Chloe turns a bit purplish, and has to admit she was the one, and explains the whole Jack/Nukes/Audrey/Cheng plan to Morris. He tells her she must report to Principal Buchanan’s office. Reluctantly she scuffs her way up to Bill and spills the beans.
Meanwhile Jack’s sneaking around the warehouse where the Marines are guarding the nukes. He ends up trying to bluff the guards – telling them he has a Presidential order to obtain a circuit board out of one of the nuclear weapons. He’s pretty convincing too, if we didn’t know any better, we’d think that it was all true. He’s busy working on one of the nukes when suddenly Mike Doyle comes out of nowhere. “Stand down Jack!”
Now it’s some sort of Mexican Standoff, or in this case, Russian/Chinese Standoff. Guns are drawn, everyone’s yelling, but finally one of the Marines knocks Jack to the ground unconscious. When he wakes up, he talks to Bill on the phone. Bill understands the importance of trying to get Audrey back, but he can’t let Jack follow his current plan. He pleads for a chance to make a phone call to President Wayne Palmer. Bill tells him he’ll work on it.
When the call comes thru on Doyle’ cell he snarls out, “It’s the President.” Somehow, Jack convinces Wayne to let him make the trade of the circuit board to the Chinese for Audrey. Of course, as Jack has to keep explaining to everyone, he never actually intends to let Cheng have the device. Wayne is dismayed when he realizes that Jack will possibly sacrifice himself when he destroys the circuit board.
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1 - Victor Lana
I think that this Lisa Loose Lips is up to no good, MK. What I mean is that the mole might not be at CTU but in the White House. Hmmm.
Also, Doyle is either going to come through or be a big pain in the tuckus. I have a feeling he is really a good guy. We shall see.