Jack is making his way to Wayne Palmer's apartment. I don't know where the hell it is supposed to be, but as connected as Wayne was, you would think he would be chilling in Westwood or something. They have to get into the crime scene, so why not just drive in? Luckily Hoss and friends had plenty of good equipment in the van, and Jack has his bag, so they should be good to go. Chloe drives onto the scene, and only needs to flash her CTU badge to get in. Jack and Derrick are hiding in the back, and it would be too much trouble for the security to actually look in the back, so she gets through. Good thing Chloe wasn't bringing a car bomb into the place.

They make it to the garage, and Jack has those cool little hearing aids that allow you to talk wirelessly undetected. Now they just need a way for Jack to walk around without people asking questions. Cue random FBI agent coming onto the scene poking around in the back of his car. It's time for Jack to put on his magic aviator glasses and KICK SOME MORE ASS. Like Chloe says, he is really good at this. After subduing the agent and taking his jacket, ID, and badge, Jack is ready to enter the building. There are over 160 agents nearby, with 25 in the apartment alone, but Chloe is luckily able to open up a socket into the CTU computer, and coupled with those schematics she has, she can track the movements of all of the agents.

Jack makes it into the building, and with Chloe's help is able to make it to the penthouse. He almost loses his composure when he sees the President's body covered by the white sheet, even taking off of the Aviator Glasses of Badness for a moment, but pulls himself together, and finds his way to Palmer's study. Palmer was writing his memoirs, and it looks like a file was encrypted. There was no talk about what cipher was used, but Chloe sent him an decryption program after Jack gave her the IP address, because, you know, the President's iMac and the WiFi signal Chloe was using just happened to be on the same subnet. Oy, Brian Grazer, I'm still available as a technical consultant (for free!) if you need me. And since it appears Reiko Aylesworth isn't going to be on the set at all, I probably won't even need a security detail to track me.

While the Jack is waiting for the program to download and get started (while we are living in fantasy, why didn't they just have Chloe make a remote desktop connection?), Wayne Palmer walks in. Since he isn't a federal agent, Chloe wasn't tracking him. Jack pulls a gun on him so he won't talk, and it looks like Wayne wants to scream. He's had a bad day. His brother was just killed in his house, and the person that all of the government agencies say is responsible just happens to be poking around. Jack tries to reason with him, saying there would be no good reason for him to be there if he was the killer, you know, besides trying to cover up evidence. Wayne doesn't believe him, so Jack gives him the gun. Wayne looks like he wants to fire, but he knows that when Jack said he would have given his life to protect Palmer, Wayne knows it is true and decides to help out Jack.

Now, anybody who knows about opening a remote socket knows that socket has to be detectable, right? Well, Edgar is able to detect that Chloe is connecting remotely, and he is so excited to hear that she is alive, he goes to tell Buchanan. Edgar notices that Chloe has a those schematics and is tracking movements, but why would she do that? A ha! Jack has caught up with her and is forcing her to do this or he will kill her! It makes such great sense!

With a heads up on Jack's whereabouts, the Secret Service and other federal agents begin to surround the building. By this time, Jack and Wayne had discovered that President Palmer randomly inserted an address into his memoirs. The address is 16 Transport Way, which puts it at the Ontario airport (that's Ontario, California, sorry Canada, Jack is staying with us), and there is a name Chevensky. Hmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with the Russian President being in town? With this information, Jack tells Wayne not to tell anybody because they don't know whom to trust. Jack makes his way down, beating up another FBI agent in the kitchen as well as one in the stairwell.

Posted by J-Unit on January 16, 2006 11:14 AM