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At FBI HQ, Larry takes Jack's call and puts him on speaker phone with Chloe. Jack asks how long the set-up will take, and Chloe gets in another dig by noting that normally it would take seconds, but the system here is "backwards." Larry Moss has been officially Chloe-tized! Burn! Larry wants to know if this chick is one of Dubaku's operatives, and Jack says it's a little more "complicated" than that, which is code for "I'm totally breaking the rules again!"

Meanwhile, suspicious Janis is glaring at Chloe and desperately trying to hack into the conference room computers, which is not going so well. She's on her 4th failed log-in! She ponders what to do next while we cut to break!

When we return, we catch our first glimpse of First Daughter Olivia Taylor. She's in the midst of a business meeting in some swanky DC watering hole where fat-cats sip scotch and decide how best to corrupt the democratic process by influencing politicians with their big fat wads of cash! Olivia is selling a potential client on her consulting firm and personal accomplishments...but all he cares about is her connection to the President. She informs him that she does NOT have the ear of the president before they are interrupted by Bill's man...who happens to be retired secret service agent Aaron Pierce! (Fun Fact: With his appearance this season, he becomes only the second character, other than Jack Bauer, to appear in every season! Thanks Wikipedia!) He tells the First Daughter that she needs to come with him, but she gets all huffy and insists he's interrupting a very very very important meeting. This is undermined by the dude she was meeting with, who keeps insisting it's 'A-OK' with him and they can meet later. When the dude finally gets away, she demands to know what is going on and refuses to accompany Aaron anywhere until she gets an answer. I'm starting to see where this mother/daughter tension might stem from. Both ladies strike me as very head-strong and blunt. I can imagine Henry and Roger heading for the hills when the Taylor women used to start going at it! Araron tells her about her Father, and she immediately drops the pissy-ness and agrees to go with him. She may think her mother is a total bitch, but she's apparently still Daddy's Little Girl.

Back at FBI HQ, Janis approaches Agent D-Bag's desk and asks for the Digital Beta Key for the server. He plays his usual suspicious, nosy self and wants to know what she needs it for. She tells him Larry asked for it, and he calls bullshit. Before he can head off to ask Larry about it, she admits that she thinks Chloe O'Brien was brought in to replace her and she wants to get a bead on what they hell they are doing in that conference room. Sean notes that it could lose them both their jobs (although he had no qualms about using Larry's codes to ground his wife's plane). Janis, being awesome, decides to blackmail him with the whole "Banging Erika" business...so he relents, but not before calling her "a little bitch". Janis awesomely counters with "YOU'RE a little bitch!" Sean shoots a suspicious look of his own at the conference room as she walks away.

Chloe informs Jack that the link is up and ready to trace Marika, so he and Renee start to escort her downstairs. On the way out, Rosa stops Renee and says "You FBI, You Keep her safe!" Renee says that they will, which probably means they won't! On the way downstairs, Marika confesses to being scared and Renee starts to tell her a panic signal she can use if things get hairy. Jack freaks out, and tells her not to signal them at all because he doesn't want the driver alerted or suspicious. After Marika heads outside, Jack and Renee get into it a little about the SOS signal. Jack reminds her that finding Dubaku is the ultimate goal, and they shouldn't compromise it in any way. Renee counters that poor little Marika is going to be naked out there with no backup. Jack tells her that "life gets ugly and people get hurt." At least Marika volunteered for this, the rest of Dubaku's victims weren't so lucky. Methinks Jack has already written Marika off as dead bait! As the car drives away with Marika in it, Jack and Renee race to their own vehicle and ask Chloe to send the tracking grid to Renee's PDA. Unfortunately, due to the FBI's backward systems, she's not able and has to talk them through it instead.

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