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Juma walks back over to Taylor, and sweetly asks if she wants him to "release" anymore hostages? She looks him in the eye and calls him a "Sonuvabitch!" He tells her to read the statement or he'll kill every other hostage, starting with her daughter. She has no choice to agree.

One of Juma's men informs him the "uplink" is ready, and Prez Taylor shoots a look over at Jack, who shakes his head at her, probably as a way to warn her that the "Kaboom-y" stuff is not quite Kaboom-y enough yet. With no other option, Prez Taylor starts to read the statement. Standing in front of a Sangalese flag, she tells the "world" via YouTube, or something, that the invasion of Sangala, which she ordered 6 hours ago, was an illegal/criminal act without provocation, meant to increase American influence around the world.

In his little VP bunker, Hayworth flips out! He wants the video feed shut down immediately. Apparently, he underestimates the intelligence of the web surfing community, which is likely also aware that the White House has been overtaken by Sangalese forces and that the President is giving this statement under duress. Piglet David explains the futility of trying to contain or shut down a viral video once it's out there. The production values of this little speech are light-years better than "The Bauer Report" that ran on TVGasm a few weeks back. In short: People actually want to watch this video! There's no stopping it.

Anyhoo, their little debate is inturrupted by Big Daddy Boss Moss and his number 1 Zombie Spice Walker via satellite phone from their van. Moss wants to know if the VP has checked out the YouTube clip yet and if it changed his mind about forcefully re-taking the White House. The VP is still being a Pansy-Pants, so Moss let's him in on his theory that Juma intends to humiliate the President and then stage a public execution! VP is all "How can you be sure?" Maybe they just want to be left alone and have demands? Larry flashes his first "frustration with superiors" look of the season which is weird for two reasons. 1) He licks his lips and 2) He's usually the nay-saying Pansy-Pants, Dammit!

Renee pipes in, and tells the VP they have a two-pronged plan in place, but time is of the essence...they need to initiate NOW! Scumbag VP, of course, says no. He's still hung up on the "not authorizing any action that results in the death of Madame Prez" thing. He tells them to keep trying to get Juma on the horn, and he'll keep the channels of communication open.

In the White House, Jack warns Bill to "be ready". But Bill has another idea. He tells Jack about that satellite phone call Juma made to Jonas Hodges at the end of the last episode, and how Juma DEFINITELY had real-time intel and help/a man on the outside (ya think?) In other words, taking out Juma and his crew does not guarantee the threat to the President is over, and Jack is the only man ALIVE that can get to the bottom of all this. Before Jack can protest/figure out what the hell Bill is saying, Buchanan takes off! He runs to the entrance of the safe room, tackles one of the men, and fires a shot over his head that sets off the explosion. KABOOM!

In the FBI van, Moss tells Hayworth about the explosion. Hayworth is all: "an explosion?" Moss is like, "Yessir, and we're going in now under my authority! Smell ya later!" As Renee and Larry run off to be heros, Hayworth protests over the video feed to nobody in particular. "No...don't do it! I didn't authorize this!" Blah Blah. Shut up Hayworth!

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