Around this time when the fans were fretting, some interesting things started to happen. Nina was shot by Jack. Gael got a money shot worth of virus. And somebody finally kidnapped Kim, although she was actually able to fend off and kill her attacker. Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

The episodes have been reaching a fever pitch. This week, 24 promised that two characters would die, but who could it be? Jack? Tony? Chase? Kim? Saunders? The President? Sherry Palmer? Hold on, first we have to deal with a little problem with the world's deadliest virus all over the country without anybody knowing what to do about it.

As the suits from division were taking Tony away in shackles, Jack urged Jane Saunders to plead with her dad to give up the locations of the vials. The elder Saunders was not fooled and told Jack he could not be manipulated into giving up the information on the remaining vials of the virus. Always resourceful, flies the Saunders familly to the Chandler Plaza Hotel and threatens to put Jane in the building, where she has a fairly decent chance of getting infected with the virus and dying.

Saunders, proving himself not a complete tyrant, offers up the locations of the remaining vials before Jane is placed inside the infected building. Jack no doubt was contemplating the irony of having to use somebody's daughter as a pawn to meet his demands. Nevertheless, Saunders tells CTU the GPS codes for the remaining vials. Every SWAT team member across the country is no doubt mobilized, and the remaining 11 are located and dismantled before they can deploy. Every capsule is discovered, except one, and it is in Los Angeles.

While all of this is happening. President Palmer devises an clandestine meeting with Sherry presumably to negotiate her ideas about taking out her husband, but in reality was a clever ruse to get her out of the house, so Wayne Palmer and Foxson can search Sherry's house for the medicine bottle that prove Sherry's presence at the Milliken household, as well as the President's deliberate attempt to cover for Sherry's involvement in his death.

Sherry is, of course, way too intelligent to leave any evidence at her house, and rushes home after seeing through the President's obvious attempt to appease her. She returns to find Wayne, and Foxson throws a nice roundhouse to her face to knock her out. He pats her down and finds the bottle of pills taped to her back. Foxson and Wayne leave, but Wayne sees Julia Milliken return to Sherry's house and follows her in. In the tense scene that follows, Julia shoots Sherry Palmer and then turns the gun on herself, leaving Wayne to grieve over their dead bodies.