Although CTU was able to capture Marwan, they didn't receive as much information as they had hoped. His laptop was intact, but there was no way to track just where the location was because the transmission was encrypted. Now, even though an encrypted packet might prevent you from seeing the contents of a transmission, it does not necessarily mean that you can't track the location. So Curtis can't decode the files, but CTU does manage to get some new insight into the threat. Not only did the terrorists manage to put the nuclear warhead on a missile, they were able to smuggle in parts of a stealth missile, so it was going to be even harder to track.

As you may have imagined, the news that an American city is destined to go up like a mushroom cloud is not sitting well with President Pussy. In the last hour some government agents were already caught committing what is in effect an act of war against the Chinese. When you are on the verge of war with a nation of over one billion people, the last thing you want to hear is that there is a city out there about to be annihilated.

We still have President Palmer around, and he suggests to President Pussy that they might want to put a Category 1 emergency plan into effect. This plan is put in place to ensure continuity of the government should some disaster happen in the country. The cabinet is placed in the bunker with the president, and Congress is shipped off to some facility in the mountains. But what about all of the minions? What are they supposed to do? President Pussy wants to evacuate the cities, but President Palmer thinks that wouldn't be wise. You might set off a mass panic, and besides, we still have Jack Buer on the case; shouldn't we give him a chance? After all, it looks like he was finally able too make a perimeter stick, and that's really saying something this season.

I think that a lot of us were contemplating a very brutal torture for Marwan, but Jack knows that Marwan has already succeeded in his main mission. He is probably prepared to die, and there isn't much Jack can threaten with in order to get him to talk. Instead, Jack decides that he is going to take the kinder, gentler approach and offer him a deal. Yes, a deal. All Habib would have to do is give up his entire ideology in the next minute or two and help the Americans avoid a disaster. But before he could say anything, Behrooz appeared in the room and shot Marwan!!! (Before I corrected this, I wrote "Behrooz shat Marwan" which may have been funnier when you think about it)