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Max was watching the news coverage of the bombings. Few had been successful in killing many people, but the americans were sufficiently frightened. At the moment Max's more immediate concerns were that Gaines was captured, Tony was trying to escape and come back to base. Atla called he seemed angry.
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Atla: I lost a brother, a main source of funding , for nothing.
Max: I lost one of my brothers, I might lose another soon.
Atla: Your bombers have proven incompatent. They killed a drugdealer, and a handful of crusader protestors, that it seems is it.
Max: We've had some setbacks, but the americans are sufficiently scared. Once the next phase begins we'llbe fine.
Atla: You need me for that, but I will not do it unless you activate the rest of the bombers immediately.
Max: I will not use them all at once, then we have nothing to bargain with. I am willing to activate some bombers early.
Atla: Very well, you have one hour, or I will call off my part.
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Max doubted very much that Atla could call off his part, or that he really would, but he couldn't take that chance right now. He sent the signal to a few of the remaining bomber, to move in early.
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Jack Bauer began sees Marie and Kate together. Maybe he had been wrong about Marie still being a dedicated terrorist. As much as he wanted to be with Kate right now, he had to begin questioning a captive Ira Gaines.
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Jack: I once offered you the chance to be protected, that offer still stands.
Gaines: I will not betray my brothers.
Jack: Tony Almeida betrayed you. We didn't hack into your security feed, someone here disabled it. I don't know what his endgame is, but I'm guessing he disabled that feed, allowed us to come in undetected.
Gaines: I think you're lying. Anyway, this code isn't much, but it's all I really have left. These people might be murderers, but they're my brothers and sisters. You can let Mandy in, let her kill me for murdering her beloved Bridgit, but I won't help you.
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Jack left, and Kim came to try and reason with Gaines.
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Kim: Remember me?
Gaines: Yeah, I kidnapped you and your mother, tried to kill you both.
Kim: The man you sent to kill us, Eli, my mom shot and killed him.
Gaines: I figured as much.
Kim: A few hours before that he tried to rape me, my mother offered herself in my place.
Gaines: I didn't know that, I'm sorry.
Kim: I don't know if you had a conscience back then, but you seem to have a little one now. My daughter was kidnapped, and I fear she's being raped. She's 14. I don't care about your brothers, or whatever cause you now support. Please, if you have any kind of soul left, help me save my daughter.
Gaines: Okay. Russell West, he's involved in human trafficking, and he has you daughter. I'll help you sae your daughter, nothing else.
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Split screens show Gaines being untied, president Parker being given a report of the bombings, Tony Almeida stealing a car to make his way back to base, Andy continuing to work on decrypting the disc.
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Gaines offers his hand to Jack. Jack cannot believe that he and Ira Gaines will actually be working together, but what choice does he have? The two shake hands.
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