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Jack Bauer examines Heinrich's weapon. Heinrich ofcourse denies shooting Walker, nor does he have knowledge of another sniper, and his weapon has not been recently fired. It occurred to Jack that perhaps Nina murdered Walker with this gun, but she was apparently innocent of this crime. It makes Jack curious, did Tony deliberately miss another sniper? He needs to ask Tony some tough questions soon.
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President Allen speaks to her daughter Rebecca.
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Allen: After what happened to Horace, I'm taking a leave of absence from the presidency.
Rebecca: So you're not going to be president for awhile?
Allen: Just for a very brief time, probably no more than a week. It's very important that we stay together, as a family.
Rebecca: Yeah, you're right. Will we still have Secret Service protection?
Allen: Yes, but I think some might be transferred to protect president Keaton's family.
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Rebecca wondered, maybe now she could slip away from her protectors, and murder Carl Webb. But this loss was clearly hard on her mother, could she handle losing her daughter as well?
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The first rays of daylight are coming into Jamal's house when he gets a call from Kalil. Kalil and Jamal were incarcerated together, while Jamal had converted to islam Kalil became a hardcore communist. They hadn't spoken in years, now Kalil saw Jamal as a potential ally.
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Kalil: Hey Jamal.
Jamal: Kalil, that you?
Kalil: Yeah, how you been?
Jamal: Not so good, I tried to be a good productive citizen, but the system doesn't really want me to go straight.
Kalil: Yeah, I don't really like the white man much either right now.
Jamal: The hell with race, it's the ruling class that keeps us down. The white proletariet has more in common with us than white capitalists, but they get manipulated by the fascist media.
Kalil: I remember telling this to you, and you didn't want to listen.
Jamal: I admit I was wrong. I thought I could undo my old mistakes, be a good citizen. What can I say, I was wrong.
Kalil: We should talk in person. You got any other friends who feel the same as us?
Jamal: One anyway, Eric.
Kalil: Bring him along, I might have a job for the both of you. I just can't talk about it over the phone.
Jamal: That's cool, where do you want to meet?
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Jack spoke with Tony in private.
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Jack: You really didn't see any snipers when you sweeped your area?
Tony: No. Ask Laura she was with me.
Jack: I did, she said she was locked in the trunk just before her father was shot.
Tony: Yeah, we had to make it convincing. Why aren't you interrogating Nina, maybe she deliberately missed a second sniper.
Jack: Maybe she did. She said some things to me, made me wonder.
Tony: She;s manipulating you Jack, not for the first time.
Jack: Maybe. I just wonder, why did you forgive me for what happened to Michelle?
Tony: I couldn't hold on to the hate forever.
Jack: You didn't just forgive me, you were my friend again, you came to my barbeques, to my granddaughter's little league games. I wanted to believe it, but maybe it was too good to be true.
Tony: Yeah, it helped who your new crowd was. Former extremists, even though they've tried to do better, there are those who will never see them as anything more than terrorists.
Jack: We gravitated together because noone else would accept us.
Tony: I did some things, enhanced interrogation, torture, I killed people who tried to surrender. They were all terrorists, but the guilt still ate me up. And I might have never deliberately killed innocent people, but maybe some of my actions constitute war crimes. And after all that, it turns out I'm more comfortable around former terrorists, because they deal with the same guilt as me. I became your friend again Jack, because I have noone else.
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