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Jack Bauer continues to talk with Laura. He hopes she might know something that could help find her father, but she seems to know nothing about his current plans, or wherabouts. Jack has one idea, but he hesitates to suggest it.
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Nathan Templeton is working alone in his office. Putin's assasination makes any peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine more difficult. Suvarov is in power, at least for now. No doubt certain hardliner elements will accusse America and/or Ukraine of involvement, if Suvarov wishes to stay in power he will have to adapt a hardliner stance himself. Templeton plans to very publicly offer his services to advise president Allen on this. Ofcourse he plans to try and take credit for any success, and blame the president for any failures. As the saying goes "Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan." But then Templeton gets a call, from Carl Webb. Templeton is well aware of who Carl Webb is, he's a freelance operative, digs up dirt on the political rivals of whoever he's working for at the moment. Now, he wants to meet with Templeton, within the next 15 minutes. Perhaps he's offering his services to the speaker, or perhaps he's uncovered dirt on Nathan Templeton. Either way, he knows he can't afford to turn down this meeting.
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At CTU Eric Carter makes a suggestion to director Mason.
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Eric: Reverend Adam will strike soon, but his allies have been depleted, he's not at full strength.
Mason: I'm not sure how much strength they need to plant bombs.
Eric: Maybe, but maybe they'll be putting feelers out to other terrorist groups. A short alliance to strike at a common enemy.
Mason: We're already monitoring suspected sleeper agents across the country.
Eric: We could put out feelers ourselves.
Mason: It's risky, we might not have time to build successful profiles.
Eric: Maybe we don't have to. Jack Bauer and his friends, they're mainly former radicals themselves. Maybe they could help, pretend that they're dissatisfied with the way this country treats them, maybe say they want payback.
Mason: That might actually be crazy enough to work. It's risky, but at this point I'm willing to give it a try. Assuming that president Allen approves ofcourse. I'll contact her now, see what she says.
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