Jack calls Hastings and asks him to pull Renee out. She doesn't care what happens to her, and that makes her a danger to herself and the mission.
Hastings refuses, but Jack strikes a deal with him: he'll find a way to get her out when he goes in as the buyer, and will stay in her place.
At CTU, Dana calls Kevin and tells him she's got something for him: $120,000 in impounded drug money, being kept in a police warehouse with automated security that she can manipulate from her workstation. She asks to meet with him outside of CTU. As she hangs up, Arlo, relentless, hits on her once more, and also asks that server space be freed up to speed his own work.
Vladimir takes Renee back to his chop shop and speaks with her privately. She tells him about her German buyer, Ernst Meier, who is looking to buy some weapons grade uranium that's about to be sold on the open market. Vlad tells her that if she needs money, she should come work for him, but Renee says she's doing this so she doesn't ever have to work for anybody ever again. Vlad will get 30%, a handsome sum. Vlad will make a few calls, but wants a good faith payment upfront of $5 million. He gives her privacy to call her buyer, so she calls Jack, who arranges for the $5 million. He can arrive within the next 30 minutes. Renee's having trouble being in the same room as Vlad, but says she can handle it.
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Dr. Levine puts Oleg on morphine. Bazhaev calls and asks why his sons are not yet at the house. Josef claims they're stuck in traffic and Oleg is sleeping. The test results arrive. The nurse who delivers them picks up on the doctor's tension, but, with a gun pointed at him on the other side of the door, he waves her away. Oleg's condition is acute. He needs a bone marrow transplant, which requires a six man medical team and a better facility. Josef insists that Levine find something he can do right now. Levine says there's a drug that will flush out the radiation and stimulate white blood cell repair, but it's only a halfway measure. Josef holds a gun to Levine's head and insists that his brother is not going to die.
Jack, who has instructed Cole not to have his teams doing drive-bys in case they're spotted, listens to Renee and Vlad via her comm. Vlad asks what happened to Renee; for just a moment, he genuinely seems to care. He apologies for what he did to her. He'd had too much to drink that night. It's the first time Renee's ever heard him apologize for anything. Vlad, aroused by her anger, begins to come on to her, and tells her there's more for her here than money, if she wants it. He's convinced she came to him not just for his connections, but for him. She denies it, and asks to clean up. He shows her to the shower. As Jack tells Cole they need to go now, Vlad has Lugo go pick up Renee's buyer. He has no intention of pursuing nuclear material. Once they have the $5 million, Lugo is to shoot the buyer. Vlad expects Renee to be working with him from now on. She is desperate, but he will give her a reason to live.
At the UN, Weiss tells President Taylor and Ethan Kanin that Hassan's crackdown on his opposition may have already led to the British, Germans and Egyptians pulling out of the peace accord. Taylor suggests telling them that Hassan is trying to prevent his brother from acquiring nuclear weapons, but Weiss says that'll just cause a panic. Taylor needs to buy time. She asks for all the representatives from all the signatory countries to be assembled so that she can make a personal appeal.
Tarin Faroush, Hassan's head of security, gives him a list of all the detainees. Hassan is aghast to find that one of the dissidents is a cousin of Jamot, one of his delegation at the UN. He orders Jamot arrested. Tarin objects, but Hassan, distrustful of family ties after today's events, angrily insists.
As Kevin arrives, Arlo confronts Dana: she hasn't yet freed up the memory space for him on the servers. She says it's on her list, and rushes off, claiming she has to go to the bathroom. Arlo asks Chloe if she thinks there's been anything weird about Dana. Chloe thinks she's just avoiding him, and he's lucky she hasn't reported him to HR.
Dana meets with Kevin in the parking lot. He's brought his buddy Nick along, who silently observes their conversation with a bit too much interest. Dana gives Kevin a keycard, a PDA and a Bluetooth. If he does exactly what she says, he'll be in and out and nobody will ever know he was there. She tries to get him to confirm that he'll leave her alone after this, but his affirmation doesn't sound sincere. Elsewhere, Arlo watches Dana's meeting on a security camera.
Just as Renee is stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel around herself, Vlad enters. He is convinced that she wants him. When she refuses to submit to his advances, he says that if she doesn't sleep with him, the deal's off. Cringing inside, she lets him kiss her. He tells her to dry off and come out when she's ready. Jack, listening in, tells her she doesn't have to do this. They'll find another way. But Renee, her eyes dead, says there's no other way. She's going dark. Over Jack's protests, she removes the comm unit from her ear, throws it in the sink and washes it down the drain.
Jamot speaks to Dalton, the British ambassador, defending Hassan's actions as both his delegate and friend. Tarin arrives and asks him to come to the embassy. Jamot realizes that he's being arrested, and is outraged. As Jamot is escorted away, Tarin makes a phone call... to Kayla. "I didn't want to burden you with this, but I need to speak to you about your father."
At the clinic, Dr. Levine is explaining how Josef should administer Oleg's treatment. There is a knock at the door, but it's not the nurse, it's Dimitri and Andre, two of Bazhaev's gunmen. They shoot Levine through the head and take lead the brothers away at gunpoint. As they leave the clinic, we see that they have killed the nurse as well. They call Bazhaev, who tells them to bring his sons to him.
Jack and Lugo meet at a parking garage. Jack is speaking German, undercover as buyer Ernst Meier, but Lugo asks that they speak English. Jack insists on speaking to Vladimir before transferring the money. Vlad answers the phone, and we see that Renee is lying naked in bed beside him, post-coital and full of shame and rage. Vlad claims that once he has the money, it'll be an hour before Jack has his information. Jack then asks to speak to Renee. Vlad says she's busy; he'll see her when he gets there.
Jack asks Lugo for his account number and begins the transfer. It'll take a few minutes. As Jack stands over his laptop, Lugo and his goons await the moment to take Jack out. As Renee gets dressed, Vlad tells her his true plans. She talks fast, trying to change his mind, calling him a coward and promising him they'll be together. He is unmoved. She tries to make a phone call, but he attacks her, pinning her to the ground, warning her to never go against him. She's horrified, unable to help Jack.
The transfer goes through, but before Lugo's men can shoot Jack, the men are shot by Cole, who is acting as a sniper, while Jack takes Lugo off-guard, knocks him to the ground, and makes him drop his weapon. Did Lugo honestly think he'd walk in here alone? He calls Vlad, in character, and angrily asks if he really thought he could be rolled for $5 million. After confirming that Renee's okay, Vlad says he's willing to reconsider. He has Lugo bring Jack to him.
Josef and Oleg return to their father's nightclub. Bazhaev is furious. Josef has endangered the family, and disobeyed his father. He takes out a gun, pointing it at Josef... then suddenly aims at Oleg. "I'm sorry, my son," he says, and shoots Oleg dead. Bazhaev pulls Josef to him in an embrace... and tells him to never disobey him again. He leaves, as Josef numbly stares at his brother's corpse.
