Jack gets the target, but the target gets shot in the process and the consul (?) is killed by friendly fire.
The target is alive but fading. He agrees to reveal the location of Marwan, but not until he has a signed guarantee of protection from the President. Meanwhile, back at CTU, Jack’s girl tells her husband that she wants to get back together with him. Moments later he crashes and the doctor rushes him into an emergency surgery.
As the van nears CTU, the target goes critical. By the time they make it to CTU, he is at death’s door. Jack & Co race him inside and yell at the doctor that he must be saved, but the doc is in the middle of an operation on Paul. Jack is desperate because his only lead is about to die and a nuke will be detonated any time now. He pulls his gun on the doc and forces him to abandon the surgery on Paul to save the target.
Paul dies moments later while Jack’s former love interest goes crazy with grief. “I hate you Jack!” and all that. The Chinese ambassador calls Palmer and international tensions spike.
Good episode, but the best part for me was the previews for next week, where it becomes clear that the terrorists do not plan to detonate the nuke on American soil, but instead intend to launch it at China! How cool is that?!
