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Spoiler alert! Read on if you want to learn what happened in this episode of "24".
The third hour of the sixth day finds us with Assad still following the handler.
Fayed calls 2.0 to demand the release of "enemy combatants" being held in Palmdale. Even though 2.0 knows Fayed is not to be trusted and the crew argues for denying the request, Palmer agrees in order to buy some time while continuing to attempt to foil the ongoing attacks.
Jack suggests to Assad that they bring in CTU's mad satellite skillz to help them track the handler who they believe will lead them back to Fayed. Assad says he won't work with his enemies. Jack points out that he's working with one now.
At CTU Milo is pulling rank on Morris and Morris gets in a snit. Chloe breaks up the fight and meta-explains that Morris and Milo are just posturing because Chloe briefly dated Milo but is now back with Morris. I suspect this bit of information will figure into the story later on because otherwise it's a throwaway. It could be one of the kind of storylines that male bloggers are convinced are in there just to woo the ladies with some superfluous romance. But no, boys. We ladies like 24 for the action and found the pre-Jack attack Audrey and father-daughter Kim bonding storylines just as annoying as did you. Producers, please feel free to delete superfluous romance in favor of more Jack running around saving the world in his tight t-shirt. :D
Jack apparently did not forget how to drive while he was locked up not talking. Jack jacks a car and chases after the handler. He slams into the handler's car and jumps out to berate the handler for "causing" the accident. Assad pulls up and pretends to be a sympathetic witness as Jack jumps back in the car and speeds off. Jack calls CTU and tells them calmly that "the suspect was involved in a traffic incident." Assad offers to give the handler a lift to where he needs to go since his car is totaled. As they get into Assad's car, Assad dials Jack and drops the phone into the door cubby so that Jack can track Assad and the handler to their destination.
Back in suburbia, Ahmed is holding geometry-boy and his parents captive. Because of his badly injured leg, Ahmed can't deliver the package and tells soccer dad that he'll have to do the deed. Bill Buchanan sends Curtis to find and assist Jack but Curtis isn't too pleased about the involvement of Assad. Karen Hayes informs 2.0 that Jack is back on the case so perhaps they don't need to continue with the prisoner release. Not surprisingly for Wayne's world, 2.0 still doubts Jack and decides to take his chances with Fayed.
Jack and Curtis rendezvous and continue their strained reunion. Curtis doesn't like the whole Assad peace plan nonsense and is apparently pissed that Jack has returned to replace him as CTU's resident ass-kicker and world-saver.
2.0 has arranged for his sister SPL to be released but Walid is taken to one of the detention centers Thomas Lennox secretly set up before he floated the idea. SPL angrily calls 2.0 to insist that Walid be released instead of being held without cause since she's the one who deleted the files. 2.0 demurs saying that if Walid is innocent he has nothing to worry about. SPL worries about her brother throwing the Constitution out the window and again detects the stink of Lennox.
Et tu, Curtis? OK, I get that you can't just flip the switch with Assad but, damn, even you don't trust Jack? I guess not because Curtis has his squad arrest Assad when they meet up to drop in on the handler. The handler is at a storage unit and is looking at a laptop. As Buchanan loses his mind and again doubts Jack, the handler spots the CTU team and escapes into the storage unit and then emerges with a grenade and blows up the unit.
Since the handler did not lead them to Fayed, 2.0 gives the final go ahead for the prisoner release.
Meanwhile, soccer dad delivers the package to a parts store. The parts store guy decides to demand more money. Ahmed orders soccer dad to make it work and exchange