CTU discovers that an airplane went down the Mojave Desert. Unbenowist to them, it was carrying the person who was supposed to snap Palmer's picture at a breakfast meeting. An assassin named Many emerges with the man's wallet, and hides a transponder in the desert spot where she lands after she made the jump. A girl named Brigette picks it up. Mandy is revealed to be working for a man named Ira Gaines. One of Ira's men has plastic surgery to resemble the photographer. Mandy wants to lay low for a while, seeing she completed what she was assigned to do. Meanwhile, Kimberly and her best friend Janet (Jaqui Maxwell) have been kidnapped by two men in which a local party the girls were attending turned out to be a rouse. With the help of Alan York (Richard Burgi), a worried Teri searches for her daughter. Meanwhile, Walsh has a meeting with his source who gives him a key card. Jack is called in when Walsh is ambushed. Jack and Walsh both take out two men, but a third shoots Walsh as he hands Jack the key card. They key card is the only hint in Palmer's assassination attempt...