Season Seven Episode Twelve - 7:00pm-8:00pm
Juma's plan leads to a standoff at the White House; the President's daughter is in jeopardy; and another conspirator is revealed.
Olivia Taylor still wants to go see her father in the hospital; Aaron Pierce persuades her to stay put at the White House as her mother, the President, has ordered for her own safety. The President plans to tell the public the truth: another attack is imminent. Moss calls and tells her that Juma's involved; and he's lost contact with Agent Walker… who has just climbed out of the Potomac. She finds a park ranger, and tells him to call and report an imminent terrorist attack at the White House; but the ranger is cut down by bullets from Laurent's gun. Walker flees with Laurent in pursuit. In a holding cell Jack pleads with Bill Buchanan to torture Burnett until he talks. Bill is sorry, but he just can't do that.
With the help of a man on the inside disguised as a technician, Juma and his men break into the White House. They shoot down a detail of Secret Service. They have nine minutes until the next Secret Service roll call; they must find the President before then. Laurent catches up with Agent Walker. She tells him that his father is dead at Juma's hand. Laurent doesn't believe her. Just as he's about to strangle her to death, he's shot dead; Moss and his men have finally arrived. Walker tells him she knows Juma's target. Back at the White House, Jack is in handcuffs; Bill is leading him away. Moss calls, and tells Bill the White House is the target. Bill immediately un-cuffs Jack, and tells him to do exactly as he says. As Juma and his men kill the President's press secretary, Secret Service agents inform the President that the White House is under attack, and begin to spirit her away to lockdown. They meet up with Jack and Bill on the way. Bill takes the President's tracker in order to draw Juma away from her, while Jack and the other agents continue to head for lockdown. Juma quickly finds and captures Bill, and realizes he's been tricked. Jack and the President make it to the lockdown room just as Juma is catching up with them. The President orders Jack not to close the door until her daughter can join them, but it's too late. The security doors close. Aaron Pierce will have to find another way out of the building for himself and Olivia. Suddenly the phone cuts out; Juma is blocking all communication in and out of lockdown. The Secret Service, led by Agent Hovis, is bearing down on Juma's men. Juma bluffs that he's captured the President, and will kill her if they don't back off. Hovis has no choice but to call off his men. Juma then has his men fan out to take hostages, and seal off the exits. Aaron Pierce and Olivia are hiding in an air vent. Aaron realizes that Juma must be bluffing; they have to find a way to get word to Hovis as soon as possible so his men can retake the building. Juma's number-two and tech specialist, Ngozi, says that if the specifications they got from Hodges are correct, it will take him about ten to fifteen minutes to get through the doors of the lockdown room.
Moss and Agent Hovis catch each other up on the situation. Hovis' men can move in at any time, but the order must now come from the Vice President. The hostages, including Bill and Senator Mayer, are rounded up. Jack and the President scan the faces on a closed-circuit monitor for Olivia; she's not there. Jack realizes that Juma must have had inside help… and that Juma's on a suicide mission. Ngozi tries to break the lockdown door's access code; Jack shorts out the lock. Explosives will take too long; Juma must find another way in... so he calls Jonas Hodges of Starkwood, who gave him the codes and other information he needed to infiltrate the White House. Hodges isn't going to help, but Juma says Hodges won't get his shipment if he doesn't find Juma another way in. Hodges finds that Olivia Taylor is on the White House manifest: find her, and they can get to the President.
Moss and Agent Walker urge Vice President Hayworth to allow Hovis to retake the building, but he won't act until he is absolutely certain that the President is safe. Inside, as Juma's men search the hostages for Olivia, she and Aaron find that there's no way out. Aaron says he can at least get a signal out from the windows upstairs, in the Residence area. He wants to leave Olivia in a secure place, but she insists on coming with him. While en route, however, Aaron is shot. He sends Olivia to a window to flash Morse code with a flashlight, but both she and Aaron are captured.
Ngozi has found a fiber-optic camera in the chandelier. He brings Olivia to the camera, and tells the President that if she doesn't open the door, he will kill Olivia slowly, carving her up piece by piece. The President asks Jack to open the door. Jack protests. She asks him if he could stand by if his own daughter was being butchered. He says he couldn’t… but he's not the President of the United States. She orders him to open the door. Just as Juma is about to cut out Olivia's eyes, the door opens. Jack is led over to sit with the other hostages. The President tells Juma to let the hostages go: he has her; he doesn't need them now. Juma slaps her hard across the face, and tells her that she doesn't give orders; he does. He tells Udo to get the camera ready for the President's statement: the last statement she will ever make.
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