Actor: Mary Lynn Rajskub

Character: Chloe O'Brian

Summary: Chloe, who has just hooked up with her subordinate Spenser, is chased by the men who killed Palmer and Michelle. She calls Jack, and meets him at an oil refinery after going dark from CTU.
Chloe drives Jack in the assassin’s van to Wayne Palmer’s building. She taps into her CTU account from the laptop in the van in order to monitor agency deployment. She helps Jack enter the apartment without interference. When she is located by CTU, Chloe tries to escape and surrenders to the agents. She is put on the phone with Buchanan, and explains that Jack has been set up. No one believes her, and she is carted to CTU as a prisoner.
Buchanan allows Chloe to work through the crisis because she is an asset. Yet she goes behind Buchanan’s back to aid Jack in saving Derek. Chloe appeals to Spenser for help, and he obliges.
Chloe thinks Buchanan isn’t convinced they can save the hostages. She is directed to go through McGill from now on, but is annoyed because she thinks McGill is more of a hindrance.
Edgar tells Chloe that he is upset she couldn’t trust him with her secrets. Chloe goes to make up with Spenser, but sees that he has been using a higher security clearance than authorized. She immediately notifies Buchanan, and they take Spenser into custody. Chloe feels betrayed by Spenser because of their relationship, and Spenser accuses her of trying to get revenge on him. He claims that the President had him spy on Jack and CTU as part of an internal investigation.
Chloe is still annoyed with having to report to McGill, but she manages to find the boat where the nerve gas is hidden.
When she is required to hack into the specialized security building of the man helping the terrorists, Chloe asks Buchanan to allow her to use Spenser because he is more experienced with that skill. Chloe is unsentimental with Spenser, and has him taken away when he has completed his task.
Chloe helps Jack install the chip into the trigger. Then she tracks the terrorists through the chip, but CTU loses Erwich and the nineteen other nerve gas canisters.
Audrey admits to Chloe that she called Jack with a link to the terrorists, which forced him to escape. She asks Chloe to delete her phone records so that McGill doesn't learn of her complicity. Then when Jack calls in with a chip from Nathanson, Audrey connects him to Chloe because McGill is over her shoulder. Chloe finds that the chip is encrypted by the Defense Department, so she gets Buchanan to distract McGill and allow Audrey to relay her Defense password. Chloe decrypts the file and passes the information to Jack about a corporation that has acquired the materials to make nerve gas.
Chloe asks Edgar to help cover her while she works with Jack. Yet McGill finds her with Audrey and reprimands her. When Edgar discovers a link between terrorist chatter and the route of the Russian presidential motorcade, Chloe brings it to McGill. He refuses to allow them to look into it. Chloe hacks into McGill’s system in order to alert the Secret Service of the possible threat, but McGill wants her arrested. Curtis intervenes and has McGill apprehended.
When Jack gets to Henderson’s computer Chloe is unable to quickly hack the password unlocking the satellite phone numbers he has been calling.
Chloe tells Kim to cut Jack some slack because those who knew that he was alive were being killed. When the nerve gas gets released in CTU, Chloe manages to cordon off some of the rooms with a protective biohazard seal. Unfortunately, Edgar is locked out. Chloe cries as she watches Edgar fall to his death.
Chloe is in shock after watching Edgar die right in front of her. Jack forces her to get back to work. After she finds that a corrosive agent in the nerve gas is eating away at the protective seals on the isolated offices, Chloe thinks she can stop it by forcing the air conditioning to blast. Yet the system is being blocked by a program running on a computer in an infected area. McGill is able to access it, which frees Chloe to flush out the nerve gas.
Chloe manages to get the name of Bierko’s intelligence broker off Henderson’s computer. Yet when Miles from Homeland Security takes away her keycard, Chloe has to steal it from his desk to help Jack get a terrorist list from the NSA network. Miles figures out what she did and reports it to his boss. Chloe is chastised for insubordination.
Chloe helps Jack by discovering that Audrey had an affair with Cummings and that Collette knew Henderson. When Miles starts bothering the new techie, Chloe comes to her rescue because the girl had previously accused him of sexual harassment. Yet Chloe realizes that the techie was delusional about Miles’ advances.
Chloe is furious when she learns that Audrey signed a Homeland statement that lays blame on Buchanan for the mistakes caused during the day’s events. Yet Audrey confides that she only did it in order to retain Chloe on staff because Jack needs her.
Chloe helps Audrey find the transponder that Karen put on her car to follow her. Then Chloe distorts the satellite when Miles has it search for Audrey. When Miles goes to accuse her of wrongdoing, Chloe sneaks to the restroom so that it appears she was in there instead of altering the satellite.
Chloe learns from Shari that Miles has tracked Audrey. When Chloe tries to warn Audrey, Miles traces the call. He places her in the holding room, but Chloe pickpockets his keycard and escapes. Shari wants to alert Miles, but Chloe threatens to have her sent for a psych evaluation with false sexual harassment claims. Shari lets her go, and Chloe heads to Buchanan’s house. She feels responsible for getting Jack and Audrey caught.
From Buchanan’s house, Chloe accesses CTU’s satellites to help Jack find Henderson and the plane carrying the person with the tape recording. Yet when Karen alerts her that CTU has traced her there, Chloe refuses to leave until she gets Jack the plane’s passenger list.
Chloe escapes from Buchanan’s house before the Homeland agents can catch her. She sets up in a hotel bar and has Karen help her access CTU data. Chloe finds a suspect in the plane passenger manifest, but it turns out to be wrong. She then discovers that the copilot was a last minute fill-in and has ties to Henderson. Chloe gets this information to Jack and he is able to get the tape recording.
Chloe is brought back to CTU to help Jack avoid being shot down. When Jack brings in the tape recorder, Chloe works on cleaning up the audio to present it as evidence. She doesn’t see Miles do something to the recording.
Chloe realizes that the tape recorder has been erased by Miles and all their evidence is gone. She is able to tap into the computer of one of Bierko’s associates and finds plans for a Russian submarine docked in Los Angeles.
Chloe connects Jack to an officer aboard the sub who survived the attack. After the missiles are dismantled, Chloe reluctantly agrees to assist Jack in getting Logan to confess to his crimes. She brings in her ex-husband Morris to help at CTU.
Chloe has Morris assist her in helping Jack. She sets up a video feed for Jack to pretend to get Logan’s confession. She also tapes a conversation between Logan and Martha caught on a planted listening device. Chloe contacts the Attorney General herself, and plays the tape of Logan’s admission of guilt. Buchanan gives Chloe a photo of her and Edgar, and she tears up.

Actor: Gregory Itzin

Character: President Charles Logan

Summary: While preparing to sign an arms treaty with the Russian president, Logan learns that former President Palmer has been assassinated. He refuses to postpone the day’s events. When his wife Martha says that Palmer may have been killed because of her, Logan dismisses her claims as delusions.
Although Russian President Suvarov may be in jeopardy, Logan does not want any changes to the summit’s proceedings. Logan receives from Cummings the tape of Martha’s conversation with Palmer. There is nothing of national security on the audio. He plays it for her to prove that she is delusional and should be back on her medication.
The President is pulled away from the summit to deal with the hostage situation. Logan wants it resolved by the time he has to sign the treaty and is horrified when the terrorists start killing civilians. He is furious when he finds out that CTU has been working with Jack inside the airport. Logan was not told that Jack is no longer a suspect in Palmer’s murder.
As innocent hostages are being killed, Logan finally offers to postpone the summit. His aide Cummings encourages him to stay on course. Logan is apprehensive, but does so. Even Suvarov notes that they will look like fools signing the treaty if the attack backfires. Yet when CTU saves the hostages, Logan boasts about it to the press. Martha tries to talk to her husband, but Logan brushes her away.
Martha tells her husband that someone knocked her out to steal proof that Palmer had tried to warn her about the terrorist plot. Logan doesn’t believe her and fears that her crazy ramblings will hurt him politically. Cummings convinces him to have her committed. Yet she escapes from the premises.
Logan is shocked when Cummings confesses that he set up the terrorists with the nerve gas so that they could prove there are weapons of mass destruction in Central Asia. This would allow America to beef up its military and secure oil. Cummings has an inside man who will detonate the canisters before it reaches Moscow. Logan has no choice but to go along with this because there is no turning back, even though Cummings was responsible for Palmer’s death. Jack gets Cummings to divulge where the nerve gas is, and Logan has Cummings arrested. With the Chinese still after him, Jack agrees to disappear once the terrorist threat is over. Yet when the boat is raided, the nerve gas is gone. The terrorists found out that Cummings had been deceiving them.
Fearing that the nerve gas will be unleashed, the President asks Jack to be reinstated regardless of what will happen with the Chinese. Although Novick suggests they hide Cummings’ involvement, Logan takes Martha’s advice about telling the truth to the public. He has her write a statement for the press. Yet all plans go out the window when Cummings is found dead after committing suicide.
Since Cummings cannot take responsibility for his crimes, Logan agrees with Novick’s plan to absolve Cummings for the nerve gas leak. Martha is furious that Logan has lied. When CTU is faced with allowing the terrorists to perform a field test with one nerve gas canister in a populated mall in order to retrieve the other canisters, they defer to the President’s decision. Logan is panicked about ordering the murder of innocent people, but he gives in to CTU’s assessment.
Logan is anxious that CTU hasn’t found the nerve gas. He becomes even more so when Bierko the terrorist leader calls. Bierko plans to release the nerve gas in the United States unless Logan provides the Russian president’s motorcade route. Bierko wants to assassinate him. When Martha overhears a conversation about this, Logan is forced to tell her the situation. She tries to convince him not to give in to the terrorists, but he feels he has no other choice.
Logan finds out that Martha is in the car with the Russian president. He is forced to sacrifice his own wife in order to prevent the nerve gas from being inflicted on the public. Yet when CTU learns of the threat against the motorcade, they alert the Secret Service. The car is attacked but Martha and the Suvarovs are saved. Logan tries to tell Bierko that he kept up his end of the bargain, but Bierko intends to inflict harm on America for allying with the Russians.
Martha refuses to speak with Logan because he did not stand up to the terrorists. He lies to Suvarov about what was known about the ambush and nerve gas. When Suvarov suggests that Martha seemed distracted even before the attack, Logan dismisses this as an episode of her psychological disorder.
Logan calls Vice President Gardner to the retreat to help manage the crisis. Gardner proposes a more aggressive approach to combat the nerve gas threat that includes enacting martial law. Novick disagrees, but Logan wants to take this hard line approach. Martha lets her husband know that she still stands by him and loves him regardless of what happened. Logan is relieved by her support.
Logan follows Vice President Gardner’s plan to put Homeland Security in charge of CTU’s operations and enact martial law in Los Angeles. He breaks down to Martha that he no longer knows what to do. She assures him that she will support his decision.
Although his wife tries to dissuade him, Logan declares martial law on Los Angeles. Logan is annoyed when commentators wonder whether this is legal, but Vice President Gardner assures the President that he is in control of the situation.
Gardner is concerned that Wayne Palmer was at the retreat to see Aaron Pierce. Logan is not bothered by this because he knows that Pierce was a friend of President Palmer. It is revealed that Logan is the one behind the conspiracy. Henderson reports to Logan that he failed to retrieve the evidence that names him. Henderson promises Logan that he will kill Jack and Wayne, and suppress whatever evidence there exists.
Henderson assures Logan that he will find Jack and the tape implicating them. Logan blames Henderson for the situation spiraling out of control and his eagerness to kill Palmer. Logan issues a warrant for Jack’s arrest, making it a priority for Homeland Security and CTU. He claims to have new evidence. Gardner is angry that he wasn’t consulted. The President makes a public announcement that the terrorist threat has been defeated. Yet when he gets a call from Henderson about Jack, Logan asks Martha to give him privacy.
When CTU traces Audrey, Logan alerts Henderson of the location. Logan has Karen pull back her team so that he can send in the military instead. Karen appeals to Novick about the decision, so Novick questions Logan. Heller arrives at the retreat to demand Logan’s resignation. But when Henderson retrieves the tape, Logan asks for Heller’s resignation and has him removed from the premises.
Henderson tells the President that he did not destroy the tape so that he will have protection. Henderson doesn’t want to be the victim of a “suicide” like Cummings. Logan is forced to tell his fellow conspirators to end to the plan to kill Henderson. In return, he will silence his wife. Logan confesses to Martha that he was involved in the Palmer assassination, and he begs her to remain quiet to protect the American people. Although he is relieved that she will keep his secret, Logan is disturbed that he has lost his wife’s love and trust.
Novick questions whether he and Martha are hiding something, but Logan brushes it off as marital discord. When the President orders the plane brought down and Jack arrested, Novick is alarmed by this decision. Logan claims that Jack has been lying to them and is now trying to escape. Graham warns Logan to shoot down the plane so that Jack and the tape recording are destroyed.
After Graham makes the plane appear as if it was hijacked, Logan orders it to be shot down. The plane lands and Logan is forced to abort. He orders Jack to be captured, but Jack escapes and gets the tape to CTU. Logan considers suicide, but then gets a reprieve from Miles who plans to intercept the incriminating tape at CTU to garner the President’s favor.
Logan tells Karen that Jack is no longer a suspect and can be released. He then tries to convince Pierce to keep quiet, but Pierce calls him a traitor. Logan orders Pierce to be killed. Logan informs Graham that the recording has been destroyed and that Jack will be taken care of. Yet all of his plans go awry when Bierko escapes and plans another terrorist attack.
With the terrorist threat averted, Logan plans to escort Palmer’s body back to Washington. He tells Graham that Jack will be killed. Logan is about to leave for the airport when Martha begs for his forgiveness. She entices him with sex and Logan delays his departure.
Logan is kidnapped by Jack and taken to an empty warehouse. Jack trains a camera on him but Logan refuses to confess his part in the conspiracy. Jack threatens to shoot him. The Secret Service arrives to save Logan, and Jack is captured. Logan goes to the airport to meet Palmer’s casket. Martha lashes out at him for killing Palmer, and Logan accuses her of working against him. Logan goes back out to deliver the eulogy for Palmer. When Logan finishes his speech, he is arrested. Jack had placed a wiretap on Logan, and his private conversation with Martha was recorded and played for the Attorney General. Logan gives one last glance at Martha and Novick, who betrayed him, before he is taken away.

Actor: James Morrison

Character: Bill Buchanan

Summary: After Palmer is killed, Buchanan advises the President to postpone a summit in case it is connected to the event. Logan refuses to do so. When Michelle and Tony are also targeted, CTU works to figure out what their connection is to Palmer.
With evidence of Jack at the crime scene and a backtrack of phone logs, Buchanan deduces that Jack is still alive and that Palmer, Tony, Michelle and Chloe helped fake his death. Buchanan puts out a warrant for Jack’s arrest in the assassination of Palmer. When Chloe is captured, Buchanan demands that she tell him where Jack is. Chloe refuses, but insists that Jack is being framed.
After Jack is cleared of murdering Palmer, he calls Buchanan from inside the airport and feeds CTU intelligence to help them capture the terrorists. Buchanan tries to make an offer to Beresch, the leader of the group. Beresch does not accept the trade and he begins killing the hostages, one by one.
Despite Buchanan’s ire, Lynn McGill from District takes over command of CTU. When Jack instructs CTU to alter its formation for attack, McGill questions this but Buchanan has Curtis’ team change its position. At the last second, McGill realizes that Jack has been using an old duress signal to warn CTU that he is captured. He convinces Buchanan to go back to the original formation, and it proves successful. Buchanan admits that McGill was right.
When Chloe has proof that Spenser was performing unauthorized tasks with a higher security clearance, Buchanan interrogates him. Spenser initially doesn’t break but admits that he was hired by the White House to internally investigate Jack and CTU. Cummings was his contact.
When Cummings arranges for CTU to be taken off the terrorist investigation, Buchanan knows that something is wrong. He argues with McGill about disregarding the order and accuses McGill of being inexperienced. After Cummings is exposed, the President grants CTU back its jurisdiction over the case.
CTU figures out that the canisters cannot be used without the detonation codes. After Edgar traces Erwich’s call, Buchanan has Jack go to the man who will help Erwich reconfigure the detonation. He sends Curtis and a team to meet Jack there. McGill orders Jack to give in to the man’s demands for immunity in order to stop Erwich.
Buchanan agrees with McGill’s plan to set off the one canister of nerve gas inside the mall in hopes of retrieving the other nineteen canisters. This will prevent casualties on a larger scale. Buchanan turns to the President to make the final decision and Logan goes along with their assessment about saving the greater good. Yet Jack disobeys orders and refuses to give the terrorists the detonation code. The terrorists manually release some of the gas and CTU is able to contain the threat in the mall to a few casualties.
With McGill’s suspicion arising, Buchanan acknowledges that Jack and Audrey had an intimate relationship. When Audrey confesses to him that Jack escaped arrest in order to pick up a lead on the nerve gas, Buchanan helps Audrey and Chloe work with Jack by distracting McGill. McGill senses that there is insubordination occurring in his command, and he has Buchanan taken into custody.
Audrey convinces Curtis to intervene and have McGill labeled as mentally unstable. Buchanan is brought out of holding and reinstated. Buchanan immediately alerts Logan and the Secret Service to the threat on the Russian president. This allows the First Lady and the Suvarovs to be saved.
Curtis gives Buchanan a blueprint found on the dead terrorists at the motorcade ambush. Edgar tracks down the building as a hospital, and Buchanan orders it to be evacuated. Curtis is able to trap the canister in a chemical container that saves the nerve gas from being released in the hospital.
Buchanan tells Tony the truth about why Michelle was killed and about Henderson’s involvement in the conspiracy. When McGill gets the news about his sister’s death, he admits to Buchanan that she stole his CTU keycard. Buchanan quickly has Chloe confirm the keycard was used to breach security. He locks down the building, which leads to Jack shooting the terrorist that infiltrated CTU. This gives them a brief warning to the nerve gas that has been emitted inside.
Buchanan speaks to the personnel in the safe zones of CTU and warns them of the nerve gas leaking into their areas. Curtis reports that he can’t get the chemical response team to CTU for a while, so Buchanan directs his staff to find any means they can gather to find a solution.
Karen Hayes and her Homeland Security staff arrive to take over authority of CTU. Yet Buchanan is forced into not revealing this to his staff. Buchanan fights Karen over retaining CTU’s autonomy.
Buchanan takes Audrey into custody but he doesn't believe that she is guilty. He fights Karen over the use of torture to break Audrey.
Despite his intention to protest Homeland’s assumption of power, Buchanan feels betrayed when he finds out that Audrey signed a statement that blames him for CTU’s mistakes. He leaves the office.
Jack calls Buchanan for help keeping Wayne safe while he hands over the evidence to Secretary Heller. Buchanan also lets Chloe hide out at his house and access CTU from his computer.
Buchanan lets Chloe use his home computer to access CTU’s satellite for Jack. He tries to delay the diplomatic jet holding the person with the tape recording but cannot stop it. Karen calls Buchanan to warn him that CTU has traced Chloe there. Karen admits that she is now starting to believe the theory that Logan is behind the terrorist attack. Buchanan urges Chloe to get out before CTU comes to arrest her, but she refuses to leave until she can get Jack his information.
Although she is helping Chloe, Karen has Buchanan brought into CTU instead of allowing the field agents to interrogate him. Miles is suspicious of this action, and he questions her. Karen says she wants to grill Buchanan herself. Karen tells Buchanan that, although she is still skeptical, she will help Jack in order to confirm the evidence he claims to have.
Working with Karen, Buchanan finds Jack a freeway to land the plane. They then send Curtis to pick up Jack and make sure the tape doesn’t fall into the hands of Logan’s people.
When Bierko escapes, finding him becomes CTU’s priority. Buchanan and Karen want to offer Henderson immunity for info on Bierko, but Jack is resistant at first. He relents, and gets information that leads them a Russian submarine parked in Los Angeles. Bierko uses a remaining Sentox gas canister to take over the sub for its missiles.
Buchanan grants Chloe’s ex-husband a security clearance to help her with the remaining protocols.
Buchanan thinks he will be fired from CTU once the Vice President takes over the Oval Office, but Karen says she will make sure that won’t happen. Buchanan invites her out to breakfast, but Karen is summoned to District. She asks him if they can go out another time.

Actor: Jean Smart

Character: Martha Logan

Summary: The First Lady learns that her good friend David Palmer was murdered. She tries to tell her husband that Palmer wanted to discuss an issue of national security with her before he was killed. Logan promises his wife he will have her claims looked into.
Martha knows that her husband doesn’t believe her allegations about her connection to Palmer’s death. When Logan plays her the audio of her phone conversation with the former President, Martha is adamant that this wasn’t the right tape. Logan convinces her that she is being delusional and needs to go back on her medication.
Martha is convinced that the hostage situation is related to what Palmer had called her about. She bribes an aide to give her access to written phone transcripts, and she finds proof of her real call with Palmer. She hides the paper inside her bra.
Martha holds on to the paper transcript until she has her husband’s undivided attention. After the treaty is signed, she tries to speak to Logan but he dismisses her. Cummings knocks out Martha and takes the paper from her.
Martha is revived, and she claims that she was knocked out by someone who stole her proof of Palmer’s call. Yet Logan doesn’t believe his wife. Martha realizes that Logan is going to have her committed, and she sneaks out the bathroom window.
Martha is found by Secret Service Agent Pierce, and she tries to tell him that she is being framed. As Martha is being driven away, Logan stops the car to apologize. She was right all along about a conspiracy. Martha is still angry that her husband went along with Cummings’ plan to have her committed.
Martha admonishes her husband for not believing her, but she puts aside her anger to help him. When Novick suggests they cover up Cummings’ involvement, Martha advises Logan to tell the truth about the situation. Logan agrees with her and she drafts a press statement for him. Yet they are shocked to find that Cummings has committed suicide.
Martha feels betrayed when Logan ignores the statement she wrote and issues a press release absolving Cummings for the terrorist events. Yet when meeting Cummings’ bereaved widow, she cannot bring herself to tell the woman the truth. She doesn’t say that Cummings was a traitor.
Martha is horrified that her husband would consider giving the terrorists information to kill the Russian president in return for preventing release of the nerve gas on American soil. She pleads with him, but Logan insists that he has no other choice. At the last minute, Martha jumps in the limo taking the Suvarovs to the airport, hoping that this will convince Logan to save all of their lives.
On the way to the airport, Martha doesn’t understand why the motorcade is not being rerouted to avoid the terrorists. Yet she doesn’t let on her fear to the Suvarovs. Agent Pierce is notified of the threat, and when he has the motorcade turned around they are attacked. The limo is hit by a missile, but Martha and the Suvarovs survive inside the armored vehicle. Pierce takes out the terrorists and they are saved.
Martha tells Agent Pierce that her husband knew about the attack on the motorcade but didn’t try to save her. After she is flown back to the retreat, she refuses to speak to Logan. She thanks Agent Pierce for saving her life and takes his hand. Novick sees this and dismisses Pierce.
Novick tells Martha that Logan was anguished over his decision that would have cost her life. He admits that he doesn’t agree with the Vice President’s new forceful plan, and he asks Martha to convince Logan to take a safer tack. She believes that Logan isn’t as naïve as everyone assumes, but she agrees to assure her husband that she stands by him. Logan is comforted to know that she still loves him.
Martha, who mistrusts Vice President Gardner, doesn’t understand why her husband would let Gardner create policy. Novick convinces her to speak to Logan. Martha tells Logan that she will stand by him if this is his decision.
With CTU’s new lead on the terrorists, Martha tries to discourage her husband from declaring martial law. Yet he is insistent on following Gardner’s lead. Martha tells Logan that Gardner is trying to bring him down.
Martha says goodbye to her aide, Evelyn, who leaves the office for the day.
With the terrorist threat appearing to be over, Martha tells Logan that she is proud of his actions. She apologizes for being an inconvenience to him over the course of the day. Yet when Logan wants her to leave so that he can take a call, Martha becomes suspicious of his conversation.
Martha becomes more suspicious of her husband when Secretary Heller arrives at the retreat in the middle of the night. She asks Pierce about it, but he asks to speak to her outside. When she goes to meet Pierce, she finds his cell phone on the ground. He is missing.
Martha creates a commotion when she questions where Pierce is. One of the agents locks her into a room on the President’s orders. Logan comes to tell her that he transferred Pierce. He also admits that he was involved with Palmer’s murder even though he did not order it. Martha is shocked at this revelation. She agrees to remain silent in order to protect the nation’s integrity. But she tells Logan that she hates him.
A distraught Martha appeals to Novick for her medication. Novick suspects something is wrong with both her and the President. Martha dismisses this as marital problems. After Novick gets Logan to agree to give her some pills, a drugged out Martha asks her husband why he chose not to reach out to her earlier. Logan says that he didn’t because she has been on the verge of a breakdown for the past three years.
Logan comes to apologize to Martha but she refuses to give him any sympathy. She can’t believe that he has put on such a charade to her and the rest of the world.
Martha comes upon an agent holding Pierce hostage in the stables. Her husband had told her that Pierce was transferred to Washington. The agent is about to kill Pierce under orders from the President when Martha grabs the man’s gun and shoots him. Pierce warns her to go back to the retreat and not let on that he’s still alive. He wants her to tell Novick what happened.
Martha enlists Novick to bring to light the truth about Logan. With Novick’s help, Pierce escapes from the retreat after saying a tender goodbye to Martha. Jack needs more time to get to the retreat, so Novick asks Martha to stall the President’s departure. Martha apologizes to Logan and seduces him into having sex with her.
After Martha stalls Logan with sex, she devises an excuse to get out of traveling with him on the helicopter because Jack plans to kidnap him on the chopper. She later meets her husband at the airport, and is disappointed to learn that Jack could not get Logan to confess. Martha becomes upset and accuses Logan of killing Palmer. He has her brought into an empty hangar and they argue about his involvement in the conspiracy. Logan knows she schemed against him and he threatens to send her away for good. Yet when Logan is arrested, Martha cannot hide her disdain for the man she once loved.

Actor: William Devane

Character: Secretary of Defense James Heller

Summary: The Secretary gets a call from his daughter Audrey as he is on a jet traveling to Washington. She wants to talk to him in person about the warrant for Jack’s arrest. Heller re-routes his plane to Los Angeles.
Heller lands at the airport and Jack plays him the tape recording that implicates Logan. Instead of turning this over to the Attorney General, Heller has Jack and Audrey held captive while he tries to persuade Logan to resign. Heller does not want to erode the office of the president. He leaves the tape with one of the agents. Heller arrives at the retreat and wants the Vice President to witness Logan’s resignation. Logan receives a call from Henderson, and then orders Heller to resign. He has Heller taken away by the Secret Service.
Heller informs Jack that Logan would not resign quietly. Jack blames Heller for losing the tape because he wouldn’t listen to him. When he sees that Henderson’s men are following him, Heller refuses to let them make him a pawn in the conspiracy. He drives his car off a cliff and plunges into a lake.
Heller survives the car crash and is treated for his injuries.

Supporting Cast:

Roger Cross as Curtis Manning
Paul McCrane as Graham
Tzi Ma as Cheng Zhi
Louis Lombardi as Edgar Stiles
Carlo Rota as Morris O'Brian
Connie Britton as Diane Huxley
Brady Corbet as Derek Huxley
Ray Wise as Vice President Hal Gardner
Jude Ciccolella as Mike Novick
Glenn Morshower as Agent Aaron Pierce
John Allen Nelson as Walt Cummings
Jonah Lotan as Spencer Wolff
Sandrine Holt as Evelyn
Julian Sands as Vladimir Bierko
Peter Weller as Christopher Henderson
JoBeth Williams as Miriam Henderson
Sean Astin as Lynn McGill
Nick Jameson as Russian President Yuri Suvarov
Kathleen Gati as Anya Suvarov
Geraint Wyn Davies as James Nathanson
Mark Sheppard as Ivan Erwich
C. Thomas Howell as Barry Landes
DB Woodside as Wayne Palmer
Jeff Kober as Haas
Dennis Haysbert as David Palmer
Reiko Aylesworth as Michelle Dessler