Jack is caught by a gathering of men working for an oil financier named Peter Kingsley who's hoping to gain by the coming conflict. Lynne Kresge finds that VP Prescott is anticipating holding onto the administration via the 25th Amendment. President Palmer manages some inexorably fretful Joint Heads of Staff. Kate and Yusef are assaulted by irate American residents when they attempt to get the chip behind the Ali recording back to CTU.