Rae is pleased to have the apparently fearless Liam as her best, platonic friend, but is surprised that he wants to keep his group attendance secret. This spells trouble for Rae when Liam's violent girlfriend Amy, said to have been expelled from her last college for assault, threatens her and wants to know why they spend so much time together. She gives her until Friday. Liam refuses to tell Amy the truth but Rae sees he is not so tough when he breaks down and they kiss. Archie is also given the ultimatum by www.2kyb.com Lois to come out by Friday or else she will expose him. He suggests to Rae they run off together but she dissuades him and is pleased when Finn, anxious to resume a non-sexual friendship, offers to teach her self-defence. Come Friday Archie confesses to being gay to generally positive reactions whilst Amy crumbles when Rae tells her she kissed Liam. Back home Mum explains to Rae that she is converting to Islam as Karim, now a lollipop man, wants their baby born into the religion.
A year after her murder, the police re-open the case of Yvonne Harrison when they receive an anonymous letter implicating a burglar, Harry Repp, who is about to be released from prison. Supt. Strange assigns the case to DS Lewis, who is chafing at the bit awaiting his promotion to Inspector. Morse has been ill and has only just returned to work. He steps on Lewis' toes by involving himself in the case, but as the body count rises, Morse finds himself in charge of investigating a woman who had many affairs with many different men. When he learns that the dead men were in possession of large amount of cash, he suspects they were blackmailing her murderer.
在經歷了上一次的恐怖襲擊之后，由于政府對CTU應對恐怖事件的解決方式不太滿意，還是最終決定解散CTU。杰克·鮑爾（基弗·薩瑟蘭 Kiefer Sutherland 飾）也因使用酷刑等非法手段來防止恐怖襲擊，而受到審查。原本以為自己終將在監獄里度過余生，卻因死而復生的前同事托尼（卡洛斯·博納德 Carlos Bernard 飾）的出現，徹底打亂了杰克現有的生活。托尼希望杰克能與他一起，共同調查又一次在美國大路上展開的恐怖襲擊。而隨著調查的不斷深入，杰克覺得身邊的托尼越來越琢磨不透。杰克一直覺得托尼有什么事情沒有對他說明白。由于新總統對杰克的信任，所以他們的調查之路雖然危機重重，但是開展得還算順利。不過，最后杰克終于發現這次恐怖襲擊的幕后策劃者，原來是一直與他并肩作戰的朋友托尼……
