The first of this week's previouslies freeze-frames features -- get this -- "The FBI." Which is represented by Kiefer and Agent Walker, on the phone at the DC field office. Weird. Remember when CTU used to get freeze-frames sometimes, as "Counter Terrorism Unit"? I'm just a little taken aback at seeing this week's new 24 viewers introduced to something that actually exists.

Tony makes his sneaky way across the Starkwood compound, and from behind a building he watches a semi pulling a tanker trailer into place near what looks like the above-ground pipes leading to a private fuel depot hidden underground. Stokes and another Starkwood guy meet the truck there. While watching this through his binoculars, Tony asks Kiefer over his earpiece where the damn F-18s are already. Kiefer has to tell Tony that Taylor called off the air strike. He claims that Taylor wasn't satisfied with the intel (despite the fact that Kiefer and Tony both saw the canisters themselves) and agrees with Tony that it doesn't make sense. But they still have their orders, and Kiefer's in an obedient mood this hour, so he tells Tony to go meet with Moss's teams, which are along the southwest perimeter of the Starkwood compound. Well, that explains why Moss hasn't been back to FBI-DC yet. Tony tells them to hold on for a minute so he can get a closer look at that truck, and he sees that the truck and the fuel pipes are labeled "RP-7." So that's either a tanker truck full of spray lubricant or remote-control robots, then? Actually, RP-7 means something else to Tony; he recognizes it as fuel for surface-to-surface rockets, which in turn helps him and Kiefer form a theory as to why the air strike was called off: Hodges threatened Taylor with the rockets. Of course, now we know that she could have gone ahead, since the rockets apparently weren't fueled until just now anyway. Kiefer confirms that Tony's got some C-4 on him and that he thinks he can get to the underground depot undetected, and then ropes Walker into coming with him so they can call the president.

Tim enters the Oval Office and tells Taylor that the Joint Chiefs are giving him a hard time about Taylor's decision to call off the air strike. And frankly he doesn't get it either. Taylor's in no mood, and she didn't get this far in the season by not being stubborn, so she puts Tim off, except to mention that Jonas Hodges is on his way to talk to her.