Ted Marcoux

When Gabriel's 6-year-old brother dies of a gunshot wound, Claire finds herself softening towards her ex. David hits the dance clubs with his new lover and discovers the joys of ecstasy - as does his mother Ruth.

Jack finds Kyle's bag of suspicious white powder, Palmer learns more about the incriminating allegations against Anne and Chase chafes at being shut out of Jack's pursuit of Kyle.

President Palmer must make a life-threatening decision regarding Jack; Kim learns of her father's drug addiction; Ryan Chappelle takes command of CTU.

Simone and Sipowicz link a dying infant and a serial rapist; Simone suspects Russell has a serious problem; police assault Irvin and his lover.

The morning after his return from Florida with McDowell and his son, Sipowicz picks up a case with a missing child and gets a thumbs up from one of the uniforms.