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See . . . Jack had gotten involved with this woman, whose father was the Secretary of Defense . . . anyway she was married and through a convoluted series of events, well . . . Jack had to end up torturing her husband because he may have had information . . . and then the husband gets shot as he's pushing Jack out of the way of a terrorist's bullet . . . and then the husband goes into some sort of cardiac arrest after surgery to get the bullet . . . at the same time, Jack is rushing back to CTU with a Chinese national with information, who he kidnapped out of the Chinese Embassy . . . and there's just the one doctor at CTU . . . and the Chinese national took a bullet in the back, so he needs a doctor . . . so when Jack gets back to CTU and the doctor is working on the woman's husband, Jack has to put his gun on the doctor and tell him in no uncertain terms that he has to work on the Chinese national . . . this causes a fit of pique in the woman with whom Jack is having a dalliance . . . he correctly advises her that he has his orders . . . the husband dies, but there was nothing Jack could do about that . . .