Susan Pari

The family throws a party for Nora's sixtieth birthday.

While investigating the murder of man hired to make dirty bombs that terrorists intend to set off in Miami, Horatio finds the bloody fingerprint of his brother, Raymond, who he believed to be dead.

Navy Seals are wounded, and civilians were killed during a mission in Afghanistan. A reporter who was sent along as a PR move to generate good publicity for the military. Because of the attack he is now reporting negatively about the incident.

Farik sets the attack on Dodger Stadium in motion by triggering a Decoy explosion. In the midst of several fire trucks arriving on the scene, the Cell’s own emergency response vehicle escapes and slips by the FBI with deadly containers of toxic chemicals inside. Before leaving the warehouse Darwyn snags Ilea's ticket to the ballgame and places it inside his Quran as a clue for the FBI. Serxner realizes that the explosion was a decoy and raids the empty warehouse finding the baseball ticket. The FBI is now racing against the clock to intercept the Cell’s attack on the stadium.

The Cell kidnaps a chemical truck driver and his rig in preparation for Youmud Din. Meanwhile, Serxner and the FBI prepare to stop the attack in all three cities. Farik gives the jihadis one last night to themselves as he meets and bids farewell to his own wife. After Farik gruesomely murders the truck driver of the phosgene-laden truck (by forcibly making him inhale the toxic fumes), he finally tells the anxious Cell when and what they'll be attacking: The target is Dodger Stadium the next morning, one day earlier than the FBI previously believed.

Darwyn struggles to maintain his cover as he assumes command of a new Los Angeles sleeper cell and questions the experience and skill of his new FBI case agent; Farik's interrogators use new techniques to get him to talk.