from the episode guide on fox.com the woman is Mandy, who was hired by Ira Gaines the previous year in the plot to assassinate Palmer. http://www.fox.com/24/guide.html
I figured that from the way they kept showing her we were supposed to recognize who it is. Is she the one from the plane in the very beginning of the first season. I can sort of remember something like this happening.
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