This week/hour, in the world of 24...
Logan starts off the hour doing his best impersonation of Mel Brooks in Spaceballs: "I can't make decisions! I'm the President!!"
This business with the motorcade (and then the subterfuge inside CTU) is maybe the longest stretch of time without Jack Bauer on screen that we've ever seen. (Of course I thought that early on, only to have an even longer stretch later in the episode.)
I would ask how someone with Lynn's capacity for paranoid delusion ever got to a position inside CTU where he was in charge of anybody... but this is the same organization that hires moles about once a year.
Ha! "Jane Espenson in accounting!" Major Buffy shoutout. And you know former Whedon-verse writer David Fury put it there.
Wow, another person got the drop on Jack Bauer. That's two in one day! I guess Jack has been off the grid and out of practice for over a year. And it was RoboCop that blindsided him.
Edgar's getting strange numbers filtering through the chatter.... 4... 8... 15... 16... 23... 42...
Lynn doesn't want to chase after unsubstantiated theories? How far he's come since so enthusiastically chasing One-Eyed Willie's hidden treasure. (Ha! Expecting a Lord of the Rings reference this week? You see what I did there?)
"This office has made enough mistakes for one day!" Okay, first of all, he doesn't know how these things work. They still have 13 more hours to make more mistakes. And second, people in glass offices shouldn't... well, you can guess the rest.
Hack into Lynn's account? Apparently, in the year-plus since "day four," Audrey has started her degree at Jack Bauer's "do whatever it takes" masters program. Next class, Torture 101.
"My father always told me that life was about problem solving... that every problem had a solution." Sounds like daddy should have been president.
And now, CTU Theater presents a scene study from Crimson Tide, starring Lynn McGill and Curtis Manning.
Oh yeah, thank you upper-right window, I forgot that Jack was heading over to this bunker place. You'd think if this office complex was that big, they'd have golf carts or something to get across it.
Agent Pierce is seriously trying to give Jack Bauer competition in the "who's a bigger stud" contest. Seriously, even Jack hasn't survived being rocket launchered, flamethrowered, and machine gunned all at once.
The moment Henderson mentioned Nina Meyers, I stopped trusting him. That was just a too-perfect piece of emotional ammunition to fling in Jack's direction.
Words we never thought we'd hear from Jack Bauer: "How could I be so stupid?" Not that they were undeserved, though. The man really is out of practice. Well, that, or he realized that Agent Pierce was seriously nipping at his heels in the "who's a bigger stud" contest, and decided the only thing to do was to survive an explosion.
And what's better than an episode of 24? Two episodes of 24. Next week is gonna be fun!
3 comments:
Lynn went way off the deep end. almost unbelievably. I'm waiting for them to ask for his keycard back and they'll think he's making up the Gollum (er, sister) story.
go Pierce! some part of that limo was blown up by a rocket, right? but everybody important survived. there's a car commercial in there somewhere. I like how actual police cars arrived, and not CTU SUVs. we get too many CTU units and not enough normal cops.
gotta give mad props to Robocop. first he cameos on Enterprise and now we get him on 24. almost the exact same character, too. for a few moments it looked like Jack was teaming up with his old mentor. now it's turned into a cooler student vs teacher thing :-D
let's hope that by the end of the day one of them will be torturing the other one...
the mole
Lots of ED-209, Clarence Boddiker, and "You look real good since they shot you up and turned you into a tin can" jokes there. I was waiting not for a golf cart, but the 6000 SUX.
And yes, The Goonies needed to call in Mouth, Data, Chunk, or even the Fratellis to calm Lynn down.
The motorcade sequence was reminiscent of Clear and Present Danger (complete with rocket launchers). Agent Pierce did get cool points for not only surviving that, but for blowing up the dude with the flamethrower. Don't forget though, he hasn't shot down a helicopter yet.
Which reminds me, I was watching Lethal Weapon the other night and Riggs chases down that helicopter that snipes the one guy (Michael Hunsacker, but who'd remember?). Riggs doesn't succeed in shooting it down which clearly proves Jack Bauer > Martin Riggs.
Excellent usage of the word "flamethrowered".
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