Heller tries to apologize to Jack Bauer for ruining everything. But apologies don't work on Jack Bauer unless you're a cute blonde.
Chloe's gonna slip in through the subnet. She's so clever.
Even though Chloe doesn't work for Buchanan anymore, she can still be standoffish and slightly awkward around him. That's our Chloe.
Christopher Henderson is a very cautious man. He knows how that poor bastard in RoboCop got shot all to hell in the first 20 minutes.
A shootout ensues! Henderson runs out of ammo, and is obliged to give us the standard TV/movie pantomime of shaking his gun in frustration to convey this information.
Heller won't be used as a pawn! ("You can't fire me, I quit!") And thus, he flies out of the story, Toonces the Driving Cat style.
Ah... now we meet the puppet master behind it all. Not to complain too much, but this was the same formula employed in season one, two, and three, introducing the "master-mastermind" about 6 hours from the end of the season.
Martha's problem is in presentation. She may not actually be crazy, but she sure acts like it. I thought First Ladies were all about presentation.
Audrey doesn't care how far she has to go or what she has to do to get the recording back. And she asks Jack if he understands. Audience: "Uh.... ya think?"
Jack wants to call Curtis back from whatever void he'd been exiled to for two or three episodes. I guess it's really more of a "penalty box" than permanent exile.
Karen Hayes gets a real zinger of a line: "She intimidated you?"
Logan tells his wife the truth of the plot. Her reaction? Well, if she wasn't crazy before, she certainly is now.
Master-Mastermind is back with "cryptic cliche bad guy conversation #17." You know the one: "I'm having doubts." "We said we'd all be strong. You can't back out now." Bla bla bla.
At least Audrey shows brains enough to know that Henderson is trying to manipulate her.
Hmmm... British flags on the car near this diplomatic plane. And they very carefully avoid showing us any faces of people getting on the flight. Do we know anyone from past seasons that this could be on this plane? Or is it going to be someone entirely new?
Karen gives in to her instincts and tips off Buchanan and Chloe... thus thoroughly passing the "standoffish ass 'CTU' boss" baton to Miles.
Jack's hoodie is back up. He's in full badass mode once again!
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What Heller did was positively silly and didn't change the result at all. Besides, we all know he's not dead.
yeah the Toonces moment was kind of silly. did he know there was a lake down there? it was too weak of a moment for him to go out that way. so he's either still alive, or just got chumped by campy writing. next up: Heller in the cougar trap followed by crazy mountain guy.
Super Curtis to the rescue. the sneak-up behind Audrey "got" me. but it was cool. the immediate recapture of Henderson was definitely not expected. something tells me Curtis is less safe than he thinks...
I'm not too sure I like the Evil Council of Villains. It waters down the impact of Logan being responsible. at least we've been "told" that Aaron is okay. right?... he is okay, right??? :-P
the mole
Slightly off-topic, does anyone else find the House M.D. preview as entertaining as the 24 episode it airs during?
Back on topic, does anyone else think the evil scheme is a fourth Robocop movie?
I just love it when Jack throws Audrey inside the police car and DOESN'T fasten her seatbelt (nor his, for that matter). And then, just like you'd expect, he goes into his "ram the bastard" routine, with a half-dead girlfriend bouncing around in the passenger seat.
Well done!
FKL
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