As the next hour begins, Jack learns that his brother Graem is dead. No more fights over the Radio Flyer.Chloe's losing it, so Milo takes over. He should be good at this, since he was the big techno wiz in season one. But technology has evolved a lot in five seasons (which is something like 11 years of "real time" with all the time skips between seasons).
A Mazerati -- not the most inconspicuous car you can use to kidnap someone. But handy when you start being chased by a helicopter.
"Dammit! We lost him." Drink!
All those cars where you could break a back window and not have to wind up sitting in broken glass, but McCarthy chooses the pickup truck.
Stephen King is driving by on the highway and says, "What the hell? It's Jack Bauer!"
Princess Vespa is not going anywhere without her matched luggage.
"Dammit, Milo, they could be anywhere!" Drink!
Bang! Double-cross! Now McCarthy's girlfriend is stepping up to be first killed by Fayed by the end of the hour!
Lennox is very unhappy. ("I left Numb3rs to hang out with this wuss?!")
Palmer is "rolling back" on Lennox's plans. He's like a presidential WalMart.
We're about one-third through the season, so it's time to start introducing a new crop of bad guys. Right on schedule, Reed calls this guy who's higher up the conspiracy-food-chain than he is.
Buchanan meets the Bauers. "You must be Jack's son... er, Josh!"
Chloe is now ready to step back up and reconfigure the main deflector dish or whatever to help find Morris.
"Meet us over there and set up a perimeter." Drink! (Bonus drink later if said perimeter actually turns out to be effective in containing the bad guys for once!)
Al-Assad re-enters the plot! Apparently he's on some sort of coastal exchange program with Karen Hayes.
"Agent Turner, what's the status of your perimeter?" Drink! (Answer: "Full of holes, as specified in the CTU field manual.")
What's the right drill bit to use for torture?
Fayed: "I was going to pay you 7 million dollars, but now I'm just going to kill you instead." For 7 million dollars and my life, I think I could control my gag reflex.
Reed is not intimate with Lennox. He's just amusing. At least I think that's what he said. Maybe I should turn on the closed captioning.
Jack's entire Tac Team is wearing helmets and wielding automatic weapons, but Jack's too damn cool for that. He'll go in just a flak jacket, armed with a shotgun. You know, Doom style.
How the hell did Fayed escape from that apartment? Floo powder?
Is Jack really the most qualified person on hand to disarm a nuclear bomb? I mean, he can't even pronounce nuclear bomb!
Based on Jack's rough "they're about three inches apart" and Chloe's even rougher "that gives us about three minutes," CTU sets up this fancy digital timer just to build tension. (But damned if it doesn't work.)
Halftime! Set up a perimeter around the kitchen! Reposition a microwave so we can deploy nachos, now!
Unnecessary recap... Graem is still dead. Morris gets his own freeze frame. Sandra Palmer and Walid weren't around last hour, and you didn't even notice. Almost the exact same profile shot of Fayed that ends the recap opens the episode.
We're about one-third through the season, so it's time to start introducing a new crop of bad guys. Right on schedule, Fayed calls this Russian who's still living in the 1980s.
Jack Bauer has his heroic "back at CTU for the first time" moment, as dozens of extras stare awkwardly and he and Chloe share an even more awkward not-hug.
The photo of Graem and Phillip Bauer "together" looks, really, really fake.
The wide shot of Jack and Phillip over Graem's body is framed in a really cool way in widescreen. Thanks, HDTV! (And thanks, Shocho and LWC!)
Jack's willing to accept punishment for what happened with Graem. Cause yeah, what could they possibly do to him that would be half as bad as a Chinese prison?
Lennox is "inconspicuously" wandering the halls. Looking for the unisex bathroom?
Marilyn is aware that her late husband was cheating on her with Russian terrorists in West L.A.
And here comes Phillip, maybe to put her in a wheelchair. (Ha, see what I did there?!)
Buchanan wants Jack to take Milo with him. Because it's Milo's turn in the rotation to get out of the offices at CTU and have something really, really awful happen to him.
Marilyn can't imagine what Jack went through in China. All that MSG.
Man, that "Susan" friend of Marilyn's is a real bitch!
Phillip says it's too difficult to travel right now. If only someone would invent some improved propulsion system. Maybe something that could propel you faster than light. (Ha, see what... yeah, yeah...)
Chloe might just have a silver tongue after all, since her pep talk is enough to get Morris back into action.
Phillip will always be there for Josh. With a helping syringe.
Boom, goes the house! And we don't see anybody else from the Tac Team escape, so Jack, it's pretty much down to CT-You.
Milo tries his best, but it's hard to outrun the bad guys in an ice cream truck.
For some reason, this printout that Lennox is watching come out is important enough to merit its own box at the end of the episode.
And that's it! 9 hours into the season and we're still following essentially the same, single, cohesive plotline. That's a good sign, folks!
5 comments:
When Agent Turner told Bauer that a witness had seen someone who matched the description of Morris O'Brien, I could swear he'd said "Miles O'Brien."
Actually, I'm sure that's what he said. And he's an engineer?
COME ON.
And doesn't "Chloe" sound a LOT like "Keiko"?
I mean, guys.
24 is obviously a rip off of DS9.
And this year they've even got a guy who looks exactly like Dr. Bashir!
I keep expecting Cardassions to storm CTU and reclaim what *they* call Terok Mole.
FKL
(Ok, I know it's my third comment on the same episode, but bear with me.)
Seriously, 24 has nowhere to go after this season. Since day 1 (literally) they kept ratcheting up the tension with moles everywhere, until they reached what seemed to be the summit, with the actual POTUS being the bad guy. Now they've turned to the only thing "worse" -- Jack's family is entirely composed of murderous bastards. Where do you go from there? God turns out to be an asshole and he shows up on Earth to personally "debrief" Jack?
On another note: where the hell's Audrey?
FKL
PS: My captcha is xleneq. I love it. Sounds like a new drug to get rid of acne.
The Russian isn't just anyone; that's Boris the Blade from Snatch. He pretty much can't be killed and neither can Jack. I anticipate their showdown.
Props to Miles for doing what he could behind the wheel in that ambush. Jack Ryan would be proud.
Exploding house reminded me of Lethal Weapon and Speed. Just throwing that out there.
Bishop
I liked the scene where Bashir was warning Wayne about the upcoming coup. chilling stuff. as well as the delusional cold-war Russian dude who was going to get revenge and blame the terrorists. that's pretty clever when you can use the terrorists as pawns...
I was a bit surprised when Pa tipped his hand by threatening his grandson. basically admitting he was the bad guy. to someone sitting right next to Jack?
and the car chase at the end was awesome. I was on the edge of my seat! go Milo! there's always the most tension when they pick on semi-important but not major characters.
the mole
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