3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Tonight begins with possibly the longest recap ever on 24. It goes on forever!

Jack Bauer comes across the burning wreckage of the CTU van. And the background music that's playing makes it sound like it really was an ice cream truck that caught fire.

The lack of Powers Boothe's name in the credits makes me seriously doubt anything is going to happen to Wayne Palmer this episode.

Marilyn is running along, then starts clutching her legs and gasping "I can't." She knows she's supposed to be in a wheelchair. (See, there it is again!)

Phillip's thug says Jack is dead. He doesn't know Jack is as unkillable as Michael Myers. Then he says Milo doesn't look like a trained field agent. I guess he does know that field agents look like Jack or Chase or Curtis or something.

Milo says: "They know we're here." Maybe if he'd quit rattling the damn fence, the thugs wouldn't have figured it out!

Marilyn, once again showing how not good she is at the running.

How long is Jack going to keep pretending that Josh is "her son"?

Morris thanks Nadia for rubbing salt in the wound. In case anyone has forgotten, that would be the big drill-bit-shaped wound on his shoulder.

Badass Jack Line of the Week: "He wants to live."

Somehow it seems important that this hotel room where Phillip has Josh is near the airport, since they make a point of showing the planes. (And yet, by the end of the episode, it doesn't appear to have mattered after all.)

Phillip's logic in all this appears to be: "Josh, if I have to kill you to protect the future of the company I intend for you to inherit, I will." Huh?

Good money was spent on the "closet inside the presidential bunker" set, so we're going to see Reed and Lennox have another shadowy conversation there.

Lennox shows his "child seeking approval" streak, because the minute Wayne asks for his opinion again, he starts rethinking the whole assassination thing.

Morris has taken note of the serious dearth of "dammits" and "perimeters" this week, so he's started a little drinking game of his own.

Jack may have turned his back so Marilyn could slip into her slinky flak jacket, but Phillip's captured thug definitely got an eyeful.

So now Morris and Milo have both had their moments outside CTU, only to get messed up and return for a shirtless scene in the medical facility. I'm guessing Chloe and Nadia aren't quite going to follow the pattern.

Tom Lennox has a Sean-Astin-in-season-five moment, when someone beats him up to steal his security card.

Next time you smell someone with Altoids on their breath, know that they're secretly trying to cover the whiskey smell.

Defying all odds and past history of the show, a Tac Team that doesn't have a main character in it bursts onto a scene... and all of them survive!

Fifteen minutes after they start up the stairwell, Jack, Marilyn, and the thug finally arrive on the right floor of the hotel. Just what floor were Phillip and Josh on again?

How long before you'll be able to buy a spiffy CTU t-shirt just like the one Milo's wearing?

Chloe gives us a great new line when you're caught drinking: "He didn't metabolize."

Phillip's turn to give the "I'm a patriot" speech that all the bad guys for the last season-and-a-half have given. He doesn't really do any better a job explaining how killing David Palmer was patriotic, either.

Wha-who-huh?! President Logan?! And not much looking like he's inside a jail cell, either!

But that's a matter for next week...