Gredenko doesn't even have the decency to drop dead during his portion of the re-cap. He has to crowd out Fayed one last time.
Wayne Palmer looks steady as a rock. But he shoots with that hand.
Fayed made Jack hurt his punching hand. Now Jack will be really mad.
Doyle attempts to goad Fayed by telling him that people aren't going to think he was as good a villain as the guys from season one... or two... or...
Jack says now we're gonna have fun. We're gonna sell tickets to Spider-Man 3 during the commercial!
We come back from the break to what might be the worst written scene ever on 24. (Sorry, David Fury -- loved ya on Buffy, Angel, and Lost!) We start with ridiculously wooden exposition about Sandra going to see Walid. We transition into a complete glossing over of what possible reason there was not to let Lennox and Karen in on the little ruse Palmer and the Joint (smokin') Chiefs cooked up. And we close with a public service announcement about the nature of war in the modern world. At least when the agony finally ends, Lennox has a great exit line: "I'm here to inform you, and also protect you. Sometimes, those jobs don't work in combination."
Fayed is "rescued" -- another ruse. If you were fooled twice, shame on you.
Palmer is slowly transforming into Frankenstein's monster. First, he has the lovely stitching on his face. Now he's walking with the stagger. Next, he'll get little bolts installed on the sides of his neck.
In case you didn't understand what this terrorist General is needed for when Jack explained it to Buchanan, or when Buchanan explained it to the president, we're going to go over it again by having Palmer explain it to the foreign ambassador.
Threatening the General's family would seem a lot more messed up if we hadn't already seen Jack do it to a terrorist back in season two.
We're starting to need a flow chart for who's covering for who in CTU. Chloe was covering for Morris, until Morris' problem with alcohol was exposed. But now Morris seems to be have Nadia's back in case Milo gets out of hand with jealousy over Nadia covering for Doyle covering for Milo. Everybody got that?
Fayed's General partner-in-crime is on the phone. Does anyone think maybe this General guy is in a "flank two position"?
Why is Wayne falling down? There hasn't been a single "perimeter," "within the hour," or "dammit" this entire episode!
Thankfully, Nadia has seen season five, so was able to figure out the whole duress code thing. Time to tell the agents in the van with Fayed.
Let me get this straight. During the life of this series, we've seen cell phones and video feeds work in helicopters, near radiation zones, and through the walls of underground bunkers, but drive through a 120 foot tunnel and then they go out?!
Somebody get Jack a bullwhip and a fedora!
"Dammit!" (At last! A drink!)
Jack came on the right vehicle to go taking out the garbage.
Jack was right. Now we are going to have some fun...
Nukes are safe, Fayed's done. That just leaves Daddy Bauer still on the loose...
And then millions of voices cried out in terror. Or just Dave Berry's. That loudly.
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Well, I actually liked Audrey, so I wasn't sad to see she wasn't dead after all.
I was pissed that they'd done the obvious thing (the fake death), though, and even more pissed that the Chinese guy "just happened" to call right after the fight with Fayed was over.
Also, are they going in a totally different direction now? It does seem like the season is getting split up in two separate plots: get the nukes, THEN get the girl. Unless there's some connection I'm not seeing. (Or unless they pull one out of their big hat.)
Now Jack will have to find his sister-in-law and tell her "Sorry, Aundrey ain't dead after all. But do stay close at hand, just in case I fail to rescue her."
One question: why didn't Jack call before taking on the terrorists at the end? Just to make sure CTU knew where he was? Okay, he gets more brownie points if he takes everybody on by himself, but still...
FKL
I say Jack missed his chance to trade up. "Um, Audrey? I'm seeing someone else now. Don't eat the MSG. See ya."
As soon as I saw the chain, I was having Die Hard flashbacks and I wasn't disappointed. Too bad about "Karl" (and his brother). If Fayed "wakes up" and pulls himself off the chain next episode...well, there's no fat cop to save Bauer.
FKL - I thought I saw Jack drop the phone while riding under the garbage truck. so he was really out on a limb (like Batman without his utility belt!)
I liked it how even in the episode Doyle was all "Damn Jack!" and stunned at Jack's awesomeness.
I always thought it would be cool to have them extend the stories by having the next season be like the next day, but in great 24 style, they give me something completely unexpected... they actually "ended" the season early, and give us a whole new "thing" for Jack to do for the rest of the day. maybe they will have to extend this to the next season after all?
the mole
Mole:
Thanks for the phone tip, I guess I didn't catch that.
As for ending the day early, I'm still not sure the Audrey thing is unrelated to the rest, but assuming it IS unrelated, your idea that they might stretch this new "quest" into day 7 is quite intriguing.
FKL
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