Jack made it out of the firefight alive and with all of his appendages functioning. Paul Raines was not so lucky. He decided to step in front of two bullets headed for the man who tortured him only a few hours before. Paul was able to run several multi-million dollar companies at the same time, but couldn't deduce that maybe he was more vulnerable to bullets since he didn't have any kevlar. But you can't really rip on him for being a good person.

While they are in the helicopter flying to CTU, Jack calls Audrey on the phone and lets her know he is all right. But when he tells her that Paul was shot, she has that skeptical look on her face that said "Did you shoot him?". I am sure it was in the back of her head, along with "Maybe it was better when i was sleeping with the enemy..."

I also have a great idea of what was going on in the back of Paul's head. It was something like "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DON'T LET ME BE TREATED IN THE CTU CLINIC". Sorry Paul, the crack team of doctors that took such good Myra Driscoll are now going to get a shot at you. I am not sure why they didn't go to Cedars Sinai or perhaps the USC medical center, god knows they have seen their share of bullet wounds. If you had just been tortured by an electrical appliance, maybe you would try the CTU clinic. I am really not so sure about everything else.

Also, is it normal for governmental agencies to have clinics and trauma surgeons hanging around? I know they have to keep people around with all of the torture going around and all, but what about the other parts of the government that are torturing people? Do they have their own clinics? I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of interdepartmental cooperation. Oh well.

Whatever happens to Paul, you know that his sacrifice wasn't for nothing. CTU was able to pull a bunch of names off of the encrypted printout that Paul gave them, including one person who was on the terrorist watch list. The only problem was that they had no way to get him, no way to tell if Marwan hadn't contacted him first, and no assurance that he would take them to Marwan when they got there. They needed somebody with some knowledge of the cells and a credible plan to get them inside. There is only one man for the job, and we know it's Jack, but Jack needs help, and there is only one person who can help him. Dina Araz.

I do get a little titillated at the thought of Shohreh Aghdashloo on screen. She is such a ridiculously great actress, she steals every scene. And that VOICE. Amazing. I could do the Dina Araz voice all day. "Behrooz, it will be OK". "Navi, you killed our son! Our only son!". "I am only doing this for my son." "Why should I help you?". Go ahead, try it yourself. Get some practice and then use it on some of your coworkers. You will be the hit of the water cooler.

Dina betrayed her cause once in order to save her son, so Jack thinks she will do it again if he can find some more leverage. He finds her in the interrogation room, and offers her a chance at witness protection, and a life with her son. Since Behrooz is the only thing she is living for at the moment, she decides to take a chance.

Last week, we were given a teaser for the next big terrorist plot in store for us. They weren't able to behead the Secretary of Defense, and they were only able to destroy one nuclear reactor, which is bad, but if you look at the percentages, their score wasn't even enough to get into Sacred Heart. But they had backup plans for all of their failures, and this time was no different. We weren't sure what was going to happen, but it had to do with a very creepy looking white dud dressed up in a pilot's uniform.

At first I thought that Marwan had found somebody within the Air Force to carry out his next plan, but he found the next best thing. He did have an Air Force pilot in mind, but our creepy dude was going to be a body double. All that was left was to find this man in a compromising position and/or threaten his family to get him to go with the plan. For good measure, both happened. As our pilot friend was just getting off of his girlfriend, his wife called. On his girlfriend's phone.

Posted by J-Unit on March 22, 2005 10:02 PM