How worried should Edgar be about Chloe? Well, Chloe has made it to her rendezvous with Jack. Although Chloe never likes to be in danger, I am sure she likes the fact Jack is saving her. She took a Taxi, so Jack has to start the helicopter again, but just as that is happening, two cars come onto the scene. Chloe was followed, and the helicopter rotors aren't going to start in time for them to make an escape. Jack reached into his bag, and although I was hoping that he had an RPG launcher in there or something, it was really only some smoke bombs. He tells Chloe to take Derrick and hide. It's time for Jack to do some crazy shit. The bad guys split up, and you have to feel sorry for the poor guy that had to look for Jack in the smoke by the helicopter. Again, I was thinking that Jack would slam his face into the helicopter rotor, but Jack has to be stealthy.

It's 7:49 AM, and Jack has his first kill of the day. For all of you kids watching out there, that is why it's important to have a healthy breakfast. When your mom tells you to finish your orange juice, there is a good reason. And that goes for you older guys as well. Maybe you don't want to be seen eating an egg white frittata with your girlfriend, but if you have to kill a terrorist, will you be able to answer the call? The early returns are in, and it was a pretty badass kill. In the race for badass kills this year, Curtis is really going to have catch up quickly. Only minutes later, Jack shoots the front window out of a car filled with more people unlucky enough to meet up with the Bauer, causing the car to crash, and killing all of the guys inside. That just leaves one person, and it happens to be the guy who shot President Palmer.

Jack finds the guy just as he is about to find Chloe and Derrick, and he shoots him in the leg. The Bauer is smart and knows that he needs to get information from him, but Chloe isn't thinking and turns around and shoots him a couple of times in the stomach. Hey, this guy just killed a President, would a shot to the leg really stop him? Jack knows he has to get to guy before he dies. He tells Chloe to take Derrick away, likely because he doesn't want Derrick to watch him torture anybody, but Jack has another plan. He will get the guy to a hospital (he does have a helicopter, after all) if he tells Jack everything he knows. The guy talks, but of course he doesn't know much, but he knows enough to say that Palmer was the primary target and the others were diversions. His job was to kill the primary, and the others were to set up Jack.

During this explanation, Jack hears something disturbing. No, not that people were trying to set him up, but that this guy he promised mercy to was the one who killed the president. That is a mercy veto in Jack's book, and so instead of that ambulance, Jack just shoots him in the head. Hey, I said that a good breakfast would help you kill people with ease, not put you in a better mood when you meet your friend's killer. By the way, we later learn that this guy was named Hoss, which is a pretty cool named for a trained killer, you have to admit.

When Jack told Chloe to leave, she must have been worried that there were more assassins out there, because she walked like ten feet behind Jack, which mean that Derrick saw Jack execute that guy. Chloe desperately tells Jack that he should just disappear and never show his face, but that isn't the Bauer style. He wants to find out why the President was killed, and who was trying to set him up. He's going to start at the beginning, meaning the scene of the crime. Considering there has to be about a million federal officers around that building, it is quite the risky move, but if Chloe can get some schematics, he should be fine. I love these CTU field agents. All they need are some schematics and a granola bar, and they'll go into any building.

Unbeknownst to Jack, his job just got a lot tougher. There is some security video that is coming in, and after Edgar enhances it, it shows Jack's face. Now we know that Jack couldn't have been in the building at the time that the President was shot because, he was getting turned down for an oilrig job, but they don't know that. Jack's face on the video surprises a lot of people, including Audrey, who happens to be in the room discussing Presidential security. A little bit of analysis says that the video wasn't doctored, so we know that there has to be somebody on the inside turning the screws, and my vote goes for that douche bag Spencer. Seriously, if you need somebody to double cross CTU, that guy's for hire. Although there are a lot of practical questions about this that don't make sense like why would Jack kill he President, and if the other people helped fake his death, why would he kill the people that help him, but that is not enough to prevent him from being the primary suspect.

Posted by J-Unit on January 16, 2006 11:14 AM