By the way, when I said everybody was forced to start from scratch, I did mean everybody, including the terrorists. Apparently, there was a large faction among the terrorists that still wanted to punish Russia, and thought that all of this business with the United States was a bad idea. And since Yellow Tie has been running the shots, Yellow Tie should be the guy who dies. Seems only fair, don't you think? We have a new guy running the show, and although I am not positive, I am pretty sure that I saw him in the finals of that hit show "Being Jeremy Irons". It may sound boring, but they love it on the Beeb. You may think it's strange that these guys decided on some British dude to help them get back at the Russians, until you realize that people with British accents are always good at this sort of thing. I mean, Jack will eventually get to them, but just ask Saunders and Marwan just how far a British accent can get you when you are trying to run an efficient terrorist scheme in and around Los Angeles.

Fake Jeremy Irons has one thing on his mind, and that is getting to Nathanson, who we discovered was the mastermind who worked with Walt Cummings to double cross the Russian rebels by planting the nerve gas with detonators that only he could control. Unfortunately, Nathanson has already bolted his plasma screen dungeon and the only person still there is the poor tech guy who applied for the job thinking it would be cool with all of the computers and technology. If you flunked out of the CTU summer program (which sounds impossible because we know Kim made it through to junior tech), this is probably a pretty good gig.

Poor kid, he probably should have been smart enough to leave when his boss did instead of sitting around running the virus check, because when Fake Jeremy Irons sends a guy over there looking for Nathanson, they are just going to kill you instead. That's exactly what happened, but to tell you the truth, these new terrorist overlords aren't messing around at all. Nathanson calls another person who was working with him, letting this other guy know that Bierko, which doesn't sound British to me, but is easier than saying Fake Jeremy Irons all recap long, is on to them. Nathanson called his man to tell him to start erasing his databases, and got him just in time to hear him get shot over the phone. Hopefully, there is somebody out there looking to kill Spenser as well.

Nathanson is not the only person with a lot on his mind. Lynn McGill calls his sister because along with taking his wallet, they took his key card, and he is going to need his key card to do things. He is very desperate and says that she can max out the credit cards, just let him get his key card back. Stupid Lynn, if he were smart, he would just have Curtis make a visit to her apartment on his way back to CTU. With any luck, the deadbeat boyfriend, who is really the one who doesn't want to give the key card back, might get his neck snapped or something. Instead, he is trying to make deals with his sister, and it's not going to get any easier. The boyfriend, Dwayne, seems like he knows how important that key card is, and he looks like he wants to scalp it for a little ride on the slopes with Tina. The president is already breathing down his neck wondering why the plan didn't go through, and Lynn is starting to take out his problems on other people.

Lynn makes it back to CTU where he is late for another meeting, this time with Bill Buchanan briefing everybody about the incident in the mall. You know, 24 has a pretty good budget, you think that they could have done something more to show people died in pain than have, as one reader called it, nerve gas herpes show up in their mouths. Actually, it looks like that science experiment we all did in third grade where you make a paper mache mountain, fill it with baking soda and red food coloring, add some vinegar, and watch it erupt. Anyway, Bill is telling everybody that the LAPD set up a perimeter to try and contain the terrorists. Finally! A perimeter! I feel safe!

Despite the perimeter, Lynn is not satisfied. He is pissed about Jack, the President is breathing down his neck, he got beat up in the parking lot a few hours ago, and nobody wants to respect his authority. Lynn's going to show him; he is going to take care of this Jack problem by having him brought in and questioning him. The call is put into Curtis to bring Jack in, and although Curtis really approved of everything that Jack did in the mall, he still has his orders. Jack believes that he only has to answer directly to the President, but hands his gun to Curtis and decides to go quietly.

Posted by J-Unit on February 21, 2006 11:18 AM