With Friends Like These, Who Needs Terrorists? - 
by J-Unit
Everything is going smooth except that Lynn notices that Audrey closed an application window. He then realizes that Buchanan was trying to distract him. You wanna go nuts? Lynn McGill will give you nuts! He's taking it up a notch. Audrey is protected because her dad is Secretary of Defense, but Buchanan has no protection, and Lynn decides to make an example of him and throws him into custody for being insubordinate. Personally, I think that it was for another reason. When Buchanan was distracting Lynn, he mentioned that they needed to do something in Lynn's office, and it would require his key card. Buchanan said the magic word, and now he is being locked up. And just to make sure people know that he is serious, Lynn tells everybody that he is going to implement a section 2-3 redundancy. Lynn would screen everybody’s work. Man, this guy really needs to join rageaholics anonymous.
Goonies are supposed to sick together!
Audrey tries to complain about Buchanan being held in custody and how it would undermine their operations, but let's be honest. Over the last few years, CTU always has a change in leadership at the top and things have worked out. If I were Buchanan, I would rather be put into custody than flying a nuclear bomb to Palm Springs, being shot in the head and delivered to a terrorist, or having my daughter die in the CTU infirmary. Billy boy has it easy! Anyway, Lynn says "I promise you don't want to threaten me," which I guess sounds tough, but only until the office finds out his sister's boyfriend beat him up for some lunch money. "Don't threaten me" is a line that Jack can use, that Curtis can use, hell, even Chloe can use if she has a machine gun, but Lynn cannot use that line.
Despite all of the distraction, Chloe was able to get Jack some more information. The canisters were built by Teradyne, and there were records of the strontium isotope they used to create the nerve gas. She also mentioned that Teradyne was a subsidiary of Omichron, which sounded familiar to Jack. He asked if a man named Harry, uh, I mean Christopher Henderson was on the corporate roster. Indeed, there he was: Christopher Henderson, Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Jack knew him from the old days. I wonder if he was in the same squad in Bosnia as Jack and Saunders. Whoever he is, I hope he has an army nearby, because Jack is on his trail.
Things over at the Presidential ranch are wrapping up. Suvarov and his wife are about to leave, but there is still that question of whether Logan will give the terrorists the information they need. Mike gets the route info for Suvarov's motorcade, but reminds President Pussy that if the Russians find out they aided in the death of their President, it would be considered an act of war. I know that is serious stuff, but perhaps Mike is forgetting that with Jack now back alive, they are going to come up with some answers for the Chinese. The Russians might as well wait in line, and the President has to know this. If I were Logan, I would welcome a war with the drunk Russians over the swift precision deaths that a war with so many Asians would bring us.
Logan is not that worried about giving the information out because the motorcade is well protected, so the terrorists might not even be successful. Somebody better call Kenny Rogers, because from now on, President Pussy is going to be known as "The Gambler," and I hear he likes rotisserie chicken. It's the wood that makes it good, although I still prefer Koo Koo Roo. Is there anything that could make THIS situation any more tense? How about if our crazy First Lady popped her head in just as the President and Mike were discussing selling out the Russians. Martha hears this plan, and you know she's not going to be happy. She hates lying, and she wonders why her husband can't think of something else. What about that whole "we don't negotiate with terrorists" thing, and didn't you like sign a treaty to, you know, work with the Russians on terrorism? The President was so proud of this treaty, but if it's not worth the paper he signed it on, why even bother?
The Gambler tells his wife that answers are never easy, and says that CTU may find the canisters before anything needs to happen. He pleads with Martha not to freak out, and the two of them leave to see Suvarov and his wife leave, get some pictures with the press corps, and then pray those drunk Russians lost their nuclear football and can't retaliate when Suvarov is dead. This whole time, I was watching Martha Logan and was ready for her to scream out loud. "DON'TLEAVEWETOLDTHETERRORISTSWHERETOFINDYOURMOTORCADEANDYOU'LLDIE." But that never happened. It looked like she was desperate to say something, but she couldn't find the words. She didn't want to upset her husband, but she couldn't let these people die.
Mike got the sign from Logan to tell the terrorists about the Russian motorcade. Bierko was very happy, and began to plan his attack. He was so good at killing Nathanson and his friends, I was sort of surprised to see that he was doing all of his planning with a Rand McNally map and a wax pen. Seriously, I know he was in a rush, but was there not one laptop around that these people could have used for logistics? Nathanson seemed to have some equipment back at his place that he wasn't using.
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