There wasn't much that could prepare us last week for the news that Audrey Raines was in on this vast conspiracy, but let's be honest. We all had a sneaky feeling in the back of our minds that Audrey was involved, we were just waiting for the explanation as to how she was involved. Buchanan had Chloe investigate Audrey's activities for the last 18 months to try and see if there was anything out of the ordinary, particularly if she had any involvement with Christopher Henderson or Walt Cummings. Hey, I'm not one to tell these people how to do their jobs, but wouldn't you have thought that as soon as they realized that Walt Cummings had one mole planted at CTU (Spenser), that maybe CTU human resources would have been told to run some background checks on some of the other employees in the building? Wouldn't it just make sense?

Buchanan then had to break the bad news to Audrey that she was being detained on the grounds that Collette Stenger mentioned Audrey's name during the investigation as having given up information important to national security. Although Karen Hayes wants to throw the book at Audrey, Bill wants them to be a little more lenient. Basically, he is trying to save Audrey from having to answer questions from Burke, our torture man. Bill wants to interrogate Collette Stenger but Karen Hayes says that is impossible because Collette has immunity with the deal she just signed. Now I don't know about you, but on a day when the President has just declared martial law in Los Angeles, does anybody think that the most egregious violation of civil rights would be to interrogate a woman who has admitted to selling national secrets? I'm not saying we shouldn't honor Collette's deal, but if you were trying to save the lives of possibly millions of people, wouldn't a few more questions be prudent?

If there was anything going for Audrey, it was that Jack wanted in on the investigation. Luckily, he was able to make it from Van Nuys Airport back to CTU in approximately five minutes. Listen, I can barely get from my bed to the shower in five minutes, so I have no idea that was possible. Although Jack is lobbying for a place, Karen says that he is perhaps too personally involved in this to be able to properly interrogate, and throws out the Nina Myers card just in case he wants to get into an argument about it. In the end, Karen decides to let Jack have a go at Audrey for ten minutes and if he doesn't get any answers, she'll hand Audrey off to Burke for a more "invasive" interrogation. That's what I love about America. In Amsterdam, somebody will charge you to perform an "invasive interrogation" on you, while in the United States they'll prod you and beat you up for free!

Jack goes to Chloe to try and see if she came up with anything on Audrey's background, and surprisingly, there was a little something in Audrey's past that threw up a red flag, namely a relationship with Walt Cummings. Now, it should be expected that Walt and Audrey would bump into each other every now and then. She works for the DOD, he works for the President, but you wouldn't expect to see the two of them checking into the same hotel, especially when they stayed in the same room. Wow, so much for that whole "I never loved anybody else" speech Audrey gave Jack when she found out he was alive. Up until then, I thought that Jack would treat Audrey with kid gloves, but now it's personal.

Posted by J-Unit on March 28, 2006 1:19 PM