Flames? Jack's Gonna Live Forever! - 
by J-Unit
The process of filling up the CTU rosters with new bodies continues, and Shari Rothenberg introduces herself to Chloe. Some people may recognize Shari as the girl who played Ennis del Mar's daughter as a teenager in the movie Brokeback Mountain. For those of us in New York, you may recognize her as Kate Mara, a semi-talented singer who sometimes performs the national anthem at Giants games. It's bad enough that we had to deal with Ray Handley and Jim Fassel, couldn't they have toned down the nepotism just a touch? Anyway, when Shari says that she is there to replace Edgar, Chloe is kind of upset, but eventually shows her to Edgar's station. "He worked at station six. You may notice that the cushions are a little flat and the keyboard is slightly sticky from the residue of peanut M&Ms, but you'll manage".
I know this great guy for you. His name is Spenser...
Actually, Chloe asked if Shari was familiar with the matrix analyzer, and when Shari says yes, Chloe snaps at her and tell her to make sure the databases are current. Clearly Chloe loves bossing Shari around, but she doesn't have a lisp and has never had a triple bypass, so she'll never replace Edgar. I thought Shari was just going to be another member of the communications team, but she turns out to be much more. As she is sitting at her station, Miles, the government bureaucrat who is desperately trying to "play it straight" sees her, and by the look on his face, he doesn't like her. Well, things are looking up for Shari, because if Miles hates her that tells me that she is actually pretty cool. Nobody can replace Sherry Palmer, but since Ms. Rothenberg spells her first name differently, we'll let this one slide.
But enough with all of these stall tactics. Jack has ten minutes to get some answers out of Audrey, and you know he is going to make them count. There are very few moments during the course of a season when we think that Jack Bauer may have lost some control of his emotions, and this is one of those times. He loved Audrey before he had to fake his death and he hoped to continue a relationship as long as the Chinese don't hunt him down. His daughter isn't showing him any love and his best friend was just killed by his old mentor, and another one of his closest friends was assassinated, and that plan was put into motion by a man that Audrey slept with. Jack probably was getting through this day knowing that Audrey might be the only thing he has left to look forward to in the world. Now that hope was gone, and Audrey had better hope that Jack still had a little compassion left.
The interrogation started normally. Audrey tried to convince Jack that she had nothing to do with it, but Jack screamed at her to sit down. He then proceeded to ask Audrey everything from how Collette Stenger got her name to if her father was involved. Now, we are pretty sure James Heller had nothing to do with this, but Audrey would be the second one of his children to give up important national security details, even if it wasn't in purpose. When Jack asked Audrey about Walt Cummings, you know he was doing it to test how hard he should push her. If Audrey was honest about her relationship with Walt, Jack would know she was telling the truth. If she tried to hide something, Jack was going to push back harder.
Audrey chose option B, and didn't admit to any relationship with Walt until Jack started bringing more evidence. When Audrey still wouldn't admit to anything happening between them, Jack had to get serious. Finally, Audrey starts to explain, and says that their relationship was complicated. 18 months ago was when Audrey was still trying to recover from losing Jack. She did sleep with Walt Cummings, but had to cut it off, well, because Walt wasn't Jack. I wish Audrey would have come to me with her problems, because I could have saved her a drive out to Pikesville, MD and at least fifteen minutes of torture, because I could have told her that Walt was no Jack, just by looking at him.
First comes the choke slam, them comes the tombstone
Jack doesn't know if Audrey is lying to him again, so just to be sure, he throws her up against the wall and starts to choke. He threatens her with more pain, but Audrey is beyond a response at this point. It really hurt Jack to interrogate Audrey, but it hurt Audrey even more knowing that she was a threat to national security. Jack thought that he got all that he needed to know from Audrey, and I certainly didn't think he was too easy on her, but Karen Hayes wasn't satisfied. She thinks that Audrey played Jack, and decides Audrey still needs more questioning.
Ever since I saw Miles give Shari that dirty look, I was trying to figure out what his problem with her was. After Chloe asked Shari to upload some information to the subnet, Miles started going on and about how she was not qualified, and Shari would say that she was provisionally qualified, and Miles saying he'll yank that provisional authority and she will be gone. Hey, in Amsterdam, you pay people to yank your authority, but in the United States you get it for...oh sorry, used that joke already, my bad. [ Late Edit: Chloe fans have e-mailed me saying I didn't give her enough credit for the put down that got rid of Miles. That was an error of laziness, and I apologize]
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