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With the information he needs, Jack makes it to Audrey's interrogation room and gets Burke to stop. I have previously lamented at how the show gets a little too soap opera-ey, but when Jack held Audrey in his arms and she said that the only thing that kept her alive was knowing that Jack would come and get her, I thought to myself "wow, you've only been in there for like thirty minutes Audrey, toughen up you dumb bitch". In all seriousness, it was very nice moment, and for Jack, who seems to be able to save everybody on this show from getting hurt except the people that he cares about the most, it was great to see that after making so many sacrifices today, he was able to get a small piece back. Who would have known that after actual terrorists kidnapped her and threatened to kill her on camera, her own people would detain her and actually do more damage?

Awwww

Through this all, I may have actually had a small lump in my throat, but there was no time for further sentiment. We had to figure out which gas station was going to get hit, and unfortunately, the satellite coverage didn't give them the ability to monitor all of the stations that they needed. Luckily, Shari went to Cal Tech, and I would have to say that she must have been a dumbass if she is doing Homeland Security as her post-doc. She says the same thing about the gas being inert at a certain pressure, so the thing that they should do is check for gas stations where the pressure has been dropping. Only one gas station fits that description - Wilshire Gas Company. Buchanan congratulates her by patting her on the shoulder, and moments later Shari turns to Chloe and was like "Did you see that, it was so inappropriate". I hope Shari doesn't come to the CTU Christmas party and drink the punch; they don't call him "Deep Six" Buchanan for nothing.

Jack and Curtis had a team that was already in the air, but by the time they got to the gas company station, there was only four minutes left until the PSI was at a level where the Centox would be active. By this time, I am wondering why they even bothered sending in Jack and Curtis. I saw The Rock and learned that if you need to destroy VX nerve gas, you just need to heat it until it dissipates. In other words, just blow that shit up! I'm sure Donald Rumsfeld has a tactical nuke he was just waiting to use in cases like this. The two of them make it inside, and we get to the part of the show that we really like: Jack and Curtis go all Metal Gear Solid on us and shoot some bastards in the head. The first kill is very impressive. After the two of them sneak in, they see two guards, take one look at each other, rise up and. POW. POW. Two more Russkies are sent to that big bread line in the sky.

Now, I have all the confidence in the world in Curtis and Jack, but did anybody get a little nervous when they were storming the gas company, full of VX nerve gas, without gas masks? I know Curtis is fast and Jack can hold his breath a long time, but still, it was starting to bother me. Their team makes it to the control center of the gas company, but they lose the element of surprise and there is a gunfight. By this time, the pressure is low enough, and Bierko manages to not only deploy the nerve gas canisters. but to escape from the fire fight as well.

The other terrorists are dead, but Jack needs to find a way to stop the nerve gas from spreading. Since the gas pressure only made it to 50% moments ago, I thought the easiest thing to was to turn the pressure back up. In five or ten minutes when the pressure is back to where it will make the VX inert, it probably wouldn't have killed that many people. Not that many people use gas heat in California, so it would probably only kill those dumb asses who wanted to bake a cake to celebrate their evening of martial law or are too cheap to buy a microwave to do all of their cooking.

Well, that plan was a little too easy for Jack. He must have seen The Rock as well, or perhaps flunked out of Cal Tech, because he decided that the best way to make the gas harmless would be to take some C4 to the main gas line and blow up the building. Curtis and the other team get far enough away, but Jack only has a minute before the nerve gas makes it out of the gas company. He gives himself 30 seconds to get out of the building before shit starts to 'splode, and starts to sprint out of that place.

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