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Well, there really isn’t much to describe this latest episode of 24. People know that I am a heartless bastard, but by the end, there was some sort of salty discharge that was rolling down my cheek. Before all you sick bastards make fun of me, and start making money shot jokes, I think I may have shed a tear. That’s not to say that last night’s episode was all melancholy. To the contrary, it was some of the best two hours we have had all season, and shows that the writers still have a few things in their bag of tricks to keep us on the edge of our seat. None of us expected what happened at the end, so it was even more shocking. And I have a sneaky suspicion that we will be in for a whole lot more where that came from.If you are reading this recap without having first seen the episode, you are probably wondering who died. Well that happened at the end, so why don’t I start with who didn’t die: Tony Almeida. The CTU doctor tells Buchanan that Tony has been asking about Michelle, but they don’t want his blood pressure to get out of control and do vascular damage. Obviously, this doctor doesn’t know that Tony was able to suffer a bullet through the neck and come back to lead CTU hours later. Buchanan tells Tony that Michelle was taken to Cedars (that’s Cedars-Sinai hospital to those in the know) and they don’t have any new information. Although he was in too much shock to remember he already saw his wife blown to bits, he had the presence of mind to ask if Jack made it, and tells Buchanan that he must talk to Jack, who as we know is busy not getting blown up over at Omicron.
It’s just not the same being a terrorist these days. Bierko killed Erwich because he messed up with his plans on killing Suvarov. Bierko thought it would be easy to kill the Russian President, and he would then have plenty of time for some polo and a spot of tea. Everything was all set until those stupid bastards at CTU messed up his plans. Now he is going to have to go back to killing civilians, which is such a messy business, don’t you know. Killing a few people in a mall is so pedestrian; it barely gets you on the front page, what with all the Presidential assassinations and airport hostage crises going on. Bierko decides that he must kill some civilians, so he tells his technicians to set the canisters for maximum casualties. I was unaware that centox had some sort of power setting. I guess it gives the worldly conscious terrorist the option to show a little mercy. Start off with some choking, move up to paralyze, and finally, convulse until the nerve gas herpes suffocates you completely.
While we are on the subject of terrorists and unsuccessful motorcade assassinations, Martha Logan was quite shaken up after everything that happened. It was bad enough that her husband was willing to let her die, but she had to witness Mr. and Mrs. Suvarov all lovey-dovey, happy that, through it all, they were still in each others’ arms. I would feel bad for Martha, but you can’t honestly tell me that she just noticed how much of a bumbling fool her husband was within the last twelve hours. She must have had other clues that he didn’t really want to take charge, like when she found his gimp suit on their wedding night and he asked to wear her lingerie. And you know that Mrs. Logan was quite the looker in her day, so how did Logan land a woman like her? It’s gotta be either the checkbook or the package, and I’m guessing Logan’s biggest endowment is for the fine arts.
President Logan was also in shock after the failed motorcade attack. It was bad enough that he gave up his wife to be killed, but having her alive might even be worse. He was unable to control her when she was crazy, but now he is going to have no leverage in the argument. When you can come back with the “Well, at least I didn’t try and have you killed” card in an argument, you are going to look like the winner more often than not. Logan is so horrified at what he does, Mike has to slap some sense into him. OK, so your wife knows you tried to kill her. It’s still not as damaging to your Presidency as 19 canisters of centox killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Mrs. Logan, the Suvarovs, and I believe Aaron, were flown back to the presidential retreat. President Pussy was worried about how his wife would react, and considering everything, it could have been worse. If only she had kept her mouth shut, she would be at some nice recovery center in Vermont with nothing on her mind except skiing and maple syrup. Now she has to deal with her wimp of a husband, who wouldn’t stand up to the terrorists. Perhaps worse for Logan was that the Russian President noticed that Mrs. Logan was acting strange. Personally, I am not sure who he could tell, the President decides he doesn’t want to explain how he was about to let his friend and wife die, and instead tells Yuri that his wife is crazy. And although Logan had no intention of honoring the treaty he just signed, he wants to Suvarov to live up to he bargain and have his intelligence services share information that they may have about these terrorists. Yuri, being a man of his word, says of course, now all they need is a lead on what these terrorists are going to do.
CTU gets that lead after bringing in the body of some of the dead terrorists from the assassination attempt. Curtis may not be killing people like he used to, but he still has some skills including, apparently, those of a medical examiner. He finds the schematics of a building’s ventilation system and sends them up to Chloe and Edgar to start searching for a match. The numbers 18:00 were written on this piece of paper, which probably meant military time, which meant that if this was a target, they were planning on hitting it within the hour.
While all of that was going on, Jack was still trying to get more information on Henderson considering he is, you know, the only lead that they have. Henderson destroyed all of the information on his office computer, but Chloe was able to detect that he left a socket open to an off-site backup facility, which just so happened to be Henderson’s house. Buchanan wants to send a tactical team, which gets me all excited for Curtis to get some more work done, but Jack believes it would be best to go alone because A) Henderson would hear a tactical team coming since he is just as bad as Jack, B) Henderson won’t expect Jack to look for him since Jack is dead and C) Jack wants to prove that he can take Henderson out after his mentor got the jump on him, twice.
Back at the CTU infirmary, Tony is starting to sense that something is wrong. The new doctor won’t tell him anything about his wife, so he decides to find out himself. He gets up for bed, and decides to find a computer terminal, but before he can do that, he must first look at himself in the mirror. He has a bandage on his face and we get this dramatic scene of him pulling it off, like we are going to discover he has a huge foramen where his cheek should be. Instead he pulls it off, and it doesn’t look that disturbing. He looks like a toddler after you give them a peanut butter jelly sandwich, and the jelly only ends up on their face, except the jelly in this case was blood, and he was missing part of his ear. Tony makes it to a computer just as his doctor and Buchanan get there. He pushes them away with more force than I could have mustered after all that surgery, and learns that Michelle is dead. Luckily, they have plenty of pictures of her dead body in case he thought it was a prank. I am wondering how they got a picture of their car in mid-explosion, but maybe they left a socket open, and I shouldn’t be asking such stupid questions.
Now would be a pretty good time to check in on Lynn McGill. He put up a good fight as he was being shown the door, but he doesn’t have much fight left in him. There is one thing left on his mind, however, and that is his key card. Since he’s not in a position of power, he won’t be bullying anybody around, and if there should be any question about his key card, he might actually get in trouble. McGill begs Buchanan to let him make a phone call to his sister, and since Buchanan isn’t an overinflated prick like McGill, he agrees. Lynn calls his sister and tells her that he is not mad about the wallet or anything else, but he will need his key card back. Although his sister is a crazy junkie, she does ask a very reasonable question, like why he can’t get a new one. She lost her laundry key and got a new one, so why doesn’t he just ask. I agree, does admitting you lost your key card somehow become a bigger disgrace than being taken out of power because you were a head case? Besides, his sister has important uses for it, like cutting cocaine, and so does her boyfriend, who is selling it.
Yes, the boyfriend, Dwayne, decided to sell it to the terrorists, who have said that without the key card, the rest means nothing. That sounds like an interesting statement, but we have more important things to worry about, like getting Curtis some work. Luckily, Edgar was able to match the description of the ventilation system to that of Tyler Memorial hospital in Brentwood. Curtis put a tactical team together and got to work with the business of evacuating a hospital. These terrorists used to be so considerate, and now look what happened. Attacking a hospital? That’s so Erwich; I thought Bierko was better.
After a commercial break and another ten minutes, Jack makes it to Toluca Lake. Henderson lives in a nice neighborhood, and I bet Julies would love to use his garage. Jack is able to sneak up on Henderson pretty easily, and after what happened to Tony and Michelle, sort of makes me wonder why more ex-CTU people don’t get ADT or at least a guard dog or something. When Jack sees that only Henderson’s wife Miriam is at home, he decides that he’ll just make his way inside at start asking some questions. Miriam is a nice lady, but when Jack comes in and says he needs help because her husband is a terrorist, she doesn’t just stand up and agree with him. She remembers the last time Jack accused Henderson of being a traitor, so why should she believe him now. Well, for one, Jack points a gun at her, but we know that he’s not going to shoot an innocent bystander, so he tells her to sit on the couch, and decides to go through Henderson’s home computer by himself.
At the hospital, Curtis is still doing his thing. I would be wearing a gas mask if I knew a deadly nerve agent could go off at any time, but Curtis doesn’t want to cause a panic, so he does his job without the mask. Soon enough, hospital security is able to identify an orderly they see on camera in an area where he doesn’t belong. Passing the image to CTU for facial recognition, they identify him as a terrorist, and follow him to the sub-basement. His name is Viktor and Bierko told him to do whatever it takes to complete his mission, but he clearly didn’t expect Curtis to show up and make things difficult. Viktor is able to make it to the sub-basement and arm the canister, but Curtis, finally wearing a gas mask, is able to find him, and after a short chase scene, Curtis kills him and calls for a chemical response team to clean up the mess.
Jack is still trying to get information off of Henderson’s computer, but it is using an encryption that Chloe can’t crack, even if she had all of the sockets in the world available to her. Miriam is still wondering what the hell was going on. She couldn’t understand why Jack would hate her husband so much, especially after she said how much they still loved his family. They even looked in on Kim after Jack died. Miriam kept talking because she saw her husband’s car was back and was hoping to distract Jack enough so he wouldn’t notice. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well, we won’t be fooled again, and that includes Jack. Henderson walks into his house, and before his wife can worn him, Jack knocks him over the head and has Henderson handcuff himself and sit down next to his wife.
Time is running out at the hospital, so Jack is going to have get serious at some point. To prove that her husband was hiding things from her, Jack shows Miriam the contents of Henderson’s briefcase, which was filled with money. Still, Henderson won’t talk, not even when Jack puts a gun to his leg. Henderson knows all the tricks; he was faking his death long before Jack was ever in CTU, so how is some torture going to convince him to speak up. He does have a point there Jack, what are you going to do? There were a lot of scenarios in my head, but none of them came close to what actually happened. Jack shot Miriam instead! Yes, that’s right. And contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t hurt less when you are not expecting it. Henderson now knows that Jack is serious, but he still doesn’t say anything to save his wife. This surprises not only Miriam, but Jack as well. He was counting on Henderson’s love for his wife to get information, but the only thing he got was a middle-aged woman with a bullet in her leg.
Who was shot and who is having the orgasm?
It is now a few minutes until the canister detonates inside the hospital. The chemical response team can defuse it, but not in 60 seconds. What can they do to save all of those innocent lives? I got it. How about double slot, monkey zebra, go, hot shot, curl, pepper 14, on 2, on 2. For those of you who haven’t played football or didn’t watch Varsity Blues, that roughly translates into “hand the canister off to Curtis and let him run like hell”. Curtis takes the canister and runs through the hallways like Barry Sanders, but he’s not doing it alone. Just in case some stray dialysis or chemotherapy patient gets in the way, Curtis has his chemical response team blockers. The gas masks sort of look like helmets, making Curtis sort of like a Barry Sanders playing for the Hazmat All-Stars. He makes his way outside, where the chemical response team has parked in the same lot where they have evacuated all the patients, and is able to place the canister in a containment unit. Good job Curtis! One solid kill and you showed you have the speed to take it to the house. You even managed to carry the LCD timer with your other hand, so you dramatically count down the last two seconds before the canister exploded. Now that’s showmanship!
As relieved as I was that Curtis made it out safely, it looked like there would be bad mojo coming. Lynn’s sister started to get worried about her brother’s key card, and even though she got a bad feeling when Dwayne said that they could sell it for $20,000, she went along with the plan. We saw it coming from a million miles away, but the terrorist came, took the key card, and instead of making sure their hands were full of money, he made sure their heads were full of lead. The terrorist goes to his G-wagon, informs Bierko that it will take him five minutes to reprogram the card, and we are left to wait until and wonder what, exactly will happen to CTU.
I didn’t think that any attack on CTU would be successful, but that was before it became complicated, and complicated’s name is Kim Bauer. That’s right, Kim finally made it to CTU, and it looks like chase isn’t in the picture any more. Luckily, Henderson knows all about Kim. After Jack died, Chase left her, which doesn’t make any sense. If he can get through a field amputation, you would think that dealing with Kim would be easy. Besides, if Kim ever thought about leaving him, he would just need to put a bear trap in their bed, and she would find her way back home. After Chase left, Kim hit rock bottom. I mean, life was tough. She was young, beautiful, had a great body, and since she no longer has to take care of her stepdaughter, she is now free. THE HORROR! Jack decides that it would be best if Audrey tells Kim that he is alive. Let those facts sink in before he has to come in and make fun of her new boyfriend. Honestly people, who out there didn’t think “this guy is dead within three episodes” after taking a gander at Barry Landis?
Steve Buscemi called, he wants his ugly back
If there is one no-name character that is making a name for himself, it is our favorite Secret Service agent, Aaron. You can tell this guy has no life outside of protecting Presidents. Balding, redhead, a face only a mother could love, he finally got a chance to kill somebody. And now Martha Logan is hot for him, and the way he, you know, protects the people that he says he will protect. Now, it may be his job, but Martha really appreciates him. She takes his hand, and I’m thinking that this would have to be one of the most surprising events to come out of this season of 24. Martha and Aaron, those would be some crazy, pale, sharp-shooting kids of theirs! I think Aaron was so stunned he didn’t know how to respond, and so Mike found him there with the First Lady. It’s not that he really cares that Aaron sleeps with Martha, because “I let you die” is still worse than “I slept with the bodyguard”, but President Logan is in a fragile state and it better not happen again.
Get a room!
You know, there is nothing that will really screw up your day as President like an untimely visit from your Vice President, especially when the veep looks to be smarter than you and actually has a backbone. The Vice President comes in, has done his own projections of casualties, and has come up with a death toll far larger than anything CTU has offered. He decides that the best idea would be to declare martial law, and although Logan doesn’t seem to like the idea, it also seems like he would rather somebody else make a decision. He is much better at complaining about things not getting done than actually telling people what they need to do. Thankfully for all of us citizens, it takes an act of Congress for the President to deploy troops, but the VP even had an excuse for that, and it was called “There’s a fish in the percolator!!!” OK, sorry, I saw like three episodes of Twin Peaks, but had to throw that in there. Actually, the Vice President said they would massage the language a little bit, and they would never have to get approval from Congress. As long as the people want to be protected, they won’t complain about boots on the ground.
At this point, Mike knows that this is real trouble. He goes to Martha, and after some small talk, he basically begs for her to support her husband. He wasn’t worth a whole lot before he chose to send her to her death, and he was a complete mess now. Listening to the VP would be really bad for the country, so he convinces Martha to at least pretend she is not mad at the President, because he needs to make decisions with a clear head, and she is one of the people he will listen to. She speaks to her husband, and it looks like Novick has avoided another disaster, at least for the time being.
Those drapes won’t hang themselves!
Jack finally gets back to CTU, and after telling some people to put Henderson in an interrogation room, he goes to see Kim. If your father comes back from the dead you are either going to be super excited or super pissed. Kim never had a great relationship with her father, so she is pissed. She doesn’t understand why he lied to her, and when Jack says he had to protect her, Barry chimes in and says that Jack “could have chosen to trust her”. Wow, do we need to take a look back at all the times Jack has trusted Kim? Even before Chase left her, she couldn’t hold down a job, even if it was babysitting. Oh, and if you haven’t noticed, the terrorists were able to kill a former President of the United States. I am pretty sure they would have been able to find Kim and this Radio Shack manager that she decided to go out with.
Kim wants to leave, but Jack is called away to some Henderson interrogation and asks that she stay a little longer. Jack really doesn’t want to hurt Henderson, but when he keeps saying things like “You don’t want to know what I know”, isn’t that an invitation for some torture? What would be so awful for Jack to hear? At this point, I was kind of feeling sorry for Henderson. He is kind of old, and Jack just found out his daughter is now dating a psychologist who used to be her therapist. He can’t kill Barry Landis with good conscience, but he can take as much of his anger out on Henderson as he wants.
I know, I know, this is all basically bullshit. The real item of interest is our terrorist friend and what he is going to do in CTU. They already sent somebody to kill Jack, well, a couple of times, so were they really going to try and kill off CTU? I guess it would make sense, and it would make it easier for them to get a lot of casualties from other places without CTU to coordinate response. Still, this nerve gas wasn’t a bomb, so there would be no random deaths. This would be mass casualties. And is anybody else wondering about the timeline a little? Didn’t Dwayne steal the key card back when the Russians still thought they were going to be killing the Russians? What would be the purpose of paying somebody to steal the key card back then? Just in case?
The important thing was that our terrorist friend got inside, and he was looking to do some real damage. He made it inside and down to the ventilation system. He was able to plant the canister, and it looked like nobody was going to notice. Well, somebody did notice, and it was Carrie, the CTU tech who Lynn fired after she got a little lippy with him earlier. She noticed that something was wrong, but when she told Edgar, he was too busy helping coordinate first responders to be able to take care of minor problems like ventilation. It’s not like the terrorists have been targeting ventilation systems and you’d want to be extra careful or anything. Carrie decides to check it out herself, sees the canister, and picks up her phone, just in time to stabbed in the back! The timer for the centox canister is set to 15 minutes, and now we wait to see how long it is going to take before Edgar notices that Carrie is missing.
Although I figured that the LAPD would be really busy today, they were able to find the bodies of Lynn’s sister and her boyfriend pretty quickly. Word traveled to CTU, and Buchanan decided to break the bad news. Lynn looked upset that his sister died, but he almost seemed relieved that he would no longer have to worry about his key card. At least he no longer worries until he hears that the two of them were killed execution style and that it was the work of a professional. When Lynn asks if they found his key card, Buchanan is a little confused, but that confusion quickly turns to “oh shit” as he realizes that anybody could have used Lynn’s key card to gain access with a little bit of know-how.
Oh man, things are starting to hit the fan. Let’s see. Kim wants to know why her dad is taking so long, and she is looking to work up some anger for Chloe, who dared to hide the truth of her father’s death from her. Then Chloe reminds her that half of the people who knew Jack was alive were killed, Tony was in critical condition, and Chloe was only safe after Jack found her in time. When he said he wanted to protect you, he wasn’t making it up. Kim decided to stick around a little longer, which might be exactly what Jack wants to hear, until he realizes nerve gas is going to kill them all. Her father was with Henderson, who wasn’t speaking, but the chemical methods they were using to compel him to talk made his situation bad enough that he had to be moved to the infirmary. That would be an interesting move, because Tony was in the infirmary as well, and Tony just learned that Henderson might be behind a lot of this. Anybody sense a beat down coming from the soul patch?
By this time, Chloe had discovered that somebody had used Lynn’s key card and Buchanan ordered a complete lockdown. Nobody would be able to get out, and when you combine that with deadly gas about to pour in, this could be a disaster. Jack is able to find the terrorist and kill him, but he is not going to be able to stop the nerve gas. Jack finds the schematics and the timer on the terrorist and Buchanan orders a Code Six. A bunch of big “E”s pop on the screens of the CTU computers and it’s time to evacuate.
As Edgar hears the alarms, he calls Chloe to find out what is going on. Oh God, I thought that Edgar was a goner because he was going to the source of the gas, but it looks like he will have time to get out. I mean, it’s not over yet because, you know, he can’t run that fast, but at least he has a chance. It looks like nobody is going to make it. Jack, Chloe, Audrey, Bill, and Kim are all in the main room, but people are starting to die in the rooms around them. The only places that can be sealed shut are the situation room, some offices upstairs, and the parts of the infirmary. Anybody who is a name that we would remember seems to be safe, but everybody else is dropping like flies around them.
And then it happens.
Everybody is silent, contemplating what happens, until we hear Audrey say “Oh no” and Edgar appears on the screen. He didn’t make it out of the building, and he is shuffling his way into the main hall just as fast as his stubby little legs can take him. Suddenly, he notices that there is nobody else alive where he is. Chloe walks up to the glass of the situation room, and their eyes meet. Edgar can barely come up with words, but says “Chloe” with one of his lasts breaths. It is so cliché but there is so much that he wanted to tell her and never had a chance. Chloe looks like she is about to burst into tears, but can’t come up with any words. She can only watch him die as Edgar falls to the ground.
I don’t know why it is, but Edgar’s death really got to me, perhaps even more than President Palmer. We loved David, but he was a strong man who accomplished a lot in life, and he will be remembered for his greatness. Edgar is not attractive, has a lisp, and is a low-level civil servant. It’s up to us to remember him. As my friend SA said, perhaps there is an emergency bucket of kielbasa in the infirmary to bring Edgar back to life, but I don’t think that is the case. We’ll all remember the loss of Edgar and all of the people at CTU, and we got another silent clock at the end to let it all soak in.
Click Edgar to play
Rest in peace big man, the angioplasties are free and painless in heaven.
What did you think of this episode? Will you miss Edgar? Do you like Kim’s new boyfriend? Will anybody survive CTU?
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I’m not ashamed to admit that I (sigh) had a tear or two coming down my cheek. I was so embarrassed. Thank god I was watching alone.
Ironically enough, Edgar actually died of a heart attack from all that running.
By the way, I loved Tony’s rampant case of bed head. It made him look very Adam Brodyish.
Stupid fat hobbit, you must not let go of the precious!!! Who knew that Lynn losing the key card would end up this way. And what kind of name is Lynn for a guy anyway. You just know that this wasn’t the only time he has been beat up in his life, having a girl’s name and all. Jack took his game to an all new level this week. Shot the dude’s wife! You gotta love how the writers are coming up with all new ways to take Jack down the road we don’t want to go down. Speaking of Lynn, was he in one of the safe areas? I hope not. Stupid fat hobbit can’t hold his breath that long.
I forgot about Lynn and whether he was in one of the safe areas. I was too upset about Edgar. I am not ashamed to admit I cried. That was one of those heartstopping moments I watch 24 for.
That was freakin’ heartbreaking. It was nice to see Edgar get the fifth silent clock in 24 history, though.
The fact that Edgar is, well, a pudgy dork pretty much made the whole thing sadder. However, we should remember that he was a legit hero who saved the world a couple of times over last year. And, as cheesy as this sounds, we can take solace in the fact that he is reunited with his loving mother.
As good of an actor as Louis Lombardi is (and, on the upside, he received some mad exposure as Edgar), the final scene was really well done. When Audrey said, “Oh, no,” it was like a well-oiled machine starting its motion. Even freakin’ C. THOMAS HOWELL had a great disbelieving look as the whole scene climaxed. I gotta give it to Chloe, though, whose horrified expression really stole the shot.
Great episode all around, and an ending that really had an effect.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m on the side of the terrorists…so I didn’t mind all that much that CTU got hit, just as long as Kim Bauer was safe!
Jack shooting that dude’s wife = Bad ass. And I hope Jack will be able to get his torture on with that Barry loser.
What were the five silent clocks?
Teri Bauer, Edgar…
B-Side, the five silent clocks were:
1. Jack holding Teri’s body at the end of S1.
2. George Mason departing CTU for the last time in the middle of S2.
3. The attempt on Palmer’s life at the end of S2.
4. Chapelle’s execution towards the end of S3.
5. And, of course, Edgar.
Yes, that’s right. I should have known better.
Every silent clock is always a classic.
I’m still reliving this episode in my head. amazing.
Whoa! That was intense.
When the bad guy planted the canister at CTU, I started jumping up and down gleefully. Kim is going to die! Kim is going to die!
Alas, no such luck
I actually don’t hate Kim as much as some 24 fans do, but I just think that the final seconds would have been even more intense if she was the one trapped outsided the room. Imagine the anguish on Jack’s face–would have been an immortal TV moment.
I’m such a heartless bastard.
sob. sob. I too cried…more than a tear. Poor Edgar. First his mom now him. Maybe God was trying to tell him something. Think he got the message now.
Can’t wait to see Chloe go all balistic on the terrorists for killing her man. Well, her secret admirer at least.
Did Kim leave her cougar at home? Did it occur to anyone to leave Kim out of the sealed rooms? Because after 5 seasons we all know that the terrorist only have one agenda, to Kill Kim. And then they’ll go away.
So this is how Ponyboy stays gold, by banging his patients who are half his age.
I guess I’m the only one who laughed when Edgar died? I suppose I am just heartless…
No, I laughed. Cuz he just kinda dropped out of frame. And the sight of him running with that slight waddle. It was funny to me what can I say. I was hoping he would leave us with one last lispy sentence before he went, but alas. Besides, he’s with his nuclear irradiated mother in heaven now, with a level 5 clearance. Now that he’s gone, who’s going to reroute server firewalls? Chloe can only decrypt so many passwords.
Long live Kim Bauer. Her getting caught in a bear trap and being trapped in the crazy mans underground bunker with a baby doll tee is one of my most endearing memories.
And don’t forget the big silent clock controversy when Palmer was poisoned. Up til then silent clocks were only for deaths and it left all of us wondering if he was killed or not.
I cried, well more than a tear, when Edgar died, though it was emotionally amplified by my having just a few seconds before jumped up off the couch shrieking, “What about Tony?!” Those two hours were just flat-out amazing – back to the level of intensity we had in the first season when Jack was rescuing Teri and Kim from Gaines’ compound. Wow.
When did C. Thomas Howell start looking like Rasputin? Yikes.
For all Kiefer Sutherland brings to the role, it’s the subtleties, like the long wordless look he gave Barry after he broke into Jack’s conversation with Kim, that elevate him way up into the greatness stratosphere.
Here it is two days later and I am just now coming out of the shock phase. I wanted to ask for a day off of work, but then I realized that I really don’t know where this fictional funeral would take place. And that silent clock had an impact. I knew when he left his desk to look for whats-her-name that he was a goner. But the look on Chloe’s face was priceless. I shed a few tears.
The thought “just shoot his wife instead” raced through my mind about one millisecond prior to Jack pulling the trigger on Miriam. And then he went and did it. Although anyone could have seen that coming after she said, “you can put the gun away Jack. You aren’t going to shoot me.” I still jumped up and yelled my praises to Jack. I think I will start a new religious cult. All hail, Jack!
By the way, did anyone else recognize JoBeth Williams as Miriam? Me either. Age is a cruel joke.
On a completely different note, did anyone else notice the three, count ‘em, THREE ear piercings on Logan? Eww!
I saw C. Thomas Howell’s name in the opening credits and wondered what role he would play and if I would recognize him. I was pretty sure he wasn’t going to look anything like those days on The Outsiders. Love those boys!
A few more ramblings: Tony’s looking darn healthy for having been in an explosion just a few hours ago. What is that? Kool-aid on the side of his face?
Why was this a two hour episode anyway? I thought maybe March Madness was going to preempt it later or something. But we have another new episode next week.
I have asked my doctor to phone in a prescription for heart medicine for myself as Prison Break and 24 back-to-back may be too much for me.
I smell a D-I-V-O-R-C-E for Martha Logan. She needs someone like Aaron, compassionate, caring, and doesnt second guess EVERY DECISION HE MAKES!!
Jack wears his hoodie of nfiltration next week to stop the nerve gas, nothing can penatrate it….
RIP Edgar….you’ll be misses
ok how about “infiltration” and “missed”
I might of inhaled some cetonx.
Poor Edgar. He died from inhaling the gath.
do not trust the vice-president…HE KILLED LAURA PALMER!!!
WOW! Great recap J-Unit of a fantastic 2 hours. You had me rolling on the floor with the “it doesn’t hurt less when you’re not expecting it.” line. I only hope that CTU learned their perimeter lesson on this one. When Curtis set up a “soft perimeter” at the hospital I was thinking “Oh Oh, this can’t be good!”. But evidently a soft perimeter works much better than a hard one (ironic is it not!). And how did a crackhead like Dwayne hook up with the Russian terrorist? I mean sure he could go to “Terrorist Organizations” in the LA Yellow pages but how did he know it was this group that reeeeeaaaally wanted a CTU access card that very day? And wouldn’t you think that an access card to a place like CTU would be a little bit harder to reprogram. Let’s put Edgar on that project…DOH!
“Although I figured that the LAPD would be really busy today….”
Why is that? There’s nothing special going on in LA today, is there? OK, there was Palmer’s assasination, and the airport thing, and an attempt on a foreign head of state and the First Lady, and the gas at the mall. But, it’s not like the Rose Parade was going on or a Lakers game or anything.
If I was one of the bad guys, I’d be afraid. VERY afraid. Chloe doesn’t even need aviator sunglasses of badness. I’ll just bet that she can be just as good as Jack or Curtis at inflicting pain. Ow.
Did anyone else find the gigantic, red flashing DECEASED message on Michelle’s CTU profile to be a little bit hilarious? I mean, I respect the gravity of the situation, but I kind of felt as if this was the cyber equivalent of CTU throwing Tony a “Surprise! Your Wife is Dead!” party.
Also, I firmly believe that Edgar Stiles is not dead. All Chloe needs to do is whisper some sweet nothings through the air-tight seal of the Situation Room and Edgar’s will to live will be renewed.
Great recap of great shows!
Am I alone in thinking the lockdown siren is the greatest sound effect ever? I look forward to a good lockdown every season.
Reth in peeth, Edgar. You will be mithed.
(This is my first season of 24.) I am watching it with MrC. and we are at the part with Miriam and Henderson on the couch and I am screaming, “I thought Jack was supposed to be a bad-ass- put the gun up to the wife, not him!”
Nexthingyaknow Jack just shoots her and I say, “ooooh yeah, he IS a bad-ass! Shoot the wife with out even a warning! NICE!”
Glad Lynn is outta there! Gosh, he had the worst short man’s syndrome I’ve ever seen.
Greatest 24 ever.
Tragic to see Edgar die so young but at least he’ll be reunited with his mother now.
Does CTU have a group Life Insurance benefit? I’d hate to be the insurance company. Who was Edgar’s beneficiary?
What the hell is a hottie like Kim doing with Barry? He’s got to be the luckiest guy in the world except for the fact he’ll probably be dying under excruciating circumstances in the not too distant future. Which brings up the final question from the coming attraction tease. Who’s going to die next hour?
I don’t have Tivo and have a bad memory at times. However, I thought the three safe rooms mentioned were the Situation room, the Infirmary, and Holding. Wouldn’t that keep the hobbit alive?
Also, when they flashed the various faces while saying that one of these people will make the ultimate sacrifice, I thought Lynn’s face was in that mix. If so, that’s an unfair teaser to me. If he is in fact outside of a safe room to begin with, then he is already dead.
^ Nevermind…I just watched the clip on fox.com and Chloe says, “the situation room, the upper offices and clinic isolation.” Buh-bye Hobbit.
I also can’t wait to see Tony put the smack-down on Henderson next hour. Did you see the look he gave him when they wheeled him in?
I am new to 24 this season. Were the previous seasons this good? Every episode has me on the edge of my seat. I was shocked when Jack shot Wellers wife. I actually shed tears when Edgar crumbled to the floor. TV just doesn’t effect me this way.
“Awesome, totally awesome! Way to go, Hamilton!”
Very moving and almost shocking episode, although I must say I saw the attack coming as soon as Lynn’s keycard was stolen.
And let’s not all rush to judgement on the timely death of C. Thomas Howell. Let us not forget that he singlehandedly took on a Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter with an AK in “Red Dawn.” Granted it did kill the hell out of him…
Erazrhead (#30) – Uh, yeah.
To Sloaner et al:
>>And how did a crackhead like Dwayne hook up with the Russian terrorist? I mean sure he could go to “Terrorist Organizations” in the LA Yellow pages but how did he know it was this group that reeeeeaaaally wanted a CTU access card that very day?<<
I suspect that it went the other way around — the terrorists were looking for a weakness in CTU’s personnel and found Lynn’s crackhead sister, and thus commissioned the robbery. Now, why they were looking to make CTU contacts when they just wanted to blow up fellow Russians, I don’t know, but maybe they’re a creative terrorist group which values having lots of plan Bs…. Maybe gaining access at CTU originally would help them get the gas out of the country?
How Lynn ever got back in the building after getting mugged is an eternal mystery however…. One would have thought the missing key card would have come up as soon as he reached the door.
If Lynn thought he was in trouble before, imagine how deep he’s in now that not reporting a stolen key card has led to dozens of deaths…. Stupid hobbit indeed.
I was sad when Edgar died. With a lisp I said, “No, not Edgar Stiles!” That was so freaking sweet when Jack shot Miriam in the leg and yelled, “It’s above the knee!” Hope that tourniquet that Jack was tying works because she won’t have to worry about being in a wheelchair if she bleeds to death.
bdub, I agree that I have no idea how the Radio Shack manager got a hottie like Kim. I can’t believe that Chase left her. I wanted the writers to bring him back so I could see if he had a normal prosthetic or a hook for a hand. “I’m a monster!” Sorry, I’m still mourning the loss of Arrested Development on Fox.
Where the hell did this hardcore VP come from? He basically put Mike in his place, but Mike won’t go down without a fight so it was good to see him use the First Lady of Crazy to get Logan to ignore the VP’s wacky idea, for a little while anyway.
Unfortunately, I saw it coming, Jack shooting Miriam in the leg. You knew it wasn’t going to be easy to crack Henderson, so this was his only option. It was bad ass nonetheless.
Deb, I was thinking the same thing about Lynn – how did he manage to get back into the building without his key card? And why not just report it right away? And how can it be so easy for a terrorist to program a CTU key card?
And yes, tears welled up in my eyes as soon as I saw poor Edgar running around the office. And Chloe’s look – she actually showed compassion.
Poor Deadgar.
Did you know that this episode made the front page of Yahoo! News? I hadn’t seen the episode yet and the headline read, “Unlikely fan favorite meets end on ’24.’”
It was at that moment that I knew Carrie had died.
Deb – My girlfriend and I went through the exact same questions and came to the exact conclusions that you did. Good point on getting back into CTU without the card.
First off – I loved this episode.
That being said, I occasionally thought that I’d accidentally switched the channel to “I Love the 80′s”. Roll call : We’ve got Robocop, the Mom from Poltergeist, the Dad from Twin Peaks, Ponyboy, Rudy, and a Designing Woman. Hell, even Kiefer was in “Stand By Me” and “Lost Boys”.
Chalk up another viewer with a lump in his throat and tears welling up as Chloe watched Edgar die. Later big guy – I had really grown to like you.
Great recap J.
“Those drapes won’t hang themselves” ROTFLMAO.
“Where are my drape runners? Where are my drape runners?!”
That was easily some of the finest stuff 24 has ever done. Thrilling and surprising all the way through. Wonderful.
I will miss Edgar. I had a lump in my throat as he died. Poor Chloe, I was really hoping she and Edgar would hook up at the end of this season.
This is the worst and best season ever. Worst because now two of my favorite characters are dead, but best because the story is excellent this year. Its suspensful, action packed, and still not too far fetched like season 4 got to be.
All i have to say is as soon as I saw Chloe run to the window, and Edgar approaching – I wanted them to get all Star Trek 2 (KHAAAAAAAAAN!) and re-create the Kirk/Spock good bye scene – that would have been killer, what I would suggest in the next episode is that CTU go ahead and recreate Spock’s funeral on the Enterprise in ST2, except this time when CTU tries to blast Edgar’s coffin at warp speed into the outer regions of space, let’s just say it gets a little stuck…..
In this episode someone (I think Buchanan) mentions “they are bringing the body to the CTU morgue.”
Did we already know there is an onsite morgue at CTU or is that just another name for the CTU infirmiry?
What other facilities do they have onsite? Onsite CTU dry cleaning would be nice. No cafeterias? I’ve never seen anyone even having a snack. Why no vending machines? How about a break room?
#33 – “If Lynn thought he was in trouble before, imagine how deep he’s in now that not reporting a stolen key card has led to dozens of deaths…. Stupid hobbit indeed.”
The only deep trouble Lynn is in will be six feet under courtesy of a little thing we call centox nerve gas.
I love how now the nerve gas keeps being called “Centox” when centox is just a subcontractor name for it. It would seem to me that calling it VX would be easier and more accurate. Such is life.
I agree with one of the previous posters: will someone please tell me how Lynn’s sister’s boyfriend ever hooked up with the bad guys? How the hell does some scumbag street dealer get in contact with an international ring of terrorists to sell them a key card? Is there some sort of nefarious underworld phone directory? Some sort of criminal bat signal? If it’s that easy, why doesn’t Jack just call the bad guy himself and tell him he has a card for sale? Bad guy shows up, Jack kills him, they rename the show to “14â€?, game over.
MrsTimGunn, the “gigantic, red flashing DECEASED message on Michelle’s CTU profile” was a bit hilarious to me. And a little over the top. And a crappy way for someone to find out their loved one died.
Or did she?
Anyway Michelle could still be alive?
Did anyone see the recent TV movie remake of WAR OF THE WORLDS with C Thomas? First, why anyone made it with the knowledge of the Tom Cruise movie being released is beyond me but the point is that C Thomas looked lie a corpse. I was amazed how terrible he looked, sorry but my first reaction was, AIDs.
It makes me feel safer knowing that there’s probably a number of real JACK BAUERS in the world protecting my ass but I’m terrified that there are real CTUs that can be breached over and over again by the baddies.
Also, as much as I lust over Elisha, she has a bigger butt chin then Ashlee Simpson.
I too cried a little bit at the end when Chloe mouthed Edgar’s name and he fell. It was too much. And, amazingly, I hadn’t heard anything about it before it happened. The spoilers didn’t get to me, thankfully.
To Deb:
“I suspect that it went the other way around — the terrorists were looking for a weakness in CTU’s personnel and found Lynn’s crackhead sister, and thus commissioned the robbery.” My only problem with this theory is that Lynn was just assigned to that CTU location (from District)that day. If the Russians’ intelligence was that good they wouldn’t have needed the President to rat out the motorcade route. I think this just falls into the same plausability category as Jack’s ability to traverse LA at the speed of sound.
There is still someone in the government that was behind all of the day’s events – so they could have known that Lynn would be sent to CTU and set him up.
P.S. I love TVGasm comments that just won’t quit!
Here is a high-quality of the knee-shot.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/963/vlcsnap17532713vs.jpg
* I wish Kim had died in that car accident in the first season.
* I loved the way Edgar “fell” during his death scene, bend over, sit down, and then roll on the floor.
* I had no idea that was C Thomas Howell, holy sh!t did he pick up a meth problem in the early 90′s?
* So, who’s next to visit CTU? Charlie Sheen, Molly Ringwald, Ralph Macchio?
The previews for next weeks show seemed a bit of a let down, I mean come on, an Old Navy hooded sweat shirt seems no match for Centox gas… If only Old Navy had hooded sweat shirts in the husky sizes, then Edgar might still be alive today.
He has a web site!!!!
http://www.louislombardi.com/
^ I’m not sure what to think of that
except
Life’s a pizza!
Sloaner:
>>My only problem with this theory is that Lynn was just assigned to that CTU location (from District)that day. <<
Yeah, but it wouldn’t matter, would it? I would assume a CTU key card, whether for division or wherever, will get you into any of the facilities. The bigger mystery to me — even more so than Jack’s ability to transverse LA — is Lynn’s ability to beam his keycardless self back into the building. Does he still have the Ring? The cloak of invisibility?
Maybe the security guards just recognized Lynn so they let him back in. Of course, this makes you wonder why the security guards weren’t concerned that a man they’d never seen before shows up an access card granting him full security clearance. It makes about as much sense as the front desk guy at Omicron not being suspicious that Jack was going to a meeting wearing the hoodie of infiltration.
Henderson’s wife getting popped in the knee- deffinitely one of the top 5 moments in 24 history. god i love jack bauer.