Jack presses and taunts the old coot...while Jonas tries to defend himself, saying he and Jack are alike as they have the balls to do whatever's necessary (a few innocent lives here and there be damned) to save the country! Jack gets all indignant, swearing he and Jonas are nothing alike, and that he WANTS. THE. NAMES! Jonas claims not to know any of them, so Jack fakes a call to a Washington Post reporter (actually Renee behind the two-way glass), and is about to make a "statement" about how Jonas is still alive. Jonas freaks out, and tells him he swears he doesn't have any of the other names! Everything was handled by an intermediary chick (the same one that gave him the poison). His truthiness is confirmed via bio-metric monitors and some morse code tapping on the two way glass by Renee.
After taking a parting shot at Hodges ("Traitor!") Jack heads behind the glass and phones the White House. The President is, of course, skeptical of old Crazy-Pants, but Renee tells her that the biometrics don't lie! Jack starts talking about how the attack is imminent, and Tim Woods is surprised since Jonas said "next year"! Jack tells them his brilliant theory (all true, of course) that the evil shadowy folks will likely seize the opportunity/chaos created today to use the canister now. Oh-No! They all agree the best course of action is to check databases in the old CTU servers for the "Mohammed this, Achmed That" Hodges was talking about earlier. The Prez recommissions CTU! (Sorta, their servers at least). Renee heads out to grab them from the Dept. of Justice "on the third floor", while Jack calls the one person who will cut through those servers like a hot knife through buttah: Chloe!
Chloe's sleeping soundly in a comfy hotel bed with her boy Prescott while Morris (still in the doghouse because of the "selling Jack out business") is on the sofa-bed. Chloe wants to know WTF!? is up, especially w/ the rumors of Bill Buchanan's demise. Jack regretfully informs her it's all true, but that he needs her help to stop a biological attack using the CTU servers (helpfully re-commissioned by the Prez). Chloe sniffles a little about being called back to action/Bill's death, but agrees to do the job anyway. She kisses little Prescott on on the head and wakes Morris to tell him about the impending biological attack. His instinct is to flee, but Chloe tells him she's gotta answer the call of duty for the FBI (even though they arrested her and treated her like crap yesterday). She implores him to understand and get the hell out of Dodge w/ their baby boy, before grabbing her things and heading out...as we cut to break!
When we return, Junkie Jack gets a quick fix before heading into the FBI conference room for a briefing meeting. Jack and Renee take charge of the meeting and bring the FBI gang up to speed on the "theory" that an attack is imminent. They don't know the target. They don't know who's involved (other than Tony and NOT-Patty). But gosh darn it, it's happening! Some dude named Tim Moran from Field Ops asks a lot of sketchy questions, as does Janis. Jack gets passed a note and skips out of the meeting leaving Renee to handle the skeptical-pansy-pants crew. Janis' chief concern is using the CTU servers ("illegal! What are we, CTU-Lite?"). Renee gently tells her to STFU and continues the briefing.
Jack and Chloe meet up in a hallway and embrace. She notes he "looks like hell", but he assure her he's fine. Liar! They discuss the ins and outs of the CTU server stuff, but Jack takes a moment to fill her in on Dirty Tony's involvement in everything. Chloe is, at first, skeptical. Jack explains that Tony is working for a group of shady military-contractor types trying to seize control of the government, and that he played all of them...and tried to kill Jack! Chloe is keeps holding out hope that "it doesn't make sense...there must be a reason." Jack shuts her down, telling her the Tony she thinks she knows doesn't exist anymore and he needs to know if she's "with" him. Of course, she's on Team Good Guy. Yay!
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Comments (3)
Hey DS! How's the job going?
I was a little "eh" about this episode, but your recap made up for that. Endless opportunities for hilarity! Loved the "blow up bloggers" and "I don't kiss on the lips"!
I'm so sick of Ho-Livia, I don't think she adds anything of value. President Taylor has enough going on, the writers didn't really need to throw in a crazy-assed, idiot daughter bitching things up for her as well.
Glad to see Chloe back. And cure Jack already, cripes.
Don't really have any predictions, beyond the obvious. Jack will manage to foil the rush-hour pathogen plot. I'll be interested to see who all the people in the cabal are, and their roles/ties.
1 of 3 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on May 4, 2009 11:09 AM
@ JJ
It's going great, thanks for asking! I'm still learning lessons in time-management and readjusting, but no complaints whatsoever.
I agree with you on this week's episode. It didn't inspire me much. I am glad that we finally got Chloe and Janis together again to finish the bitch-fest that barely got started earlier this season. There wasn't much payoff though, as they only had the one scene together this week.
Here's hoping tonight's is better!
2 of 3 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on May 4, 2009 12:57 PM
great recap. I am so sick of ho-livia. It was one of the weaker episodes but I still love the show. I guess we just wait and see.
3 of 3 | Posted by v_cap | Posted on May 4, 2009 4:37 PM