This week's episode began with Gredenko kindly filling us in on the his bomb-making timetable. It was gonna take about two hours to charge the flux capacitor and another hour to harness all the gigawatts. Basically, we had three hours (ie. two episodes after this one) before total destruction ensued. As far as Gredenko was concerned, the sooner the better. He absolutely hated working with the Arabs, saying they lived in the dark ages -- as opposed to Gredenko who was the height of civilisation. Anyway, if all worked out well (which it surely wouldn't because Jack Bauer was on the case), after today, the West and the Arabs would be spending the rest of their days killing each other off. Ah, it makes so much sense now! 9/11 was the work of disgruntled Russian nationalists, playing us all like fiddles! We should have known. Bring back the Cold War!

Meanwhile, over at the Presidential bunker, Wayne was getting antsy without his dearest Tom by his side. Where oh where could he be? (If you answered tied up to a pipe in the boiler room, you'd be receiving a gold star right about now). Anyway, before Wayne could get too concerned about Tom, the ambassador from The Unnamed Country arrived, glowered at Assad, and then announced he'd like to leave, thank you very much. Turns out this guy was not a big fan of Assad's, on account of Assad's whole "terrorist" past. The two men exchanged vitriolic words, thus confirming that this was possibly the worst blind date ever.

Anyway, as you may remember, Assad was to address the world on American TV and appeal to extremists everywhere. Wayne wanted a political endorsement from the ambassador's Prime Minister, but this ambassador was not about to oblige (see the whole Intense Hatred thing above). Out of nowhere, Wayne grew some temporary cojones and pretty much threatened the ambassador to play ball, otherwise he'd bomb the hell out of The Country That Shalt Not Be Named (clearly Malta).

Back at CTU, Morris was wasting his time with his is-he-or-isn't-he sobriety. He was trying to check the landlines at Gredenko's vacated house, but he just couldn't get any records. Was it because he was on the sauce? No, probably he was just suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome, thanks to all that mid-afternoon torture he was privy to. Nevertheless, while Morris tried to get it together, Bill called up Jack and asked what was going on with him. This warranted the trademark Jack brush-off ("It's complicated..."), and then the next thing we knew, CTU was setting up a perimeter to try to catch Philip Bauer. Needless to say, this was as useless as it ever was -- so much so that we never heard even one update as to whether they had caught the old man. Usually we get a perfunctory, "He got away, Jack. He had a chopper waiting, and we just didn't see it." (And this, of course, would be followed by a pointed "DAMMIT!" from Jack).

Anyway, Jack informed Bill that he needed to visit with Logan, which was convenient since Logan was under house arrest at his ranch. This totally confounding our star super agent, who just assumed Logan would be locked up in a facility two miles under the earth's surface. Quite the contrary. Logan's arrest was handled internally, and the public didn't even know he'd been involved with the assassinations. INJUSTICE! Personally, I just wanted to know where Martha was. I hoped for her sake she wasn't in that murky pit of existential suffering that was "VERMONT."

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Last Comment: rikkidbs on Mar 12, 2007 08:07 PM.

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24Ever :

Great recap. I think 24 is ever so slowly starting to regain form and tonight's show looks to have some good action. You are right about Chole, all the reasons we loved her (awkwardness, great one liners and in general how she dealt with other CTUers)are gone. She has to be the voice of reason now for Morriss and it is really getting old. I think the people who put on this show are trying to force what characters we should care about. I don't know for sure but I would guess they never meant for Edgar Stiles to have as prominent a roll as he ended up having. They are trying to force us to like Morriss, and like you said, most of us don't give a damn. Maybe they will hear our dissent (fingers crossed) Thank goodness it has been 2 or 3 episodes since we saw Sandra and Walid, I can only hope this continues (knock on wood). I would like to think it's because they heard all of our bitching, but it looks like their story line is wrapped up anyway. I think Thom and Reed have a gay thing going on, did you see him looking at Thom while tending to his wounds? I was laughing my ass off watching that. I have a bad feeling this might be Jack's last seaon just because of the way things are shaping up, but I am ready to say 24, despite a few minor details is returning to form and I am expecting stellar episodes from here on out.

1 of 2 | Posted by 24Ever | Posted on March 5, 2007 2:56 PM

rikkidbs :

B-Side you will be missed i laughed so hard at the picture and comment of Morris taking a dump for some reason i found it more entertaining than the actual version. I loved the ending to this recap thanks for all the great recaps :)

2 of 2 | Posted by rikkidbs | Posted on March 12, 2007 8:07 PM

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