Well, Jack got off the phone with Bill and came face to face with Marilyn and his secret lovechild, Josh. The poor kid looked grouchier than ever; so Jack told him, "Josh, I know there's a lot to explain, and I promise you that when this is over, you and I are going to sit down, and I will talk you through what happened." He then added, "Starting with the fact that I'm your dad. Too much too soon?"
Once Josh was out of earshot, Marilyn then thanked Jack for saving her son. "He reminds me of you," he said, adding, "And he reminds me of me. Because he's my son."
Over at the White House, the bad guy assassin arrived at the security checkpoint, claiming he was a policy analyst with some group. Oh, and even worse, he was there at the request of Tom Lennox. Vile! Framing a poor guy when he's down!
Anyway, the security guards checked the bad guy's briefcase, which appeared to be harmless -- just some highlighters and a dictaphone really. He cleared easily and then quietly stepped into the boiler room with Reed where he found Tom bound and gagged. "Son of a bitch!" the bad guy said, not happy to see that human bondage had worked its way into the Evil Plot. He moved Tom to a corner and announced his intention to kill him (and make it look like a suicide -- Walt Cummings style), but for some reason, Reed decided that he wanted to save Tom. He felt that once VP Noah Whatshisface was in power, Tom would see his policies put into action and would surely be so pleased that he would have no other recourse but to remain silent. Makes perfect sense. After all, who were they to slay Tom? "We're not cold blooded murderers," Reed contended. "We're just trying to save our country." ...via cold blooded murder.
The goon was somewhat swayed by Reed's call for amnesty, and so he got back to work on that bomb, which was only about twenty-five minutes away from being functional. Let the party begin!
After the break, we found Reed wandering the hallways of the Presidential bunker, clearly not ready for Wayne's she-servant, Melinda, whose pert, Sandy-Duncan-Does-Asia pixie haircut belied a sleuthing sensibility which would soon be put to work. Melinda asked where Tom was, and Reed tried to make up some story, saying he was in a mysterious place known as "Conference B."
"I just came from Conference B," Melinda said, quietly suppressing the urge to add, "BUSTED!" Reed just shrugged and said that the plans must have changed, and since Melinda's detective-work clearly prevented her from actually poking her head into rooms and looking around, she merely took Reed's word at face value and retreated. If only she had Sherry Palmer's McGruff trenchcoat. Then she'd be able to get to the bottom of this!
Back at CTU, Morris was having problems getting his vectors through. Don't you just hate that. Sometimes I just want to rattle my fists at the heavens and yell, "LET MY VECTORS THROUGH!!!" Luckily, Chloe was there to fix the problem, dutifully noting that Morris had specified the wrong slot assignments. OF COURSE. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: always specify the proper slot before pushing your vectors. Amateurs.
Anyway, Chloe was rightfully concerned that this vector mishap might be an indication that Morris had taken a swig from the drinky-drinky. She pressured Morris about calling his Sponsor, but he claimed that he wasn't drunk and that he had called his sponsor and blah blah blah. I truly hated this storyline. Please just kill off Morris. I just spoke with my dad who had several salient points on this topic. First, it seems as though the producers are setting up Morris to have some sort of triumphant vindication, which would be nice if we actually cared about him. Since we don't, we don't care if he winds up being a hero or not. He's certainly no Edgar. Secondly, with all this Morris junk, the CTU shenanigans have focused entirely on him, and not Chloe -- a tragic mistake. And lastly, Morris has totally defanged Chloe, and to me, that is the biggest injustice of all. Discuss.
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Comments (2)
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.
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Posted on March 5, 2007 2:56 PM
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 :)
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Posted on March 12, 2007 8:07 PM