Well, getting back to the story, Morris stepped away from his desk for two seconds, and Chloe immediately swooped in, took his phone and jotted down his sponsor's number. This moment of brief subterfuge was interrupted, however, by Nadia, who was this week's official Blowhard Who Doubts Morris. Chloe defended her ex, saying that he was still capable of doing a good job, but Nadia was unconvinced. "I'm keeping my eye on him. If I see anything else I don't like, I'm going to Buchanan." OOOH! Beware the stern reproach of Nadia!
Elsewhere in California, Jack arrived at Logan's ranch of imprisonment where he came face to hairy face with the former Commander in Chief. The two shared some tense words, no doubt fueled by Jack's regret over having shaved his Old Man Time beard, and then ultimately, Logan suggested that he wanted something in return for giving up Gredenko's location. Did he want money? No. Freedom? No. A chance to vindicate himself in the eyes of Pat Robertson? Possibly. You see, Logan was all Born Again now, or at least, that's what he was saying. Knowing him, he'd say anything to escape that rich, luxurious, sprawling, relaxing hellhole he called home.
Anyway, Logan said the way to Gredenko was through the Russian consul, a man named Markoff. Jack barked that they had already asked him for information, but the guy had stonewalled. Well, of course he had stonewalled. He was covering for a terrorist! Logan insisted that he could work the back channels, get the guy to speak -- after all, Markoff had been part of the whole Palmer conspiracy of two years ago, and if he didn't cooperate, Logan would finger him (not in the sexual way. Gross!).
Well, Jack called up President Palmer 2.0 and told him he needed an executive order to grant a furlough to Logan so he could visit the Russian consul. As you can imagine, this led to lots of growling, especially when Logan noted that he wanted to help Wayne much as David had helped him back in season four. Palmer 2.0 immediately did the whole "And look at how you repaid him" comment, and I half expected Logan to reply, "Wow. I really set you up for that."
No surprise here. Wayne granted the furlough, and after he got off the phone, Charles turned to Jack and asked, "This isn't easy for you, is it, Jack?"
"What?" Jack replied.
"The possibility that I may not be the same man you hated for so long," Logan answered, adding, "Have you noticed my beard yet? You haven't said a word about it. You're jealous, aren't you?"
Over in the desert, one of Gredenko's henchman arrived with a truck carrying some sort of evil device. I imagined it was a rocket, but it looked more like a giant, oversized pregnancy kit. Anyway, this device was going to pretty much destroy America as we knew it -- or at least confirm whether or not the country was with child. Either way -- dire consequences would be had!
We then headed back to CTU where Bill was debriefing the gang for the umpteenth time today. Just as he was detailing his plans for the com lockdown at the consulate, Morris bustled into the room, late and guilty looking as usual. Well. The parade of indignities continued for him as Bill requested that Morris hand over all his work to Chloe.
NEVER!
Morris addressed the whole room and said that he was fine, just fine. So he'd been tortured by terrorists and perhaps aided and abetted the potential deaths of millions of people, but honestly, he was just dandy. Every should stop worrying, thank you very much! Somehow this impassioned plea won over Bill (score one point for persuasive British accents); however, Nadia remained unconvinced that Morris was the man for the job. She officially dissented, but apparently women in suffocatingly high, laced necklines have no sway over Buchanan. Morris's duties remained intact.
Over at the Presidential Bunker, Tom was still tied up in the boiler room, forced to listen to the bad guy seethe, "the President's going to die, and there's nothing you can do about it." OH REALLY? We'll see about that! Hey, wasn't I advocating Wayne's death like two episodes ago? I'm conflicted.
We then went to commercial break, and upon return, we head back to CTU where Nadia was fuming over the function prototypes on Morris's report. When she failed to clearly articulate her problems, Chloe asked, "You mean the missing sectors?"
"YES the missing sectors," Nadia snapped back. ALWAYS WITH THE MISSING SECTORS!!! WHEN WILL MORRIS LEARN???
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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