Down in the server room we saw Sean sneaking around in earlier this season, Janis enters and uses the key to hack into Chloe's computer. I seem to remember the server room being lit with the standard fluorescent lighting of the rest of the office earlier in the season, but the darkness only helps serve the Intrigue of the scene!
After a quick break, Marika asks her driver where they are going, but he does not respond. As she looks out the window nervously, Larry updates Jack and Renee that they are less than a mile behind the target car. Janis, who is watching their every move from the server room, is startled when a colleague enters and abruptly removes the key, which cuts off Chloe and Larry's access to the tracking grid. Larry, Chloe, Renee, and Jack all collectively lose their shit over this! Equally abruptly, Chloe's access comes back. A convenient flashing red box on her monitor informs her that someone in the office was mirroring the terminal and knows exactly what they were up to. Larry looks out of his conference room and pans the room of his underlings, wondering who would do such a thing...
We cut to Jack and Renee's car, in hot pursuit of Marika, but there's trouble! DC cops are coming at them from every direction and trying to set up a road block to stop them. Jack tells Larry to get them off, but he's unable! Jack and Renee are arrested by the DC cops. Chloe informs Larry that warrants were issued out of his office for their arrest! When he tries to revoke them, he gets a lot of bureaucratic chain-of-command nonsense from metro PD which prompts one of his patented grumbly growly faces and Chloe pipes in the current location of Marika's car, even though nobody is following it. That's helpful, Chloe!
Back at D-Bag's desk, Janis returns his magic little access key and tells him about the covert Bauer operation tracking somebody. Sean pretends to be surprised by this and wonders why they are being kept in the dark. I say "pretends", because as soon as she walks away, Sean calls the nameless Big Baddie in the suit and let's him know Bauer and Walker were taken care of. SEAN IS THE MOLE!! So, let's see a show of hands out there. Who's surprised that the whiny, suspicious, undermine-y, adulterer is one of the bad guys? Nobody?! Yeah, didn't think so. That one was obvious.
"Actually, my money was on DeadSlut...but I'm blind, so whatever."
At any rate, Sean goes on to tell the suit that they are most likely tracking the girl by her cell phone, and that in addition to knowing all about what Larry and Chloe have been up to, he has Larry's phones tapped. Before ending the conversation, Sean wants to know why Dubaku wasn't taken out as that was the plan once he was no longer useful. The suit informs Sean about the file with every complicit person's information in it, and Sean the selfish D-Bag that he is asks "Even Mine?" The suit says "everyone"...duh! Sean makes a subtle Oh-Shit face of his own as we go to a split screen showing everyone that's been featured this hour while moody music plays.
In an alley somewhere, Dubaku gets a call. My closed captions actually identified the Big Baddie suit as "Burnett." He informs Dubaku that Marika has been turned by the FBI and they are using her cell to track her. Dubaku doesn't believe it, but Burnett insists it came straight from his D-Bag in the Bureau. He advises the Colonel to cut and run and he'll have the driver take care of her. Dubaku doesn't play along, and we end the episode with him insisting that he'll "take care of her" before staring ominously into the camera...
Ba-Bum-Ba-Bum-Ba-Bum-Ba-Bum!
And there you have it Gasmii! I thought this was another strong hour following last-week's hell-raiser! Did you all see the previews for next week? I was laughing my ass off when Renee slapped Jack twice and then he grabbed her wrist when she tried a third time! Oh please, oh please, oh please let them kiss passionately after that wrist grab. And I promise to Santa, the Easter Bunny, and Jesus that I'll be the best boy ever if Larry Moss walks in on it!
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Comments (5)
Yay! Aaron's back!!! Can't wait for the Chloe/Janis slapfest that will likely ensue! This show rocks!!!
The recaps are great, too!
1 of 5 | Posted by hillpete | Posted on February 22, 2009 9:43 AM
Great episode - although it would take a lot for me to knock 24. And as for the recap -
*standing ovation*
Too many hilarious quotes to point out, and the screenshots/captions rocked!
I really hope Jack and Renee don't hook up. I know Audrey's out for this season, but there's still hope for next, please oh please.
Can't wait to see Chloe and Janis go at it too.
2 of 5 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on February 22, 2009 6:20 PM
Yeah, jjnoza, there's always hope now that "Lipstick Jungle" has tanked.
That field of red flags reminded me of my ex-boyfriend. *sniffle*
3 of 5 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on February 22, 2009 8:29 PM
@hillpete
Thanks!
@jjnoza
There's a great article from last weekend's NY Times about Chloe/Janis and Mary Lynne/Janeane's real life friendship. I'd link to it, but include links in posts...check it out!
@pixie
I feel your pain. Been there, myself.
4 of 5 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on February 23, 2009 12:39 PM
Interesting article - I wouldn't have found it otherwise - thanks! I understand Janis's character a lot better now - the mix of anxiety and irony. She irritated me a lot at the beginning, because I couldn't tell if she was supposed to be an FBI Chloe - yet didn't seem to have any balls/much of an edge, so to speak. Should have realized there was more to it!
5 of 5 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on February 23, 2009 2:53 PM