Meanwhile, in the White House, Aaron escorts Gay Martin into Ho-Livia's office. Martin's specialties include political espionage, intrigue, and butt-sex. Olivia fills him in on her secret little plan to whack Jonas Hodges. Gay Martin tries to talk her out of it. In the process, he confirms that the two of them were responsible for "digging up dirt" on prior President Noah Daniels during her mother's campaign for the presidency. All things considered, Ho-Livia is ready to take the flying leap to the dark side and gives Gay Martin the itinerary for Jonas Hodges' transfer to witness protection. She wants the dude dead! It's revenge for her brother and all the other innocent civilians and yada yada. As Gay Martin leaves the office to make the arrangements, Aaron Pierce glares at the sketchy, political intrigue and butt-sex loving duo. Daddy Pierce may not know what's going on...but he most definitely does not approve!
Over at FBI HQ, Janis escorts US Marshall Sullivan into Jonas Hodges' interrogation/hospital room. Hodges calls Janis "young lady", and she admirably does not go all femi-nazi on his ass before leaving the room. Sullivan gives Hodges a file containing the basics of his new identity. Jonas, in addition to hating the whole idea of witness protection, is not happy with his new name of Robert Tippett. He grumbles that the name sounds like a dog breed. Poor Jonas, his one-liners are slipping along with his health. Jonas starts pontificating about "family" and "company" and how he did nothing wrong. Sullivan, unwilling to engage Jonas in the ego stroking, is all business. He coolly leaves the room, which prompts Jonas to throw a file at the door!
Five minutes later, Jack and Renee pull up to a Mosque in Georgetown. Renee senses that Jack is in full-on aggro mode and tries to remind him of the whole "innocent until proven guilty" concept. One-Track-Jack reminds her that Hodges alluded to "sleeper cells", so there's no such thing as "innocent" with these dirty Muslims!
They wake up the poor Imam, who doesn't seem all that surprised to be getting visit from the Feds and recognizes Jack from the televised hearings earlier this season today! Once inside, Renee presents all of the Almeida-Crew-Manufactured evidence and the Imam in justifiably skeptical/un-cooperative. Jack freaks the f*ck out! He tells the Imam to look at the photo of Jibraan and gets all up in his face! There's a tense debate/stare-down. Jack is all "We need to racially profile, interrogate without warrants, and do whatever is necessary to save lives!" The Imam is all "Screw that! This is a free society. The dude is harmless, you have no evidence, and I want to see a warrant!"
In the midst of the pissing match, Renee gets a call from Janis. The DC cops that visited Jibraan's apartment earlier recognized him on the APB and his address is known! So, crisis averted and Imam-bothering over? Not so much...Jack decides to arrest the Imam anyway (despite Renee's protests) lest he have the opportunity to "warn" Jibraan.
Speaking of Jibraan...the Almeida crew is wrapping up their fabrication of guilt and ready to roll. There's just one last little loose end...convincing little bro Hamid that Jibraan is a dirty-f*ckin-terrorist! Tony psychs Jibraan up for the lie (with the threat of death, of course) while his team revives Hamid with some smelling salts. The brothers have a little conversation with Jibraan toeing the Almeida-Baddie-Crew line of "I'm a dirty terrorist and these are my friends. I hid it from you, but am telling you now." Hamid is all confused because his brother was totally normal and not a weird fundamentalist jihadi up until about an hour ago. Poor Jibraan has to keep spewing the Almeida-Crew-Crap...and then says good-bye to his little brother while kissing him in the forehead. But spunky little Hamid isn't having it! He spits on Jibraan's face and reminds him about the "it's a bad day to be a Muslim" conversation from the last episode...and tells Jibraan "it's an even worse day" to be his brother. Awww...
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Comments (4)
Oh God, "Best.Party.Ever", coupled with the look on his face - LMAO!
Thanks for the recap - loved it as usual!
Looking forward to tonight's - just about to start it - should be timed so I can skip the commercials.
Janis should just STFU, and I'm about as liberal as they come. What Hodges said, the whole "Muhammed this, Ahkmed that" was what was really gross.
I hope Ho-livia gets hers tonight. If there's a God in 24, that bitch will. So sick of her. I can't believe she pussied out on the hit - so she's not only a sleazy, skanky, meddling bitch, she's a pussy as well.
Have a good week!
1 of 4 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on May 11, 2009 8:33 PM
@ JJ
Thanks, as always, for reading! The "Best.Party.Ever!" was probably my personal fave as well. You have good taste! Haha.
Awesome episode this week! I'm getting started earlier so I can go back to the traditional length/hilarity. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
And...Holy Shit! Did you see last night's episode? Awesome!
2 of 4 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on May 12, 2009 4:34 PM
I hope you didn't give up on me! I was so tired from work all I had the energy to do last night was watch 24.
I love your screencaps and I think your recaps ARE haha funny.
Ho-livia is a big disappointment to me. I thought she was going to be a 1st rate villainess, but really she's just kinda pathetic.
I'm also a little disappointed that the cabal behind this whole thing seems to be the Boring Middle-Aged White People conspiracy.
3 of 4 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on May 12, 2009 8:29 PM
I still laugh when I see that Best.Party.Ever. It just doesn't get old! He does the same pouty lower lip that my son perfected within an hour of his birth. :-P
I'm with Pixielated - even your shorter recaps are effing hilarious, and it's not as if you skip anything.
And oh yeah, holy shit indeed! I did watch last night. Can't wait for next week, but I'm bummed it's already almost over.
4 of 4 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on May 12, 2009 8:38 PM