D-Bag Dillinger confronts Janis at HQ and wants to know what the AG folks are doing there. Janis gives him the 411 on the torture of Tanner and D-Bag is surprised and doesn't think Renee would have had it in her. Of course, Janis being a total social retard and poor judge of character spills all the details of having been kicked out of the room and ordered to stall the lawyers. She's about to confess to the time she snuck a cigarette into the bathroom in Junior High, but D-Bag cuts her off. Sean tells her she is now an accessory if a case gets made against Renee. Also, he doubts if Larry will protect her since she isn't gorgeous, redheaded, and banging her boss. All she's got going for her are the cats.
"I swear to God, I'm going to cut his balls off if he doesn't absolve me of this torture stuff in time to get home and dole out the Meow Mix!"
In Larry Moss's office, the AG dude wants to know what is up with FBI Spice. Moss tells him about the kidnapping. AG dude is not sympathetic. He's like Gary Cooper in 'High Noon', and he's going to bring Renee and Janis to justice, dammit! Larry flips out on him and basically screams "You have to be kidding me! We're trying to save the world." Smell that? Those are Larry's balls. He actually has a pair! Larry gets all up in the AG dude's face and asks for the luxury of getting Renee back before she is thrown to the wolves. Just then, Janis calls in and mentions they intercepted a communication in which Renee was mentioned and, by the way, could he come listen to it now? KTHXBAI! Larry takes off to listen to the message, leaving the prosecutor telling the walls of the office that "We aren't finished here!"
Larry's Angry Face #1,214, or #1 PTD (Post-Testicle-Drop)
At Janis's workstation, she is grilling D-Bag about the intercepted phone call. She asks a lot of tech questions, because she's surprised the call just fell into their laps so conveniently. I no longer smell Larry's balls, and have picked up the faint aroma of general D-Baggery and suspicious behavior wafting from Sean's direction. He tells her to STF Up about the tech stuff because the content of the call is the important part. Hopefully, she's finally starting to suspect him.
They play the call, and it's the one we saw earlier between Emerson and Nichols, claiming Renee is extraneous and needs to be gotten rid of. Larry has a look on his face like Old Yeller just got shot. It's pretty sad, and not all that funny. Poor Larry.
Next they're gonna tell him there's no Santa Claus either!
Speaking of Larry's girlfriend, we finally see the short bus pulling into the construction site they were supposed to be at 10 minutes ago. Emerson hands Jack a gun and tells him to kill Renee and leave her in the ditch. Tony follows him out of the truck silently. There is a lot of silent emoting on both of their parts, lest we forget they are actually agents of good and don't like to kill innocent people!
Jack makes a big show of being aggressive with Renee, as Emerson is watching in the rear view mirror. Renee asks if he's really going to kill her. Jack doesn't respond at all. Then she says "I won't beg for my life", and he just says "good." Once they get to the ditch, she starts in again on what a traitor he is, and how she won't allow him the luxury of shooting her in the back, he has to do it in the face. Kinky! Jack turns her around forcefully, but wait! Tells her he can get her out of this alive if she trusts him. What!?
Jack shoots her, but it's obviously only a grazing wound on her neck. He kicks her into the ditch, and she seems to be playing along. Emerson and Larry Levine Litvak look on from the truck with delight while Tony broods from outside.
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Comments (10)
This season is off to a super-duper slow start. Jack has yet to torture (almost did!) or kill anyone. The only blood shed is Schecter, a nobody bodyguard, and a nobody henchman getting shot. I've been able to predict every turn so far. Tony actually being a good guy (he'll be bad before the day is done), Slutgirl and D-bag, no-nuts Kanin, pretty boy bodyguard, etc.
Never thought I'd bitch and moan about my favourite show but after god-awful season 6 and all this time between 6 and 7 to validate they have a killer plot and script, I feel cheated.
As for the silent clock, WTF? I don't feel any empathy for any of the characters whose lives are currently in danger. First Gentleman? Time-killing side-plot? Who cares? Renee? Well at least she's part of the main storyline. But 5 episodes in and we're supposed to give a shit about these people?
Janice is just a raven-haired Chloe. When they inevitably meet face-to-face it will be a sour-face and technogeek standoff with Chloe winning by a microprocessor. How about a different type of character and not a rehash of current or old characters? Another example: Grumpy Sean Hillinger/Grumpy Adam Kauffman. Hardass Moss/Hardass Driscoll.
19 more episodes to go. I still hold out hope, but if it can't get back to Season 5 or previous status, man.. if the rumours are true then maybe the timing is right to have 24 bow out after next season. I think I see a sharktank with ramp up ahead.
1 of 10 | Posted by Firthguy | Posted on January 22, 2009 6:14 AM
"She's part of the FBI's new Long Island Outreach program and recruiting efforts. Instead of apologizing to her, he screams to "move!", which is totally awesome. Everybody hates Long Island girls, even Larry. Janis has a stunned but highly entertained look on her face throughout the whole ordeal.
'Oh My Gawd! I shoulda kept that job at Payless in the Mawl!'"
HAHAHAHAHA. a-ma-zing. love it. SO true. crunchy hair is an epidemic on long island. awesome. that made my day.
2 of 10 | Posted by baymenxpac | Posted on January 22, 2009 9:07 AM
Have to agree that this season is off to a slow start. The guy writing the recaps is much better then watching the show. If it doesn't pick up.. I'll just read the recaps
3 of 10 | Posted by muso | Posted on January 22, 2009 12:50 PM
@Firthguy
I feel your pain buddy! But if I gotta hang in there for the next 19, you gotta do it with me. Deal?
@baymenxpac
I used to commute from Manhattan to the middle of Long Island daily for a job. I still have emotional scars. True story.
4 of 10 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on January 22, 2009 5:57 PM
Dogsnaxx:
I'm in. Still my favourite show, just had to vent. I will keep watching if only to keep on top of your recaps. Classic!
5 of 10 | Posted by Firthguy | Posted on January 23, 2009 4:23 AM
Dogsnaxx, you're doing the best you can with this show.
I've been a faithful viewer since Season1/Episode1, but 24 lost me emotionally when President Palmer was assassinated. And they lost me mentally at the end of Season 5 (President Wimpy got away? Ahhhh!).
The prequel to this season was ok but I'm bored. I care more about when Janeane Garofalo will get to wash her hair again than I do about Agent Buried Alive.
I'm with Muso about reading the recaps instead. That way, I'll be saving about 5 hrs. of my life that I couldn't get back.
6 of 10 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on January 23, 2009 12:34 PM
P.S.
Where's Part 2 of the premiere recap? The second half of the 4 hr. marathon is missing. I was looking forward to reading it since I dozed off while watching the show.
7 of 10 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on January 23, 2009 12:36 PM
@ BlahBlah
I can't post an URL in comments. Episodes 3 and 4 are in the archives.
24-premiere-par-1-8736.php
Or try searching for 'Reunited, and it feels so good!' that was the title.
Thanks for reading!
8 of 10 | Posted by dogsnaxx | Posted on January 23, 2009 1:23 PM
I agree with Muso, I might just read the recaps until the action gets better!
9 of 10 | Posted by travelgirl | Posted on January 24, 2009 1:04 PM
Wow, I've found the section of the audience on downers... ;-)
I liked the first six hours very much. While it certainly could go the way of "same stuff with new names," at least our current "CTU" isn't placing limits right and left on Jack, which was the maddening problem with the old one. I like Jack being free to do what he wants.
The Jack and Tony romance jokes wear thin quickly though...
10 of 10 | Posted by whirlwinded | Posted on January 29, 2009 11:17 PM