Greetings Gasmii! It's Episode 22 and we've only got one week left after this! Can you believe it?
This week on '24', everyone reverts to type. Jack springs into badass/action mode and ultimately turns on the Feds to protect his family...cuz that's how he roll! Evil-Meida tries his hardest to kill a lot of people and then smirks at the good guys...cuz that's how he roll. Kim Bauer and Olivia Taylor royally screw everything up...cuz that's how they roll. And we '24' fans start to get excited about the upcoming finale...cuz that's how WE roll!
I've got it recapped for you...follow me after the JUMP!!
It's 5AM in an underground bunker somewhere (there sure are a lot of those in DC!). NOT-Patty (who interestingly enough, my closed captions finally identified as "Cara") is calling in to her shady boss to update him on the operation. The gist of it: Everything is going well. They are estimating that between 8,000 and 10,000 poor commuters will be exposed to the bio-weapn. The poor saps! As if needing to be in a downtown DC subway station before 6AM weren't bad enough! Bet they'll re-think the workaholic thing after this! Cara's boss wants to make sure that Jibraan is going to be an appropriately compliant Patsy, and she confirms he's fixated on saving his brother and shouldn't be a problem. After hanging up, some dude in a HAZMAT suit that's been playing with the canister in the background during their little chat informs NOT-Patty that the trigger mechanism is working and they are ready to roll!
In the back of Tony's Black van of Evil, he gives Jibraan a swanky ear-piece that will both allow them to track his every move and let them communicate. I'm jealous! I've been wearing expensive digital hearing aids for greater than 2/3rds of my life, and I still have a hard time hearing the doorbell and waiters in restaurants. Maybe I need to hook up with a para-military-tech-savvy crew of my own? Anyhoo, Jibraan starts asking questions again about WTF is going on, what the plan is, why they want to hurt people, and where babies come from. Tony tells him to shut up, think of the safety of Lil' Hamid, and get his ass on the Red Line and take it all the way to "Washington Center." Jibraan does what he's told and we see him walk to the "Woodward Metro Station" sadly. He keeps looking back, but ultimately starts heading down the escalator. (On a side note, I've sort of given up griping about "fake names" for DC neighborhoods and geographic impossibilities in these recaps. But this scene got me thinking again. As I've probably mentioned, I lived in the DC area for about 6 1/2 years, and I'm familiar with the metro system. There's no such stations! There's a Woodley Park station a little North of the Adams Morgan district, and there's a Metro Center station in the heart of downtown. Why can't the show just call them by those names? Is it a legal thing? Any lawyers out there care to edu-ma-cate me?)
Tony jumps back in the van and pulls out some high-tech mini computer thing displaying a grid of DC and a flashing yellow light which must be Jibraan. Meanwhile, NOT-Patty (Mistress of Disguise) puts on a scary Elvira wig and glasses in the underground bunker and then loads the canister into a bowling bag. Now I get it! There's a Srike! bowling alley in the MetroCenter area! She's gonna fool everyone because it's totally normal to see chicks dressed all in black going bowling at 5AM! Smart thinking!
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Comments (3)
Hey, Dogsnaxx, another great recap!
I'm still hoping for a big twist, shockeroo next week, but I don't think it's gonna happen. You know, like someone totally unexpected, like Janis or Aaron, being in on the whole conspiracy? I guess I've been watching "Lost" too long.
I hope they don't keep this conspiracy under wraps until next season, but if they do, it's because they can't figure it out themselves. Hmmm, maybe Kim is behind it all?
Seriously, I am so disappointed in Ho-livia. Some villain she is! Just a garden variety loser.
1 of 3 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on May 17, 2009 3:53 PM
Masterful recap - that's how *you* roll!
Love "firecrotch"! I wanted to bust that out earlier this season, but held back. :-)
And it was about 1 minute 18 seconds - that's bullshit that the captioning had it wrong - how hard can it be? It always pisses me off when I see captioning on somewhere and common words are completely misspelled. Poor form.
Anyway... I was hoping Jack gets cured tomorrow... If not, I wonder if Season 8 will pick up the following day (with or without a cliffhanger from this season, which would piss me right the f*ck off), instead of being months or years later as in previous years, and then end with his death? That would suck.
Kim sucks. Hard. That's all I'm going to say. She could f*ck up a wet dream, as my mother would say.
Glad to see Ethan back too - I hope Ho-livia goes down in flames, but quickly so we don't have to see too much more of her. What a waste of a character.
2 of 3 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on May 17, 2009 8:47 PM
@Pixie
I'm wondering if that "needle in the back of Jack's neck" scene from the preview was the big "cure" thing? I guess it would stand to reason that the bad buys would have access to a "cure"...since they developed the drug. But why would they cure Jack? Think Tony's going to try and recruit him, or something? Weird.
I can't WAIT to see Ma Taylor go ballistic on Ho-Livia's ass tonight! I'm positively giddy with excitement.
@ JJ
Interesting idea for Season 8! That would be cool if they never cured him at all and Jack died at the end of the Season. However, I don't know if I could take a full 24 hour season of his twitching and sweating like a Meth addict. It's getting really annoying!
3 of 3 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on May 18, 2009 8:41 AM