Back in the Super Muslim-o Bros. apartment...Jack frees Hamid from the cuffs and apologizes/comforts him before sending BFF Imam Gohar in to counsel him. The poor kid supplied Jack with no useful Intel, so the only hope of saving the day lies with the badly-injured member of Tony's crew. An EMT (who I think is the SAME exact one Jack clashed with before "interrogating" an injured Dubaku? Triple shift day? Sucks for him!) is about to administer some morphine, and Jack tells him to wait a pansy-pickin' minute! Morphine will only interfere with the torture! After brushing the EMT off and getting the "do whatever you need to" go-ahead from Renee...Jack tortures the shit out of the dude! He digs his finger into his neck wound (gross!) while demanding information. It's all gruesome and drawn out. The happy torture result: Dude totally gives them Tony's "only in emergencies" cell phone number. Score!
Jack tells the EMTs to give the baddie just enough morphine to take the pain out of his voice, and nothing more! That shouldn't be too hard. I'm sure there's a handy "cc's to specific bodily functions" conversion chart somewhere. He also barks at the injured dude to come up with a plausible lie/reason for calling Tony ASAP!
Meanwhile, Renee calls into HQ and tells Janis to have CHLOE set up a trace on the Baddie's cell phone. Poor Plum Puddin' gets defensive and reminds Renee that she can do it. Renee diplomatically tells her that Jack specifically asked for Chloe to run point. With a casual sideways glance over at poor Janis, Chloe starts taking charge of things and asks for the # of the cell.
What follows is pure comedy gold, mixed in with a little techno-babble. Alpha Geek Chloe takes charge and tosses Janis a little bone in the form of a side task. Janis tells Chloe she's going to connect to "inter-sat" and Chloe does her bitchy condescending thing and asks why she would do that, since "VPNs" are better! Defensive Plum Puddin' is all, "I didn't know we could do that" and Chloe's all "uh...that's interesting since we've had the capability for two years!" It's the Tech Goddess Bitch-fest they've been hinting at all season, and I'm f*cking loving it! Janis kowtows to the HBIC and tells her "it's obvious" she'll never be able to live up to CTU standards...all she asks is that Chloe not make her feel like a f*cking moron in the process. Chloe's response: "All right"...and I think I just TVGasm'ed in my pants.
With the trace established, Jack holds the cell to the Baddie's ear and makes the call. Tony is pissed and wants to know why the dude is calling...and he makes a pretty plausible little story about noticing a glitch in the bank transactions. Tony tells the dude how to fix it and informs him to call their "man in Zurich" before asking if everything else is OK. The Baddie lies and tells Tony everything is AOK and he just wanted to get authorization.
When the call ends, Jack ask Chloe if she got the location. She's got a general location in Adams Morgan, but needs to do a little more hacking to get it all. Jack whines that "Dammit Chloe!" that's not good enough! She pouts that she needs to get off the phone and get to work, so Jack starts barking orders at Janis about calling DC PD and coordinating their teams to the area.
In the "Woodward Metro Station" a skittish Jibraan removes his earpiece and quietly implores a completely unhelpful metro worker to help him out! He tells her about the "terrorists" and his hostage brother, and she helpfully tosses it over to a cop nearby before going back to her crossword puzzle, or whatever.
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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