Meanwhile, Janis works her magic and hacks into Jibraan's tracking device. Since he's moving steadily down Connecticut Avenue and passing through traffic lights and landmarks (St. Matthew's shout-out! I was just in a wedding there last year!)...they correctly infer that he's on the metro and that "Washington Center" must be the target! Jack and Renee mobilize and, on the way to "Washington Center" Jack hypothesizes that Tony had to be in communication with Jibraan somehow and to keep looking on the mini-comp. Jack has barely finished the thought, when Plum Puddin' finds a "K-Band" and patches Jack through. Chloe gives a little frustrated side-smirk-lookie-thing. Round 2 1/2 goes to Plum Puddin'!
Jack, patched into Jibraan's ear-piecy-thing, starts talking to him and tells him he's one of the good guys! After everything Jibraan has been through today, it's amazing how quickly he accepts this to be true (especially with the creepy cop thing that happened 15 minutes ago...remember that?) Anyhoo, Jack tells Jibraan, his brother is safe and they need him to NOT bomb the subways station...pwetty pweeze!? Jibraan would love to help out, but he doesn't actually HAVE the bomb! Jack and Renee correctly hypothesize that it's somewhere on the train, and Jibraan recalls the scary woman from his apartment earlier who later showed up in his subway car with an Elvira wig! They tell him to wait until everyone gets off the train and then start looking for any abandoned luggage, briefcases, or bowling ball bags! We are treated to a supremely awesome cutaway of a white, buttoned-up, business suit dude who seems a little freaked out by the sweaty Muslim guy talking to himself on the subway. Ha!
The train arrives at "Washington Center", and all the passengers depart. White-Buttoned-Up-Dude gives Jibraan some serious stink-eye on the way out. Normally I'd call WBUD a racist...but in this case, he's totally right! Anhoo...after everyone leaves, Jibraan tracks down the bowling bag, and Jack tells him to open it up and get it the f*ck out of the subway! Jibraan awesomely asks why HE needs to do that, and Jack explains he's their only hope. He opens up the bag and tells Jack that it looks like a bomb and there's only 1 minute and 18 seconds left on the counter! Oh no! (On a related note...my captions said 2 minutes 10 seconds left on the counter, but my roommate swears the audio said "1 minute 18 seconds"...f*ck you captioning services! We deafies have rights too! Accuracy counts!)
Anhoo...Jack tells him to get that thing out of the subway, STAT...do whatever "you need to do"! Jibraan starts running out of the subway clutching the bowling bag like he's late for the World Championships, or something. WBUD dude is talking to a cop, and points out the scary/sweaty Muslim running with a bag. The cop confronts him, and Jibraan pulls out the canister and tells everyone he has a "bomb"! Mass hysteria! It's kinda funny, actually. Anhoo...Jibraan makes it outside just in time to pass to canister to Jack, who runs the football canister into a HAZMAT trailer and tosses it in a lockdown/containment chamber just before it blows! Crisis Averted! Yay!
Jack sighs, exits the trailer, and tells Jibraan he did a GREAT job! Jibraan wants to see Lil' Hamid, but first-things-first...he needs to give a statement. As Agent Moran leads Jibraan away, Jack and Renee have a moment. They stare at each other, half-smile, and congratulate themselves on a job well done. Jack, unfortunately, goes into one of his seizures...and Renee tells him to shoot up. He tells her that he already did 20 minutes ago, but the drugs aren't working anymore. Renee, being new to the series and not realizing how the whole "24 hours" thing works, tells him it's OK. The world has been saved and now he can "rest". Yeah, right! We cut to break.
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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