Greetings Gasmii! Sorry for the delay in getting this recap into your hot little hands...but it was a BEAST of a 2 hour episode and life got in my way a little this week. Luckily, things are sorted out on my end, which is less than I can say for President Taylor, who learns a hard lesson this week on what happens when you don't allow evildoers to be tortured!
It's 2 Episode for the price of one this week! Double your torture, double your fun! And it's all recapped for you...After the Jump!
It's 6PM in the hospital Zombaku was taken to last week. Two FBI agents are guarding the room while a nurse tends to him. An orderly flashes credentials to get past the feds, while the nurse is called away to take a call from "Dr. May". She makes a snarky comment to her colleague that "Doctors are helpless." Hey Nursey...how about a little less bitching and a little more tending to your critical patient? Anyway, while she's complaining to her friend, the "orderly" injects Zombaku with some really strong stuff that totally causes him to go into cardiac arrest!
"Lightweight!"
Back at the Oval Office, Madame Prez is watching news reports about the Sangalese Invasion with Ethan Kanin and Admiral Smith. The newscast notes that the Americans are encountering sporadic resistance and minimal casualties...which is in direct contrast to a message from General Benjamin Juma (running on State supported TV) claiming that his "brave soldiers" are holding back the Americans and that they will be victorious. Madame Prez wonders aloud how he can claim victory while the Americans have taken Sangala City and Juma's palace lies in ruins. Admiral Smith guesses the video was made "sometime before the invasion"...Good guess, Admiral Obvious!
Admiral "Obvious" Smith in his younger days...when he was merely a Captain
Kanin pipes in and wants to know why they haven't found Juma yet, and Admiral Smith says they are working on it. Intelligence suggests that Juma probably fled the country, and Madame Prez sternly tasks the Admiral to find him..."wherever he is"!
Oh...about that...we immediately cut to Juma standing on the banks of the Potomac admiring the beauty of the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument lit up for the night. I have two issues with this: 1) How did it go from dusk to completely pitch black in three minutes? 2) What the hell is up with first Dubaku and now Juma roaming freely in the United States? I call bullshit! Anyway...A young buck, who happens to be Dubaku's son Laurent, comes up behind Juma and they discuss the impending attack. Dubaku Junior notes that the men are praying, and wants to know if they have heard from his daddy yet...he was supposed to meet them by now. Juma tells the young'un not to worry and dismisses him to prepare.
Back at the hospital, the orderly phones in to let Juma know that Dubaku is dead dead dead. His name is Udo, and he's one of Juma's underlings, which should be a surprise to no one in the viewing audience. At any rate, Juma tells Udo to high-tail it back for their little operation and, by the way, Dubaku Jr. should never ever know that they killed his coward of a father. Udo reassures him that his lips are sealed, drops the syringe in a medical waste bin, and heads out of the hospital.
Just then, Renee comes running around the corner and watches as the ER personnel try to revive Dubaku. Their efforts fail, and they pronounce him dead. Renee wants to know WTF happened, and starts grilling one of the Docs. They can't explain it, since he had been stable earlier. His best guess is a preexisting condition. They won't know for sure until an autopsy. Renee looks pissed...she's losing witnesses left and right today!
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Comments (6)
Fantastic recap, Dogsnaxx! I nearly fell out of my chair at the pic of Bob Ross! And "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" BWAHAHAHA!!!
Any true fan of 24 will forgive just about anything as long as the story is solid. And this season has been FANTASTIC! That slap on Prez Taylor was like a punch to the gut. No other show on television packs this much tension, suspense and drama. I LOVE IT!!!
1 of 6 | Posted by slumrville | Posted on March 7, 2009 8:37 AM
"Any true fan of 24 will forgive just about anything as long as the story is solid. And this season has been FANTASTIC!"
Copy that! ;-)
Great recap, as usual! I was waiting for a Little Mermaid reference re: Agent Zombie Spice's little swim. The Bob Ross thing killed me too. Totally unexpected, and absolutely perfect.
I found it hard to believe that Agent DeadSlut discovered D-bag's warrant before Plum Puddin' did, yet PP was able to figure out what Chloe was up to this week, in mere minutes? As my mom would say, she (PP) could "eff up a wet dream".
Loved Jack's taser telephone temper tantrum. I think I need one of those - I bet tasing (sp?) a phone is much more satisfying than just hanging up on someone *cough my husband cough*.
Senator Dick-head has to go, and he has to go big. Dude is CLUELESS.
Taylor has balls, but for the love of God, please, no more Taylor O face screenshots. That's like seeing a parent's O face. :-P
Based on the preview for next week, I'm wondering if Juma taps some of the WH laundry staff - that flag looks suspiciously crease free, given it had to have been stuffed in a backpack.
2 of 6 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on March 7, 2009 1:21 PM
@ Slumrville
I agree the season has been a LOT better than some of the past ones. Fortunately, some of the crazy/nonsensical leaps and action give me a little something to make fun of! I couldn't imaging trying to make fun of 20 minutes worth of dudes running through hallways with guns...oh, wait! That happened this week in the White House! haha.
@ JJnoza
I totally missed the Little Mermaid reference! Good call! I'm hoping having a single hour to focus on next week will let me zero in on some more of the little humorous moments. Also, can't wait until Mayer gets his. If Erika was DeadSlut...he's gotta be DeadDickHead...only a matter of time!
3 of 6 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on March 7, 2009 3:29 PM
I agree that this season is improved over recent ones. But the White House being accessed by deep water divers landing at a catacomb system and blowing their way into the basement had me howling with laughter. The only water near the WH is a 3' deep reflecting pool filled with algae.
Part of what makes this show so suspenseful is that it's basically realistic. That ridiculous dank cave being wired with Matrix style red-beam alarms was just the stupidest thing I think I've seen all year.
Way to go! JACK. (I always say JACK using Ramon Salazar's voice. What are you going to do NOW. JACK.)
4 of 6 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on March 7, 2009 10:06 PM
I don't want to seem snarky, but there was a great selection of malapropisms in this recap:
--the new attack will be on his conscious.
--sneak a peak
--Once the hole gang is in the tunnel
--the beg attack gets underway
--the Attorney Genera's care
--Juma is coralling all his hostages
It does help to have an anally retentive friend look over your text before publishing it. Spellcheckers can't find that kind of error.
Anyway, I do agree with all your snarks at the show. "Worst.Use.Of.Split-Screen.Ever!" I was scratching my head at that too.
Otherwise the whole subtext of "torture is the RIGHT THING TO DO on any occasion for any reason", is starting to get to me. Jack seems like the torture evangelist. Renee and the Pres have already seen the light. Bill is the only hold-out, (unless Senator Dickhead somehow has to recant, though he'll probably be dead meat before that). Funny how Jack can be tortured by the Chinese for two years and not break a sweat, but he can magically extract the truth in literally minutes, from all kinds of hard cases, time after time. And why couldn't the senator's aide have just made up a target? He only had to fake them out for 10 minutes. How could Jack have known otherwise? Just because He's Jack.
And the whole idea of an actual president leading a terrorist raid while his own country is under attack, is so absurd in so many ways. Even if he survived (of course, he won't) he'd find himself deposed and executed should he return home.
And it always comes down to some Old White Guy as the Big Bad.
Prediction: Juma wil be in the limelight for the next hour, but dead by 9pm, when the mysterious "shipment" arrives (Ebola?), being the final threat of the night and Jon Voight reveals his nefarious plan to install the VP as his stooge.
5 of 6 | Posted by AlanHK | Posted on March 10, 2009 3:58 AM
@ Memememe
I agree w/ you 100%. After first watching the 2-Hr episode, I was left feeling confused. On the one hand, the action and stuff was juicy. On the other, It was all so unrealistic, it kind of took me out of the story. Went back and thought about it, and it really was deep water divers and underground tunnels that lost me. If they are going to take the FREAKIN' White House (unbelievable in and of itself) then couldn't you at least make their entrance plausible?
@AlanHK
Great predictions! I agree, but didn't call Juma getting taken out before 9pm. That was a good one. And just in time, after 13 episodes, I'm getting tired of the Sangala stuff. On to the big bad Blackwater stand in!
Sorry about the malapropisms. I can't guarantee there won't be more of them...but I'll be the first to admit I didn't spend my usual time and due diligence to editing this week. It was just focused on finishing.
Another great episode this week! I'm getting started on the recap now.
6 of 6 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on March 10, 2009 7:37 AM