Kanin gets down to the details...and asks if the briefing swayed Mayer's opinion at all. Mayer wants to know what it all has to do with Bauer, which is what he thought he was there to discuss. Kanin reminds him that without Bauer, the plot wouldn't have been uncovered, the arrests going on would not have happened, and thousands more Americans would have died...including the First Husband. Senator Mayer, who is Bauer obsessed, is fixated on the idea that Bauer is acting in an official capacity and how that will look. He calls Jack a "thug" and "Exhibit A." Kanin offers Mayer a reversal, on the President's part, supporting an amendment to the War Crimes Act if he will delay the hearings and let Bauer's subpoena expire. Mayer wants to know what will happen if he doesn't go along with it, and Kanin hints that she might pardon Bauer. Mayer gets all uppity and tells Kanin the Prez is walking into a political street fight! So, in addition to being a Pansy-Pants, Mayer is kind of a Dick-Head! Good to know!
Jack is led into Bill's work room, and no sooner has the door shut than Jack takes out the guard with a few karate chops and pulls a gun on Bill! He orders Bill to sit down and demands to know where Burnett is. Bill won't tell him anything unless Jack tells him WTF is going on. Bauer has no choice but to tell him about the new plot and he punctuates it with "tell me where to find Burnett, or I'll find him myself." Bill, unfortunately, is unwilling to spill the beans. Jack handcuffs him and starts going through his laptop for Burnett's location. Bill appeals to Jack, telling him how he intervened with the President on his behalf and how he can get his life back after this...but he'll be throwing it away if he tortures Burnett. Jack tells Bill he wishes he had another option and they're "running out of time" and yada yada yada. After finding the location on the computer, Jack tells Bill he's gotta do things this way to keep him out of it. He apologizes and then puts bill in a sleeper hold, sending him off to nappy land. He grabs a taser from the guard he karate chopped earlier, and we cut to break!
Five minutes later, Renee calls her boyfriend Larry to let him know how Dubaku bit it. He's surprised, since he was supposed to be stabilized and all. She tells him that the ER was supposed be an 8 person team, and a 9th person (the orderly) was in the room just before his death. She puts eight and one together and decides something is up with the orderly and wonders if Dubaku had some kind of information and he was murdered to shut him up? Larry asks if this is Bauer's theory, as well. And Renee gets all defensive. Saying she resents the implication, Bauer's not even at the hospital anymore, and this has been her investigation all along. Larry tells her to calm down, he was just asking a question. Renee cops to being overly sensitive on the Bauer front (after their slapfest last week). Larry tells her not to sweat the Dubaku stuff, they got everything they needed out of him and she should come back to HQ. She tells him she wants to follow up on the orderly thing first, but she'll be in after. After hanging up a security guard gives her images of the "orderly" leaving a few minutes after Dubaku flat-lined and a screen grab of his license plate. Renee is off on another of her highly inadvisable solo missions!
Back at HQ, Janis rolls into the conference room (prompting an eye roll from Chloe when she sees her coming). Time for a Pissing match! Janis asks if she's busy...the answer yes. Janis tells her about the missing name...Chloe says it's probably nothing. Janis says it's definitely not nothing...and Chloe says she'll run a recovery. Janis notes that Chloe said she was busy so she'll do it...and Chloe tells her "no offense" but I can do it faster. hahaha. She dismisses Janis, telling her she'll let her know if she finds anything. They glare at each other and Chloe calls Jack as soon as Janis leaves to tell him that someone has figured out a name was deleted...so can he please hurry up with that torture business?
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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