They soon discover that Juma and his men must know exactly where the Prez is, so Bill takes her tracking device and sends her off with Bauer. The Prez has no choice but to go along with Bauer, but she gives him a pissy pants look first.
Bill radios Ted Hovis, the inept dude that had been running the Secret Service show before Buchanan stepped in...remember Gedge and Vossler, anyone? Anyhoo, he lets him know what's up and he and his agents scramble.
Bill runs through the White House with the Prez's tracker to throw the Terrorists off. Juma and crew finally catch up to him and realize the White Haired guy without a vagina is totally not the President and they've been duped! He sends his goons off to find the Prez and gives Bill a good pistol whipping for his trouble. Dubaku doesn't kill Bill, which is good. he tells his men that they need hostages.
The baddies continue to move through the White House like a hot knife through buttah. Jack and the Prez reach lock-down, but Aaron and First Daughter can't make it due to their area being totally in control of the Juma crew. The Prez tells Jack there's no way in hell the lock-down gets closed before Olivia gets there. Jack tells her that her life is the priority whether she "likes it or not" and has barely finished the line when hostiles overtake the hall and he and the Prez have to dive into lock-down. Just the two of em!
Once in the lock-down, Jack checks in with Aaron, who informs him that they wouldn't have made it downstairs anyway and he is going to search for another way out of the White House with First Daughter. Shortly after, their communication lines go dead! Juma cut them off. Prez Taylor is freaking out and wants to make sure her daughter is safe. Unfortunately, Jack can't answer that.
Outside the lockdown, Juma and his crew realize they won't be able to blast their way in. Also: Secret Service is finally doing something and reinforcements are streaming in from all directions! One of Juma's men notes that the only two agents that saw Prez Taylor get safely into lockdown are dead, so they decide to fake out secret service. Juma radios Ted Hovis and tells him they have the president and will kill her unless SS withdraws completely (ceding the White House over to the terrorists). Hovis is a little skeptical, but ultimately orders everyone out, lest the death of President Taylor wind up on his head.
Upstairs, Aaron and Olivia are playing Hide and Go Seek inside a piece of furniture. They overhear one of Juma's men confirming the retreat of SS, and Aaron notes they only would have done that if they thought Juma had the President. Since they know she's in lock-down with Bauer, they deduce it must be a bluff and they need to get out to let everyone know so the White House can be re-taken! Aaron's a lot braver than me. I would've stayed in the hiding place, curled up in a little ball, and cried myself to sleep.
Downstairs, Juma is coralling all his hostages (who include Bill!) in one location outside the lock-down. His tech genius gets to work on the security panel, and informs the general they should be in there in about 15 minutes, assuming the intel they got from their inside man is correct. We cut to break!
When we return, Larry and Renee arrive at the White House via chopper and meet up with Hovis, who updates them on the situation. Now that they have basically surrendered the White House, the order to re-take it needs to come from the Vice President (who is en route to a secure lock-down of his own somewhere).
« Brothers and Sisters: In Which No One Actually Dies | Main | America's Next Top Model: Behold The Goddess Of Fierce(ly Insane)! »
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