Wow...interesting PR shot, Ashton. Personally, I think it screams "Pork'd" more than "Punk'd"...but whatevs!
Greetings Gasmii! This week on '24', everyone gets Punk'd! Jack has to get naked in the middle of a street. Olivia finds out that job she sought is tougher than imagined. And Tony has the mother of all pranks pulled on him!
It's recapped just for you...after the JUMP!
It's 11pm on "Highway 236", and the entire CDC force has been mobilized! This is extremely impressive, since Jack was sitting there by himself staring forlornly at the ground mere seconds ago. Seriously, the place is crawling with dudes in HAZMAT suits, and they have trucks everywhere and funky light posts set up in the streets. It's like the set from the end of ET just dropped from the sky. One of the HAZMAT dudes brings Jack over to a woman damed Dr. Macer from the CDC.
Dr. Macer wastes no time, telling Jack he needs to get undressed. While he starts to strip, she asks him what he can tell her about the bioweapon. All Jack knows is that it was developed in Sangala, and from what he understands the victims it was tested on there suffered from dementia and paralysis. The Doc wants to know how much was released, and Jack isn't sure...just that the canister was breached for about two minutes. When his shirt comes off, the Doc and aide stare at his scars with horror. He assures them they are old battle wounds (courtesy of the Chinese government) and not a reaction to the bioweapon.
Jack is left in nothing but white boxers, and the Doc looks at him expectantly. He looks hilariously embarrassed, but drops the boxers in the middle of the street anyway. Haha! The Doc informs him they are going to douse him with some anti-bio-weapon stuff. Jack raises his arms, and the HAZMAT dudes go to town, spraying and scrubbing him down.
Meanwhile, Larry returns to FBI HQ, and is immediately intercepted by Plum Puddin' Janis who wants to know what's up w/ the whole "shutting down a 6-mile stretch" of Highway 236 thing? Larry informs her about all the breached canister, Jack exposed, as well as Starkwood reacquiring the weapons and bringing them back to their compound along with Tony Almeida business. She's all: "Almeida?" He tells her they believe Almeida is a captive, and Janis wants to know if they are planning to make a move on Starkwood, noting their HQ is a glorified military base. By-the-books Larry tells her they are first waiting for confirmation from the CDC of bio-weapons, then they're going to let the President know what is up and wait for her orders. Without Jack or Renee around to tell him "we're running out of time!" the by-the-books method is the only choice.
Over at Starkwood, the chopper delivers the bioweapons while Hodges, Seaton, and crew look on in glee like kids on Christmas morning. Tony is brought out of the SUV, and he and Seaton give each other the stink eye as he's led inside. Hodges approaches Seaton, and tells him Tony's not going to talk. He's the brave type, afterall. He says "know the psychology of your subject...that's in our manual", before sending Seaton inside with a nod of the head.
One of the baddies calls over to Hodges and tells him they got "lucky" with the breached canister. I wonder if they know "lucky" means Jack totally saved their asses? Anyhoo, Hodges wants to know how long before the weapons are ready, and the baddie Tom tells him two hours. Hodges jumps down his throat, telling him two hours is too long, and that the government is sure to be coming at them with everything they have. The bioweapons are their only leverage. Tom tells him he'll do his "best", and Hodges is all: Damn straight, you will!
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Comments (3)
Thanks for another great recap - you do such a great job of covering all the major and minor points, while adding in a heft dose of hilarity too!
I really liked last week's episode, but yeah, definitely some confusion going on. Larry's face when they got "punk'd" was priceless!
I'm still not digging O-Evil-ia (did I get that right? If I try to go back through the recaps, it logs me out of comments), she still reeks of something, and it isn't just eau de smug bitch. Taylor frustrates me. Half the time I'm cheering her on and glad that by and large she is portrayed as a pretty strong woman. The other half, mainly when she's letting herself be snowed by her bitch of a daughter, I just want to smack some sense into her.
I'm wondering if the preview of Jack displaying symptoms is a fake-out on his part to try to get the hell out of the FBI office, and into the field? Wonder what the magic cure will be too, since isn't Sutherland signed on for another season? I can't imagine one can magically revive (a la Tony) someone dead of that disease... Maybe they saved some DNA at some point along the line, and Season 8 will be Jack's clone. :-P It's been a long 10 days, and I'm slap happy. Don't mind me!
1 of 3 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on April 4, 2009 8:01 PM
Love your recaps, Dogsnaxx!!! I picture you watching the episode in super slow motion, almost frame by frame, to find all those priceless retard-o screenshots of Zombie Spice! Totally hilarious!!!
At the beginning of this episode, when Ol-Evil-ia freaks out about the bio-weapons attack, I totally thought about about the stories she leaked to the press the week before. She told the producer to run with them on the 11 o'clock broadcast. That totally should have happened during this episode. I was expecting the STUPID BITCH to be found out!!!! Please, please, please let it happen soon!
2 of 3 | Posted by slumrville | Posted on April 6, 2009 10:03 AM
@ jjnoza and slumrville
Thanks for the recap love, guys! I appreciate it.
Looking forward to tonight's episode, myself! I'm guessing the CDC is going to discover a miracle cure and Olivia's going to continue being a bitch! Haha...not hard to predict either of those.
3 of 3 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on April 6, 2009 10:11 AM