Testimonials

When we return, Zombie Spice is chilling in her holding cell, and her body language screams "Get me the F' Out of here!" Larry comes in and informs her that Jack was right about Starkwood all along.

She asks if there's evidence linking them to Juma, and he says "yeah". She wants to know why. He tells her about the whole "developing bio-WMDs" and how they are holding them on their compound. Renee asks where Jack is, and he says he's on the way over...but he says it sadly. Sensing something is up, Renee demands to know WTF is going on!? Larry goes into the long, sordid tale about how Jack got the weapons, but then Starkwood got them back and Jack was exposed. While Larry apologizes for the whole "locking her up thing" and tells her he wants her to be in charge of debrifing Jack, Renee starts to cry and silently stares at the wall. Larry tells her he's sorry, he should've trusted her, yada yada...but she just keeps crying and staring into space. Finally, she looks up and there's a moment where it totally looks like they're are going to make out and do it on the holding room table, but instead, Renee says "When are we moving on Starkwood?" Haha.

Back at the White House, Aaron Pierce is walking along w/ a sling on his arm. Olivia sees him heading out and cuts him off. She tells him that she heard he's been debriefed and on his way home, but she'd like him to stay because she's the new Chief of Staff and totally wants him to head up her security detail. Is it just me, or does she deliver the news with bitchy glee? Anyhoo, Aaron is all: I'm retired and there are a lot of great agents. Olivia disregards his objections and goes into a spiel about how she can't tell him details, but the threat isn't over and she needs people around her she trusts (read: him). He remains silent, so she tells him she's heading into a meeting with the President and she'll assume his answer is yes and then walks away. He gives a sideways "Bitch, Please!" look at her.

Olivia saunters into the underground War Room, that we haven't seen in several episodes. The Prez starts the meeting by informing everyone that the "day isn't over" as their briefing packets and the fact that we're only on hour 16 have warned... She turns it over to Tim Woods, who briefs the gang on the bioweapons being held on Starkwoods gi-normous super duper military compound out in Northern Virginia. Turns out the compound is over 3 square miles and has over 259 buildings on it! Whoa! Everyone wants to know what they are dealing with, so Tim turns it over to Ben Landry from CDC to tell them (and us) about the pathogens.

Here's the medi-babble he delivers: It's a prion variable, indigenous to the East Congo. It's a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Thank you, closed captions! I knew being deaf would come in handy some day!) This nasty nasty disease causes dementia, paralysis, and eventually death within a few months. The weapons grade variant does the same thing, but in a manner of days! Yikes! No treatment, no cure!

Madame Prez pipes in. Calling Starkwood a bunch of bastards for bringing that nasty shit into the country and telling the gang they need to find those weapons and arrest the Baddie crew!

The military crew pipes in, nay-saying about the sheer size of the base and that there are 1,500 highly trained mercenaries on it. They are afraid the result of moving on the base would be a small war in their own backyard! The Prez asks about an airstrike instead, and another military dude nay-says about how the casualties would be great and they couldn't guarantee the weapons would be destroyed. Also, there's the risk that said airstrike could actually release the weapons into the atmosphere. (Are these Pentagon dudes on the Starkwood payroll, or what?!) The Prez looks on with a pissy-pants glare.

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