Jack and his boys are staking out the Hauser's house. Chloe sends him a picture of Mark and Jack makes a positive ID, so he orders the charge on the house. They burst in and Jack shoots Mark twice, once in leg and once in the back. Brady cowers in the other room and calls out for Mark as the agents subdue him. Jack tells them to stabilize Mark and shoos them out of the room so he can be alone with Brady. Aww, it's the Jack Bauer Diversity Hour!
Jack starts to question Brady, and IT'S. SO. WEIRD. He acts like he's talking to a child, which he essentially is, but it's just so strange to see Jack speaking gently and smiling while interrogating a suspect. I keep waiting for him to start screaming and pulling apart a floor lamp for a little electrocution, but he's just being so nice. It's truly disturbing. Jack asks him what he was doing on the computer, so Brady blurts "Getting files!" "What kind of files?" Jack croons. "I don't know. Mark asked me to get through the IBC firewall to set up a proxy server." Haha. Nothing's funnier than sudden and out-of-nowhere lucidity.
Jack interrogates Mark out in the hallway. He tells him that the Justice Department is going to go after Brady for treason unless he intervenes, so Mark has to give up Gredenko if he doesn't want Rain Man to go to prison. This all seems somewhat improbable to me, but then again if I were objecting to gaps in believability on this show I'd never get past the opening credits. Mark confesses that he was leaking security specs to the Edgemont Nuclear Power Plant. So, detonating a nuclear bomb at a nuclear power plant - wouldn't they just cancel each other out?
Mike introduces Bill to Shady Man, who gets a name - Johnson. Hehe. Apparently he's on loan from District. Great, because we all know those always work out perfectly. He runs off to run more data or something, and Mike asks Bill about Nadia. She's being transfered to holding. Mike says nothing, then skips off. Jack calls Bill and informs him that Gredenko is coming for the information in about twenty minutes, and that he's going to use Brady for the transfer. Oh, this can only go well.
Back at the Hauser Haus, Jack is still cooing to his new pet. I just keep feeling like at any moment Brady and Jack are going to take off together and this is going to turn into a hilarious buddy cop movie. Brady, who appears to have taken mentally-challenged acting classes from the Leonardo DiCaprio School For Kids Who Can't Think Good, is asking all sort of questions about whether his brother is in trouble. Jack tries to assuage his fears by escorting him over to Mark, who is bleeding profusely from a gaping hole in his chest. Nice work, JACK. Mark tells his brother to trust him, and to do whatever Jack says. Okay, so Mark has an ounce of intelligence after all.
"GILBERT!"
Jack uses Mark's phone to dial Gredenko. Mark makes up a story about having to go into the office, and tells Gredenko that his brother will be giving him the specs. Gredenko makes a hilarious "Brady? BWA?!" face, but since he has no other choice he agrees to meet him in the parking lot across the street in twenty minutes. Mark is carted off to the CTU infirmary, where he will likely perish.
Milo is filing some papers or something when he is interrupted by Johnson (hehe), who introduces himself. He tells him about the whole Nadia thing, and that he gave Mike the evidence that she's innocent but Mike still hasn't logged it in. Of course, Milo goes nuts and proceeds to make a fool of himself, swinging at Mike and yelling all sorts of accusations. Are we supposed to harbor any sort of emotional attachments to Milo? Because not once have I ever felt a twinge of anything except pity at his ugliness. Morris conveniently pops up at this moment to tell everyone that Mike gave him the remote access module ten minutes ago and he's been examining it, and it's definitely real. Oh Morris, always with his drunken stories.
Johnson is gay for Milo!
Mike says he didn't tell anyone because it came from an unreliable source and he didn't want to submit it as evidence until he knew for sure. Bill yells at everyone to get back to work. Milo slinks away with egg all over his face. But not before awkwardly apologizing to Mike, who pats him on the shoulder. Mike is gay for Milo too? Has the whole world gone CRAZY?!
How about a slice of humble pie as well, MILO?
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Comments (11)
Great recap - really loving the gay love triangle angle. I'd watch the episode again to catch it, but it sucked so badly it makes me bitter.
I laughed at every single Rainman scene, thinking of Rosie as well. That was really ridiculous.
I'm not sure what 24 can do to redeem this season. And I actually do like Milo. I guess I'm crazy. Maybe it's because he was there for Season 1.
1 of 11 | Posted by pbjunkie
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Posted on March 27, 2007 2:24 PM
Karen Hayes looks like Ian Mckellen in drag..
Or is it the other way around?
2 of 11 | Posted by Eric | Posted on March 27, 2007 5:57 PM
Ennui is setting in for "24". I think they'd better tighten up the time compressions and make it more believable. The current story feels like it's been going on for 13 weeks. Waaaaaay too many things happen in the span of an hour. Surely the writers can do a batter job of this?
3 of 11 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on March 28, 2007 7:46 AM
Mark looks so familiar. Who is he? Has he been in something else??
4 of 11 | Posted by YankeesFan
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Posted on March 28, 2007 10:45 AM
Devon Gummersall as "Mark" has been around. We first met him as the nerd next door, Brian Krakow, who had a crush on Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life"... then a short stint on "Relativity" as West Wing's Toby Ziegler's son... then most famously as the "pink shirt guy" named Zach who raped Julie on Felicity.
while here, I guess i can add my gripe about this season. let's see how many more re-hashed storylines from past seasons they can give us... moles in CTU, president's getting ousted from power, blah blah blah.
thank god I have Season 1 of Prison Break to keep me entertained.
5 of 11 | Posted by poor, dead shannon | Posted on March 28, 2007 2:20 PM
Loved the recap, but....I don't believe it was a sinister CTU room-it was Dead Drone Guy's hideout. Other than that how did the Palmer boys pick their Vice-Presidents? "Let's see-I want a far right reactionary, with no moral compass, a lust for absolute power, and no loyalty whatsoever.Ooh, ooh, and he must be an excellent liar". Do any of you have any doubt that Daniels was the guy giving the orders on the assassination attempt to begin with? And Jack finally found someone that could work with him in the field, and not end up getting splattered all over-I can see it now, Jack, hanging out at the Special Olympics recruiting a Special CTU team.
6 of 11 | Posted by Sloaner | Posted on March 28, 2007 3:01 PM
This episode was about as meh as the recap.
I guess if jack and Brady team up they can buy matching white suits.
7 of 11 | Posted by jca | Posted on March 28, 2007 3:31 PM
yeah.. so-so episode, the story would be more interesting had the launched the boms, started war, etc... yes that blonde chick looks like a robot, and that handshake was sooo gay i was laughing too.
Bad about the season: how little of chloe we've seen so far, tom is getting annoying with his silence, wayne is't dead,
the timeline is fricking amusing to say the least,
there's no jerk above bill (jack and the gang have full support, which tey never do), but the most dissapointing part of the season is NO CRAZY JACK!!, i mean, i know he can't be the same man he was before china, but this just make me think that the writers made a mistake with this whole china thing, they just went too far.
however, i'm waiting for the real jack to please stand up...
by the way, great recap...
8 of 11 | Posted by ronclone | Posted on March 28, 2007 7:28 PM
Is it wrong that I sometimes find myself hoping that the terrorists blow up something? I mean, I still want Jack to save the day blah blah blah, but come on, it's like watching Scooby Doo and "I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" Blow some more stuff up!
I found it funny that in the beginning of this season Wayne Palmer whispered every line and I had to turn my TV to hear his breathy Tony Almeda voice...and then he wakes up and he talks normal! Drain Bramage works well for him. Good for him!
Good for Milo to make out with Nadia...she's H-O-T! Even if she was a terrorist, she's still pretty smoking.
Has Chloe given up? What's happened to her this season? Maybe she doesn't have PMS on this particular day. Too bad.
Johnson? Black turtleneck? I think CTU and District needs to learn from Jack about fashion.
I miss Edgar(Ccchhhllloooeeeeeeeeee!!!)
What happened in Denver? Somehow this is the biggest question of the show?! How sad!...though I do kinda want to know.
Jack smiling? That was kind of rough to watch. Seriously.
So yeah, this season kind of blows and all, but so did season 3 with Chase, so you can't win 'em all. If next year sucks, then we've got a problem. Then we'll have to resort to Jack fighting against living dead zombies. That'd be kind of cool to bring back Edgar, Tony, Michelle, Wayne, Teri Bauer, Samwise, Sara Gilbert, Curtis, Walt Cummings, etc. and watch Jack do battle against them. 24 All-Stars Edition 2009. Woo-hoo! Can't wait!
9 of 11 | Posted by Darth Wader
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Posted on March 30, 2007 11:34 AM
Omg!
Brady: "You take care of me, Mark!"
equals
Tardy the Turtle: "Crayons taste like purple!"
10 of 11 | Posted by Big McLargehuge | Posted on April 1, 2007 11:06 AM
Great recap, but what the heck is going on!?! Where is Jack's dad and "son"? Where is Crazy and ex-prez Logan? Is he dead? It's been two hours?! And also, what's up with Wayne coming out of his coma perfectly fine. Not even a slur in his words....come on!
11 of 11 | Posted by y2kcsc
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Posted on April 1, 2007 4:12 PM