The meeting starts and Daniels immediately drops the bomb that he's going to drop a bomb on Iraqistan, much to the dismay of Karen Hayes. The Joint Chiefs have already been instructed to research some sparsely populated areas. General Walsh happily pipes up that the best place would be an area near the northern border, where a bomb should result in around 2,000 deaths - but depending on fallout and the weather, that number could double. Daniels is willing to accept that. Fantastic. Karen finally pipes up with this isn't going to work, you're going to start another world war, and other such nonsense. Daniels is like, "Noted! Let's do this." And then he starts rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally.
Milo still thinks Morris is a lousy drunk. He asks Chloe if she knows anything, and she hisses that as far as she knows, he's fine. Milo keeps whining and insists that Chloe go check his breath. This should be good. She huffs her way over to Morris and plants a big one on him. Morris, surprised and a little aroused, asks what that was for. "Just checking your breath," Chloe snaps matter-of-factly. Um, awesome.
Karen tracks down Tom in the hallway, somehow managing to walk all the way over to him without tripping over her own ineptitude. She tries to bring him over to her side of righteous indignation by insisting that this is not what Wayne Palmer would do. Tom points out that every decision Palmer made today was wrong. But we all know that's because he didn't listen to Jack. But Tom isn't going to budge. Because if he tattles, Daniels is going to bring him down. All the way down. To Chinatown.
The Situation Room is abuzz with efforts to find the rogue drone. (Rogue Drone is a great name for a band.) Chloe interrupts to tell Bill that the satellite data is being rewired to the drone pilot through a workstation at CTU! MOLE! I yell. Chloe says it could take hours to find out whose computer it's coming from, so Mike cuts to the chase and demands a trace on Nadia's station. Milo gets all huffy and outraged, but Mike doesn't care because she's already been tagged, "and yeah, she's a Mooooslem." Oh, Ricky. Go play on your swingset. Milo and I call him a racist, so Mike asks if this is based on some sort of actual knowledge, or if Milo just wants to sleep with her. A valid point, Mike. Also, ew. That's an image I would have been much happier without. Bill scolds them both, as Chloe finds out that it actually is Nadia. Oh. Well...oh.
Mike calls security and storms over to Nadia's desk, ordering her to surrender her workstation and barking questions at her. Nadia is totally surprised and is dragged off to Holding, as Milo creepily watches her. Bill assigns Morris to go through her computer and find out where the leak is leading. My guess: Behrooz.
Not creepy at all.
Gredenko calls Drone Dude, who informs him that the bomb is 130 miles away from the target. Which happens to be San Francisco. And it's going to be blown away in twenty minutes. Apparently Gredenko doesn't care for sea lions, Rice-A-Roni, or dirty hippies.
Update on Comatose President: still comatose. The doctor says he's worsened in the past fifteen minutes, but now he's stabilized. The bad news? He'll never dance again. Karen asks the doctor if there might be any sort of way to bring him back to consciousness long enough to stop Daniels from launching a nuclear attack on Iraqistan before stroking out. Okay, she's not exactly that candid but it's clearly what she's planning. Doc says hell no, but she's quite insistent and eventually beats out of him that the only way would be to get consent from his family. But it's probably going to cause permanent brain damage. Like we'd be able to tell the difference, am I right people? Karen is left in a contemplative state as the doctor hurries off, narrowly avoiding giant puddles of ineptitude. Which, where the hell is he going? Does he have more patients? Other than the PRESIDENT?
Milo watches Nadia in the holding cell via computer and cries to Chloe about how insane it is. What's really insane is how they're recycling this plotline from Season 4, when Sarah was detained and tortured for allegedly leaking intelligence. I always liked the way she yelled the word "expunged". But I digress. Morris is somehow able to figure out that Drone Dude is operating from three blocks away. HOW CONVENIENT!
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Comments (4)
Great recap! I thought this episode was pretty good. I loved "check your breath" kiss - haha! Are we really supposed to believe that Chloe and Morris were ever married?!
As for the Nadia situation...I think Milo may be involved. It's a little weird how she was using his access codes, but on her computer and then she got caught for suspicious activity…but then they didn’t notice she was using Milo’s info...I don't know - I think something is up there.
Also, right on about the Presidential doctor being is such a rush, not able to talk to Karen. I was thinking the same thing…what was he doing - making his rounds?! Missing final jeopardy??…come on!!
Keep up the GREAT work!!
1 of 4 | Posted by y2kcsc
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Posted on March 23, 2007 7:59 PM
Your screencaps made me laugh out loud...especially Santa's pissed. Christmas is cancelled. That was great!
2 of 4 | Posted by 24fan | Posted on March 26, 2007 2:17 PM
This recap had me weak! I loved the Anchorman reference. And I too thought the same thing about the drone- Awwwwwww. But the best part of the show was the ineptitude slam. No one can accuse you of ineptitude Screampillar - you're freakin awesome. Keep up the good work!
3 of 4 | Posted by fuller | Posted on March 26, 2007 8:19 PM
This recap had me weak! I loved the Anchorman reference. And I too thought the same thing about the drone- Awwwwwww. But the best part of the show was the ineptitude slam. No one can accuse you of ineptitude Screampillar - you're freakin awesome.
4 of 4 | Posted by fuller | Posted on March 26, 2007 8:22 PM