Can you imagine Jack Bauer at his high school's Career Day? Wandering around the gym, going up to all of the various booths and learning about futures in heath care, communications, engineering, etc. His guidance counselor encouraging him to study real hard, because junior year is what makes or breaks you. And making him sign up for some SAT courses, so he can score real high and get into a good college. And then he stabs her to death with a No. 2 pencil, because she was probably a terrorist.
This week's episode of 24 begins with Mike "Girls Have Cooties" Doyle dancing in the streets. He's trying to flag down a car, but the intelligent drivers of Los Angeles wisely steer clear of the crazy man flailing about in the middle of the road. Eventually he runs right in front of a car, Grand Theft Autos the poor guy, and drives away, killing a few prostitutes for fun as he does.
Jazz hands always stop cars!
Mike calls CTU and gets Milo, who snidely passes it on to Bill, as if to say "Doyle fucked up again." Mike describes the situation to Bill, admitting "I screwed up!" Sounds like SOMEone needs a Time Out. Morris picks up on the tracking device in the chip and informs Mike of Jack's location. Bill makes an announcement to the room: "Jack Bauer has gone rogue." Are there any words in the English language more terrifying than these five put together? No. Except maybe "Paris Hilton was inaugurated today."
Jack, the sneaky bastard that he is, has driven his car underneath some power lines. This gets my hopes up for a sort of electrocution-by-floor-lamp on some colossal level, but as it turns out he's just using them to scramble the signal on the chip. He pries it off and throws it into the bushes, as Morris and Chloe (who has been put back on assignment because she's just that good) try and figure it out on their end. I don't know why CTU even tries. Whenever Jack Bauer goes rogue, there is nothing left to do but throw up your hands in futility and go take a nap, and just know in your heart that everything will work out for the best.
Morris and Chloe are snapping at each other, as they are wont to do. Morris finally wises up to Jack's trickery and skips up the stairs like the spirited little lawn gnome that he is to tell Bill. Milo comes over and Dr. Phils all over the place, saying that Jack will give up his own life but not Audrey's. Whatever, Milo. Go heat up a Hot Pocket or something.
The White House Crew are congregated inside the Oval Office, watching the Press Secretary's press conference. And Tom Lennox is there, which is odd considering the fact that at the end of last week's episode, he said he was going to the hospital. Now, I know this show likes to break all laws of time and space, but I refuse to believe that Tom got to the hospital and back in the span of ten minutes, and all before Palmer even arrived there. Maybe he was setting up a bear trap in the MRI machine or something.
Anyway, Daniels shoos out everyone but Tom. He asks what he's going to do with the Pier 1 Bowl of Espionage tape that has him conspiring to commit perjury. Tom says he hasn't really thought about it. Daniels tells him to think about it right now. Hehe. Careful Tom, thinking causes brain attacks around these parts. Tom voices his concerns, but says that the main reason he's keeping the tape is for his own protection, and that it was Palmer's idea to use it to force a resignation. Daniels asks the presidential equivalent of "So...are we okay?" and Tom says that they're totally cool, BFF even, since he's always supported Daniels' politics more than Palmer's anyway. And he promises never to use the tape against him. Right. Countdown to hearing that tape again: T - two episodes.
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Comments (2)
The "We have a spy" thing is getting old...
I'm still cleaning up the vomit at my home...
Alot has to happen in the next few hours...like it always does!
Great recap!
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Posted on April 25, 2007 11:28 AM
This was one of the best recaps I've ever read, absolutely hilarious. Thank you!
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Posted on April 25, 2007 3:30 PM