Mike is still driving all over Hell's creation looking for Jack, when he finally spots his car near the hotel. Good for you, Mikey. Back at CTU, Bill pulls Nadia into the Situation Room for what may be the mother of all Situations. For her, at least. He tells her he's stepping down, and that she is now in charge. Nadia protests and asks all sorts of questions, but Bill just says that he was fired. The security guards show up to escort him off the property, and when he asks for one more minute they get all sassy. I HATE when security pulls attitude with our beloved agents. Don't they know who they ARE?
Nadia is still whining, saying that Bill is the "most ethical, dedicated person" she's ever known, and begs to know who's doing this to him. Bill fails to say "my future ex-wife" and keeps his trap shut, then gives Nadia all the logistical details of her takeover. She says she's not the right choice, but she can't really mean that. Who else is there? Morris? Chloe? MILO? Milo's not even qualified to operate a toaster oven. So yes, Nadia is the only choice, until a replacement director arrives from Division. Ooh. Past replacement directors have included Michelle Dessler. Perhaps a Zombie Tony Almeida will arrive to run the show? I am hopeful. Bill tells her to inform the rest of CTU before they can read it on the internal forum, which I imagine is full of Youtube links and funny cat pictures.
America's biggest threat to national security
Bill is escorted out, as Morris tries to whine to him yet again about something or other. Bill finally ignores him and leaves. Nadia makes the announcement the the room, and everyone is appropriately Shocked. Milo immediately begins to plot Bill's death, because he must have talked to Nadia at some point about this and that makes him another lover Milo must eliminate.
Mike, meanwhile, is putting together all of his toys and getting ready to storm in on Jack. Sigh. This is going to end badly, and it's all because no one listened to Jack. AS USUAL. He stalks around outside the hotel for a bit, then tells CTU that a limo has arrived, which prompts Nadia to send some teams over. Cheng gets out of the limo and heads into the lobby. Upon seeing Jack, he squeals, "Mistah Bauah!" with delight. Hehe, gotta love that crazy Chinaman. I bet he's a children's television show performer back in his country.
"Mistah Bauah! Care to dance?"
Jack says he's not handing over anything until he sees Audrey and verifies that she's okay. Cheng calls his goons and they bring Audrey into the building. And, yeah, it's pretty heartbreaking. Jack asks Cheng to take the gag out of her mouth, then changes his mind and says he'll do it. He gently pulls it off and caresses her face, and damn, it's painful. I should know. If I had a nickel for every relationship of mine that has been ruined by Chinese torture, I'd have several nickels! Jack whispers that he's sorry, but Cheng pipes up gleefully to chirp, "You can continue this reunion later!" Seriously, I'm really starting to like Cheng. I'm going to hire him for my next birthday party.
Jack tells him that Audrey is to walk away from here, down the street until she's no longer in the range of Cheng's spies, and then he will hand over the component. Jack hugs Audrey and whispers some more instructions into her ear, that a car will be waiting at a gas station and it will take her back to CTU. Audrey, who has barely shown any emotion through all of this, sullenly walks out of the building. Mike is still hiding in the bushes, yelling into his phone at Nadia, while - are those didgeridoos? - play in the background. Intense. Once he sees Audrey, he knows that the exchange is about to take place, and decides that it's Doyle's Time To Shine.
Once he can see that Audrey is a safe distance away, Jack tosses the circuit board over to Cheng. And at that exact moment, Mike starts shooting at all of Cheng's goons. The CTU teams and a helicopter pop up out of nowhere and join in the shooting fun. Cheng, meanwhile, escapes quite easily, which means that CTU must have put up a perimeter around this place. One of the goons shoots a damn bazooka at the helicopter and it goes down, which means that following Cheng in the unmarked black vehicles up the mountain is going to be that much more difficult.
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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!
1 of 2 | Posted by dw17
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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!
2 of 2 | Posted by kylie
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Posted on April 25, 2007 3:30 PM