This week at CTU: Milo had only a few speaking lines. Hooray! He still managed to be annoying. Buchannan realized that he needs Chloe out on the field, so she can hop back into action. Morris and Chloe bickered like a once-married couple. It's funny, until Chloe mentions that Morris armed the nukes earlier. That sets Morris into a funk and decides he wants a transfer out of LA. (Considering the mortality rate at CTU LA, I don't blame him.) Buchannan agrees to find a better place for him in a few hours. BUT, that's not going to happen because his wife, Karen Hayes, fires him. He hands the reigns over to Nadia Yassir, who is kind of freaked about the whole thing. Buchannan is escorted by security out the building, where he is free to go home. Remember that.
This week in Doyle's Deranged Mind: Doyle follows Jack's trail, acting like he's Locke on Lost or something and decudes which of LA's 15-bajillion roads that Jack's going down. CTU then spends half an episode to confirm Doyle's theory. Doyle finds Jack's truck, which looked to be well-hidden when we saw Jack hiding it, but really, it's just parked out in the open. Doyle sees stuff going down and decides he wants to kill people. So, he engages in a very confusing (for me) firefight. When all is said and done, he arrests Jack, but not before Jack tells him what a complete and utter idiot he is. Here here!
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Meanwhile, Karen Hayes gets a visit from Peter Hork from DOJ, a man who is supposedly very powerful. So powerful, we've never met him before now, but I recognized the actor. (Jonathan Adams, from the first season of Bones.) He reminds Karen, by way of videotape of Reed Pollock, that Buchannan had Fayed in custody a few years ago and let him go. (Because of a lack of evidence, Karen adds.) DOJ is looking for a scapegoat. At twelve o'clock in the morning, just hours after beginning an investigation. How believable! So, after talking to the DOJ man and her frienemy, Lennox, Hayes decides to fire her husband. Here's how the conversation goes down:
Karen: I'm firing you, Bill.
Buchannan: That's crazy talk. Why?
Karen: Because it's been one hour since the threat has been stabilized and the DOJ wants all hearings and investigations done by sunrise, apparently. Sorry.
Buchannan: You're my wife, and I love you but... this is stupid.
This Week in Jack Bauer's Life: He went rogue. He ditched a tracking chip from the Russian-device-thing and went incognito out on a freeway. (Doyle found him anyways.) He contacted Cheng and set up a new meeting place, one that kind of looks like part of a deserted wild west set that's probably clogging up some backlot. Bauer parks in the open, then proceeds to rid a building with C4. Cheng arrives with Audrey and Jack is happy. He then tells Audrey that he is sorry and that she should go to a gas station down the road. (Because it's a suicide mission, you see, and he wants Audrey to survive) Jack gives Cheng the chip when magically a huge firefight breaks out. Cheng gets away with the chip. And Audrey keeps babbling nonsense and curls up into a ball. Jack gets arrested by Doyle, AGAIN, and is ticked off that Audrey's not all there. (Not that she ever was...)
Next week: I don't know. The previews flash so many things nowdays to try to get people to care about this season that I could make out a firefight, Jack's mad and that Suavarov and Daniels talk. And that Daniels deduces that there is a "spy" in the administration. I believe the term is mole, sir. Mole. We don't say "spy" on this show. Also, in new commercials, there's a flash of Nadia with her hands above her head, like she's surrendering. Oh-oh...
At this rate, the season is pretty much never going to recover. It's Mexico all over again. Not to mention that I know some of what's going to happen (I've turned to spoilers for 24... It makes life easier to live this way.), and... yeah, there's no hope. Something really ridiculous will be happening within the next 1-2 weeks. One or two good things may come from it, but ultimately, yeah, it's going to be very stupid. *sigh* And to think last season we had Emmy-worthy performances by Jean Smart and Gregory Itzen...
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Ah-ha, surrender... so Jack isn't busting out of CTU, but warding off an attack. Probably led by his dad.
ReplyDeleteAt first I shared your opinion on Doyle, but if you look at it from his point of view, he did the only logical thing. He had no way of knowing the building was rigged, after all, and he seems to be the only character who remembers that Jack ain't exactly working with a full deck.