Ok, let's see what I remember from last week. (It was a busy week at work, I didn't have much time to think about 24.)
Jack's brother (and some random henchmen) try to kill Jack and his dad. You can watch video of Jack and Dad's suspend-your-disbelief escape at vanlandw's
Jack Bauer 24 Kill Count website. (Watch Dad's hair...hello, have you heard of gel? Hair products are not just for women any more.)
After Jack's 3rd kill of the season, he and Dad take Grae back to Grae's McMansion for a medical interrogation.
(Un-freaking believeable. Interesting article in today's NY Times magazine about the fact that many executions by lethal injection are botched because of inadequate medical knowledge of the executioners, and a refusal by most medical professionals to participate in executions. It does give me hope that CTU's "medical interrogation" is a Fox Network fiction. But I digress.)
First, dreamy Rena Sofer and Jack's nephew/son have to be taken back to CTU. (Partly so that Rena can get back to work over at
Heroes.)
Rena gives Jack/Grae's dad an ultimatum to protect the spawn of Bauer. Leading us to wonder, what does the kid (whose name I can't remember) know? (And again, Marilyn Bauer: stupid, or evil? I vote evil.) And Dad's hair flaps in the breeze here, too -- I guess that he doesn't know that the bad guys of 24 are sexy
because they are bald! Let it go, Dad!
Then, Jack threatens to cause Grae more pain that he could ever imagine. Ha. Had Jack forgotten about the trick with the bag from the Jewel?
He gets some kind of info from Grae. Oh, yeah, Grae confesses that he had Tony, Michele and President Palmer (the adult one) killed last season. (Did he confess that he and Dad sent Jack to China? I can't remember.)
Jack is truly upset. He takes off. (I can't remember where he went! Maybe off to shower or go to the bathroom.) Wherever he goes, he is certifiably in a World Of Pain (aka WOP).
There is a whole thing where CTU intercepts a phone call that took place 5 minutes ago between Fayed (still looking hot in the balding terrorist 24 way) and the guy from Wisconsin who is inconsistently affecting an Australian accent. They need to get the triggers to the other 4 suitcase nukes set, and only one guy will know how to do it...but he won't be readily cooperative.
The hooker-y looking evil chick is there with Wisconsin-boy in some fancy hotel, suitably outside the fallout zone, I guess. Or maybe by
2012, in addition to the most comfortable mattresses known to man and the cushy white bathrobes, the Four Seasons will have special anti-terrorist features that protect the guests from fallout.
While we wonder whether the uncooperative techie will turn out to be Jack's son (I always wish for a teenaged boy around the house when it comes time to program my VCR, set up i-Tunes, and other techie tasks), we head back to CTU.
Chloe's ex gets a call that his brother has been rushed to the hospital with nucular-ly induced health issue. Morris is unable to summon the equanimity shown by Eggar last season when his mom was stricken by some terrorist based malady (what was that, was it the canisters?) and he takes off.
We go back to Grae's pad, where Jack's dad promptly kills him off. Now that Jack's back, who needs Grae? Then he starts to cry and accuses CTU of killing Grae. (But he wasn't wearing gloves when he injected the drug into the IV line, so how about that?)
Poor Jack, he may not find out until next season that Dad offed Grae. He'll take it on himself. (More WOP!)
Then Morris gets grabbed by the bad guys. Jack's son wasn't the reluctant techie, Morris was! (And so what for Milo, treating Morris like some kind of lackey. I bet that Milo doesn't know how to arm, or disarm, a suitcase nuke! It remains to be seen whether he has yet disarmed Chloe -- literally or figuratively.)
Oh, yeah, Sandra Palmer breaks Walid out of the detention center and into a private room in a hospital. "M" and I wonder whether Sandra and Walid are special friends or not. And it looks like he has a good HMO: "M", I think your instinct is right -- who does he really work for?
President Palmer goes against the Numbers guy's idea to initiate military rule. (Or whatever.) And we're introduced to the apparently evil Vice President.
"W", better start counting your remaining moments...you shouldn't have let Karen go. How much damage could the press have done in the next 18 hours, given their consumption with the nucular attack? Buddy, you just lost your last friend in the White House. (Unless you have a dog.)
And watch out for Chad Lowe. Whether or not he and the guy from Numbers are special friends, he is not on your side.
Karen's out of commission for the next 3 episodes because she's flying to LA to be blowed up with Bill. I agree with "M". Karen Hayes: stupid, not evil.
That's all I can remember. It wasn't the greatest episode. Hopefully it will turn out to advance the plot.
Open questions: where is Audrey, and when will she be back to set up a perimeter? (I read on some other site that Jack would find out that she's in China! But that was supposed to happen last week.) How about Kim? Suburban Mom and Brent -- are they just gone? Will Milo get in trouble for giving his password and ID to Nadia, and will we find out any time soon whether she is stupid or evil?
And who is Jack's mom gonna turn out to be? Will we have to wait until next season to see her, I don't know, maybe execute Jack's dad for euthanizing the weak Grae? (Or, maybe Karen will turn out to be Jack's mom!)
And aargh, 2 hours tomorrow. "M", anything else?
