Previously on 24: 9pm - 10pm

It's a lot easier to remember what went on when a whole week hasn't gone by since I last watched!

OK, the President has hired her probably evil definitely nasty none-too-resourceful and lipwear challenged daughter as a "special advisor". The First Daughter convinces Madame Mom to go on TV and take credit for victory in Sangala. (WTH?) Possibly Evil Ethan takes responsibility for Bauer's potential involvement in the death of the ex-Goldman banker. Madame President looks about as mad as your 6th grade teacher did when you did something stupid but not all that terribly nasty.

Jack has re-rogued, having failed to consider merely proving that he didn't slit the ex-Goldman banker's throat by virtue of being garbed in a pristine white shirt. (I love a man in a white shirt, especially if he's Clive Owen, but I digress.)

After stealing a gorgeous classic car (and defacing it by breaking a window with his elbow, for which he should be spanked) Jack drives off while simultaneously uploading stuff to his Mac and dialing Renee.

Renee has been suspended, but her phone and computer access have not, so she's able to identify the bad guy who slithered away through the ceiling (because Jack somehow got a disc with hospital surveillance footage on it? I missed that) and get that info to Jack -- he's a Black Ops guy who has (of course) gone rogue and has done work for the Blackwater-like group that does everything bad in the world. Renee reminds Jack that Senator 70s Show has been investigating this group, and would have confidential files on his home PC. Then, she's taken into custody.

(I hope they let her take a comb. This is the first chance she's had to remove the little rocks that were inevitably stuck in her hair when Jack and Tony buried her alive. How she got so clean -- even in HD -- is just another of many continuity questions that plague the Women of The 24 Blog this season.)

Jon Voight is getting a shipment of WMDs. He's not so interesting, so I can't remember how they all figured out where Jack was off to with the disc. But he sends Quinn after him.

Jack heads to the Senator's private residence. My prediction was that the Senator would find Jack in his study. 2 POINTS! Why do people always go to the study for these late night break-in tete-a-tetes? Wouldn't Jack want to get a nice snack out of the Senator's fridge? He's from Wisconsin, I'll bet there would have been some awesome cheese in there.

At any rate, the Senator starts plumbing the depths of Jack's pain, and is about to believe and get on board with Jack...and Jack has finally found someone he is willing to trust...when throat slitting Quinn pretends like he's DCPD ("candygram") and shoots the Senator ("landshark").

A chase ensues with an awesome fight scene that reminded "A" of the old days when Buffy and Faith used to fight. Jack traps the guy in a construction trailer, and then bulldozes it. Quinn crawls up and out of the trailer and Jack has to stab him in the chest with a sharp pointy object that he later uses to start a stolen truck and move on, presumably towards the destination of the "shipment" of WMDs, which the dying Quinn had told him had already arrived. (I guess going back for the Goat was out of the question.)

There's also a side story going on with Chloe in custody, Morris coming in to pick her up, and being blackmailed into decrypting Jack's destination from Renee's files. Moss and his toadies suit up for a group hug before they go off to the Senator's.

Another side story involves "someone" at the White House leaking information to the press about Bauer's involvement in the ex-Goldman banker's death. But Oily Olivia somehow proves to her 25th Amendment-worthy mom that it was not her doing.

Jack also gets hold of Tony (uh, because Quinn had Tony's number programmed into his phone, which is I believe the phone that Jack is now using?) and Tony's going to stop at Target for some weapons and surveillance equipment and meet him at the shipyard or wherever the heck the text on Quinn's phone implied they would be.

...Moss and his team arrive at Red's place to find the Senator dead. The jealous Agent Moss jumps to the conclusion that Jack has really decompensated based on I'm not sure what evidence. Maybe its the smell of Jack's Axe Body Spray hanging in the air? Moss, finally sick of due process himself, puts out a "shoot to kill" order on Jack.

I think we've figured out that there are another 10 hours to go this season and things have picked up slightly...

(...and I am ready to give "M" and the Hubby some of the extremely rare parenting advice I feel qualified to give: keep "J" away from the Axe body spray website until he's at least 35.)

Bloop, bloop.