OK, here's what I remember.
Marika took off with the frat boy to meet with Dubaku. She's scared and he's angry. He decides that she's not really to blame after all (or does he -- maybe he plans to solve this problem "
at altitude, over water"?) and gets her into the car with him under the guise of heading out of the country together.
Jack and Renee are released by the DC police, after the faux warrant is miraculously released. A car chase ensues, and Marika causes a car accident that comes at the cost of her life -- creating a bit of drama when Renee tries to pull her from the fiery car. Jack refuses to help, and Renee points a gun at Jack to get him to help.
Dubaku is badly injured. Jack makes the first responders revive him for long enough to threaten to seek out and torture his family members, and Dubaku reveals the existence of his insurance policy before he passes out. Jack figures out that this insurance policy is in the form of a subcutaneous data storage device, and cuts him open and pulls a weird little disc out of his side.
Eew.
Jack gives the disc to some random chopper pilot and tells him to bring it to Larry. (Because Jack's spidey sense lets him know that this guy isn't part of the conspiracy?) Chloe gets her hands on this, and because Sean has tapped the conference room, he knows what's on it.
Sean sees that this disc will out him and all of his mercenary (yet bankerly) friends, and lures Insecure Blonde Chick into the server room. Turns out she is stupid and evil, but quite the IT babe. She starts to erase everything that Chloe is uploading, and tells Larry that they are in the clear.
Sean makes like he's going to swap spit with her, and then shoots her instead. Turns out he's a total psychopath. He shoots himself in the arm, and then makes like an injured party.
Larry (who along with the First man is kind of a honorary chick, really, and stupid but not apparently evil) spills tons of information to Sean.
Until Chloe, who as a matter of good IT hygiene had been mirroring the server on her blackberry or somesuch (something that "M" can now do, now that she's Microsoft Certified!), finds out that she's got all of the records from the disc, and outs Sean.
Larry is pissed. (And in kind of a peevish sort of way.)
And then AIG has some issues, and Jack does a hostile takeover. Uh, no, that is just we might wish had happened. Can we get Bauer on the financial markets, stat?
The President gets called back to the White House. There's nothing she can do for the First Man at the Arlington hospital. I think that Bill wants her back there in the White House yoga studio, maybe doing some balanced breathing exercises and getting back to her role as commander in chief.
Marika's manipulative older sister is extremely upset to learn of Marika's heroic death, and lashes out at Renee. Jack and Renee have a tete a tete, Renee is righteously upset with Jack for treating Marika like a piece of furniture. Renee breaks down, Jack responds woodenly, and Jack leaves, reminding Renee never to point a gun at him again unless she intends to use it.
"I did," she says.
(With the old writers, this would have presaged some inevitable hanky panky between the two of them, but I can no longer predict...)
The nasty First Daughter appears at the White House, and I was too bored to really watch and retain that.
Jack and Tony have a little tete a tete. (All of a sudden he is, friction free, sitting on the steps of one of those Federal buildings where people on TV always meet with spies and moles. I'm not sure how they connected, did Tony poke him using mobile Facebook?)
Jack believes that all is well with Dubaku's list on hand, and it is time for Tony to turn himself in. Not so, says Tony. Juma (the other guy from Sangala) also apparently has endless resources and is planning an attack on the US.
Turns out that one of the banker/mercenaries is a high ranking staffer to a Senator -- which we see right after Tony tells Jack about the guy. As we move to a split screen montage that announces the end of this 40-whatever minutes of mind-numbing TV wasteland, they are both on their way to visit the White House...where the next step of their nefarious plan is to unfold.
Uh, couldn't Tony just text Bill to tell him not to let this guy into the White House?
Anything I forgot? Could I possibly be more engaged, given what we're working with this year?
Jack, Jack, come back to yourself! (I'm wondering whether he is actually depressed, or is suffering from PTSD -- but the 24 hour format won't lend itself to any exploration of
this important issue for our real warriors.)
Bring back Nina! Bring back TEYOP. We miss Eggar and Chloe and the true social discomfort and quirkyness they managed to respectfully convey. (Or was I just reading too much into it?)
Bloop, bloop....
OMG, I love the yoga studio site I snagged this photo, "Angela's First Headstand", from.
