Once again, I'm hamstrung to remember what happened last week. Stuff blew up, Jack was in a world of pain, Tony slunk around to cement his re-rogue status, women were either stupid or evil...and there are Canisters on the loose -- despite one of the rare uses of a Perimeter this season!
And I'm also hamstrung for time. Let's see if I can expand on that a bit without going out of my 15 minute time boundary.
OK, so Agent Moss is still dead. If you think about it, he's the victim of not listening to his own gut: he kept on asking Renee what she saw in Jack. Jack's the one who legitimized the undead Tony.
(Now what about Chloe?
Stay at home mom, or has she gone evil?)
So, Renee and Jack head to the Starkwood compound. (Yes, a law enforcement professional is taking a man with a rapidly progressing degenerative brain disease to a still active crime scene. Hmmm. I hope he's armed.) Renee demands to see Larry's body and then takes command.
Tony is on the phone with his evil friend, and also monitoring the search protocols being used to look for Evil Friend and the Canister, and relaying that info over to him so that he can take evasive action.
After the now familiar question, "Hey, got any C-4?", Tony has instructed his Evil Friend to rig a building to blow (was that conversation this week, or the week before?)
Meanwhile, a hot blonde lawyer is getting dressed in the middle of the night; she's Daddgelina's attorney, getting ready to go over to advocate on his behalf. Instead, she gets a faceful of anaesthetic from a bad guy and another nearly identical blonde chick. The blonde steals the lawyer's glasses and ID (using an iPhone app that can duplicate your fingerprint!) and heads on over to holding -- not before the real attorney is dispatched -- carrying a little red pill that she instructs Hodges to take, after some high pressure negotiating tactics involving threatening his family and preserving his legacy.
It ain't a Sudafed. (Due to the nanny-staters, it is practically impossible to get Sudafed anyways.)
Somewhere in here, Kim's on her way to the airport, and we see her on the phone with her (age-appropriate) husband. Her daughter, Teri, is cooing in her crib. There's some bla bla bla about Jack, but no real plot motion. (Baby Teri's evil twin, Nina, is nowhere in evidence.)
Back at the crime scene, the grid search for the Canister continues, unencumbered by the United States Constitution: Renee has apparently declared martial law, and is bulldozing over the rights of the hapless civilians who are protesting the seemingly illegal search.
Jack is taking calls at the crime scene, and takes one from the guy who was debriefing him, inquiring about another evil terrorist that Jack had reported that Tony had (supposedly) interrogated to death.
Jack realized that someone on the ground at crime scene command must be feeding the grid search patterns to the guy with the canister, and that Renee has gone into a trap, and he radios the team to get out. The evil friend blows up the building, and Jack rushes in to save her, Tony in his wake.
Hodges, being transported someplace else, is placed in the back of a paddywagon - but not before Oilivia has looked daggers at him. (I can't remember why the heck she would even be over there.)
While in transit, Hodges takes the pill, and he has a seizure. The guys driving the paddywagon divert -- where else -- to West Arlington hospital: "M" and I are hoping that he and the First Man will be roommates.
And eew, there's a disgusting scene/plotline basically stolen from
Silence of the Lambs: Tony's Evil Friend smears a dead guy's blood all over himself, and Tony "rescues" him.
Jack checks in with his friend the debriefer, who reveals that the guy that Tony had supposedly interrogated to death was in fact alive, and had been apprehended trying to cross a border. This, combined with his insight that search protocols are being shared with the Evil Friend, leads Jack to realize that Tony has re-re-rogued, and he confronts him.
At first Tony dissembles. Then, it's time for poor Jack to have a seizure.
Tony steals Jack's anti-seizure injection kit and taunts him -- while simultaneously loading his Evil Friend and the Canister into an ambulance, where they'll both be driven straight through the Perimeter -- and then asks some of the medics to help Jack, in preparation for slinking off. (But not because he actually wants anyone to help Jack, but because he doesn't have time to kill him without attracting attention.)
Jack is unable to express himself, or to get anyone to stop Tony.
And the Evil Friend, following Hannibal Lecter's plotline, attacks the EMT and takes the ambulance driver hostage.
(And now I can't remember: was Hodges going to West Arlington Hospital, or the Evil Friend...or is everything going to converge there? Somehow?)
Bloop, bloop!
