Previously On 24: 11pm - 12pm

It was another week of improbable cooking and inexplicable judgement by the denizens of 24-land.

Chloe has taken Renee up for a psych evaluation, Hastings has not yet proven himself to have a first name, and Arlo has taken leadership in the lives of Bridezilla and Her Intended by spying as she shirks her work in a doomed attempt manage the fact that her ex-con ex-boyfriend, MethHead Kevin, and his Bromantic Partner have surfaced in her life and made her an accomplice in a robbery of a police evidence locker and attendant attack on a police officer. (These yutzes have gone to a bar in Jersey City and are trying to get her to come over and party with them while they threaten her.)

Arlo threatens to take his nasty but inaccurate inferences to Bridezilla's Intended...she decides to talk to her Intended about her Past...but then he and his men have to go out on a raid, and she decides to slip a gun into her purse (standard issue for IT jobs at CTU) and get on the PATH train for Jersey City.

Bolly Boy is in touch with bad guys back at home in the Islamic Republic, who are seriously bugging him for The Rods. Bad Dad and Remaining Son Josef get annoyed with Bolly Boy's imperious demands, and send him elsewhere at gunpoint to wait for The Rods.

Jack's brought before Bad Dad, pretending to attempt to convince him that he wants to deal with him and that he's not a cop. After a torture scene involving jumper cables that "M" feels is pulled directly from Lethal Weapon (which I've never seen), Jack shows off results of his devotion to the Crossfit training system and manages to electrocute, kill and basically vanquish his torturers -- and also snags a cell phone and calls CTU, which you may recall had lost him.

Using a banquet table to stymie carrot and onion chopping Evil Chef (aka Bad Dad), Jack holds him for the 3 minutes it takes CTU cavalry to comes in to clean up the scene and prepare to take the Russian back to headquarters.

...but wait -- Madame President continues her winning ways with respect to micromanagement and negotiating with terrorists. Bad Dad won't give up The Rods without an immunity deal. She and Jack agree that it's the only way, and agree. They've got to find the Rods, which the Russian allows will be found at a truck stop rendez-vous.

But no. Bad Dad's remaining son, Josef, is far more evil than we even could have imagined. He's scammed The Rods, made a side deal with Bolly Boy, and left a signal indicating that he's double-crossed his Dad.

Somewhere in there, The Islamic President continues to have hair gel issues, cracking down on democratic action back in his homeland.

Doe-eyed daughter Faline takes him to task for having taken her loyal boyfriend Tarin into custody. News of this unsuspected love affair between Faline and Tarin only fuels the President's suspicions. Faline subsequently attempts to bully and charm her way into the room where Tarin is being held...to no avail.

"M" is right. Such as these story lines are, there are far too many of them.

See you later!