Tuesday, January 13, 2004
10pm - 11pm
Ok. That's it. I am not watching FOX, staying up for 24 castmember talkshow interviews, or reading any forums that have to do with the damn show. The whole ending of this great episode was totally wrecked for me. First, it was by the end-of-the-episode previews for the next show when I saw Nina running her hands up Jack's thighs, then the forums that just stick spoiler info in thread titles, then from the clip The View chose to show when Sarah Clarke was on - they showed the bloody last scene of the episode! WTF?? And finally by mainstream media sources announcing in big giant letters that Sherry returns tonight. Thank you very much you feckin' eejits. I figured she'd be back at some point but I didn't know it would be tonight. So her return was diminished for me. As well as The Kiss surprise. The impact was lessened because I expected it. But enough whinging about spoilers. I will get to spend loads of time analysing what that particular kiss means to Jack. Amazing what the man will do for his country.
So... Sherry is back. Why is she not in jail? I hope that's explained in the next hour because she should be somebody's bitch in prison by now. Palmer's supporter Milliken is going to play dirty and put a stop to a Very Important healthcare bill Palmer want's to pass because he feels jilted by his far-too-young wife who had an affair with Wayne. He wanted David to fire Wayne and Wayne is actually keen to let him in order to preserve his presidency. But David knows that if he gives in, then his presidency will be a sham and he'd be at the mercy of anyone with a little dirt on him. He wants the comings and goings of his staff to be on his terms, not anyone else's. Yet for all of that, the president is willing to 'sink to Milliken's level' and play dirty too. He picks up the phone and dials a number (that he seemed to know by heart mind you). Aaaaaaand Sherry picks up. "I need your help." says David. Meanwhile Wayne goes to see Milliken's wife to see if she'll be willing to convince Milliken to stop his dastardly plan. But the wife has something she wants: Wayne. When he refuses, she also refuses to help him.
Heading back over to CTU, Michelle tries to apologise to Tony for doubting him. He tells her it was her responsibility to do that if she felt there was a problem. But then he turns around and bites her head off anyway. Tension tension between them. I wonder if they're newlyweds. Tony doesn't seem to have a problem forgiving Kim though which I found odd since it was her observations that caused Michelle to go to Chapelle. Tony gives Kim an update after he speaks to Jack (I'll get to that in a mo) and seems concerned about how she's doing through all of this... But he made it a point not to tell her that Nina 'is in play' (I'm sorry.. i couldn't resist that line, I just watched that ep in S2 this weekend.)
And Chloe's back. Yay! And she's with child! Well, not literally but apparently she's a single mum. That makes me (a single mum) love her even more. I bring my daughter to work all the time. Granted she's 12 and doesn't usually make cooing noises from under the desk, but then I don't have Chapelle for a boss. The look on his face when he saw Chloe's kidlet was priceless! Apparently, Chloe's sitter had some emergency and had to bring her baby to CTU, which Chloe was having an absolute cow about. I have never seen such a neurotic, anal-retentive character like hers before. It brings a bit of levity, in my opinion, to a season that's been filled with pain on so many different levels.
Moving on to Jack, Nina, Claudia and Chase... My goodness, poor Chase. He's learned from the best when it comes to torture. Something I always wondered... When Jack or any agent comes back to debrief and tell of his or her adventures, do they go into much detail as far as the things they've had to go through to get from point A to point B? I mean, did Jack simply say, "I was tortured for information on the chip and my heart stopped." Or does he tell them everything they did to him?
I digress. Chase is being tortured with what I think is a cattle prod. While that's happening, Jack, Ramon and Hector have returned to the farmhouse where Chase and Claudia are. Hector contacts Gael (ahh yes remember the Salazar's don't realise that Gael is a double, double agent and he is still 'in' with them) to try and find out whether Chase came to Mexico alone or with a team. Gael tells him he doesn't know because that's a field ops question and Gael is not in field ops. Hector seems to buy that. Gael also tells him that just to be safe, they should keep Chase alive and Hector agrees. Then Jack gets on the phone and gives Gael the satellite number Amador was using and has him trace it so he can get to Nina.
I love Whatever Technology (tm TWoP). And oh man, Hector goes into the barn where Chase is and shoots that boy through his hand. Ouch! But he didn't break, good man. I think his knowledge that help was not far away, and that Jack really hadn't betrayed him was what kept him strong. Otherwise I bet he would have broken quickly if not for that.
Sergio, Claudia's little brother who idolizes hector nearly blows her plan to escape by telling Hector that Claudia told him to be ready to go. But she covers nicely and Hector is appeased. Phew! Silly kid. Meanwhile, Jack hurriedly tells her he's got to go after the virus but that there are military teams nearby if she can manage to get herself, her father, brother, and Chase out of there. Man I'd be scared to death to attempt anything like an escape. I felt Claudia's desire to escape and keep her family safe is what helped her overcome her fear.
Ramon of course is still wary of trusting Jack to go after Nina alone, so he refuses to let Jack out of his sight when the call comes in from Gael about Amador's whereabouts. He and Jack leave alone to try and isolate Nina when she meets Amador to get the virus. Hector plops down in a chair in the farmhouse and rests which gives Claudia her one shot. She finds her father and tells him to disable all of the trucks and be ready to go. She then goes to the barn, knocks out a guard with his own gun (you GO girl!) and walks in telling the torturers that Hector thinks Chase will talk to her. This is after they poured gasoline on his bullethole. *shudder*. But Claudia slips him a knife and together they kill the man torturing him, take his cell phone and run for her father's truck. Her father was waiting in it with Sergio. Claudia and Chase are lying down in the bed of the truck under some cover, but still, some henchmen stop Claudia's father before he can drive off and they don't look like they're buying his story. So Chase pops up and shoots them, which alerts Hector and there's a fabulous shootout as they get the hell out of there.
Phew!
But they make it away safely. Except that when Chase tries to tell Claudia thank you for helping him escape, he sees she's been hit by a stray bullet. Claudia is dead. Argh!! The first major death of the season and it's a doozy in terms of what this will do to Jack. From what I could tell from previous episodes, Jack might have actually fallen in love with Claudia. Her death is going to be devastating to him I think.
But at this point in time he's got his hands full with Nina. He has managed to track her to an abandoned church where she has just met with Amador. Amador told her that he would contact her in the next half an hour with the location of the virus and Nina's a little pissy at having to jump through hoops to get at it. But then Amador and his goons leave and Nina's alone with her own goons whom Jack manages to take out - all but one anyway. He has Nina at gunpoint again, but not for long. The extra goon Jack didn't see pops up allowing Nina to knock Jack out with her briefcase. When he wakes up, he's cuffed to a chair and Nina's trying to suss him and his motives out.
The exchanges between them were pretty intense. Nina wants to know if Jack can forgive her for killing Teri. Jack says repeatedly he just wants to get his cash and disappear. He tells her that the Salazars will pay her 10 times her 2 million dollar fee for this deal, and that he's a fugitive now anyway for breaking Ramon out of prison. She was able to confirm this, but she needs further convincing. So she kneels before him, runs her hands up his thighs and asks him to convince her he's over Teri's death. The final scene the kiss heard round the 'net. I don't know whether to be turned on or disgusted by it. I know why Jack had to kiss her - the stakes are high, lives hanging in the balance etc. - But... it's Nina.. and I don't think I can forgive her for killing Teri. Oh how filled with revulsion Jack must have been...
What an episode. Now we have to wait two weeks for the next one. Thanks Bush. Can't tell us what you're up to on a fecking Wednesday? Geesh.
So... Sherry is back. Why is she not in jail? I hope that's explained in the next hour because she should be somebody's bitch in prison by now. Palmer's supporter Milliken is going to play dirty and put a stop to a Very Important healthcare bill Palmer want's to pass because he feels jilted by his far-too-young wife who had an affair with Wayne. He wanted David to fire Wayne and Wayne is actually keen to let him in order to preserve his presidency. But David knows that if he gives in, then his presidency will be a sham and he'd be at the mercy of anyone with a little dirt on him. He wants the comings and goings of his staff to be on his terms, not anyone else's. Yet for all of that, the president is willing to 'sink to Milliken's level' and play dirty too. He picks up the phone and dials a number (that he seemed to know by heart mind you). Aaaaaaand Sherry picks up. "I need your help." says David. Meanwhile Wayne goes to see Milliken's wife to see if she'll be willing to convince Milliken to stop his dastardly plan. But the wife has something she wants: Wayne. When he refuses, she also refuses to help him.
Heading back over to CTU, Michelle tries to apologise to Tony for doubting him. He tells her it was her responsibility to do that if she felt there was a problem. But then he turns around and bites her head off anyway. Tension tension between them. I wonder if they're newlyweds. Tony doesn't seem to have a problem forgiving Kim though which I found odd since it was her observations that caused Michelle to go to Chapelle. Tony gives Kim an update after he speaks to Jack (I'll get to that in a mo) and seems concerned about how she's doing through all of this... But he made it a point not to tell her that Nina 'is in play' (I'm sorry.. i couldn't resist that line, I just watched that ep in S2 this weekend.)
And Chloe's back. Yay! And she's with child! Well, not literally but apparently she's a single mum. That makes me (a single mum) love her even more. I bring my daughter to work all the time. Granted she's 12 and doesn't usually make cooing noises from under the desk, but then I don't have Chapelle for a boss. The look on his face when he saw Chloe's kidlet was priceless! Apparently, Chloe's sitter had some emergency and had to bring her baby to CTU, which Chloe was having an absolute cow about. I have never seen such a neurotic, anal-retentive character like hers before. It brings a bit of levity, in my opinion, to a season that's been filled with pain on so many different levels.
Moving on to Jack, Nina, Claudia and Chase... My goodness, poor Chase. He's learned from the best when it comes to torture. Something I always wondered... When Jack or any agent comes back to debrief and tell of his or her adventures, do they go into much detail as far as the things they've had to go through to get from point A to point B? I mean, did Jack simply say, "I was tortured for information on the chip and my heart stopped." Or does he tell them everything they did to him?
I digress. Chase is being tortured with what I think is a cattle prod. While that's happening, Jack, Ramon and Hector have returned to the farmhouse where Chase and Claudia are. Hector contacts Gael (ahh yes remember the Salazar's don't realise that Gael is a double, double agent and he is still 'in' with them) to try and find out whether Chase came to Mexico alone or with a team. Gael tells him he doesn't know because that's a field ops question and Gael is not in field ops. Hector seems to buy that. Gael also tells him that just to be safe, they should keep Chase alive and Hector agrees. Then Jack gets on the phone and gives Gael the satellite number Amador was using and has him trace it so he can get to Nina.
I love Whatever Technology (tm TWoP). And oh man, Hector goes into the barn where Chase is and shoots that boy through his hand. Ouch! But he didn't break, good man. I think his knowledge that help was not far away, and that Jack really hadn't betrayed him was what kept him strong. Otherwise I bet he would have broken quickly if not for that.
Sergio, Claudia's little brother who idolizes hector nearly blows her plan to escape by telling Hector that Claudia told him to be ready to go. But she covers nicely and Hector is appeased. Phew! Silly kid. Meanwhile, Jack hurriedly tells her he's got to go after the virus but that there are military teams nearby if she can manage to get herself, her father, brother, and Chase out of there. Man I'd be scared to death to attempt anything like an escape. I felt Claudia's desire to escape and keep her family safe is what helped her overcome her fear.
Ramon of course is still wary of trusting Jack to go after Nina alone, so he refuses to let Jack out of his sight when the call comes in from Gael about Amador's whereabouts. He and Jack leave alone to try and isolate Nina when she meets Amador to get the virus. Hector plops down in a chair in the farmhouse and rests which gives Claudia her one shot. She finds her father and tells him to disable all of the trucks and be ready to go. She then goes to the barn, knocks out a guard with his own gun (you GO girl!) and walks in telling the torturers that Hector thinks Chase will talk to her. This is after they poured gasoline on his bullethole. *shudder*. But Claudia slips him a knife and together they kill the man torturing him, take his cell phone and run for her father's truck. Her father was waiting in it with Sergio. Claudia and Chase are lying down in the bed of the truck under some cover, but still, some henchmen stop Claudia's father before he can drive off and they don't look like they're buying his story. So Chase pops up and shoots them, which alerts Hector and there's a fabulous shootout as they get the hell out of there.
Phew!
But they make it away safely. Except that when Chase tries to tell Claudia thank you for helping him escape, he sees she's been hit by a stray bullet. Claudia is dead. Argh!! The first major death of the season and it's a doozy in terms of what this will do to Jack. From what I could tell from previous episodes, Jack might have actually fallen in love with Claudia. Her death is going to be devastating to him I think.
But at this point in time he's got his hands full with Nina. He has managed to track her to an abandoned church where she has just met with Amador. Amador told her that he would contact her in the next half an hour with the location of the virus and Nina's a little pissy at having to jump through hoops to get at it. But then Amador and his goons leave and Nina's alone with her own goons whom Jack manages to take out - all but one anyway. He has Nina at gunpoint again, but not for long. The extra goon Jack didn't see pops up allowing Nina to knock Jack out with her briefcase. When he wakes up, he's cuffed to a chair and Nina's trying to suss him and his motives out.
The exchanges between them were pretty intense. Nina wants to know if Jack can forgive her for killing Teri. Jack says repeatedly he just wants to get his cash and disappear. He tells her that the Salazars will pay her 10 times her 2 million dollar fee for this deal, and that he's a fugitive now anyway for breaking Ramon out of prison. She was able to confirm this, but she needs further convincing. So she kneels before him, runs her hands up his thighs and asks him to convince her he's over Teri's death. The final scene the kiss heard round the 'net. I don't know whether to be turned on or disgusted by it. I know why Jack had to kiss her - the stakes are high, lives hanging in the balance etc. - But... it's Nina.. and I don't think I can forgive her for killing Teri. Oh how filled with revulsion Jack must have been...
What an episode. Now we have to wait two weeks for the next one. Thanks Bush. Can't tell us what you're up to on a fecking Wednesday? Geesh.
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