Tuesday, January 27, 2004
11pm - 12am
I feel like there was a lot of information in this hour. I hope I can remember it all :) I think my favourite bit from this hour was Nina telling Jack, after quite a long snog, that she could still feel he was lying. That he would do anything to pull this off. Then Jack just had this look on his face... I can't describe it... It was like desperation mixed with revulsion with a little bit of passion thrown in. Then he leaned in and kissed her again in one last attempt to convince her. Then she pulled back and said some things that honestly I can't remember because my mind was still picturing myself in Nina's shoes letting Jack convince me. Well, until Jack headbutted Nina. Then I let her have her shoes back. Whatever she said, it must have pissed him off because he got her pretty good and knocked her flat on her back over a pile of wood. He flung himself backwards and broke up the chair he was cuffed to, grabbed a board and proceeded to explain to Nina that she was going to help him make this deal for the Salazar's whether she believed him or not.
So that took place near the beginning of the hour. We opened at CTU with Tony briefing the agents on the situation, and that Jack is going to attempt to work with the second buyer. Then Adam totally blew it by letting it slip, in front of Kim, that the second buyer is Nina. Kim is shocked. To say the least. So Tony takes her aside and apologises for not telling her sooner. He just couldn't find the right way to do it. A very shaken Kim tells Tony that there is no way her father could stand working with her again. Cut to that excruciatingly repulsive-yet-somehow-very-hot kiss. When we come back to CTU after Jack has cuffed Nina and called Ramon to come back to the church, Kim goes to Tony again and has a bit of a breakdown I think. She's visibly upset about the Nina development and Tony seems genuinely sympathetic. Why wouldn't he be? He was the one seeing Nina when she turned traitor. Anyway, Kim asks Tony to promise her Nina will come to justice when this is all over. Tony doesn't get to answer right away because Chloe (yay Chloe!) buzzes looking for Kim. As Kim leaves, he tells her he'll do his best (or something along those lines. I think my mind's still on the kiss/headbutt.)
So Kim goes to see what Chloe wants. This made me giggle and I'm digging having some bizarrely weird laughs on this so-serious of shows. I've read a lot of people around the Net aren't too pleased with Chloe having a child. I bet some of them are feeling kind of justified now since they predicted that soon Kim would be babysitting the kidlet. That is exactly what Chloe does: dump the ickle baby onto Kim and disappears off to do her work leaving Kim quite bewildered.
*phew!* I think I'm only about ten minutes into the show and I haven't even done Palmer yet.
Well, Wayne has just gone from hardass to dumbass in just a few hours. Earlier in the day he was all about getting David re-elected and playing holier-than-thou when it came to Anne's 'mess' when he himself wasn't so squeeky clean. So on top of him meeting the woman he slept with in some cocktail bar/restaurant - and kissing her there, he called this bastard Milliken in a pretty pathetic attempt to fix his own 'mess'. Milliken tells Wayne the stranglehold on David's healthcare bill will go away if he just resigns. Wayne says David won't let him. David comes in during the call and words are exchanged. Basically they're saying to us that it's about to get dirty.
Thank goodness Sherry's back then. Who better to deal with the dirty? Before I get to Sherry, I just want to say that I love getting to see Aaron the secret service agent/doorman now and then. His scenes with Palmer in Season Two, when he helped David get a phone were some of my favourites. Okay that said, Aaron announces Sherry's here and she slinks into David's office like a coquette. Small talk, small talk, small talk. We learn that David kept Sherry's role in the nuclear bomb out of the headlines and her out of prison (ahhhh), but now David needs her to play dirty as only she knows how to do. Sherry can be anything David wants her to be, she tells him. Ooooer.
Sherry knows Milliken's skeletons very well and knows which one to rattle so she gets right to work. But as she waits for a free office to use, Wayne comes in to see her. I rather enjoyed the sparks between them. It was like a bitchfight without the claws and hair pulling. I think we're to infer that they don't get on very well because Wayner wants her to leave. But Sherry has her own agenda...
I'm still not even halfway through the show.
So while all of the above was going on, Chase, Claudia's father and her brother were picked up by chopper. The agents on board informed Chase that they spotted a vehicle heading in their direction and they assumed it would be Hector and they had to get out of there right away or risk being spotted. So they had no time to load Claudia's body into the helicopter and had to leave it in the bed of the truck. not too long after they take off, Hector pulls up to the abandoned truck and finds Claudia dead. He sends a few of his men off to look for Chase but knows it's too dark. Then he called Ramon, who by now is at the church with Jack and Nina, and you can just hear the beginnings of panic enter his voice. Claudia's death combined with Chase's escape is too much for him and he's beginning to get cold feet about the deal. He tells Ramon about Claudia and tries to convince Ramon to call the whole thing off. Unfortunately there's just too much at stake now. The buyers Hector lined up will be expecting the virus and if they don't deliver, their reputations will be bogus. So Ramon orders Hector to come to their location. Reluctantly, Hector goes.
As Ramon hangs up the phone, he tells Jack that Chase escaped and that Claudia is dead. ... Poor Jack. God that was a very intense moment there. Kiefer said so much without saying a freaking word. In those two or three seconds I believed Jack was devastated by the news, that he wanted to say something, anything to alleviate the pain and shock. but he knew he couldn't. He had to hold it together. There's so much at stake. Amazing that I could absorb all of those emotions from such a brief, silent moment or two. Kiefer, you are amazing. And to the writers, every episode just ratchets up the tension until I think it couldn't possibly get any worse and my nerves are so taut by the end of the hour. I love it.
I digress. As Jack internalizes the shock of Claudia's death, Nina is watching him intently. The look on her face tells me that she's calculating. She's wondering who Claudia is. She knows Jack better than Ramon does and I think she can tell that the information Jack just received hurt him. And she's trying to work out how she can use that to slither out of this whole thing. But she doesn't get much time to ponder it because Jack makes her come over to a laptop and set up access for Amador so that he can verify the funds. More Whatever Technology (tm TWoP) :) After that, Nina tries to convince Ramon that Jack is still working for CTU when Jack's not looking but Ramon says, 'Do you think we are stupid?' I hope he wasn't expecting an answer to that.
Soon Amador does call, verifies the funds and then tells Nina they will meet at an abandoned mine in just over an hour and make the exchange. Unbeknownst to Amador, CTU has a lock on his phone, and is tracking him via satellite. But they can't bust him without verification that he has the virus and they can't get that verification without Jack. So Chase and all the other agents are twiddling their thumbs waiting for intel. Well Chase isn't twiddling his thumbs because he has a gaping hole in one of his hands, but there you go. But he is pestering the lead agent and telling him that he's not leaving to seek medical attention. Unbeknownst to Ramon, Jack has nicked the cell phone and places a one way call to CTU. By this time Hector has arrived and after seeing Nina cuffed, he begins to lose his cool. Hector takes Ramon aside and argues that they should call off the deal. Odd how the situation has changed. Just a few hours ago it was Hector who had to practically beg Ramon to go through with it. Now Ramon is all set to deal, and he has to practically order his little brother to shut up and go through with it. Jack interrupts their argument, with the phone hidden in his pocket and tells them that the mine is a ways away and they need to get going. Now CTU knows where they're heading.
Just a little more to cover now :)
Back in Palmerland, Sherry's been doing her thang and soon after she gets started, Milliken calls David and makes more threats. From the way he was talking, I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps it isn't so farfetched that he's connected to this virus thing. He's pretty pissed off and evil-ish. All over a woman. Sheesh. Then again, as I've said before, I suck at speculation so I'll leave it at that. David asks Sherry what she's up to, but she can't or won't tell him what she's doing just yet. I'm also wondering if David's bringing Sherry into this isn't really a catalyst into just making everything worse. What if whatever she's doing only pisses Milliken off more and goads him into getting the virus and releasing it. That's if he's connected... I just can't help feeling that bringing Sherry in is one of those things that seemed like a good solution at the time but ends up only making matters worse somehow. We'll just have to see.
A brief sojourn back to CTU and we find Kim trying to shush the crying kidlet. Chloe returns and asks Kim what she did to the baby. Just at that moment, Chapelle and Tony hear the baby crying. Chapelle is livid and orders Chloe's suspension. But Michelle tells him that they just don't have anyone who can work the monitoring for the op in Mexico as well as Chloe can. Exasperated, Chapelle looks at Chloe, then looks at Kim, and then orders Kim to look after the baby. Oh dear.
Ooookay now. Chase has bugged the guy in charge enough to let him run point on observation at the mine in order to confirm the virus. Jack, Nina, Ramon, Hector and assorted flunkies set off for the mine so that they can position some flunkies around the area in case things go wrong. It's only supposed to be Nina going in to get the virus remember, so the Salazar boys can't be seen. They arrive at another abandoned building and Hector is even more antsy and irritable. As the time draws near they must get going and get into position but Hector decides to stand up to Ramon. He's had enough. The deal is getting too dangerous. The argument heats up between the brothers Salazar as Nina and Jack look on. Finally Hector orders his men to leave with him. As he turns to the door, Ramon tries one more time to to make Hector do as he's told. He fails. So he pulls out his gun and kills Hector. His own brother whom he loved like a.. well like a brother.
I told you it was a lot to take in this hour. I have to say that I believe this was kind of a filler episode but leave it to these guys to make exposition intense and emotional. I thought this was a fantastic hour and I canNOT wait until next week. I'll also say that remaining spoiler-free for this hour was SO worth it. I enjoyed it a lot more not knowing what to expect..
I know this is a long long entry, but I just wanted to mention that I did watch the live webcast after the show. Overall, it was pretty good, but I did feel a bit letdown because they only did one audience question, one email, and one phone call. They aired for 15 minutes, much of which was spent listening to the hostess blather on and on and waste time asking her own questions. Penny and Howard were great guests though and I did learn a few nifty things. FOX is archiving the mini-show for a week so if you missed it, you should be able to go to the FOX site and view it.
Enough from me. Great show. Fingers hurt. Time for bedfordshire. Gnight!
So that took place near the beginning of the hour. We opened at CTU with Tony briefing the agents on the situation, and that Jack is going to attempt to work with the second buyer. Then Adam totally blew it by letting it slip, in front of Kim, that the second buyer is Nina. Kim is shocked. To say the least. So Tony takes her aside and apologises for not telling her sooner. He just couldn't find the right way to do it. A very shaken Kim tells Tony that there is no way her father could stand working with her again. Cut to that excruciatingly repulsive-yet-somehow-very-hot kiss. When we come back to CTU after Jack has cuffed Nina and called Ramon to come back to the church, Kim goes to Tony again and has a bit of a breakdown I think. She's visibly upset about the Nina development and Tony seems genuinely sympathetic. Why wouldn't he be? He was the one seeing Nina when she turned traitor. Anyway, Kim asks Tony to promise her Nina will come to justice when this is all over. Tony doesn't get to answer right away because Chloe (yay Chloe!) buzzes looking for Kim. As Kim leaves, he tells her he'll do his best (or something along those lines. I think my mind's still on the kiss/headbutt.)
So Kim goes to see what Chloe wants. This made me giggle and I'm digging having some bizarrely weird laughs on this so-serious of shows. I've read a lot of people around the Net aren't too pleased with Chloe having a child. I bet some of them are feeling kind of justified now since they predicted that soon Kim would be babysitting the kidlet. That is exactly what Chloe does: dump the ickle baby onto Kim and disappears off to do her work leaving Kim quite bewildered.
*phew!* I think I'm only about ten minutes into the show and I haven't even done Palmer yet.
Well, Wayne has just gone from hardass to dumbass in just a few hours. Earlier in the day he was all about getting David re-elected and playing holier-than-thou when it came to Anne's 'mess' when he himself wasn't so squeeky clean. So on top of him meeting the woman he slept with in some cocktail bar/restaurant - and kissing her there, he called this bastard Milliken in a pretty pathetic attempt to fix his own 'mess'. Milliken tells Wayne the stranglehold on David's healthcare bill will go away if he just resigns. Wayne says David won't let him. David comes in during the call and words are exchanged. Basically they're saying to us that it's about to get dirty.
Thank goodness Sherry's back then. Who better to deal with the dirty? Before I get to Sherry, I just want to say that I love getting to see Aaron the secret service agent/doorman now and then. His scenes with Palmer in Season Two, when he helped David get a phone were some of my favourites. Okay that said, Aaron announces Sherry's here and she slinks into David's office like a coquette. Small talk, small talk, small talk. We learn that David kept Sherry's role in the nuclear bomb out of the headlines and her out of prison (ahhhh), but now David needs her to play dirty as only she knows how to do. Sherry can be anything David wants her to be, she tells him. Ooooer.
Sherry knows Milliken's skeletons very well and knows which one to rattle so she gets right to work. But as she waits for a free office to use, Wayne comes in to see her. I rather enjoyed the sparks between them. It was like a bitchfight without the claws and hair pulling. I think we're to infer that they don't get on very well because Wayner wants her to leave. But Sherry has her own agenda...
I'm still not even halfway through the show.
So while all of the above was going on, Chase, Claudia's father and her brother were picked up by chopper. The agents on board informed Chase that they spotted a vehicle heading in their direction and they assumed it would be Hector and they had to get out of there right away or risk being spotted. So they had no time to load Claudia's body into the helicopter and had to leave it in the bed of the truck. not too long after they take off, Hector pulls up to the abandoned truck and finds Claudia dead. He sends a few of his men off to look for Chase but knows it's too dark. Then he called Ramon, who by now is at the church with Jack and Nina, and you can just hear the beginnings of panic enter his voice. Claudia's death combined with Chase's escape is too much for him and he's beginning to get cold feet about the deal. He tells Ramon about Claudia and tries to convince Ramon to call the whole thing off. Unfortunately there's just too much at stake now. The buyers Hector lined up will be expecting the virus and if they don't deliver, their reputations will be bogus. So Ramon orders Hector to come to their location. Reluctantly, Hector goes.
As Ramon hangs up the phone, he tells Jack that Chase escaped and that Claudia is dead. ... Poor Jack. God that was a very intense moment there. Kiefer said so much without saying a freaking word. In those two or three seconds I believed Jack was devastated by the news, that he wanted to say something, anything to alleviate the pain and shock. but he knew he couldn't. He had to hold it together. There's so much at stake. Amazing that I could absorb all of those emotions from such a brief, silent moment or two. Kiefer, you are amazing. And to the writers, every episode just ratchets up the tension until I think it couldn't possibly get any worse and my nerves are so taut by the end of the hour. I love it.
I digress. As Jack internalizes the shock of Claudia's death, Nina is watching him intently. The look on her face tells me that she's calculating. She's wondering who Claudia is. She knows Jack better than Ramon does and I think she can tell that the information Jack just received hurt him. And she's trying to work out how she can use that to slither out of this whole thing. But she doesn't get much time to ponder it because Jack makes her come over to a laptop and set up access for Amador so that he can verify the funds. More Whatever Technology (tm TWoP) :) After that, Nina tries to convince Ramon that Jack is still working for CTU when Jack's not looking but Ramon says, 'Do you think we are stupid?' I hope he wasn't expecting an answer to that.
Soon Amador does call, verifies the funds and then tells Nina they will meet at an abandoned mine in just over an hour and make the exchange. Unbeknownst to Amador, CTU has a lock on his phone, and is tracking him via satellite. But they can't bust him without verification that he has the virus and they can't get that verification without Jack. So Chase and all the other agents are twiddling their thumbs waiting for intel. Well Chase isn't twiddling his thumbs because he has a gaping hole in one of his hands, but there you go. But he is pestering the lead agent and telling him that he's not leaving to seek medical attention. Unbeknownst to Ramon, Jack has nicked the cell phone and places a one way call to CTU. By this time Hector has arrived and after seeing Nina cuffed, he begins to lose his cool. Hector takes Ramon aside and argues that they should call off the deal. Odd how the situation has changed. Just a few hours ago it was Hector who had to practically beg Ramon to go through with it. Now Ramon is all set to deal, and he has to practically order his little brother to shut up and go through with it. Jack interrupts their argument, with the phone hidden in his pocket and tells them that the mine is a ways away and they need to get going. Now CTU knows where they're heading.
Just a little more to cover now :)
Back in Palmerland, Sherry's been doing her thang and soon after she gets started, Milliken calls David and makes more threats. From the way he was talking, I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps it isn't so farfetched that he's connected to this virus thing. He's pretty pissed off and evil-ish. All over a woman. Sheesh. Then again, as I've said before, I suck at speculation so I'll leave it at that. David asks Sherry what she's up to, but she can't or won't tell him what she's doing just yet. I'm also wondering if David's bringing Sherry into this isn't really a catalyst into just making everything worse. What if whatever she's doing only pisses Milliken off more and goads him into getting the virus and releasing it. That's if he's connected... I just can't help feeling that bringing Sherry in is one of those things that seemed like a good solution at the time but ends up only making matters worse somehow. We'll just have to see.
A brief sojourn back to CTU and we find Kim trying to shush the crying kidlet. Chloe returns and asks Kim what she did to the baby. Just at that moment, Chapelle and Tony hear the baby crying. Chapelle is livid and orders Chloe's suspension. But Michelle tells him that they just don't have anyone who can work the monitoring for the op in Mexico as well as Chloe can. Exasperated, Chapelle looks at Chloe, then looks at Kim, and then orders Kim to look after the baby. Oh dear.
Ooookay now. Chase has bugged the guy in charge enough to let him run point on observation at the mine in order to confirm the virus. Jack, Nina, Ramon, Hector and assorted flunkies set off for the mine so that they can position some flunkies around the area in case things go wrong. It's only supposed to be Nina going in to get the virus remember, so the Salazar boys can't be seen. They arrive at another abandoned building and Hector is even more antsy and irritable. As the time draws near they must get going and get into position but Hector decides to stand up to Ramon. He's had enough. The deal is getting too dangerous. The argument heats up between the brothers Salazar as Nina and Jack look on. Finally Hector orders his men to leave with him. As he turns to the door, Ramon tries one more time to to make Hector do as he's told. He fails. So he pulls out his gun and kills Hector. His own brother whom he loved like a.. well like a brother.
I told you it was a lot to take in this hour. I have to say that I believe this was kind of a filler episode but leave it to these guys to make exposition intense and emotional. I thought this was a fantastic hour and I canNOT wait until next week. I'll also say that remaining spoiler-free for this hour was SO worth it. I enjoyed it a lot more not knowing what to expect..
I know this is a long long entry, but I just wanted to mention that I did watch the live webcast after the show. Overall, it was pretty good, but I did feel a bit letdown because they only did one audience question, one email, and one phone call. They aired for 15 minutes, much of which was spent listening to the hostess blather on and on and waste time asking her own questions. Penny and Howard were great guests though and I did learn a few nifty things. FOX is archiving the mini-show for a week so if you missed it, you should be able to go to the FOX site and view it.
Enough from me. Great show. Fingers hurt. Time for bedfordshire. Gnight!
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