Wednesday, April 21, 2004
7am - 8am
Well here it is, the day after, and I'm still feeling as though last night's show was more of a transitional show to move the story along. But that's okay. That's not a bad thing because it was still pretty kickass and I'm going to try not to compare to episode 18.
So we opened with Jack staring at Ryan's body. Yep, he is most definitely dead. *moment of silence for friend-less hero Ryan Chappelle*.... You know, I bet Jack doesn't have many friends either. I can't imagine him coming home from a day like this one and stopping off at Albertson's to pick up hot dogs for a barbecue with the neighbours at the weekend. But at least he has Kim......
As Jack stands over the body, Saunders' thugs pull up in the unmarked black van and proceed to check him for tracking devices. Jack stands facing them in classic Jack-and-his-gun pose that I love so very much. One of the thugs stands in much the same pose but doesn't look nearly as cool as Jack. They leave with the body and Jack hurries back to the chopper to head back to CTU. As he flies back he calls Palmer to inform him that the deed is done. Palmer's pissed off and does not want to continue down this road of caving in to Saunders' demands. He asks Wayne to convene the cabinet. (About time too.)
Back at CTU the techs discover a thread Ryan was working up 'on his own'. Why he didn't mention it to Jack during the scramble to save his life remains to be seen, but we find out that Saunders has a daughter. A nineteen year old student at UC Santa Barbara named Jane. When Jack calls in to CTU to inform Tony about Chappelle he learns about this and correctly assumes Saunders will have someone watching Jane so he suggests trying to find a look-alike agent to swap her with while Jane is interrogated. Chloe gets right on it. But uh-oh... The only viable look-alike is Kim. You can tell Tony is not happy about having to tell Jack he needs to send his daughter into the field. Kim is informed about the need to use her but Tony, very benignly I thought, tells her that the choice is hers. He won't order her to do it. Kim bravely agrees. Yes I said bravely. I'd be scared to death to do something so risky - but especially knowing my father is going to go ballistic when he finds out.
As of this moment in the hour the agents are also working on tracking Cole who's out and about infecting as he goes. Cole's nose is bleeding profusely so he goes to a pharmacy, bumps into a lady there and infects everyone with whom he comes into contact. Don't forget that once a person becomes symptomatic, they are extremely contagious. Chase has interrogated Cole's wife who realises her hubby was out cheating on her and voices her opinion that she hopes he dies. She's going to get her wish methinks. But alas, so will she because she was around him when he began to bleed.
As Kim prepares to head for Santa Barbara, Chloe gets a little bitchy about Kim getting sent out in the field. I'm getting the distinct impression that Chloe is going to lose it at some point in the next few hours. She keeps making comments such as 'This thing is out of control.' and looking increasingly more worried. I wonder if she'll go into panic mode and botch something up.
Jack returns and asks Tony for an update on the look-alike. When he finds out Kim's the one, man-oh-man does he go ballistic. Poor post-surgery Tony gets knocked around the room by a furious Jack who refuses to let her go into the field. But Tony's got some cajones because he won't back down. Kim works for him, not Jack and it was her decision to go through with it. So Jack barges into the room where Kim is being briefed and manhandles everyone but her out of the room. I haven't seen Jack this pissed for a while now. I think I like it *flashes her SFU card :)*
Jack informs Kim that he will not allow her to go through with this. He tells her, quite forcefully as he pushes her against the wall that he put her at CTU to keep her safe. But Kim tearfully tells her father that she took the job because she wanted it. That she feels it's her decision - her duty to do as she's asked. This was such a good scene, I enjoyed it immensely. Jack can't think of anything to stop his daughter. He has no choice but to let her, but heaven help anyone who might tell him he can't head the mission.
When she's through being prepped, Jack escorts her onto the helicopter pad and tells her to keep her head down as much as possible and stay at least 10 feet behind the counter of the library where Jane Saunders works. He hands her a gun and they board the chopper. Kind of eerie to think this is the same chopper Chappelle was sitting in just a half an hour earlier. And you know, I've been to Santa Barbara and L.A. and I can't recall how far away they are from each other. I know in 24-land distances are shorter and as a fan one must be willing to suspend disbelief now and again, but it didn't seem to take long to fly to UCSB. But I shall fanwank it if they did fusge that a little. It matters not in the grander scheme of the show.
While they are en route, Palmer addresses his cabinet and catches them up on the events at the Chandler. Why haven't they been told before now I wonder? There was a feeling of stunned horror when they were told that the President has already given in to 2 of Saunders' demands. But Palmer waves off the talk of never negotiating by explaining that he was trying to buy time for CTU to find Saunders. He had no choice but to order Chapelle's death because it could prevent, or at least delay the deaths of millions. He then asks his staff to open up all of their files so that CTU has everything they might need at their disposal.
At CTU, Chloe asks Tony about something regarding Chapelle's 3pm briefing and Tony takes that moment to tell the staff that Ryan has been killed in the line of duty. He doesn't go into detail, but you can see how shocked everyone is. He may not have been liked, but it's still disheartening to lose on of your own. This makes me ponder whether the staff will ever know that Jack killed him. I don't think that would be announced, but eventually, assuming Jack lives through all of this, he will have to be debriefed and surely it would come out then. Would he be vilified for what he had to do?
Anyway, Chase calls in and learns that Kim's out in the field, which pisses him off, but methinks Chase is getting a bit uppity lately. Maybe sort of cocky. I don't know how he ranks in the organization but he doesn't seem to be leery of piping in his opinion without knowing the facts first. Maybe when he learns of Ryan's death and the manner in which it took place he'll learn that he lives on a need-to-know basis and to keep his mouth shut. I'm not dissing Chase because I like him, but the past couple of hours he's gotten a little cocky.
By this time our contagious cheating husband has found his way to an Urgent Care Center (later we learn the address of it and I swear I heard Tony say Something and Morepark - er however it's spelled. Could it be the very same Urgent Care Center where Jack ripped open a man to get a chip only to find himself in the basement of it getting tortured minutes later? I think it might be!) and after a while the staff behind the desk cops onto who he is and he's quickly isolated. But not before he's infected everyone he's come into contact with in the waiting room. Once CTU learns he's been caught, we learn the 'ripple effect' of the fact that he was out wandering the streets in his condition. It's entirely possible that CTU now has to deal with an outbreak.
Now we visit Saunders who receives verification that Chappelle is indeed dead (told you!) Saunders tells a flunky to be sure that Jane is kept in sight constantly because the next few hours are crucial to his plans apparently. He then rings Palmer. Now we get to learn about his 'main event' and his motives (maybe). Seems he wants to 'cleanse' America and prevent further American atrocities by dismantling military operations around the world. I nicked that bit of info from FOX because I'll admit this part of the episode was a bit unclear to me. Saunders said 'The world hates America.' I know that much. Well *I* could have told Palmer that. So Saunders tells Palmer instead and then demands he be given a list of foreign nationals working covertly as spies in their own countries. The list is to be transmitted via the web at the site called sylviaimports.com. (Go ahead, click it :) ). And like I said a post or so ago, the domain is registered to Rodney Charters :) Saunders gives Palmer an hour to comply or he'll release 2 vials of virus.
Jack and Kim land at UCSB and Kim gets into hair and makeup. Other agents have already set up a staging area on campus and are ready for them to arrive. As Kim is made up to look like Jane, Jack gets a little touchy about the shade of the wig Kim is wearing. I can feel his angst at letting his daughter do this. He wants nothing to go wrong and every little detail counts. But there's nothing they can do about the wig. Soon Kim is positioned inside the library bathroom, ready for the swap. An agent spills a drink on Jane, forcing her to go into the bathroom to clean up. She's chloroformed, her clothes are switched with Kim's and Kim heads back out into the library, followed very closely by CTU surveillance. She does pretty well and is soon situated behind a computer and out of site of people in the library - one of whom could be Jane's bodyguard.
While Kim seems to be relatively okay, Jack leaves the monitor to the other agents and goes to interrogate Jane. And what I would have given to be Jane Saunders at this point in time. Phwoar. He wakes her up with the old smelling salt trick (do those things really smell that bad?) and Jane is frightened (understandably.) She's handcuffed to a chair alone in a room with Jack. Oh god I think I just had an orgasm. He asks her to tell him where her father is and of course, she says she doesn't know. They barely speak. They just have dinner twice a year and he sends money. And of course Jack does not believe her. She he lays it all out for her. Everything her father is doing, and very menacingly tells her that there will be no lawyers today. It's just him, and her. *shiver*
Unfortunately, they are interrupted. A man with a red shirt is trying to get Kim to help him and this man is one the agents had been wary of. So Jack goes out to monitor Kim again and has her step away from the desk and go put some books away on the shelf as another library staff member helps the man with the red shirt. As Kim sort of hides in the stacks, the surveillance camera pans away from her and they're unable to see her. It's just then that she's grabbed by Jane's bodyguard and dragged out of the library. In a flash Jack's out of the surveillance room and running across the campus towards the library. Before he gets to it, Kim has managed to knock the guy's gun out of his hand and pull out her own. During their struggle there is a gunshot and the guy goes down (oh for a split second we're left to wonder if it was Kim who was shot, but no it wasn't. Ha ha faked us out :)
As Jack calls for help with the guy, Kim says to Jack, "Saunders is going to know we have his daughter." Tick boom, tick boom.
Phew!! See? Lie I said a hell of a lot of exposition, mixed with some action, angst, and anger. Good stuff!
So we opened with Jack staring at Ryan's body. Yep, he is most definitely dead. *moment of silence for friend-less hero Ryan Chappelle*.... You know, I bet Jack doesn't have many friends either. I can't imagine him coming home from a day like this one and stopping off at Albertson's to pick up hot dogs for a barbecue with the neighbours at the weekend. But at least he has Kim......
As Jack stands over the body, Saunders' thugs pull up in the unmarked black van and proceed to check him for tracking devices. Jack stands facing them in classic Jack-and-his-gun pose that I love so very much. One of the thugs stands in much the same pose but doesn't look nearly as cool as Jack. They leave with the body and Jack hurries back to the chopper to head back to CTU. As he flies back he calls Palmer to inform him that the deed is done. Palmer's pissed off and does not want to continue down this road of caving in to Saunders' demands. He asks Wayne to convene the cabinet. (About time too.)
Back at CTU the techs discover a thread Ryan was working up 'on his own'. Why he didn't mention it to Jack during the scramble to save his life remains to be seen, but we find out that Saunders has a daughter. A nineteen year old student at UC Santa Barbara named Jane. When Jack calls in to CTU to inform Tony about Chappelle he learns about this and correctly assumes Saunders will have someone watching Jane so he suggests trying to find a look-alike agent to swap her with while Jane is interrogated. Chloe gets right on it. But uh-oh... The only viable look-alike is Kim. You can tell Tony is not happy about having to tell Jack he needs to send his daughter into the field. Kim is informed about the need to use her but Tony, very benignly I thought, tells her that the choice is hers. He won't order her to do it. Kim bravely agrees. Yes I said bravely. I'd be scared to death to do something so risky - but especially knowing my father is going to go ballistic when he finds out.
As of this moment in the hour the agents are also working on tracking Cole who's out and about infecting as he goes. Cole's nose is bleeding profusely so he goes to a pharmacy, bumps into a lady there and infects everyone with whom he comes into contact. Don't forget that once a person becomes symptomatic, they are extremely contagious. Chase has interrogated Cole's wife who realises her hubby was out cheating on her and voices her opinion that she hopes he dies. She's going to get her wish methinks. But alas, so will she because she was around him when he began to bleed.
As Kim prepares to head for Santa Barbara, Chloe gets a little bitchy about Kim getting sent out in the field. I'm getting the distinct impression that Chloe is going to lose it at some point in the next few hours. She keeps making comments such as 'This thing is out of control.' and looking increasingly more worried. I wonder if she'll go into panic mode and botch something up.
Jack returns and asks Tony for an update on the look-alike. When he finds out Kim's the one, man-oh-man does he go ballistic. Poor post-surgery Tony gets knocked around the room by a furious Jack who refuses to let her go into the field. But Tony's got some cajones because he won't back down. Kim works for him, not Jack and it was her decision to go through with it. So Jack barges into the room where Kim is being briefed and manhandles everyone but her out of the room. I haven't seen Jack this pissed for a while now. I think I like it *flashes her SFU card :)*
Jack informs Kim that he will not allow her to go through with this. He tells her, quite forcefully as he pushes her against the wall that he put her at CTU to keep her safe. But Kim tearfully tells her father that she took the job because she wanted it. That she feels it's her decision - her duty to do as she's asked. This was such a good scene, I enjoyed it immensely. Jack can't think of anything to stop his daughter. He has no choice but to let her, but heaven help anyone who might tell him he can't head the mission.
When she's through being prepped, Jack escorts her onto the helicopter pad and tells her to keep her head down as much as possible and stay at least 10 feet behind the counter of the library where Jane Saunders works. He hands her a gun and they board the chopper. Kind of eerie to think this is the same chopper Chappelle was sitting in just a half an hour earlier. And you know, I've been to Santa Barbara and L.A. and I can't recall how far away they are from each other. I know in 24-land distances are shorter and as a fan one must be willing to suspend disbelief now and again, but it didn't seem to take long to fly to UCSB. But I shall fanwank it if they did fusge that a little. It matters not in the grander scheme of the show.
While they are en route, Palmer addresses his cabinet and catches them up on the events at the Chandler. Why haven't they been told before now I wonder? There was a feeling of stunned horror when they were told that the President has already given in to 2 of Saunders' demands. But Palmer waves off the talk of never negotiating by explaining that he was trying to buy time for CTU to find Saunders. He had no choice but to order Chapelle's death because it could prevent, or at least delay the deaths of millions. He then asks his staff to open up all of their files so that CTU has everything they might need at their disposal.
At CTU, Chloe asks Tony about something regarding Chapelle's 3pm briefing and Tony takes that moment to tell the staff that Ryan has been killed in the line of duty. He doesn't go into detail, but you can see how shocked everyone is. He may not have been liked, but it's still disheartening to lose on of your own. This makes me ponder whether the staff will ever know that Jack killed him. I don't think that would be announced, but eventually, assuming Jack lives through all of this, he will have to be debriefed and surely it would come out then. Would he be vilified for what he had to do?
Anyway, Chase calls in and learns that Kim's out in the field, which pisses him off, but methinks Chase is getting a bit uppity lately. Maybe sort of cocky. I don't know how he ranks in the organization but he doesn't seem to be leery of piping in his opinion without knowing the facts first. Maybe when he learns of Ryan's death and the manner in which it took place he'll learn that he lives on a need-to-know basis and to keep his mouth shut. I'm not dissing Chase because I like him, but the past couple of hours he's gotten a little cocky.
By this time our contagious cheating husband has found his way to an Urgent Care Center (later we learn the address of it and I swear I heard Tony say Something and Morepark - er however it's spelled. Could it be the very same Urgent Care Center where Jack ripped open a man to get a chip only to find himself in the basement of it getting tortured minutes later? I think it might be!) and after a while the staff behind the desk cops onto who he is and he's quickly isolated. But not before he's infected everyone he's come into contact with in the waiting room. Once CTU learns he's been caught, we learn the 'ripple effect' of the fact that he was out wandering the streets in his condition. It's entirely possible that CTU now has to deal with an outbreak.
Now we visit Saunders who receives verification that Chappelle is indeed dead (told you!) Saunders tells a flunky to be sure that Jane is kept in sight constantly because the next few hours are crucial to his plans apparently. He then rings Palmer. Now we get to learn about his 'main event' and his motives (maybe). Seems he wants to 'cleanse' America and prevent further American atrocities by dismantling military operations around the world. I nicked that bit of info from FOX because I'll admit this part of the episode was a bit unclear to me. Saunders said 'The world hates America.' I know that much. Well *I* could have told Palmer that. So Saunders tells Palmer instead and then demands he be given a list of foreign nationals working covertly as spies in their own countries. The list is to be transmitted via the web at the site called sylviaimports.com. (Go ahead, click it :) ). And like I said a post or so ago, the domain is registered to Rodney Charters :) Saunders gives Palmer an hour to comply or he'll release 2 vials of virus.
Jack and Kim land at UCSB and Kim gets into hair and makeup. Other agents have already set up a staging area on campus and are ready for them to arrive. As Kim is made up to look like Jane, Jack gets a little touchy about the shade of the wig Kim is wearing. I can feel his angst at letting his daughter do this. He wants nothing to go wrong and every little detail counts. But there's nothing they can do about the wig. Soon Kim is positioned inside the library bathroom, ready for the swap. An agent spills a drink on Jane, forcing her to go into the bathroom to clean up. She's chloroformed, her clothes are switched with Kim's and Kim heads back out into the library, followed very closely by CTU surveillance. She does pretty well and is soon situated behind a computer and out of site of people in the library - one of whom could be Jane's bodyguard.
While Kim seems to be relatively okay, Jack leaves the monitor to the other agents and goes to interrogate Jane. And what I would have given to be Jane Saunders at this point in time. Phwoar. He wakes her up with the old smelling salt trick (do those things really smell that bad?) and Jane is frightened (understandably.) She's handcuffed to a chair alone in a room with Jack. Oh god I think I just had an orgasm. He asks her to tell him where her father is and of course, she says she doesn't know. They barely speak. They just have dinner twice a year and he sends money. And of course Jack does not believe her. She he lays it all out for her. Everything her father is doing, and very menacingly tells her that there will be no lawyers today. It's just him, and her. *shiver*
Unfortunately, they are interrupted. A man with a red shirt is trying to get Kim to help him and this man is one the agents had been wary of. So Jack goes out to monitor Kim again and has her step away from the desk and go put some books away on the shelf as another library staff member helps the man with the red shirt. As Kim sort of hides in the stacks, the surveillance camera pans away from her and they're unable to see her. It's just then that she's grabbed by Jane's bodyguard and dragged out of the library. In a flash Jack's out of the surveillance room and running across the campus towards the library. Before he gets to it, Kim has managed to knock the guy's gun out of his hand and pull out her own. During their struggle there is a gunshot and the guy goes down (oh for a split second we're left to wonder if it was Kim who was shot, but no it wasn't. Ha ha faked us out :)
As Jack calls for help with the guy, Kim says to Jack, "Saunders is going to know we have his daughter." Tick boom, tick boom.
Phew!! See? Lie I said a hell of a lot of exposition, mixed with some action, angst, and anger. Good stuff!
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