Thursday, May 06, 2004
9am - 10am
First of all, apologies for the delay. I had intended to have this up yesterday but I woke up with a migraine and couldn't shake it all day. So that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Previously, on 24addict...
I was talking about how deliciously juicy Tony's dilemma has become. The true sign of an excellent story, television show or film is whether people are still talking about it after viewing it and the blowback (to use Sherry's favourite term) on Tony's decision during the last hour has been tremendous. Lines are being drawn in the sand and you either think Tony is treasonous, or you sympathize with his problem. You begin to wonder what will happen to everyone's favourite Cubs fan and how can he possibly extricate himself from this terrible mistake? Does he have a plan? He might given how quickly he was able to think on his feet to get Jane Saunders out of CTU.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. This hour was packed with stuff going on so let's get to it.
We began with Jack and the agents standing around outside Saunders' apartment waiting for him to come out - not yet realising that he's not there. Out of patience, Jack orders in the tear gas (as an aside, man that stuff is painfully nasty. Ugh.) Jack is somewhat shocked to see Agent Baker coming around to the front and asks him what he's doing there. Baker informs Jack that Tony called a code 9 and sent them all around. When jack calls Tony to confront him about his tactical error, Tony blames a staff error and the game of 'Cover Your Ass' begins.
After he hangs up with Jack, Tony disappears into Tech One (I'm starting to love this room. Wish I had toys like that, or at least one of those glow-in-the-dark keyboards) and deletes satellite images of Saunders taking off from the database. As he does this Saunders calls him demanding the release of his daughter or else Michelle will be killed - painfully. And while Tony is being threatened by Saunders, The President calls and interrupts. Tony takes his call and informs him that Saunders was not in the building and that they still don't have him. The President sternly tells Tony that he'd better make sure that Jane - their only link to getting Saunders - is kept guarded and safe.
Palmer then sees a clip of Senator Keeler (remember him?) on telly telling the press that he's confident in his handling of the debate and that losing endorsements (since it became evident that the President is truly dealing with a threat situation) means nothing. Wayne tells Palmer that they need to be thinking about what to do about Keeler but Palmer reminds him that now is not the time. Saunders and the Virus should be their only concern right now.
Once it's confirmed that Saunders is not in the building, Chase and Jack head back to CTU, puzzled and trying to work out how he could have gotten away. Jack confirms with Chloe that Saunders had indeed been in the building and I think at this point the vague idea is forming that Saunders could have help from inside CTU to get away.
As Chloe goes through the satellite imagery she notices the frames that are missing and begins to surmise that someone from within the agency deleted them - that it wasn't just a glitch in the program. She interrupts Adam's tearful conversation with his dying sister in a typical Chloe-like manner and while it may have seemed callous of her to pull him off that call, I do believe she actually felt bad that she had to do it. Something about her facial expression made me think that she did anyway.
Meanwhile, Kim and Jane have arrived back at CTU and Jane is whisked off to a holding room as opposed to a white room (call me ignorant here but I never did understand what a white room was in terms of interrogation. Any explanations would be appreciated :) Kim awaits Ray Plachecki (Placheki? I don't know, Polish names can be difficult.) who will be back to question her about the shooting of Saunders' thug in Santa Barbara. Remember she was at CTU earlier to question Jack about his drug use.
Tony steps into Jane's room and talks to Jane who's beginning to realise she's the government's only leverage against her father. She begins to feel afraid that she will be harmed as they threaten Saunders and she tells Tony that Jack scares her. I think if I were in her shoes Jack would scare me too. He just exudes badassness. But Tony assures her that she won't be harmed in any way. Just then, Saunders calls Tony demanding to speak to his daughter. But Tony won't let him until he's spoken to Michelle (who, by the way, has arrived at some sort of abandoned building and is bound and gagged to a chair there.) Saunders has the duct tape torn from her face (and you can even see the marks on Reiko's face after they do that. Ouch!) and she's allowed to say a few words to Tony. After she tells him she's being treated well, she desperately cries out not to 'do it' - "Don't do it!" she says. I'm guessing she means don't give in to Saunders' demands. But the phone is taken away and Tony is forced to put Jane on speaker. Saunders tells Jane not to believe what the government is telling her. But Jane is scared and shakily asks her father if it's true he's doing this thing with the virus. "I only do things for a good cause." he tells her. Chilling. I think Jane realised then that the government is right about him. Tony then picks up the phone and tells Saunders it will take a while to get Jane out. At this point I was wondering if he was really going to do it or just trying to buy some time.
Out on the floor, the uber-geeks have come to the conclusion that someone within Tony's group accessed and deleted those satellite images. When Adam informs Tony of this, he recommends a lockdown and Tony agrees. Then Dr. Macer calls from NHS to ask where Michelle is. Chloe takes the call and is puzzled. She asks Tony where Michelle could be and he tells her that he had her moved to a secret location where she can be quarantined but still do some work as necessary. He also tells her about a call he just received from Saunders and asks her to analyze it to try and locate him. He warns her, however, that the voice is scrambled and impossible to understand. He just wants her to concentrate on the signatures. And he sends her off to Tech One to do this because he doesn't want Adam to know about it for some reason.
Back at Keeler headquarters, amongst the campaign posters that look suspiciously like John Kerry's campaign posters, Keeler learns that Sherry Palmer's on her way over to see him with a proposal. Uh-oh. When she arrives it's all air kisses and niceties for a little bit, until she drops her bomb. She knows that Keeler's campaign is flailing and she has come to offer him a guaranteed win in November. She tells him that David is an accessory to murder - Milliken's murder. She tells Keeler the true events about what happened to Milliken, and offers proof - his pill bottle with prints on it. She explains that Palmer lied to the police chief about Sherry's involvement in order to protect her and she believes that if Keeler blackmails the President with this information, he will drop out of the race. Asked what she gets out of this, she replies that Keeler will place her in some sort of position on his white house staff. Sherry you bitch! Hell hath no fury I suppose, but damn that's cold.
Back at CTU, Jack and Chase have arrived and are brought up to speed on the satellite issue. Neither can believe there's someone else on the inside helping Saunders out, much less someone from Tony's group. Jack questions Tony about letting Division know about the possibility of a mole but Tony says he doesn't want to raise any red flags over there. So jack says he'll call Hammond about it but Tony says not to worry about it as he has a scheduled conference call set up with Hammond and will tell him himself. Which is totally bogus of course and jack is suspicious. So he has Adam confirm that Tony does NOT have a call set up with Hammond.
Around this time one of Saunders' backup tech flunkies (since he killed his other tech flunky) tells him CTU is trying to run a trace on his phone. After Michelle refuses to tell Saunders how CTU is doing it, he calls Tony, holds a knife to her face, slicing thinly and drawing a little blood until Tony gives in and says he'll stop the trace. So Tony commands Chloe to stop the trace. Just then Jack confronts Tony about his lie regarding the conference call and gets Tony to admit that he made a mistake and tried to cover it up. Not exactly true, but not far from the truth either. This whole chain of events is one big mistake he's trying to cover up. "I made a mistake." says Tony. "No, you made two mistakes." replies Jack. Then he informs Tony that he is taking over command of CTU. Defeated, Tony walks away.
Well defeated and now quite agitated and panicky, Tony calls Saunders to tell him Jack's now in charge of CTU. Saunders could care less really. Tony's only objective now is to get Jane out of the building or risk letting Michelle die a horrible death.
Jack knows Tony is still hiding something from him so he pulls Kim out of some conference room and has her begin monitoring everything. I didn't quite catch what she was supposed to be watching actually. I had thought she was watching exits. But then Tony listens in on a call from Jack to Adam as he has Adam send his files to Kim and asks him to send Chloe to his office. Tony then bypasses some kind of security thing (the Whatever Technology -TM TWoP- on the show baffles me sometimes) and locks Chloe in Tech One just after she informs him that she managed to descramble the voice on the phone call she was tracing.
Kim notifies Jack and Chase that Chloe hasn't refreshed her system in a while, knowing that that is something Chloe would never forget to do and when no one can get through to the tech room, they realise something's up. They hurry down to Tech One, override the access code and find Chloe inside and she quickly tells them that Saunders is using Michelle to make Tony do his bidding. Jack locks down CTU, but it's too late. Tony and Jane are gone. Tony Tony Tony... :(
Tony calls Saunders and tells him they only have 30 minutes before he's picked up on satellite and they arrange a meet. We end back on Keeler who has called David and asked for a meeting. Tick boom, tick boom.
How the hell is Tony going to get out of this. Only three hours left!
Previously, on 24addict...
I was talking about how deliciously juicy Tony's dilemma has become. The true sign of an excellent story, television show or film is whether people are still talking about it after viewing it and the blowback (to use Sherry's favourite term) on Tony's decision during the last hour has been tremendous. Lines are being drawn in the sand and you either think Tony is treasonous, or you sympathize with his problem. You begin to wonder what will happen to everyone's favourite Cubs fan and how can he possibly extricate himself from this terrible mistake? Does he have a plan? He might given how quickly he was able to think on his feet to get Jane Saunders out of CTU.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. This hour was packed with stuff going on so let's get to it.
We began with Jack and the agents standing around outside Saunders' apartment waiting for him to come out - not yet realising that he's not there. Out of patience, Jack orders in the tear gas (as an aside, man that stuff is painfully nasty. Ugh.) Jack is somewhat shocked to see Agent Baker coming around to the front and asks him what he's doing there. Baker informs Jack that Tony called a code 9 and sent them all around. When jack calls Tony to confront him about his tactical error, Tony blames a staff error and the game of 'Cover Your Ass' begins.
After he hangs up with Jack, Tony disappears into Tech One (I'm starting to love this room. Wish I had toys like that, or at least one of those glow-in-the-dark keyboards) and deletes satellite images of Saunders taking off from the database. As he does this Saunders calls him demanding the release of his daughter or else Michelle will be killed - painfully. And while Tony is being threatened by Saunders, The President calls and interrupts. Tony takes his call and informs him that Saunders was not in the building and that they still don't have him. The President sternly tells Tony that he'd better make sure that Jane - their only link to getting Saunders - is kept guarded and safe.
Palmer then sees a clip of Senator Keeler (remember him?) on telly telling the press that he's confident in his handling of the debate and that losing endorsements (since it became evident that the President is truly dealing with a threat situation) means nothing. Wayne tells Palmer that they need to be thinking about what to do about Keeler but Palmer reminds him that now is not the time. Saunders and the Virus should be their only concern right now.
Once it's confirmed that Saunders is not in the building, Chase and Jack head back to CTU, puzzled and trying to work out how he could have gotten away. Jack confirms with Chloe that Saunders had indeed been in the building and I think at this point the vague idea is forming that Saunders could have help from inside CTU to get away.
As Chloe goes through the satellite imagery she notices the frames that are missing and begins to surmise that someone from within the agency deleted them - that it wasn't just a glitch in the program. She interrupts Adam's tearful conversation with his dying sister in a typical Chloe-like manner and while it may have seemed callous of her to pull him off that call, I do believe she actually felt bad that she had to do it. Something about her facial expression made me think that she did anyway.
Meanwhile, Kim and Jane have arrived back at CTU and Jane is whisked off to a holding room as opposed to a white room (call me ignorant here but I never did understand what a white room was in terms of interrogation. Any explanations would be appreciated :) Kim awaits Ray Plachecki (Placheki? I don't know, Polish names can be difficult.) who will be back to question her about the shooting of Saunders' thug in Santa Barbara. Remember she was at CTU earlier to question Jack about his drug use.
Tony steps into Jane's room and talks to Jane who's beginning to realise she's the government's only leverage against her father. She begins to feel afraid that she will be harmed as they threaten Saunders and she tells Tony that Jack scares her. I think if I were in her shoes Jack would scare me too. He just exudes badassness. But Tony assures her that she won't be harmed in any way. Just then, Saunders calls Tony demanding to speak to his daughter. But Tony won't let him until he's spoken to Michelle (who, by the way, has arrived at some sort of abandoned building and is bound and gagged to a chair there.) Saunders has the duct tape torn from her face (and you can even see the marks on Reiko's face after they do that. Ouch!) and she's allowed to say a few words to Tony. After she tells him she's being treated well, she desperately cries out not to 'do it' - "Don't do it!" she says. I'm guessing she means don't give in to Saunders' demands. But the phone is taken away and Tony is forced to put Jane on speaker. Saunders tells Jane not to believe what the government is telling her. But Jane is scared and shakily asks her father if it's true he's doing this thing with the virus. "I only do things for a good cause." he tells her. Chilling. I think Jane realised then that the government is right about him. Tony then picks up the phone and tells Saunders it will take a while to get Jane out. At this point I was wondering if he was really going to do it or just trying to buy some time.
Out on the floor, the uber-geeks have come to the conclusion that someone within Tony's group accessed and deleted those satellite images. When Adam informs Tony of this, he recommends a lockdown and Tony agrees. Then Dr. Macer calls from NHS to ask where Michelle is. Chloe takes the call and is puzzled. She asks Tony where Michelle could be and he tells her that he had her moved to a secret location where she can be quarantined but still do some work as necessary. He also tells her about a call he just received from Saunders and asks her to analyze it to try and locate him. He warns her, however, that the voice is scrambled and impossible to understand. He just wants her to concentrate on the signatures. And he sends her off to Tech One to do this because he doesn't want Adam to know about it for some reason.
Back at Keeler headquarters, amongst the campaign posters that look suspiciously like John Kerry's campaign posters, Keeler learns that Sherry Palmer's on her way over to see him with a proposal. Uh-oh. When she arrives it's all air kisses and niceties for a little bit, until she drops her bomb. She knows that Keeler's campaign is flailing and she has come to offer him a guaranteed win in November. She tells him that David is an accessory to murder - Milliken's murder. She tells Keeler the true events about what happened to Milliken, and offers proof - his pill bottle with prints on it. She explains that Palmer lied to the police chief about Sherry's involvement in order to protect her and she believes that if Keeler blackmails the President with this information, he will drop out of the race. Asked what she gets out of this, she replies that Keeler will place her in some sort of position on his white house staff. Sherry you bitch! Hell hath no fury I suppose, but damn that's cold.
Back at CTU, Jack and Chase have arrived and are brought up to speed on the satellite issue. Neither can believe there's someone else on the inside helping Saunders out, much less someone from Tony's group. Jack questions Tony about letting Division know about the possibility of a mole but Tony says he doesn't want to raise any red flags over there. So jack says he'll call Hammond about it but Tony says not to worry about it as he has a scheduled conference call set up with Hammond and will tell him himself. Which is totally bogus of course and jack is suspicious. So he has Adam confirm that Tony does NOT have a call set up with Hammond.
Around this time one of Saunders' backup tech flunkies (since he killed his other tech flunky) tells him CTU is trying to run a trace on his phone. After Michelle refuses to tell Saunders how CTU is doing it, he calls Tony, holds a knife to her face, slicing thinly and drawing a little blood until Tony gives in and says he'll stop the trace. So Tony commands Chloe to stop the trace. Just then Jack confronts Tony about his lie regarding the conference call and gets Tony to admit that he made a mistake and tried to cover it up. Not exactly true, but not far from the truth either. This whole chain of events is one big mistake he's trying to cover up. "I made a mistake." says Tony. "No, you made two mistakes." replies Jack. Then he informs Tony that he is taking over command of CTU. Defeated, Tony walks away.
Well defeated and now quite agitated and panicky, Tony calls Saunders to tell him Jack's now in charge of CTU. Saunders could care less really. Tony's only objective now is to get Jane out of the building or risk letting Michelle die a horrible death.
Jack knows Tony is still hiding something from him so he pulls Kim out of some conference room and has her begin monitoring everything. I didn't quite catch what she was supposed to be watching actually. I had thought she was watching exits. But then Tony listens in on a call from Jack to Adam as he has Adam send his files to Kim and asks him to send Chloe to his office. Tony then bypasses some kind of security thing (the Whatever Technology -TM TWoP- on the show baffles me sometimes) and locks Chloe in Tech One just after she informs him that she managed to descramble the voice on the phone call she was tracing.
Kim notifies Jack and Chase that Chloe hasn't refreshed her system in a while, knowing that that is something Chloe would never forget to do and when no one can get through to the tech room, they realise something's up. They hurry down to Tech One, override the access code and find Chloe inside and she quickly tells them that Saunders is using Michelle to make Tony do his bidding. Jack locks down CTU, but it's too late. Tony and Jane are gone. Tony Tony Tony... :(
Tony calls Saunders and tells him they only have 30 minutes before he's picked up on satellite and they arrange a meet. We end back on Keeler who has called David and asked for a meeting. Tick boom, tick boom.
How the hell is Tony going to get out of this. Only three hours left!
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