Wednesday, February 23, 2005
2pm - 3pm - LittleSiUK
Yes ladies and gentlemen I've found a couple of takers to help me with recapping. Hurrah!!! I'm so chuffed! I say a couple because I got the idea that having more than one take on each episode would be nice to read. So for now we've got me when I can get at it, LittleSiUK, and one other person whom I'm waiting on atm. I'll post their recaps for them and try to find some way to differentiate who's who :)
Anyway, big thanks to LittleSiUK for this recap of the 2pm-3pm hour:
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Well, here it is, the moment so many fans had been waiting for, Tony Almeida is back and he brought his soul-patch and a gun with him! Don't you just love how the writers had him return by re-enacting his finest hour? (Saving Teri from the claws of Jovan Myovic waaaaaay back in season one.)
So now he's where he always should have been, out in the field kicking ass with Jack. Let's see what the happy couple got up to around 2pm on Jack's 4th bad day...
First things first, having just averted death over at Felsted security, Jack calls Heller to warn him about that pesky mole that's been causing so much trouble. He reminds him of a previous case and tells him to deal with this in the same way, in order to flush out the traitor.
In an attempt to pull this off, Heller has his good friend Scott Borman from DOD brought over, and he tells him to leak information that Jack is at an old CTU substation in Torrance. Then all they have to do is wait for someone to send out a communication with that info and bingo, there's the mole. Right? Wrong! But we'll come back to that...
Tony meanwhile has reminded Jack that he only got out of prison because of the help he and Palmer provided, and that once out, his wife kindly left him. Seems kind of harsh, she was balling her eyes out back in season 3 when he was first sent to jail, yet she can up and leave so suddenly?!?! What did he do? That same question is on Audrey's mind, and she is quick to ask Jack when they return to Tony's home. He reveals that Tony basically closed up after he was released; he started drinking and was very bitter about what had happened. He pushed her away.
Still, he seems to be trying to recover from that, as Jack almost shoots his new lady 'friend' Jen, who he is surprised to find in Tony's house. Tony is quick to dismiss her, telling her she can't leave because no-one can know Jack and Audrey are there. She is pretty peeved and stays in the bedroom.
Let me just say that Tony's character development in this episode was great, and it was beautifully played by Carlos Bernard. Think Season 2 Jack in the first episode, except with Tony.
He makes it clear to Jack that once they've used his computer to access the Felsted security footage (which Jack wisely downloaded onto some memory sticks prior to everything hitting the proverbial fan last ep), he doesn't want to be involved. He only saved Jack to pay him back for getting him out of prison. Knowing there's still a mole in CTU, Jack instead sends a photo of the man Audrey recognised to his office over at DOD and then waits patiently for them to get back to him with an ID.
Meanwhile, things with the reactors are looking pretty grim. Keeler has decided they may not get a handle on this in time and orders an evacuation of the six cities under threat. What he neglects to tell the public however, and what Curtis reveals to Erin, is that there is no way any of these places can be completely cleared in the time frame available. Looks like Jack better do something and quick!
Knowing Mr. Bauer is yet to call in having survived the ambush set up by her employer, Marianne is sure he knows CTU has been breached and tells her employer the same having snuck into the bathroom to call him. Powell orders her to stay at CTU regardless, before she is interrupted by Sarah who tells her to get back to work.
She does so and is soon informed by Borman of Jack's new location in Torrance, which he of course wants kept covert. Wary of what she told Powell, she records the location on a voice recorder at her desk then links it up to her computer. But for what purpose...
Heller quickly receives the information they need and is given the name of the mole by his friend Borman. They intercepted her attempting to send a message containing the planted information to the outside. Yay! Bye bye Marianne! Heller informs Driscoll, whose first reaction is to get angry at the fact she was kept out of the loop on this, but the secretary convinces her it was the only way and gives her the traitor’s name. They call security and head to the main floor. A horde of guards then accompanies them towards Marianne...Oh no, hold on, they go straight past her?! What's going on?! They arrive at - shock, horror - Sarah's desk! Despite her claims of innocence, Sarah is placed under arrest and hauled off to a holding room.
It seems only good old Edgar is sure of her innocence, pointing out that the message she supposedly sent that incriminates her was sloppily encrypted and just sitting on her system waiting to be found. Marianne snottily retorts: "Oh well, she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer..." You manipulative little...
Back in holding, Sarah is introduced to the dreaded Eric Richards who's been doing a lot of work over the last few hours! Erin pleads with her to tell the truth, but she is adamant that she has been set up. As Erin watches Mr. Richards coldly apply a taser to Sarah’s neck, the audience is left screaming "No, you fools!" Heller looks on through the one-way mirror as the torture continues, joined by Erin who believes Sarah doesn't quite fit the profile for a traitor...
Having been cut off by Tony when expressing a desire to help him, Jack finally gets the ID on the man Audrey recognised. Henry Powell, a computer consultant for Mclennen Forster, the company who designed the override. Not only that, he has a helo booked to fly him out of the city in about 15 minute's time. Jack takes down the location, drops Audrey off with the Secret Service detail sent over by her father, and heads for his car. Tony stops him and eventually asks if he's going to need help as, quite rightly, it would be pretty stupid if he let him die right after he saved his life. Jack admits it would be nice and off they go. Cue cool soundtrack as they climb into their shiny Ford SUV and look tough...
Over at CTU, Edgar has become very suspicious of Marianne, convinced Sarah is innocent. He tricks her into giving him access to her computer files, on which he finds record of her using Sarah's system to transmit the message about Jack. Taking it to Driscoll and Curtis, Marianne attempts to run, but Curtis chases her and corners her outside in the parking lot before she can get away in her car. He cuffs her and orders someone to impound the vehicle. Unfortunately for the agent given this fairly simple task, her car has been rigged by persons unknown with a rather unpleasant car bomb which kills him and knocks Marianne unconscious. Curtis looks on in shock...
As the clock nears 3pm, Powell forces his pilot at gunpoint to take-off; even after DOD orders him to stay grounded. He almost gets away with it too, but in the nick of time our heroes (Jack and Tony, who else?) arrive and drag the man from the aircraft. He is quickly restrained. Yes! Jack has his suspect, he'll find out where the override is now, and LA will sleep soundly once more. That is, it would, were it not for the ill-timed sniper who comes from nowhere and shoots Powell dead! Jack, rather frustrated having lost his only witness, lets out a nice big "DAMMIT" and we reach the top of the hour.
Tick Boom.
Aha, but wait, there's more. What of the Araz clan you say? Oh they're around, but they take somewhat of a backseat this episode due to everything else happening with Jack, and at CTU. However, this story is definitely building to a climax, with Navi promising the mysterious Habib that his wife and son will be dead by the end of the day, and Behrooz and Dina forced to flee from a hospital after the cops find out about her gunshot wound... What does the next few hours bring them? It seems we'll find out soon...
To be continued... ...
Anyway, big thanks to LittleSiUK for this recap of the 2pm-3pm hour:
----------------
Well, here it is, the moment so many fans had been waiting for, Tony Almeida is back and he brought his soul-patch and a gun with him! Don't you just love how the writers had him return by re-enacting his finest hour? (Saving Teri from the claws of Jovan Myovic waaaaaay back in season one.)
So now he's where he always should have been, out in the field kicking ass with Jack. Let's see what the happy couple got up to around 2pm on Jack's 4th bad day...
First things first, having just averted death over at Felsted security, Jack calls Heller to warn him about that pesky mole that's been causing so much trouble. He reminds him of a previous case and tells him to deal with this in the same way, in order to flush out the traitor.
In an attempt to pull this off, Heller has his good friend Scott Borman from DOD brought over, and he tells him to leak information that Jack is at an old CTU substation in Torrance. Then all they have to do is wait for someone to send out a communication with that info and bingo, there's the mole. Right? Wrong! But we'll come back to that...
Tony meanwhile has reminded Jack that he only got out of prison because of the help he and Palmer provided, and that once out, his wife kindly left him. Seems kind of harsh, she was balling her eyes out back in season 3 when he was first sent to jail, yet she can up and leave so suddenly?!?! What did he do? That same question is on Audrey's mind, and she is quick to ask Jack when they return to Tony's home. He reveals that Tony basically closed up after he was released; he started drinking and was very bitter about what had happened. He pushed her away.
Still, he seems to be trying to recover from that, as Jack almost shoots his new lady 'friend' Jen, who he is surprised to find in Tony's house. Tony is quick to dismiss her, telling her she can't leave because no-one can know Jack and Audrey are there. She is pretty peeved and stays in the bedroom.
Let me just say that Tony's character development in this episode was great, and it was beautifully played by Carlos Bernard. Think Season 2 Jack in the first episode, except with Tony.
He makes it clear to Jack that once they've used his computer to access the Felsted security footage (which Jack wisely downloaded onto some memory sticks prior to everything hitting the proverbial fan last ep), he doesn't want to be involved. He only saved Jack to pay him back for getting him out of prison. Knowing there's still a mole in CTU, Jack instead sends a photo of the man Audrey recognised to his office over at DOD and then waits patiently for them to get back to him with an ID.
Meanwhile, things with the reactors are looking pretty grim. Keeler has decided they may not get a handle on this in time and orders an evacuation of the six cities under threat. What he neglects to tell the public however, and what Curtis reveals to Erin, is that there is no way any of these places can be completely cleared in the time frame available. Looks like Jack better do something and quick!
Knowing Mr. Bauer is yet to call in having survived the ambush set up by her employer, Marianne is sure he knows CTU has been breached and tells her employer the same having snuck into the bathroom to call him. Powell orders her to stay at CTU regardless, before she is interrupted by Sarah who tells her to get back to work.
She does so and is soon informed by Borman of Jack's new location in Torrance, which he of course wants kept covert. Wary of what she told Powell, she records the location on a voice recorder at her desk then links it up to her computer. But for what purpose...
Heller quickly receives the information they need and is given the name of the mole by his friend Borman. They intercepted her attempting to send a message containing the planted information to the outside. Yay! Bye bye Marianne! Heller informs Driscoll, whose first reaction is to get angry at the fact she was kept out of the loop on this, but the secretary convinces her it was the only way and gives her the traitor’s name. They call security and head to the main floor. A horde of guards then accompanies them towards Marianne...Oh no, hold on, they go straight past her?! What's going on?! They arrive at - shock, horror - Sarah's desk! Despite her claims of innocence, Sarah is placed under arrest and hauled off to a holding room.
It seems only good old Edgar is sure of her innocence, pointing out that the message she supposedly sent that incriminates her was sloppily encrypted and just sitting on her system waiting to be found. Marianne snottily retorts: "Oh well, she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer..." You manipulative little...
Back in holding, Sarah is introduced to the dreaded Eric Richards who's been doing a lot of work over the last few hours! Erin pleads with her to tell the truth, but she is adamant that she has been set up. As Erin watches Mr. Richards coldly apply a taser to Sarah’s neck, the audience is left screaming "No, you fools!" Heller looks on through the one-way mirror as the torture continues, joined by Erin who believes Sarah doesn't quite fit the profile for a traitor...
Having been cut off by Tony when expressing a desire to help him, Jack finally gets the ID on the man Audrey recognised. Henry Powell, a computer consultant for Mclennen Forster, the company who designed the override. Not only that, he has a helo booked to fly him out of the city in about 15 minute's time. Jack takes down the location, drops Audrey off with the Secret Service detail sent over by her father, and heads for his car. Tony stops him and eventually asks if he's going to need help as, quite rightly, it would be pretty stupid if he let him die right after he saved his life. Jack admits it would be nice and off they go. Cue cool soundtrack as they climb into their shiny Ford SUV and look tough...
Over at CTU, Edgar has become very suspicious of Marianne, convinced Sarah is innocent. He tricks her into giving him access to her computer files, on which he finds record of her using Sarah's system to transmit the message about Jack. Taking it to Driscoll and Curtis, Marianne attempts to run, but Curtis chases her and corners her outside in the parking lot before she can get away in her car. He cuffs her and orders someone to impound the vehicle. Unfortunately for the agent given this fairly simple task, her car has been rigged by persons unknown with a rather unpleasant car bomb which kills him and knocks Marianne unconscious. Curtis looks on in shock...
As the clock nears 3pm, Powell forces his pilot at gunpoint to take-off; even after DOD orders him to stay grounded. He almost gets away with it too, but in the nick of time our heroes (Jack and Tony, who else?) arrive and drag the man from the aircraft. He is quickly restrained. Yes! Jack has his suspect, he'll find out where the override is now, and LA will sleep soundly once more. That is, it would, were it not for the ill-timed sniper who comes from nowhere and shoots Powell dead! Jack, rather frustrated having lost his only witness, lets out a nice big "DAMMIT" and we reach the top of the hour.
Tick Boom.
Aha, but wait, there's more. What of the Araz clan you say? Oh they're around, but they take somewhat of a backseat this episode due to everything else happening with Jack, and at CTU. However, this story is definitely building to a climax, with Navi promising the mysterious Habib that his wife and son will be dead by the end of the day, and Behrooz and Dina forced to flee from a hospital after the cops find out about her gunshot wound... What does the next few hours bring them? It seems we'll find out soon...
To be continued... ...
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