Monday, February 13, 2006
Thighs of Death!
Oh how I love it when Jack kills a baddie with his muscular thighs of death.
High tension with tonight's show but really only a couple of things happened: Jack went undercover with two of Badger's flunkies and Mad Martha threw a hissy when Logan changed his mind about disclosing Walt Cummings' death to the public. Novick convinced him that because he offed himself, it was therefore unnecessary to out him as a traitor which pissed off Martha royally. I thought there would be another bitchslapping of El Presidente but alas...
There really isn't much to recap tonight which is weird. CTU spent most of the episode monitoring Jack's progress as he infiltrated the flunkies by impersonating Rossler (the guy who was going to sell Badger the chip to activate the canisters) and Jack spent his time being punched, knocked unconscious and acting like a nervous shill.
But then came a tough decision - and one I would have been interested in seeing Palmer have to make (but alas...) because the flunkies decided to test Jack/Rossler by taking him to a big mall and ordering him to give them the final code to activate a single canister as a test. Doing so would have meant the certain death of 8-900 people (including children) in the mall. So the choice became this: allow them to release the gas in the hopes that after the flunkies would lead Jack to Badger (I'm sorry, I know I should be using his real name on the show. This ain't TWoP after all.) and the rest of the canisters, or capture the flunkies and try to torture Badger's location out of them. Both McGill and Buchanan agreed that it was in the best interests of the greater good to allow the gas to be released.
They had to take it to the President for final approval though and ugh. I can almost see the hamster struggling to get the wheel to turn. I hate watching him have to make a decision and then whine like a little girl when things don't go his way. It's annoying.
Anyway he finally decided to let CTU go through with the sacrifice but when it came down to it, Jack just couldn't let it happen. He gave them a false code and when the canister failed to release the gas they knocked Jack out, cuffed him to a table and proceeded to 'hot wire' the thing.
Then just when some of the gas is released and one flunky goes to kill Jack, he trips him and chokes the poor bastard with the aforementioned thighs of death (what a sweet sweet way to go though...... ..... ... sorry I drifted off.)
Unfortunately some of the gas gets into the ventilation but Jack managed to shut that down and conatin it in the food court. I had to laugh though on his run through the mall, gun flailing and gas mask on while people run from him shrieking. All I could think of was a sort of caption for the moment: "Booooga booga booooga!"
Ok maybe you had to be in the room with me at that moment but it was very funny to my daughter.
Anyway Jack grabbed a little girl, gave her his mask and got her outside where he revived her. Very touching. After everything was sealed off the casualties were 10 -20 people or so. Some didn't make it out of the food court.
So the flunky who lived made it out of the mall and was heading back to Badger. Unbeknownst to him he still carried the chip Jack was trying to sell him which had a tracker on it. So CTU was able to follow him back to the garage the terrorists were holed up in. But Badger figured the flunky was being followed and as Jack and Curtis moved in to take everyone down, he double-crossed them and had already left the building with the canisters. Flunky kills himself and now Jack's back at square one.
Damnit!
High tension with tonight's show but really only a couple of things happened: Jack went undercover with two of Badger's flunkies and Mad Martha threw a hissy when Logan changed his mind about disclosing Walt Cummings' death to the public. Novick convinced him that because he offed himself, it was therefore unnecessary to out him as a traitor which pissed off Martha royally. I thought there would be another bitchslapping of El Presidente but alas...
There really isn't much to recap tonight which is weird. CTU spent most of the episode monitoring Jack's progress as he infiltrated the flunkies by impersonating Rossler (the guy who was going to sell Badger the chip to activate the canisters) and Jack spent his time being punched, knocked unconscious and acting like a nervous shill.
But then came a tough decision - and one I would have been interested in seeing Palmer have to make (but alas...) because the flunkies decided to test Jack/Rossler by taking him to a big mall and ordering him to give them the final code to activate a single canister as a test. Doing so would have meant the certain death of 8-900 people (including children) in the mall. So the choice became this: allow them to release the gas in the hopes that after the flunkies would lead Jack to Badger (I'm sorry, I know I should be using his real name on the show. This ain't TWoP after all.) and the rest of the canisters, or capture the flunkies and try to torture Badger's location out of them. Both McGill and Buchanan agreed that it was in the best interests of the greater good to allow the gas to be released.
They had to take it to the President for final approval though and ugh. I can almost see the hamster struggling to get the wheel to turn. I hate watching him have to make a decision and then whine like a little girl when things don't go his way. It's annoying.
Anyway he finally decided to let CTU go through with the sacrifice but when it came down to it, Jack just couldn't let it happen. He gave them a false code and when the canister failed to release the gas they knocked Jack out, cuffed him to a table and proceeded to 'hot wire' the thing.
Then just when some of the gas is released and one flunky goes to kill Jack, he trips him and chokes the poor bastard with the aforementioned thighs of death (what a sweet sweet way to go though...... ..... ... sorry I drifted off.)
Unfortunately some of the gas gets into the ventilation but Jack managed to shut that down and conatin it in the food court. I had to laugh though on his run through the mall, gun flailing and gas mask on while people run from him shrieking. All I could think of was a sort of caption for the moment: "Booooga booga booooga!"
Ok maybe you had to be in the room with me at that moment but it was very funny to my daughter.
Anyway Jack grabbed a little girl, gave her his mask and got her outside where he revived her. Very touching. After everything was sealed off the casualties were 10 -20 people or so. Some didn't make it out of the food court.
So the flunky who lived made it out of the mall and was heading back to Badger. Unbeknownst to him he still carried the chip Jack was trying to sell him which had a tracker on it. So CTU was able to follow him back to the garage the terrorists were holed up in. But Badger figured the flunky was being followed and as Jack and Curtis moved in to take everyone down, he double-crossed them and had already left the building with the canisters. Flunky kills himself and now Jack's back at square one.
Damnit!
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2 Comments:
I love this new Jack the Hero concept, he only kills the bad guys and saves little children on the way. All of a sudden he's the one avoiding collateral damage, that 18 months in hiding really must have made him think.
"All I could think of was a sort of caption for the moment: "Booooga booga booooga!""
lol! all you need to evacuate a mall full of people is Jack with a gun and a gas mask.
OK. I am so addicted to your site Melia. I happened upon it last week when I missed the show!! GASP! I had to take my daughter to a school thing, but was relieved when I found the recap! ANd if you think Badger for the head terrorist, I think Sam for the Sean Astin character. LOL Anyway, I thought this was a great episode with lots of suspense. The President is such a schlepp and his unwillingness to make decisions is soooo painful. Mike is basically running the country now. Which is fine. I look forward to your commentary next week. Fun Fun!!
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