Monday, April 23, 2007
"You've been a good friend." 12am-1am
Before I get going tonight I just wanna say that "Drive" is a rockin' show. It's getting better and better every ep :) If you haven't seen it, go do so. If for no other reason than to laugh with me at the sight of Hastings, Nebraska, where Nathan Fillion's character is from, having very large hills (Hastings, Nebby is about 20 minutes from me and well, it's pretty damn flat here in this part of Nebraska :) ) I bet FOX has previous eps online somewhere.
Ok, enough about "Drive." Let's see what happens tonight on "24."
When we last left Jack, he was on the run from his own government. Again. Wayne Palmer collapsed and Scary Daniels is now in charge after all.
Doyle commandeers a civilian's car and is in pursuit of Jack. Jack's in Doyle's SUV and must disable the tracking device so he pulls under a boatload of power lines and does so. Doyle's still on Jack's tail and closing in but without the tracking device it's gotten harder for him.
At the White House, Daniels and Lennox clear the air between them. Lennox gives Daniels his support and says he won't be using the recording against him, even if they disagree on policy in the future. They decide to keep Karen Hayes on in the new administration because she "brings balance." She is the chosen one. Hehe.
Jack calls Cheng and changes up the game plan by stating he has to pick the spot for the drop because CTU's monitoring him. Cheng agrees to met him at a hotel here they will trade Audrey for the component.
Ok. I'm officially squicked. Please oh please don't make me watch Daniels snog his assistant ever again. *shudder* After speaking with Karen and Lennox, Daniels authorizes them to involve "ancillary agencies" to jump in and help with the search for Jack. They leave and I thn get completely grossed out by a mini love scene between "dirty old man" Daniels and his chippy. "I've got the fate of the Western World on my shoulders and all I can think about is you." I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. He asks her to spend what's left of the night with him and she goes home to get a change of clothes. I swear if they show a shag scene between those two I really will vomit.
Meanwhile, Doyle has come to the power lines Jack used to ditch the tracker but the trail's growing cold. Doyle works out that Jack's headed east on the 305 from tire tracks. Doyle remembers Jack using a terrorist's phone so he has CTU start looking for cell calls between Jack and Cheng.
As Chloe and Morris work on that, they have a spat. A fun spat. I enjoyed watching them argue until Chloe went about one step too far and mentioned his arming of nuclear devices for terrorists. Oops. Morris walks away.
At the White House again Karen gets a call from Peter Hawke from the DOJ asking for a meeting in her office. She goes in to speak to him (Hey! It's Dr. Goodman from Bones! I miss him this season) and finds that he's been interrogating Reed about his part in the assassination attempt. Apparently Reed's been singing like crazy to get out of being executed and is offering up information that Karen and Bill covered up the fact that Bill had Fayed in custody previously and let him go.
Karen tells Peter that the facts of Reed's statement are true but there's no cover-up. Two years ago as art of a joint effort between CTU and the FBI Fayed was taken into custody during a border sweep. There wasn't enough evidence to hold him, he was one of many, and he was *maybe* a mid-level player.
It all sounds very plausible, but Peter makes his point: even though Karen resigned earlier in the day to prevent this info from getting out, letting it out now still serves no purpose because once the country discovers that Fayed had been in custody two years ago, the country will demand to know who the hell let him go. They won't care about context or the fact that Fayed only became a high roller *after* his he was freed.
He tells Karen that one of them will go down because that's how this works. The country demands a scapegoat. Peter would rather it be Bill since he's lower on the food chain, but then he looks at her coldly and says, "But you'll do." Damn Dr. Goodman :( When did you get so mean?
And now we move back to Jack. He arrives at the location, grabs his Man Purse and heads for the drop. It's an abandoned, Bates-looking motel. Jack checks out the lay of the land as Doyle hears from CTU. They've found Jack's call to Cheng but it's decrypted. So Doyle is closing in on Jack's location.
While that's happening, Karen goes to have a chat with Lennox about Reed and the info he gave up to Peter. Lennox doesn't have good news for her though because he says that she can't be the scapegoat. It has to be Bill who takes the fall for Fayed's release. Karen is gobsmacked. She doesn't want to betray her own husband like that but Lennox says pretty much what Peter did - Bill is low on the totem pole and Karen is needed in the new administration.
What will Karen do... Hmmm.. Will she sacrifice Bill to save her skin and her career or will she "stand shoulder to shoulder" with her husband and accept blame?
Jack leaves Bill a voicemail. I sort of dug Bill's "Press 1 for immediate danger, press 2 for standard danger" greeting :) Anyway, Jack tells Bill that this call is his confirmation that the component was incinerated in his C-4 blast and hopefully by the time Bill hears the message Audrey will be safe and in Bill's care. He tells Bill where the drop is going down and ends the call with a plea for Bill to please take care of Audrey. "You've been a good friend." He tells him before hanging up. *sniffle*
At CTU, Morris pops into Bill's office and requests a transfer out of Comm and away from Chloe. Bill agrees to work something out. He then gives Karen a call and she lets him know what's the what on the Fayed thing. And she thoroughly disappoints me by tell Bill he has to take the fall. I see her point. She's too close to he President blah bah blah but man, Bill's her husband. This is just gong to shatter their relationship because Bill's pretty pissed off. Bill hangs up on her and walks away from his phone that has Jack's voicemail on it.
Doyle continues cruising the streets looking for Jack and spots something. Off he goes to investigate and Nadia who had been helping him is pulled aside by Bill. He informs her he was fired and that she is now acting director of CTU. Ummm, huh? Nadia?
Security comes to escort Bill off the premises. And I'm sad. Bill can't go out like that. He's a good guy. A White Hat. His deep, soothing voice and ability to remain calm in crisis has been a huge factor in keeping CTU running. And he's Jack's friend. *sniffle*
As Bill leaves, Morris approaches to tell him Doyle found Jack's truck but Bill says, "Good work." and keeps walking. Puzzled, Morris turns to Nadia who makes the Big Announcement. Se tells CTU that the objective remains the same: bring Jack in before he gives the component to Cheng.
And Doyle is indeed at Jack's location now. He raids Jack's truck and gets on Comm with CTU and informs them a limo just arrived. Balls. Doyle's going to ruin the drop. Jack's unaware of Doyle's presence as he watches Cheng get out of the limo and head towards him. Jack informs Cheng that he's not getting anything until he sees Audrey. Cheng orders her brought in. She's gagged and Jack and Audrey get their first glimpse of each other. It's a fleeting, sweet moment but then Jack growls at Cheng to take the gag out of her mouth.
Just as Cheng reaches for the gag, Jack tells him to stop. He'll remove the gag himself. Audrey walks to Jack and he looks at her... the way he looks at her is just heartbreaking. he tenderly removes the gag, gently touches her face and whispers, "I'm so sorry." to her.
Jack tells Cheng that Audrey is to walk out of there, alone, and once she's a safe distance away, he will hand over the component. He hugs Audrey and tells her a cab is waiting for her at a gas station nearby and it has instructions to take her to CTU. Silently, Audrey begins walking away.
Doyle gets anxious because his backup hasn't arrived and Audrey's walking away. Nadia tells him not to let Jack hand over the component. And so Doyle cocks the whole thing up by taking out one of Cheng's men just as Jack tosses the component to Cheng. A firefight ensues. Again. Jack is hit. Cheng does a runner in a hummer with the component and CTU backup arrives. Cheng's men take out CTU's chopper with a rocket launcher which mucks up pursuit of Cheng.
Jack's hit was in his bulletproof vest. As he gets up, he takes out three of Cheng's men. But as he tries to get away, CTU agents apprehend him. Doyle arrives on scene and tells Jack he's in charge. Jack angriy tells Doyle he was set to blow the building with Cheng, himself and the component in it until Doyle screwed it up. He hands over the detonator but Doyle informs him Cheng escaped.
Nadia orders Doyle to arrest Jack and there is much eye-rolling around the table from Chloe and Milo when she gives that order. Doyle cuffs Jack as agents bring in Audrey. But Audrey is out of it. She's panicky and doesn't recognize Jack. CTU agents take her aside and sit her down and she begins looking around crazily and repeating, "Help me Jack. Help me Jack." over and over. Jack looks on as he's being led away by Doyle and he's shocked to see her in this condition.
Tick and boom.
Good stuff tonight folks though I will definitely be haunted by the sight of Daniels and his assistant snogging. *shudder.*
Only 4 episodes left.
Ok, enough about "Drive." Let's see what happens tonight on "24."
When we last left Jack, he was on the run from his own government. Again. Wayne Palmer collapsed and Scary Daniels is now in charge after all.
Doyle commandeers a civilian's car and is in pursuit of Jack. Jack's in Doyle's SUV and must disable the tracking device so he pulls under a boatload of power lines and does so. Doyle's still on Jack's tail and closing in but without the tracking device it's gotten harder for him.
At the White House, Daniels and Lennox clear the air between them. Lennox gives Daniels his support and says he won't be using the recording against him, even if they disagree on policy in the future. They decide to keep Karen Hayes on in the new administration because she "brings balance." She is the chosen one. Hehe.
Jack calls Cheng and changes up the game plan by stating he has to pick the spot for the drop because CTU's monitoring him. Cheng agrees to met him at a hotel here they will trade Audrey for the component.
Ok. I'm officially squicked. Please oh please don't make me watch Daniels snog his assistant ever again. *shudder* After speaking with Karen and Lennox, Daniels authorizes them to involve "ancillary agencies" to jump in and help with the search for Jack. They leave and I thn get completely grossed out by a mini love scene between "dirty old man" Daniels and his chippy. "I've got the fate of the Western World on my shoulders and all I can think about is you." I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. He asks her to spend what's left of the night with him and she goes home to get a change of clothes. I swear if they show a shag scene between those two I really will vomit.
Meanwhile, Doyle has come to the power lines Jack used to ditch the tracker but the trail's growing cold. Doyle works out that Jack's headed east on the 305 from tire tracks. Doyle remembers Jack using a terrorist's phone so he has CTU start looking for cell calls between Jack and Cheng.
As Chloe and Morris work on that, they have a spat. A fun spat. I enjoyed watching them argue until Chloe went about one step too far and mentioned his arming of nuclear devices for terrorists. Oops. Morris walks away.
At the White House again Karen gets a call from Peter Hawke from the DOJ asking for a meeting in her office. She goes in to speak to him (Hey! It's Dr. Goodman from Bones! I miss him this season) and finds that he's been interrogating Reed about his part in the assassination attempt. Apparently Reed's been singing like crazy to get out of being executed and is offering up information that Karen and Bill covered up the fact that Bill had Fayed in custody previously and let him go.
Karen tells Peter that the facts of Reed's statement are true but there's no cover-up. Two years ago as art of a joint effort between CTU and the FBI Fayed was taken into custody during a border sweep. There wasn't enough evidence to hold him, he was one of many, and he was *maybe* a mid-level player.
It all sounds very plausible, but Peter makes his point: even though Karen resigned earlier in the day to prevent this info from getting out, letting it out now still serves no purpose because once the country discovers that Fayed had been in custody two years ago, the country will demand to know who the hell let him go. They won't care about context or the fact that Fayed only became a high roller *after* his he was freed.
He tells Karen that one of them will go down because that's how this works. The country demands a scapegoat. Peter would rather it be Bill since he's lower on the food chain, but then he looks at her coldly and says, "But you'll do." Damn Dr. Goodman :( When did you get so mean?
And now we move back to Jack. He arrives at the location, grabs his Man Purse and heads for the drop. It's an abandoned, Bates-looking motel. Jack checks out the lay of the land as Doyle hears from CTU. They've found Jack's call to Cheng but it's decrypted. So Doyle is closing in on Jack's location.
While that's happening, Karen goes to have a chat with Lennox about Reed and the info he gave up to Peter. Lennox doesn't have good news for her though because he says that she can't be the scapegoat. It has to be Bill who takes the fall for Fayed's release. Karen is gobsmacked. She doesn't want to betray her own husband like that but Lennox says pretty much what Peter did - Bill is low on the totem pole and Karen is needed in the new administration.
What will Karen do... Hmmm.. Will she sacrifice Bill to save her skin and her career or will she "stand shoulder to shoulder" with her husband and accept blame?
Jack leaves Bill a voicemail. I sort of dug Bill's "Press 1 for immediate danger, press 2 for standard danger" greeting :) Anyway, Jack tells Bill that this call is his confirmation that the component was incinerated in his C-4 blast and hopefully by the time Bill hears the message Audrey will be safe and in Bill's care. He tells Bill where the drop is going down and ends the call with a plea for Bill to please take care of Audrey. "You've been a good friend." He tells him before hanging up. *sniffle*
At CTU, Morris pops into Bill's office and requests a transfer out of Comm and away from Chloe. Bill agrees to work something out. He then gives Karen a call and she lets him know what's the what on the Fayed thing. And she thoroughly disappoints me by tell Bill he has to take the fall. I see her point. She's too close to he President blah bah blah but man, Bill's her husband. This is just gong to shatter their relationship because Bill's pretty pissed off. Bill hangs up on her and walks away from his phone that has Jack's voicemail on it.
Doyle continues cruising the streets looking for Jack and spots something. Off he goes to investigate and Nadia who had been helping him is pulled aside by Bill. He informs her he was fired and that she is now acting director of CTU. Ummm, huh? Nadia?
Security comes to escort Bill off the premises. And I'm sad. Bill can't go out like that. He's a good guy. A White Hat. His deep, soothing voice and ability to remain calm in crisis has been a huge factor in keeping CTU running. And he's Jack's friend. *sniffle*
As Bill leaves, Morris approaches to tell him Doyle found Jack's truck but Bill says, "Good work." and keeps walking. Puzzled, Morris turns to Nadia who makes the Big Announcement. Se tells CTU that the objective remains the same: bring Jack in before he gives the component to Cheng.
And Doyle is indeed at Jack's location now. He raids Jack's truck and gets on Comm with CTU and informs them a limo just arrived. Balls. Doyle's going to ruin the drop. Jack's unaware of Doyle's presence as he watches Cheng get out of the limo and head towards him. Jack informs Cheng that he's not getting anything until he sees Audrey. Cheng orders her brought in. She's gagged and Jack and Audrey get their first glimpse of each other. It's a fleeting, sweet moment but then Jack growls at Cheng to take the gag out of her mouth.
Just as Cheng reaches for the gag, Jack tells him to stop. He'll remove the gag himself. Audrey walks to Jack and he looks at her... the way he looks at her is just heartbreaking. he tenderly removes the gag, gently touches her face and whispers, "I'm so sorry." to her.
Jack tells Cheng that Audrey is to walk out of there, alone, and once she's a safe distance away, he will hand over the component. He hugs Audrey and tells her a cab is waiting for her at a gas station nearby and it has instructions to take her to CTU. Silently, Audrey begins walking away.
Doyle gets anxious because his backup hasn't arrived and Audrey's walking away. Nadia tells him not to let Jack hand over the component. And so Doyle cocks the whole thing up by taking out one of Cheng's men just as Jack tosses the component to Cheng. A firefight ensues. Again. Jack is hit. Cheng does a runner in a hummer with the component and CTU backup arrives. Cheng's men take out CTU's chopper with a rocket launcher which mucks up pursuit of Cheng.
Jack's hit was in his bulletproof vest. As he gets up, he takes out three of Cheng's men. But as he tries to get away, CTU agents apprehend him. Doyle arrives on scene and tells Jack he's in charge. Jack angriy tells Doyle he was set to blow the building with Cheng, himself and the component in it until Doyle screwed it up. He hands over the detonator but Doyle informs him Cheng escaped.
Nadia orders Doyle to arrest Jack and there is much eye-rolling around the table from Chloe and Milo when she gives that order. Doyle cuffs Jack as agents bring in Audrey. But Audrey is out of it. She's panicky and doesn't recognize Jack. CTU agents take her aside and sit her down and she begins looking around crazily and repeating, "Help me Jack. Help me Jack." over and over. Jack looks on as he's being led away by Doyle and he's shocked to see her in this condition.
Tick and boom.
Good stuff tonight folks though I will definitely be haunted by the sight of Daniels and his assistant snogging. *shudder.*
Only 4 episodes left.
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9 Comments:
So are you going to start up "Drive Addict' soon? I won't blame you if you do so.
Hehe, nah don't think so. I like the show but it has to have stamina and that remains to be seen. Besides, recapping 24 is enough of a job :)
I give this episode a big thumbs-up. I thought the reaction of Audrey at the end has opened up a lot of questions. She's obviously gone through trauma, but I wonder what else she's been put through. Brain surgery? Implant?
btw, Melia, I noticed that my friendly name has changed when I post comments. Must be pulling from my Google account now. So "Murph" is now "Mike". Same guy, but more boring name. :-)
Oh Melia, you are so right ~ that scene between Powers Booth and the assistant was so wrong... I'm still getting chills about it. I have never liked the people this woman potrays in anything that I've seen ~ amazing how directors know how to pick'em. She's good.
And folks, how come no one verbally lambasted that fella from last week with that yang about Doyle being killed this week? I thought that requires a spoiler alert... Needless to say, someone's source is blowing hot air, at least for now.
Also, just wanted to mention I occasionally tend to be an instegator of sorts... Sorry, but sometimes it's fun... A few weeks ago, I of course meant no harm with my mention of 'Bahrooz Araz', but I gotta tellya 'Terroristhater' you had me laughing for days ~ you were all over that I'm still laughing... Point is you were spot on, even about little Kim and the mountain pup ~ good job!
Soupzman
Power Booth's spinning the bottle with his cutie/quirkish right-hand landy remained me of that moment in Galaxiy Quest in which a human guy made out with an octopus-looking space alien. It was so~oo wrong..
Rumor has it that FOX canned Drive:
http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Exclusive-Fox-Cancels/800013604#comments
Fucking idiots. Do they not realize the almost no shows will be instant hits?
Anyways, great 24 episode last night :)
~*pissedoff* IceFox
I'll join you in your pissed off-ness Icefox. AICN sems to confirm Ausiello's report and I'm just so irritated about it. 4 episodes in and they yank it? What the fuck did they expect? They slot it in between sweeps periods, put it up against that dancing stars show which seems to be popular and expect an instant mega-hit?
What a waste of their advertising dollars. They put a lot in to it. I feel bad for Nathan Fillion :( Guy can't catch a break with Fox. First Firefly and now this? Methinks he needs to go with another network.
Fox I know you guys read this site - don't cancel Drive for crying out loud!!
FOX needs to give Fillion and Minear a break (Minear co-created the show and also worked on Firefly, Wonderfalls, The Inside, and more...all which were on FOX).
And I agree with you - They air it in sweeps and against Dancing. Not only this but FOX is also trying to pin 24's all time low ratings that night on Drive, which makes no sense - it is obvious Heroes caused 24's low ratings. I hope that there is another network out there with execs who are not moronic bigwigs who actually understand how this stuff works (because it has shown to be obvious over the years that they do not) and picks up the series.
~IceFox
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