Monday, May 07, 2007
"Now let me clean it up." 2am-3am
A stunned Jack waits in holding when Nadia comes in to tell him Heller left with Audrey. She also reiterates Heller's "request" that Jack stay away from Audrey and that he will be filing a restraining order to hat effect. Stoically Jack takes this in. But rather than dwell, he changes the subject and asks if Audrey's clue panned out. Nadia tells him it did and that CTU is locking the area down.
Jack wants to go on the Op despite still being under arrest. He tells Nadia that he knows how Cheng thinks having spent 20 months with him being tortured (but never broken.) "I caused this mess now let me clean it up." he tells her. But Nadia refuses. Defeated, Jack sits down. But when Nadia leaves, he starts taking stock of his surroundings. I think he's planning a bit of a jailbreak.
As Nadia briefs the team about to infiltrate Cheng's safehouse, I totally picked up a... vibe between Nadia and Doyle. Maybe I'm a little slow on spotting it but I think she's got herself a thang for the blondie. And I think he digs on her too. Maybe it's some form of Stockholm Syndrome or something that started when he was interrogating her earlier in the day. Or maybe she's just trying to make Milo jealous in which case I hope her replacement gets there soon because she's got bigger problems than playing a field agent and nerdy techboy off each other.
Moving on to Cheng himself, we find him presumably at his safehouse where a bunch of hardcore looking mercs are planning some kind of mission. Cheng and his tech person argue a little about whether the mercs (and I don't know if they're really mercenaries, they just look like it to me) are right for the mission. Cheng assures his techie that they are and he orders them to attack the target in 15 minutes.
Back at CTU, Josh (gosh I forgot about him and Marilyn) is watching news reports about the bomb and is quite upset about his father and grandfather's role in it. Marilyn does her best to reassure him. As she quietens him and gets him to rest, Chloe appears to ask Marilyn to go over the transcript of her statement. Chloe also tells Marilyn at Audrey is still alive.
In Washington, Daniels' chippy calls her boyfriend to try to convince him that the government has the component back in its possession. She hopes he will pass this info off to his Russian contacts otherwise she's screwed. Lennox and Daniels listen in on the call. It's quite awkward which amuses me mightily.
I have to pause for a moment. My neighbours have decided to pick this moment to have very loud sex on the other side of the wall in my room that I'm leaning against. It's erm, rather hard to concentrate on this recap while she fakes her orgasms.
...
Well, ok at least they don't take long. Back to the recap after which I will be looking for a new apartment.
Daniels' chippy/ex-assistant/traitorous twit is ordered by Lennox to go back to her boyfriend and find a reason to leave the room so he can access false documents they've planted on her PDA. She's afraid to do it. She thinks she won't be able to go through with it. Daniels coldly tells her he knows she can, after all, she's ben lying to him. Burn!
Back at CTU, Marilyn goes to see Jack to apologise for telling him Audrey was dead. But how could she have known she wasn't? Jack doesn't blame her. But when Marilyn tries to press the issue, Jack loses it just a little and tells her he doesn't want to talk about it. She backs off. But she tells him that she wants to bring Josh to see him before they go in the morning and Jack agrees. And then she tells him she'll 'be there for him' when this is all over. Even Chloe rolled her eyes at that. Is she making a play for him in the middle of all this? Eh?
Doyle and his team arrive on site. They hack past locked gates and make their way into the safehouse. These scenes are intercut with scenes of Cheng giving final briefings to his mercs, telling them their objective is to retrieve the "package." Not sure what the package is yet though but I'm thinking we're being given a bit of misdirection here and that Cheng and his men are not, in fact, at the safehouse but somewhere else. And yep. I was right. Cheng's safehouse was empty but they did find a stockpile of empty crates that were used to store weaponry and explosives. Doyle tells Nadia that it looks like the Chinese have enough arms to plan a major assault. Meanwhile Cheng's mercs have disappeared into the sewers which happen to be 180 yards from their target.
And what is their target? Why CTU of course. Oh dear.
As they make their way through the sewers to CTU, Lennox sends Miss Thing off to her boyfriend even though she complains of being frightened. He basically tells her to suck it up and get on with it. She enters her home and is greeted by Mark. But she's tense and acting wonky which he notices. He keeps trying to be lovey-dovey but she can't bring her self to groiny with him knowing Lennox and everyone is watching via surveillance. She keeps trying to head for the shower to leave him alone with her PDA but he won't let her. So she gives in and has no choice but to put on a webcam show for the boys in the van, otherwise Mark might get suspicious.
Cheng's team arrives at CTU and prepares to infiltrate. While they wait for Cheng's tech guy to take over CTU's systems, Milo and Nadia have a chat and Milo tells her he knows her feelings for him have changed and he's ok with it. I really hope the writers are going somewhere with these two because frankly at this point, I just don't care about them. And if it's just a bit of pointless fluff thrown in to fill time or whatever I'm going to feel cheated.
Anyway, Nadia tries to contact Doyle but can't get through. Everyone quickly discovers that all systems have gone kerflooey and no one knows why. Cheng and his techie smirk in the split screen as they watch the CTU agents scramble to figure out what's wrong and the mercs make their way into the building. Nadia calls a Code Red emergency lockdown.
The mercs blast their way in, and Jack gets his guard to let him out. Just as he tells him he's going to need a weapon, his guard is shot. So while the merc is checking other holding rooms, Jack sneaks out and takes the dead man's pistol and shoots the merc. He then swiftly takes out 2 other guys and gets himself a bigger gun :)
Back in the main room of CTU, the head mercenary demands to know who is in charge. Just as Nadia begins to get up, Milo steps up and tells him he is in charge. The merc then shoots him in the head.
Well damn.
Now I feel bad for my little rant above about Milo and Nadia. *sigh*
Some of the mercs force their way into Marilyn and Josh's room. One of them radios to Cheng, "We found Bauer. The boy is with his mother." and they start dragging him off. But Jack arrives and kills the mercs. I'm thinking Josh is the package. Marilyn tells Jack they came for Josh and he quickly realizes they need to get out of there. Telling them to stay close, Jack and his big gun lead the way through the mazes of CTU.
They make their way into a room with a big vent and Jack has Josh crawl through the space. Marilyn starts to follow but two more mercenaries burst in and Jack is forced to surrender. He and Marilyn are on their knees but Josh managed to get through the vent and now he's wandering around the ducts like John McClane (but decidedly less cool.)
The head merc receives a communication from Doyle an because of this Nadia's position is revealed. He orders her to respond to Doyle's call with the threat hanging over her that if she tries to warn him, he will shoot everyone in the room, starting with her. She responds to Doyle, tells him they've had issues with comm, and that they're working as fast as they can to backtrace sat photos. (I'm getting pretty good at the technobabble eh?)
Jack and Marilyn arrive in the main room and the head merc gets on the PA. He speaks directly to Josh, telling him that he needs to show himself to one of his men or else his mother will be shot. He gets a 10 count to show himself. Of course he does it too. Good for him. Saved his mom's life.
The head merc informs Cheng they have the boy and he orders him to bring the boy. Marilyn is forced to sit among the agents and Jack is still fuming on his knees.
I the final split screen, Lisa is still shagging Mark on camera while Daniels paces in the White House and CTU agents look on, horrified at the turn of events and at Milo's bloodied body.
Cheng makes a call - to Phillip Bauer. He tells him they have his grandson, physically unharmed. Phillip is the one who got the mercs into CTU and Phillip is the one fixing the component so that it's workable. He will turn it over when he has his grandson.
Blimey.
Jack wants to go on the Op despite still being under arrest. He tells Nadia that he knows how Cheng thinks having spent 20 months with him being tortured (but never broken.) "I caused this mess now let me clean it up." he tells her. But Nadia refuses. Defeated, Jack sits down. But when Nadia leaves, he starts taking stock of his surroundings. I think he's planning a bit of a jailbreak.
As Nadia briefs the team about to infiltrate Cheng's safehouse, I totally picked up a... vibe between Nadia and Doyle. Maybe I'm a little slow on spotting it but I think she's got herself a thang for the blondie. And I think he digs on her too. Maybe it's some form of Stockholm Syndrome or something that started when he was interrogating her earlier in the day. Or maybe she's just trying to make Milo jealous in which case I hope her replacement gets there soon because she's got bigger problems than playing a field agent and nerdy techboy off each other.
Moving on to Cheng himself, we find him presumably at his safehouse where a bunch of hardcore looking mercs are planning some kind of mission. Cheng and his tech person argue a little about whether the mercs (and I don't know if they're really mercenaries, they just look like it to me) are right for the mission. Cheng assures his techie that they are and he orders them to attack the target in 15 minutes.
Back at CTU, Josh (gosh I forgot about him and Marilyn) is watching news reports about the bomb and is quite upset about his father and grandfather's role in it. Marilyn does her best to reassure him. As she quietens him and gets him to rest, Chloe appears to ask Marilyn to go over the transcript of her statement. Chloe also tells Marilyn at Audrey is still alive.
In Washington, Daniels' chippy calls her boyfriend to try to convince him that the government has the component back in its possession. She hopes he will pass this info off to his Russian contacts otherwise she's screwed. Lennox and Daniels listen in on the call. It's quite awkward which amuses me mightily.
I have to pause for a moment. My neighbours have decided to pick this moment to have very loud sex on the other side of the wall in my room that I'm leaning against. It's erm, rather hard to concentrate on this recap while she fakes her orgasms.
...
Well, ok at least they don't take long. Back to the recap after which I will be looking for a new apartment.
Daniels' chippy/ex-assistant/traitorous twit is ordered by Lennox to go back to her boyfriend and find a reason to leave the room so he can access false documents they've planted on her PDA. She's afraid to do it. She thinks she won't be able to go through with it. Daniels coldly tells her he knows she can, after all, she's ben lying to him. Burn!
Back at CTU, Marilyn goes to see Jack to apologise for telling him Audrey was dead. But how could she have known she wasn't? Jack doesn't blame her. But when Marilyn tries to press the issue, Jack loses it just a little and tells her he doesn't want to talk about it. She backs off. But she tells him that she wants to bring Josh to see him before they go in the morning and Jack agrees. And then she tells him she'll 'be there for him' when this is all over. Even Chloe rolled her eyes at that. Is she making a play for him in the middle of all this? Eh?
Doyle and his team arrive on site. They hack past locked gates and make their way into the safehouse. These scenes are intercut with scenes of Cheng giving final briefings to his mercs, telling them their objective is to retrieve the "package." Not sure what the package is yet though but I'm thinking we're being given a bit of misdirection here and that Cheng and his men are not, in fact, at the safehouse but somewhere else. And yep. I was right. Cheng's safehouse was empty but they did find a stockpile of empty crates that were used to store weaponry and explosives. Doyle tells Nadia that it looks like the Chinese have enough arms to plan a major assault. Meanwhile Cheng's mercs have disappeared into the sewers which happen to be 180 yards from their target.
And what is their target? Why CTU of course. Oh dear.
As they make their way through the sewers to CTU, Lennox sends Miss Thing off to her boyfriend even though she complains of being frightened. He basically tells her to suck it up and get on with it. She enters her home and is greeted by Mark. But she's tense and acting wonky which he notices. He keeps trying to be lovey-dovey but she can't bring her self to groiny with him knowing Lennox and everyone is watching via surveillance. She keeps trying to head for the shower to leave him alone with her PDA but he won't let her. So she gives in and has no choice but to put on a webcam show for the boys in the van, otherwise Mark might get suspicious.
Cheng's team arrives at CTU and prepares to infiltrate. While they wait for Cheng's tech guy to take over CTU's systems, Milo and Nadia have a chat and Milo tells her he knows her feelings for him have changed and he's ok with it. I really hope the writers are going somewhere with these two because frankly at this point, I just don't care about them. And if it's just a bit of pointless fluff thrown in to fill time or whatever I'm going to feel cheated.
Anyway, Nadia tries to contact Doyle but can't get through. Everyone quickly discovers that all systems have gone kerflooey and no one knows why. Cheng and his techie smirk in the split screen as they watch the CTU agents scramble to figure out what's wrong and the mercs make their way into the building. Nadia calls a Code Red emergency lockdown.
The mercs blast their way in, and Jack gets his guard to let him out. Just as he tells him he's going to need a weapon, his guard is shot. So while the merc is checking other holding rooms, Jack sneaks out and takes the dead man's pistol and shoots the merc. He then swiftly takes out 2 other guys and gets himself a bigger gun :)
Back in the main room of CTU, the head mercenary demands to know who is in charge. Just as Nadia begins to get up, Milo steps up and tells him he is in charge. The merc then shoots him in the head.
Well damn.
Now I feel bad for my little rant above about Milo and Nadia. *sigh*
Some of the mercs force their way into Marilyn and Josh's room. One of them radios to Cheng, "We found Bauer. The boy is with his mother." and they start dragging him off. But Jack arrives and kills the mercs. I'm thinking Josh is the package. Marilyn tells Jack they came for Josh and he quickly realizes they need to get out of there. Telling them to stay close, Jack and his big gun lead the way through the mazes of CTU.
They make their way into a room with a big vent and Jack has Josh crawl through the space. Marilyn starts to follow but two more mercenaries burst in and Jack is forced to surrender. He and Marilyn are on their knees but Josh managed to get through the vent and now he's wandering around the ducts like John McClane (but decidedly less cool.)
The head merc receives a communication from Doyle an because of this Nadia's position is revealed. He orders her to respond to Doyle's call with the threat hanging over her that if she tries to warn him, he will shoot everyone in the room, starting with her. She responds to Doyle, tells him they've had issues with comm, and that they're working as fast as they can to backtrace sat photos. (I'm getting pretty good at the technobabble eh?)
Jack and Marilyn arrive in the main room and the head merc gets on the PA. He speaks directly to Josh, telling him that he needs to show himself to one of his men or else his mother will be shot. He gets a 10 count to show himself. Of course he does it too. Good for him. Saved his mom's life.
The head merc informs Cheng they have the boy and he orders him to bring the boy. Marilyn is forced to sit among the agents and Jack is still fuming on his knees.
I the final split screen, Lisa is still shagging Mark on camera while Daniels paces in the White House and CTU agents look on, horrified at the turn of events and at Milo's bloodied body.
Cheng makes a call - to Phillip Bauer. He tells him they have his grandson, physically unharmed. Phillip is the one who got the mercs into CTU and Phillip is the one fixing the component so that it's workable. He will turn it over when he has his grandson.
Blimey.
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This episode felt like one of those good old days episode of 24: every single minute was so crammed with such intense events that it was almost too painful to watch. It was so~oo nice. Anyway, I kind of felt it was significant that Josh mentioned how sick he felt about his family. I think it's setting up a final battle royal involving Jack, his dad, Josh, Marilyn, Audrey, Heller, and Chen. I think Josh will end up killing his grandpa, which sets off a series of events, in which pretty much everybody gets killed while Jack wages the explosive battle that he does when he's totally pissed jsut as he did in the final moments of the pilot season. Will see.
I dunno, this season has lost that touch. The great thing about 24 in the past was that it felt "real." I don't like storylines that keep revolving back to each other. ie. Josh being the package...and now the chinese need him to bring Philip Bauer back into the picture so we can come full circle. I mean isn't it kind of lame, especially for 24 standards. They have done this alittle in the past, but my god this season has really pushed the limit. I for one think this has been the worst season of 24. It is like they are trying to hard and they are afraid to step out and do something new. The same old patterns, attack ctu, there's a mole, dont listen to jack, kill a main character. This season has had some nice moments, but again to 24 standards we have all come to love...it has struggled all year and its falling flat on its face. Now yes its still more entertaining than 99% of the rest of television, but I miss the good old 24. What happened to it???
Yes, story lines that circle back onto themselves, but at least you can give them credit for being entertaining... Let's hope their lull in creativity this season is matched by something killer next year. About Milo's death, as cool as he was, I was so unmoved by this killing. It was chivalrous to say the least, but he gets no reward. What I'm truly lost by is the lead Merc's motivation -- WHAT IN THE WORLD was it? Answer my questions or this can happen to you? Move from your spot on the floor and see what you get? I mean everyone they off’ed before created an emotional response within me, but I felt nothing in this killing… I guess I might have if the camera captured Nadia looking at Milo lying on the floor in front of her in deep regret or something, and she hasn't even really done that. SENSELESS! *SPOILER ALERT* In next weeks preview, that statement being made by Phillip Bauer I’m going to take you to somewhere where we can be appreciated – CHINA! Isn’t that a hoot. Begs the question how much in bed he’s been with these fellas, including Cheng… Only thought that keeps passing through my mind is he probably knew exactly where Jack was the entire time when the Chinese had him – the old codger.
Melia, you can always order a pizza and have it delivered next door if they do this by the clock. Just a thought :).
Soup
I liked this episode. But it kept reminding me of a similar plot line in the 24 video game on the PS2.
I knew Papa Bauer would return before the end of the season. But wasn't he willing to kill Josh earlier in the season? Now he wants to save him? Or am I remembering this wrong?
Melia, you should invite your neighbors to watch 24 with you. At least that should make it less noisy. :-)
Great recap, thanks Melia!
I doubt Papa Bauer ever wanted to kill Josh. He just pretended and might have done it if he'd been forced. Josh is his heir and I guess he wants to have him back.
True, the whole scenario was a lot like the PS2 mission. But back then when I was playing it I kept thinking how cool it would be if they did it on the show. So I was totally happy with it.
Poor Milo. He was kinda useless throughout the season, but it still hurt to see him go down. Especially in such a cold and sudden way. :( I'm just glad Nadia is fine. I really, really like her by now. :)
I actually loved this episode. Although, I will agree that this season has been "different." Maybe it's just getting harder for the writers. But I thought this episode was great. I certainly was moved by poor Milo being shot - I didn't see that coming. And I thought Nadia reacted to it - she's basically in shock. And you have to revolve back to earlier storylines to wrap things up. I would've been annoyed if Papa Bauer hadn't come back into the picture. Hopefully the last few hours will be as good as this one.
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