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24: Live Another Day – Hour 12 recap
Previously on "24", we discovered: Heller plays pick up sticks with pills; Chinese spies travel via UPS; The Chinese President looks like Gorbachev; Chloe can hide in her sleep; Jack thinks he can stop bleeding by yelling; Audrey was about to be recaptured, ending the story on a happy note, but we have one hour left for her to somehow screw that up for everyone.
The following takes place between 10pm and 11 am, which is kind of weird, even for "24":
10 pm – Audrey's still on the bench. Cheng told her not to move from the bench, or she'd be killed. So, of course, Shao wakes back up, only being mostly dead. Shao attempts to tell Audrey to stay the heck away from her, but Audrey tries to help her anyway, and the sniper kills Shao. Cheng tells Audrey not to move and that he double-swears-cross-his-fingers-hopes-Jack-dies that he really, really means it this time. Audrey sits back down, looking like the worse person ever to feed pigeons, ever.
In the Russian embassy, which at the moment is completely devoid of Russians, Mark, Kate and Jack search for something to tell them where Cheng is. Jack discovers a secret compartment, marked "Secret Compartment – Hit Here!" in a drawer. It's got a cell phone! Jack uses the dead Deputy Minister's dead thumb to unlock the phone, and it has three messages on it. It has three e-mails about money for a shipment! They guess that's where Cheng is going to be, since they were all signed "Hugs, Cheng".
Mark's phone rings, and he's horrified that someone sent him a picture of Audrey. Cheng calls, and tells them all that Audrey will die instantly if they go after him. For some reason, they don't immediately go sprinting out of the building after Cheng.
Mark tries to argue that they need to save Audrey. Kate and Jack both look at him with an "oh well!" look. Then Mark gets really personal and tells Jack, "She loves you!" Jack immediately does what anyone else in would do in the same circumstance… he yells, "SHUT UP!" That was a very mean thing of Mark to say.
Kate and Jack discuss tactics further, and they decide Kate will go after Audrey. Jack is going after Cheng.
10:07pm – For some reason The President decides he wants to tour make-shift CIA headquarters and shows up there right during the middle of this crisis. Fortunately, all the military tactical personnel and equipment has moved as well, and in under 15 minutes. The military guys tell Heller that the Chinese are heading towards Okinawa. They all want to raise the nuclear alert level.
Chloe stumbles out of the woods looking like she really misses her workstation. A passing car stops. A couple jump out of the car, tell her that she looks just like "Chloe..you know, on '24'!". She asks to use their cell phone. She calls Jack.
Chloe tells Jack that Adrian isn't going to be releasing secrets any time soon, and that she wants to help Jack in any way she can. She convinces Jack that he should trust her, and he drives to pick her up. She signs autographs for the couple while she waits.
10:13 pm – Heller is on the video phone with the President of China. Heller does exactly what many Americans do when speaking to foreigners, he talks very slowly. It turns out that the Chinese President speaks English better than Heller does. Heller warns him that if the warships cross the twelve mile limit, there's going to be a fight!
Cheng arrives at the dock in his UPS van full of his guys. The captain says they're going to leave in fifteen minutes. Cheng wants to use express delivery, but the captain warns him that they're not going to be able to get them to speak passable Danish any sooner than 15 minutes.
At in the middle of nowhere, Jack drives up and Chloe gets in the car. Jack asks, "What the hell happened? You OK?" Chloe replies that's her new makeup, and he shouldn't be so judgmental. Also, she got banged up getting away from Cheng.
Jack tells Chloe where the laptop is, and she writes some subroutines while they discuss what happened. Chloe believes that Adrian used her knowledge to build the override device. That makes perfect sense, since Chloe is the only person on Earth that could build a device that could mimic her capabilities in getting into systems. She feels this is all her fault.
Chloe wants to know why Jack is alone, because perimeters are hard to make with only one person. He explains that they need Cheng alive, which surprises Chloe, since most people Jack goes after end up dead. Jack further explains that Audrey is pinned down by a sniper. Chloe doesn't see much wrong with this, since it is Audrey after all, but when she sees the look of distress on Jack's face she apologizes again.
10:16pm – Audrey, still on the park bench looks really nervous, especially since she didn't ask Cheng if she could go to the bathroom before she started to have to sit still.
Audrey's phone rings! She looks down at it, presses the button… it's Kate! The very first thing Kate tells her to do is don't do anything that makes it looks like she's in communication with anyone. And ESPECIALLY don't look down at the phone and press a button. Doing something like that would be SURE to tip off the sniper.
Kate tells Audrey to answer a couple of questions. Audrey stomps her foot on the ground answering "Yes" and "No" questions. Kate determines that Audrey has no idea where the sniper is, but thinks she has a good way of figuring it out. She's going to make Audrey move around a bit so the sniper will shoot at her when she makes a sudden movement! Sound like a completely safe plan to Audrey, so she goes along with it.
Audrey suddenly jumps up, and instead of ducking for cover, she moves straight towards the building she's facing. In exchange, the sniper gives her a bullet. In her park bench. (Not a euphemism). While this was going on, Kate watched for the sniper and thinks she knows where he is.
The sniper calls Cheng and tells him what just happened with Audrey. Cheng says that if the sniper sees anything unusual, such as sudden movement towards the house where the sniper is, looking down at a cell phone, not crying when shot… he has authorization to kill Audrey.
Kate calls Jack to let him know they're going to try to take out the sniper. Jack suggests that Kate shoot him, instead of trying to date him.
Jack and Chloe arrive, and Belachek is there waiting with a nice gun for Jack. Chloe can't get online to change her Facebook status, so she makes a run for the nearby satellite dish she spots. She runs off; Jack follows and yells for her. She stops, and Jack shoots a very dangerous looking door, which does not return fire. Jack thanks Chloe for everything, and asks her to pay off his satellite bill after she hacks into it.
10:24 pm – Kate calls Audrey. Audrey AGAIN looks down at the phone and presses a button, which is apparently is completely not suspicious to anyone. Kate tells her as soon as she hears gun fire, do NOT run towards it. Run away. Audrey stomps the ground once, indicating she understands. In her own little Audrey way, she understands.
Chloe's spent the last few minutes building a compete ISP using the satellite dish, a spare telephone and an empty bottle of Guinness. She's got an infrared Predator view of the cargo ship and will help Jack navigate through everything to kill some bad guys.
Jack and Belachek take out five guys immediately as they make they're way through the cargo container area at the dock. Then, just for fun, they try practice some Olympic Synchronized Sniper Shooting and take out two more simultaneously. The judges award a 10 out of 10, but seem very nervous as they hold up their cards.
10:26 pm – Jack and Belachek continue to make their way across the cargo area, occasionally pointing at midair, which they use to scare midair. They make it to the boat, and to celebrate, they shoot another guy. Chloe informs them that there are about a dozen other "heat signatures", which is CIA talk for warm bodies that are about to become cold bodies. Chloe thinks that Cheng is near a communication tower, since a lot of guys with guns are near it.
Inside that tower, Cheng's best hacker has figured out that someone is screwing around with the area's satellite dish, since he can't get the Food Network very clearly. Cheng asks the captain to contact his men, who unbeknownst to Cheng, if they could contact him at this point, would be contacting him from "the other side". When that doesn't work, Cheng tells his hacker to do something about it. The Chinese hacker guy tells Cheng he's going to try to mirror the intruder's screen. Cheng tells everyone to find whoever is on the ship.
Chloe tells Kate that she has to make her move right away, or they're going to have one less Audrey pretty soon.
Cheng gives the kill order!
The sniper, who's been sitting there with the scope on Audrey this whole time takes a couple of seconds to really line up the shot even better. Kate runs out and yells "Peek-a-boo!" and shoots at the window. Audrey leaps, but only moves a few feet away so she can see what happens. Another agent joins in on shooting. The sniper, being thrown back by all the gun fight, falls forwards instead of backwards, and out the window – dead!
Since there is no possible way there was more than one Chinese agent in the area, they all feel pretty comfortable with Audrey being out in the open. Kate calls Erik while they stand around. Kate informs Erik they they need some CIA help, and that they've got Audrey. Erik seems completely bewildered about what's happening, which is right in line of everyone else who has ever been in charge of something Jack is associated with. Erik orders guys over to help Jack.
Chloe is busy freaking out that someone is messing with her Internet, and tries to get it back, because she was right in the middle of posting something to Twitter.
Cheng pulls a gun and orders the captain to start the engines, and that they're leaving. The captain tells everyone of his guys to leave. For some reason they don't get the heck away from Cheng, and start the boat engines.
Jack and Belachek hear this, and Jack tells Belachek to go downstairs and do whatever he has to, to stop the boat.
Chloe, Audrey and the other agents take a leisurely stroll back to the gate where their cars are parked. Someone suddenly runs up and starts shooting in their direction! Two agents go down, and the guy runs off.
They all turn around, and Audrey discovers she's been shot! Kate yells a lot, which is what Jack did to try and stop the Russian from bleeding, but it doesn't work. Audrey cries one last tear, and closes her eyes. Jack is NOT going to be happy about this. Unless she comes back as a zombie. Which might have already happened. We're not sure.
10:36pm – At makeshift headquarters, the military guys are pretty pumped up about unleashing military stuff but Heller tells them to wait. Someone comes in and tells Heller's assistant he needs a word. The assistant gets the news (which we presume is about Audrey) and he makes every effort not to jump for joy.
Back on the boat, Jack and Belachek get into position. Kate decides this is the perfect time to tell Jack that Audrey is dead. Jack looks really bewildered. He pulls out his hand gun… he looks like he's about to do something really bad to himself. He hears some guys coming and decides to go all Jack Bauer on them, and mows a bunch of them down as soon as he sees them.
Jack calmly walks through the kitchen area, shoots a couple of guys and then shows off his knife skills by throwing a butcher's cleaver at someone, killing him.
Down in the engine room, Belachek's gun convinces the guy starting the engine to start stopping the engine.
Upstairs, Jack makes his way into the room where Cheng is. One of Cheng's guys goes out to see where Jack is. It turns out that Jack has a knife waiting for the guy's throat. This, as you might imagine, hurts enough to where Jack is able to steer the guy back into the room using him as a shield. Jack shoots the other people in the room, and then finishes off his human shield, just to be sure he's really good and dead.
Cheng tries to shoot Jack, but Jack kicks the gun out his hand. Cheng tries to use martial arts moves on Jack, but they can't counteract Bauer-Fu. Jack is so on fire with his moves that Cheng tries to use a fire extinguisher on him, but that doesn't work. After breaking Cheng's arm, Jack takes him down, telling him, "You should have stayed hidden like a rat! You're going to die an old man!"
Meanwhile, the Chinese carries have crossed the line and Heller tells the military guys they have permission to start fighting, which gets them super excited. Right at that moment, Jack calls in, so Heller tells them to stand down. This gets the military guys super-unexcited.
Jack, somehow, has a video call going back to Makeshift CIA Headquarters, and he shows everyone that Cheng is alive. CIA links with the Chinese, so they get the same video feed, which probably surprises the Chinese because they had an unlisted number.
While the facial recognition software does it thing, Gavin wishes he was using some of the apps on his phone, because they can do facial recognition much more quickly.
Jack yells at Cheng to admit who he is. Cheng doesn't say anything. Jack notices that the room they're in has all the standard issue Danish ship equipment, including a samurai sword. Jack grabs it and holds it to Cheng's neck, yelling at him to say who he is. Cheng finally say, "I'm Senior Chang!" and they get a facial and voice match. CIA confirms, and the screen goes blank.
10:42 pm – Heller leaves the room. And The Assistant With Audrey News goes with him.
Now off camera, Jack tells Cheng, "This is for Audrey!" He attempts to give Cheng a really close crew cut, but misses and cuts off his head. That's going to be a little awkward to explain.
Heller is on the video link with The Chinese President That Looks Like Gorby telling him that since Cheng is alive, this proves everything that he's been saying all along. The Chinese President says he'll look into it. Heller tells the Chinese President, now would be a good time to turn the ships around, since they're getting towards the end of the program, and having an all out war at the end of the season would be a bad way to end things. The Chinese President agrees, and orders his ships turned back. We hear swearing from over where the military guys are.
The assistant tells Heller he better sit down for the news he's about to give him. The assistant tells him the news about Audrey, and Heller falls to the floor. Mark looks on, and realizes something bad has happened.
Jack and Belachek run to find Chloe back where she was hiding…but she's not there! And there's Chloe blood on the ground! Jack gets a phone call. It's someone asking if he'd like to switch his long distance service. He hangs up. He gets another call, but we can't tell who it is. All we know is that Jack will be there for a meeting that's being set up.
10:50 AM – Twelve Hours Later! Whoa! Sorry… I must have dozed off.
Kate hands in her report to Erik. Erik tells her that it wasn't her fault about Audrey. Kate gives him a look as if to say, "DUH!". She still looks upset though. We can tell even after she goes into her glass office. She lays down her badge and gun, and leaves.
Mark's in a holding cell crying about his really bad day. Erik comes in and informs him he's won an all expense paid trip to Levinworth. Mark asks about the President, and Erik tells him they won't be dating anymore.
Prime Minister Frye tries to comfort Heller as Audrey's casket is unloaded. Heller admits he's losing his memory, and he'll never remember what happened to get him on this show in the first place. He walks Audrey's casket along with the military guard escorting it.
10:55pm – Somewhere outside London, a helicopter lands, because they do that freely around London. Jack and Belachek arrive. There are people holding guns on Jack everywhere. It's the Russians. And they look very Russian.
It's an exchange for Chloe! They take her out of the helicopter. Jack and Chloe start marching for the exchange. When they meet in the middle, Jack tells her the she really is his best friend and asks that she look in on his family.
When Chloe is safe, and Jack is with the Main Russian Guy, Jack does the typical Jack thing and threatens him. Jack says that if Chloe or his family is messed with in anyway, he'll come out of another retirement and do another "24" show. Maybe even one that is "24" episodes this time.
Jack gets on the helicopter with the Russians as Belachek and Chloe run for the car.
The helicopter takes off.
11:00 am – TIME'S UP! THAT'S IT!
Thanks to my friend John, who does a quick read on these things before I post them, correcting a zillion mistakes (I counted once….one zillion) so I sound better than I really am.
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to read these things too.
Most of all, thanks to Dave for hosting all this crazy stuff for us and playing along with these posts I do. Without him, we'd all be loose on streets on Monday nights, and nobody wants that.
[note: I post these over on Dave Barry's blog while the show is running first, and then here].
Author srpPosted on July 14, 2014 November 9, 2015 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, jack bauer, Live another day
Previously on 24, we learned: Nobody walks around London at night – they only ride the escalator in subway stations; The real reason Steve was arrested: He shot some beer kegs, which in some parts of England is still a hanging offense; Kate is REALLY good (and REALLY scary) during an interrogation; The Russians still think they can handle Jack, not realizing they're against Jack AND Kate; Adrian's attempt at becoming a professional bullet catcher did not end well; Cheng came back to play the biggest game of Battleship ever; when Chloe cries, Chinese ships explode.
The following takes place between 9pm and 10pm:
9pm – The President is getting debriefed, and for some reason Audrey is in the room. It's OK though, because no one appears to see her. An admiral announces that the Chinese carrier has spontaneously sprung mysterious leaks, due to mysterious explosions. They're pretty sure the leaks are coming from the holes in the ship.
Jack and Kate have been in a gun fight since last week, and it's still continuing. Kate suspects that these might be Adrian's guys. Jack thinks that if it had been Adrian's guys, they would have had their credit cards hacked. He thinks it's something more.
Cheng is looking over his 1-0 lead in his Battleship game, feeling pretty smug. Chloe asks why he'd attack his own country. It turns out that Cheng is a little bit ticked off at China. He says it's not his country anymore, but we're not really sure it was his to begin with. It's a pretty big place.
One of Cheng's henchmen is channel surfing and notices there's a pretty realistic gunfight happening on the "Jack vs the Russians" channel. Cheng, being super paranoid (and a little egotistical), thinks this is all about him. After finding a bottle cap he's convinced is a tracking device, Cheng tells everyone to pack up and leave.
Chloe, meanwhile, notices an iPhone on the ground. She tries to use her mental powers to make it move into her hand by staring at it, but fails. She falls on the phone on the way out, but Cheng notices and takes the phone from her. That model is not available in China yet.
Outside, Jack and Kate practice Just-In-Time gun management techniques and run out of bullets just as backup arrives. The federal agents announce themselves as "Federal Agents", which is kind of a weird thing to say in a foreign country where they have zero authority. It works though, because the Russians give up.
Jack tells everyone the override device hasn't moved. This is a good thing because a self-aware mobile override device is the LAST thing they need right now. Jack announces he's going after it.
9:06 pm – Jack goes into the building, pointing his gun at thin air the whole time. The air doesn't move, so he doesn't have to shoot it. He finds the room where Chloe and Cheng were, looks a little upset about all the dead bodies, but is much more upset that there's a fake override device transmitter just sitting on the desk.
Kate arrives. She doesn't seem very upset about all the dead bodies, or the fact that Jack might have shot them all. She finds a phone though, that just happened to be recording everything since the person died. Why in the world would someone who died sometime last hour just happened to be recording something, and how they happened to have enough spare room to do all that recording… well, it's a mystery.
It's also a mystery how it recorded Cheng talking, but nothing about what Kate and Jack just said. But that's not important. What is important is that Jack starts twitching as soon as Kate plays the recording, when Jack hears Cheng's voice.
At the embassy, where the President and his entourage are staying, there's a news report. The reporter seems really distressed that the Chinese carrier might have lost thousands of people. The reporter does not seem to be the least bit distressed that there was a CHINESE CARRIER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN OFF THE COAST OF GIBRALTAR. Nope. Nothing odd about that.
Jack calls the President and tells him Cheng is alive. Audrey looks visibly disturbed by this news. Ok…check that… Audrey looks even more visibly disturbed than she normally does. The President goes into this "talking to kindergarteners" voice and tells Jack that Cheng is dead. The President says knows Cheng is dead because some Chinese spy source swears it's true, and who wouldn't believe a Chinese spy over Jack Bauer. The President has also put on his super sleuth hat and has deduced that the override device was used to help blow up the Chinese carrier.
Jack tells The President that he's pretty sure Cheng is working with the Russians, since they showed up earlier. As soon as The President hears "Russians", Mark looks like he just created his own perimeter. The President tells Jack to get the device back so they can prove they had nothing to do with sinking the ship. Apart from owning the missiles. And the ship that shot them.
Audrey's having a full on panic attack now that she knows Cheng is alive. Or it might just be one of her regularly scheduled panic attacks.
At makeshift CIA headquarters, everyone is pretty much useless because Chloe doesn't work there anymore. They tell Jack that they have a lot of computers, but have no idea where the heck Cheng is. They do tell Jack that the Russians used his secret decoder ring frequency to track him. Only makeshift CIA headquarters and Mark knew about the code. Jack doesn't look happy, and leaves Adrian's Dead Hacker Lair.
9:16 pm – Cheng and company are in a UPS van. Cheng calls the Russian consulate guy, sounding a lot like Senior Chang. Cheng is worried about Jack, because he's pretty sure Jack holds a grudge. The Russian tells Cheng that he'll be able to leave the country via a Danish ship. Cheng gets excited until he's told that it's just a regular ship and has no pastries on it.
Kate is confused about why Cheng would want to start a war between China and the United States. Jack says that's because "the political landscape shifted" 10 years ago. Kate says, "What, like an earthquake?" Jack looks disturbed and says, "Uh…yeah, just like an earthquake." He goes on to explain that everyone in the intelligence community thought Cheng was dead. That's going to be quick a discussion thread on their message boards, ha ha! Kate wonders why Mark would have anything to do with this, and Jack looks anxious to "discuss" this with Mark in person.
Mark tries to convince Audrey to leave the room with all this going on. She says, "I like to think my country needs me too."
On behalf of the country, I would say "no".
The President takes a video call from The Chinese President, who looks a lot like Mikhail Gorbachov. The President tries to give The Chinese President the old "Whoops! It wasn't us! It was a bad guy!" excuse. While this is actually true, The Chinese President doesn't believe that. And he REALLY doesn't believe that Cheng is still alive. The President tries to pinky swear it's true, but The Chinese President doesn't believe him. He only tells Heller, "What ever happens today is on your head." The video goes blank. Heller freaks out, thinking something is in his hair, until someone explains to him what the expression means.
The President tells everyone that they should help Jack get whatever he needs to get Cheng. He puts Mark in charge. Mark lets out a nervous, hysterical laugh, but catches himself before anyone notices.
Audrey, thinking she still has some role to play in all this, says she has a secret friend from China that might be able to help. Heller plays along, thinking this is another one of Audrey's "special friends". It turns out it's a real person who Audrey met while previously working with China. Now, why Audrey would have been working with anyone remotely associated with China after what she went through before with Cheng, I have no idea. But she did. Her contact's name is Shao. Audrey thinks by letting the Chinese know there's a weakness in America's defense systems, she can convince them that the whole "blowing up the ship thing" was a mistake. Heller doesn't seem the least bit alarmed about letting the Chinese know about weaknesses in America's defense systems, so he lets her try this.
While this has been going on, the Chinese have been busy sending in planes and ships towards something. What something? Nobody knows, but it is probably a bad thing.
9:27 pm – Jack calls Audrey. Mystic "Risky Business" music plays in the background. Jack's about to tell her about Cheng, but she already knew because she was eavesdropping on her father's phone call. Jack says some thing are going to happen soon, that he's pretty sure she won't like. Audrey blows this off, because, I mean, what could Jack POSSIBLY do that's so bad, right? Oh, and she wants Jack to kill Cheng. A lot.
The President is getting a briefing, which is nice because he lost his briefs when he was debriefed earlier this hour. The military guys tell him that the Chinese appear to getting ready to attack Okinawa. One of the military guys really wants to pull out the nuclear weapons, because it'd be really cool. The President disagrees, just as Jack arrives. Jack requests a meeting with The President and Mark.
They go into another room where Jack pulls his gun on Mark. Jack wants Mark to confess about sending the Russians after him. Since the "Sorry!" thing seems like the thing to say, since the President just got done using that with the Chinese, Mark attempts to use that excuse. Heller reacts basically the same way The Chinese President did.
Jack points out that the Russian deputy minister is really a super duper spy, and calls Mark the "I" word. Heller wants to have Mark arrested, but Jack thinks it would be a lot more fun to take Mark on a "Ride Along" since he recently saw that movie.
9:38 pm – Erik sends information about the Russian deputy minister's home to Kate, Jack and Mark as they drive towards it. Kate and Jack seem completely calm about the whole thing. Mark is on his third set of Depends. Kate gives Mark a device to put in his ear, and a camera to put on his lapel for when he goes up to the house. This obviously will work, because cameras and communication devices are almost never ever detected by other spies. Mark wants to know what happens if "the bullets start to fly". Jack wants to tell him "Bullets don't fly! They're SHOT!", but tells him to stay low instead. Mark tries to apologize to Jack, but doesn't sound very convincing.
In the UPS van, Cheng and his guys are wondering why hacking into port security is taking so long, since getting into world's defense systems is so easy. When Cheng's security guy tries to explain iptables in greater detail, Chloe sees her chance. She grabs a metal bar and starts going all Jack Bauer on everyone. This surprises everyone, including Chloe. Before they have a chance to react, Chloe jumps from the van into the woods. All the guys leave the van. Chloe rolls down a hill, apparently knocking herself unconscious.
As the Chinese look for Chloe, an English military truck pulls up to the pitch black van with the Chinese guy dressed all in pitch black. The soldier in the truck asks if Cheng needs any help. Cheng is about to say that "no, we'll find her", but thinks better of it. After offering Cheng some tea, the truck drives off. Cheng decides to leave Chloe. The Chinese get back in the van and leave.
9:43 pm – The military guys inform the President that the Chinese are still on their way to Okinawa. A staff guy tells Heller that Prime Minster Stephen Fry tried to explain about the override device, but The Chinese President couldn't understand his English accent.
Heller pulls out some pills out and spills them all over the floor. He bends down to pick them up, and everyone tries to help him. No one says anything, but Heller shoots them a "If Anyone Makes a 'I've fallen and I can't get up" Joke, They're In Big Trouble" look.
One of the officers gets a phone call. The Chinese have fired missiles! And it turns out the super-secret surveillance satellites are now out of commission, and also not as super-secret as previously thought.
The other military guy suggests raising the Defcon level to 3. Heller agrees, and says they should also raise the ComicCon level to 3, just to be safe.
9:48 pm – Kate, Mark and Jack arrive at the Russian's house. Jack wishes Mark "good luck" while laughing under his breath so far we can't even tell he's doing it.
Mark goes to the front gate and asks to be let in to see the Russian deputy minister, which surprisingly doesn't work. The guy at the gate tells him to go away, or he'll taunt Mark a second time.
Mark insists on taking to the deputy minister on the phone, which he's finally given. Mark tells the minister that Heller knows about the forged signature and he wants asylum. Mark also says he's too cute to go to prison, and he's scared. Mark swears he'll be a great asset because he's attended intelligence briefings, he knows things about what's going on in Washington, and all the secrets about Area 52, which is even more secret than Area 51. This last part convinces the deputy minister, and after a brief ineffective search, Mark is let in.
When they get to the security panel, Jack asks Mark to move closer to it, which didn't look at all suspicious to anyone. Makeshift CIA seems to be surprised that the security is so high.
The deputy minister comes downstairs and tells Mark to follow him. The Russian security for rooms is similar to the CIA, because the room they go into has a glass door. Mark tells the minister that he'll need money, which appears to be the thing that convinces the minister.
CIA jams the security system, the gates open and the shooting begins! Also, all the security cameras that the minister was watching go blank, so he gets suspicious. He goes for his gun and there's struggle!
While Kate and Jack shoot various security people and tissue boxes explode all around them, the deputy minister and Mark go crashing through the glass door!
The Russian Deputy Minister finally learns why a glass door is a stupid thing to have to his office, because parts of it stick out of his neck. He pulls out the glass and blood spurts everywhere, which is going to make the security deposit on this house he's renting a lot harder to get back.
Jack arrives and tries to stop the bleeding by holding a towel to the minister's neck, and by yelling at him, asking where Cheng is. Yelling at him was the wrong thing to do, and he dies. Jack, for the first time in a long while, looks perplexed about what to do next.
9:56pm – Audrey meets with her friend Shao at the park. Audrey tells Shao about Cheng being alive. Then Audrey tells Shao about the device that can take over all the drones that exist, something I'm sure the Chinese would love to know. Audrey gives Shao a big hug as she leaves.
It turns out that was the last hug Shao was ever going to get because a bullet hits her, and she goes down. So do both Secret Service guys with Audrey. Audrey doesn't quite understand that bullets, hitting the ground and blood means "a bad thing"and doesn't move out of the way.
Her phone rings. It's Cheng! He tells Audrey to sit down! Oh no! He tells Audrey, "You may be allowed to live!" NOoooooooOOOOooo!
TIME'S UP! – Well, that's it for the show. Audrey was recaptured by the Chinese and everyone's happy! …WAIT! There's another hour? But that's the happy ending everyone was hoping for… aw….. ok. Well, in that case…
NEXT TIME ON "24" – GUN ON AUDREY! FORCES ENGAGING! CHLOE IS BACK! HELLER COLLAPSES! SHOOTING! CASKETS!
Author srpPosted on July 7, 2014 July 8, 2014 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, jack bauer, Live another day, synopsis
24: Live Another Day – Hour 9 recap
PREVIOUSLY ON "24" – We saw the make-shift CIA headquarters make an operating room appear out of nowhere; Kate and Jack were into trepanning – Simone, not so much; A baseball cap makes a great disguise; Jordan was paying attention in spy school; If you fly a helicopter anywhere in London no one will give it a second thought; Audrey cried….AGAIN; Completely open soccer stadiums in England with their lights on are just bait – they lay land mines in them at night; Margot and Ian were kind of surprised their plan worked; President Heller finally cracked up and went to pieces.
The following takes place between 7pm and 8pm –
7:00pm – Some needs to turn off the no smoking sign at Wembley. The Prime Minister is overcome with grief as the soccer stadium is blown up. He's also kind of upset about The President, and gives Audrey his condolences.
At make-shift CIA headquarters, everyone's wondering why Margot hates soccer stadiums so much. Kate explains that The President went out for a stroll, and exploded. Steve and Erik can't believe it. Creepy Stalker Guy reports that several explosions happened off the coast of Dover, and those probably weren't accompanied by exploding presidents.
At Margot's House of Stadium Hate, Ian and Margot decide to send the last drone in for a nose dive, since Heller kept his word. They both think Margot's husband (and Ian's Dad), would have loved what they did with the drones, since he always hated soccer too.
Ian decides to play the exploding Heller tape one more time, and notices it has a YouTube logo down in the bottom of the screen! It was fake! Heller probably wasn't there! They try and get the drone back.
HELLER IS ALIVE… or at least a remarkable facsimile of alive. Heller wants to know why he wasn't told about this whole plan. Jack starts to explain that he WAS told the plan, like about 50 times, but he finally gave up… So he tells Heller they couldn't risk it.
Chloe calls! All the drones are down! Yeah! Except for one… that looks like it is turning back. Boo.
Heller argues that he should have died in the first place, since he really wanted off the show. Jack says that he considers it a "good thing" that Heller didn't die. Heller seems confused by this whole "alive" and "dead" concept.
Belachek drives up in a car, and Heller goes to try and take his take-out order. Then he asks to be driven back to the Presidential Headquarters. Jack convinces Heller to "stay dark", so Jack can DO WANT HE DOES… and he runs off to the helicopter.
Heller tries to pull the whole "I am the American President!" ploy on Belachek, so he'll give him a phone to call the Secret Service. Belachek tells him, A) he's not American, B) this is not America, and C) it's a TV show. Heller looks confused.
Jack calls Kate and asks to be patched into the Presidential Suite. Kate says she can't do that since Jack is far away, but can probably do it with the phone call. Jack tells everyone that Heller is still alive, and everyone remarks how easy it is to hear Jack, despite him being in a noisy helicopter. Mark looks particularly happy that he won't be looking for a new job.
Jack tells everyone listening that Margot still has a drone and is probably a little ticked off and will attack London. Audrey says that she once had ticks, but everyone ignores her. Jack goes on to explain that Heller is with one of his guys, and they're probably out drinking somewhere while he takes care of Margot.
Kate asks Jack what he needs, and he says "man power". Everyone breaks into a chorus of "It's Raining Men", but then they go back to normal. Jack tells them he's going to take his quiet helicopter to find Margot, and that everyone needs to help Chloe as best as they can, because she's in a bar with dial-up and a Timex Sinclair.
Kate's worried about Jordan. Steve is MORE worried about Jordan.
7:12pm – Margot isn't worried about Jordan at all, she's more worried about what Ian is telling her about the drone possibly getting shot down. Ian just happens across some footage from the "24" that was shown just a few minutes ago which shows Jack talking to Heller. And a Sprint commercial, which they both agree is annoying. Ian wants to switch to AT&T and "reach out and touch someone", namely Heller, with the last missile. Margot has a better plan… she's going to teach Heller a lesson… in acting! No, my mistake. She wants to blow some people up. That'll teach him!
7:17pm – Jack is taking his time flying to Margot, and gives traffic reports as Chloe tries to track where Margot is. She calls Adrian.
Adrian is sitting in his new hide out while people from Best Buy London set up all kinds of equipment behind him. Chloe asks Adrian for help tracing the signal from Margot, since she can't triangulate it properly using the ancient bar technology she's having to rely on. Adrian just happens to have a brand new version of hacking software, which triangulates really well. We can tell his because it draws an actual triangle on the map.
7:20 p – Chloe calls Jack and tells him that if he lands his helicopter on the dot on the triangle, she's pretty sure that Margot will be dead because of a helicopter landing on her. Kate's on the line too, and they're both heading to Margot. Chloe suggests they shut off the power because that'll make it easier to find Margot and it'll tick her off at the same time, because no one likes losing their internet during 24.
Kate and Erik drive up, and she immediately knows this is the right place because people start shooting at her car. There's lots of shooting, and Jack seems a little jealous that he's not there. He tells Kate to take out a junction box that Chloe found while he lands on the roof. He hopes to land the helicopter on the roof too.
Meanwhile, the drone is headed to London, hoping to do some shooting of its own.
Jack lands the helicopter, and as a bonus gift, gets to shoot people right away.
Kate blows up the power box, and in a completely unbelievable display, the power company gets it back online within 30 seconds.
That's just enough time for Chloe to pinpoint the exact floor, room and rental agreement of the location that Margot and Ian are in.
Margot and Ian set the target to Waterloo station. That information is relayed to everyone else, and the Prime Minister calls for an immediate evacuation, because if people don't get out of there and they see that drone missile headed their way, there are going to be many immediate evacuations.
Back at the building where Margot is hiding out, Jack searches for other ways in, while Kate and Erik shoot as many people as possible.
The room where Margot and Ian are hiding out has really great glass because they appear not to have heard any of the shooting or explosions outside. Ian says now would be a great time to get away, since the drone is locked in. Margot really wants to stay, just in case the drone reboots or something. Ian thinks it would be a great time to become like a shepard and get the flock out of there, but after Margot pulls a gun on him, he decides to not get the flock out of there. Margot gives Ian a creepy hug.
On the roof, Jack pulls some electrical cable and ties it to a railing, because he's always wanted to go wall climbing in London. Meanwhile, the CIA guys with armor get shot down in a hallway by some of Margot's guys, while Kate, wearing no armor, doesn't get close to getting shot.
Jack repels off the building, going "hut hut hut" all the way to the room where Margot is. He can tell that's where Margot is because she finally hears a noise, and notices Jack dangling outside the window. Ian shoots the windows out, and foolishly goes to check to see what happened to Jack. Jack grabs Ian, and pulls him outside so Ian can get a better look at the ground, up close and personal. Ian takes this to an extreme and splats on the ground.
Jack climbs into the room. Margot, for some reason, has already put her gun back in her purse and can't get it out in time, so Jack shoots her… for being a terrorist AND for being stupid. The missile fires!
Chloe tells Jack what to do on the computer while he holds Margot in one hand, and types in commands with the other. He grabs Ian's video game joystick and diverts the missile to the water. The missile explodes exactly like the one at Wembley except with less dirt and more water. There are going to be a lot of swimmers that are angry about the hole in the water that's….wait… never mind.
At the presidential suite, they realize Jack saved the people at Waterloo station, and start applauding, even though Jack isn't there to hear it.
At Margot's Hideout of Failed Drone Attacks, she tells Jack that literally tens of people got hurt because of him, with hangnails, and everything. Jack doesn't take this very kindly, and decides to give Margot a flying lesson out the window, just like Ian's flying lesson. It ends the same way, and it's very messy.
7:33 pm – Belachek drives Heller back to the Presidential Headquarters, comparing his name to Madonna and Cher. Only as a guy.
The Prime Minister, Mark and Audrey all congratulate Heller on not dying and on ending the show about two and half hours earlier than anyone expected.
Jack is gathering up the equipment and wants to have the override device that Ian was using analyzed. Oh, and Margot and Ian are dead. Like dead, dead. Not like Heller "dead".
Kate and Jack exchange a meaningful, "Wow, isn't it great shooting people?" glances as Jack leaves and Kate gets a phone call.
It's one of the policemen Kate works with "in the field". He says, "I'm standing next to two bodies, and I think one of them is yours". Kate's pretty sure it's not her body, since she's standing in it right at that moment, so it must be someone else. She asks how the guy knows it's someone from the CIA, and he says "he's got CIA tattooed on the back of the neck", just like the clergy do with their diocese in England. Also state credentials in his pocket, which is a dead giveaway. Much like Jordan, who is identified as the dead guy. Kate's shaken up by this. Erik can't believe it either.
Kate calls Steve and he acts surprised that Jordan is dead! And REALLY surprised that The Cleaner's body is there too. People around him want to know what's going on, but Steve acts strangely as he moves away. Steve immediately goes to a cabinet in his glass-enclosed office, takes out a phone in full view of everyone, which if they happened to be looking at him after he acted so strangely, they would have seen… but of course no one sees it.
Steve calls Adrian in a panic, and asks Adrian for help getting out of there. All Adrian wants is the override the device. Steve just has to figure out a way to get it out of there.
7:44 pm – Jack is having a good time flying the helicopter, while Erik and Kate have a much less good time identifying Jordan's body. Using their powers of deduction, the policeman, Kate and Erik decide Jordan and unidentified guy killed each other. They're pretty sure because of all the bullet holes, blood and wrench impressions in heads. Kate asks for Erik's phone because he has a fingerprint-checking app on it, and she wants to know who the heck this unidentified guy is.
Chloe steps outside of the bar and receives a call from Jack. Jack wants her to look at the override device, but she refuses, and tells Jack goodbye. A car drives up, and proving that too much black makeup can do bad things to your brain, she gets in with Adrian, who thanks her for giving him a second chance.
7:46 pm – At make-shift CIA headquarters, Jack arrives with the device. Steve nervously looks on while the device is taken to a different room. Jack learns of Jordan's death and thinks this is really weird, even for 24. Jack calls Kate who sends Jack the fingerprint scan. Steve feebly tries to dissuade Jack from sending the fingerprints to someone who can figure out who the dead body used to be, but Jack isn't buying it. Steve looks REALLY nervous.
7:53 pm – Jack talks to his contact back in Washington, who still hasn't figured out who the guy is. He's even searching Facebook and Twitter. He says he'll call Jack as soon as he knows who the guy is.
The analyst who's been looking at the device is so good that he doesn't even have to touch the thing to realize it can break into any defense system, and it isn't just for drones. Jack wonders if that was really the case, why didn't Margot use it to control nuclear weapons. He's about to say something about that when he gets a phone call from Audrey. Jack leaves Steve alone with the analyst. Audrey wants to talk about how grateful she is that her crying cat collection is safe. Oh, and she's happy about her dad too. Jack receives a life-saving phone call, and is able to hang up on Audrey, because it's his contact back in Washington. He goes off to take the call and hangs up on her.
Steve, meanwhile, decides to give the analyst a very unwanted hug around the throat, making him pass out. No one notices this, even though there are windows all around. Steve takes the device.
Jack's contact tells Jack that the dead guy is really working for Steve Navarro. Jack goes after him.
Steve leaves the building and Jack follows. Steve very stupidly starts shooting at Jack, and we know it's serious because they start using colored green lights everywhere while they chase each other. Steve's a remarkably good runner for someone in dress shoes, and he outruns Jack.
Elsewhere, Chloe gets out of Adrian's car at a gas station, probably to go to the little developer's room. Adrian takes the opportunity to call Steve, who wants to know what Adrian wants to do with the secret "control any defense system" device. They plan to meet at a place nearby.
Chloe gets back into the car and KISSES ADRIAN. Thousands of heads of "24" fans all over the country explode. Adrian and Chloe drive off.
TIME'S UP!
NEXT TIME ON "24"! SHOOTING! ADRIAN HAS THE DEVICE! NUCLEAR SUBS! LAUNCHING MISSLES! CHLOE IS SEEING THE DOWNSIDE OF BEING ADRIAN'S GIRLFRIEND! SEE YOU NEXT TIME!
Author srpPosted on June 24, 2014 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, hour 9, jack bauer, Live another day, recap, synopsis
PREVIOUSLY ON 24: Steve talked to his hat after he nearly exploded; Jack asked permission to take Kate out so they can go thigh shooting together; Jack then asked Kate to hang out with some of the friends he's been around recently, but she misunderstood what "hang out" meant; Navid's perfectly good cell phone was almost thrown away along with his body bag; The Prime Minister proved he has American instincts when it comes to trusting Jack; Rask misunderstood Kate's request to be drilled on questions for an upcoming CIA test; Rask was so upset by this he pulled the pin on a grenade and exploded into a thousand pieces of confetti; Simone's sister-in-law didn't get the point, until she got the point; Simone looked like she got hit by a bus; Steve turned out to be a mole, and while I have this opportunity, I should remind people not all people named Steve are moles.
The following takes place between 5pm and 6pm:
5:00 pm – Simone is in the street being treated for her wounds after getting hit by a bus, so naturally the police continue to ride horses around right on top of her. Simone's niece identifies her as the killer of her Mom.
Across town, Kate loses count of all the bodies they're already taking out of the factory they just had a shoot out in, so she's not sure who's ahead on the scoreboard, but we think it's Jack. Jack notices that his friend Belacheck is one of the people NOT killed during the raid, and releases him back into the wild, much to the chagrin of the MI-5 agent in charge. Chloe calls Jack to tell her the results of her "Where's Simone" game, which turned out to be pretty easy because Simone was the only one wearing a red and white striped knit hat and matching sweater. Also, the only one that got hit by a bus.
While Chloe is on the phone, Chloe's computer, which is always looking out for her, prints a "GET OUT OF THERE!" message. It's clearly the computer used to win the Turing contest. She sees the police coming into the building, and gets the heck out of there, while Jack and Kate also get the heck out of where they are.
Back at the President's office, Mark explains that a message he's just given the president is coordinates for Margot. The President wants to know if they can trace the video stream back to her, and Mark points out that a piece of paper doesn't have a video stream, since it is just a piece of paper.
Jack calls the President and tells him about Simone. Jack thinks Margot hasn't figured out that Simone has been hit by a bus yet, which is a pretty good bet since Margot (for the time being) doesn't have superpowers to allow her to find that out. The President, under the impression he can do whatever he wants in whatever country he's in, says he'll send someone to the hospital to guard Simone. Jack also complains that MI-5 was there, which really put a kink in his thigh shooting, since he couldn't just shoot everyone in sight. The president says he'll take care of that, and conveniently the Prime Minister arrives.
The Prime Minister and the President have a yelling match, complete with spit flying out of each others mouths, which is frankly yucky. The Prime Minister pulls out the "hey, tell me about your health" card. Heller says, "If you have a question about my health, you should have come and asked." This confuses the Prime Minister since he JUST ASKED THAT. The President is really upset by this, enough to say that he'd resign from trying to sell gold to people, if that's what it took.
The President goes on to explain that Jack has a line on Margot, but more like an idea of how to get to her, rather than something with Cartesian Coordinates. The Prime Minister promises he'll do everything he can to help Jack.
Meanwhile, on the ambulance, the paramedics talk about all the various injuries Simone has, trying to make each other barf. They even get to the chopped off finger, but neither of them even come close to hurling. Just then, her phone rings! It's Margot, calling from the House of Don't Send Your Daughter Out To Kill Her Sister-In-Law Because She'll Screw It Up. The paramedic explains that Simone challenged a bus to a fight, and lost. Margot says she'll go to the hospital right away, and hangs up… just as the paramedic asks her name. For some reason, Simone has the only smart phone on earth that doesn't display caller ID.
Margot, clearly upset that Simone is on her way to the hospital, tells her son, Ian, to send Karem to the hospital to see if anyone knows who Simone is. Ian looks worried that Margot may be catching Heller's forgetfulness, but makes the call.
5:15pm – At CIA HQ in London, Jordan is playing the ASCII game "Find the Missing Pieces" on the data file that Steve the Mole told him not to look at. He's interrupted by a creepy guy named Gavin who stalked up behind him, to ask for some "files".
Steve gets a phone call from "Unknown" which, in every single movie that's ever happened, is not a good thing. Of course, Steve picks it up. It turns out it's Husky Voice, who tells him Jordan is decrypting the files using a very recent version of Norton Utilities, so Steve better hurry before Jordan figures out the whole "Mole" thing. Husky Voice turns out to be Adrian! And Adrian really wants Steve to do something about Jordan right away.
At the hospital, Jack runs in with Kate and yells "Are you in charge?" The Agent there says no, her name is not "In Charge", it's Helen.
5:17pm – Helen explains that Simone can't do much talking, being unconscious and all. Kate goes downstairs to talk to Simone's niece, who they mistakenly name "In Shock".
The doctor comes out and tells Jack that he won't be able to talk to Simone, until Jack uses Jack Voice to explain that he will be able to speak with Simone and this is exactly the droid he's looking for.
Karem shows up at the hospital, and doesn't look the least bit suspicious looking all over the place, while he searches for a place to steal a hospital outfit.
Kate finds Jasmine, Simone's niece, and offers her a butter beer. Jasmine explains everything that happened at her house, and sounds completely normal until she gets a sinister sound in her voice when she says that she hopes Simone dies. Kate relays this information to Jack, and tells him that since Simone was trying to warn her sister-in-law to get out of the city, there's a good chance she could turn on her mother.
And what do you know, Karem is already finished changing clothes and just happens to overhear this whole thing. Margot gets crazy eyes when Karem tells her that Simone was trying to warn them to get out of London. She tells Ian to move a drone within range of the hospital. Ian thinking about pointing out that it's more of a fly the drone thing, not move, but thinks better of it, when Margot tells him that Simone is not about to betray her again.
While watching The Prime Minister Channel, Jordan gets called into Steve's office to "pick up a package" at a houseboat. Jordan thinks this a little weird since he's not technically a "field op" but more of a "sys op". He's pretty excited though, since anything would beat having Gavin sneak up on him again, so he thanks Steve and goes out into the field. He quickly returns and says he'll head to the houseboat instead of the field, because fields don't usually have boats in them.
At Mark's office, he and Audrey watch The Prime Minister Channel too. We see that it has the caption "The Prime Minister Speaks", which is apparently a new thing, so new that they have to point that out in a caption. The President enters the room and tells him that he faked his way through the whole "health" thing with the Prime Minister. He tells Audrey that it was "Arrogant, vain and stupid" to think that he could remain in office, while simultaneously pointing out that "Arrogant, vain and stupid" is Audrey's nickname.
The President tells Mark to get the Vice President up to speed on turning over the presidency, which upsets Mark because he's clearly been sucking up to the wrong person for a long time now.
At the Hospital, Jack looks at Simone's chopped off finger and is clearly impressed by the blood clotting capabilities of her body. Kate entries the room as Jack wakes Simone. He asks if, since she tried to warn her sister-in-law about the London bombing, it'd just be darn swell if she would help him find Margot.
Simone doesn't like this at all. Seems her attachment to her finger, or lack thereof, hasn't made any difference, and she says she won't betray Margot. Jack presses on what's left of her finger, and asks if that's the little finger that went "weeeeee! All the way home". Simone says that her mother would never hurt her, it was only a flesh wound, and passes out. Kate goes out in the hallway to barf. She appears to be more upset that Jack pressed on the finger, than all the terrorists they shot less than an hour ago.
Out in the hallway, Jack immediately recognizes that a guy in the hallway, who happens to be Karem, shouldn't be there. Helen, who is talking to a police officer, tries to get Karem to stop right there. Karem shoots! It must have been a heck of a shot too, because the police officer that Helen was just talking to completely disappears! Karem fires a few more times and runs!
Jack and Kate give a short chase, catch up to Karem just as two officers fire on him twice, killing him. Jack's sure he's dead because instead of just two bullet wounds, there are three, two in the chest and one in the arm and a gun by his elbow. The gun by the elbow is clearly physically impossible, unless Karem was one of those elbow sharpshooters. Jack finds Karem's phone, and Margot has posted on Karem's Facebook page that he has a very short time to get out of the hospital.
Jack uses his Jack Voice to tell Helen to clear the hospital because it's about to be blown up. Kate runs off to the bathroom. Or maybe to get Jasmine. Maybe both.
5:40 pm – Chloe's at a place where anyone in their right mind, knowing what was about to happen, would go: a pub.
Back at Margot's House of No Betrayals Allowed, Ian loves the fact that he spent all the time he did on Air Flight Simulator, because it makes this drone thing a LOT easier to fly. Which is a good thing, seeing how touchy Margot is being today.
At the Hospital, Jack races through while on the phone with Chloe. He runs into Simone's room and tells her that Margot is about to blow up the place. Simone swears her Mom would never, ever do such a thing. Jack says, "Fine, you believe that? Stay here." He drops her right there and walks off. Simone says, "Wait… by 'never do such a thing', I meant 'of course she would do such a thing'". Jack grabs her and gets her moving again.
Kate races through the hospital and can't find Jasmine where she left her. This surprises Kate, because, for some reason, she expected a little girl to hear sirens and people evacuating the hospital to be right where she was before. Because only a really stupid kid wouldn't leave. Well, it turns out Jasmine is a really stupid kid, because she's just about where Kate left her. Kate grabs Jasmine and leaves.
Back at Margot's House of the Incredible Drone Flying Gizmo, Ian is really excited to try out some of the new features in the program he's been playing.
The hospital continues to be evacuated, while Margot and Ian launch a missile which hits the hospital. It turns out that Ian is REALLY good at the simulator. So good, in fact, that he and Margot get an image of Simone, Jack and Kate getting into Jack's car, even though the image is in reverse black and white. This can easily be explained away by the reverse black and white images of her children that Margot has hanging up in her house.
Anyway, Margot tells Ian to fire a missile. Good thing it was one of those discount missiles without a homing mechanism too, because Jack's car is able to get out of the way of the missile just at the last second. The explosions pretty much convince Simone that her mom is a little bit ticked off. Well, that and the horrific devastation that the missile just caused to everyone at the hospital.
Jack's not sure where the drone is, so he drives like a maniac, which is to say, like an American driver, through the streets of London. Ian fires, but misses. It's not a completely loss though, because it takes out a blood pudding factory, which is really gross anyway. The whole building explodes.
Jack turns the corner, right into a traffic jam. He tries to back up, and when he can't, he does what anyone else would do: He gets out of his car, belts someone in the face, and takes off in THEIR car. Kate brings Simone along. They jump into this new car, and get away. Ian misses his opportunity because he's more interested in narrating what he's doing, instead of just doing it and firing the missile.
Jack drives to a tunnel. He jumps out of the car and tells Kate they need to get another car, which happens to drive by just at that moment. Jack orders the guy driving out of his car, which he does. Then Jack goes to a homeless guy, takes the guy's favorite brick, tells the guy not to move, and uses the brick to press the gas on the first car they were driving. The car speeds out of the tunnel, and Ian takes the shot. The missile hit the car and it explodes. So does the car. The homeless guy is a little ticked off that 1) Jack didn't even tell him to duck, and 2) that was his favorite brick.
Ian is really happy that the car exploded, and asks Margot how many points that was worth, because the score wasn't coming up on the screen. These drones have very good cameras, because Margot notices that the car was empty.
As they drive away, Kate mentions that Simone is in rough shape. It was probably the black eyes, the cuts on her cheek and missing finger that tipped her off.
5:52pm – Jordan is still on his way to the house boat, which is named Sophie. The doors, are strangely locked, which throws Jordan off. Then he's hit in the arm by a bullet, which really throws him off… the boat. The guy who shot Jordan looks for him but doesn't see a body.
Meanwhile, Mark meets up with the Russian Deputy Minister. The Minister wants "The Criminal Jack Bauer". Mark tries to explain that Jack can't really be turned over at the moment, because he's busy saving the day. And besides his name is currently "The Hero Jack Bauer". The Minister knows the real truth about the extradition papers though, and tells Mark he's pretty sure that Heller never signed any papers to turn over Jack. He's also aware of Jack's previous relationship with Mark's wife, Audrey. Then Mark says something we ALL wish would have happened to this season of 24: "Leave my wife out of this".
Mark explains that he just can't run out and get Jack to turn himself over. The Russian basically repeats this, and just can't believe it. Mark says that he'll turn Jack over as soon as Jack saves the day.
The President watches the report of the hospital attack and calls Jack. He wants to see Jack at his office ASAP, even though Jack is out in the field trying everything he can to save the day. Jack tells Kate that they're going to a place to try and save Simone long enough to get her to talk, and that he has to go to talk to the president. They might actually slow down the car for one or both of these events.
A minion brings the President a paper on Margot with her channel information. It's in cartoons so he can understand it. The minion drops off The President's "good jacket"
5:57 pm – Jordan crawls out of the river! It's a yucky river too.
The President calls Margot, and they talk pleasantly to each other. He asks Margot if he can trust her! He's clearly insane. Margot says he can trust her to end this. He says he's already made his decision about turning himself over.
NEXT TIME ON 24 – SIMONE ISN'T GOOD! GUNS ON DOCTORS! THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO GO WATCH TENNIS! MISSILES! SEE YOU NEXT TIME!
Author srpPosted on June 17, 2014 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, hour 7, humor, jack bauer, Live another day
Previously on "24" – Everyone ignored Jack's warning, again; Simone really didn't have Navid's back; Audrey spoke in tongues to Jack, and tried to poke out his eye with her nose; I couldn't tell whether that guy was named Navid or Navin; The Margot Channel is a new cable station in London; Downton Abbey exploded.
4pm – Steve and Erik are explosive proof! President Heller is surprised that the bombing of Downton Abbey is an ambush! What a surprise. The Prime Minister is pretty upset about the bombs, but a little more upset that the President seems to be repeating himself.
On the way out, an assistant tells the Prime Minister that Heller might be getting a wee bit forgetful.
Heller meets with Jack. He tells Jack that Margot has commandeered a whole bunch of the drones, and intends to use them. He'd like to know if Jack's "special friend" will help them, or if he's imaginary, the way all the little people dancing in the room with them are "imaginary". Jack says this guy is the only chance they've got, but he can't be bought. Not even at a discount.
Outside at the bombed out site, Steve (no relation) is still a little woozy, and is talking to his hat. He recovers, and begins talking to the camera that's on his hat, which is linked back to the CIA make-shift headquarters where Jordan is listening.
Heller calls Steve, and tells him that Jack is going to operate in the dark. No light bulbs or anything. It might scare the patient, but it will be completely worth it to see the look on their face after the surgery. They convince Jack that it would probably be a good idea to go out into the field instead. Heller says they should give Jack whatever he needs, plus silence, which means no Audrey. Jack says that he'll need an unmarked car, a clean phone, field interrogation kit, a weapons package, and Kate. Mostly the guns.
Jordan tells Kate that she's back in the field, with Jack! Jordan's worried that Kate won't have any backup, but forgets that Jack IS the back up.
Back at the House of Margot's TV Station, Ian is taking a flight with the drones that looks a lot like a scene from the Neverending Story. Then he makes a serious mistake by telling Margot he's worried about Simone, forgetting the last person that was worried about Simone is dead. Margot slaps him for it.
Upstairs, Simone just keeps staring at Navid. So much so that it creeps everyone out and they wrap Navid up in a tarp. And as it turns out, Navid gets a phone call. Seeing as he's being in-disposed (ha! A pun!) right now, they decide to get it. They were going to throw out a perfectly good phone! Oh, and Navid's sister is expecting a pick up at the airport, so they can get out of there.
Margot doesn't like this one little bit, and tells Simone that she should go find out what Navid's sister knows about The Operation. Margot really wants to know how to get that wrench without touching the sides.
4:14 pm – Jack gets ready for a thigh shooting, when Mark comes into the room to give Jack something from the CIA. He picks this time to try and talk to Jack about Audrey, which is pretty impeccable timing. Jack tells him that if he makes it through today, it's unlikely we'll ever see Jack again, but the money was good so he's on the show. But as he leaves, Jack tells Mark that Audrey thinks he's a good man.
Jack calls Chloe and asks to be put on speaker with Belcheck. She seems to be having trouble because they immediately cut to…
…a briefing of the Prime Minster with the RAF. The Prime Minister has a knock down drag out argument with him, which consists of very polite conversation.
Heller calls the PM, and the PM points out that Jack is a wanted man, a major actor, and he shoots thighs a lot. The PM also says that if Heller is wrong, it's England that will suffer if Jack is wrong. Heller points out that the US suffered even when Jack was right, but not nearly as much as if he'd not been there in the first place. He asks the Prime Minster not to deploy troops until the next episode. They hang up, and the PM decides to have MI-5 follow Jack.
Jack and Kate meet outside, just to prove they're in London. Jack wants to know why she's been told to leave London, and we're reminded…AGAIN…that Kate's husband is a bad, bad guy. Just in case we didn't hear it during every one of the last few weeks. Jack tells her his plan: Shoot some thighs, do a little stunt, and get down tonight. And get Margot via Karl Rask. Kate asks how Jack knows him, and it turns out that during his down time for the last few years, Jack has been working for Karl, doing some thigh shooting. Jack points out that this might not go all that well, because Rask, just like just about everyone else around, would probably like to shoot Jack.
Chloe calls and uploads everything she has on Rask to Jack, and tells him she'll infect his phone with Windows ME so they can trace him.
Mark finds Audrey at her desk where she's busy with crayons. Mark asks about Jack, and Audrey says that wasn't necessary because she's less crazy than she used to be. Mark gets a phone call. The caller says he's from the Moscow Papa John's, which is code for the Russian Foreign Ministry. He leaves.
Mark tells him that Jack extradition order has been rescinded, which makes the minster upset enough to say that he won't be delivering the pizza after all. He also asks very cryptically if there's a reason Heller shouldn't want to talk to Moscow. Mark points out that the last time Heller was in Moscow he did talk, but does NOT point out that Heller was actually trying to talk directly to the city itself. Mark suggested they meet privately later, in another episode.
Jack explains that he's been acting freelance in cleaning up bad guys, and that we missed at least two days where he took out some bad guys, and they would have made great seasons of 24. Jack goes on to explain that the only way he can think of to convince Rask to go along with anything is to have Kate act as a hostage. And, oh, she'll have to be drugged when brought in there. Kate looks as if she's not to sure about this. Jack tries to reassure her that there's a pretty good chance they'll both end up dead. So, in that case, of course Kate says she'll go along with the plan and injects herself! Good thing that wasn't the poison vial.
4:29 pm – At CIA make-shift headquarters, Steve gets back from the field and Jordan points out that the plot point they keep talking about over and over and over has a new twist! The hard drive that some evidence is on has something wrong with it. Steve says that they don't have time to screw around with it. He seems worried about his browser history.
Out on the street, Simone meets Navid's sister, who seems super suspicious about Navid's last message, and the fact that Simone looks really weird in a head scarf. Just then, Navid's sister's daughter comes out of the store, which is supposed to look like a school, but doesn't.
At the Prime Minster's headquarters, his assistants show how badly their television coverage of London is by showing a crayon drawing video of Jack putting Kate in the truck of the car. The PM points out that this might be some kind of weird American dating ritual, but then tells his assistants they should go get their Legos and assemble a team: They're going after Jack!
At what appears to be an abandoned garage where Rask is hiding, Jack is fortunate enough that that A) they're still there and B) they haven't changed the security code. Jack punches up the code, drives in and promptly gets shot at. They get him out of the car, and he gets kicked a few times. Jack says he even has a CIA Christmas present, and convinces them that he's telling the "truth". One unexpected twist: They have some drugs that'll wake Kate up, which is not according to plan.
What do the thugs do? They drag Kate out of the back, take off her shoes and socks, and shoot her up with the serum, because serum works better with your shoes and socks off.
On a nearby roof, Jack's Checz buddy is watching through the only available scope, which is attached to a gun.
4:39pm – Simone calls Margot's House of Slapping, and tells Margot that Navid's sister doesn't know squat. Margot tells Simone she has two loose ends to take care of. Simone agrees while watching her scarf… and then she realizes she's talking about Navid's sister and daughter.
A thug tells Kate "Wakey-Wakey, Lemon-Shakey", which doesn't work until they chain her up. But she doesn't talk.
Thug number two brings out a lot of evil-looking torture stuff, and cuts her leg, which will mean she will not be able to return those pants before she leaves London. Thug 1 throws water all over her, and electric shocks her!
Chloe tells Jack that Rask just needs log into his account, and that they'll all be good.
Rask is a little suspicious of Jack. He says that if Jack opened an account, he must of dealt with Metzker and gotten a free toaster for opening the account. Rask just wants to know that brand of the toaster. Failing that, he wants Metzker's first name.
Chloe does a quick Google search and can't find the name. Jack takes a chance, and says there's no Metzker at the bank. Rask nearly shoots him, but then admits that Metzker doesn't exist! Jack hands over the login codes.
Meanwhile, Kate is going to get drilled for information, with a real drill. Belcheck gets nervous, wants to save her and just as he's about to pull the trigger, a soldier comes up from behind and knocks him out! It's MI-5, which for Kate, Jack and Chloe is very bad timing. But mostly bad for Kate.
4:51pm – MI-5 goes jogging on a roof. Meanwhile Rask gets connected and uses his thumbprint to log in.
Kate lies and tells Thug 1 and Thug 2 that she knows this great Indian place to go eat, which stalls them for a minute.
Rask enters everything but the enter key, when MI-5 finishes their jog and crashes the party. All they need to do is hit the enter key!
Thug 1 and Thug 2 hear the commotion, and Thug 1 leaves. Kate takes this opportunity to do a double behind the back double leg strangle on Thug 2, which she got top honors in at CIA school. A knife drops to the floor as they both hit the ground. Kate is able to grab it with her hand still behind her back, and stabs Thug 2. The nearby judges award straight 10's for style.
Meanwhile, MI-5 is shooting at anything that moves. This proves good for Jack because one of the things that was moving is a guy with a gun. Except he's not moving anymore, right next to Jack. Jack grabs his gun, hits the "enter" key, and blows something up in one swoop.
Kate, not to be outdone, unties herself, dives across the floor and shoots a bad guy who looks like he's never shot a machine gun before.
Jack catches up with Rask, and orders him to the ground, which surprises Rask quite a bit. The MI-5 troops come in. Jack announces to everyone that he's really undercover for the President of the United States. Of America. Over in America. They take this at face value. Rask, seeing an opportunity, grabs a grenade from one of the soldiers, pulls the pin, and holds it against himself! He blows up…and what do you know, he's made out of paper, because that's all we see explode.
Chloe asks Jack how he's doing, and he's OK, just because he was only just almost blown up. They find a number on Rask's bank account they can use to trace a phone, which Chloe starts to do.
Back at Navid's sister's place, Simone looks nervous about this whole "killing" thing, and finally just tells the sister to leave. The sister makes the wrong move and tries to call the police. Simone "accidentally" kills the sister, which the young daughter witnesses. The daughter escapes, runs through traffic. It's been a while since Simone's done that, and in an attempt to catch a bus, she catches a bus incorrectly.
At CIA headquarters in London, Steve (REALLY no relation…REALLY) calls a mysteriously disguised voice, and tells the voice that Jordan has found the missing sectors. The voice tells Steve that they better not recover those files.
NEXT TIME ON 24 – Jack at the hospital! Simone's not dead! A doctor at the hospital uses guns for surgery! Jack dodges missiles!
Author srpPosted on June 3, 2014 June 17, 2014 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, 24 parody, jack bauer, Live another day
Previously on 24 – Heller gave a speech to the Parliament, which we were thankfully not present for, because it might have turned us comatose; Embassies still make air ducts that are easy to get into and human-sized; Audrey – AAH! (Sorry, should have warned you); Chloe was frustrated by cable bandwidth uploads; Navid was convinced to fly the drones after Simone gave her mother the finger; Kate sat on Jack to save him from the Marines, which we've heard is a well-known CIA move.
The following takes place between 3pm and 4pm
3:00 pm – Cardaro has a complete hissy fit in front of Kate about not being able to shoot Jack like he wanted. Jack's "in custody", which for Jack means he's just waiting to beat them up. The marines can't find the flight key, and for some reason it doesn't occur to them that Kate might have it. Jack dials his Jack Attack meter to 0.5, and wiggles around a bit creating a diversion. Cardaro tells Kate to leave. He very clearly needs to switch to decaf.
Kate exits, and calls Chloe even before she's ten yards away from the rest of the marines, who are standing around not looking very marine-like. Chloe suggests that Kate get to a computer with a 4G network to upload the data. Kate thanks her for a very nice product placement, and hangs up.
Erik arrives, and as he and Kate walk out to the car, they discuss how the heck they're going to prove that Jack is telling the truth about the drones being hijacked. Kate points out that even though they have these guys from the "24" show following them around filming their every move, no one would believe them. Instead, she says they'll have to use the flight key to prove Tanner, and therefore Jack, is telling the truth. Erik says, "Tell me that's not the flight key". She makes a shadow puppet with it and says it's actually a really old metal cigar. Erik looks relieved until he realizes she was telling the truth in the first place. Kate tells him that Chloe needs to get the data, and he says, "This is crazy!" Kate says, "This is '24'." Erik realizes she has a point.
As they drive away, Kate tells Chloe she has a computer. Chloe tells Kate to put the flight key in the USB port, and even though the flight key looks like completely ancient technology, it fits in the computer, and begins to upload the rest of the data to Chloe. Kate marvels at this, since even booting her computer takes 20 minutes.
Over at Margot's House of Nine-Fingered Gloves, Navid attempts to wrap what's left of the fingers of Simone's hand with super gauze – super gauze because there's not the hideous amount of blood you'd expect. He leaves, and Margot comes over to her. She tells Simone that she knows Simone is in pain and confused, much like every viewer of the show. It turns out that Margot does have a heart after all, and she tells Simone that she shouldn't blame herself for having a guy cut off her finger. And besides, she'll be able to count in base 9 a lot more easily now. Margot says it's her fault, and if she'd known what Navid was planning, she would have acted sooner, which we can only interpret as cutting off Simone's fingers even earlier than she did. Margot leaves, but she looks concerned that Simone might still be upset.
Margot comes downstairs. Navid tells her not to hurt Simone anymore. Margot asks, "Where are we?" Navid says, "We're in your house!", and then catches himself and tells her that four of the drones are right on schedule for some terror later on in the show.
Back at Chloe's Hack-o-rama Hideout, she and Adrian stare at a hex dump scrolling on the screen, and she asks Adrian if he notices anything weird. Adrian says that he's not really ever been part of The Matrix, so there's no way he could read a scrolling hex dump that fast. He gets lucky and notices something that proves that Tanner wasn't lying.
Kate gets the image from Chloe, and calls Jordan. She tells him to get Steve (no relation), so he can listen too. She uploads screen grabs from her phone to Jordan's computer, using their mystical magical ultra-fast data connection, which most people would have to wait quite a while for.
Kate asks Jordan what he sees, and he tells her that it looks like an override code. Steve asks "What's that? What are we talking about here?" It seems that whatever Heller has, it appears to be spreading to other people on the show. Kate explains that they're trying to catch bad guys.
Kate goes on to explain that Tanner wasn't lying and that Margot used the drone to kill the soldiers. Steve says, "Whoa! Whoa! Slow down!" She says it again, only slower, so he can understand. Steve puts her on hold, and tells Jordan that he's about to put his ass on the line, and there can be no doubts about this. Jordan agrees. Steve is about to put his ass on the line. Steve calls the president.
3:10 – At the president's place, they get the news that Jack wasn't lying. Heller looks surprised, and asks to talk to Kate. Kate explains everything. Heller orders all the drones, world wide, to be grounded. And they're to stay grounded until they do all their homework.
Margot watches Navid's screen and sees that the drones are all altering course. She tells him to send the override, but he hesitates. She tells him not to "try her patience." Navid is about to tell her he didn't realize she was a doctor, and now that finger thing makes a whole lot more sense, but he stops himself. He types in the code.
At Heller's place, they see a drone turn red, which is bad. Then they all disappear from the screen, and that's really bad.
3:17 pm – The general explains with a 3D graphic and a nice PowerPoint presentation that if the drone attacks, things will go boom. And if it attacks a nuclear plant, things will be even worse. But on the bright side, if it attacks where they're standing, Audrey will be blown up.
Audrey, who for some reason is still there, despite this being a very high, national security, classified, and a few other adjectives I can't think of right now, event. She asks if they have any idea where the drones are headed. Heller stops himself from telling her that if they knew, this wouldn't be such a big issue. Instead, he makes a giant frog face while the general explains that the drones are headed to London and this Audrey blowing up thing might actually happen.
Heller wants to know if the drones can be shot down, and the general explains that the drones are equipped with the latest and greatest stealth technology, making them absolutely secure. Unless someone hacks them and takes them over.
Heller's had enough. He wants to talk to their best secret drone that can't be detected by anyone expert, Jack Bauer. For once in his life, Mark did the right thing and already ordered that Jack be brought to Heller. Jack will be there shortly. They'll be able to tell when he arrives by the ceremonial thigh shootings that will take place outside before Jack enters the building.
Mark tries to apologize for being a butthead. Heller says they've all been buttheads, and that's OK. What's important now that the British be informed about the threat they're facing. Audrey gets up to leave, to warn them, not realizing she'll be the one that's considered the threat. Heller calls after her that while it's really important that they be told, only tell a small circle. Audrey looks confused, and tells him that she doesn't know what geometry has to do with this, but she won't tell many people, just in case.
Mark goes after her, and lamely takes some time that would be otherwise be better used to tell the British they're going to get bombed. Audrey leaves.
3:20 – At make-shift CIA headquarters, Steve gives a nice PowerPoint presentation to all the extras who haven't been on the show long enough to know what the heck is going on.
When Kate arrives, Steve informs her that he's "taking her off the roster", because Cordaro back at the embassy has his panties in a wad. Someone back home at CIA headquarters, found out that Kate was there, and couldn't understand why someone who'd been ordered back home was still out in the field. Kate explains that she wasn't in the field, she was at an embassy. One is big and grassy, and the other is big and gassy. Steve tells her that she has to fill out at TPS report, and Steve brings up her ex-husband AGAIN, just in case it hasn't been pounded into our heads enough.
Jordan interrupts and tells Steve that he has something to show him. It turns out that Margot has her own YouTube channel! She issues a threat that thousands of people in London will die unless Heller is turned over in three hours. Heller drops to the ground, turns over, jumps up, yells "Ta Da!" and stands there expectantly, until someone tells him that's not what Margot meant.
3:28 pm – Back at Chloe's Nerd camp, they're also watching Margot's channel. A visibly larger Ron Weasley is freaked out about the coming drone attack. Adrian explains to Jack's thug friend that they've done everything they can do, and they'd really like to leave because everyone's about to be blown up. Chloe doesn't want to leave.
General Video Presentation gives another powerpoint presentation on the exact drone strike that killed Margot's husband, proving that even from London he has some really special multi-media archive retrieval skills. They even have a picture of Margot crawling away from after her husband was killed. Heller wants to know why he was never told that civilians were killed, and Mark argues that they were trying to do surgical strikes. Heller tells him that he didn't realize doctors walked out on work and onto a picket line. Heller also points out that half the world is going to blame him for the bombing that's going to happen. They discuss that they're all not very happy with their acting today, and then get back into character.
Some butlers announce that Jack's arriving now. Heller goes to see him. Heller explains that Margot has six drones, and Jack points out that he was right. Just like every other person that doubts Jack, Heller completely ignores this. He wants to know if Jack happens to know any new plot twists that would help them stop Margot from bombing London back to the 1990s. Jack just so happens to have a guy in mind. He knows of an arms dealer who has stayed in some of the worst prisons on earth. Heller tells him that it would be a lot better if they dealt with someone who didn't deal in body parts, and someone with a little better taste in hotels. But he doesn't go along with the idea of Jack going out, even if Jack pinky promises that he'll come back. Heller thinks that the Russians being mad will be worse than London blowing up.
3:34pm – At Margot's drone shack, Margot proves she's British by saying the word "schedule" in a weird way. Time to Drone: 14 minutes. Navid really wants to see Simone, because they have some time to kill before the drones come and do some killing of their own. She tells Navid go, while Ian monitors the flight path.
Navid goes to see Simone, whose bandage is still relatively blood-free. He then says that he's put a tracer after the end credits of Margot's video, just like in the Avengers movies. He tells Simone to fake out the authorities, and to tell them she doesn't know a darn thing about those old drones.
At make-shift CIA headquarters: London, Jordon points out that he's incredibly lucky, but they have an actual IP address, and they've found out where Margot is! Steve's so happy that he's going to go out to Margot's estate with everyone else. This freaks out Erik a little bit because usually the captain stays aboard the ship. Erik points out that it's a good thing Steve isn't wearing a red shirt.
3:42 pm – Audrey goes to the room where Jack is being held. First thing Jack says, "You shouldn't be here!" It sounded more like a plea. She explains they have a lead, and that they're going after Margot.
Audrey starts to cry, which makes Jack start to cry, probably because of whatever gas she gives off. We really can't understand what Audrey is saying, and it gets hard to hear what Jack is saying because Audrey tries to stick her nose in Jack's eye.
The Prime Minster arrives and Heller tells him that Margot has control of six drones that are headed for London. The PM says, "I don't understand", which again is not the first time people have had to have things re-explained in this episode. Heller says that he's got a TV channel set up so they can watch Steve trying to act like an agent in the field.
3:46 p – Out in the field, four black SUVs race down the street. It's Erik and Steve, and some other CIA people. The streets are completely empty, which makes it a lot easier to get around London.
Back at headquarters, Jordan sympathizes with Kate. Jordan thinks that Kate should really be out in the field, and it's just like a high level manager to take credit for something a lower level person did.
Kate's pretty suspicious of this whole "IP address" thing, so she calls Chloe and asks that Chloe take a look at the tape. Chloe doesn't have access directly to their network, and admits she's not good enough to (WHICH WE KNOW IS A LIE, BECAUSE CHLOE CAN DO ANYTHING….ahem….anyway…). Just to make it tough, Chloe decides to do this over her phone, rather than using a desktop computer.
At Margot's House of the IP Address, Margot reveals that they know all about Navid's plan! Ian found the buffer that Navid was using, and no one is actually going to the right place! Navid points out that they'll still need him to pilot the drones, but it turns out that Ian was peaking over his should the whole time and he thinks he has a pretty good idea of how to pilot them. Kind of like watching a bunch of movies about shuttle launches would allow you to be able to pilot a space shuttle. A thug comes over and beats up Navid. Margot tells Ian that the Americans will be at the "other house" soon, and no one should get out alive.
3:53pm – Adrian tries to get Chloe to stop helping Jack, but she won't. Jack's thug has to step in when it looks like Chloe might be stopped, so she stays. All the other nerds leave. Much larger looking Ron Weasly is the last to go.
The SUVs arrive near Margot's House of the Fake IP Address. They all get out, acting really stealthy, except for all the car doors slamming. No one, including Steve, realizes they're about to attack Downton Abbey. The agents circle the house and break in. Everyone goes inside, but it's empty.
Chloe finds something wrong with the tape and calls Kate. She says that the buffer has an inserted redirect! (I hate it when that happens). That, logically, means that Steve has walked into a trap. Kate immediately calls Steve to get out of there. Steve has a bad connection on his headset, it's a cheap Bluetooth, because he asks her to repeat what she said. She again tells them to get out of there. They start to leave just as Ian hits the missiles on a drone that's arrived.
Downton Abbey blew up! Steve and Erik can't be found!
Margot comes downstairs and tells Navid that Ian proved he knew how to use the drones. She tells Navid, "I treated you like a son!" Navid points out that she did, except for chopping off fingers, but don't get him wrong, that's just fine. He likes his fingers right where they are. He begs Margot not to kill him, and that if she loves Simone, she'd know that Simone wouldn't want her to kill him. Simone happens to be on the stairs, and doesn't say a thing. Margot kills Navid. For a second, Simone realizes that Navid finally doesn't have to be on the show anymore, and she's still stuck there with a crazy mom.
4:00pm – Time's up!
NEXT TIME – Jack has a gun! And Kate! Margo has drones! Bad guys have a power drill! Kate looks like she's having a Jack Bauer day!
Author srpPosted on May 26, 2014 Categories 24, TelevisionTags 24, jack bauer, Live another day
PREVIOUSLY ON 24: Kate interrogated the seven dwarves; Mark has started practicing for a career as a sports memorabilia forger; Erik brought up Kate's husband AGAIN; Audrey continued to float around people like a dementor, only scarier; Margot and Simone practiced playing the game Operation; Heller was surprised to find out that Parliament talks back, just like the mirror he practices speeches in front of; Simone needs to learn that a stuffed animal with cameras for eyes is not an appropriate gift to accept from your mother, especially a mother that appears to have ambitions to be a security guard; Jack tries to sneak into the embassy to find Tanner and the flight key and is feeling a lot better now that he's been able to yell, shoot a few thighs, and cause some havoc.
The following takes place between 2 pm and 3 pm:
2pm – Mass panic! Protests! It's likely someone saw Audrey in an embassy window. Jack tells Chloe that he's used that diversion to get inside the embassy. The only problem is Erik and Kate saw him outside, and are pretty sure he's not there to take pictures with the guards outside. Jack says that he's going to try and get the flight key from inside the embassy. Many people are running around, and after picking out a nice guard, Jack gives him a big old hug. A big Jack Bauer Hug that lasts just a little bit too long. (Jack's been out in the field for a long time.) The guard passes out from the sheer joy of it. Chloe gives Jack the floor, room number, make, model and serial number of the door lock, plus the origin of the metal used to make the lock. This gives Jack enough information to find the right room. He grabs the guard's security card as a souvenir and runs.
Chloe complains that Chell screwed up the ID that Jack was going to use to get into the embassy and that if she'd used a number instead of a Little Orphan Annie secret code none of this would be happening. Adrian is still upset that Chloe brought Jack to their secret location, which is the only secret Adrian actually doesn't want the world to know about. Adrian tries to justify what he's doing, but Chloe wants none of it. Chloe tells him to "get out of my sight" and she's not talking about a website. Adrian just stares at her, but despite trying, staring at Chloe like that doesn't turn her to stone.
Jack's thug friend tells Chloe it's going to be tough to get Jack out of an embassy full of marines. Chloe says she knows that, and that Embassy Full Of Marines was the name of her first band in college. Also, that she owes Jack her life, her sorry, and her monopoly. Jack's thug friend says he owes Jack too, and that he's pretty sure that Adrian isn't doing anything that isn't in his own self interest.
At the embassy, Erik and Kate meet a marine that magically figures out that when they identify themselves as "agents", they mean CIA agents. They convince the marine that Jack is a threat and foolishly only bring eight other marines with them.
Tanner is being held in an absolute ultra mega low security room with absolutely nobody guarding him. This allows Jack to enter the room with one card swipe. This must be an absolutely new card key lock because it works so well.
Inside room, Tanner is just staring off into space when Jack arrives. Jack doesn't realize there's soldier in the room guarding Tanner. Jack makes up a story pretty quickly. He tells the soldier:
There once was a man named Jack,
Who came to move soldiers during an attack,
But when he got there,
The guard with short hair,
Turned to the phone and got a whack.
Not realizing Jack was predicting the future, the guard turns to answer a ringing phone and Jack whacks him in the back of the head.
Jack explains to a freaked out Tanner that he knows Tanner is innocent all about the drone that was taken over. Jack just wants the flight key so he can stop the pending attack. Tanner does what anyone would do in this situation: He asks Jack why he should believe him. Tanner thinks about this much too long, and finally tells Jack that the key is with Captain Denovo, who is the guy Jack just knocked out.
Back on Chloe's new cable channel London Embassy TV, there's a development: The herd of marines plus Kate and Erik are on the stairs headed Jack's way. Jack quickly finds the flight key on Denovo, thanks Tanner, and leaves.
2:07 pm – Jack leaves just as the Marine herd arrives to find Tanner just sitting there in his room like nothing happened. Nothing except Captain Denovo seems to have mysteriously passed out for no apparent reason. Denovo wakes up and tells them about Jack's coat that he's wearing.
Jack tries to exit the building but the key card swiper is just not as new as the other one and it doesn't work. Jack quickly realizes that the embassy has its own private network line. He asks Chloe to help him find it. Chloe tells him that a lot more marines are arriving and that there's NO WAY he could possibly exit the building. Apparently Chloe has forgotten who she's talking to. Jack tells her to find the communications room, and he runs down the hall. He finds what looks like a bathroom just in time for the commercial.
2:13pm – Back at Margot's House of Hidden Cameras, Margot has taken some time out of spying on her daughter and husband long enough to find out that the drone system will be ready to use in about an hour.
Simone and her husband are in bed. The husband says that he's going to leave, because he's getting a little creeped out by her mother. Also, he doesn't feel good about killing people. He tells Simone that he's waited for a week to carry through with his plan to leave. He says he wants to spend the rest of his life with her, and something tells me he's going to get that wish, but it's just not going to be as long as he hopes. She agrees to go with him.
Steve (no relation) Navarro calls and as usual, he's right on top of things. He says that Flash came up on his web browser and it said that beside desperately needing an upgrade right away, it shows the embassy is on lock down for no reason he can fathom. Kate tells him it is, surprise, Jack Bauer. The marines with her crouch down with their guns drawn, just in case they see Jack. Kate, meanwhile doesn't seem to have a care in the world as she walks behind them, completely upright, while talking to Steve.
2:17 pm – Jack heads downstairs to yet another basement, as Chloe directs him. He finds the communications room, which is filled with computer people dressed up like they're all going to a job interview, because they sure are not dressed like computer people.
Chloe tells Jack how to use the computer, which is new for Jack because he's always had Chloe do this sort of thing for him. The marines are closing in, now in an even bigger hurry because they think they'll be able to get Jack to sign all their guns. While Jack is trying to upload the data to Chloe, he makes her promise that no matter what happens, she'll get out of that eye makeup. Also, that she'll get the data to Heller, if he's still sane. Suddenly, the data connection drops! Adrian just happens to have a cool program that Jack can download in order to decrypt the data and get it uploaded back to them. It's really lucky that Adrian knows the exact operating system, software libraries and version numbers that Jack is using, because otherwise this would never work.
The marines are right outside the door. Jack orders one of the computer people to open the door. After making sure that the marines are wearing the good, new body armor, he has the door opened and shoots a couple of them. The door slams shut. The marines, in frustration, shoot the door, because they really, really want that door dead.
2:23pm – Margot asks Simone if she wants a tea, earl grey, hot. Margot confronts her about her husband, Navin, while someone plays a weird little gong sound in the background. Simone tells Margot everything that Navin said, and then appears to be worried that Margot will hurt him in some way. Margot says that he's already been hurt enough by all the rejection he used to get on That 70's show, and she'll do what ever it takes to make sure he pilots those drones.
Heller's in Parliament, still talking for the last 25 minutes. He says that he wishes he could cast a spell "like in that Hogwarts you have here" and make the bodies come back to life. He tells them he wants them to move forward together. And then to the side. And back. And then to shake it all about.
Mark gets a phone call from Steve (no relation) who tells him that Jack is in the communications room with hostages. He tells them that it's not looking good because Jack has ordered pizza so it might be a while.
Mark tells Steve that he's disappointed in his performance. Most of the audience agrees with him, but that's not important now. What's important is that the marines are there. Mark tells him that "I need to know what you know." That should take about five seconds.
Adrian and Chloe argue about the size of Jack's core processor, which is not a euphemism. The encryption program is just not working very fast.
Since Jack has nothing to do but wait, he decides to take a phone call from the audience. First caller: Captain Kevin Cordaro. The captains tries to threaten Jack by saying he'd like to work together, which works just about as well as anyone to expect, since Jack barely works with people he DOES like. Jack threatens to kill the hostages, but at the same time shakes his head as if to say, "no no, I'm just saying that" and hangs up. Several of the hostages look like they're going to need new underwear. Meanwhile, the Cordaro is more concerned about the marines getting shot than the hostages.
Up in Tanner's room, Erik and Kate arrive. Erik tells Tanner that Jack is downstairs surrounded by marines, so Tanner shouldn't expect any help. This obviously means that Erik has never read Jack's CTU personnel file.
Kate asks Tanner what his relationship is with Jack. Tanner says he doesn't swing that way, and he and Jack just met. Erik says he doesn't believe him. Tanner SWEARS he doesn't swing that way. Kate asks a lot nicer, and Tanner finally tells them what Jack said: That the key holds the key to the key of the drone attack and that is key. Plus, that the drone was taken over and is going to be used in an attempted attack later this season. Kate and Erik leave.
As they walk down the hall, Erik says "We should have pushed him harder!" Kate says that wouldn't have worked because he looked really stable in that chair he was sitting in. And besides, Kate believes him. She tells Erik she wants to talk to Bauer about this drone threat.
Heller is STILL talking to Parliament but finally seems to be wrapping up. They all applaud because he's finally finished, and it's getting closer to tea time. Heller, Audrey and Mark move to another room after the speech.
Mark explains that the protests outside aren't going like usual protests go, and not only did people break in, but there are hostages. Oh, and Jack Bauer.
Audrey and Heller are surprised that Jack's in town, because he's usually not in town during this time of year. Mark tries to enforce the fact that while Jack hasn't fatally shot anyone, the way you'd expect, it's really important that the marines go in after him right away. Heller says to not make any moves until he's had a chance to talk to Jack about this great opportunity to buy gold coins.
2:37 pm – Navin is packing his bag as Simone and Margot enter the room. He says it's just a backpack with his Dungeon and Dragon's stuff. Margot doesn't believe him, and says that he's got a stain on him. Seeing how surprised he looks, I'm not surprised.
Margot gives Navin a chance to pilot the drones. He picks this time to stand up to Margot. He tells her that those drones are going to be used for evil delivery purposes, probably by big companies with huge warehouses and discount prices. Margot says that she's very disappointed, and that her dead husband, even though he's dead, is also very disappointed, but in a way that only the dead can be. She says she knows a thing or two about dead relatives because one of the last ones she had was beheaded at a castle.
Navin swears on a stack of his D&D books that he'll never pilot the drones, no matter what Margot does to him. She says she believes him.
Margot tells her thugs to bring Simone over and to take her ring off. Well, these guys aren't too bright and actually chop off one of her fingers. Margot tells the thug to do it again, but correctly. This really freaks out Navin (not the mention Simone) and he agrees to pilot the drone.
Back in the third sub-basement of the embassy, Kate tells Cardovo that she really needs to talk to Jack, just in case this whole drone attack is real, and not some mega-website publicity stunt. He says, "I'm not introducing any more variables into this equation. This conversation is over," which leads both Erik and Kate to believe this Cardovo might be a robot.
Kate calls Steve (no relation) Navaro, and Navaro wants to know if she debriefed Tanner. She says no, he still has his underwear, but she did get to talk to him. She goes on to explain what Jack has been saying.
Navaro tells her that Jack will be receiving a phone call from Heller any minute now. He hangs up. Jordan, who is there with Navaro, says that if they'd all just listened to Kate in the first place, none of this would be going on. Navaro doesn't take this very well and accuses Jordan of having a crush on Kate, which is exactly the kind of high school gossip we come to expect from people in his position. And then he goes on to say that Kate doesn't have good judgment because she not only didn't realize her husband would betray the country, but that she also dated a guy named Bryce who once downloaded a whole bunch of classified pictures which got uploaded to someone's head. These people really need to re-enforce this plot point because we haven't heard it in nearly an hour.
The phone rings. Jack answers. The voice says, "It's me." Jack says, "Donald Sutherland?" No, it's just President Heller. He's very disappointed that Jack shot people. Jack points out that it was only a flesh wound. Besides, he's Jack Bauer so if he wanted them dead, they'd be off to visit the choir invisible.
Jack goes on to say that he believes that drone system is vulnerable, and that any minute now packages could start raining down from the sky. Heller says, "Explain that, Jack." Jack goes into great detail about planes, helicopters, and flying things, using small words so the President, and everyone else on the line can understand.
He finally explains the takeover of Tanner's drone by Yates, and that Margot is going to use it in a very bad way.
Heller asks why Jack didn't just come to him in the first place. Jack explains that the White House only has limited visiting hours, and usually the president is no where to be seen on any of these tours. Plus, he's been labeled as terrorist, still had the label, and it will just not come off. He's also never been able to tell his side of the story, so he's a little miffed about that. Jack tells Heller he's never lied to him, about him, near him, under him, over him, at him, or through him, so he should believe him now. Heller tells Jack to stay by the phone, which is kind of silly because with a room that small Jack has no choice.
Audrey believes Jack, which proves that even in her current state, she can be somewhat lucid. Mark is completely against believing Jack. He points out that Jack broke Chloe out of CIA custody, and that Jack is much more manly than he is. Also that Open Cell, the group Jack is working with, uploaded 30,000 documents of web page histories of everyone in Congress, which lead to a lot of embarrassing stories.
To drive home is point, he points out that Jack killed a lot of people before, and that's why he shouldn't be trusted. Heller loses his mind, not realizing that Jack did this quite a bit in the old days, and gives the order that the marines can go in when they're ready.
2:51pm – Chloe shows Adrian some old Youtube videos of America's Funniest Drone attacks and points out that the missiles on the new drones are a lot bigger. They're going to do a lot more damage, and frankly, she really doesn't want to see London destroyed, which would dash her hopes of being able to see the Monty Python reunion.
Adrian, who still hasn't cleared his throat of phlegm, points out that he has been trying to help. Kind of. Adrian makes a big mistake, and asks Chloe why she just can't let Jack go. You can tell Chloe didn't like this at all.
Back at sub-basement three, Cardovo makes a little speech about how if they sense Jack is a threat at all, they should shoot him.. He dismisses everyone and then calls a guy who looks about 15 over, and tells him to shoot Jack on sight no matter what happens. Like in Call of Duty.
Kate's on the phone with Navaro as Jordan brings up Margot's home page on the web, which confirms that Jack didn't just make up her name.
Kate realizes something that no one else, even the people with plans to the building, has thought – that they might able to get into the room with Jack using the giant human-size air ducts.
2:54 pm – Kate goes into the air duct, even with that brand new sweater she's wearing.
Mark and Audrey argue. Audrey's really upset with Mark, and she knows that Mark is really scared of Jack.
Chloe realizes that cable company is on to her, because her cable feed goes out, and she can't watch what the marines are doing anymore.
The marines are about to go in, so Jack starts rearranging the furniture.
One of the marines sees that there's a symbol on his Candy Crush game he can't explain, because it's all "Kate-shaped" and headed to the room where Jack is. Erik tells Cordovo about Kate's plan, but he won't listen.
Kate breaks into the room, and pinky swears that she believes Jack.
The marines blow up the door, and Kate saves Jack by sitting on him. The marines don't fire on Jack.
The upload doesn't make it.
At Margot's House of One Less Finger, the drone takeover system is online!
3:00 pm – Time's up!
NEXT TIME: Missing flight key! Margot has six drones! Margot gets her own TV channel! Jack wants to be outstanding in his field! Drone missiles!
Author srpPosted on May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 Categories 24, Humor, TelevisionTags 24, 24 synopsis, hour 4, jack bauer, Live another day, recap
PREVIOUSLY ON 24: Jack lead a bunch of CIA agents in a "Running of the Bauer" event through London; A cohort of Jack's did some street demolition; Chloe, who might have gone Goth or Emo, or a combination of the two, was saved by Jack and is now helping him; Heller has become President, but keeps forgetting where he left Audrey; Audrey has been assigned to torture duty and got married to chief of staff Mark; Yates learned that people in blonde wigs who speak with Russian accents think ears are actually pencil sharpeners; Catelyn Stark is now Margo and has taken up amateur drone flying.
1 pm – Jack and Chloe drive up to the only pub in London with nearly no one in it at lunchtime. Jack uncharacteristically runs into the Little Bauer Room, only to find Yates dead on the ground. Jack pulls his gun and threatens several bathroom stall doors, but they don't tell him anything, despite being stomped.
Chloe doesn't see anything on any cameras near the pub because the Blonde Ex-Russian left by the one exit in London not covered by cameras. Jack finds a wig, and realizes that it is very unlikely that a dumpster would be wearing a wig, especially a blonde one. It has to be the girl, so they decide to start looking for any woman not wearing a wig.
There's a subway near there, and not the sandwich kind. Chloe finds the woman nearly instantly because of the silver suitcase she's carrying. The subway train she's headed out on is Waterloo, which is sure to excite not only Bill and Ted, but also Napolean – that is, if they can get back in time for their school report. Jack heads for the subway, just as we see the woman inside a subway car as it moves away.
Meanwhile, Kate is either interrogating the seven dwarves, or men on their knees. She shows a guy with a Bauer hickey a picture of Jack she's got on probably the only black and white camera phone on earth. She tries to trick that guy into talking, but one of the others, probably Doc, speaks up. Kate realizes this guy is in charge, because extras don't usually speak on shows like this.
Erik gets a phone call – it's Steve (no relation). Steve's upset because he's gotten reports that Americans are running around shooting things, and the British know that, because that's what Americans usually do when they're in London. Steve tells Erik to get out of there, because they're having a crisis. And he means more of a crisis than Americans running around shooting things. He finally tells Erik that Kate shouldn't even be there.
Doc tells Kate to naughty-word off, since they're not the real police. He can tell this because they don't have those funny round hats and whistles. Erik tells Kate that Steve is really mad, and that everyone has to be let go. She starts to argue that she has a contract until the end of the show, until she realizes that Erik means the dwarven prisoners. The dwarves all look very relieved that they'll soon be doing something safer – traveling to Smaug.
Kate doesn't like this at all, and plays Duck, Duck, Solid Bar To The Back Of The Head with Doc, who promptly falls over, not face first, but back of the head first which is pretty impressive since he was instantly knocked out. Kate wants to take Doc with them. Erik complains that the police won't like it they find CIA agents there, until he realizes HE'S a CIA agent, and he better get out of there soon. They carry Doc to the car.
Elsewhere, Jack does some typical American tourist thing, driving on the correct side of the road, which is the wrong side in London. They reach the subway station ahead of the subway train, because London has no traffic, just like LA.
The train arrives at stop 9 and 3 quarters, and Jack jumps on. Jack makes his way towards the woman who just happens to notice that Jack is wearing all black and has an ear piece. So, she does something unbelievable – she cuts her own fish net stockings! She's so frazzled that she accidentally cuts her leg too. As she exits, she smears blood on her face, thinking a rouge disguise might throw him off the track, but Jack spots the ploy right away.
She yells for help, and instantly two guys try to stop Jack. They've never heard of Jack before, so they don't realize how foolish this was to try until .3 seconds later when they're down on the ground incapacitated.
This is long enough for the woman to get away, even tough she's the only one with red hair in the whole place. The woman finds a open gate, and jumps down into another part of the subway system, losing Jack!
On the street, Chloe continues to look for the woman, but gets sidetracked because she sees a man, woman and child that look a heck of a lot like her ex-husband Morris, her son, and the way she looks. Well, if the husband was 20 pounds lighter, if the son was 4 years older, and if Chloe grew her hair out and actually dressed in colors.
While she's distracted, the woman walks right by Chloe and gets into a taxi, which thinks nothing of people with blood on their face getting rides. The taxi drives off.
Jack can't believe she's gone. Jack says, "You missed her? How?" Chloe tells him that it is very insensitive to do Indian impressions, and besides she just wants to go back. She's really upset and explains that Morris and her son are both dead because of a car accident. She thinks it is her fault because she should have been driving, and thinks that she was target because she knows what really happened the last day she saw Jack.
Jack tells her "You can't bring back the ones you love". Chloe tells him that's not how that Spike Jones song goes, and he should listen to more Dr. Demento. Jack says he doesn't want to make Chloe do anything (like that would work, even for Jack), but he needs her help.
1:18 pm – Back in his office, Mark stares at his computer screen, pondering his next app purchase. There's a knock and Mark uses his x-ray vision to invite Ron into the room.
Ron tells him he has a rendition order all ready to go. Ron says that they really can't turn Jack over to the Russians because of all these "legal" things, and besides they'll need the President's signature. Mark says he's pretty sure that all he'd have to do is tell Heller that he's signing an autograph, and it'll all be OK.
Suddenly, they are both scared to death by the entrance of … AUDREY. They both scoot away as she enters the room, cornering them. She wants to know what they're talking about. Mark lies and tells her that they were talking about the soldier who is really bad at video games. Ron narrowly escapes as he eases past Audrey.
Audrey is out of her mind upset that Mark would actually try and prep her father for actual hard trivia questions that Parliament is likely to ask. She's particularly upset about the double Jeopardy category and the fact that Alex Trebec wasn't even there.
Mark says that Heller is in a compromised state and it would be foolish for him to try and get Parliament to go along with the lease extension. Audrey says this has nothing to do with Illinois, and she will not put up with having her father put on a leash, even with an extension.
Mark thinks they should go home, and try and work out things from there using "back channels". Audrey asks if that means channels above 13 on the dial. Mark convinces Audrey that she should be the one that gets Heller to go along with this idea. Audrey leaves, leaving Mark unharmed. To celebrate, Mark decides to commit a federal offense and forge the President's signature on the rendition order that Ron brought in.
Elsewhere, Jack and Chloe are doing the tourist thing and driving around London. Chloe spends her time looking up the woman, and discovers her real name is Simone Al-Harazi, which they both agree doesn't sound very Russian. Jack realizes that Margot is her Mom. Margot is likely to be upset because her al-Qaida husband was beheaded in a drone attack when they were together. It turns out these drones are REALLY precise and Margot got away, even though she was right next to her husband at the time.
1:22 pm – Turns out that Margot has been doing pretty well for herself after the drone strike, because she's got a nice house with a lot of flowers in the back. Margot notices Simone's leg, and Simone assures her that she has no idea who the American who was follow her is, because she doesn't read live blogs or watch American television. They give each other an awkward hug.
Simone goes inside and greets her brother, completing the terrorist family reunion. The brother says that Yates used a "non-standard" bus, and is very upset it's not SCSI or even IEEE-488. Margot asks how long it'll take, and he gives an engineer's answer "about an hour, maybe more". Margot gives a manager's answer and says "Make it less".
Simone notices the words on the video monitors with red background and that can only mean that the targeting is done! She's so excited. Then she gets even more excited when someone that looks like a older version of Fez from That 70's Show walks into the room. She starts speaking Arabic to him (Nadeen), because they haven't done subtitles in a while. Margot looks none too pleased by their display of affection. In fact, either does Fez.
Margot sends out Simone to get a new pair of fishnet stockings. And to clean up the gash that has already stopped bleeding. Margot explains to Nadeen that sometimes even she had to do disgusting things, like be in this season of 24, and no one should hold that against Simone. Besides, it's not like they were all invited to a wedding where people locked the doors behind them. Margot explains that she used to cut her fishnet stockings in the past too, but it was necessary because they're all at war.
1:30pm – Chloe and Jack arrive back at Nerd camp. Adrian asks why they're back, and Jack explains that they need to carry out further plot points. Jack goes on to explain that Yates has taken 10 prototype Amazon drones, armed them with Hellfire missiles and Amazon Prime. That means that at the very least, the missiles will cause havoc all over London several days earlier than if they went through the normal delivery methods. Adrian tries to point out that if America hadn't invented Amazon Prime than there wouldn't be an issue. Chloe looks disgusted that these boys are arguing like that, and re-writes Windows 8 to be more stable while they carry on.
Adrian, Jack and Chloe discuss that what they really need is proof that Tanner's drone was taken over, and they'll need a flight plan. One of the up until now silent background nerds goes into a little speech about how the pilot's name is Tanner and that it's been all over the news. Chloe shoots him a look as if to say, "We just said his name, right over there! This is the second time I've been right next to someone and they can't hear me!". Other nerds in the room find out that Tanner is going to be handed over to the British embassy soon, so Jack and Chloe are going to need some help. Adrian agrees.
Kate is using Google Maps to continue to search for Pokemon from last April Fool's day while she and Erik drive with Doc in the back of the car. Doc has fixed himself somehow with a gauze bandage. Doc will not shut up.
1:33 – Erik drives into a tunnel that just happens to be where a dangerous gang of thugs that Doc has previous experience with are standing around. You can tell they're dangerous because there's graffiti everywhere. Kate threatens Doc with an ejection seat unless he talks. He won't talk, so Kate hits the button… which lets down the window a little. This completely freaks out Doc, and he says that Yates has been talking about Tanner, and several episodes of Breaking Bad. That makes Erik and Kate mad because they're a season behind on Netflix. Fortunately for Doc, even though he's freaking out and yelling, the thugs have extremely bad vision and can't tell who's in the car. They drive off before the thugs can even do a thing.
Meanwhile, at a very violent looking peace protest outside of the U.S. Embassy, Tanner arrives by limo. Everyone's yelling at the limo like Lou is holding up a sign for Springsteen.
1:39pm – Margot attempts to stitch up her fishnet stockings, accidentally stitching up Simone instead. Margot tells Simone that she should be careful, because the American, whomever he was, found her once, when he shouldn't have at all. Margot finishes and leaves, while Simone looks mysteriously around the room.
In the Erik/Kate car, they're STILL driving around, meaning that they're taking the very long way around back to headquarters despite driving very quickly. Kate says that the DOD app on her iPad says that Tanner claims someone took over his video game, probably using screen sharing technology. Kate says, "There's something that makes all these pieces fit together…what are we not seeing?" Erik says, "A Plot?" Erik goes on to point out, yet again, that even though Kate is pretty sharp, she was still the one that was married to an agent for the Chinese, and didn't even know it! Also, "Neener-Neerer".
Kate's phone rings: It's Steve (again, no relation). Turns out that Kate's team tattled on her, and she shouldn't be doing anything. That is until Kate tells him that they were able to get some info. Then Steve says, "Well, then that's OK then."
Heller watches TV which announces that the crowd outside has nearly tripled, which means there's probably about 10 people out there now, but they're making a lot of noises due to enhanced special effects. Oh, and he's in his bathrobe.
Audrey enters the room, and while they watch TV, Heller says, "They want blood", which gets Audrey very excited, until she realized he doesn't mean that literally. They want justice for what Tanner did.
Audrey mutes the TV. Heller picks up the remote to mute Audrey, but it doesn't work. She says that she wants to talk to him about his appearance and Parliament. He says he's perfectly comfortable in a bathrobe, and will wear it if he wants to, despite what Mark is worried about.
Heller insists that the treaty is going to have to happen here and now. Audrey points out that would be silly because there's no one else here, and Mark wouldn't like that. She tells Heller that he should continue to get dressed because it turns out the robe he's wearing is a lot shorter than she realized.
Meanwhile, outside the U.S. Embassy, the mob continues to carry on. So, logically, Jack is in the street headed right for it and easily walks through the crowd. Except for one guy who pushes Jack. Luckily for him, Jack is in a hurry, so Jack doesn't shoot him. Jack walks up to the non-angry line outside the embassy.
Back at Nerd Camp, Adrian changes the fake id code that Jack is going to try to use to get into the embassy with 8675309. The Nerd girl points out that not only is his name not Jenny, but it will also get Jack flagged by security.
1:51 – Nadeen is still trying to come to terms with Simone being with another guy and takes a drink of alcohol, which would make Margot furious, not only because it's against her religion, but also because it's her super expensive stash. Simone is concerned that Nadeen still hasn't come to terms with what she had to do, to get the drone controller. Simone says that she HAD to kiss the nerd, but she swears he tasted terrible.
It turns out that Nadeen is having second thoughts about this whole "killing" thing. And "victims" and "blood", and "nightmares". This just isn't working out the way it always does in the video games he plays, so he's disillusioned. Simone says all the killing is perfectly AOK, because that's what psychotic people do. She starts to kiss him while Margot watches on the ultra-creepy cam.
1:54 pm – The Prime Minister greets the President when he arrives, strangely out of site of any protestors. The PM suggests the President not address the Parliament, mainly because they're not an envelope, but also because they are a really surly bunch like a pack of rabid congresspeople. Heller says he's "with Churchill on this one", forgetting that Churchill has been dead for quite some time but walks off before the PM can point this out.
Meanwhile Mark and Audrey argue about Heller, until she reveals that Mark keeps her in a box like a fragile keepsake. Mark points out that he only does this for his safety and the safety of all those around him, and that he has a key for that box.
The PM enters Parliament and introduces Heller, who's going to speak to them. He gets out the words "Ladies and Gentlemen" and people start yelling, really confusing Heller, at least for now.
There's a whole montage of scenes, which is mainly in place to waste a bit of time until the last scene.
Erik and Kate arrive where they were headed to so fast: The U.S. Embassy, which Jack arrived at long, long ago.
Jack, meanwhile, finally gets to the front of the line. The guard asks why Jack is there, and he says "To kick ass and take names. And visa versa". The ID tag doesn't match! There's a tense moment back at Nerd Camp, and Chloe realizes Jack is in deep trouble. Jack walks away, beats up a policeman, grabs his gun and thigh shoots the guy that pushed him before! And someone else for good measure, causing mass panic. Jack runs into along with the crowd into the embassy with Kate and Erik hot in pursuit. Kate yells "Bauer" a couple of times, thinking that might stop Jack.
NEXT TIME: Elbow hits! Jack talks to Tanner! Hostages! Exploding doors!
Author srpPosted on May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 Categories 24, TelevisionTags 24, 24 synopsis, hour 3, jack bauer, Live another day, recap
24: Live Another Day – Hour 1 and 2 Recap
Many of you know that I wrote recaps for 24 over on Dave Barry's Blog when the show was running. The show ended four years ago.
Well, it was back last night, and the tradition continues. Here's my recap of hours 1 and 2 of Live Another Day:
LAST TIME ON "24":
Madam President used her phone a friend to stop her agents from trying to kill Jack Bauer, which was a good thing because she would have ended up with a bunch of dead agents; Jack was warned by Madam President that the US and Russians were going to be after him, and not because they wanted his autograph; Chloe made a promise to Jack to watch after Jack's daughter Kim and her family and sensed an opportunity to start "Chloe's CTU Day Care".
Chloe's last words on the show where "Shut it down", but after several seconds of careful scientific analysis of the video, I've found out that she follows that by mumbling "…but Jack will be back!"
24 Fans, we gather together here, on this blog, to witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Jack Bauer!
No boop noises, so you know something weird is going on…
Several very short-haired guys looking around a London market for bargains, and they seem to be disturbed that even this place can't beat Walmart.
At some place that looks remarkably like CTU, Steve (no relation) Navarro asks where they are on satellite tracking, at which point everyone breaks out their iPhones and brings up Google Maps.
A blonde woman quietly packs up her office, which she's doing a remarkably good job of because she's even packed some of the walls. This woman's name is Kate. Someone named Marianna asks for Kate's encryption keys and passcodes. These need to be handed in because no one at this place has figured out that can just change each of those, and because they've been told by their upper managers that all encryption keys and passcodes need to be reused to save money.
Kate asks what's going on out there, and Marianna tells her they have a high value target that they're trying to track in London. Kate says, "Barry Manilow?" Marianna says, "No, I said HIGH value target." They both laugh. Kate asks, "Is it connected to the President being here?" Marianna tells her no, the President doesn't have anything chained to him, because he's like…the President.
Meanwhile, back at the market, the three guys meet up with two more, plus a homeless guy and get their guns ready to break into the back of a warehouse. The homeless guy cracks open a hole in the side of the wall and throws his prized robot into the room where they find someone sleeping. They break into the warehouse and find a stock pile of homeless people that haven't been put out on the Walmart shelves yet. After throwing some Dollar General smoke bombs into the room, they try to find who they're looking for.
The person they're looking for isn't there, but he is on the run. One of the guys who broke into the warehouse runs to try to find him, and runs right into a fist. Several times. The people back at makeshift CTU are watching this on a camera the guy was wearing, and it's…. JACK BAUER! Jack looks just like Jack used to, except now he's in a hoodie, which is what all the cool ex-CTU agents are wearing these days.
Jack beats up several other agents, all without firing a shot. He even uses a gate to take one of the agents out. Finally, one of the agents decides to shoot at Jack which is always a bad idea. Jack shoots back, but strangely, doesn't hit a thing. Jack is out of practice.
Meanwhile, back at CTU, Kate starts giving Jack advice about how to escape, not realizing Jack can't hear her. Jack runs outside, hits several people, beats up a few empty crates, and heads to the river. Jack jumps over the railing and… GETS CAPTURED. He just looks really mad. So mad, that he sets the boop machine off.
11:06 am – President William Devane, in disguise as President James Heller immediately violates the first rule of being a President on "24": Never stand in front of a window. After President All State, you'd think he would know that. Anyway, he's in town for a drone convention, and to explain why Amazon is using them to deliver assassinations to terrorists, which is much quicker than using Amazon Prime. He's also in town trying to convince England to keep an American base. He's informed that no other country is comfortable with even going to first base with America, let alone second or third.
The Chinese are ticked off about this whole thing, and the Navy are holding a "friendship tour", which coincidentally Jack Bauer participated in several seasons ago. The President takes the time to hold an impromptu history lesson about Roosevelt, which the whole staff appears to be worried about . Heller says that he has to go work on his speech, and needs to "go to the sandbox" because he drank too much each. Everyone leaves.
Before he leaves, Mark decides to tell Heller that he really doesn't know trivia, and corrects him. Instead of doing what he would have done as a previous Secretary of Defense (and kill him), Heller laughs it off and tells him the he'd make a good Pat Sayjak on The Price Is Right.
Steve calls Mark and says that he has Jack Bauer. Mark asks "Are you sure?" Steve says, "No, I'm Steve, but thanks for asking. Oh, and it is really Jack Bauer. It's tattooed on the back of his neck." Both of them think that Jack being in London is no coincidence. Mark seems really angry about this, so angry that he wants Jack transfer to "extra naughty, naughty" custody. He hangs up and tells a minion that overheard this that no one should hear about this. The minion doesn't point out that it's too late, because HE'S already heard it.
Back at CTU, Kate is doing some extracurricular spying, trying to figure out why Jack didn't try and get away on rooftops, considering Jack's affinity for Parkour. She tells Steve that Jack is up to something, because Jack wouldn't be this careless after being off the grid for four years. Steve thinks Jack just misses driving around in black cars.
11:15 am – At a US Air Force Base, a guy playing a black and white video game hands over the game to a new guy who just ran into the room. The new guy phones General Sheperd in order to get a reprimand from, and get grounded for not flying his drones properly.
11:17 am – Steve decides he wants to interrogate Jack himself before the Extra Naughty, Naughty Squad gets there.
11:18 am – Kate talks to Erik, who also thinks that Jack should have tried to escape via the roof. Erik won't give any information to Kate, even though she asks for it. She has enough clearance to still be there in CTU playing with computers, but not enough clearance for that information. A guy in a beard helpfully points out that Jack is being streamed on Google Hangouts on a monitor right in the open. The monitor apparently DOES have clearance, but only clearance in black and white, not color.
11:19 am – Erik tattletales to Steve on Kate for asking about Jack. We find out that Kate's husband was selling Ancient Chinese Secrets, and she's getting kicked out of there because of it.
Beard guy (Jordan) says that he has the information for Kate, but since it's so important, he waits to tell her that she should fight the transfer. Kate points out that fighting the transfer will do no good, because it's people that will make that decision, not a piece of paper.
Kate reads that the Prague Police had a tip about Jack. It says "Doo doo doo doo, dah dah dah dah". It also has a timestamp that's out of sequence, which proves that the message from Prague is fake, planted by someone.
Down in the interrogation, the agent watching Jack is pretty impressed with Jack's vital signs, which are steady as a rock, as if Jack is either a killing machine, a robot, or not worried about anything in particular. Or that maybe the sensors they attached to him don't have a good connection. Maybe all of the above.
Steve walks in to talk to Jack. He goes into a monologue about how Jack is considered a criminal. Jack just gives him a Jack Stare, but it could well be that he's just asleep.
Further downstairs in an even MORE secret dungeon, an agent announces that Jack is going to be down in a few minutes. The special agent in charge of naughty, naughty interrogation walks into a room where CHLOE is strapped down on a table. It appears they've been doing psychotic grunge makeup experiments on her. The agent injects something into Chloe, and from her screams, we can only imagine it induces her to think of Justin Bieber.
11:28 – Mark is in his office, looking at Jack's VERY impressive Game Center kill list when he's interrupted by a high pitched screech from someone saying "I'm almost ready". It's AUDREY! That can only mean that Mark must have lost some kind of bet. He tries to convince her to not go the reception, mainly because he doesn't want to be seen with her. They discuss President Heller's condition, which is undoubtedly caused by having Audrey as a daughter.
Mark's minion, who is trying to impersonate Batman's voice, says that he has an update about Jack.
11:30 – The minion tells Mark that Jack is about to go to the Naughty, Naughty room, and that he'll probably go to trial afterwords. Mark doesn't think that's the best course of action after Jack is interrogated. Mark says, "He could disappear." The minion says that he doesn't believe Jack has the power of invisibility, but anything is possible. Mark wants Jack handed over to the Russians. Mark is really mad about Jack and what he did to the Heller family. He says that Audrey was lifeless, unresponsive, under psychiatric care, not expected to recover… Which is all normal operating mode for Audrey AND he married her like that anyway. And he just stood by her for three years. The minion thinks that's a very long time to stand next to someone, but doesn't say anything. Mark swears, "As long as she lives, she'll never hear the name Jack Bauer". The minion takes this as a sign to kill Audrey, but then realizes that Mark only meant that Audrey has earplugs now.
President Heller and Audrey exit the building with Mark, to see a big crowd protesting Audrey's return to the show. They even have "No Drones" signs to reinforce this point.
Steve asks Jack if he can call him "Jack", which is kinda weird because I'm not sure what else he would be called, unless they started calling him "Jack Jack". Steve informs Jack that he could arrange it so he could talk to his daughter Kim, who had another baby, and they know what causes that now.
Jordan tells Kate that they figured out where that mis-timestamped message came from. It was just three blocks from where Jack was captured. Kate thinks this is really weird, and thinks Jack planted the message.
Kate tells Steve that Jack wanted to get captured, and in true CTU form, Steve doesn't take this seriously. Marianna comes down to tell them both that the orders came through, and Jack is being transferred. Possibly for a CTU agent to be named later. Kate runs back into the room and locks it. She tells Jack she knows he planted the message and that he's after someone. After seeing Kate, Jack's pulse skips a beat, but goes back to normal. Steve gets back into the room and tells her to leave. Fortunately for Jack, Steve continues to ignore Kate, and gets her escorted out of the building. He even takes away her CTU grocery rewards card.
11:40 – Just three people are escorting Jack out of interrogation, which is a huge mistake. Just one person is escorting Kate out of the building, which is an even bigger mistake because she grabs a taser and tests it. It works! Flappy guard all over the floor, didn't make it past the first set of poles. She hides the guard in a server room, and calls Jordan. She asks if Jack has a prior history with anyone in the building. Jordan asks if she has a crush on Jack. Kate calls him a big silly and to shut up, and he says he'll call back once he finds out anything.
Outside, a really angry looking service worker (but I'm being redundant) hooks up some wires to a junction box of some kind.
Meanwhile, Erik starts insulting Jack about the way he used to be this big top dog CTU guy, but not anymore. Erik asks to be let into the Naughty, Naughty interrogation room.
Turns out that Jack really might be a robot, because he presses a button under his skin, sending a signal to the service worker, who triggers an outage. Jack proceeds to show Erik and his cohorts why Jack Bauer is still the top dog by beating them all up with both hands handcuffed behind his back. Jack even takes the time to rub it in by sitting on Erik and un-handcuffing himself.
The naughty, naughty interrogation agent opens the door and Jack says hello the way only way Jack knows how, with a gun to the face. He asks to be taken to "her", warning the guy that if he tries anything funny, he'll blow his head off. They get into the room and he sees that Chloe is hooked up to an IV, and is unconscious. Jack is really mad that this guy did this to Chloe, and knocks him out.
Jack roots around and finds a huge USB stick and drives it right into Chloe's chest, rebooting her.
Jack came to save Chloe. Damn right!
Jordan calls Kate to say he's found a connection. Chloe has changed her named Snowden, and has released a whole bunch of information about House of Representatives spending habits, the fact that the White House pays women less, and the fact that guy who is the head of the Senate likes to dress in women's clothing, and they're all really mad at her. Kate correctly assumes that Jack is breaking out Chloe. She finds Erik and one of the guards, and is so mad she shoots an innocent door before heading through it.
Jack tells Chloe to run for cover because he's going to have some fun. He knocks the knobs off of two gas lines, just as Kate appears. Kate realizes that someone let out some gas, and it wasn't anything she had for lunch, so she wisely runs for cover as Jack shoots at the gas. Big explosion, large fireball. Doors all the way two floors up inexplicably blow off their hinges.
Outside, the service worker goes to a tool chest and pulls out his standard issue rocket launcher gun, which they issue for these kinds of neighborhoods.
Kate reappears and pulls a gun on Jack. He turns around, makes a mean face.
Again, outside, the service worker shoots the pavement with the launcher, causing a huge explosion right where Kate, Jack and Chloe are. The worker sends down a ladder, and much to his surprise, out pops Jack and Chloe! It's like this was all planned or something. He takes the ladder so Kate can't follow. She runs off and the truck drives off. Kate tries to shoot the gate she's behind out of frustration.
11:53am – Audrey and Heller are riding in the limo. Heller talks about feeling history, which Audrey interprets as an uncomfortable discussion about Heller's dating Eleanor Roosevelt. She quickly changes the subject to the history lesson where Heller made a mistake, and tells him she's worried. He just makes a funny face at her, and tells her that he's terrified he'll end up like her soon.
11:54 – Back at CTU, there's a lot of Jack destruction everyone is shifting through. PERIMETER called! Kate says that they should go after Chloe, because she's been in town longer than Jack has. Steve is unconvinced, and says that he's under a microscope and can't do anything. They both look up, don't see a microscope, and continue to talk. Kate says that beside the fact the she had NO idea that her husband was a traitor, she's the right person for the job, and proceeds to prove it by trying to blackmail Steve (again, no relation). Steve looks thoughtfully into the distance.
11:56 – Chloe tries to fix her makeup and the car stops. Jack tells her to get somewhere safe. She leaves, and Jack admits he bugged the phone because he's not sure she would have said "yes" to helping him. And that he doesn't have friends. And that he can still make a sad face.
Meanwhile, a triangle shaped drone goes flying through the air under the control of the lieutenant who was playing the video game earlier. There was a very bad bug in the software, because the drone launches a missile killing Shepard. The lieutenant is horrified, even though it's pretty likely he's not going to be grounded anymore.
12:00 – COMMERCIAL
Last time on 24: It just happened! What's wrong with you?
12:00 pm – Chloe's walking down the street, which apparently is a safe secret place to hide, in London.
At CTU, Kate discovers Chloe's phone, which Chloe got for a very good price, free, from a stolen shipment. The naughty, naughty interrogation agent wimps out and says they usually get the local police to supply them with free phones.
Kate calls Ken who she convinces to check out the stolen cell phone number from Chloe's phone. Ken's been working for CTU, but must be retired because he looks really exasperated that people still keep calling him for info.
Steve tells Erik that Kate's back on the payroll again, at least for now. Steve tells Erik that he'll be working with Kate. In case we didn't hear it the first fifty times, Erik points out that Kate missed the fact that she was married to a SPY selling secrets to the Chinese. Steve points out that in all fairness, Kate's husband was married to a spy too. Erik's pretty mad about that.
12:02 pm – Out on the street, Chloe goes to an abandoned building site, which appears completely secure, except for the hole behind a sign, and the twelve jillion graffiti tags all over the place. She goes into the building and buzzes herself in. A bunch of people who look like they're off versions of the IT Crowd greet her. They even have a completely silent pinball machine, that one of them was playing.
The head of their group, which you can tell because he looks a LOT older than the rest of them, greets her, and asks where she's been. She sheepishly admits she's been in a CIA black site, which immediately arouses suspicions because none of them have ever had that happen before. The guy asked if they've been compromised, and she tells him that "someone I used to work with broke me out". The guy says, "That's impossible." Her response: "Not for him. It's Jack Bauer." They guy pees his pants, just a little, and yells, "Shut it down! We have to move!"
Chloe tries to reassure the guy, but that lasts all of about two seconds because Jack breaks down the door and enters, with the guy I'm beginning to suspect isn't really a service worker.
Jack calls the guy Chloe has been talking to "Adrian Cross", and begins yelling for Derrik Yates. Now it's the rest of the nerds turns to pee their pants.
Adrian says that Yates doesn't work with them anymore because they had a clash of styles, plaid and stripes. Adrian refuses. Jack responds by showing why people shouldn't disagree with people named Bauer.
Chloe asks Jack why he's looking for Yates. Jack says that he intercepted some intel that mentioned an assassination attempt in London that was linked to Yates and Chloe's organization. More maybe Gates. Or Mr. Bates. Definitely something that ended in "ates".
Adrian says that Yates started selling intel on a new system from Ebay, "Intel-bay". He says that Yates didn't follow the protocol of only posting information, not selling it.
12:06 – Chloe uses her Chloe powers to convince everyone standing around to help her look for Yates, which they immediately do, because they know that Chloe wouldn't like it very much if they didn't.
Chloe's very mad at Jack, for not just asking for her help in the first place. Jack tries to point out that if he had tried to ask in the first place, she would have just had her tongue hanging out drooling because she was unconscious at the time.
Back on the street, the camera person must not be paying attention because it moves all over the place looking for someone.
Cut to the inside of an apartment building with no doors, where a guy with a black knit cap is walking down the hall. Knit cap goes into a room where big scary guys are openly packing up drugs and counting money. We can barely understand Knit Cap says because he's speaking English. Like from England English. He's complaining about another guy at a computer, and his girlfriend.
The girl is Russian, because she has a thick Russian accent and skips words in her sentences. The guy, who we assume is Yates, tells her he's working, and she should behave or go in the other room. She understandably doesn't want to, because there are big scary guys in the other room. Yates gets a phone call from someone he considers even scarier, which is reinforced because we can only see her in dark shadows AND she speaks in foreign accent. Yates tells her that the Americans will have no idea he took over the video game, because he pinned the whole thing on someone else. The Dark Shadows lady tells him that blaming it on someone else would have been better than using a pin. Even a staple gun would have been better. He assures her they're still on schedule, even with the modifications, and with the Russian woman acting frisky. The Dark Shadows lady is pretty suspicious that something is going on, but appears to be dumb enough to fall for the "it was just the TV" excuse, at least for now.
12:15 pm – Back at an army base, the lieutenant is getting interrogated about the drone incident. They're suspicious of him because he just had a weekend pass revoked, which tells us one thing: The army needs to hand out a LOT more weekend passes if this is how they think people will react to having one revoked.
Tanner (the lieutenant) says just to check the flight key, and to check the logged keystrokes and date. The thing is definitely army issued, because it is HUGE. You could probably log all the keystrokes in America on that thing. Tanner is informed that not only was it checked and cross checked, but it was cross-cross checked, triple cross double checked, and quintuple by-pass double scotcherooed checked. It shows that all the keystrokes came from his console. Tanner looks very worried and he insists that the flight key has something on it that will prove he's innocent. Plus he still has his family photos on that thing, and he'd really like it back.
At a party, Heller tells the Prime Minister, Alister Davies, "I can not tell you how much I appreciate your support on this, Alister". Davies looks perplexed, and says, "But you just did!" Heller tries to scare Davies by introducing him to Audrey, and then leaves her with him after Audrey says Heller is needed. Davies doesn't look nearly as worried as he should be.
Heller goes to talk with Mark and the Advisors (which would be a good name for a really dorky rock band). The general informs Heller that a drone might have, kind of, accidentally, whoopsies… killed four guys, two from our side and two from England.
Heller tells the advisors that it's important that Davies hears this news from himself, because he wants to see the expression on Davies' face when he tells him. As he turns to tell Davies, we see two British officers are already there, likely to protect the prime minister from Audrey. Audrey leaves and either she farted, or Davies just received the bad news, because he walks off in disgust before Heller can get to him.
Mark receives a call from Steve and is informed that Jack escaped. This surprises Mark, because he's obviously not as familiar with Jack as he thought. Steve says that he broke out an ex-colleague of his. Mark asks, "So he has no designs on President Heller?" Steve says that Jack doesn't even have a doodle on President Heller. Steve thinks it's very doubtful that Jack wanted the president to be killed. Mark does not like this one bit, and tells Steve that unless he gets Jack back, he can kiss his career and frequent flier miles goodbye.
Chloe continues to do her work, but gives Jack's service worker the evil eye. She says that the tattoo he has means he's been a very, very bad service worker. All the marks on his arm show how many murders he's committed, and the marks on the other arm show how many DVDs he "forgot" to return to Red Box. She asks what Jack has been up to for the last four years, and she goes into snark mode. She wants to know why he's doing this. She finally figures it out that he's doing this for Audrey! She, and the rest of Earth, throws up a little. Chloe says she's convinced that what all intelligence agencies do is criminal. He responds that she's just talking like Adrian Cross, which, for the first time that I can recall, leaves her speechless. She tells him that he's not Judge Judy or even Judge Reinhold, and that he can't judge her.
One of the nerds sees video showing the aftermath of the Afghanistan attack, and Jack quickly comes to the conclusion that Yates has been a very naughty information dispenser. Adrian says that he found out where Yates has been hiding, but it's in a place with drug dealers, and someone who is a "nasty piece of work". It looks like Jack is going to work. Jack goes to leave, and Chloe volunteers to go with. Jack leaves, and Chloe orders everyone to put down their video games and help her give Jack some communications backup.
12:29pm – Heller tells Mark and the General (which would be a good name for a terrible TV show) that he wants to phone the Prime Minister and talk to Parliament while it's in session. Mark points out that if he does it while Parliament is out of session, it wouldn't have the same impact anyway. It's pointed out that people are already saying the incident has been white-washed, which is probably a land-speed record from the time it occurred until now for people to have come to that conclusion. Anyway, Heller decides he wants to get Chris Tanner, the drone pilot, here, and for the General to make the arrangements. The General doesn't understand what flowers have to do with this, but he'll follow the orders, even though flowers are against the U.N. florist convention.
Mark is worried that Heller won't be able to handle Parliament because he's not on the "top of his game", and puts on his sad eyes as he says it. Heller smiles like a crazy uncle, and says that Mark didn't think he was up to it when he spoke at a town meeting in Ohio. From the look on Mark's face, you could tell that he didn't have the heart to tell Heller that meeting was a bunch of dogs out for a walk with their owners at a park in Washington.
Audrey says that she just passed the General, and he looked really upset. Mark doesn't want to tell her that the General was upset just because Audrey walked by, so he tells her about her father's plan to talk to Parliament. Mark is completely against it, but Audrey wants to help her father prep for the speech. She reminds Mark he did pretty well against those dogs at the park.
The Russian girlfriend back at Hotel Hell, sees news coverage of the aftermath of the strike, which is somehow already on network TV, despite the strike being in the middle of Afghanistan. She asks if Yates did this, and he admits to it. She asks if he doesn't feel a teeny tiny bit bad, and Yates says, "They were already dead. They just didn't know it." She asks if he means like in that old Michael J. Fox movie, and he says, "yes". He tells her that the President is going to die on foreign soil, which is sure to trigger a huge war. His plan is to wait it out in Greenland, which is a bad plan because Greenland is the icy one, and Iceland is the green one. Anyway, that's his plan, but he has to get something done within 28 minutes, or the Dark Shadows lady is going to be very upset.
12:33 – At makeshift CTU, Jordan announces they haven't found anything. Kate enters and says two phones from the stolen shipment are at a housing project. Everyone looks shocked, SHOCKED that's where they could be. They decide to follow the lead, but someone will be in big trouble if they find teenagers with those phones.
Jack and Chloe arrive at the housing project where Yates is, and decide to do a communications check. Jack says, "Testing, 1, 2, 3," and Chloe looks at him like he's stupid. "I'm sitting RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!". She looks worried that Jack's years alone in the field might have affected him. Jack leaves and Chloe goes to try and hook up to the closed circuit cameras in the run down housing projects. Because that's where you keep closed circuit cameras: in run down housing projects.
12:39 pm – Tanner is getting more of an armed escort than Jack did. They enter a truck, probably headed for the President.
Mark and Audrey stage a mock parliament speech with Heller that goes well, all the way up until the point where Heller starts speaking. Mark asks him a series of increasingly tough questions, eventually going to the literature category in Trivial Pursuit before switching back to the dead soldiers, of which Heller said there were three (when there were really four). This throws Heller for a loop, and he looks stage left and mumbles "LINE!" under his breath. He leaves, remembering the soldier's name he forgot, as he walks away. Audrey storms out because Mark yelled at her daddy.
Jack scouts out the housing complex, and asks Chloe where are the people they're looking for. Chloe, of course, has video feeds running on all the cameras in the complex already. Jack asks her to turn off the camera he's looking at, which, because of the Jack/Chloe telepathy thing, she's able to do without asking any further questions.
Bashir, the guy counting the money in the drug apartment, tells Knit Cap guy to check the camera that went out. Knit Cap guy, who had been playing a game on his handheld device, a broken piece of TV remote control, presses control-alt-delete a few times and brings up a picture of one of their colleagues hanging by the end of a rope.
With Chloe's help, Jack navigates past some bad guys right to the door where Yates is, and grabs Knit Cap guy as he steps out into the hallway.
Jack gives Knit Cap a Jack hug around the throat and escorts him back into the room with Bashir. Jack assures everyone, even the people with guns, that all he wants is Yates, and it would be a very bad idea to think that Jack couldn't hurt every one of them very badly because he's the star of the show, and they're just mostly extras. They don't believe him, and Jack proves he was right by killing a couple of them immediately, knifing Bashir in the throat.
While this is going on, Yates packs his things to leave. He dodges machine gun fire from Jack's fight, breaks through a window and escapes with his Russian girlfriend.
Jack follows, after picking up something in the apartment. He tries to shoot Yates like one of those ducks at the carnival from another catwalk, but misses.
Meanwhile, Chloe gets a phone call from Adrian, who tells her that unless she ordered food to be delivered, some agents are headed her way. She looks really worried. She did order food, but it couldn't be here that quickly.
The cars drive up to the van. Agents yell for Chloe to come out, and then open the door. The only thing left is a smoking computer, on which Chloe had quickly installed Windows 7, destroying it completely.
Kate and Erik run up to the building, and see Yates and his girlfriend. Yates calmly explains that there's a guy upstairs with a gun as he passes. Jack comes barreling down the stairs, gun his drawn and yells for Yates to stop. Jack pleads with Kate and Erik to stop Yates and his girlfriend, which of course, they don't do. He finally gets on his knees, sets down his gun when he's shot. It's Bashir, who, despite having a knife neck wound, is able to shoot Jack from over 200 yards away. The trained agents, with machine guns, can't hit Bashir, even though he remains in the relative open before ducking behind a post. Jack escapes, going after Yates. Kate and Erik follow.
12:53pm – In an underground garage, the agents play the quiet game, not letting on where they are, except for the bright flashlights they're all holding. Jack catches Kate, and tells her that she's chasing the wrong guy and he's trying to prevent an attack on Heller. A light flashes by and Kate makes what Jack thinks is a wrong move, so he gives her an autographed head butt to the face, knocking her out.
Jack sees a light above him, knocks out a board and escapes. A car drives up; it's Chloe! Despite all the noise, the rest of the agents in the garage only arrive after Jack's gone. Erik yells they have a man down, forgetting that Kate is not a man. Jack drives the car away.
Chloe is concerned that Jack is bleeding, he tells her it's OK because he's only been shot. He gives her a USB stick that he recovered from the apartment, and it turns out to be a drone commandeering system, which can control up to ten drones! Unfortunately, it starts deleting itself. It could have been a self-deleting program, or again, it could have been Windows 7. Either one.
In a bar, Yates explains to his girlfriend that Margo is likely the one that sent Jack to kill him. He wants to sell the device to someone else. He goes off to the bathroom, and the girlfriend follows into the same one, because she can't read English.
We soon see, it was something completely different. She pulls out a pick and drills it right into Yates' ear, which had to really, really hurt. And caused death. She grabs the case and leaves. It turns out that she's not Russian at all, she's working with her mother, Margo! It's Catelyn Stark in disguise!
NEXT TIME: JACK BAUER IS COMING!
Author srpPosted on May 6, 2014 May 6, 2014 Categories 24, TelevisionTags 24, hour 1, hour 2, jack bauer, Live another day