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Well – they left us in quite the pickle at the end of last weeks episode. Marty (in all her wisdom) decided that the way to stop the Putz from giving up the Russians was to jump in the car. Not the smartest move but it sure took guts…let’s see how it all plays out…shall we??


4:00 P.M.
Bierko watches on television as the motorcade proceeds on schedule. His men prepare a missile to attack the Russian president’s car.

4:01 P.M.
Logan and Novick review a threat assessment that pinpoints the likely spot of attack on the motorcade. Logan realizes that he will have to explain to the world why the Russian president was attacked on U.S. soil right after they signed a terrorism treaty. He becomes flustered when he finds out that Martha got in the car with the Suvarovs. He can’t warn the Secret Service because that will lead the terrorists to set off the nerve gas.

COMMENT: Oooops – still think it was this great idea to let Marty in on everything and make her your right hand man (woman). Sending her off to Vermont seems like it would have been a pretty good idea no? It’s kind of fun watching Logan try and sweat his way out of this…

4:04 P.M.
Martha is distracted as she rides with the Suvarovs. The President calls her in the car. She pretends to make idle chatter while Logan orders her to be picked up by the Secret Service because he cannot order the motorcade back. She refuses to get out and hangs up on him.

COMMENT: HAHAHAHAHA – she hung up on him…too funny. Those two are quite a pair.

4:06 P.M.
Logan is desperate to save his wife. Novick fears that Martha will tell the Suvarovs the truth, exposing that the White House gave them up to the terrorists. He asks the President whether they should summon the motorcade back. Logan doesn’t answer.

COMMENT: He’s too busy talking to the little voices inside his head….asking them if they can find a way out of this.

4:07 P.M.
Audrey whispers to Edgar to meet her in the server room and not tell anyone where he is going. McGill sees Audrey leave and he questions Edgar, who covers. McGill orders that everything the staff is working on be mirrored to his system.

COMMENT: My GOD!! Can someone hit the Hobbit with anything?? He has officially snapped and needs to be taken down.

4:08 P.M.
Audrey and Chloe sneak into the server room. Chloe tells her that Jack wouldn’t say how he knows Henderson. Audrey calls Jack, who is on his way to Omicron. He needs help accessing the building, and he explains that Henderson was the agent who recruited Jack to CTU. Things ended badly between them when Jack was involved in an internal investigation where Henderson was implicated and lost his job. Jack is sure that if Omicron was involved in making Sentox gas, then Henderson would know about it.

4:09 P.M.
Edgar enters the server room, but he is worried about getting caught. Audrey and Chloe say that they are helping Jack find the nerve gas behind McGill’s back. They want Edgar to cover for Chloe.

COMMENT: Jeez Edgar – you are killing me. First you get all pissy because you felt all left out of things. Now you are being a huge tool acting all scared you are going to get caught. If you want to hang with Chloe you have to be willing to break some rules…Deal with it or go back to your station and run some reports.

4:10 P.M.
Logan is upset, and wants to convince Bierko to wait until Martha is out of the car. Logan is afraid of losing his wife. Since CTU has no other leads on the nerve gas, their only choice is to either save the Suvarovs and Martha or allow the nerve gas to be released on the American public.

COMMENT: Hey Chuck – glad I’m not you. Have fun with this one.

4:12 P.M.
Martha nervously asks Agent Pierce if there have been any changes to the route. He says that nothing has been revised. She tells the Suvarovs that she is only worried about traffic.

COMMENT: Traffic?? Marty – you’ve got to be a little more quick or your feet than that. This is a Presidential motorcade riding behind a police escort…I don’t think traffic is going to be an issue…I think she could have come up with a better excuse than that. Am I just being petty?? Nah!

4:17 P.M.
McGill fires a techie for doing a task not within the scope of finding the nerve gas. He then notices that Chloe is not at her desk.

COMMENT: Lynnwise is becoming painful to watch. I think someone needs a hug – or to be tazered.

4:18 P.M.
Audrey and Chloe get Jack access to Omicron as a scheduled appointment. McGill finds them and Audrey lies, saying she asked Chloe for help on a Defense assignment. McGill is adamant that Audrey go through him for these requests. Chloe quickly finishes with Jack and returns to her workstation.

COMMENT: Nice to watch Audrey get into it with the Hobbit. I was waiting for her to slap him across the face. That would have been fun.

4:19 P.M.
Jack enters Omicron, giving his thumbprint at the entry gate. His photo shows up as the man with the appointment. He is granted entry.

4:20 P.M.
Jack hears Henderson’s voice on speaker phone from an office. Jack asks the secretary where the restroom is, but garners her name from the desk nameplate. He then calls Audrey from his cell and has her distract the secretary. Audrey looks up the woman’s direct dial and pretends to be in another department. She asks the woman to come to her office.

4:21 P.M.
After the secretary steps out, Jack enters Henderson’s office. Henderson is waiting there with a stun gun and knocks him out. Realizing that he knows Jack, Henderson revives him but takes Jack’s gun from him. “I never believed you were dead,” he says. Jack explains that Omicron manufactured the nerve gas that has been stolen by the terrorists. Henderson, blanching at the accusation, counters that the gas they developed was for the military, who destroyed it all. Henderson is shocked to find out it that his company’s Sentox gas killed eleven people earlier in the mall.

COMMENT: Is that the SOP?? If the secretary is called away from their desk – arm yourself with a tazer and hide in the shadows…

4:23 P.M.
Henderson swears to Jack that he wasn’t involved, but Jack can’t afford to believe him just yet. Henderson hands Jack back his gun. Jack wants to see the bunker where the nerve gas was made. Henderson is reluctant, but agrees to take him. Henderson grabs a metal file box on his way out.

COMMENT: Uh oh. Any time the word bunker comes into play it’s never good.

4:29 P.M.
Edgar sneaks to Chloe’s desk and tells her that he keeps seeing numbers in the NSA terrorist chatter. They correspond to the highways that the Russian president is taking to the airport. Chloe and Edgar bring this revelation to McGill, but he dismisses the claim because it has nothing to do with the nerve gas. Chloe asks whether they can at least notify the Secret Service or devote some limited resources to following up. McGill angrily refuses. Curtis suggests to McGill that they do something about the intelligence.

COMMENT: How completely inept does McGill have to be??

4:30 P.M.
Bierko assures his men in the field that the motorcade is still on course. He wants the nerve gas canisters to be armed in case things don’t go as planned.

4:31 P.M.
Audrey tries to convince McGill that the chatter might be connected to the nerve gas. McGill is furious. He doesn’t want CTU to be the source of any more mistakes. Curtis and the team overhear him threaten to have Audrey removed.

COMMENT: WOW - they have really managed to make him extremely unlikable…let’s see – he’s moody and paranoid….perhaps he has a tumor?

4:32 P.M.
Audrey leaves McGill’s office and sends an instant message to Chloe and Edgar, asking them to meet her in the corridor.

4:33 P.M.
Audrey tells them that she wants to notify the Secret Service, but that they won’t act upon it unless McGill verifies the information. Chloe will hack into McGill’s system, but she needs Edgar to cover for her. Edgar is afraid that what they are doing is illegal, but he goes along with the plan.

COMMENT: Hack away Chloe!!! You go girl!

4:34 P.M.
Audrey pulls Curtis aside and they both agree that McGill is a problem. She believes they need Buchanan back on the floor, and she wants second-in-command Curtis to invoke a rule that declares McGill mentally unfit to continue in the job. He is tentative.

4:35 P.M.
Logan is resigned to the fact that he is allowing his own wife to be murdered. He could not risk the lives of thousands of Americans to save the Russian president, and he cannot do the same to save Martha. Logan asks Novick to pray with him.

COMMENT: Kind of a touching scene if you ask me….he actually seemed Presidential.

4:38 P.M.
As they attempt to work, Chloe and Edgar’s computers are cut off. McGill comes in with guards to arrest them for unauthorized access to his system. He orders Curtis to remove Audrey from CTU. When Curtis refuses, McGill demands that he be detained as well. Curtis threatens to draw his weapon, and McGill tells the guards to shoot him if he does so. Curtis is forced to invoke the mental stability clause removing McGill from command. The guards take McGill away, and Curtis alerts Division that Buchanan will be reinstated.

COMMENT: Darn – I really was hoping Curtis would have to use force…..and of course now we don’t get to see Lynnwise detain or fire the entire staff of CTU….that would have been fun.

4:45 P.M.
Curtis briefs Buchanan about what they have uncovered with Jack’s progress. He undoes all of McGill’s recent activities. They notify Secret Service of the threat to the motorcade.

COMMENT: Welcome back Bill. Nice to see you.

4:46 P.M.
Buchanan calls the President with news of a possible attack on Suvarov. Logan becomes silent. Novick tells Buchanan that the First Lady is also in the limousine. There is nothing that Logan can do to change the course of events now.

4:47 P.M.
As the motorcade makes its way near the terrorists post, Agent Pierce gets word of the attack. He calls in an alert and the motorcade is quickly turned around. The terrorists see this and begin firing. They launch a missile at the presidential car. Since the vehicle is armored at the highest level, Martha and the Suvarovs are alive but trapped inside.

COMMENT: A riveting scene. The folks at FOX have already shown a willingness to kill off major characters this season so I just had no idea if Marty (or more importantly Agent Pierce) would bite it.

4:48 P.M.
The armed terrorists surround the limo but they cannot open it. They spray it with bullets to no avail. A flamethrower has no success penetrating it either. Agent Pierce, who was knocked unconscious, wakes up and opens the car door. He kills the terrorists standing outside the car with only a few shots. The police arrive.

COMMENT: Nice shooting Aaron…. And nice to see them all come out unharmed in the end.

4:49 P.M.
Logan is relieved to find out that Martha and the Suvarovs have survived the attack because of CTU’s intervention. Yet Bierko won’t understand that the President kept his end of the bargain. They expect him to retaliate.

COMMENT: Not much you can do about that…

4:54 P.M.
Henderson takes Jack into the Omicron bunker where the Sentox gas was made. He doesn’t know who within his company worked on the project. They talk about CTU as they wait for the files to come up on the lab computer. Henderson maintains that he was framed in the CTU whistleblower investigation that Jack was a part of. Henderson is still bothered that Jack never believed he was innocent. Henderson find files showing that the three lead scientists on Sentox were killed in freak accidents.

4:57 P.M.
Henderson leaves the bunker to go to the IT department for help sending the files to CTU. Jack tries to call CTU but the phone doesn’t work. He realizes that Henderson has locked him inside alone. Jack looks at the metal file box that Henderson left behind. There is a bomb inside. “How could I be so stupid?” Jack whispers to himself.

Henderson walks out of Omicron and phones someone. He says that, based on what Jack revealed, CTU doesn’t have enough information to pin it on them. In one minute, Jack will be killed.

COMMENT: Uh oh….nice to know that Henderson had a bomb lying around his office just in case someone came by that he had to blow up….Honestly – I never thought that Henderson would even go into the bunker with Jack. I thought for sure when Jack went in first he was going to just shut the door. Oh well…what the heck do I know??

4:58 P.M.
Jack scrambles to find a way out, but he is sealed in the bunker. He carefully puts the bomb in the corridor, closes the lab door and moves a file cabinet in front of it.

When he has driven far enough away, Henderson detonates the bomb with a remote. It explodes the bunker door, destroying most of the lab. Jack climbs up from the floor panel where he was hiding and crawls out among the rubble.

COMMENT: Very Han Solo of you Jack – hiding under the floor. Mr. Henderson – you have really pissed off Jack. Consider yourself officially in trouble.

4:59 P.M.
Logan questions whether they should play up the fact that Martha was in the Suvarovs’ car to undermine any connection to his duplicity. Bierko calls on Cummings’ cell. Logan swears to him that he didn’t notify anyone, but Bierko doesn’t accept this. He bluntly states that Russia’s new ally, the United States, will pay with the lives of its citizens. Bierko labels this as their last conversation and he hangs up.

COMMENT: No big surprise there. Very unimpressed with Bad Guy Bierko so far (except for the knife in the gut of Erwich). He’s no Marwan…but then who is??

So – anything happen this week that surprised us?? Not really. Did you all see what we have in store for next week???? A 2 HOUR 24 DOUBLE FEATURE!!!...and the return of KIM and TONY!!!! Get the popcorn popped and the TV set to Fox!

Normally I am just full of questions and quirky observations…but not today. It would appear that 24 is back on the tracks and headed in a good direction. Will it continue onto greatness?? I guess that’s my one question for today…and I don’t have an answer. I can only hope.

Have a superspectaculicious week! STAY WARM AND DRY!