OH JACK! YOU DEVIL!
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In last night’s episode, we learned the following:
Secretary Heller is a courageous guy. For the first time in living memory, a conservative politician is being portrayed in a positive light. Smart, brave, a loving father, a patriot…Heller embodies qualities that would normally be associated with the portrayal of a Kennedy or a liberal…
Which means, of course, that before he dies its gonna be revealed that he’s participated in some incredibly NASTY and EVIL stuff…Maybe.
Audrey is one strong woman. This would seem to be, on its face, an obvious statement. After all, she IS sleeping with Jack Bauer (the smell of death alone on that guy must make being in the same room with him much less the same bed an exercise in vomit control.) But its more than that. Most of us have never thought what we’d do in a hostage situation similar to Audreys. If I ever do find myself faced with what she’s facing, I would hope I’d have the strength of character to deny the terrorists their little spectacle.
Edgar is a total wimp. Fat computer geek Edgar (Chloe: “You’re a geek Edgar…But a good guy. Don’t ever change.”) Being under the thumb of uber-bitch Maryann is one thing. But for God’s sake, geek, don’t you realize you can now turn the tables on her? If you rat her out to Erin regarding her shenanigans, it’ll be the word of a temp against yours! (Edgar has obviously never played the game of hardball office politics before.)
Beruss Azaz has an Oedipus complex. Greek king Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother, had nothing on poor teenage, angst-ridden, hormone riddled, Beruss. It remains to be seen whether the father or the mother is going to be the one that has to kill the kid and put him out of his misery. Whether that happens before Beruss rats out his hated father will have us all on the edge of our seats.
Summary
The story wasn’t advanced very much. Heller and Audrey tried to kill themselves by turning on the gas…didn’t work. Jack got out of his little problem with the police by having Erin vouch for him (Sheesh! Not even a thank you!) and ended up watching as
terrorist Hasson “martyred” himself when he discovered that CTU was on his tail. Not to worry. At Jack’s request, a thermal overlay on a satellite image reveals the terrorist hideout. The conservative Republican President (who so far is pretty much of a non-entity) orders a cruise missile strike on the compound where the Secretary is just about to go on trial and Audrey is waiting to die. Erin orders Jack out of the area. Fat chance. I can guarantee that Jack’s body count next week is gonna go up considerably as it appears Jack is about ready to storm the compound all by himself to rescue his love.
We still don’t know what the main terrorist plot involves. We know that the next phase of it is an internet attack of some kind (Audrey recognized an American traitor working with the terrorists). Expect more of the plot’s outlines to be revealed after Heller’s trial is interrupted next week.
Body Count
Jack: 1 gratuitous wounding; 2 kills
Show: 54
Loose End
Jack is held up by the police for, according to the show’s time, more than 15 minutes waiting for his car to be retrieved from the convenience store parking lot. And yet, it takes him less than 20 minutes to catch up with Hasson. Do the math. If Hasson is going 60 MPH and is 15 minutes ahead, plus the additional distance he was ahead before the police stopped him, Jack would have to travel at close to the speed of light to catch up with him (actually, I don’t want to do the math. I’m no good at math. This is an algebra problem. Any sophomore’s in High School wanna give me a hand?)
Stay tuned for next week’s exciting episode where Jack either rescues Audrey and dissolves into a puddle of slobbering, weeping, quivering hunk of man-flesh or witnesses her death that will turn him into an avenging angel, shaking the thunder from the sky…Don’t miss it!