23 April 2007

24: Live Blogging For My Iranian Audience

Ricky flags down a car. Hey, why are people on the road when a nuclear bomb went off earlier? My ass would be home watching the carnage on CNN while eating ice cream. Wait, it's midnight. My ass would be sleeping.

Bill asks Chloe to help CTU as they try to locate Jack, even though 7 minutes ago he told her not to. Chloe can't stay down for long. She and Morris work to find Jack, whose tracker has been disabled by the power lines on the side of the road, or something.

President Daniels and Tom work out a truce. BFFs, those two. They agree to keep Karen on. Pretty smart, since she's proven to be a troublemaker.

I have a problem with Jack putting Audrey's life above national security. This was the kind of emotional S Tony used to pull. Jack was always Mr. The Country Is More Important Than Anything. Suddenly, he has switched positions on this. Lucky for Audrey. But I digress... Jack calls The Chinaman on the way to see him. They agree on a new location to meet and the Chinese roll out. Somebody get Audrey some conditioner! What happened to Miss Herbal Essences from the previous seasons?

Daniels puts the moves on his assistant, Lisa. He calls himself a dirty old man. They kiss and I want to VOMIT!! He asks her to spend the night. Nice that his first act in office is to mack on a chick. Let's hope he turns out as good a President as Clinton. Lisa goes home to pack a bag. And then presumably get down and dirty - in Wayne's bed!

Chloe and Morris are getting snippy with each other. Seriously, they've been going back and forth for like 5 minutes. Til Chloe says, "Why don't you go arm a nuclear weapon for terrorists!" [Sad horns] Debbie Downer!

Meanwhile, Chad Lowe (remember him?) has been undergoing interrogation. He threw Bill Buchanan under the bus about releasing Fayed from custody back in the day and Karen covering it up (remember that?). Some Justice dude asks Karen about it. She says Fayed wasn't a big deal back then. Justice dude says heads have to roll, and it's either Karen or Bill. Looks like they're back to a one-income household. Whoever gets canned has to make dinner! Karen tells Tom about this. Tom thinks Bill's got to go because he really did screw up and Karen needs to keep her job because she didn't.

Jack rolls up to The Location and takes his Messenger Bag of Death. I hope it's loaded with goodies like last year. Jack sets the C4 in The Location. He leaves a message for Bill explaining that he intends to blow the place up and asking Bill to take care of Audrey. That's going to be tough on just one income!

Morris requests a transfer because he can't work with Chloe. One fight and Bill has to reorganize the entire CTU org chart? Karen calls Bill and explains their pickle. She says she has to fire Bill. Bill goes nuts. Well, as nuts as Bill gets. The conversation ends when he hangs up on her. Nice! Bill tells Nadia he was fired. Nadia is Acting Director. Wasn't this bitch just answering the phones or something at the beginning of the season? And now she's in charge? She's like 22 years old and just a few hours ago her security clearance was revoked and she was suspected of being a terrorist. Pretty good person to put in charge. Bye bye Bill Buchanan.

Ricky has been hot on Jack's trail. He finds Jack's truck as The Chinese Limo arrives. Goody, now he can give the Color Commentary for the folks back at CTU. Jack sees Audrey, removes her gag (sexy!), and apologizes to her. Audrey is released (Jack called a cab earlier to meet her down the street). Jack hands over the circuit to The Chinaman. Surprise - CTU teams converge before Jack can blow the place, but after The Chinaman escapes - with the circuit. The Chinese take out the CTU Copter so it can't follow. Ricky jumped the gun on the assault and Jack gives him hell for it. When is he going to learn to listen?! Nadia orders Ricky to arrest Jack. Audrey's acting all spacey and Jack asks her if she even knows who he is. She continues to act like there are bugs crawling all over her or something as the show ends.

And Mike says, "Geez, I hate this show. I used to love it. I own all of them."

Amen to that, brother - won't be buying this season on DVD!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the live recap, now I know not watching this show was a good decision....I don’t make many good choices, but this is definitely one that I don’t regret. The constant soap opera of bickering and instant love affairs is getting way too old.. Have any of these people heard of waiting until the end of a national crisis to start hitting on your secretary or asking to be transferred? The one weird thing about 24 is that they managed to change the enemy from the middle easterners (Mexicans) to the Chinese at the same time everyone began to blame the Chinamen for VT attacks.......coincidence?