This season we start at 4 in the afternoon. The harsh light of day on the mean streets of New York City. Somewhere in those mean streets, Jack Bauer is asleep on the couch with his granddaughter. Oh how things have changed. Jack is living in a phat pad. Damn. Kim comes by to pick up the kid and Jack tells her he's decided to move to Los Angeles to be near them... tonight. Yeah, good luck with that. The day's just begun, Jack. (Meanwhile, if he's leaving, can I have his place in NYC? It's amazing.)
The President is still a woman (now divorced, and her daughter was sent to prison - HA!). It's hard for me to adjust to a female President when I've been watching Mad Men in the same day - I didn't think women had brains or were allowed to work, let alone run the country! If Don Draper could see this now! She's working on some peace talks with President Hassan, the guy with the pompadour hairdo from Slumdog Millionaire.
Jack's plans are disrupted when his buddy shows up at the door, with knowledge of an assassination plot against President Hassan. In no time, the guy's looking for a deal and Jack's strangling him, demanding to know the details.
Jack calls into CTU. CTU is in some sweet futuristic digs. Damn, son!!! I guess by now it's like the year 2018. The future! I am in love with the new CTU. Plus we get Agent Starbuck, Agent Freddie Prinze, Jr., and a CTU Director who used to head Bubba Gump Shrimp. Upgrade! Poor Chloe's only been in this office a month and she's having a hard time getting up to speed with the new technology. Chloe not on top of things? This really is new!
Jack grabs the Jack Pack and heads out with his buddy to the nearest helipad so he can be turned over to CTU. He calls Kim along the way to let her know he may be a little late. As he's performing some back-alley surgery on his buddy's bullet wound (using a mattress and a knife), some do-gooder sees them and calls 911 on his SPRINT PHONE. The police of course intervene and screw things up.
The bad guys find them and start shooting. Jack ends up taking one of them out with a fire axe to the chest and the other one takes a long fall down a stairwell. Holy crap! Those were some good kills, and we're still just in the first hour. After a huge helicopter explosion, Jack's buddy tells him that there's someone in Hassan's inner circle involved in the assassination plot. Guess who? The hot blonde journalist Hassan's banging. Duh.
R.I.P. Jack's buddy and some random CTU dudes.
2 comments:
You mentioned the sweet apartment, the sweet CTU and the fire axe to the chest...but you did not mention the exposed brick in the sweet apartment. I thought for sure...
Best line ever :
"In no time, the guy's looking for a deal and Jack's strangling him, demanding to know the details."
You didnt mention the hilarious CGI shot of them walking in "midtown" and the helipad that is somewhere on Roosevelt Island. (That looks like it was rendered in crayon)
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