When I wrote up summaries last year, I started on Episode 4, and never wrote up Episodes 1-3. So, in order to be complete, I’m working on getting those written up.<\/p>\n
Here’s my summary for Episdode 2<\/p>\n
The following summary takes place between 8 am and 9 am<\/p>\n
8:00 am \u2013 Audrey is showing Bill the latest version of Google Maps, which has an annoying blinking dot feature on it at the compound where Manilow is. Edgar bursts in, telling Bill that he heard there were donuts in the conference room, and that they might have a suspect on video.<\/p>\n
8:01 am \u2013 Using magic technology that only CTU has for changing low resolution images into high resolution images, the video shows Jack trying to get through a locked door. Audrey looks more perplexed than usual.<\/p>\n
8:02 am \u2013 Jack tells Chloe that someone is trying to frame him to take the fall for All-State\u2019s assassination. Chloe suggests that Jack get as far away from here as possible, and Jack tells her if he did that the next 23 hours of the show were are going to be quite boring.
\nJack wants to go to All-State\u2019s suite and look around. Chloe thinks it\u2019s crazy, but just happens to have a good way to break into the computers over in that building.<\/p>\n
8:03 am \u2013 Derek looks none too pleased to see that Jack killed Head Bad Guy, and refuses to go into the van when Jack tells him too. Jack calmly asks again, using a very persuasive grip on Derek\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n
8:04 am \u2013 Back at CTU, Edgar tells everyone the video tape hasn\u2019t been altered, except for perhaps the wrong date in the corner. Bill, Curtis, and Audrey are trying to figure out if and why Jack shot Palmer. Edgar speaks up and says that it was Mary Crosby that shot him. Bill tells him that was \u201cJ.R.\u201d and to focus.<\/p>\n
8:05 am \u2013 Bill wants to know where Chloe is, and Edgar goes into partial meltdown telling everyone that HE wanted to find out where Chloe was but SPENCER didn\u2019t think it was a big deal. And, I quote, \u201cNah, Nah, NahNah, Nah Nah\u201d. They want to get to Chloe before Jack does. Um\u2026. Too late. And it\u2019s a good thing too.<\/p>\n
8:06 am \u2013 Manilow stands in an open doorway, trying to figure out what that weird noise is. Walt walks in and tells him that what he\u2019s hearing are \u201cbirds\u201d. Walt also tells Manilow that Mrs. Manilow called. Walt can\u2019t figure out why All-State would want to call Mrs. Manilow, so Manilow gives Walt permission to check the phone records. <\/p>\n
8:07 am \u2013 Audrey calls Manilow and tells him that Jack is a suspect in the All-State death. Walt starts calling Jack names, and Audrey doesn\u2019t like it (but mysteriously doesn\u2019t cry about it). Manilow tells Audrey to find Jack, and hangs up.<\/p>\n
8:08 am \u2013 Some guy with dark sunglasses is at the refinery looking at all the bodies that are Jack\u2019s handiwork. He\u2019s talking to a guy in a dark room with lots of television monitors, which appears to be bad guy headquarters. Guy in Dark Room (GIDR) says that CTU will find Jack, and then Jack will be taken out. They don\u2019t say where.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
8:14 am \u2013 Chloe\u2019s driving the bad guy van with Derek and Jack in the back. Jack\u2019s going through the bad guy weapons that are stashed back there, obviously impressed. Jack\u2019s phone rings, and it\u2019s his girlfriend. She wants to know where to meet Jack, and he says he doesn\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n
8:15 am \u2013 A fake newswoman is giving a fake news report to a fake camera with a very concerned fake look on her face, in front of All-State\u2019s building. Chloe drives the van right up to the building, and makes it through the checkpoint. Good to see tight security. <\/p>\n
8:16 am \u2013 They\u2019re in the parking lot under the building now, and Jack pulls out an earpiece that just happens to work with Chloe\u2019s amazing visualization of every single agent in the building. Chloe tells Jack there are 167 agents in the building, and Jack tells Chloe there are now going to be 168 agents in the building.<\/p>\n
8:17 am \u2013 Jack gets out of the van, walks up to an FBI agent taking something out of his trunk and takes him out in about two seconds. Chloe says, \u201cRelax, he\u2019s really good at this\u201d. Jack must have really wanted that guy\u2019s shirt because he\u2019s wearing it now. Jack heads upstairs.<\/p>\n
8:18 am \u2013 Jack heads for the elevator, and four agents get onto the elevator with him. Jack tries to blend into the woodwork, while the agents completely ignore him.<\/p>\n
8:19 am \u2013 Jack gets to the penthouse and he starts looking around for the catering table. He sees All-State on the ground and is pretty upset, so he goes into a completely empty room that happens to have a computer in it.<\/p>\n
8:20 am \u2013 Derek starts asking Chloe all kinds of questions about Jack, like why she keeps calling him \u201cJack\u201d instead of \u201cFrank\u201d. Chloe tells him that some bad people wanted to cover up their mistakes and that part of that would be Jack being dead. Since Jack didn\u2019t seem to think this was a good plan, he went into hiding.<\/p>\n
8:21 am \u2013 Jack gets All-State\u2019s computer booted, which, as we know, is all Chloe needs to get into the computer. Someone\u2019s at the door! Jack grabs the guy from behind, and we see it\u2019s All-States brother, Wayne.<\/p>\n
8:22 am \u2013 Jack calmly explains to Wayne that it would be stupid to have killed All-State, because they were good friends. Wayne tells Jack that the Secret Service guys in the next room would probably like to help. Jack tells him that wouldn\u2019t be that great of an idea. Jack gives Wayne his gun to prove he\u2019s telling the truth, and Wayne finally accepts this.<\/p>\n
8:24 am \u2013 Mrs. Manilow is watching old blooper reels of All-State, still pretty upset. Walt comes in and asks about All-State\u2019s phone call.<\/p>\n
8:26 am \u2013 Jack asks if All-State was acting strangely. Wayne says that All-State was acting pretty distracted, especially by the bullet. Jack decrypts the first chapter of All-State\u2019s memoir. Wayne thinks it\u2019s pretty weird that All-State would do that because reading an encrypted chapter is a LOT harder to understand.<\/p>\n
8:27 am \u2013 Edgar is still sniping at Spencer about Chloe. They finally make up, and Edgar gives Spencer Chloe\u2019s access code to use. They figure out that Chloe is logged in remotely. Neither of them thinks she called in for a sick day, so they call Bill. Bill doesn\u2019t remember a sick day either. They figure out that she\u2019s at the scene of Palmer\u2019s killing, and they figure out that Jack might be with Chloe.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
8:33 am \u2013 A bunch of bad guys are taking guns out of boxes full of straw, obviously having just come from some kind of live stock mission. GIDR calls a bald bad guy and tells him to hurry up.<\/p>\n
8:33 am \u2013 Jack and Wayne find something Wayne doesn\u2019t recognize in the All-State paper they\u2019re reading on the computer, and it appears to be a name and an location at an airport. Chloe says that all the little dots on her screen are moving up towards the penthouse and that\u2019s a bad thing because the dots all want autographs and have guns. Jack tells Wayne to keep things quiet, and he leaves.<\/p>\n
8:34 am \u2013 Jack tries to leave, but the room is packed with agents, except for one agent in the kitchen who is looking for a snack. Jack knocks him out, which is going to be pretty embarrassing for that agent later. Jack goes into a private elevator and presses the button to close the door repeatedly, because we know that always makes an elevator go faster.<\/p>\n
8:35 am \u2013 Chloe\u2019s screen with the little dots goes blank! Jack decides to get off on the second floor (pretty tricky, Jack!) and runs for it down some stairs, beating up an agent as he goes. Jack jumps into the van. Chloe tells him that the name on the paper is a baggage guy at the airport.<\/p>\n
8:36 am \u2013 Suddenly, a bunch of agents show up out of nowhere and all announce that Chloe and Jack have to give themselves up. The van goes barreling out of the garage, there\u2019s a brief chase, and the agents figure out that it\u2019s just Chloe. Jack and Derek got away!<\/p>\n
8:38 am \u2013 Jack and Derek hotwire a car and drive away.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
8:42 am \u2013 Jack calls Diane, and tells her to meet them at the Ontario airport. Diane says it\u2019s a long way to Canada, and Jack tells her \u201cOntario airport in Los Angeles\u201d.<\/p>\n
8:43 am \u2013 Phone call from the field agents to Bill about Chloe, and Bill asks to talk to her. Chloe tells Bill that Jack didn\u2019t kill Palmer, and that the guy who really did it is waiting for them at the oil refinery, and he\u2019s not going anyway anytime soon. Bill wants to know where Jack is, and Chloe tells him \u201cas if\u201d. Bill doesn\u2019t like this very much so he puts on his angry eyes and ORDERS her to tell him where Jack is. Chloe gets a look on her face that says, \u201cYeah, right!\u201d, and refuses to tell him. Bill tells the agents to bring Chloe in.<\/p>\n
8:44 am \u2013 Derek tells Jack that he knows a little about what happened. Jack starts to tell Derek that he cares about both Derek and his mother, which alarms Derek a little bit.<\/p>\n
8:45 am \u2013 Back at Manilow headquarters, Mrs. Manilow wants to know if Manilow heard the conversation that was recorded between her and All-State. Manilow pulls out a recording device and we hear All-State calling Mrs. Manilow to visit with her, and that he\u2019ll bring the pizza. Mrs. Manilow freaks out, and tells Manilow there was never any pizza mentioned, only hot sandwiches. Manilow tries to convince Mrs. Manilow that she\u2019s not remembering correctly, but she\u2019s not quite buying it.<\/p>\n
8:47 am \u2013 Edgar tells Bill and Audrey that something is up with the Russian summit that\u2019s about to happen in about 15 minutes, that being the top of the hour, the time when all dramatic things happen.<\/p>\n
8:48 am \u2013 A UPS truck full of bad guys with guys is driving pretty quickly towards its destination. GIDR is on the phone with the Bald Bad Guy. They are definitely headed towards the Russians.<\/p>\n
8:49 am \u2013 Cheney-Looking Guy tells Manilow that the Russian helicopter might be targeted. Manilow is really insistent that the helicopter land, despite the extreme amount of evidence that this would be a really bad idea.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
8:54 am \u2013 Jack and Derek arrive at the airport, where Diane is waiting. Jack apologizes to Derek, and tells Derek to go to his mom. Jack tells Diane that his name is not Frank, it\u2019s \u201cJack Bauer\u201d, and gives her a CTU card and tells her that Bill will take care of everything, including parking validation.<\/p>\n
8:56 am \u2013 Jack enters the airport looking for the baggage supervisor. <\/p>\n
8:57 am \u2013 At CTU, they\u2019re watching the Russian helicopter land. Lots of dramatic music! A marine gets off the plane, followed by the Russian president and his wife. Nothing happens! Oooh\u2026.bad dramatic music guys! Naughty!<\/p>\n
8:58 am \u2013 Diane and Derek are trying to leave the airport when they\u2019re stopped. Derek is the ONLY PERSON at the airport that sees the UPS truck with a bunch of guys getting out of the back of it. The guys go into the airport, and Derek follows.<\/p>\n
8:58 am \u2013 Jack tracks down the baggage handler and uses the words, \u201cYou\u2019re going to tell me what I want to know, it\u2019s just a matter of how much it is going to hurt\u201d. That\u2019s our Jack! <\/p>\n
8:59 am \u2013 Bald Bad Guy pulls out a machine gun and starts shooting, which distracts Jack. The baggage handler chugs a diet Coke, quickly eats a few Mentos and kills himself by foaming to death. Bald Bad Guy announces that no one will be harmed if the President complies. <\/p>\n
8:59 am \u2013 Walt is on the phone with Head Bad Guy, telling him that he was the one that altered the tape, before Manilow could hear it! Head Bad Guy tells Walt that the airport has been taken, and that Manilow will know the demands soon!<\/p>\n
9:00 am \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"