Previously on 24: We found out that: Lennox keeps skeletons in his closet; Jack can yell at Gray so much that he can make him cry; people that can arm nuclear devices can be found in less than an hour in southern California; if you pick pocket a phone from someone, it\u2019s probably a good idea to just toss it on the ground after you use it; Jack and his father are about to sing \u201cUnchained Melody\u201d in the back of a van.<\/p>\n
The following summary occurs between 12 pm and 1 pm:<\/p>\n
12:00 pm \u2013 It looks like hazmat ice cream trucks take longer to get to scenes of tragedy than perky news crews. Perky news crews also don\u2019t understand the concept of being down wind of nuclear explosions.<\/p>\n
12:01 pm \u2013 Lennox puts on his sad eyes and goes to tell President Wayne that he\u2019s really sorry that Haig resigned, and comes up with a lame excuse to try to get Wayne to sign his autograph on some authorizations to declare everyone in the United States as illegal. Lennox seems to think that getting Wayne to sign a piece of paper is going to get Fayed to stop exploding things. Wayne tells Lennox to pass out copies to the cabinet, and Lennox is REALLY excited about it.<\/p>\n
12:02 pm \u2013 Haig gets a phone call from Bill, and tells him that she resigned. Bill says that this is a really bad day to resign, because if she takes a plane back to LA, she\u2019ll be off camera for at least a few hours, hampering her chances to get an Emmy for \u201cMost Overly Dramatic Actress In a Nuclear Crisis\u201d. Bill tries to call her back, but she can\u2019t afford the air-time minutes, and doesn\u2019t answer the call. A door slides open, and she enters a little green elevator with a very bored looking CIA guy inside who looks like he wants to say \u201cI joined the CIA for this?\u201d<\/p>\n
12:03 pm \u2013 At CTU, Chloe tells Bill that she can\u2019t reach Jack by satellite, phone, or smoke signal. She says she\u2019ll keep trying.<\/p>\n
12:03 pm \u2013 In the van, a thug is on the phone with Gray, who is dumping hard drives\u2026 probably on Ebay. Jack\u2019s father starts to tell Jack that everything he\u2019s worked for has been for Jack, but Jack looks unconvinced since he still has a government job. A government job that lets him shoot people, sure, but still\u2026.<\/p>\n
12:07 pm \u2013 The van stops at a junk hard, and the thugs make the mistake of 1) unchaining Jack, and 2) carrying guns. They move to a hole in the ground right next to a cement truck, and a struggle ensues! There\u2019s shooting! YEAH! It\u2019s been WAY too long, and Jack, while relieved he finally got to shoot someone, forgot to tell his Dad not to join the fun because now they have no one to question. <\/p>\n
12:10 pm \u2013 Jack, with his hands still handcuffed calls Bill, and tells him that Gray has been a naughty nuclear collaborating monkey.<\/p>\n
12:11 pm \u2013 McCarthy calls to tell Fayed that he found a guy to do the nuclear arming, and actually sends his resume to Fayed! They have very strict hiring laws in California.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
12:15 pm \u2013 Nadia plays a recording for Bill of a podcast she downloaded featuring Fayed\u2019s and McCarthy\u2019s phone call. Morris has a weird screen saver that he hopes can reconstruct the resume, in about 10 minutes, so we\u2019ll check back then.<\/p>\n
12:16 pm \u2013 Jack stops off to meet one of the CTU guys in the field, Hal Turner, outside of Gray\u2019s house. Jack tells Hal that he wants Gray taken alive, but it\u2019s OK to shoot just about anything else. Jack\u2019s dad wants to know \u201cWhat are you going to do to him?\u201d and Jack answers, \u201cHis hair and nails\u201d, and leaves before his father remembers that Gray is bald.<\/p>\n
12:17 pm \u2013 Gray, his wife Marilyn, and his son Josh, all start arguing with each other when Jack bursts into the room with some CTU guys. Gray pulls a gun, which really surprises his wife and son. It seems that Gray hasn\u2019t quite told the truth about his real job.<\/p>\n
12:18 pm \u2013 Jack tells Marilyn that Gray is involved with the nuclear blast, and she doesn\u2019t seem all that surprised that Gray is a weasel. Marilyn stops Jack cold when she tells him, \u201cI\u2019ve seen what happens when you try and protect people\u201d. Ouch.<\/p>\n
12:19 pm \u2013 The tactical commando guys at CTU must have gone through the Chloe Computer Training Course because they know how to upload whole hard drives up to CTU. Jack tells the commando to take Marilyn and Josh to CTU for safe keeping, because we all know NOTHING can go wrong there. Except Tony. And Edgar. And a Hobbit.<\/p>\n
12:20 pm \u2013 Josh and Marilyn see Jack\u2019s dad, and Marilyn tells him to tell Jack to \u201cKeep Josh out of this\u201d\u2026 She seems to be under the impression that Josh might be the mastermind behind this whole thing.<\/p>\n
12:21 pm \u2013 Gray tries the \u201cpenguin on top of the television\u201d defense and tells Jack that he panicked. Jack yells at Gray, and when that doesn\u2019t work, Jack yells louder, which doesn\u2019t work either. Then Jack tells the interrogation guy, \u201cSet up the Interrogation Package\u201d, which is an upgrade from the \u201cYelling At\u201d package\u201d. The Interrogation Package comes in a silver suitcase.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
12:27 pm \u2013 Milo gets Chloe and shows her information about Morris\u2019 brother, who either stood way to close to a microwave oven, or got hit with the nuclear blast. He\u2019s in critical condition. Milo takes a page from Management 101 and says he wants to keep Morris from knowing about this because he\u2019s still got several hours of work to do. Chloe ignores this and tells Morris, who can\u2019t understand why his brother was in Valencia. Morris tries to leave, but Chloe convinces him to stay and help.<\/p>\n
12:29 pm – Back at the Bauer House of Impending Torture, Jack is on the phone with Bill, who tells Jack about the nuclear engineer and the resume. Gray is having the finishing touches of duct tape applied when Jack walks in and tells Gray about McCarthy\u2019s plan to find an engineer. Gray tells him that since nearly every engineer in California works for Google now, he doesn\u2019t believe it. Meanwhile, Jack\u2019s father just wanders into Gray\u2019s house, despite the large number of CTU commandos all over the place. One of the commandos is video taping the talk Jack and Gray are having for a DVD called \u201cBauers Gone Wild\u201d, while Jack\u2019s father watches.<\/p>\n
12:30 pm \u2013 Jack wants to inject Gray with some rather nasty stuff that will cause pain and induce overacting in Gray, and it really works. Gray starts overacting all over the place, but won\u2019t tell Jack anything. They really crank up the CCs of the stuff, and Gray finally starts to confess that it\u2019s not McCarthy but it\u2019s really about everything from LAST season, including David Palmer, Tony, Michelle, but he SWEARS he has nothing to do with Manilow. He tells Jack that he also set Jack up to be killed before, not just what\u2019s happened today. Gray says he\u2019s doing all this \u201cbecause he loves his country\u201d. Why killing Jack would help the country, I have no idea. I can only think that Gray hasn\u2019t been watching Jack\u2019s fine handiwork for the last few seasons. Gray makes the mistake of telling Jack the clich\u00e9 \u201cWe\u2019re just the same\u201d, which must be a trigger word for Jack because it makes him REALLY mad, and he does the unthinkable. He pushes Gray\u2019s chair over backwards and starts yelling at everyone that he wants to Gray dead right now. The only thing that stops his rampage is when Jack sees his father, who has a VERY disappointed look on his face. Gray looks angry. I mean really angry. I mean, if he were near the nuclear blast earlier, he\u2019d be Bruce Banner angry.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
12:40 pm \u2013 Sandra\u2019s in the hospital with Walid. Walid must be one tough guy, because all he has is a band-aid on his face after that beating he took in the courtyard. Sandra tries to comfort him by telling him that there\u2019s a BIG lawsuit in this for him.<\/p>\n
12:41 pm \u2013 President Wayne calls Sandra to ask about Walid, and she starts telling him that the men in the courtyard were \u201cinnocent bystanders\u201d who just happened to pull down information from the Internet about the additional nuclear weapons, forgetting that the police might have been a bit interested in that.<\/p>\n
12:42 pm \u2013 Morris downloads an open source application to try to help descramble what he\u2019s working on, but it nearly doesn\u2019t work because he just installed Vista.<\/p>\n
12:42 pm \u2013 Jack is on the phone with Bill. Jack tells Bill all about Gray\u2019s activities last season, going to Enron-like lengths to protect the company. Gray\u2019s going to CTU, and CTU is setting up at a middle school for what I can only guess will be a gruesome show and tell later.<\/p>\n
12:43 pm \u2013 Back inside the house, Jack tries to tell his Dad that Gray made \u201cbad choices\u201d, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s in the time out chair. Jack\u2019s father says Jack deserved a \u201cbetter family\u201d. Jacks wants his father to go to CTU, which will just be about at maximum Bauer capacity by the time he gets there with Gray, Marilyn and Josh.<\/p>\n
Commercial<\/p>\n
12:50 pm \u2013 Morris\u2019 Eclipse plug-in is working, so they should have the picture soon.<\/p>\n
12:51 pm \u2013 A very scary looking vice president, even scarier looking than last year\u2019s, is on Air Force 2 and confers with Lennox about \u201cthe plan\u201d. The cabinet convenes, and Wayne wants to know if everyone\u2019s read \u201cExecutive Order 1066\u201d. Everyone looks as though they\u2019re already sick of the other 1065 Executive orders, so one more is just more of the same. They all pretend they\u2019ve read it.<\/p>\n
12:52 pm \u2013 Wayne drops his own bomb that he\u2019s NOT going to use Lennox\u2019s plan, and launches into a political speech. He and Tom argue back and forth in the same format that Sandra uses to monologue. We also find out that the vice president\u2019s name is \u201cNoah\u201d.<\/p>\n
12:53 pm \u2013 At CTU everyone is running around urgently. They\u2019re really dragging out the picture Morris is trying to reconstruct. The picture finally reassembles, and TA DA! It\u2019s Morris! They\u2019re going to try and get Morris to set the nuclear weapons! Morris, of course, has left the building, and is now in extreme danger of becoming the focus of the next several hours of the show. The whole thing with Morris\u2019 brother at the hospital was a set up just to get Morris outside of CTU.<\/p>\n
12:55 pm \u2013 CTU gets Morris on the phone, and just as he\u2019s talking to Jack, McCarthy shows up, gets angry at the passenger seat of Morris\u2019 car, shoots it, and steals Morris, all with everyone listening in on the phone. Bet that makes the Christmas blooper reel.<\/p>\n
12:56 pm \u2013 Back at Gray\u2019s house, Gray is still tied up, and Jack\u2019s father asks to talk to Gray alone, which no one considers even the slightest bit suspicious.<\/p>\n
12:57 pm \u2013 Well, well, well\u2026 Jack\u2019s father and Gray are still in on the whole thing together. They\u2019ve planned everything! They really, really want the company to survive, and Gray says he\u2019s going to be a tough monkey to protect the company.<\/p>\n
12:59 pm – Jack\u2019s dad doesn\u2019t believe him, shoots chemicals into Gray\u2019s IV drip, and kills him! They just left a syringe lying around?? Wonder if that video tape was still going in the other room?<\/p>\n
1:00 pm \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME: TWO HOUR SHOW! A SUPER FAST PLANE HAS GOTTEN ASSAD TO WASHINGTON ALREADY! SHOOTING! EXPLOSIONS! JACK HAS TO DISARM A TICKING BRIEFCASE!<\/p>\n
Be sure and catch all of Steve’s summaries of Season 6 of “24”<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"