LAST TIME ON 24: Just happened; you really don\u2019t remember that?<\/p>\n
The following summary occurred between 2 pm and 3 pm.<\/p>\n
2:00 pm \u2013 Fayed\u2019s helicopter lands after being able to fly around on the day a nuclear bomb went off, and no one seems to have realized this might be out of the ordinary, even if he is in a medivac helicopter. He calls Gredenko to let them know he has an arming device, while his thugs pull more silver suitcases out of a van. Gredenko is mad since his scheme requires five detonations, he\u2019s only going to be able to use it for three, and he will NOT be able to get store credit for the other two. Gredenko tells Fayed that he has trucks coming in from Nevada, since California seems to devoid of trucks that are up to the job, and he\u2019s decided to outsource. The trucks will be there in two hours.<\/p>\n
2:01 pm \u2013 Bill calls a meeting at CTU to remind everyone of what they\u2019ve all been working on so hard for the last few hours, and wants status updates on why they\u2019re not making any progress. Chloe volunteers that it\u2019s probably all the meetings they keep having to have status updates, but no one hears her says this. Milo, Nadia and Bill recite Gredenko\u2019s biography from the Biography Channel, just to make it clear to everyone that he\u2019s not a nice guy. Bill uses his superpowers to figure out that since the e-mail that they retrieved said \u201cPacific Time\u201d, Gredenko, maybe, quite possibly, but not for sure, could be in Los Angeles. What are the odds of THAT? Bill tells Chloe to figure out how Gredenko go into the country.<\/p>\n
2:03 pm \u2013 Chloe sees Morris come in, and says she\u2019s drilled that he\u2019s there; she stops herself, says, \u201cThrilled! I mean thrilled!\u201d, and a woman takes Morris in the back to have his arm looked at before Chloe can apologize.<\/p>\n
2:04 pm \u2013 A large group of CTU tactical guys come in with Jack, stunning all the extras that are in CTU. Bill tells Jack that Gredenko and Fayed have been in contact with each other, and Jack goes to talk to his father for more info. On the way there, Chloe thanks him for saving Morris, and that she\u2019s really glad that Fayed didn\u2019t kill Jack. Jack says he\u2019s glad about that too, since if he was dead Chloe would be standing there talking to thin air. Jack thanks Chloe.<\/p>\n
2:07 pm – Jack\u2019s dad is busy going through all of Gray\u2019s stuff, deleting cell phone messages, going through his wallet, and generally getting rid of any evidence, since someone at CTU seems to have forgotten that might have been important. Jack walks in and apologizes for killing Gray, but says he had to because he wasn\u2019t scheduled to be in any more episodes. Jack asks about Gredenko, and his father tells Jack everything Jack already knows, and then rubs it in about Gray some more. Jack\u2019s father is one sweet guy.<\/p>\n
2:08 pm \u2013 Chloe goes to check on Morris, and his doctor is a woman that was a blond officer from Star Fleet headquarters in Next Generation! Chloe doesn\u2019t notice this continued Star Trek coincidence, probably because she now has brown hair instead of blonde, and goes to see Morris. Morris is pretty down on himself, about programming the arming device and all, and despite Chloe reassuring him, he\u2019s still pretty upset.<\/p>\n
2:11 pm – Cell phone reception inside the concrete walls of CTU is still amazingly good, because Jack\u2019s dad makes a phone call to Carson. That company he started must be pretty darn important (I\u2019m thinking Microsoft), because Jack\u2019s dad wants to be sure that Gredenko doesn\u2019t implicate him in anything that\u2019s happened so far, so he wants Gredenko dead. You\u2019d think that with everything that happened the last few years, CTU would have technology to actually monitor what\u2019s happening INSIDE CTU. I think Jack\u2019s father is just mad that his phone isn\u2019t as cool as Jack\u2019s.<\/p>\n
2:12 pm \u2013 Jack tells Bill that his father doesn\u2019t know anything more than they do. Bill uses a lot of nonsense technical jargon to explain that Milo figured out that the e-mail originated from a local network, and that one day, if they\u2019re lucky, Milo might know ten percent of what Chloe does.<\/p>\n
2:14 pm \u2013 Jack starts to leave, and Bill tells him that he\u2019s been on YouTube and saw what happened while Gray was being interrogated. He says that Digg has already gotten 3000 hits on it, probably because Jack exceeded protocols.<\/p>\n
2:15 pm \u2013 Jack\u2019s pretty mad about what happened, and tells Bill that he really really didn\u2019t mean to kill Gray. Bill offers to cover up the whole thing, and Jack says there won\u2019t be a tarp big enough after today is over. He convinces Bill to submit the report as is, and to tell the truth. Bill asks why he\u2019s talking about game shows at a time like this.<\/p>\n
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2:20 pm \u2013 Wayne is personally working on the speech that Assad wrote, since they\u2019re really low on staff. The evil vice president Noah calls Wayne while Assad is in the room. Noah really wants to detain people and the cabinet wants it done too. Wayne says he doesn\u2019t care if the coffee table wants it, he won\u2019t do it. Noah points out that Assad has been a pretty bad guy. Noah plays the \u201cI brought experience to this candidacy\u201d card, Wayne blows him off after the vent.<\/p>\n
2:22 pm \u2013 Assad points out that Wayne that with everyone against him, and this being an obvious foreshadowing technique used previously in the show, things might go badly for Wayne.<\/p>\n
2:23 pm \u2013 Speaking of going badly, Lennox goes into a room marked \u201cHigh Voltage\u201d where we find Reed\u2019s office. Reed says that they moved him down here after they took his red stapler away. He also tells Lennox that many people like him want to do what\u2019s best for the country. Lennox asks what he means by that, and Reed dances around what he\u2019s talking about by using euphemisms. Reed also uses a bunch of clich\u00e9s, which seem to convince Lennox. Reed says he wants to know President Wayne\u2019s itinerary when Assad makes his speech, which makes Lennox uncomfortable. Reed says he\u2019s not the architect of the plan and that he\u2019s just a conduit. Lennox says he\u2019s acting like he\u2019s a sump pump, but goes along with whatever the plan is.<\/p>\n
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2:31 pm \u2013 Jack goes to talk to Marilyn who still doesn\u2019t seem to be very upset. She nearly thanks Jack for doing it! Josh does some of his best acting here, completely off camera. Jack mentions that they\u2019re looking for a Russian, and Marilyn gets a weird look on her face. Jack\u2019s Bauer-sense tingles and realizes that Marilyn knows more than she\u2019s saying, so he takes her to a different room.<\/p>\n
2:33 pm \u2013 Jack\u2019s father is STILL creeping around CTU, and it\u2019s clear that no one is bothering him because he\u2019s wearing an \u201cI\u2019m Jack Bauer\u2019s Dad\u201d badge. He sees Jack and Marilyn go off into another completely secure room with glass doors that no one could possible see through to read lips. Marilyn says she followed Graham one night to see where he was going, and it turns out that he wasn\u2019t a crime fighter by night, but was meeting at a house with some Russians. Jack convinces her that they can retrace the steps back to the house. <\/p>\n
2:35 pm \u2013 Jack ASKS PERMISSION from Bill to follow up on a lead! Clearly, the days in that Chinese prison have taken their toll. The old Jack wouldn\u2019t have asked permission!<\/p>\n
Jack\u2019s father goes to Marilyn and asks what she and Jack were talking about, and she tells him everything. She asks Jack\u2019s dad to watch Josh.<\/p>\n
Bill is going to send Milo out into the field with Jack! Milo is in the background kicking and screaming, because he\u2019s heard what happens to \u201cpeople out in the field with Jack\u201d before. Some of the CTU extras try to give him a going away cake, but he doesn\u2019t even look at it.<\/p>\n
Marilyn tells Josh to stay with Jack\u2019s dad. Jack\u2019s dad tells her that Josh will be \u201csafer\u201d with him, which is an odd definition of the word \u201csafer\u201d. Marilyn tells Bill that Josh and his grandfather are going back home, and Jack notices his father doing a creepy Norman Bates stare from the next room.<\/p>\n
2:36 pm \u2013 Jack\u2019s father calls Carson and asks for a \u201csecure house\u201d in LA. Carson tells him the most \u201csecure house\u201d in LA isn\u2019t in LA, but agrees to try and find one anyway.<\/p>\n
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2:43 pm \u2013 Chloe tells Morris the status of the plot so far, and tells him to get back to work. Morris doesn\u2019t fall for this, and starts to make Chloe mad. She slaps him, and when he asks why she did that, she says it\u2019s because she doesn\u2019t have her taser with her. She tells him to quit feeling sorry for himself, and get back to work.<\/p>\n
2:44 pm \u2013 Jack and Marilyn drive to the house, and Milo has set up at a safe distance six blocks behind, where he\u2019s pretty sure that he can\u2019t get hurt.<\/p>\n
Marilyn notices Jack\u2019s hand makeup, starts to talk about China, which makes Jack uncomfortable. She starts to ask about why Jack didn\u2019t want to go work for his father, but joined the military instead.<\/p>\n
2:45 pm \u2013 Marilyn gets a phone call. It\u2019s Philip, Jack\u2019s dad. Philip wants to talk a bit, and mentions that if Marilyn takes Jack to that house, Josh is going to get hurt. Oh, and that he killed Gray. And made Jack feel bad about it. Now he wants her to call him \u201cSusan\u201d! Ok, this guy is getting weird, even for \u201c24\u201d. He tells her to go to a new address (not the Russian\u2019s house), where some sort of exciting plot twist is going to happen. Susan threatens to kill Josh if she doesn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
2:47 pm \u2013 Susan gets back into his car and tells Josh they\u2019re going to a hotel.<\/p>\n
Jack and Marilyn drive right by Gredenko\u2019s house, and Marilyn nearly tells Jack what Susan just said, but doesn\u2019t. Jack\u2019s Bauer-sense doesn\u2019t go off. She points to the street where Susan told her to go, and Jack tells Milo the location.<\/p>\n
2:48 pm \u2013 Gredenko wants to know how long it\u2019s going to take to program the nuclear bombs, and the guy doing the programming is clearly not a Morris or Chloe because it\u2019s going to take him twenty minutes to re-program the new targets. Gredenko says that they\u2019re going to get revenge for losing the Cold War, and that Fayed and company will take the blame.<\/p>\n
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2:53 pm \u2013 On a television monitor at CTU, they sneak in another shot of that expensive nuclear bomb cloud special effect as Bill goes to talk to Chloe about the location of the house Marilyn pinpointed. Chloe every astutely realizes that the new location is a mile away from where Jack and Marilyn were just looking, but forgets this when she sees Morris walk back in towards the computers.<\/p>\n
2:54 pm \u2013 Another person who deserves a bit more credit for realizing what\u2019s going on is Josh, who tells his grandfather Susan that everyone keeps treating him like a \u201cstupid little kid\u201d. Susan asks why Joshikins would say something like that, which Josh doesn\u2019t like. Susan does what people like that do, and keeps lying about what\u2019s going on to Josh.<\/p>\n
2:55 pm \u2013 Marilyn points out the house that Susan wanted them to go to. They drive around back, and we see that Milo has been riding in a very non-descript large UPS truck. They all get out and start getting ready to storm the house as Marilyn tries to talk to Jack, but everyone\u2019s so busy they ignore her. Marilyn and Milo stand further away, for safety, behind a sturdy chain link fence.<\/p>\n
2:56 pm \u2013 They storm the house, see a bomb, and it explodes just as Jack dives through a window. Milo gets Marilyn back into the UPS van, and they start driving away, as we see some of the people that set the bomb driving after them. Milo does some really fancy driving, probably learned during his stint with the UPS NASCAR races. The bad guys chase after the truck, which crashes. Lots of machine gun fire, and Milo pulls a grenade pin to blow up the truck, as he and Marilyn try and run for it. The truck blows up with most of the packages inside, but this doesn\u2019t faze the bad guys because they go running after Milo and Marilyn.<\/p>\n
Jack calls for any agents around, sees the truck, and calls for an EMT.<\/p>\n
3:00 pm \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME: THE BAD GUYS CATCH UP WITH MILO AND MARILYN. REED AND LENNOX PLOT! SUSAN THREATENS JOSH! JACK YELLS AT MARILYN! MARILYN TELLS JACK THAT HIS FATHER WANTS TO BE CALLED SUSAN NOW, AND THAT HE JUST TRIED TO KILL JACK!<\/p>\n
Be sure and catch all of Steve’s summaries of Season 6 of “24”<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"