Last time on \u201c24\u201d: We found out that: Jack\u2019s father, Philip, asked Marilyn to call him Susan, which is bound to surprise the whole family; Susan is working to simplify the inheritance math by plotting to kill his grandson Josh; Josh has no idea his grandfather might now want to be called Grandmother; putting Reid in a basement office really made him mad; resigning during a big crisis seems to be standard operating procedure in President Wayne\u2019s White house; the scary special effect the blew up a few episodes ago is getting a lot more mileage by being shown onscreen more than Kumar did, probably because it has a better agent; Gredenko spelled sideways is Tancredo.<\/p>\n
The following summary occurred between 3 pm and 4 pm:<\/p>\n
3:00 pm \u2013 Jack excitedly runs up to a burning UPS truck, only to realize it\u2019s a CTU van disguised as a UPS truck. He immediately calls Bill to let them know that Federal Express seems to be at work here. Jack tells Bill that Milo and Marilyn are being pursued by \u201chostiles\u201d, which is Jack Code for \u201csoon to be dead guys\u201d<\/p>\n
3:03 pm \u2013 Milo runs with Marilyn and disguises them both as a dumpster, which completely baffles the thugs that were chasing them. One of the thugs makes a phone call to Jack\u2019s dad, and informs him that Jack is dead, and that Marilyn escaped. He tries to draw Milo out by saying that Milo doesn\u2019t look like a field agent. Milo nearly yells that he\u2019s better than Edgar, but stops himself.<\/p>\n
3:05 pm \u2013 The dumpster disguise isn\u2019t as good as they thought. Milo devises a plan where he\u2019ll shoot and Marilyn runs. Milo remembers his part, and Marilyn forgets hers, yelling \u201cline!\u201d to someone off camera. It appears that the whole terrorist plan is to disable CTU by hurting all the analysts in their typing arms, because the thugs shoot Milo in his right forearm. Just as Milo is about to be shot in a very painful way, Jack shoots two of the bad guys in a very painful way first. The last remaining thug improvises a Marilyn shield to keep Jack away. When Jack says he\u2019ll shoot, the thug decides that lead poisoning is a bad way to die and gives up.<\/p>\n
3:06 pm \u2013 Jack does a quick field analysis, decides that Milo will be OK, and goes over to hold Marilyn against the wall by her throat. Marilyn lets Jack know it was his father\u2019s men that were after them and that Josh would have been killed. Jack is shocked. He realizes that Marilyn called his father \u201cSusan\u201d on the phone, and he\u2019s not prepared for that. He recovers quickly, and gets the information from Marilyn about where Gredenko\u2019s house is. Jack calls Bill to tell him that he\u2019ll need a full tactical kit, Milo is whimpering about one little bullet hole in his arm, to send a team to get Gredenko, and that he\u2019s going to take a little personal time. <\/p>\n
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3:14 pm \u2013 Chloe goes to talk to Morris, and suggests that he talk to a shrink or to his sponsor, but Morris refuses. Nadia informs them both that Milo was shot and he\u2019s up for a medal. Morris points out that he had a 3\/8\u201d DRILL in his arm, and now he\u2019s mad.<\/p>\n
3:16 pm \u2013 Jack asks Marilyn to call Philip, and she\u2019s a little apprehensive that Josh might be killed. Jack says that \u201che\u2019ll do everything in his power\u201d to get Josh back, which is not a good sign for Josh.<\/p>\n
3:17 pm \u2013 Philip starts to try and talk to Josh about what a great evil mastermind Gray was last season, but Josh doesn\u2019t want to hear about it. Josh goes back to watching the local perky news team explain what nuclear fallout might do to those picnic dinners people have planned for the weekend.<\/p>\n
3:18 pm – The bad guy that Jack captured calls Jack\u2019s father and explains everything, except the part that he\u2019s captured. Philip asks to talk to Marilyn. At first Philip is upset that Marilyn didn\u2019t call him \u201cSusan\u201d, but they get past that. She tells him that she wants to see Josh, and they argue on the phone. During a commercial, Josh gets up to listen to what his grandfather is saying on the phone. Philip tells Susan that he can\u2019t see the future for her or Josh. Marilyn seems really astonished now, since first Philip wanted to be called \u201cSusan\u201d, and how he claims he can see the future. Josh picks up on the whole \u201cI\u2019m going to kill Josh\u201d theme, and seems pretty sure that \u201ckill Josh\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cgo get some lunch at Burger King later\u201d. Marilyn hands the phone back to the thug. Philip tells the thug to bring Marilyn to where he\u2019s staying. <\/p>\n
3:20 pm \u2013 Josh asks to go get a soft drink from a vending machine, and goes to leave. Philip pulls a gun on him, letting him know about his strict \u201calways order from room service\u201d rule. Philip says, \u201cNo one\u2019s life is worth the destruction of everything I\u2019ve built\u201d, which is coincidently Microsoft\u2019s secret company motto.<\/p>\n
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3:25 pm \u2013 Back in the electrical closet that Reed calls an office, Lennox returns with a TPS report with President Wayne\u2019s schedule. Reed tells Lennox that all he needs to do is to let someone in the back way, and that person will \u201ccarry the ball\u201d. Lennox quickly translates this from Reed\u2019s native Weasel to English, and realizes this means \u201ckill President Wayne\u201d. Reed tells Lennox that they\u2019ve got a \u201csecurity specialist\u201d (Weasel speak for \u201chired killer\u201d) coming, and they\u2019re going to blame the whole thing on Assad, and no one will be the wiser. Except briefly, for Wayne\u2026 and probably Assad.<\/p>\n
3:27 pm \u2013 Lennox goes to talk to President Wayne, who\u2019s putting the finishing touches on Assad\u2019s speech. Nice to know that on a day like today, Wayne has time to write speeches for other people. Must be a hobby. Anyway, Lennox decides that he\u2019ll be snotty to the president one last time, and Wayne tries to apologize. Doesn\u2019t seem a good enough of an apology to Lennox, because he doesn\u2019t tell Wayne about his impending doom. They sit down to read Wayne\u2019s speech which has magically gone from the computer screen to written form in Wayne\u2019s notebook.<\/p>\n
3:28 pm \u2013 At Gredenko\u2019s hideout, they\u2019re STILL working on getting a new pattern programmed for the remaining nukes. I think this would have taken Chloe no time at all to do, so Gredenko must be working with a rank amateur.<\/p>\n
3:29 pm \u2013 Morris is either at the CTU liquor store, or he\u2019s gone out to buy a pack of cigarettes and a Red Bull. If he did go outside, he must have gotten over his fear of kidnapping and power drills, or he\u2019s read ahead a little in the script. He also buys a scotch whiskey, which must be \u201cScotch\u201d as in \u201cMcDonald\u2019s\u201d, because he throws up right away. He starts to cry, Chloe calls him to come back, he stops crying, and as soon as he\u2019s off the phone, he starts crying again, but takes a breath mint to calm himself down. That arm must still really hurt a lot.<\/p>\n
3:30 pm \u2013 Jack arrives at the garage of the hotel, and tells Marilyn to get dressed in a slinky bulletproof vest. Jack doesn\u2019t wear one because\u2026. Well, because he\u2019s Jack. He gets the thug they had stored in the back seat, and they head upstairs.<\/p>\n
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3:36 pm \u2013 Morris heads back into CTU, noticing that Milo is back. He asks Milo how he\u2019s doing, nearly decides to compare scars, but decides not to. Morris goes back to work.<\/p>\n
3:37 pm \u2013 Wayne butters up Lennox some more, telling him that his suggestions for Assad\u2019s speech are pretty good, especially all the deletions of \u201cdeath to the infidels\u201d. Lennox leaves to talk to Reed back in Reed\u2019s electrical closest. Reed really presses for the clearance for this \u201csecurity specialist\u201d, which Lennox says he\u2019ll do. Reed leaves, and Lennox makes a phone call to the head Secret Service agent at the bunker! He\u2019s going to try and help Wayne! Lennox tells the agent that he\u2019s going to go see him. As he opens the door, we find out that Reed is not only the sort of guy that would try and get President Wayne killed, but he also listens through doors to people\u2019s private phone conversations! This guy has no shame. He barrels through the door and knocks Lennox to the ground, they argue briefly, and Reed knocks him out. Reed steals Lennox\u2019s phone, calls someone to let them know that Lennox doesn\u2019t need to meet with the head Secret Service agent. Reed has sunk to a new low\u2026. Now he\u2019s stealing other people\u2019s airtime minutes.<\/p>\n
3:39 pm \u2013 At CTU, they\u2019re having another meeting to find out why they\u2019re always having meetings. They also discuss the house where Gredenko is probably hiding. Chloe and Morris go to reset a backup module, which is needed for an operation that\u2019s about to take place in two minutes. \u201cReset a backup module\u201d is Chloe talk meaning \u201cI smelled alcohol on Morris\u2019 breath.\u201d and now she\u2019s going to tell Bill. Morris convinces her not to tell on him. <\/p>\n
3:42 pm \u2013 The operation is about to start, and the tactical CTU guys are all ready to go. No sign of Jack, which does not bode well for the tactical CTU guys. They go through the house, not finding anything.<\/p>\n
3:43 pm \u2013 Jack is headed up the staircase to the hotel room, and gets a message from CTU about Gredenko not being at the house. They go into the room, only to find it open, and not in the least bit suspicious. No sign of Philip or Josh. The phone rings, and its Jack\u2019s dad. It turns out that Philip is across the street in other building! He\u2019s got Josh on the roof for some fresh air, at gunpoint. Josh must really not like fresh air.<\/p>\n
3:44 pm \u2013 Jack and Philip argue. Jack tries to convince Philip to give himself up because, hey, just maybe the government will overlook the whole \u201ca nuclear weapon went off today\u201d thing. Jack finally convinces him to let Josh go by exchanging himself as the hostage.<\/p>\n
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3:51 pm \u2013 Milo tries to get some sympathy from Chloe, but it doesn\u2019t work. Milo asks about the whiskey on Morris\u2019 breath. Chloe says that Morris didn\u2019t \u201cmetabolize\u201d the alcohol yet. Milo REALLY wants to tell Bill, but Chloe gives him a look at that says she\u2019ll metabolize a taser on Milo if Bill finds out, and convinces him she\u2019ll say something if Morris isn\u2019t really OK.<\/p>\n
3:52 pm \u2013 Jack and Marilyn discuss their plan in a stairwell that I\u2019m sure is heavily soundproofed so Jack\u2019s dad can\u2019t hear a thing. Jack gives Marilyn a gun saying it\u2019s just like a mouse, but instead of \u201cpoint and click\u201d, she can \u201cpoint and shoot\u201d. Jack tells her NOT to call CTU.<\/p>\n
3:53 pm \u2013 Jack goes up the staircase and yells that he\u2019s unarmed, when clearly he\u2019s got two under each shoulder. He finds his dad in another room on the roof. Philip tells Jack to put one foot in, while Josh puts one foot out and to keep doing that until Josh leaves, or they both finish doing to Hokey Pokey. <\/p>\n
3:54 pm \u2013 Josh runs to his mother, and they both run downstairs.<\/p>\n
3:55 pm \u2013 Philip says that Gredenko blackmailed him by watching last season and figuring out that he was involved in President Palmer\u2019s death. Gredenko told Philip that he wanted to keep around some of the bombs for special occasions like weddings and tail gate parties. Philip gave him the bombs that were supposed to be destroyed. Jack points out that his father wouldn\u2019t be in the trouble he\u2019s in, if he didn\u2019t try to cover it up. Philip tells Jack that if he just would have turned to the dark side, everything would have been OK. Then he calls Jack a \u201ccivil servant\u201d! Jack starts to point out that he\u2019s a \u201ccivil servant with a license to kill\u201d, but stops himself.<\/p>\n
3:57 pm \u2013 Philip tells Jack to get on his knees. Jack makes a really heartfelt speech about how he had to go his own way, how he never meant to turn his back on the family, and that he was sorry. Jack waits a little while, starts to yell, and then realizes he just apologized to an empty room. He runs outside to look for his father and finds a phone on the ledge! The phone number listed is (310) 597-3781. (I called it; it\u2019s some kind of \u201c24\u201d hotline). It\u2019s hard to tell if Jack\u2019s upset about making the speech to thin air, or happy about finding the phone.<\/p>\n
3:59 pm \u2013 Jack calls the phone number, and he\u2019s talking with PRESIDENT MANILOW! He\u2019s butched up! A beard and everything! He tells Jack to meet him alone! As soon as possible!<\/p>\n
4:00 pm \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME: JACK STARES DOWN MANILOW! DUCT TAPE FINALLY SHUTS UP LENNOX! IT LOOKS LIKE THEY\u2019RE GOING TO INJECT WAYNE WITH PEPSI! HE\u2019S A COCA-COLA MAN! THEY\u2019RE GOING TO BOMB WAYNE!<\/p>\n
Be sure and catch all of Steve’s summaries of Season 6 of “24”<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"