Previously on \u201c24\u201d: We learned that: Mike Doyle needs to work on his people skills when meeting new people; Jack can do some pretty cool kung-fu moves with his belt; VP Noah likes to threaten people; The Russian consulate is going to need a lot of new windows, and employees; Slicing up kiwi fruit makes Martha Logan homicidal, but it might get her a Ginsu knife endorsement.<\/p>\n
The following summary occurred between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm:<\/p>\n
7:00 pm \u2013 Outside the Russian consulate, which you can tell is the Russian consulate because of all the flags, they\u2019re having a body bag display, with many styles to choose from. Mike goes to see Jack, who is refusing the nonsensical \u201cmedical treatment\u201d, since he\u2019s Jack Bauer and it might slow him down from shooting more bad guys. Mike tells him that it\u2019s in \u201cCTU\u2019s hands\u201d, and that Jack shouldn\u2019t be involved. Mike has apparently not been briefed about Jack.<\/p>\n
7:01 pm \u2013 Bill\u2019s on the phone with VP Noah, telling him about the drones that Gredenko has. Bill says that they\u2019re repositioning satellites. Noah says that getting better TV reception is not going to make the plot any clearer, and that what Bill really needs to do is find out what\u2019s going on where Gredenko is. Bill tells Noah that he has no idea how close Gredenko and Fayed are to launching the drones.<\/p>\n
7:02 pm \u2013 Fayed is in a staring contest with the people trying to get the drones ready, as if he can command them with his mind alone, which he saw someone do on TV once. Gredenko wants to know how many of the drones have been armed. Fayed tells him that drones have wings, not arms, and that one is ready to fly. Gredenko isn\u2019t very happy about this, because everyone knows where they are. Fayed starts to play the \u201cNah, Nah! It\u2019s your fault!\u201d game with Gredenko, which doesn\u2019t go over very well. They start packing up. Gredenko makes a phone call to someone that\u2019s adjusting the sensitivity of some big black packing crates. He tells the man to launch drone 0-7-0-9. This guy has been a pretty big slacker, because he didn\u2019t have time to set the evasion vectors. He does seem pretty impressed with himself that he remembers how to use a gaming joystick from the 1990s.<\/p>\n
7:05 pm \u2013 Nadia tells someone on the phone that they have people pushing satellites into position and that their real-time feeds will be ready soon. Milo, who doesn\u2019t seem to have ANY work to do since he\u2019s been shot, goes over to bother Nadia. Chloe comes over just in time to see Milo touching Nadia, and announces that Nadia has been using Milo\u2019s security code. Milo tries to blow some technical mumbo jumbo by Chloe which (as expected) doesn\u2019t even come CLOSE to working. Nadia explains the directive that came down from Homeland Security, and Chloe STILL isn\u2019t buying it, but won\u2019t tell on them and says to be careful.<\/p>\n
7:06 pm \u2013 Bill calls Nadia to tell her that Morris has used his mad skillz to find out that Gredenko has released the hounds, only it\u2019s not a hound it\u2019s more like drones. And actually, only one drone.<\/p>\n
7:07 pm \u2013 Bill goes into a conference call with General Walsh, and Morris relays the information about the drones to Walsh. Instead of just acting on it, Walsh starts reading the manual over the phone, describing to everyone at CTU what the drone is capable of.<\/p>\n
7:08 pm \u2013 Morris suddenly announces that the drone is no longer on the screen that he\u2019s watching. Bill immediately looks on the screen right next to it, but it didn\u2019t fly over there either, so he\u2019s stumped. Morris runs off to \u201creadjust some vectors\u201d. Walsh says that he\u2019s going to have his F-16s in a holding pattern, because apparently all of the army\u2019s satellites don\u2019t work anymore and they have to rely entirely on CTU to find the drone.<\/p>\n
7:09 pm \u2013 The terrorist guy with the joystick has accessed CTU\u2019s computers! From there, he can readjust their screens to prevent them from seeing the drone. He also says that he\u2019s going to play some KFed videos on all their screens to try and induce vomiting.<\/p>\n
7:10 pm \u2013 Lennox gets off the phone with Bill, and has the pleasant task of telling Noah that CTU has lost the drone. Noah, not having been briefed about important things (since he\u2019s only the VP), doesn\u2019t understand why the military can\u2019t find the drone using the satellites just like everyone else that\u2019s watching. Lennox says they\u2019re still positioned for the NCAA tournament from last weekend, and that the drone just slipped through. As he\u2019s explaining this, Noah says something to his sidekick, the evil \u201cLisa\u201d, to get the joint chiefs together. Lennox says he doesn\u2019t understand what smoking and Indians have anything to do with what they\u2019re talking about. Noah tells him that he\u2019s warned the ambassador (from the still unnamed country) that there would be a lot of things smoking in his country soon. Lennox tries to argue with Noah, until he realizes that Noah REALLY REALLY wants to drop a nuclear bomb, and he\u2019s not all that particular where he does it.<\/p>\n
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7:15 pm \u2013 Chloe uses her amazing computer skills to determine that since they haven\u2019t been blown up yet, the drone must be headed elsewhere. Bill does the manager thing and agrees with the obvious.<\/p>\n
7:16 pm \u2013 Jack arrives at CTU, and no one seems to be the slightest bit surprised that every time they\u2019ve seen him today his clothes are getting better and better. At this rate he\u2019ll be dressed in a tuxedo by the end of the show, and no one will notice. Bill tells Jack all about the drone and the part about not getting blasted to smithereens, and gets Jack to go to medical. Bill tells Mike to go watch Milo, because there hasn\u2019t been any real conflict inside CTU for a while now, and they really need some.<\/p>\n
7:17 pm \u2013 Jack heads off the medical, and sees Marilyn who says she regrets everything that happened between them. She goes to kiss him and completely misses his face. Marilyn then drops a bomb of her own that AUDREY IS DEAD! (Note: If you had stepped outside at that exact moment, you would have heard the entire nation yell \u201cYES!\u201d in one voice. It was pretty impressive.) Audrey was killed in a Chinese car accident, which probably means she was really kidnapped in China, just to have leverage on Jack for later in the show. Jack doesn\u2019t realize this, and goes to ask Chloe why no one told him about Audrey. Chloe nearly says that they were STILL having parties about the news, but decides instead to tell him that Bill thought it would be nicer if Jack went to his death at Fayed\u2019s hands thinking that Audrey was still alive\u2026 and they forgot to tell him once he wasn\u2019t going to his death at Fayed\u2019s hands. Chloe explains that there\u2019s a file on all this. Jack wants to see it NOW, and actually yells at Chloe. Under different circumstances, I think Chloe would have gone into the computers and wrecked his credit rating, but she says she\u2019ll help Jack get the file. Jack sees Bill and Mike from across the room and puts on his \u201cI\u2019m Mad You Didn\u2019t Tell Me About My Annoying Girlfriend\u2019s Death\u201d face and stalks off.<\/p>\n
7:19 pm \u2013 Evil Lisa tells Noah that all the right people are going to attend the nuclear bomb meeting, and one wrong person: Karen Hayes (Madam Haig, for you long time \u201c24\u201d fans). Noah says that he doesn\u2019t want to underestimate her. Or overestimate her. Or estimate her at all.<\/p>\n
7:20 pm \u2013 Karen goes walking down the hall, sees Lennox and the cuts on his face, and asks if someone pushed him down the stairs. He says he tripped over her ineptitude. She says that wasn\u2019t really a question, she just wanted to be the first in line to do it, if the need arose. That out of the way, she tells Lennox she intends to stay to represent President Wayne. They both go into the meeting.<\/p>\n
7:21 pm \u2013 VP Noah runs a VERY strict meeting, since it appears that no one can sit down before he tells them to. When they finally all sit, Noah announces that there are efforts to find the drone, and that he\u2019s just itching to drop a bomb on someone as soon as he can. Noah uses the logic that since there are a bunch of terrorists in that country, exploding a bomb there will just make them stop all their terrorist antics. Karen disagrees and thinks this could start another World War. Noah quickly says, \u201cNot that there\u2019s anything wrong with that\u201d, to the alarm of Karen. Karen says that stakes are just too high. Noah says that they\u2019re not vampire slayers so that won\u2019t be a problem, but someone should get them down in case they need them later. Noah declares the debate over, which is pretty weird since no one else said a thing about Noah\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n
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7:28 pm \u2013 Milo asks for some SIM files from Nadia, which she says she gave to Morris. She leaves, so Milo goes over to bug Chloe. Chloe is annoyed by this and Milo\u2019s sudden interest in Morris. Milo asks Chloe to go check Morris\u2019 breath, so she goes to do it by kissing him, which explains why Milo didn\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n
7:29 pm \u2013 Karen talks to Lennox about the nuclear bomb thing, thinking that Lennox might be a little bit iffy about the whole nuclear bomb idea. Karen says that Wayne wouldn\u2019t like this decision. Lennox points out that every decision Wayne made today was wrong: rejecting his security proposals, believing Assad, and being president on a show like \u201c24\u201d, which has a really bad track record for presidents.<\/p>\n
7:31 pm \u2013 Chloe comes in and announces that one of their computers is leaking information. Bill immediately looks down at the floor, so he doesn\u2019t step in any and get it all over his shoes. Chloe explains that the information they\u2019re using at CTU is being intercepted by someone on the outside, and they are using that to make sure CTU doesn\u2019t find the drone. Mike tells Chloe to check Nadia\u2019s workstation. Milo doesn\u2019t like this one bit because he thinks that Mike is doing it just because Nadia is Muslim, and Mike admits that yes, that\u2019s why he\u2019s doing it. <\/p>\n
Chloe does a quick check, and what do you know, it is Nadia\u2019s workstation alright. Only problem is they\u2019re using REALLY old computers that don\u2019t run parallel FSK, so it\u2019ll take 20 minutes to reboot the mainframe. Mike goes out and arrests Nadia, which is a huge surprise to her. Milo looks at what\u2019s happening, and acts suspicious.<\/p>\n
7:33 pm \u2013 Gredenko calls to find out where the drone is, and Fayed says that it\u2019s still up in the air the last time he saw it. And that it\u2019s 130 miles away from its target, which is San Francisco. Gredenko says that no one will be able to use that Mark Twain quote ever again after this.<\/p>\n
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7:39 pm \u2013 Karen watches Wayne through a window, who\u2019s being cared for by doctors and his Borg feeding tubes. Karen asks the doctor whether Wayne can be woken up for national security reasons, and he says no, but his family can wake him up for whatever reason they want. Wayne might suffer brain damage if they do that though.<\/p>\n
7:40 pm \u2013 Back at CTU, everyone\u2019s watching closed circuit TV for Nadia\u2019s audition on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Funniest Interrogations\u201d.<\/p>\n
7:41 pm \u2013 Morris explains some completely bizarre computer lingo, and says that they can trace the source to back to a building that just happens to be nearby.<\/p>\n
7:42 pm \u2013 Mike asks Nadia to cooperate, but she won\u2019t say anything. He tries an incorrectly placed Vulcan Nerve Pinch on her, which doesn\u2019t help either. Mike really seems to be trying to be Jack, but he\u2019s just not the same since his Silver Spoons days. Milo interrupts some particularly vicious hair-pulling, and tells Mike about the location of the signal. Mike leaves the room. <\/p>\n
7:44 pm \u2013 In the CTU medical center, Jack has changed clothes again, and is now wearing a white halter-top which just isn\u2019t his style. He reads a scary picture book, which turns out to be the file on Audrey. There are pictures of her body. Jack looks at it pretty carefully to make sure it\u2019s not staged, and to be sure Audrey might not turn up as a zombie soon. A passing tactical guy tells Jack that they\u2019ve found the signal location, and that he\u2019s all excited there will be \u201cshooting and stuff\u201d.<\/p>\n
7:45 pm \u2013 In the main CTU room, Bill\u2019s having another meeting. That makes about 57 meetings Bill has had in the last 14 hours or so. He orders a perimeter from some new person we\u2019ve never seen, and you can tell Bill knows it won\u2019t be nearly as good a perimeter as Curtis used to do.<\/p>\n
7:46 pm \u2013 Jack goes to Chloe to get a spare JackPhone, and tells Bill that he\u2019s going out with the tactical unit because he hasn\u2019t shot anyone in over an hour. He also says that when everything is over, he\u2019s going to take a trip to China, NOT BY BOAT, and that he\u2019s going to track down the people that killed Audrey, and thank them. Then shoot them. So he has some closure on all this. (I\u2019m not sure about the \u201cthank them\u201d part). I see another illegal embassy intrusion in Jack\u2019s future.<\/p>\n
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7:50 pm \u2013 The terrorist drone controller guy is still working on flying the drone using that vintage joystick, when Gredenko calls for a full report. The guy gives him a full report and says it\u2019ll be about three minutes until detonation. Gredenko tells him to concentrate on the task at hand. This must be some kind of Russian test they give people, where people ask you questions, and you\u2019re supposed to ignore what they ask and keep doing whatever you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
7:52 pm \u2013 After receiving instructions from Chloe, the tactical team (and Jack) start moving in. Someone walks around the corner, and Jack is giving the honor of shooting this guy first, since he\u2019s the lead agent in charge. One of the terrorists goes to check the source of the noise and receives several bullets, which answers that question. Joystick terrorist hides behind the flimsy computer stand he\u2019s been working at and starts taking shots at the first shadow he sees. Unfortunately for him, Jack throws a couple of bullets his way. He tries to get a grenade, but can\u2019t. Jack gets to the computer, and they know it\u2019s headed to San Francisco, which coincidently was having a protest march in support of the terrorists that evening. (Those kooky people!) Jack turns the plane just in time to miss the perimeter and lands it in an industrial park area, where it bursts into flames making this a nearly picture perfect Russian plane landing. Jack tells Mike to get the Joystick terrorist awake.<\/p>\n
7:56 pm \u2013 At the crash site, one of the guy\u2019s pacemakers starts to make weird noises, so he asks for a Geiger counter. Since they don\u2019t have anyone that can count Geigers, one of the firemen brings him another type of radiation detector. Woops\u2026. There\u2019s radioactive material in the area, so they all back off.<\/p>\n
7:57 pm \u2013 Evil Lisa tells Noah that Bill is on the phone, and he seems really disappointed that the bomb didn\u2019t go off in San Francisco. When Bill tells him there\u2019s a small leak when the plane landed, Noah twists this into it being a dirty bomb. Karen points out that it did land in an industrial area, so of course it got a little dirty. Noah ignores this, and asks if there are casualties. Bill says the first responders are going to glow for a very long time, but HAZMAT will get it cleaned up. Bill hangs up. <\/p>\n
7:59 pm -Noah decides that never mind what he said before, he REALLY REALLY wants to drop a bomb. He makes all kinds of justifications to himself, and tells Secretary Kanin to move the submarine in position and go blow some things up.<\/p>\n
8:00 pm – Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME: FAYED AND GREDENKO FIGHT! SANDRA IS BACK! NOAH IS MAD THAT NOTHING HAS BLOWN UP YET! JACK STORMS SOMETHING AND SHOOTS SOMETHING ELSE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"