Previously on \u201c24\u201d – We found out that: Fake nuclear weapons are very effective against fake unnamed countries; CTU has some great stunt drivers who double as fake terrorists; Jack really impressed Mike with his chain letter to Fayed; If you\u2019ve got a plot you don\u2019t know what to do with, it\u2019s ok to end everything in the middle of a show and start a new plot with something REALLY scary instead.<\/p>\n
The following summary occurred between 11 pm and 12 am:<\/p>\n
11:00 pm \u2013 Jack gets a shot from a CTU medical, who tells him that it will help with the pain of hearing that Audrey is still alive. Or maybe the pain in his side. It\u2019s hard to tell which. Mike tells Jack that the military is about to swoop in and take the fun job of securing the nuclear weapons and bringing them back. Jack had really counted on those things for a really excellent prank he was going to pull later.<\/p>\n
11:01 pm \u2013 Mike thanks Jack for all the great shooting and killing he did, and says that things could have ended a lot worse \u2013 namely, there could have been a lot less great shooting and killing today. Mike looks like he wants to ask for Jack\u2019s autograph, but doesn\u2019t get a chance because Jack goes off down an alley to make a phone call.<\/p>\n
11:02 pm \u2013 The Chinese guy, Cheng, needs a new chime for his phone because the beeps in his phone are so 1980\u2019s. He picks it up, it\u2019s Jack, and he wants to talk to Audrey. Cheng tells Jack that although everyone else in the world gave up on Jack since the show ended last year, Audrey was still trying to find him, except for that little show \u201cThe Nine\u201d, which would have kept Audrey out of the picture for good had it actually been successful. Anyway, Cheng thought that since Audrey was out of a job, she might make a good plot twist, and now he\u2019s going to use it.<\/p>\n
11:03 pm – Jack says he\u2019ll give himself up, but Cheng says that wouldn\u2019t be any fun because Jack doesn\u2019t talk a lot when he\u2019s in prison. Instead, wants the nuclear weapons! For a second Jack wonders if this whole \u201cChina has nuclear weapons\u201d thing has been just an incredibly great prank by the Chinese this whole time. But then Cheng says the reason he wants the nukes is for the trigger mechanism, because he really wants to learn all the Russian defense codes, since the mechanism uses ROT13 for encryption. Cheng threatens to kill Audrey if Jack doesn\u2019t hand over the mechanism, and Jack somehow misses this gracious offer by telling Cheng that the Russians are pretty good at logic and eventually would figure out that the US supplied the mechanism, and start World War III.<\/p>\n
11:05 pm \u2013 Jack asks to speak with Audrey. She apologizes for running off to a different network, and Jack promises he\u2019ll do anything he can do to save her. Jack must be pretty tired to be talking this way. Cheng grabs back the phone and says that Jack has one hour to call back. After hanging up, Jack immediately begins stalking the van with the nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
11:06 pm \u2013 Lennox comes in to see President Wayne. Lennox says that Wayne really should take better care of himself, because Lennox and Dr. Welton are both pretty worried that Wayne needs medical attention, since he keeps making very convincing wincing expressions. Wayne is also worried that VP Noah might try to sneak off with the country, if he as much as goes off to the bathroom, so he says he\u2019s not going anywhere. Lennox assures Wayne that VP Noah won\u2019t be trying anything funny, mainly because of his previous attempt at stand-up that failed. Wayne wants to know the real reason, and Lennox finally tells him he has \u201cThe Truth\u201d. Wayne tells him that Dr. Welton might have something to cure that kind of condition. Lennox says he doesn\u2019t mean that, and Wayne says he wants to know what \u201cThe Truth\u201d really is. Lennox says that he has a blooper audio recording of VP Noah conspiring with Evil Lisa to commit perjury, and he had been hoping to save it for the Christmas office party. Wayne says he can\u2019t wait to hear the recording.<\/p>\n
11:07 pm \u2013 Before Lennox can answer, Karen comes running in, saying she has good news. Wayne starts to ask \u201cYou saved a lot of money on your car insurance?\u201d, but Karen continues before he can get all the words out. She tells them that CTU (which we know is code for \u201cJack\u201d) has recovered the nukes. Lennox asks about Fayed, and Karen says that he and his men were killed during the assault (which is also code for \u201cJack\u201d). Lennox does what anyone in his position as a toady would do: He congratulates his boss for a job well done! Wayne is so thrilled that he just can\u2019t wait to get out of the bunker and tell The American People that they\u2019re no longer under the threat of nuclear attack. I would bet that The American People\u2019s response to this would be \u201cOh, that\u2019s \u2026. Wait\u2026 What???\u201d, if they were actually awake at this hour, since it\u2019s about 2 am on the East Coast right now. Wayne\u2019s so excited about telling everyone about this, I bet he\u2019ll set off all the civil defense sirens just to wake everyone up so he can tell them.<\/p>\n
11:08 pm \u2013 Bill\u2019s response to this entire situation is what you\u2019d expect: He throws a meeting! Given everything that\u2019s happened, he wants everyone\u2019s briefs right away. One of the people in the back of the room says that he\u2019s pleased about this, because after he heard about the nuclear weapon attacks, he\u2019s going to need new briefs. Bill goes on to bore them some more, when Chloe is saved by a phone call from Jack.<\/p>\n
11:09 pm \u2013 Jack gives Chloe the bad news: Audrey is alive. Chloe seems very disappointed by this, and tries to deny it, but Jack finally convinces her it\u2019s the truth. Jack also informs her that he needs her help in retrieving one of the circuit boards, and a real one, not something from a Commodore PET, because they\u2019d recognize the fake immediately. Chloe doesn\u2019t seem too thrilled about this, but finally agrees to look at Morris\u2019 terminal to see if she can find a copy of the schematics from a report Morris was working on. Jack says he wants the information sent to his JackPhone.<\/p>\n
11:10 pm \u2013 Chloe goes to work on Morris\u2019 terminal, and after getting past all the pop-ups, accesses the file. Chloe tells Jack that she\u2019s sending it to his screen. Jack says, \u201cCopy that\u201d, and Chloe tells him that\u2019s what she\u2019s already doing. The file gets uploaded to Jack just as Bill\u2019s meeting breaks up.<\/p>\n
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11:15 pm \u2013 The phone rings as Wayne looks at an old picture of President All-State. Wayne\u2019s secretary announces that VP Noah is here. Wayne thanks Noah for that really great idea about the nuclear weapons, but Noah looks pretty disappointed that Wayne used fake nuclear weapons. Wayne tells Noah that their whole relationship has been a marriage of convenience, (not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that), and that they really need to break up. Noah seems pretty stunned by this, since it\u2019s likely he\u2019ll end up with Lennox in a custody battle, and he\u2019s not ready for that. Noah says that he refuses, and starts to walk out until Wayne mentions the little recording that Lennox made. Wayne seems really happy to tell Noah this. Despite his best efforts to laser beam Wayne with his eyes, Noah can\u2019t do it, and leaves.<\/p>\n
11:18 pm \u2013 Morris is one bright dude. He set up a keylogger on his own system to make sure that no one accessed his World of Warcraft account, and he realized that someone accessed his system. Just as he reaches to call technical support, he realizes HE is technical support and decides to call security instead. Chloe stops him, tells him that she\u2019s the one that broke in, and then tries to walk away. Morris asks why, and Chloe tells him the whole story about Audrey and the circuit board. Morris seems pretty skeptical about the whole situation, but Chloe reminds him that it\u2019s Jack we\u2019re talking about, so everything will be OK. Morris says he\u2019s going to go tattle to Bill, and after a brief staring contest, Chloe says she\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n
11:22 pm \u2013 Up in Bill\u2019s office, Bill paces back and forth practicing making phone calls, as Chloe arrives and tells Bill that there is something he needs to know.<\/p>\n
11:25 pm \u2013 Jack has an irresistible urge to climb on things, so he starts climbing around on pipes on the outside of the building, and continues to stalk the suitcase nukes. Jack finally realizes he can walk over, announce who he is and uses his Jack Powers to scare the guards into letting him get to the suitcase nukes. It works! Jack even invites them to stand guard while he steals the circuit board. Man, that\u2019s going to be hard to explain at their court marshals! Jack gets to work on getting the circuit board. He finds the right one, just in time for Mike to show up and ruin everything. One of the guards hits Jack and he goes down like a Gredenko without an arm.<\/p>\n
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11:29 pm \u2013 Jack wakes up and boy, he\u2019s embarrassed. Mike has Bill on the phone. Jack swears up and down that all he wanted to do is save Audrey. Bill looks like he wants to tell Jack that is the reason he can\u2019t let him do it, but he makes up something about not wanting the Chinese to get their hands on the mechanism. Bill says he\u2019s going to do everything in his power to help get Audrey back. Jack has to remind Bill that just because Bill has a spandex suit in his office, it doesn\u2019t mean he has superpowers, so whatever he has planned isn\u2019t going to work. Jack asks if he can call President Wayne. Bill says he\u2019ll see what he can do.<\/p>\n
11:31 pm \u2013 Back in the Oval Office, Wayne watches the news about what a great guy he is, and gets that phone call from Jack. Jack wants Wayne to authorize a field operation to get Audrey back, and Wayne\u2019s initial reaction is exactly what everyone else\u2019s has been: revulsion. (He disguises it as surprise). Jack says that all he needs is a little FB circuit board to give to the Chinese. Unfortunately, it turns out that Wayne must have had a class on obsolete Russian nuclear weapons when he was in President school, because he knows exactly what the circuit board is for. Jack swears up and down that he\u2019ll make sure that the Chinese won\u2019t get their hands on the component, but Wayne says he won\u2019t do it without knowing Jack\u2019s plan. Jack says this is his plan: 1) Get the circuit board; 2) Conceal some C-4 explosive somewhere; 3) Blow up the C-4 if he needs to. Wayne says he\u2019s not a rocket scientist, but does know that if any C-4 explodes, that Jack is going to die. Jack says that is one of the parts of the plan that he\u2019s still trying to work out. Wayne authorizes Jack for the field operation, and says that he\u2019ll get Bill to help Jack.<\/p>\n
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11:38 pm \u2013 Mike releases Jack. Jack says he wants Mike to help him, and Mike asks what the plan is. Jack says that there\u2019s going to be some circuit board destructin\u2019, and some Cheng shootin\u2019.<\/p>\n
11:39 pm \u2013 Back at CTU, Chloe gets back and Morris wants to know what\u2019s going on. Chloe tells him everything, and then points out that she was right about Morris wanting to tattle-tail. They start having a nerd fight, and I swear one of them called the other a spyware coder, which is clearly a low blow. Chloe says she\u2019s going to hold this over Morris\u2019 head for a long time.<\/p>\n
11:40 pm \u2013 Milo calls over to Nadia that Mike is on the phone, and Mike gives her the information about the amazing electronic field work they were able to do, to get new tracking electronics embedded in that little tiny circuit board. <\/p>\n
11:41 pm \u2013 Jack calls Cheng. Cheng gives Jack instructions about where to go next. Cheng tells Jack that he shouldn\u2019t be late because Audrey might die. Jack stops for a moment and starts to say something about this plot being vaguely like the one in that new show \u201cDrive\u201d, but Cheng hangs up.<\/p>\n
11:42 pm \u2013 Jack and Mike start to leave, and Mike tries to remind Jack that mixing work with pleasure didn\u2019t work for Tim and Nichole on \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d, and it won\u2019t work here. Jack doesn\u2019t want to hear about that, and tells Mike that they owe Audrey for the service she did for the country: She was basically not seen on the show for nearly 17 hours. They leave.<\/p>\n
11:43 pm \u2013 Back at the White House, Evil Lisa goes to see VP Noah. Noah explains to Evil Lisa that he plans to resign, much to her surprise. Noah explains about the recording that Lennox made. Lisa points out that if she hadn\u2019t asked Noah to lie about Karen, none of what was happening now would be happening at all. Noah doesn\u2019t look very comforted by this. They start holding evil hands together! Noah says that at least he and Lisa will be able to spend more time with each other, and you can just tell that this is NOT part of Lisa\u2019s evil plan. Noah signs the resignation letter, and tells her that he wants Wayne to have it before Wayne\u2019s press conference ends.<\/p>\n
11:44 pm \u2013 Wayne has the press corps especially well-trained, because they all sit when he tells them too. Noah and Evil Lisa are in the back of the room watching, trying to use Jedi mind powers or anything like that to keep Noah from having to resign. Noah\u2019s even holding his resignation letter, so he seems pretty sure nothing is going to work out the way he wants.<\/p>\n
11:45 – Wayne gives a speech about how Fayed is off the show now, and that everything is going to be AOK, because NOTHING dramatic is going to happen from now on. Wayne takes a couple of questions. The first guy wants to know if Wayne is SUPER-DUPER sure that everything is OK. Wayne says that he\u2019s super-duper with sugar on it sure. Wayne asks another reporter to ask a question, and mispronounces \u201cRobin\u201d as \u201cAndrea\u201d. She asks about the detention centers, and this completely confuses Wayne so much so that he starts to stutter, and keels over! Noah or Evil Lisa must really have Jedi mind powers now! Noah puts away his resignation letter.<\/p>\n
11:52 pm \u2013 Dr. Welton comes in and tells everyone that for some mysterious reason, Wayne had a brain hemorrhage, and that he can\u2019t completely rule out that someone used some Jedi mind powers Wayne. Noah goes into \u201cwell, he shouldn\u2019t have been brought out of a coma\u201d mode, acts all \u201cI told you so!\u201d, and tries to blame this on Karen. Everyone argues briefly, until Evil Lisa points out that there is no way that Wayne will be able to recover from this anytime soon. Noah picks up on this and gives a very insincere speech about how everyone liked Wayne, and that it\u2019s a real tragedy about his brain hemorrhage and everything, but WOO HOO! He\u2019s president now! <\/p>\n
11:53 pm \u2013 Evil Lisa finds a memo that tells about Jack trying to use the circuit board to get Audrey back, but is a bit unclear about the whole thing because the way she says it, it sounds like Jack is going to hand over technology to the Chinese. There doesn\u2019t seem to be anything in there about Jack blowing himself up. Karen tries to explain this, and Noah gets all huffy with Karen about her explanation. Noah foolishly believes that Jack won\u2019t be able to pull of the operation and is suddenly very concerned about getting in trouble with the Russians, forgetting the nuclear weapon he wanted to send to Unnamed Country. We can only assume that since the Russians have nuclear weapons too, that must be the problem. Noah tells Karen to get CTU to make Jack stop everything now.<\/p>\n
11:55 pm \u2013 Out in the hallway, Karen and Lennox just can\u2019t believe what a big bonehead Noah is being. Lennox goes to the hospital, Karen calls Bill.<\/p>\n
11:56 pm \u2013 Karen tells Bill about Wayne\u2019s condition, and that Noah is being a bonehead about Jack\u2019s operation. Bill looks pretty scared when he realizes that he might actually have to get in the way of Jack shooting a lot of people, which is bound to make Jack pretty angry.<\/p>\n
11:57 pm \u2013 Bill talks really loudly to everyone at CTU, and tells them they\u2019re about to stop Jack\u2019s operation. Oooo! He tells Chloe that she can\u2019t work on this anymore because she\u2019s proven that she can\u2019t be trusted! (I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s not going to go over well with Chloe in the long run).<\/p>\n
11:58 pm \u2013 Bill calls Mike and tells him that they\u2019re going to try and take Jack back to CTU, and they\u2019ve set up one (ONE!) tiny roadblock nearby to do this. Curtis would have set up a whole perimeter! Mike explains the change of plans after he gets off the phone, and after the explanation, Jack does EXACTLY what Jack always does, and pulls out his gun and points it at Mike. Jack explains that since he\u2019s already proven that he\u2019ll even shoot his own partner, Mike really should consider stopping the car. Mike does, and Jack drives away without him.<\/p>\n
12:00 am \u2013 Time\u2019s up!<\/p>\n
NEXT TIME ON \u201c24\u201d: JACK GOES ROGUE! BILL THINKS THE CIRCUIT BOARD GOES TO A SUBMARINE! BILL AND\/OR KAREN ARE IN BIG TROUBLE! NOW THAT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WAYNE IS ON THE ROCKS, NOAH WANTS TO KNOW WHAT LENNOX\u2019S INTENTIONS ARE! LOTS OF SHOOTING! SOMEONE HAS A RIFLE SIGHT ON AUDREY!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"