24 Day 5: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Published February 28, 2006
Am I the only one who sees the graphic violence warning? You see it, too, don't you? I'm not crazy. I know it's real, I know it.
The recaps recap just about the entire show to this point. We've got 8 minutes left for tonight's episode. We are reminded of Nathanson, this mysterious Matrix Guy who seemed to be running the whole Slow Boat to Central Asia thing, and then was killed before we ever got to know him, or what his story was.
Sgt. Bierko and his barracks mates discuss the ambush of the Russian prez. The motorcade is on 118, and the kill zone will be downtown somewhere. The motorcade will take 40 minutes to get there. Goodness. Geometry is so hard to figure out in this show. Jack got from CTU to the presidential retreat in less than 15 minutes. Last season Marwan got from somewhere in LA out to the desert where Air Farce One was shot down in under an hour. It's going to take the motorcade 40 minutes to cover this distance? Are they going to be driving in circles to shake off anybody tailing them?
Once again Mike must be cursing the day he chose to go into politics, for he gets to deliver to Logan the news that Martha is in the limo with Team Suvarov, and hence in danger of becoming Banta fodder. From Logan's reaction, I'm not sure if he considers this a good thing or a bad thing. For purposes of this review, I'm going to go with bad thing.
Charles "Rock of Gibraltar" Logan can't decide what to do about the motorcade. "Yes! No, stop, wait!" With this kind of steady leadership at the top, the country is in Good Hands. Or not.
Logan rings up Martha on the wireless and tries to talk her out of the limo. She's having none of it. She apparently has a death wish. To echo the words of another Martha, the one in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Martha says to Logan "I swear Charles, if you even existed, I'd divorce you." Logan says "Martha, will you please get out of the, uh, euphemism." But Martha is staying putsky. She's having too much fun chatting about orange groves with Mrs. Suvarov.
Back at CTU, Audrey tip-toes by Edgar and says "Edgar, meet me in the server room in a few minutes." Edgar explodes from his chair. "Yeah baby! I knew she'd finally succumb to the charms of Edgar!"
We hear Omicron developed the Sentox nerve gas for the military. And it is there Jack must go. We also hear this Henderson fellow was the one who recruited Jack to CTU. Jack says "things ended badly between us." This being Oscar season, I suppose this is my opportunity to trot out my Brokeback Mountain material.
- 24 Day 5: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Published: February 28, 2006
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Culture: Humor and Satire, Video: Action, Video: Drama, Video: Television
- Writer: Jeff Kouba
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Better make that a two-four of Elsinore, eh, or we may never make it through the season.
Beauty joke, eh?
Ack - I'm not quite getting it.. 24 could mean 24oz of something, is Elsinore a drink?
Help!
Mary K: Elsinore, like in Hamlet, you know, walking the ramparts and seeing ghosts. I know you know the drill.
I loved Jeff's post, and my favorite part was the suggestion that Audrey finally "succumbs" to Edgar's charms. That is just a riot!
Besides, we all know who Edgar really has the hots for: (no, not Jack) Chloe, who really has always had the hots for (no, not Audrey) Jack.
Ah, can't wait for those two hours next week. That Bierko guy (Julian Sands) is really getting ticked off. Hey, he might even call Mandy and ask her to help Roboflop do something nasty with some Sentox in Beverly Hills.
Someone warn Richard Simmons like now!
Victor,
Heh, you sum up the soap operaness of CTU well.
But are you sure you want to warn Richard Simmons? You sure you didn't mean give him a map and a compass and point him in the direction of Ground Zero?
Well, actually, the two-four of Elsinore is a reference to the movie Strange Brew, but since that film does have a bit of Melancholy Dane subtext to it (Bob and Doug MacKenzie channel Shakespeare: who'd'a thunk it?), Victor gets half credit.
So, I was a little bit close? (all I could think of when you said 2-4, was a 4-0, as in 40oz).
Victor - bless you for having confidence in me, I'm nearly as intelligent as you think I am, but the Hamlet thing was lost on me.
In the interest of full disclosure, in Strange Brew Elsinore is the name of a beer, as well as the brewery, a dreary old castle high on a hill just outside Toronto. And, of course, Hamlet's Elsinore was the family castle.
So, when Bob and Doug ordered a two-four of Elsinore, they wanted a case of twenty-four bottles of the local brew. Oh, dear. TWENTY-FOUR bottles. I'm making Bauer references without realizing it. I was just riffing off Mary's two-fer comment and suddenly I've closed the circle right back on the show that brings us all here. I need to lie down.
OH, that makes much more sense now. I saw Strange Brew a long time ago, and remember nothing of it, except who Bob and Doug were.
Paul - I hope you recover from your full-circling and such. Whew!
Go have a beer on me!
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Loved it, loved it! 14 hours left to go.
Or after next week, 12 hours, as your guest critic reminded us of the two-fer we get next monday night.