Oops, give me a sec. The graphic violence warning piddled on the kitchen floor. I gotta go clean it up.
The recaps replay just about the entire previous episode. Buckaroo is still an open protocol. (Someday someone will do a PhD on all the ways this show uses the word "protocol.") The whole Audrey/Chloe thread. Evelyn, Jack, and Wayne invade a coal mine or whatever it is. (I'm just going to call it the coal mine because of the conveyor belts.) And of course, the revelation that Logan is Eviiillllll!
As this week's episode puts us on the Edge of Night, we see William Devane in the credits! Cool. No sign that his son Stoner is in this episode though. The Raines family reunion will have to wait for another episode.
We see a military checkpoint, reminding us of the curfew.
Dr. Jack is working on Evelyn, telling her to stay focused. Huh? What's this? Evelyn made a recording of a phone call between Logan and Henderson, and she put it in a safe deposit box in a bank? Oh my. Let's pull this one apart, shall we.
First, just how on God's Green Earth did a First Lady's flunky make such a sensitive recording of the President's phone call?!? Was she standing in the room with a plant on her head so Logan didn't notice her?
Second, I ask again, doesn't Evelyn live in Washington D.C.? So why does she have a safety deposit box in LA? When did she get it? And when did she sneak away to put this recording in the box? There was a lot going on in the morning, what with terrorist attacks, the First Lady getting blown up, and so on. This makee no sense.
Oh well. I suppose if we can accept Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist or Jodie Foster as an astronomer, we can accept this nonsense.
The bank is City Trust and Savings in Agoura Hills. This is NW of Malibu, so presumably the retreat is out that way, and Evelyn could have slipped away and got back without being missed.
Evelyn tells Jack the key to the box is in her jacket pocket. Jack is worried about running into the military, so he suggests they go to a motel. When they get there, Jack says to Wayne, "Wayne, can you get us a room?" Uh, er, ok. Suddenly we're watching CTUback Mountain.
Jack calls Audrey, and finds out Chloe wasn't able to track Henderson. Darn, he got away. Henderson is going for Marwan's record. 5 escapes in one day! Come on, Henderson! You can do it!
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Article comments
1 - Victor Lana
As always, excellent recap and points about the inconsistencies to be found. I just have one thing to same: Denise Richards makes a damn fine nuclear scientist!!
2 - Jeff
Oh, the fair Denise certainly makes a fine looking nuclear scientist. It's just that every nuclear physicist type I've run into looks more like Wally from the Dilbert strip. Speaking of which, we could add Kelly McGillis from Top Gun to the "yeah, right" list.
3 - Paul
Kelly McGillis is a double whammy: 1)astrophysicists tend not to look like Kelly McGillis, and 2)just what in the hoohah is an astrophysicist doing teaching Navy fighter pilots to fly better?
So we can look forward to Denise Richards, Jodi Foster, and Kelly McGillis all teaming up with Mia Kirshner next season, as Mandy and the Midnight Runners. Jack doesn't stand a chance.
4 - Paul
And while we're at it, Stana Katic may as well come back as Collette.
5 - Asian Playboy
"What the? There's software out there that can scan the entire emergency phone network of Los Angeles, pick one name out of who knows how many simultaneous calls, alert some flunky, and patch him in to the operator's workstation, all while the call in question is still in progress?"
Actually, not to get all conspiracy theorist on you, but there is: Echelon.
Standard word search recognition and voila, any key words like, for example, bombing, Al-Quaeda, kill POTUS, sabotage, etc can be flagged and is certainly being used currently by the US in the war against terrorism.
6 - Paul
My question wasn't really over whether such recognition software exists, but whether it works as instantaneously as was portrayed in the show.
7 - Mary K. Williams
Ah, great fun as usual Jeff -
So, you liked the James Bond music too, huh? Way cool.
I liked the part about Evelyn standing there with a plant on her head?
8 - MM
Regarding Chloe's "doohickey", it's a standard walkie-talkie, and yes, it has both "proprietary" and open channels. "Proprietary" channels are manually programmed and will only transmit to other radios on the same frequency with the same identifiers. Transmission on open channels is available for anyone to listen to with a radio tuned to the same frequency.
Regarding using it as a bug-sniffer, tracking devices like the one used in this episode, transmit on RF. This means that anyone with a device set to the same frequency as the bug can detect its transmissions, if they get close enough to the source.
Please. Do a little research next time.
9 - Mary K. Williams
Please. Do a little research next time
are you kidding me MM?
Did you read the whole post? Have you read any other posts here on 24?
You might sense a theme of satire, poking fun, and just general having a good time.
not meant to be taken all seriously.
10 - Joanie
Congrats! This article has been placed on Advance.net
11 - Jeff
Thanks, Joanie...
12 - MM
Apparently, the irony is lost on you, Mary.