Ooh, I just felt the graphic violence warning kick!
In the recaps from last week, Vice President Hal still refuses to open the pod bay doors. RunLoganRun is on TV, even though last week we saw his presser live and in person at Budokan. Jack looks like he's groping Collette up against her car.
As we get into hot steaming fresh episode this week, Bill asks Chloe to check out Audrey for the past 18 months. Then, Bill goes and takes Audrey into custody. She is understandably flummoxed. Then, Bill utters the words no one inside CTU ever wants to hear. "Prep Ms. Raines for interrogation." Gaahh. CTU is the most torture-happy outfit I've ever seen.
Audrey asks if Jack knows about this. Bill says Jack sanctioned it. Ex-boyfriends can be so vindictive sometimes.
Yowzer, Jack and Collette and Curtis are walking into CTU already?!? Did they bleem over here? They were at the Van Nuys airport less than five minutes ago! Were they really out in the CTU parking lot? I tell ya, with this curfew in place, you can get around LA in seconds.
Some nameless CTU agent helpfully points out Collette ID'd Audrey from photos on the way over. For you and me, that would be mighty quick work to send photos of Audrey within minutes to the agents in the vehicles coming back to CTU, but for CTU it's child's play.
Jack says to put Collette in Holding. I assume they've gotten Lynn and Harry out of there by now, and mopped up?
Audrey is frog-marched into a room, and rather rudely held tightly by the arm by some uniformed agent. Oh. No. Here comes The Cart! Death on Wheels, as they call it around the CTU watercooler. CTU's Torturer-In-Residence the past few seasons, Richards, must have snapped under the strain of all that constant gruesome work. So, this season Burke is our eager torturer.
Bill asks Karen, "So we can torture our own people but we can't touch a criminal?" Yup, Bill has got CTU pegged!
Bill also says "I trust her implicitly." I've never quite understood that saying. Wouldn't it be a stronger endorsement to say you trust someone explicitly? Implicitly sounds like a backhanded compliment.
Miles gets all righteous with Karen and says the decision to put Audrey on the rack is hers, but if she's wrong she'll take the blame.
Jack is mad. He wants to be the one to interrogate Audrey. Oh sure, Karen throws Nina Meyers in his face. Bring that up again. Make one mistake with a homicidal maniac spy and you can never live it down. But now it's Jack's turn to pressure Karen. He points out Audrey is the daughter of the SecDef, and if Karen is wrong about Audrey, Dad will eat Karen alive. Jack gets his ten minutes with Audrey.
Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
I have to comment and I'm not even finished reading yet!
Yes, its the bloody Holodeck! Love it!
2 - Mary K. Williams
Everyone on this show is superhuman!
Ain't that the truth!
3 - Barry
Excellent points about that gas injection system -- that was ridiculous, but while watching the show, I bought it completely. And as for Shari's sexual harrassment comment about Bill, I thought that was the first honest-to-goodness joke on the show in four and half years. We were totally set up to think Miles was bad, and then it's a complete shock to find out she's a whacko. I almost fell off the couch laughing... but maybe that's just me. Anyway, love watching the show on Mondays, love reading your take on it on Tuesdays. Thanks.
4 - Victor Lana
Note to self:
Miles is still bad.
Just wait and see.
5 - Jeff
Mary, that explains everything this season. This is a program running in the holodeck. The last episode the program will stop running and Jack will be at home with Teri and Kim.
Thanks, Barry. Yeah, that was a switch, almost an attempt to make Miles look good.
But, you might be right, Victor. Miles may yet end up paying for his incredible rudeness to this point by being a bad guy.
6 - Mary K. Williams
Miles is bad. He just is. Whether he's a 'good guy' or not is besides the point, he's an asshole!
And he deserves to be a bad guy!
7 - Mary K. Williams
Mary, that explains everything this season. This is a program running in the holodeck. The last episode the program will stop running and Jack will be at home with Teri and Kim.
And his new son-in-law Ponyboy Shrink. Forget the Sentox - that would be the real nightmare.
8 - Victor Lana
What would be interesting is for Jack to wake up and hear the shower running. He goes in and pulls aside the curtain, and Nina Meyers is there smiling from ear to ear. That would be my way to end Season 5.