TV Recap: 24 Day 8 Hour 5

When we last left Jack and company, life in the Big CTU Apple has been shaken. An explosion nearly killed the important Omar Hassan, visiting president who is working with our own President Taylor to hammer out a peace agreement between their two countries. Omar’s brother Farhad was behind the plot, and he has now run off, fleeing the scene like a little girl.

He’s off to meet a Russian baddie a man named Bazhaev who – as it turns out – had an arrangement to sell Farhad some nukes. And for a very, very high price. The fact that Davros is dead instead of Omar Hassan does not really alter the arrangement that much. How happy for them.

This whole Russian connection causes CTU to bring former FBI chicky Renee Walker into the story. But Renee is not the same chicky. She’s got a haunted air, reminding us of someone, hmm, someone who has done things, questionable things, someone who breaks rules, gets in trouble, but still saves the day. Just can’t put my finger (or thumb) on who that could be.

And now it’s 8:00 pm and Farhad is speaking to a general back home, reporting in on the latest events in New York, and in turn, hearing that unrest is brewing in Kamistan. He tells the general that the plan will still work, he just needs lawyers, guns, and money – well mostly money – to buy the nuke rods and show who is really in charge.

Speaking of nukes, Bazhaev’s son Oleg is very sick with radiation poisoning. He was the poor sap who was in charge of transporting the uranium rods, and according to his dad, he got careless. His brother Josef convinces dad Bazhaev to let Josef bring Oleg somewhere more comfy to die. Aw. (He had hoped for proper medical care, but dad put the kibosh on that).

Elsewhere, Renee is administering some funky medical care to the hapless Ziya, her hopeful contact that will lead her to a Vladimir, a shadowy underground baddie who Renee worked with during her undercover days. So poor Ziya is on the ground, bleeding. “Why”, you ask? Renee needs Ziya to bring her to Vladimir. But Ziya is wearing a 24/7 parole bracelet. Renee brandishes a circular saw in Ziya’s direction, ignoring his protestations that nothing will cut through the bracelet. Pshaw! It wasn’t the bracelet she was trying to cut.

Now Ziya is all thumbs – oops – rather he is missing his thumb on his bracelet hand. More importantly he’s missing his bracelet and now he will be free to leave and get rich. Yeah, Renee is promising him some $ from “the deal”. And off they go, with Jack following at a distance, waiting for CTU to prepare his cover story as “the buyer”. (I’m personally looking forward to seeing Jack undercover again)

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