There’s another moment of tenderness, in First Dad Henry’s White House hospital room. Olivia tells her mom that she’s calmed down about the whole Jonas-goes-free scheme, and there are hugs and smiles a-plenty.
Jonas is outside his FBI hospital room, and is ready to depart with Marshall Sullivan. Sullivan has to confiscate Hodges’ wallet and pictures, but Hodges manages to sneak one in his shirt. When he’s inside the van, out of Sullivan’s view, he takes the picture of his wife and daughter out and gazes fondly as the family he’ll never see again. Seconds later, while Sullivan is clearing paperwork with an agent, the van explodes. Yup, you know what that means.
Olivia’s head explodes too.
Aaron watches while she storms out of the Oval office, down a corridor and makes a frantic phone call to Martin. He tries to reassure her, “Are you calling from a cell phone? Are you insane? Have you learned nothing these years on the Hill?” They agree to meet and Olivia does her best to calm down.
The last “explosion” of the hour is when Jack, Renee, and swarms of TAC/SWAT agents storm Jibraan’s apartment. They had a visual on one remaining hostile and also saw that Hamid is still alive. So they go in, guns blazing. In the confusion, Hamid pops up, and with his hands still bound slams himself against a wall breaking a framed picture. He than grabs a slab of glass, and lunges at the hostile, stabbing him severely. Nice move, but seriously? He’s supposed to be just a nobody? Hmm, we’ll see about that.
The obvious hostiles, Tony and Cara, are working on the preparations for the attack, Tony shows Jibraan live video feed of a metro subway platform, with sleepy commuters beginning their day. Jibraan is aghast, afraid of his unwanted role in whatever horrors are coming next.
Article comments
1 - Dr Dreadful
Despite what the producers say, they must have been in an almighty rush to finish shooting this season because the al-Jibraan brothers are just about the least Pakistani-looking people they could possibly have cast in the roles.
Next week they'll no doubt have guest appearances from Samuel L Jackson and Aretha Franklin as Larry's parents, demanding the handover of their son's remains so that they can conduct a traditional Tibetan Buddhist funeral.
2 - Mary K. Williams
I feel like I'm in an episode of Sliders where there's an alternate universe mash-up of House and 24!