Oh, how gauche. Can you believe the graphic violence warning is wearing that mauve strapless gown with that lime green handbag? And was this warning really necessary this week? What was violent, let alone graphic?
The recaps return us to the pleasant company of the Bickersons. Martha blusters this day has been one giant lie and Logan makes her SICK! Henderson driving around, because we can never get enough of that. Jack and his Elven Hood of Baggage Handling (+2 to Disguise rolls) getting into the plane.
As this episode teeters on the edge of night, Chloe is busy packing up, not quite understanding what's going on.
Miles will set up for a remote debrief, but Karen wants the interrogation to be in the Situation Room. Miles almost looks crestfallen.
Karen chats with Bill. She wants Chloe to call her on a "dry channel," 15427. She wants Chloe to call her on an arroyo? A wadi? A wash?
As she's going out the door, Chloe asks "What about the curfew?" What is she worried about? The curfew/roadblocks combo hasn't stopped a flippin' thing so far.
Bill will stay behind and run interference. At this point, we must stop and ask, what in the bloody blue blazes happened to Wayne? He was at Bill's house. Where'd he go? Is he down in Bill's den playing Madden 2005? Surely the writers wouldn't just forget about a main character, would they?
(Speaking of lost characters, Audrey is not in this episode. Nor is Curtis, who has suddenly been turned into an ambulance service, ferrying the wounded back to CTU. And no one seems concerned that the SecDef went over a cliff. And of course, the bank manager is still dead in the cop car, and his poor wife is still tied up in her bedroom. Forgotten and abandoned by this show. And shockingly, no Henderson in this episode. Even though Bierko is now conscious, he's apparently not important to interrogate this hour.)
The "tac team" arrives at Bill's house. They're in suits and ties, and they just walk up to the front door and knock. What kind of tac team is this? All other tac teams have been in full combat gear and set up perimeters and bust down doors and shoot things.
Bill answers the door in a T-shirt, to fake like he's been sound asleep, even though every light in the house is on at 2 in the morning. Bill asks if they have a warrant, but the team barges right in. (Yeah, isn't Bill right? Don't they need some kind of warrant to bust in like that?) They search for all of about 10 seconds before declaring Chloe is gone. One of them looks at the shelves, as if Chloe would be hiding in a cutout pocket in a Nancy Drew mystery. This is obviously the tac team junior varsity. They even fail to notice the guy playing video games in Bill's den.
Article comments
1 - Victor Lana
Yes, I too was really bothered by the no Audrey-Curtis-Bierko thing. Curtis appeared last episode after going into the void for three weeks or so. Maybe they went to get Audrey's coat cleaned.
This happens in the world of 24 where people like Behrooz (Season 4) disappear and are never seen again (and their disappearance is never explained).
Hope that's not what happens with Pierce.
2 - Sherrie
When you remember that this is hour-by-hour in a 24 hour period, being out of the picture for 3 episodes is 3 hours is not that long when other things are going on.
3 - Jeff
Certainly, a few hours is not a long time. In the context of this show, though, it's odd the way some have disappeared.
Wayne, for instance, went to Bill's house with Chloe, and then hasn't been seen since. Not even sipping a cup of coffee while watching Chloe work.
Curtis, despite being one of the most senior CTU agents, has been little more than a taxi lately, and hasn't been seen around CTU despite bringing people back there.
And so forth.
4 - Mark Sahm
Jeff: That was no elbow fu Jack used. He stole that move from Ah-Nuld's "Commando" playbook. Jack just forget to break the marshal's neck and tell the stewartess that his friend is "dead tired".
5 - Paul
Did we see Wayne at Bill's house? All I remember is Bill saying that he'd take Wayne to "someplace safe," and that's the last we saw of Wayne. Maybe he's in Bill's treehouse out back.
Sherrie, I think the only characters your argument works for is Shari, since she's a minor character, and possibly Wayne--although it'd make good sense to at least show the audience where he is. The other characters, though, are more central to the story and are involved in threads that make their absence for an hour or two problemmatic.
Thanks for the clarification, Mark. I haven't seen Commando. For those keeping score, Jack used Schwarzen fu.
6 - Mary K. Williams
Thanks for the laughs Jeff and Paul. Yup, I must say I caught the Ahnold reference myself. Not to mention they used the same technique in the movie Red Eye.
Maybe Theo will come back. A girl can hope anyway.
7 - Jeff
Theo? Was that the German guy? Speaking of which, is his spy girlfriend still locked up in CTU?
Heck, for that matter, was she killed in the gas attack? (Yet another character we can add to the forgotten character list.)
8 - Brad
Wasn't Audrey shot like 4 times in the back by Henderson??? How can she be up and walking around with only the severed artery in her arm???
9 - Joanie
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And BRAVO! on the Men at Work reference. I laughed aloud!
10 - Mary K. Williams
oh all those missing characters. OK this is what we're going to do between the three of us. Before the season finale, we're going to come up with a post about where those characters have gone to. Call it the 'Behrooz Factor' or something. I had forgotten all about Collette. So, we'll guess and conjecture and whatever, about whatever became of:
Aaron, Bierko, Diane and Derek, Heller (Dad) and so on.
11 - Jeff
Thanks, Joanie. Do the kids know Men At Work these days?
Good idea, Mary. We'll have to start putting them on milk cartons.
12 - Mary K. Williams
Yes Joanie, that was funny! (Men at work)
OK Milk cartons and also don't forget about plastering their faces all over Wal-Mart