The pilot then uses the old triangulation device in the french bread trick. No, I mean, he uses the old cramp in the leg trick. The copilot is getting suspicious. The pilot makes a sudden move to open the door, and succeeds, but Evans clonks him and puts him down. Nobody was killed this week, but there sure are a lot of people rendered unconscious.
Jack gets into the cockpit. Evans protests "I'm the only one who can fly this plane." Jack is apparently unimpressed, or doesn't realize the logical implications, because he immediately decks Evans.
Jack says "You don't strike me as the type who would die for Christopher Henderson." What? Then he'd be the only one. Henderson has rounded up multiple teams in the last few hours, and just about every one of them is now dead.
Jack calls Chloe and says she should advise CTU he has the recording. Does he really want Chloe to do that? CTU is now in the hands of Homeland Security, put there by the Evil President.
Now, even though we see a montage with no sound, the krazy kaptions have something that makes no sense in this context. It says "NEWSCASTER: At this hour there are still unanswered questions surrounding David Palmer's death. During the emergency press conference the president announced the terrorist threat was over." What is that all about?
At the presidential retreat, Martha is really on a hippie trail, head full of zombie, and her speech is slurred. She's a strange lady, and she makes me nervous. If she keeps mixing the wine and pills, she's really going to chunder.
She calls Logan. Logan says "For the past 3 years you have been one click away from a nervous breakdown, and I'm going to come to you for advice?!" Whoa, Charles! Bringing the sarcasm!
Graham calls yet again. He already knows Jack has the tape. And how does he know this? He monitored a call between Chloe and Karen. What happened to the dry channel? Graham must have wet it somehow.
Graham tells Logan he'll have to shoot down the plane. Eek.
The episode ends with the clocks at :60 to :56.
And now, once again, here is guest critic Paul Foth. He was trapped in the baggage hold of a plane after he crawled down there to give his pet poodle Fifi a chew toy. It was bitterly cold, though, so he sliced open the belly of a Taun Taun and crawled in to keep warm, and was able to finish this review.
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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
Congrats! This article has been placed on Advance.net
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