A Jack-ku
The graphic violence
warning is among the clouds.
My mood is tender.
And I ask again, what was violent about this episode, let alone graphic?
When the recaps started, I thought I was watching the wrong episode, because it went back to Bierko blowing up the gas distribution plant. That happened hours ago. We see the assault on the plant. We see Jack hibauering the plane. And Logan wants Bauer. The copilot tells Jack they will be on the ground in 15 minutes. Huh? The plane was flying for much longer than that. How is it faster going back to Van Nuys than going out? Maybe they are going downhill.
And now, we are go for main engine rant.
As we begin, we see a model of a plane hanging from a thread. I mean, we see the hijacked plane, and underneath it, the credits say "Kiefer Sutherland." So, the plane is Kiefer Sutherland?
The copilot says to Jack "I think you broke my nose." But, he only has a small microdot of blood by his nose. If his nose was really broken, it would be like Old Faithful.
Now, the copilot says they'll be on the ground in 21 minutes. So, despite the fact several minutes have passed since the copilot first said they'd be down in 15, they've lost time and now it's 21 minutes? Are they going back uphill?
We see Bill being uncuffed. Apparently, his interrogation with Karen went well.
Jack is having a long chat with Karen. He wants a safe escort back to CTU. Karen tells him Audrey is in CTU Medical, and that she'll be ok. She doesn't know CTU Medical very well yet, does she?
Curtis goes in to see Audrey and... va va voom! Audrey is in the hospital bed in a nice teddy! Rowwrrr! CTU does their female patients up right.
Holy hit the reset button, Batman! Curtis tells Audrey that SecDef Heller is alive! A team fished him out of the drink 30 minutes ago. (So Heller held his breath for 30 minutes?) Oh man. What a cheat.
I can imagine the scene with the rescue team at the top of the cliff where Heller went over. "Ok, you get one share for being a person in the ambulance, one share for being a person who pulled Heller out, and one share for being a person at the scene. You, you get one share for ..." "Hey, wait, Now look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and each time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody didn't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, every man, including the old SecDef, for himself!"
Article comments
1 - Victor Lana
So Audrey was wearing a "teddy" in that bed? Whatever, can't get that scene out of my mind. Jack is so tender. They've both forgotten when he choked her earlier that day. Oh well, that's all in the past!
2 - Paul
I'm wondering whether Logan will get dead by the end of the season. Way back before the season started, Kiefer was on the Charlie Rose show and pointed out that last season they never got around to pointing out that President Keelover was actually dead. Maybe this was just an oversight by the writers (though I know that's hard to swallow), but he explained it in terms of them not wanting to explicitly, officially mention the death of a president. Given the writers' willingness to kill everyone else at the drop of a whim, this seems an odd reservation. We'll see if they let this last inhibition go in a couple of weeks.
3 - Victor Lana
We have to face some cold, hard facts: there have been presidents who got away with stuff. Lots of stuff. Probably a lot more than we'll ever know. This could be what they're heading for here, (and as mentioned by Heller during their confrontation).
Logan could be forced to resign QUIETLY, especially if Martha blows her brains out or overdoses. It could be very interesting. I think that they could even be preparing Heller to run for office and be president in the next season.
Anything goes this year it seems.
4 - Joan Hunt
Congrats! This article has been placed on Advance.net
5 - Jeff
Thanks, Joan.
6 - Mary K. Williams
Lot of good stuff here Jeff. I swear I did not read yours before i wrote mine, but I see we picked up on a few of the same things.
I did not mention those wavy flickering lights though but I did notice them. Weird! To me,it looked like either firelight, or reflected water light (as if he were poolside)
Curtis orders some lights on the freeway, and a dump truck backs up and unloads a bunch of lamps
Excellent! Loved it!