“Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack-knife has Martha dear
And she keeps it out of sight.”
This hour opens with Logan waiting in a room at CTU. Chloe walks in “to do some work on this computer”. But she carried a laptop in the room with her. So, what she really meant was:
“I need carry this Mac laptop around, 1) for product placement, and 2) to create a chance for me to exchange some witty repartee with you, the former President of the United States. The fans will eat this up, don’t you think? No, don’t answer that, I’m feeling too ambivalent to continue this dialogue right now. Oh, and in case you haven’t heard, that cutie from Silver Spoons is here, he’s all grown up and knows how to handle a gun – if you get my meaning.”
And so we get to meet Mike Doyle, fresh from Ft. Bragg. Bill lets the room know that Doyle will be running the maneuver to invade the Russian Consulate, not to rescue Jack – but to take Markov. Jack is now chopped liver (with a little Russian Beluga 000 Malossol on the side). Milo expresses his concerns about this and that, but Doyle isn’t listening. And we are let in on the fact that the two know each other And Don’t Get Along.
So, what of our chopped liver Jack? He’s taken a tumble for a fallen Russian guy. He even wants his belt as a souvenir. Aww, that’s sweet. Oh wait, he hears Vasili on the phone, discusses his pending execution with Markov. Of course, they are conveniently speaking in English. I guess they figured since Jack knows Russian, why bother?
But check this out, Jack sneakily snakes the dead man’s belt out of his trousers, and when Vasili is aiming what was meant to be a lethal shot at him, he whips the belt out, it wraps around Vasili’s forearms, and he neatly disarms him, and sends him flying on the ground. Jack then picks up the Vasili’s dropped gun and uses it to shoot him.
This is great, but Markov himself has a front row seat, courtesy of his surveillance computer thingy. He alerts his crew, “The American is on the loose and armed with a Cole Haan leather belt, size 36. Oh, and he has a gun and knife too. But for the love of Peter the Great, watch out for that belt!”
Article comments
1 - Victor Lana
Martha the Knife? I love it. If you look at the story arc since last season, it's all been coming to this anyway. Charles was too wimpy to hurt her, but she had it in her and then some.
I wonder what kind of punishment she'll get for this. Perhaps she will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Hmmm.
2 - pw mooney
Since we're on the "stsabbing" episode I thought I'd send along a comment about a rather large mistake in that show.
Monday's episode was from 6 to 7PM. At 6:30PM, when the former First Lady Martha Logan was talking with the Soviet Premier's wife in
Moscow the sun was shining and there were shadows in the room. It would have been 4:30AM in Moscow.
Which also brings up the point that they weren't able to get thru to the Russian wife quickly because she was giving a speech. At 4:30 in the morning? Seems someone dropped the ball.
BTW, the other item that is always bothering us is to see the "Fox Players". It seems Fox rotates a number of actors from "24" to
"Prison Break" to "Bones" and even "Rescue", etc.
Ex: the former chief of staff for Logan becomes the Senator in the short season show... can't recall the name (the Senator's wife went missing)
We even see former "24" actors come back after a season or two. We believe the Vice President's female assistant was the bride-to-be two season ago.
It is bothersome because when it happens in the show we all loose track of the plot and try to recall where or what show or what season the actor was in before.
Hope this isn't boring to you. If so let me know and I won't bother you in the future.
3 - Mary K. Williams
PW, no - not boring. You raise some good points...especially the time difference between L.A. and Russia. I have seen this brought up since last week elsewhere too.
Ah, but we love the show, no matter how much fun we poke at it.
We do need to hear some more snarkiness from Chloe though, there hasn't been enough this season.