There’s a practice in action filmmaking that really grates on me. Characters get beaten up; suffer falls, burns, stabbings and shootings. They limp and wince and bleed, sure. But their suffering seems to last only until the next scene. At some point, a modicum of first aid is proffered. And that does the trick. Don’t get me started. Anyway, what is Jack’s injury this time? We see him getting an injection “to help with the pain”, but the CTU medic type person advises him to get to a hospital. Ha, that’d be the day.
Doyle informs Jack that the Marines are going to take over the final securing and transport of the suitcase nukes. He also takes a minute to tell Jack how he appreciates Jack’s actions of the day. Then Jack goes away to make a surreptitious phone call to Audrey’s captor, the mean ole Cheng Zhi, former security head of the Chinese Consulate. Remember from last week, Jack got that call after knocking off Fayed and securing the nukes.
Cheng goes into a long explanation of his nefarious plan, explaining how the component from the triggering mechanism contains a prototype algorithm that has no encryption safeguards – or something like that. His explanation goes on and on, eventually he resorts to a whole power point presentation, with hostage Audrey making like Carol Merrill, gesturing with shackled grace, to the bullet points of interest.
OK, the only problem with bad guys explaining a whole lot of stuff, is that it tends to imply that the audience will not live to repeat anything, much less fill out a survey or take a test on the evil subject matter. When will anyone figure this out?
Tom stops by to see a sweaty Prez Wayne. He gently nags Wayne again about taking a load off in Medical. Wayne winces of course, but wants to stay the course. But because Tom nagged Wayne about his health, he decides to pester Tom about what he might possibly have over Daniels. Tom decides to come clean and explains about the recorded conversation between the Veep and Lisa.
Before Tom can go break out the boom box and play the tape, Karen skips in with the good news about Fayed and the nukes. Confetti falls, streamers stream, and a marching band is heard in the corridor. Wayne announces that it’s time to get out of the bunker and head back up to the Oval Office.
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1 - Victor Lana
I think that this Lisa Loose Lips is up to no good, MK. What I mean is that the mole might not be at CTU but in the White House. Hmmm.
Also, Doyle is either going to come through or be a big pain in the tuckus. I have a feeling he is really a good guy. We shall see.