Chucky comes to CTU and talks Bill into letting him go to see Lady MacDeath, hoping she will broker a deal with Russian President Subaru’s wife to allow an attack on the embassy. The Lady and Mrs. Subaru shared a defining moment in a limousine in Season 5 when they survived an assault that was engineered by husband Charles. No wonder she is so miffed at the guy. Bill seems to have lost his way and lets Chucky get a helicopter without even thinking through the ramifications. Maybe he is pining for Karen (Hillary) Hayes, who is in Washington where the stakes are getting even higher.
At the White House, President Noah (Jim Jones) Daniels is setting up a deal with Tom (Twitchy) Lennox concerning his involvement in the assassination attempt that has left Prez Wayne Palmer on hiatus (actually he is with Curtis and Karen having cocktails in some dark saloon). Twitchy agrees to implicate the now dead Assad in the attempt, although one can see that this goes against his grain (he actually does have a spine after all). Twitchy is bothered by the fact that Reed and Carson will seemingly get away with it, but Twitchy may not be done yet. The ambassador (lots of diplomats in these episodes by the way) from Assad’s country denounces the assassination attempt, but Jones is not buying it. He has a carrier group off the coast of this man’s country and an itchy trigger finger.
Chucky goes to see Lady MacDeath, who won’t come out of the bedroom to see him. He and Hawkeye exchange something less than pleasantries (Chucky did try to have Hawkeye killed in Season 5), but it is a small triumph for the former president when his wife does appear to talk with him. Appropriately dressed all in black, Lady MacDeath berates her ex-husband and then throws kibble and bits at him. Chucky does ask her to call Mrs. Subaru in hopes she will intervene with her husband concerning the embassy.
Before you can say “Psycho,” the Lady has grabbed a knife and is plunging it into Chucky. It’s a shocking and devastating blow. Hawkeye, without the aide of a martini or Trapper John, tries to apply pressure to the wound as he calls for an ambulance. Imagine in one day an assassination attempt on a sitting president and an ex-president? Just what the country needs after a nuclear explosion, right?
Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
I knew you'd work the Macbeth angle Vic! How could you not? As soon as I saw this I thought - "Ah, Lady MacDeath".
Oh but I must tell you something, Curtis is actually dead! (RIP)
2 - Victor Lana
Thanks for checking in, MK. What do you mean Curtis is actually dead? I thought he was in CTU Medical getting fixed up like Tony, Michelle, and....
Oh, yeah, they're all dead. 24 will never be the same either, but we move on.
3 - Pat Fish
Great review, as usual.
I simply do not understand that bit about your Lady McDeath stabbing the former President.
It seemed a bit too forced to me.
4 - Victor Lana
Oh, I couldn't agree with you more, Pat. While these contrivances have not been unusual on the show, this one seems particularly annoying. As a friend said the other day, "24 is guilty of jumping the shark now." With apologies to Arthur Fonzarelli, I have to agree with him on that one.