MacDeath gets herself together enough after the bloodletting to speak to Mrs. Subaru, who does talk to her husband. Subaru calls Markhov at the embassy and orders him to let Jack Bauer go and surrender to the Americans. Markhov, who is in cahoots with Fayed (Mr. Clean) and Gredenko (Mr. Dirty), declines his boss’s edict, thus giving Subaru no alternative but to authorize the U.S. assault on the embassy. Thankfully, we shouldn’t have any of the same minutiae that the assault on the Chinese consulate in Season 4 caused.
Clint leads the strike team's attack on the embassy. Apparently, he enjoys wielding a machine gun as much as Jack does. He takes out guys left and right and eventually finds Jack in the basement. Jack finally tells Clint about the nukes in the desert, and he relays this message to CTU.
We get a glimpse of Mr. Clean and Mr. Dirty with a drone that is all ready to drop another nice payload somewhere on Americans. At the same time Chucky is in the ambulance mumbling “Martha” under his oxygen mask. This dramatic irony becomes even more poignant as the medic starts working on him and says, “We’re losing him.” It doesn’t look too promising for old Chuck.
Will CTU be able to stop the drone? Will Lady MacDeath be sent back to the funny farm? Will Jack be able to find Clean and Dirty and, with Clint’s help, neutralize the threat? What about Hillary? Will she be able to stop Jim Jones from wiping out a Middle Eastern nation with something a lot worse than Kool-aid? And, finally, will Chucky make it to the hospital or will he join David Palmer, Edgar, Tony, and Michelle at that great CTU set in the sky?
Until next week, Klaatu barada nikto!
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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.