Wednesday, April 05, 2006
24podcast - Joe interviews Edgar
Joe over at 24podcast.blogspot.com has an interview with Louis Lombardi on his latest podcast. Check it out :) It's good stuff.
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Monday, April 03, 2006
"Bill... I'm scared."
Big damn reveal eh kids? :) I sort of saw it coming right before they revealed the end but then again I thought it might just have been wishful thinking. It was a good misdirect with the Veep though. I thought it might be him throughout most of tonight's show, but then again, I should have known better. This is 24 after all. They are kings of the misdirection.
BUT let me just say yes, Jack lived through the blast. So did Bierko but he's out cold and on his way to CTU for interrogation by Curtis. I just want to say that Jack looked fucking hard walking out of the smoke with Bierko over his shoulders. That was awesome. But as he spoke with Bill Buchanan, Jack admitted something I've never heard him say: he's scared. He tells Buchanan that he thinks this is bigger than anything they've ever faced. Cripes.
The focus tonight was mostly on Wayne Palmer as he tried to get into the retreat to see Martha Logan's assistant. Her assistant? What? Huh? Yes her assistant. Wayne found evidence in David's emails that he was corresponding with her about things he's found out. She has evidence about who is behind it all but... Henderson is holding her 8 year-old daughter hostage and threatening to kill her if she reveals this evidence. He offers to exhange the kid for the evidence but we all know it never works that way. He gets the evidence and they both die right?
It might have worked out that way if it weren't for Wayne and Aaron. The assistant won't give up the evidence to Wayne unless he saves her daughter. Frustrated, Wayne calls Jack and fills him in. Jack insists he be on the line when Henderson calls the assistant (Ugh bad with names. I should know her name but I can't recall it) for the exhange. Jack knows that Henderson is now the only protocol left standing. Find Henderson and Jack will find out everything.
But when he calls Audrey at CTU he finds there are some changes in personnel going on there. Homeland announced they are "absorbing" CTU and letting the agent go and replacing them with their own people. This includes Chloe. But the only way they can pull this power play off is by getting someone like Audrey to sign off on all of the "bad" decisions made throughout the day that caused lives - like Buchanan superceding McGill's authority - stuff like that. Audrey refuses to sign. You go girl. I like Audrey and I don't care who knows it :)
But then Jack calls her and asks her to get Chloe ready to re-task a satellite that he'll need when Henderson gives a location for the exhange. He finds out what's happening back at CTU and in typical Jack fashion tells her he doesn't care and she needs to find a way to keep Chloe.
So Audrey signs the papers blaming Buchanan on one condition - that Chloe stays on and is assigned to her. They agree and they're off to re-task the satellite. Meanwhile Henderson calls the assistant and gives her a location.
Finally, Jack meets up with Wayne and the assistant (I want to say... Evelyn? Is that it?) and they take off in an SUV and await Henderson's call. When he does he gives them an address and they go in and with Chloe's help and some badass StealthyJack scenes, he and Wayne take out some of the lookouts while the assistant rides in to meet with Henderson. Once Henderson feels it's safe to come out he brings out the girl and hands her over to her mother and demands the evidence.
And then the shooting starts. A good old-fashioned firefight where the assistant takes one in the leg while protecting her child but Henderson gets away. I thought we were in for a good, hard "DAMNIT!" from Jack but alas...
As Henderson drives off he calls someone... so yes... Tonight we find out that "someone" is *gasp* President Logan. He is the uhhh, criminal mastermind behind it all. Sorry it's just hard to use the term "mastermind" when referring to the bumbling idiot that is Logan. But perhaps that was all an act. Another bit of sleight of hand to make everyone think he was merely a cowardly president willing to let better men make the tough choices.
It was a big moment in an episode I thought was otherwise expository/transitory - not that it wasn't good but there was a lot of travel necessary in this one and I credit the writers of the show for making driving around interesting :)
So that's it kids. I think I covered the important bits. Now discuss :) And remember, if you want to mention the previews for next week in the comments then warn me with big flashy "MELIA HERE THERE BE SPOILERS _ LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY!" Thanks :)
BUT let me just say yes, Jack lived through the blast. So did Bierko but he's out cold and on his way to CTU for interrogation by Curtis. I just want to say that Jack looked fucking hard walking out of the smoke with Bierko over his shoulders. That was awesome. But as he spoke with Bill Buchanan, Jack admitted something I've never heard him say: he's scared. He tells Buchanan that he thinks this is bigger than anything they've ever faced. Cripes.
The focus tonight was mostly on Wayne Palmer as he tried to get into the retreat to see Martha Logan's assistant. Her assistant? What? Huh? Yes her assistant. Wayne found evidence in David's emails that he was corresponding with her about things he's found out. She has evidence about who is behind it all but... Henderson is holding her 8 year-old daughter hostage and threatening to kill her if she reveals this evidence. He offers to exhange the kid for the evidence but we all know it never works that way. He gets the evidence and they both die right?
It might have worked out that way if it weren't for Wayne and Aaron. The assistant won't give up the evidence to Wayne unless he saves her daughter. Frustrated, Wayne calls Jack and fills him in. Jack insists he be on the line when Henderson calls the assistant (Ugh bad with names. I should know her name but I can't recall it) for the exhange. Jack knows that Henderson is now the only protocol left standing. Find Henderson and Jack will find out everything.
But when he calls Audrey at CTU he finds there are some changes in personnel going on there. Homeland announced they are "absorbing" CTU and letting the agent go and replacing them with their own people. This includes Chloe. But the only way they can pull this power play off is by getting someone like Audrey to sign off on all of the "bad" decisions made throughout the day that caused lives - like Buchanan superceding McGill's authority - stuff like that. Audrey refuses to sign. You go girl. I like Audrey and I don't care who knows it :)
But then Jack calls her and asks her to get Chloe ready to re-task a satellite that he'll need when Henderson gives a location for the exhange. He finds out what's happening back at CTU and in typical Jack fashion tells her he doesn't care and she needs to find a way to keep Chloe.
So Audrey signs the papers blaming Buchanan on one condition - that Chloe stays on and is assigned to her. They agree and they're off to re-task the satellite. Meanwhile Henderson calls the assistant and gives her a location.
Finally, Jack meets up with Wayne and the assistant (I want to say... Evelyn? Is that it?) and they take off in an SUV and await Henderson's call. When he does he gives them an address and they go in and with Chloe's help and some badass StealthyJack scenes, he and Wayne take out some of the lookouts while the assistant rides in to meet with Henderson. Once Henderson feels it's safe to come out he brings out the girl and hands her over to her mother and demands the evidence.
And then the shooting starts. A good old-fashioned firefight where the assistant takes one in the leg while protecting her child but Henderson gets away. I thought we were in for a good, hard "DAMNIT!" from Jack but alas...
As Henderson drives off he calls someone... so yes... Tonight we find out that "someone" is *gasp* President Logan. He is the uhhh, criminal mastermind behind it all. Sorry it's just hard to use the term "mastermind" when referring to the bumbling idiot that is Logan. But perhaps that was all an act. Another bit of sleight of hand to make everyone think he was merely a cowardly president willing to let better men make the tough choices.
It was a big moment in an episode I thought was otherwise expository/transitory - not that it wasn't good but there was a lot of travel necessary in this one and I credit the writers of the show for making driving around interesting :)
So that's it kids. I think I covered the important bits. Now discuss :) And remember, if you want to mention the previews for next week in the comments then warn me with big flashy "MELIA HERE THERE BE SPOILERS _ LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY!" Thanks :)
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