Monday, May 15, 2006
A traitor and a disgrace...
Man oh man do I ever know how Chloe felt when she played the recording only to find there was nothing but static ("on Channel Z..." - sorry B-52 moment.) I, too, have experienced that heart-pounding moment when so much is counting on your work and when the time comes to unveil or display the fruits of your labour, something has cocked it up. Your cheeks flush with a sudden onslaught of blood rushing to them in embarassment. Your palms become slick with sweat and you have trouble catching your breath. You can literally hear your heart pound and your brain pretty much implodes as it tries to simultaneously find out what happened and/or look for someone nearby to blame for the mistake. :)
Poor Chloe.
Stupid Miles.
So a teleconference has been setup with some big names in order to garner support for the recorded evidence including someone from the justice department who can then make recommendations for impeachment proceedings. This does not sit well with Jack. "What about an arrest warrant?" he snaps at Buchanan. Bill tells him that no one in their right mind would attempt to arrest a sitting president. Impeachment first, criminal trial later.
Before the conference call begins Chloe tests the recording only to discover the aforementioned static and all that entails emotion-wise for the poor girl. Ooo Jack is livid. Eventually they work out that it was Miles who erased the recording and Jack stalks out of the conference room to get him - as he's conveniently trying to leave the floor.
Jack flings him against a wall and grabs him by the throat, squeezing with every ounce of his considerable strength. "You son of a bitch." he hisses through clenched teeth. Soon though, Karen orders Jack to stand down and confronts Miles, asking where he's going. Miles tells her he's been transferred. It doesn't take Jack long to figure out Miles is off to the White House now.
Betrayed, Karen asks how Miles could do it. I forget what he said, but it resulted in a pretty good bitchslap in front of the entire office. I enjoyed that very much. I would have enjoyed it more had she gunned him down in cold blood but you can't have everything.
Back in the conference room, Karen receives a call from Logan and he oh-so-innocently asks what the deal is with the teleconference CTU had set up. She tells him it's been cancelled and he breathes a sigh of relief. Then he tells her that he's rescinding his order to arrest Jack. Puzzled, Karen asks Jack what Logan has to gain by letting Jack go. But Jack knows that now he's on his own with no presidential support. He's a sitting duck for assassination :(
Buchanan burst in the room to tell everyone that Bierko has, of course, escaped (we knew he would.) The one remaining agent left alive after the escape fills CTU in on what happened. He overheard Bierko mention another canister of nerve gas. Sure enough we switch to Bierko and his merry band of thugs as they retrieve a reserve canister.
Back at the retreat, Martha Logan contemplates suicide - she's got the pills stuck to her lips until she realizes it would be stupid - and then she spots Aaron's phone on the mantel. She gives it to her guard and asks him to return it to Aaron. And then we see Aaron himself, mighty, stoic hero of the Secret Service, loyal to Palmer, trustworthy and steadfast in his quiet manner. He is tied to a chair, bruised and bloody from obvious torture. *sniffle*
In walks Logan who has some cajones to try and offer Aaron a deal. He tells Aaron the recording no longer exists - not that it never did, but that it is no more - and he wants to know if he can count on Aaron to remain with the Secret Service. He actually acts like he's doing Aaron a favour and that Aaron will fall to his knees and thank Logan for giving him a second chance. But not our Aaron. Ohhh no. Aaron looks him square in the eye and tells him he's a traitor and disgrace to the office. And then he called him "Charles." Not "Mr. President." The ultimate in disrespect from a Secret Service agent.
Aaron, I love you.
Unfortunately, this probably means that Logan will okay Aaron's death. He leaves the room with another agent/lackey in tow who reminds Logan that Aaron is loyal to Palmer. With a look he tacitly gives the go ahead for this lackey to take Aaron out. But we don't see it. I'm sure that will spark the rumours that he lives and deep down I hope he does too. But for what it's worth, I feel like Aaron deserves hero status right alongside Jack Bauer.
After Logan leaves the room, he phones Graham, explaining that everything is contained and probably looking for a pat on the back from Graham. Because we all know Logan needs constant validation. Mike Novick interrupts the call though to tell Logan of Bierko's escape.
At CTU, Buchanan, Jack, Karen and Chloe confab about ways to find Bierko. Buchanan suggests grilling Henderson some more. Jack is adamant Henderson won't give anything else up. he knows him too well. Karen says he'd probably talk if a deal was on the table but Jack is also against that idea. But Buchanan plays the "What would David Do?" card - lives of many greater than the lives of one etc. And Jack agrees to present the deal to Henderson.
Henderson is scared though. Immunity from Logan means nothing to him. He's afraid of Graham. He tells Jack the recording was his immunity and now that it's gone he's a dead man. He lets on that there are bigger people behind Logan but refuses to say who. He says the deal he'll make is that he disappears, with his wife, and Jack is to be the one to set it up. If Jack agrees, then he will help Jack find Bierko. Reluctantly, jack does but the deal is Henderson gets Jack Bierko's head on a plate. I kind of think Jack meant that literally :)
Coming back from commercial and YAY I was wrong. Aaron's alive still. Martha's hanging out in the stables having a smoke when she sees a car pull up. An agent gets out with a gun drawn and disappears. When he comes back, he's leading Aaron towards the trunk of the car which is lined with a tarp. He's going to shoot Aaron. Martha interrupts him though and as the agent struggles with indecision on whether to shoot the First Lady, Aaron takes advantage of the moment and knocks him down. The gun he's carrying flies towards Martha and just as the agent grabs a crowbar to mash Aaron's brains in, Martha shoots him. She shot the agent. GO MARTHA!!!
So Henderson gives up about 14 names that he thinks Bierko will try to contact and Chloe gets a hit on one of them. A man named Joshua Molina. Henderson tells Jack that he won't break and the only way to get the info out of Molina is for Henderson to go in and get the intel himself. Of course. After a bit of dancing around the issue Jack relents.
They arrive at Molina's place and Jack gives Henderson 10 minutes to get the goods. As he goes in, Jack shimmies up a telephone pole or something and sticks a listening device on a skylight in Molina's apartment. After Henderson passes through more security than an airport terminal, he immediately blows the whistle on the agents waiting outside. he tells Molina to crash his system and they need to get out of there. Irritated, Jack gives the order for the tact team to bust in and they take down Molina with a shot to the hip (and Curtis gets shot in the arm :( ) and recaptures Henderson who tells Jack that he blew it. He was about to get Molina to drop his Phoenix firewall (I could have used one of those on my website that got hacked last week btw) so CTU could access the info.
But it doesn't matter because Chloe got through and decrypted the info that leads Jack to Bierko's target: a Russian submarine docked at the Port of Los Angeles that, as part of the treaty Logan signed, is in town for a techonology trade. This sub includes a slew of nuclear warheads. Ruh-roh.
Before we get to that, we head back to the stables at the retreat. Aaron and Martha share a tender moment (I'm starting to think Aaron is sort of crushing on Martha. She might be a little too. He's everything she wishes her husband would be you know) as they discuss what they need to do next. As she gently wipes the blood from his face, he tells her she needs to get back to the residence and find Novick to tell him everything. He'll hide the agent's body. He wants Novick to meet him in the stables and hopefully get his help to get out of there so he can lay low. Martha agrees to do what he asks. Awwww.. I'm so happy he lives.
Back to Jack... Once Chloe tells Jack what the target is he asks to speak to the ranking officer in charge there. He warns the officer that terrorists have targeted the ship. As the officer removes a weapon from a case, Jack takes Henderson with him by chopper to the sub. Henderson doesn't want to go obviously. He thought his getting the intel on the sub would be enough but oh no. Jack is holding him to the Head on a Plate deal.
As the officer goes topside to check the sub, Bierko stands above a hatch and shoots him. Bierko and his men then don gas masks, drop their canister of nerve gas down the hatch and murder everyone aboard.
Now they control the submarine and it's missiles. Oh dear.
And that's it for this week folks. And next week is the two-hour grand finale for the season. I'm sort of dreading it. I have to know what happens but I don't want it to be over you know?
Poor Chloe.
Stupid Miles.
So a teleconference has been setup with some big names in order to garner support for the recorded evidence including someone from the justice department who can then make recommendations for impeachment proceedings. This does not sit well with Jack. "What about an arrest warrant?" he snaps at Buchanan. Bill tells him that no one in their right mind would attempt to arrest a sitting president. Impeachment first, criminal trial later.
Before the conference call begins Chloe tests the recording only to discover the aforementioned static and all that entails emotion-wise for the poor girl. Ooo Jack is livid. Eventually they work out that it was Miles who erased the recording and Jack stalks out of the conference room to get him - as he's conveniently trying to leave the floor.
Jack flings him against a wall and grabs him by the throat, squeezing with every ounce of his considerable strength. "You son of a bitch." he hisses through clenched teeth. Soon though, Karen orders Jack to stand down and confronts Miles, asking where he's going. Miles tells her he's been transferred. It doesn't take Jack long to figure out Miles is off to the White House now.
Betrayed, Karen asks how Miles could do it. I forget what he said, but it resulted in a pretty good bitchslap in front of the entire office. I enjoyed that very much. I would have enjoyed it more had she gunned him down in cold blood but you can't have everything.
Back in the conference room, Karen receives a call from Logan and he oh-so-innocently asks what the deal is with the teleconference CTU had set up. She tells him it's been cancelled and he breathes a sigh of relief. Then he tells her that he's rescinding his order to arrest Jack. Puzzled, Karen asks Jack what Logan has to gain by letting Jack go. But Jack knows that now he's on his own with no presidential support. He's a sitting duck for assassination :(
Buchanan burst in the room to tell everyone that Bierko has, of course, escaped (we knew he would.) The one remaining agent left alive after the escape fills CTU in on what happened. He overheard Bierko mention another canister of nerve gas. Sure enough we switch to Bierko and his merry band of thugs as they retrieve a reserve canister.
Back at the retreat, Martha Logan contemplates suicide - she's got the pills stuck to her lips until she realizes it would be stupid - and then she spots Aaron's phone on the mantel. She gives it to her guard and asks him to return it to Aaron. And then we see Aaron himself, mighty, stoic hero of the Secret Service, loyal to Palmer, trustworthy and steadfast in his quiet manner. He is tied to a chair, bruised and bloody from obvious torture. *sniffle*
In walks Logan who has some cajones to try and offer Aaron a deal. He tells Aaron the recording no longer exists - not that it never did, but that it is no more - and he wants to know if he can count on Aaron to remain with the Secret Service. He actually acts like he's doing Aaron a favour and that Aaron will fall to his knees and thank Logan for giving him a second chance. But not our Aaron. Ohhh no. Aaron looks him square in the eye and tells him he's a traitor and disgrace to the office. And then he called him "Charles." Not "Mr. President." The ultimate in disrespect from a Secret Service agent.
Aaron, I love you.
Unfortunately, this probably means that Logan will okay Aaron's death. He leaves the room with another agent/lackey in tow who reminds Logan that Aaron is loyal to Palmer. With a look he tacitly gives the go ahead for this lackey to take Aaron out. But we don't see it. I'm sure that will spark the rumours that he lives and deep down I hope he does too. But for what it's worth, I feel like Aaron deserves hero status right alongside Jack Bauer.
After Logan leaves the room, he phones Graham, explaining that everything is contained and probably looking for a pat on the back from Graham. Because we all know Logan needs constant validation. Mike Novick interrupts the call though to tell Logan of Bierko's escape.
At CTU, Buchanan, Jack, Karen and Chloe confab about ways to find Bierko. Buchanan suggests grilling Henderson some more. Jack is adamant Henderson won't give anything else up. he knows him too well. Karen says he'd probably talk if a deal was on the table but Jack is also against that idea. But Buchanan plays the "What would David Do?" card - lives of many greater than the lives of one etc. And Jack agrees to present the deal to Henderson.
Henderson is scared though. Immunity from Logan means nothing to him. He's afraid of Graham. He tells Jack the recording was his immunity and now that it's gone he's a dead man. He lets on that there are bigger people behind Logan but refuses to say who. He says the deal he'll make is that he disappears, with his wife, and Jack is to be the one to set it up. If Jack agrees, then he will help Jack find Bierko. Reluctantly, jack does but the deal is Henderson gets Jack Bierko's head on a plate. I kind of think Jack meant that literally :)
Coming back from commercial and YAY I was wrong. Aaron's alive still. Martha's hanging out in the stables having a smoke when she sees a car pull up. An agent gets out with a gun drawn and disappears. When he comes back, he's leading Aaron towards the trunk of the car which is lined with a tarp. He's going to shoot Aaron. Martha interrupts him though and as the agent struggles with indecision on whether to shoot the First Lady, Aaron takes advantage of the moment and knocks him down. The gun he's carrying flies towards Martha and just as the agent grabs a crowbar to mash Aaron's brains in, Martha shoots him. She shot the agent. GO MARTHA!!!
So Henderson gives up about 14 names that he thinks Bierko will try to contact and Chloe gets a hit on one of them. A man named Joshua Molina. Henderson tells Jack that he won't break and the only way to get the info out of Molina is for Henderson to go in and get the intel himself. Of course. After a bit of dancing around the issue Jack relents.
They arrive at Molina's place and Jack gives Henderson 10 minutes to get the goods. As he goes in, Jack shimmies up a telephone pole or something and sticks a listening device on a skylight in Molina's apartment. After Henderson passes through more security than an airport terminal, he immediately blows the whistle on the agents waiting outside. he tells Molina to crash his system and they need to get out of there. Irritated, Jack gives the order for the tact team to bust in and they take down Molina with a shot to the hip (and Curtis gets shot in the arm :( ) and recaptures Henderson who tells Jack that he blew it. He was about to get Molina to drop his Phoenix firewall (I could have used one of those on my website that got hacked last week btw) so CTU could access the info.
But it doesn't matter because Chloe got through and decrypted the info that leads Jack to Bierko's target: a Russian submarine docked at the Port of Los Angeles that, as part of the treaty Logan signed, is in town for a techonology trade. This sub includes a slew of nuclear warheads. Ruh-roh.
Before we get to that, we head back to the stables at the retreat. Aaron and Martha share a tender moment (I'm starting to think Aaron is sort of crushing on Martha. She might be a little too. He's everything she wishes her husband would be you know) as they discuss what they need to do next. As she gently wipes the blood from his face, he tells her she needs to get back to the residence and find Novick to tell him everything. He'll hide the agent's body. He wants Novick to meet him in the stables and hopefully get his help to get out of there so he can lay low. Martha agrees to do what he asks. Awwww.. I'm so happy he lives.
Back to Jack... Once Chloe tells Jack what the target is he asks to speak to the ranking officer in charge there. He warns the officer that terrorists have targeted the ship. As the officer removes a weapon from a case, Jack takes Henderson with him by chopper to the sub. Henderson doesn't want to go obviously. He thought his getting the intel on the sub would be enough but oh no. Jack is holding him to the Head on a Plate deal.
As the officer goes topside to check the sub, Bierko stands above a hatch and shoots him. Bierko and his men then don gas masks, drop their canister of nerve gas down the hatch and murder everyone aboard.
Now they control the submarine and it's missiles. Oh dear.
And that's it for this week folks. And next week is the two-hour grand finale for the season. I'm sort of dreading it. I have to know what happens but I don't want it to be over you know?
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