Characters Introduced:
- Randy Murdoch (Val Lauren): CTU analyst with a cool hat. That’s all.
- Lonnie McRae (Kevin Dillon): Crazy guy in the woods that Kim, of course, trusts.
Key Moments:
- A trapdoor is discovered within the mosque. Really? That seems shady. Jack goes down alone to prevent Ali from killing himself before the CTU agents could reach him.
- Ali is able to call Marie and tell her to finish the plan without him before Jack gets the jump on him. What follows is a crazy scene where Jack shoves a baton in Ali’s mouth to prevent him from swallowing any pills, the CTU agents rush in and hold Ali down, and after a lot of work Jack rips the cyanide pill out of his mouth.
- A burnt piece of paper was found in Ali’s clothing and it is sent to CTU for identification.
- Kim is finally freed from the trap by some whack job that lives alone in the woods.
- Jack begins the Ali interrogation with the basic questions and punches. After Ali tells him that he woke up ready to die, Jack tests that by breaking his wrist. Ali screams but does not talk.
- Jack does give the Imam a chance to talk to Ali with the power of religion behind him. Once this fails, Jack sends the Imam away because he doesn’t want to be involved with the sweetness that is coming next. At the same moment Kate overhears Baker telling Jack the last number Ali dialed. Jack tells Kate that his sister is a murderer and a terrorist. Kate reacts like everyone reacts to Jack; she yells at him and tells him that he doesn’t understand. Jack says fine call her so CTU can trace it and find her.
- Marie sees through Kate’s phone call within 30 seconds because Kate is awful at keeping it together. Marie hangs up and Kate yells at Jack again.
- Once CTU identifies numbers on the burnt piece of paper, Jack continues questioning Ali about the numbers and Marie. He delivers the classic line, “ the only way you are going to die today is if I kill you.” Still getting nothing from Ali, Jack has Baker turn on the monitors to show Ali’s family at gunpoint.
- Mike tells David about what Jack is doing. He is using unnamed country’s special forces in order to kill Ali’s family one at a time. They argue over whether this can be allowed.
- Jack explains what he is going to do to Ali and is interrupted by a call from David. Palmer does not give Jack permission to go through with his plan. Jack one-sides the conversation so Ali thinks the President just gave Jack permission to kill his family.
- Jack tells one of the masked men to start with Ali’s elder son. Jack questions Ali with increasing volume. Ali will not crack. Jack gives the okay and a masked man kicks the son to the ground and shoots him! Ali screams.
- Lynne spends the hour trying to prove that Sherry is dirty but when she goes to meet a contact Sherry is waiting for her. They talk in circles like every other one of their conversation today.
- After giving Ali a few minutes to live with the death of his son, Jack tells him that he is moving on to his younger son. Ali tells him that the bomb is at Norton Airfield.
- Ali is dragged kicking and screaming right past Kate so she can judge Jack. And in a beautiful fuck you to Kate, Jack asks for confirmation from his contact and the video jump cuts to prove that the whole thing was staged.
- Marie and Omar are playing with Star Trek toys at the airfield. Lots of blinking lights must mean a nuclear bomb.
- Outside of the fact that the whole idea is ridiculous, Kim was literally stuck in the trap for a full hour! When she initially stepped in it, the cougar was chasing her yet it never finished the job once she stopped moving? Damn you cougar!
- The entire Ali sequence was off the charts.
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