Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Day 5: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

  • Christopher Henderson (Peter Weller): I don’t know if being Robocop gives you any kind of awesome actor cred, but Weller is fantastic as the mentor that Jack needs to take down.

Returning Characters:

Nope

Key Moments:

  • Bierko tells his men that they will ambush the Suvarovs in 40 minutes.
  • Mike tells Logan the same thing then gets a phone call saying that Martha is in the limo. He tells Logan who flips out and demands to get her on the phone. Martha thinks she is forcing Charles’ hand so she won’t get out of the limo.
  • Audrey talks to Edgar and Lynn sees this and yells at Edgar. Curtis is back at CTU and sees this.
  • Chloe and Audrey are working on the Omnicron connection for Jack. They made the gas and Jack tells them that Henderson recruited him to CTU. He eventually investigated him for corruption which cost Henderson his job even though he wasn’t found guilty. Audrey asks Edgar to cover for Chloe.
  • Logan is begging Mike to find him a way out of this situation. Mike tells him that it is simple; he either alerts the motorcade or Martha is going die with the Suvarovs.
  • Lynn fires someone for answering the phone. Curtis spots this and does nothing.
  • Chloe sets Jack’s cover up for Omnicron right before Lynn shows up and argues with Audrey.
  • Jack arrives at Omnicron and gets past security. Audrey calls Henderson’s secretary to get her out of the way and Jack moves in to his office with his gun out. Henderson nails him with a stun gun right when he walks through the door. He smelling salts him to life so they can have a conversation. Jack uses his loud voice to explain the situation and Henderson acts appalled. Jack asks for proof so Henderson tosses him the gun and agrees to take him to the bunker where the gas was manufactured.
  • Edgar discovers NSA chatter saying that the Suvarovs motorcade may be a target. He and Chloe bring it to Lynn who just screams at him. Curtis disagrees but Lynn is a prick.
  • Audrey finds out about the chatter and makes another attempt with Lynn who just screams like a psychopath. Audrey leaves the office and begins plans to get around Lynn about the motorcade. She tells Curtis that they need to remove Lynn. Curtis doesn’t agree or disagree.
  • Logan is staring at a picture of Martha when Mike checks in. Logan will not back down but the decision is crushing him. He asks Mike to pray with him.
  • Lynn figures out what Audrey and friends are doing so he moves to arrest Edgar and Chloe along with removing Audrey from CTU. Curtis tries to argue against this so Lynn tells the redshirts to arrest Curtis. Curtis says he will draw his weapon if anyone moves on him so Lynn tells the guards to shoot Curtis! The guard realizes what is going on and asks Curtis what to doo. Curtis has Lynn removed and brings Bill to the floor.
  • Bill begins undoing all of Lynn’s damage and informs the President about the threat to the motorcade. Logan is quiet but Mike covers by telling Bill that Martha is in the limo. After the call, Mike tells Logan that there is nothing they can do because Secret Service has been notified.
  • Pierce is warned seconds before the ambush. A missile hits the Suvarov’s limo. It is bulletproof so the Russians turn to a flamethrower. Pierce awakes in the wreckage in time to shoot and blow up the flamethrower.
  • Logan is told that the ambush was thwarted and Martha is alive but he and Mike discuss Bierko’s retaliation.
  • Henderson and Jack enter the secure bunker to research the nerve gas. The team that manufactured the gas was killed. Henderson leaves to go get tech support. Jack can’t get an outside line and realizes that Henderson tricked him. He is locked in the bunker with a bomb. Henderson walks to his car on the phone with someone telling them that they are clean. Jack moves the bomb to the door and hides. Henderson detonates the bomb and the bunker goes boom. Jack crawls out of the floor.
  • Bierko calls Logan with more threats.

Ridiculousness:

  • Lynn is completely reckless during this hour. I know that was the point but it is very annoying to watch.

Running Totals:

No cliches

2 comments:

  1. Outside of just listening to Jack at all time, CTU could probably cut the seasons in half if they just had competent oversight since George Mason. At least the coups inside of CTU are more successful the ones they work against.

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  2. Maybe if the writing was strong enough, all of these assholes attempting to takeover CTU would seem reasonable. But every single time they went to this plot, they were just obstinate pricks making a grab for power.

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