Characters Introduced:
- Darren McCarthy (David Hunt): This was the role that was supposed to be Eddie Izzard. It ends up being a worthless role so Izzard backing out was the smart play but I still would have liked to see him on 24.
- Liddy (Adrian Neil) He is the Bauer family watchdog and cleaner.
- Marilyn Bauer (Rena Sofer): Graem’s wife and also some sort of former flame of Jack’s. Rena has crazy eyes. All you see is her eyes when she is on the screen.
- Josh Bauer (Evan Ellingson): Graem’s son who is about to get a crash course in the Bauer family hierarchy.
- Rita (Missy Crider): McCarthy’s woman of some sort.
Returning Characters:
- Graem Bauer (5am – 6am episode of season 5)
Key Moments:
- While everyone watches the aftermath, Lennox tells Wayne that there are at least 12,000 dead. Karen brings the news that there are 4 more nukes. Secret Service arrives to take Wayne down into the bunker.
- Fayed calls McCarthy looking for a way to detonate the other 4 nukes.
- Jack is still walking through the streets dazed, but a call for help snaps him into action. He runs to the site of a helicopter crash and saves the pilot before the chopper falls off the roof and goes boom. He calls Bill and is told about the 4 other nukes. He is back in.
- We get the first instance of the roundtable of blowing shit up. An admiral tells Wayne that they should respond by bombing the hell out of everyone everywhere. Lennox awesomely steps up and says the President is speaking.
- Assad arrives at CTU and gets the cold shoulder from Bill. They move into the briefing room and we get a great scene from Bill where he breaks down where they are at and what they need from Assad. Assad gives them a name of a Russian general Fayed met a year ago about nuclear weapons. Chloe gets to work on the name Gredenko.
- Morris has found a fantastic connection to Gredenko. Chloe brings the name Phillip Bauer to Bill. Bill calls Jack and asks him about his father but Jack tells him that he hasn’t spoken to his father in 9 years. Jack tells Bill he will handle it.
- Jack calls his father but gets his butler instead … HIS BUTLER! He doesn’t know where Phillip is but does give Jack a number for his brother, Graem. Liddy calls Graem to warn him that Jack is alive.
- Jack calls Graem and they have an awkward conversation where Graem lies his ass off to Jack. Jack doesn’t buy a word of it and calls Chloe to get Graem’s address.
- Graem arrives home and greets Marilyn and Josh. He berates Marilyn over Jack.
- McCarthy picks up Rita but doesn’t take her out of the city. Instead he needs to finish his deal with Fayed.
- After Nadia finishes Assad’s debrief, Bill walks in to tell him that the President wants him in DC. This time Bill shakes his hand.
- Jack rings Graem’s doorbell. Graem is horribly awkward and even tries to go in for the unreturned hug. Jack explains that he hasn’t seen his family since Teri’s funeral 9 years ago. Graem introduces Josh but Marilyn calls him away and Jake apologizes to Marilyn for his intrusion. Graem talks a mile a minute as he and Jack walk into his office. Instead of giving him any information about their father, Graem tells Jack to relax. Jack responds by punching him in the face. He locks the door and ties Graem to the chair.
- Jack wants answers from Graem or things are going to start to hurt. Graem continues to deny. Jack stares into his eye for about a half-minute and says “not good enough”. He then starts suffocating him with a plastic bag.
Ridiculousness:
- Didn’t you always assume that Jack Bauer came from a shitload of money? I’m talking opulent-level money.
- Remember the leader of the sketchy white men cabal controlling Logan last season? Yeah that guy was Jack’s brother. This makes perfect sense, if you get as great a man as Jack Bauer you should have an equally as evil brother to offset the balance.
Running Totals:
Torture doesn’t mean you can’t be creative: 1 (39)
- I like the old school use of suffocation by plastic bag.
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