Day 6: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Characters Introduced:

• Reed Pollock (Chad Lowe): Lennox’s squirrelly hatchet man who ends up being a whole lot worse than that.
• Phillip Bauer (James Cromwell): It’s crazy how many top-level actors showed up in these later seasons. In one of the more dumbass plot twists, Cromwell somehow brings weight to the idea that Jack’s dad is evil.

Returning Characters:

None

Key Moments:

• After Lennox and Karen argue again, Lennox turns to Reed looking for a way to get rid of Karen from Wayne’s inner circle.
• One of Lennox’s policies that have been implemented is stopping Nadia from being able to do her job. She complains to Bill about redundant security measures slowing her down but Bill tells her he can’t do anything about it today. He will bring it up with the Attorney General as soon as possible.
• Jack removes the plastic bag from Graem’s head. He is drenched in sweat and crying; he tells Jack that their father left right after the bomb went off. Jack doesn’t believe him and goes to put the bag back on when Graem starts speaking calmly. He tells Jack that their father is looking for McCarthy. Graem hired McCarthy and he is the man that stole the nukes. Phillip is trying to clean up Graem’s mess. Jack unties Graem and tells him that they are going to McCarthy’s office. Graem tells Marilyn they are looking for their father and Jack calls Chloe for an address and to get a team sent to the location.
• On their way to McCarthy’s office, Graem is just abusing Jack for going against the family. Are the Bauers some sort of WASP mafia?
• Reed gives Lennox what he needs to blackmail Karen. Lennox immediately walks up to Karen and tells her that he has evidence that Bill had Fayed detained months ago and let him go. He says Karen covered it up and wants her resignation within the hour.
• After Bill explains to Milo what is slowing Nadia down, he gives her his password so she no longer is a Muslim in the eyes of the CTU system. Of course, this leads to them giving each other the CTU stare.
• Jack and Graem arrive at an office complex. Jack breaks into McCarthy’s office and starts working on his computer. He hears a sound in another room and cuffs Graem to a bookcase. He explores the noise and gets jumped by 2 thugs. Before the fight really gets going, Phillip Bauer calls them off. Jack and Phillip jump straight into an argument. Phillip asks him to keep CTU out of it. Graem is brought into the room and returns to the idea that Jack should put family first. Eventually Jack convinces Phillip and he goes to call CTU. Graem signals the thugs and they put Jack and Phillip at gunpoint.
• McCarthy is excited that he has found an engineer for Fayed.
• Jack and Phillip are lead past the dead CTU agents. Graem says Jack forced his hand and tosses his father and brother into the back of a van.

Ridiculousness:

• I’m really interested in what these “security measures” are that are slowing Nadia down so much. Morris yells at her because something that should take seconds is taking her 10 minutes. Does she have to reenter a password after every field? Are they asking her citizenship questions every time she presses submit? Does every new screen load only when she offers a blood sample?

Running Totals:

No cliches