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

Characters Introduced:

None here

Returning Characters:

None here II

Key Moments:

• Jack sneaks away from the crime scene so he can call Cheng Zhi in private. Jack offers Cheng himself for Audrey, but Cheng knows Jack won’t break so no deal. He wants technology from the Russian bombs. He puts Audrey on the phone but she doesn’t say much of anything. Cheng gives Jack one hour then hangs up. The military arrives to take control of the bombs.
• Karen runs in on Wayne and Lennox’s conversation to tell them about Jack’s successful takedown. Wayne wants to inform the public immediately.
• While Bill thanks all of CTU, Jack calls Chloe for help. He needs a schematic of the bomb but she needs to use Morris’ system to retrieve it.
• Wayne is back in the Oval Office and gazing at a photo of David Palmer. Daniels walks in and Wayne compliments him then asks for his resignation. Daniels refuses but Wayne has Lennox’s recording. Wayne doesn’t want it now but soon.
• Morris figures out that someone hacked his system and Chloe owns up to it. He eventually gets her to explain why but can’t convince Morris to trust Jack. TRUST JACK MOTHERFUCKER! She walks into Bill’s office to tell him what she did.
• Jack is spelunking through the warehouse. He walks right up to the soldiers and bullshits his way past them. He accesses the bombs and gets the circuit but Doyle shows up. The angry voice showdown ends when a soldier knocks Jack out with the butt of his rifle.
• Bill tells Jack that he can’t let him do it no matter what it will do for Audrey. Jack asks for one call to Wayne Palmer. Jack begs and pleads to Wayne to let him go through with the exchange. He promises that the circuit will be destroyed even if he has to kill himself in the explosion. Jack wins the argument by saying that you were going to sacrifice me this morning so you owe me.
• Doyle angrily frees Jack, but Jack asks him to save Audrey for him. He then tells him that he will destroy the chip and kill Cheng.
• Chloe is angry with Morris as they get back to work.
• Wayne falls unconscious while giving his speech to the public.
• Dr. Welton says that Wayne is too messed up for the office. Daniels takes over and immediately shuts down Jack’s operation. Karen calls Bill and Bill realizes that stopping Jack is downright impossible. Bill sidelines Chloe because he isn’t stupid and calls Doyle. Jack smells everything a mile away and pulls his gun on Doyle the second he hangs up the phone. Jack says he shot his friend earlier in the day, who the fuck are you? He dumps Doyle and drives off. Doyle screams that you can’t go against the White House … does he know who he is talking to?

Ridiculousness:

• I don’t even have the words for the end of the Wayne Palmer plot. I’ve read that 24 was never comfortable with actually killing a sitting President but they don’t seem to have a problem with fucking them severely over and over again.
• Explain to me how the hell Jack and Curtis were friends? Curtis started working for CTU before season 4. Jack was fired nearly a year before season 4 began. He was fired once Driscoll started running CTU. Even if she brought Curtis with her, he and Jack could only have worked together for weeks. Then Jack fakes his death, pops up and works with Curtis for 1 day, gets kidnapped by the Chinese, and works with Curtis for a few hours before killing him. The only way I accept the idea of them as friends is if we get a 24 prequel where Jack and Curtis did wetwork together back in the day.

Running Totals:

No cliches this hour