7.19: 2:00am - 3:00am - Nothing More Than, Feelings
7.19: 2:00a.m. - 3:00a.m.
~ Nothing More Than, Feelings ~
2009.04.20
2:00
A blonde lawyer named Patricia walks down the stairs at her home and answers her phone. The man calling is named Matt and he tells her that she has been cleared with Secret Service for the south entrance. She will be half an hour and Matt has no more information about Hodges. All he knows is that he was in a meeting with the President and it got out of hand. He then requested his favourite lawyer. She is flattered and will call after she has spoken to him. She pauses at the mirror and puts on her glasses and a ring, picks up her coat and heads to the door. She opens it and finds a man on the other side that sprays her with an aerosol with his own mouth covered. She falls and the man as well as a woman, Cara, enter the home. Cara is dressed just like Patricia. The man injects something into Patricia’s hand and she looks at Cara but then passes out. Cara gets her wallet and takes Patricia’s ID and drivers licence as well as her glasses and ring. Cara gets up and collects her stuff at a table while the man deals with a fingerprint scanner and Patricia’s fingerprints. Cara gets her thumb onto the scanner and takes a plastic cover with Patricia’s print on it.
Renee follows Janice at the FBI. They have ID’d the man they are looking for, he is a Starkwood operative that has worked with them for 2 years. They have a photo of him carrying a backpack. Renee wants Janice to get that to Larry and she has been trying but he’s not answering his comm. The backup teams are a few minutes out still; they have secured a 4 block perimeter. Renee wants Galvez’s photo to the teams and to keep trying Larry.
Tony stands over Larry’s body and looks down, breathing hard. Over Moss’ earpiece Janice can be heard giving Galvez’s information to all the teams. Tony has a gun and he expels the empty clip onto the ground and loads in a new one. He hesitates and takes a deep breath as he cocks the gun. He puts his hand up to his side and waves the gun near then yells as he pulls the trigger on himself. Tony falls to the ground and curls before pushing himself up again with a series of grunts. He pushes the gun away and his phone starts to ring. He leans over in obvious pain digging it out of his pocket. He has pulled himself back so he’s leaning on a dumpster and he puts the phone to his ear. Galvez calls his name twice asking if he is there before Tony can manage to respond asking if he’s at a secure location. Galvez is at a storage yard near the projects but he’s seen a patrol and thinks he should keep moving. Tony spits out, ‘Don’t. The FBI is locking down the perimeter and they know you are, they have a picture. It means they can ID you on site.’ He tells Galvez to stay put until he can get a read on their search protocols and he will guide him out. Galvez laments ever letting Tony talk him into this and Tony reassures him that the canister is worth a lot of money to the people he is working for. The money isn’t going to do Galvez any good in prison. Tony is frustrated and in pain, he tells Galvez to stay put, guard the canister and wait for his call. He hangs up just as 2 FBI vehicles roll in. Tony drops sideways onto the pavement appearing unconscious as the agents rush in. Agent Park gets to Tony and on the way calls for a med team, they have agents down. He reaches in and takes Tony’s pulse under his neck, Tony flinches. Park pulls him up a bit and asks if he can hear him. Tony nods with his eyes closed and Park asks what happened, where is the suspect? Tony grumbles that they ambushed them, he winces. He says he doesn’t know where he went.
Janice tells Renee that she has confirmation on the teams’ arrival. Kim comes up behind Renee and says she knows that Renee is busy but she just came to say goodbye, she is going back to LA. Renee pulls Kim aside and says she doesn’t understand, Kim isn’t going to help her father? It’s his only chance. Kim struggles a bit but says she knows that and so does he but it’s a slim one and he believes it’s not worth taking. If he is going to die he wants it to be on his terms. Renee asks Kim if she can’t change his mind. Kim tells her dryly, “I would think you would know by now that no one can change my fathers’ mind when it’s made up.” Renee apologizes for putting Kim in this position but Kim is grateful, her and her father got to say a lot of things and she wishes they had said more but she doesn’t want to cause him any more pain. Janice calls Renee because Agent Park is on the phone. Renee excuses herself and Kim leaves.
Renee takes the phone and Agent Park says that Agent Moss is dead. Renee is shocked and she looks up as Park explains he was killed in an ambush, the chopper pilot too. Tony was shot but he’s alive and there is medical working on him now. Renee stares ahead, shaken by the revelation that Moss is dead. Janice looks on curiously. Renee asks if there is a lead on Galvez and Park says no but they have the area cordoned off and they are coordinating a manhunt. He asks how she wants him to proceed. She is shocked by the question and he reminds her that she is the ranking agent. She gives instructions for a sweep and a tear falls down her cheek. She will be there with a team as soon as she can. Park says that they have enough men, she doesn’t need to be involved. She says she does, she wants to be kept posted. They hang up and Janice asks hesitantly, “Larry?” Renee says he was killed in a shootout with the suspect. Janice takes off her headset and is upset by the news. Renee wants her to brief the White House and call Dr. Macer. She needs to assemble a team to chopper out with her. Janice says she is very sorry and Renee tells her that someone will need to notify Larry’s ex-wife, “Probably shouldn’t be me.” Janice will take care of it.
Jack is pouring himself a glass of water; both his hands are shaking almost not allowing him to do it. The agent debriefing him, Agent Rizelli, says they have covered the time between 8am and 3pm, the recovery of the CIP device and the capture of Ike Dubaku. He checks with Jack asking if he wants a break. Jack says no, he wants to finish this while he still can. Rizelli looks sceptical but Jack sits so he continues. He asks about the intel regarding the White House attack. Jack says that Tony Almeida provided him with the intel but they didn’t know the White House was the target. Rizelli asks about the source. Jack says it was a mercenary. He thinks hard, trying to remember the name. He pinches the bridge of his nose and apologizes but then comes up with the last name, Cardiff. Vincent Cardiff. Jack didn’t question him himself because he didn’t survive Tony’s interrogation but he provided them with the intel. Jack says that they did not know that the White House was the intended target. He repeats the same sentence twice before trailing off. Rizelli asks if Jack is sure he doesn’t want to take that break. Jack knows he was repeating himself again. Another agent comes in and hands some data to Rizelli leaving the door open. Jack sees agents mobilizing outside and asks to be excused. He gets up and leaves the room. He finds Renee briefing the teams. She talks about the fact that they’ve been working long sifts but she needs them focused and alert when they are out in the field. She gives them assignments and puts on her own jacket. She walks and Jack meets up with her asking about what’s going on. The virus is still out there but they have it contained. She doesn’t stop walking and Jack tries to get her to hold on. He asks what’s going on. She doesn’t stop but tells him quickly that Galvez got away with the canister, he is trapped within a mile perimeter. Jack asks if Larry is in charge of the perimeter and Renee says that Larry was killed in a firefight. Now Jack forcefully stops Renee and asks, “What?” Renee also tells him that Tony was injured but he’s with the advance team. He asks her again, “Larry’s dead?” She snipes that they have two agents down, she has to go. She walks away from Jack who stands for a few seconds and then jogs in the other direction.
Tony is sitting on a stretcher with his legs hanging over the side. 2 medics are working on him and there is bloody gauze around. He has an oxygen mask on and doesn’t look too good. The medic says that Tony was lucky. An inch to the left and it would have nicked the splenic artery. He still wants Tony to get checked out. Tony starts to slide off the gurney and says he can’t do that. He grunts in pain and the medic wants to give him something for it. He needs to keep his head clear. Tony limps away from the medics and goes to agent Park who is looking at the deployment of agents. Park says there’s no sign of him but he assures Tony that they’ll find him. He suggests that Tony get some rest. Tony nods and hobbles away dialling his phone.
Galvez answers and Tony tells him they are sweeping north. He tells Galvez where he has a clear path and they will be there in 30 minutes which should give him enough time. Galvez asks so he can what. Tony wants to know if he still has the C4 he gave him. Galvez does and Tony instructs him to find a structure, something they’ll have to search. He can draw as many in as possible and then blow it. Galvez clarifies, slightly panicked, that Tony wants him to blow up a couple of dozen FBI agents. Tony asks if he has a problem with that. Galvez doesn’t understand how it’s going to get him outside the perimeter but Tony will worry about that, he has it worked out.
Renee comes out of the FBI and gets into the chopper. Jack gets in the other side and says he is going with her. She reminds him he’s ill but he promises that if his condition interferes with what she’s doing he will stand down. He gives her his word. She starts to protest but he says that they can keep talking about this and waste more time, that’s fine, but he’s not getting out. The chopper takes off.
2:13
2:17
Cara enters the side doors to the White House where they are holding Hodges. She meets two guards and she presents her ID to them. They have been expecting her and she puts her thumb down for a print when they tell her to. They watch her as she is escorted to holding.
Taylor walks down the halls with Olivia asking how they got out of the area with the bioweapon. Olivia is not sure but he has already murdered 4 people, including Larry Moss. Taylor pauses with sadness but then continues moving into her office. They are conducting a search, the area has been sealed off. They think that the man behind this is a Starkwood operative. Olivia thinks Hodges is also behind it and Taylor admits maybe. Olivia questions her indecision reminding her that Hodges told them he was a small cog in a big machine. Taylor thinks he was ranting but Olivia doesn’t think that means he wasn’t telling the truth. Taylor wants him taken to the FBI for interrogation, Olivia says he’s a sociopath, he’s going to want to make a deal. Taylor looks away and Olivia is angry asking if she is really considering that. Taylor knows what this man is, what he did to Roger. Taylor just wants him brought to the FBI. Olivia is not happy with her mother’s decision.
Jonas Hodges is resting with his jacket as a pillow in a cell. A guard enters and says his attorney is there to see him. Hodges snaps tiredly that it’s about damn time. He pulls himself up and turns seeing Cara. He does a good job of looking unsurprised and Cara says they are going to need some privacy. Once the door is closed he tells her that she is a little taller than ‘her’ but it’s a good look for Cara. She coldly says hello to Hodges, calling him by his first name. He is not going to ask how she got in there, ‘But I am definitely interested in how you are going to get me out.’ She says that he has put them in a very difficult position and his actions today have put everyone else in a very difficult position. He understands that he has upset the carte; they are bent out of shape. He asks where they were when the government came after him, after his company. He gets angry as he asks where they were when Senator Meyer and his subpoena waving goon squad came after everything he’s built. Cara tells him calmly that he would have been protected. Also, the bioweapon that they created was not intended for personal use. The consensus is that this was some kind of psychological break for Hodges. He wants to talk to one of them but Cara says no, he has shown his hand, exposed himself. The concern is now that he will expose the others as well. Hodges can’t do that, he doesn’t even know who they are. Cara says he knows enough and there’s no reason for his family to pay for his mistakes. Jonas becomes angry and asks if she was sent here to threaten his family. She says no, she came there to guarantee his family’s safety, if he does the right thing. She holds out a small red capsule at waist level and says that it will induce a cardiac arrest and leave no trace of its existence in his system. He will die a natural and dignified death and without him alive, there won’t be enough to proceed with the case against his company or him. It will preserve the legacy of Starkwood which she knows is very important to him. Hodges nods silently and takes the pill from her hand. She smiles but he is not smiling back. The door opens and the guards come in. Olivia is there as well and says that he is being transferred to the FBI. Cara says that he has invoked his right to silence and his right to council; no one is to talk to him without her there. Olivia tells her, ‘In some countries they would have shot him by now.’ She gives the order for him to be processed out.
Cara steps away and makes a call to Wilson. She has met with Hodges and she is certain he understands. She tells him that Hodges is being moved and Wilson wants this resolved sooner rather than later. He’ll be happy when this is behind them. He asks about Almeida. Cara spoke to him a few minutes ago and Wilson asks if he has secured the canister. Cara says almost. Wilson reminds her, ‘He’s your guy, he better come through.’ Cara admits that ‘Tony has been the one bright spot in this otherwise dreary day.’ She has faith he’ll come through.
Tony’s phone rings and its Galvez calling. He found a place and gives Tony the address. Tony wanders by the grid screen and sees it. They are 3 sectors south, he has about 20 minutes. Galvez says that’s not much time and Tony snaps through gritted teeth that he better get off the phone and get to it then.
Galvez starts pulling C-4 out of his bag and lining it up.
The FBI chopper is in the air and Jack and Renee sit on opposite sides of the back bench. Jack glances over to Renee and then undoes his seatbelt and slides along the bench until he is next to her. She glances at him but doesn’t really look at him or make contact. He leans in and tells her quietly that he lost two partners in a row early on. He looks forward and admits, ‘I couldn’t handle it. I guess that’s why over the last ten years I’ve pretty much worked alone.’ She doesn’t say anything and he tells her, ‘It’s alright for you to be feeling what you’re feeling. If you can’t do this tonight, that’s alright too. Just don’t try and pretend you don’t feel anything. That’s how you make mistakes.’ She finally responds to him snapping, ‘Please Jack, don’t tell me what to feel and don’t tell me how to feel it.’
Tony waits on the ground for the FBI chopper to land. He’s been given a windbreaker to cover up with and he waits by a fence as the chopper touches down. The door is opened and Renee steps out. His expression is indeterminate until Jack steps down and he momentarily looks unhappy. Jack follows Renee away from the chopper and Tony calls Jack’s name. Renee asks Tony where ‘he’ is and Tony motions around the SUV. Tony is walking awkwardly with a limp and Jack asks worried if he is okay. Tony tells Jack that he was lucky, the bullet went straight through. Tony didn’t think he would see Jack out there and Jack says he is just there for observation. Renee has arrived at the covered stretcher holding Larry’s body. Jack steps forward and tells her that she doesn’t have to do this. She finds her voice and says, “Show me.” The medic uncovers Larry’s body revealing his bloodied chin and the wound in his side. She steps away with her back to the body toward and SUV. Jack watches her and then steps forward. He looks at Larry’s wounds himself, actually touching his arm and side. Tony, meanwhile, has gone to Renee. Jack tells the medic to cover the body up and Tony quietly apologizes about Larry. She snaps, ‘What the hell happened?’ Jack continues to check out the evidence around Moss as Tony explains that it all went down pretty fast. They were ambushed before the chopper was down, the pilot was hit first, and ‘I was unarmed so Larry laid down cover so I could get clear. I don’t remember a lot but I remember hearing autofire.’ Jack is listening now as Tony continues, ‘Once I was tagged Larry came to help and that’s when he was hit. I blacked out after that but I’m pretty sure Larry saved my life.’ Jack is putting pieces together and says that Larry was hit with heavy ordinates, Tony obviously with something smaller, jacketed. The medic nearby speaks up and says that he treated Mr. Almeida, his wounds are consistent with a 9 mm. Jack asks if he is sure it wasn’t a .45 but the medic says no, the wound was too small. Jack explains that there are spent .45 casings in evidence. Tony tries to explain it saying that the shooter had access to the FBI vehicle, maybe he switched. Jack figures that’s too many weapons for the time frame that Tony described, it doesn’t add up. Renee has heard enough and wants to know what Jack is saying. Jack thinks someone was with Galvez. Tony looks down, ‘Like I said, it all happened pretty fast, I didn’t think so but I guess it makes sense.’ Jack warns them, ‘One man didn’t do this himself, he had help.’ Renee takes off leaving Jack and Tony behind. Jack checks with Tony one more time, “You sure you’re okay?” Tony nods, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.’ “Good.” Jack answers and walks away. Tony is left eyeing Jack as he walks away.
2:28
2:32
Kim’s husband, Steven, gets a call. Kim is riding in the back of a cab. She asks if she woke him which she didn’t. He doesn’t think anyone can sleep with what has been going on today. He asks how it went with her father. Kim pauses and he asks what happened. Kim is upset, she tells him that he’s dying, he was exposed to something, a biological agent. It had to do with the attacks earlier today. Steven says he’s sorry and asks if there’s anything they can do. Kim pauses again before saying no. She is coming back home. He asks if she wants to stay and be with him as long as she can. She tells him sadly that her presence, with what he is going through, will only make things worse. Steven wanders over to a crib in the room and asks if she at least told him about his granddaughter. Kim couldn’t bring herself to tell him that she isn’t the only person he is leaving behind. She couldn’t tell him about Teri, it would have made it worse. She is going to try and get the 6:10 back and she will be in LA by 9. He says she can always leave later if she changes her mind but Kim assures him that she won’t. they exchanges I love you’s and hang up. Kim wipes her eyes.
Jack and Renee watch the teams sweep from the monitors at the command post. Tony is a distance away watching Jack. He paces and works his hands as he comes to the screen and asks why a section is not cleared. Renee calls the agents up on the radio asking what’s going on. Jack swallows hard and is trying to control his pain. Tony watches unhappily. The explanation comes back on the radio about people not being happy about being pulled out of their houses in the middle of the night. Jack is getting worse as Renee says they are to arrest anyone that gets in the way. Jack leans into the side of a vehicle. Renee calls his name quietly and he asks to be excused. He rushes past Tony and grabs his jacket from a nearby table. Tony watches for a second and then turns, wincing in pain himself before following Jack. Jack has found a semi private place and pulls a needle out of his packet. Painfully, with shaking hands, he pulls up the arm of his shirt. The unmistakeable form of Tony appears in the distance and he says nothing, watching Jack. Jack shoves the needle in his arm and grunts. His breathing slows and Jack removes the empty syringe. He glances in Tony’s direction and then looks at him explaining, ‘It’s my anti-seizure medicine. I should have used it earlier.’ Tony sounds concerned, ‘Jack, what are you doing out here? You should go back to FBI medical and let them treat you.’ Jack has packed up his stuff and starts to walk, trying to pass right by Tony saying that there’s no treatment, no cure. Tony grabs Jack’s arm to stop him from passing. ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t know.’ Jack nods and says quietly, ‘Yeah.’ Tony asks him, “Why are you in the field?” Jack tells him quickly, ‘Agent Walker just lost her partner, Tony. I thought I could help. I owe her that much.’ Tony lets Jack leave his time.
At the command post Agent Stoller is calling a code yellow. In reality, Galvez has killed Stoller and is using his comm. Unit, manipulating the speaker to create fuzz with his knife. He says he has Galvez with the canister and Jack asks if he is with someone. Galvez says he was alone, Tony listens. Galvez gives a location, an abandoned apartment building, he is in pursuit. Jack walks away and Renee gives the order not to engage. Galvez takes the jacket and FBI ID off the dead agent. Tony watches from farther back as Renee gives orders and heads to the vehicle. She walks past Jack before pausing when she realizes that Jack is not following. She turns and asks him, ‘Jack?’ Regretfully, Jack says, “I can’t.” Renee takes a few steps back to him and he assures her it’s alright, he’ll be fine. He will stay back and watch operations. He warns her to be careful, Galvez has a partner, watch her back. She nods and goes leaving Jack looking unhappy to be left behind. Tony stands alone as Jack walks by. Tony looks around him.
2:38
2:42
Hodges is getting ready to be transported and he looks back at Olivia. She smirks back. A man in uniform helps Jonas into the vehicle with his cuffs on and Hodges notices a tattoo on his arm. Hodges questions him about it and he says that he served with the 27th in Pakistan, 2 tours. Hodges knows the regiment, he asks if he served with Starkwood units. The soldier did, side by side. Hodges asks how he would rate their professionalism, their performance under fire. The soldier says they were good men, well trained. Hodges is now in the vehicle and he thanks the soldier, he made his day. Hodges smiles and the soldier shuts the door. Jonas takes a few breaths and seems to be steeling himself. The soldier gets in the front of the vehicle and tells the driver they are ready to go. They are going into the rear entrance of the FBI and they are to keep it low key. Hodges grabs the pill from his pocket and looks at it. Both of the guards are looking forward so he quickly takes it and swallows. Immediately the effects take place and Hodges grabs at his throat, choking. The guards pull over in a panic and the soldier runs around the back of the vehicle and opens the back door. Hodges had tipped over and is on the ground. The soldier, Caddon, identifies himself in his radio and says their prisoner is in severe cardiac distress, they are rerouting to the hospital. He wants EMT’s standing by.
Galvez waits for the FBI to get ready as they assemble their teams outside. Renee is on the radio and gives the positions to the agents. She tells them that there has been no indication yet that he’s not alone. Renee briefs the teams on their methods, room by room. She and Agent Park will each be leading a team. They check their headsets.
Jack is listening back at the command post and he puts his jacket back on. Tony heads to him and asks how he is holding up. Jack nods politely, ‘Good, thanks.’ Jack’s phone rings and he answers it finding agent Rizelli who wants to follow up on something that he said during his debrief. Jack is still trying to watch the search and says this isn’t a good time. Rizelli needs to clear this up, he said that Tony Almeida was the source on the White House attack and he got his information from Vincent Cardiff. He asks if it is possible that Jack misremembered the name. Jack himself voiced concern over the acuity of his memories. Jack has become distracted however, seeing the codes on the screen for the agent’s walkies. He calls over the other agent as he hangs up on Rizelli and asks what these numbers are. The agent says they are locator codes, Jack wants them on a map overlay. Jack turns away for a second and Tony asks what’s going on. Jack isn’t sure yet.
The FBI works their way into the building and Galvez’s C-4 is flashing ready. Renee can be seen walking through. Galvez watches from a distance.
The agent has brought up the overlay and Jack searches it quickly finding that Stoller isn’t even in the building, he is off site. He gets the walkie and gives Renee a code blue. Renee asks, ‘What?’ Galvez works his cell phone and the building blows up.
Jack and Tony look on from the distance and see the cloud of fire rise. At the site, bodies are thrown everywhere. Semi-absently Jack goes to Tony and pushes him toward the SUV saying to get in the vehicle now. Over the two way Agent Park asks for assistance from the agents nearby. Jack radios for him to disregard that order. Park asks angrily what he is doing. Jack explains that if they pull the agents off the line they will lose the canister. Medivac is on the way. He goes to the SUV and yells back, “Get them in the air now!”
2:48
2:52
Galvez walks around the burning building in his FBI clothes. He goes upstairs and hears sirens in the distance.
Jack and Tony have arrived and Tony jumps out of the almost still moving SUV saying that he’s going inside while he’s still holding his side. Jack gets out and calls to Agent Park who is looking rough but is okay. Jack wants to know how many men are still inside. There were 30 in the building. Jack asks about Agent Walker but Park doesn’t know. Jack tries to raise her on the two way and repeats himself sounding more worried every time.
Tony works his way through the burning building and Galvez comes out from behind a pole calling him. Tony wants to see the canister and Galvez pulls it out so he can see it. Tony wants him to hurry, they need to get moving. Galvez runs his hands over an assumingly dead agent’s wounds and spreads the blood on his face and clothes.
Jack is calling to Renee in the building, he works his way through checking bodies. He yells again for Renee and finally gets a response. Jack goes to her and asks if she is okay. She’s trying to help another agent and says she’s fine, but he is not breathing. Jack yells for a medic and two come scurrying to them. He guides her up and says he wants to get her out of there now. They head out to the hall and down the stairs with Renee holding her arm. She asks Jack how he knew that the building was wired and Jack says that Stoller was outside the building, it was a diversion to get past the perimeter. Renee doesn’t understand, it’s like they knew their weep patterns, this was the last area they were checking. Jack has stopped and is face to face with Renee. Realization dons and he whispers, ‘Oh my God’ while he searches his pockets and tells a confused Renee that he will meet her back at her vehicle.
Tony is supporting Galvez out of the building like he’s injured. An agent offers to take Galvez from him but Tony says he’s got him, they need help inside.
Jack is rushing out of the building and he calls Rizelli back. He thanks him for getting back to him and he quickly tells Jack that Vincent Cardiff, who was supposed to have expired during the course of interrogation, was picked up crossing the border into Canada an hour ago. Jack is searching around in the commotion for Tony and he asks if he is sure. Rizelli has the arrest report there, he has no signs of physical abuse or interrogation, nothing at all. Rizelli makes sure that Jack hasn’t mistaken the name that Almeida gave him. Jack spots Tony with his back to him helping Galvez.
Tony hands Galvez up to the ambulance medic and he stuffs the bag around the corner. As soon as he does Jack calls Tony’s name. Galvez sees Jack and allows himself to be laid down on the stretcher. Tony shuts the door and turns to face Jack. Jack tells Tony that they need to talk. Tony lightly says ‘sure’ and he walks a few steps past Jack who with his back to him draws his gun. He turns and levels it at Tony telling him, “I told you earlier today that if you were lying to me I’d kill you myself.” Tony asks Jack, ‘What are you talking about.’ ‘Vincent Cardiff,’ Jack spits. ‘You told me he was killed during the course of your interrogation but he’s alive and well showing no signs of abuse. Explain that.’ Tony is calm to Jack’s anger and says that Cardiff knew he would get himself killed for talking so he said he would make the FBI think that he was dead and he would disappear. It was a meaningless lie. Jack still holds the gun up and tells him, ‘You and I have been doing this long enough to know there is no such thing as a meaningless lie.’ Jack thunders, “How are you involved in this?” Tony is on the defensive, he doesn’t know what Jack is talking about, the intel was good. Without it he would never have been in the White House to save the President. Jack isn’t letting it go, “What is your involvement?” Tony puts his hands up, palms out to Jack and tells him, ‘You’re not thinking straight.’ Jack is starting to shake and asks Tony how he was shot, “Does Galvez even have a second man?” Jack’s voice falters, “Or was it just you?” Tony tries to talk Jack down by telling him to stop and listen to what he’s saying, ‘It’s insane, it’s paranoia.’ Tony tries to come closer to Jack and Jack yells, ‘Don’t move!’ Tony tells Jack calmly, ‘The toxin is starting to affect your judgement, that’s what’s happening. You can see that, right?’ Jack has dropped to his knees trying hard to keep the gun on Tony but the seizure is overcoming him and he drops onto his back. The gun falls to his side and Tony steps forward and grabs Jack’s arm and then the gun from the ground. He stands and lets the gun hang at his side. Tony pulls out of his pocket the black zipper container that Jack’s medication was being held in. He asks him nastily, ‘Is this what you’re looking for?’ He watches Jack seize and says, ‘I never wanted to hurt you Jack, I told you to stay out of it but you wouldn’t listen, would ya?’ Jack looks around, trying to focus on Tony and two medics round the corner of the ambulance. Tony stuffs the gun away in his waistband and calls the medics for some help. He motions at Jack and says he’s having a seizure. One of them gets to his knees next to Jack and starts searching Jack for his medicine. He tells the other medic to get Dr. Macer. Tony scampers off down the street leaving Jack and the medics alone.
In the split screen we see Cara, Kim, Janice, Taylor and Cara taking off her wig.
Galvez is being worked on by the medic in the ambulance. He doesn’t find a wound and says he is going to roll Galvez over. Quickly, Galvez pulls a knife and stabs the medic killing him. He goes to the front and tells the other to drive.
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Renee follows Janice at the FBI. They have ID’d the man they are looking for, he is a Starkwood operative that has worked with them for 2 years. They have a photo of him carrying a backpack. Renee wants Janice to get that to Larry and she has been trying but he’s not answering his comm. The backup teams are a few minutes out still; they have secured a 4 block perimeter. Renee wants Galvez’s photo to the teams and to keep trying Larry.
Tony stands over Larry’s body and looks down, breathing hard. Over Moss’ earpiece Janice can be heard giving Galvez’s information to all the teams. Tony has a gun and he expels the empty clip onto the ground and loads in a new one. He hesitates and takes a deep breath as he cocks the gun. He puts his hand up to his side and waves the gun near then yells as he pulls the trigger on himself. Tony falls to the ground and curls before pushing himself up again with a series of grunts. He pushes the gun away and his phone starts to ring. He leans over in obvious pain digging it out of his pocket. He has pulled himself back so he’s leaning on a dumpster and he puts the phone to his ear. Galvez calls his name twice asking if he is there before Tony can manage to respond asking if he’s at a secure location. Galvez is at a storage yard near the projects but he’s seen a patrol and thinks he should keep moving. Tony spits out, ‘Don’t. The FBI is locking down the perimeter and they know you are, they have a picture. It means they can ID you on site.’ He tells Galvez to stay put until he can get a read on their search protocols and he will guide him out. Galvez laments ever letting Tony talk him into this and Tony reassures him that the canister is worth a lot of money to the people he is working for. The money isn’t going to do Galvez any good in prison. Tony is frustrated and in pain, he tells Galvez to stay put, guard the canister and wait for his call. He hangs up just as 2 FBI vehicles roll in. Tony drops sideways onto the pavement appearing unconscious as the agents rush in. Agent Park gets to Tony and on the way calls for a med team, they have agents down. He reaches in and takes Tony’s pulse under his neck, Tony flinches. Park pulls him up a bit and asks if he can hear him. Tony nods with his eyes closed and Park asks what happened, where is the suspect? Tony grumbles that they ambushed them, he winces. He says he doesn’t know where he went.
Janice tells Renee that she has confirmation on the teams’ arrival. Kim comes up behind Renee and says she knows that Renee is busy but she just came to say goodbye, she is going back to LA. Renee pulls Kim aside and says she doesn’t understand, Kim isn’t going to help her father? It’s his only chance. Kim struggles a bit but says she knows that and so does he but it’s a slim one and he believes it’s not worth taking. If he is going to die he wants it to be on his terms. Renee asks Kim if she can’t change his mind. Kim tells her dryly, “I would think you would know by now that no one can change my fathers’ mind when it’s made up.” Renee apologizes for putting Kim in this position but Kim is grateful, her and her father got to say a lot of things and she wishes they had said more but she doesn’t want to cause him any more pain. Janice calls Renee because Agent Park is on the phone. Renee excuses herself and Kim leaves.
Renee takes the phone and Agent Park says that Agent Moss is dead. Renee is shocked and she looks up as Park explains he was killed in an ambush, the chopper pilot too. Tony was shot but he’s alive and there is medical working on him now. Renee stares ahead, shaken by the revelation that Moss is dead. Janice looks on curiously. Renee asks if there is a lead on Galvez and Park says no but they have the area cordoned off and they are coordinating a manhunt. He asks how she wants him to proceed. She is shocked by the question and he reminds her that she is the ranking agent. She gives instructions for a sweep and a tear falls down her cheek. She will be there with a team as soon as she can. Park says that they have enough men, she doesn’t need to be involved. She says she does, she wants to be kept posted. They hang up and Janice asks hesitantly, “Larry?” Renee says he was killed in a shootout with the suspect. Janice takes off her headset and is upset by the news. Renee wants her to brief the White House and call Dr. Macer. She needs to assemble a team to chopper out with her. Janice says she is very sorry and Renee tells her that someone will need to notify Larry’s ex-wife, “Probably shouldn’t be me.” Janice will take care of it.
Jack is pouring himself a glass of water; both his hands are shaking almost not allowing him to do it. The agent debriefing him, Agent Rizelli, says they have covered the time between 8am and 3pm, the recovery of the CIP device and the capture of Ike Dubaku. He checks with Jack asking if he wants a break. Jack says no, he wants to finish this while he still can. Rizelli looks sceptical but Jack sits so he continues. He asks about the intel regarding the White House attack. Jack says that Tony Almeida provided him with the intel but they didn’t know the White House was the target. Rizelli asks about the source. Jack says it was a mercenary. He thinks hard, trying to remember the name. He pinches the bridge of his nose and apologizes but then comes up with the last name, Cardiff. Vincent Cardiff. Jack didn’t question him himself because he didn’t survive Tony’s interrogation but he provided them with the intel. Jack says that they did not know that the White House was the intended target. He repeats the same sentence twice before trailing off. Rizelli asks if Jack is sure he doesn’t want to take that break. Jack knows he was repeating himself again. Another agent comes in and hands some data to Rizelli leaving the door open. Jack sees agents mobilizing outside and asks to be excused. He gets up and leaves the room. He finds Renee briefing the teams. She talks about the fact that they’ve been working long sifts but she needs them focused and alert when they are out in the field. She gives them assignments and puts on her own jacket. She walks and Jack meets up with her asking about what’s going on. The virus is still out there but they have it contained. She doesn’t stop walking and Jack tries to get her to hold on. He asks what’s going on. She doesn’t stop but tells him quickly that Galvez got away with the canister, he is trapped within a mile perimeter. Jack asks if Larry is in charge of the perimeter and Renee says that Larry was killed in a firefight. Now Jack forcefully stops Renee and asks, “What?” Renee also tells him that Tony was injured but he’s with the advance team. He asks her again, “Larry’s dead?” She snipes that they have two agents down, she has to go. She walks away from Jack who stands for a few seconds and then jogs in the other direction.
Tony is sitting on a stretcher with his legs hanging over the side. 2 medics are working on him and there is bloody gauze around. He has an oxygen mask on and doesn’t look too good. The medic says that Tony was lucky. An inch to the left and it would have nicked the splenic artery. He still wants Tony to get checked out. Tony starts to slide off the gurney and says he can’t do that. He grunts in pain and the medic wants to give him something for it. He needs to keep his head clear. Tony limps away from the medics and goes to agent Park who is looking at the deployment of agents. Park says there’s no sign of him but he assures Tony that they’ll find him. He suggests that Tony get some rest. Tony nods and hobbles away dialling his phone.
Galvez answers and Tony tells him they are sweeping north. He tells Galvez where he has a clear path and they will be there in 30 minutes which should give him enough time. Galvez asks so he can what. Tony wants to know if he still has the C4 he gave him. Galvez does and Tony instructs him to find a structure, something they’ll have to search. He can draw as many in as possible and then blow it. Galvez clarifies, slightly panicked, that Tony wants him to blow up a couple of dozen FBI agents. Tony asks if he has a problem with that. Galvez doesn’t understand how it’s going to get him outside the perimeter but Tony will worry about that, he has it worked out.
Renee comes out of the FBI and gets into the chopper. Jack gets in the other side and says he is going with her. She reminds him he’s ill but he promises that if his condition interferes with what she’s doing he will stand down. He gives her his word. She starts to protest but he says that they can keep talking about this and waste more time, that’s fine, but he’s not getting out. The chopper takes off.
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Cara enters the side doors to the White House where they are holding Hodges. She meets two guards and she presents her ID to them. They have been expecting her and she puts her thumb down for a print when they tell her to. They watch her as she is escorted to holding.
Taylor walks down the halls with Olivia asking how they got out of the area with the bioweapon. Olivia is not sure but he has already murdered 4 people, including Larry Moss. Taylor pauses with sadness but then continues moving into her office. They are conducting a search, the area has been sealed off. They think that the man behind this is a Starkwood operative. Olivia thinks Hodges is also behind it and Taylor admits maybe. Olivia questions her indecision reminding her that Hodges told them he was a small cog in a big machine. Taylor thinks he was ranting but Olivia doesn’t think that means he wasn’t telling the truth. Taylor wants him taken to the FBI for interrogation, Olivia says he’s a sociopath, he’s going to want to make a deal. Taylor looks away and Olivia is angry asking if she is really considering that. Taylor knows what this man is, what he did to Roger. Taylor just wants him brought to the FBI. Olivia is not happy with her mother’s decision.
Jonas Hodges is resting with his jacket as a pillow in a cell. A guard enters and says his attorney is there to see him. Hodges snaps tiredly that it’s about damn time. He pulls himself up and turns seeing Cara. He does a good job of looking unsurprised and Cara says they are going to need some privacy. Once the door is closed he tells her that she is a little taller than ‘her’ but it’s a good look for Cara. She coldly says hello to Hodges, calling him by his first name. He is not going to ask how she got in there, ‘But I am definitely interested in how you are going to get me out.’ She says that he has put them in a very difficult position and his actions today have put everyone else in a very difficult position. He understands that he has upset the carte; they are bent out of shape. He asks where they were when the government came after him, after his company. He gets angry as he asks where they were when Senator Meyer and his subpoena waving goon squad came after everything he’s built. Cara tells him calmly that he would have been protected. Also, the bioweapon that they created was not intended for personal use. The consensus is that this was some kind of psychological break for Hodges. He wants to talk to one of them but Cara says no, he has shown his hand, exposed himself. The concern is now that he will expose the others as well. Hodges can’t do that, he doesn’t even know who they are. Cara says he knows enough and there’s no reason for his family to pay for his mistakes. Jonas becomes angry and asks if she was sent here to threaten his family. She says no, she came there to guarantee his family’s safety, if he does the right thing. She holds out a small red capsule at waist level and says that it will induce a cardiac arrest and leave no trace of its existence in his system. He will die a natural and dignified death and without him alive, there won’t be enough to proceed with the case against his company or him. It will preserve the legacy of Starkwood which she knows is very important to him. Hodges nods silently and takes the pill from her hand. She smiles but he is not smiling back. The door opens and the guards come in. Olivia is there as well and says that he is being transferred to the FBI. Cara says that he has invoked his right to silence and his right to council; no one is to talk to him without her there. Olivia tells her, ‘In some countries they would have shot him by now.’ She gives the order for him to be processed out.
Cara steps away and makes a call to Wilson. She has met with Hodges and she is certain he understands. She tells him that Hodges is being moved and Wilson wants this resolved sooner rather than later. He’ll be happy when this is behind them. He asks about Almeida. Cara spoke to him a few minutes ago and Wilson asks if he has secured the canister. Cara says almost. Wilson reminds her, ‘He’s your guy, he better come through.’ Cara admits that ‘Tony has been the one bright spot in this otherwise dreary day.’ She has faith he’ll come through.
Tony’s phone rings and its Galvez calling. He found a place and gives Tony the address. Tony wanders by the grid screen and sees it. They are 3 sectors south, he has about 20 minutes. Galvez says that’s not much time and Tony snaps through gritted teeth that he better get off the phone and get to it then.
Galvez starts pulling C-4 out of his bag and lining it up.
The FBI chopper is in the air and Jack and Renee sit on opposite sides of the back bench. Jack glances over to Renee and then undoes his seatbelt and slides along the bench until he is next to her. She glances at him but doesn’t really look at him or make contact. He leans in and tells her quietly that he lost two partners in a row early on. He looks forward and admits, ‘I couldn’t handle it. I guess that’s why over the last ten years I’ve pretty much worked alone.’ She doesn’t say anything and he tells her, ‘It’s alright for you to be feeling what you’re feeling. If you can’t do this tonight, that’s alright too. Just don’t try and pretend you don’t feel anything. That’s how you make mistakes.’ She finally responds to him snapping, ‘Please Jack, don’t tell me what to feel and don’t tell me how to feel it.’
Tony waits on the ground for the FBI chopper to land. He’s been given a windbreaker to cover up with and he waits by a fence as the chopper touches down. The door is opened and Renee steps out. His expression is indeterminate until Jack steps down and he momentarily looks unhappy. Jack follows Renee away from the chopper and Tony calls Jack’s name. Renee asks Tony where ‘he’ is and Tony motions around the SUV. Tony is walking awkwardly with a limp and Jack asks worried if he is okay. Tony tells Jack that he was lucky, the bullet went straight through. Tony didn’t think he would see Jack out there and Jack says he is just there for observation. Renee has arrived at the covered stretcher holding Larry’s body. Jack steps forward and tells her that she doesn’t have to do this. She finds her voice and says, “Show me.” The medic uncovers Larry’s body revealing his bloodied chin and the wound in his side. She steps away with her back to the body toward and SUV. Jack watches her and then steps forward. He looks at Larry’s wounds himself, actually touching his arm and side. Tony, meanwhile, has gone to Renee. Jack tells the medic to cover the body up and Tony quietly apologizes about Larry. She snaps, ‘What the hell happened?’ Jack continues to check out the evidence around Moss as Tony explains that it all went down pretty fast. They were ambushed before the chopper was down, the pilot was hit first, and ‘I was unarmed so Larry laid down cover so I could get clear. I don’t remember a lot but I remember hearing autofire.’ Jack is listening now as Tony continues, ‘Once I was tagged Larry came to help and that’s when he was hit. I blacked out after that but I’m pretty sure Larry saved my life.’ Jack is putting pieces together and says that Larry was hit with heavy ordinates, Tony obviously with something smaller, jacketed. The medic nearby speaks up and says that he treated Mr. Almeida, his wounds are consistent with a 9 mm. Jack asks if he is sure it wasn’t a .45 but the medic says no, the wound was too small. Jack explains that there are spent .45 casings in evidence. Tony tries to explain it saying that the shooter had access to the FBI vehicle, maybe he switched. Jack figures that’s too many weapons for the time frame that Tony described, it doesn’t add up. Renee has heard enough and wants to know what Jack is saying. Jack thinks someone was with Galvez. Tony looks down, ‘Like I said, it all happened pretty fast, I didn’t think so but I guess it makes sense.’ Jack warns them, ‘One man didn’t do this himself, he had help.’ Renee takes off leaving Jack and Tony behind. Jack checks with Tony one more time, “You sure you’re okay?” Tony nods, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.’ “Good.” Jack answers and walks away. Tony is left eyeing Jack as he walks away.
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Kim’s husband, Steven, gets a call. Kim is riding in the back of a cab. She asks if she woke him which she didn’t. He doesn’t think anyone can sleep with what has been going on today. He asks how it went with her father. Kim pauses and he asks what happened. Kim is upset, she tells him that he’s dying, he was exposed to something, a biological agent. It had to do with the attacks earlier today. Steven says he’s sorry and asks if there’s anything they can do. Kim pauses again before saying no. She is coming back home. He asks if she wants to stay and be with him as long as she can. She tells him sadly that her presence, with what he is going through, will only make things worse. Steven wanders over to a crib in the room and asks if she at least told him about his granddaughter. Kim couldn’t bring herself to tell him that she isn’t the only person he is leaving behind. She couldn’t tell him about Teri, it would have made it worse. She is going to try and get the 6:10 back and she will be in LA by 9. He says she can always leave later if she changes her mind but Kim assures him that she won’t. they exchanges I love you’s and hang up. Kim wipes her eyes.
Jack and Renee watch the teams sweep from the monitors at the command post. Tony is a distance away watching Jack. He paces and works his hands as he comes to the screen and asks why a section is not cleared. Renee calls the agents up on the radio asking what’s going on. Jack swallows hard and is trying to control his pain. Tony watches unhappily. The explanation comes back on the radio about people not being happy about being pulled out of their houses in the middle of the night. Jack is getting worse as Renee says they are to arrest anyone that gets in the way. Jack leans into the side of a vehicle. Renee calls his name quietly and he asks to be excused. He rushes past Tony and grabs his jacket from a nearby table. Tony watches for a second and then turns, wincing in pain himself before following Jack. Jack has found a semi private place and pulls a needle out of his packet. Painfully, with shaking hands, he pulls up the arm of his shirt. The unmistakeable form of Tony appears in the distance and he says nothing, watching Jack. Jack shoves the needle in his arm and grunts. His breathing slows and Jack removes the empty syringe. He glances in Tony’s direction and then looks at him explaining, ‘It’s my anti-seizure medicine. I should have used it earlier.’ Tony sounds concerned, ‘Jack, what are you doing out here? You should go back to FBI medical and let them treat you.’ Jack has packed up his stuff and starts to walk, trying to pass right by Tony saying that there’s no treatment, no cure. Tony grabs Jack’s arm to stop him from passing. ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t know.’ Jack nods and says quietly, ‘Yeah.’ Tony asks him, “Why are you in the field?” Jack tells him quickly, ‘Agent Walker just lost her partner, Tony. I thought I could help. I owe her that much.’ Tony lets Jack leave his time.
At the command post Agent Stoller is calling a code yellow. In reality, Galvez has killed Stoller and is using his comm. Unit, manipulating the speaker to create fuzz with his knife. He says he has Galvez with the canister and Jack asks if he is with someone. Galvez says he was alone, Tony listens. Galvez gives a location, an abandoned apartment building, he is in pursuit. Jack walks away and Renee gives the order not to engage. Galvez takes the jacket and FBI ID off the dead agent. Tony watches from farther back as Renee gives orders and heads to the vehicle. She walks past Jack before pausing when she realizes that Jack is not following. She turns and asks him, ‘Jack?’ Regretfully, Jack says, “I can’t.” Renee takes a few steps back to him and he assures her it’s alright, he’ll be fine. He will stay back and watch operations. He warns her to be careful, Galvez has a partner, watch her back. She nods and goes leaving Jack looking unhappy to be left behind. Tony stands alone as Jack walks by. Tony looks around him.
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Hodges is getting ready to be transported and he looks back at Olivia. She smirks back. A man in uniform helps Jonas into the vehicle with his cuffs on and Hodges notices a tattoo on his arm. Hodges questions him about it and he says that he served with the 27th in Pakistan, 2 tours. Hodges knows the regiment, he asks if he served with Starkwood units. The soldier did, side by side. Hodges asks how he would rate their professionalism, their performance under fire. The soldier says they were good men, well trained. Hodges is now in the vehicle and he thanks the soldier, he made his day. Hodges smiles and the soldier shuts the door. Jonas takes a few breaths and seems to be steeling himself. The soldier gets in the front of the vehicle and tells the driver they are ready to go. They are going into the rear entrance of the FBI and they are to keep it low key. Hodges grabs the pill from his pocket and looks at it. Both of the guards are looking forward so he quickly takes it and swallows. Immediately the effects take place and Hodges grabs at his throat, choking. The guards pull over in a panic and the soldier runs around the back of the vehicle and opens the back door. Hodges had tipped over and is on the ground. The soldier, Caddon, identifies himself in his radio and says their prisoner is in severe cardiac distress, they are rerouting to the hospital. He wants EMT’s standing by.
Galvez waits for the FBI to get ready as they assemble their teams outside. Renee is on the radio and gives the positions to the agents. She tells them that there has been no indication yet that he’s not alone. Renee briefs the teams on their methods, room by room. She and Agent Park will each be leading a team. They check their headsets.
Jack is listening back at the command post and he puts his jacket back on. Tony heads to him and asks how he is holding up. Jack nods politely, ‘Good, thanks.’ Jack’s phone rings and he answers it finding agent Rizelli who wants to follow up on something that he said during his debrief. Jack is still trying to watch the search and says this isn’t a good time. Rizelli needs to clear this up, he said that Tony Almeida was the source on the White House attack and he got his information from Vincent Cardiff. He asks if it is possible that Jack misremembered the name. Jack himself voiced concern over the acuity of his memories. Jack has become distracted however, seeing the codes on the screen for the agent’s walkies. He calls over the other agent as he hangs up on Rizelli and asks what these numbers are. The agent says they are locator codes, Jack wants them on a map overlay. Jack turns away for a second and Tony asks what’s going on. Jack isn’t sure yet.
The FBI works their way into the building and Galvez’s C-4 is flashing ready. Renee can be seen walking through. Galvez watches from a distance.
The agent has brought up the overlay and Jack searches it quickly finding that Stoller isn’t even in the building, he is off site. He gets the walkie and gives Renee a code blue. Renee asks, ‘What?’ Galvez works his cell phone and the building blows up.
Jack and Tony look on from the distance and see the cloud of fire rise. At the site, bodies are thrown everywhere. Semi-absently Jack goes to Tony and pushes him toward the SUV saying to get in the vehicle now. Over the two way Agent Park asks for assistance from the agents nearby. Jack radios for him to disregard that order. Park asks angrily what he is doing. Jack explains that if they pull the agents off the line they will lose the canister. Medivac is on the way. He goes to the SUV and yells back, “Get them in the air now!”
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Galvez walks around the burning building in his FBI clothes. He goes upstairs and hears sirens in the distance.
Jack and Tony have arrived and Tony jumps out of the almost still moving SUV saying that he’s going inside while he’s still holding his side. Jack gets out and calls to Agent Park who is looking rough but is okay. Jack wants to know how many men are still inside. There were 30 in the building. Jack asks about Agent Walker but Park doesn’t know. Jack tries to raise her on the two way and repeats himself sounding more worried every time.
Tony works his way through the burning building and Galvez comes out from behind a pole calling him. Tony wants to see the canister and Galvez pulls it out so he can see it. Tony wants him to hurry, they need to get moving. Galvez runs his hands over an assumingly dead agent’s wounds and spreads the blood on his face and clothes.
Jack is calling to Renee in the building, he works his way through checking bodies. He yells again for Renee and finally gets a response. Jack goes to her and asks if she is okay. She’s trying to help another agent and says she’s fine, but he is not breathing. Jack yells for a medic and two come scurrying to them. He guides her up and says he wants to get her out of there now. They head out to the hall and down the stairs with Renee holding her arm. She asks Jack how he knew that the building was wired and Jack says that Stoller was outside the building, it was a diversion to get past the perimeter. Renee doesn’t understand, it’s like they knew their weep patterns, this was the last area they were checking. Jack has stopped and is face to face with Renee. Realization dons and he whispers, ‘Oh my God’ while he searches his pockets and tells a confused Renee that he will meet her back at her vehicle.
Tony is supporting Galvez out of the building like he’s injured. An agent offers to take Galvez from him but Tony says he’s got him, they need help inside.
Jack is rushing out of the building and he calls Rizelli back. He thanks him for getting back to him and he quickly tells Jack that Vincent Cardiff, who was supposed to have expired during the course of interrogation, was picked up crossing the border into Canada an hour ago. Jack is searching around in the commotion for Tony and he asks if he is sure. Rizelli has the arrest report there, he has no signs of physical abuse or interrogation, nothing at all. Rizelli makes sure that Jack hasn’t mistaken the name that Almeida gave him. Jack spots Tony with his back to him helping Galvez.
Tony hands Galvez up to the ambulance medic and he stuffs the bag around the corner. As soon as he does Jack calls Tony’s name. Galvez sees Jack and allows himself to be laid down on the stretcher. Tony shuts the door and turns to face Jack. Jack tells Tony that they need to talk. Tony lightly says ‘sure’ and he walks a few steps past Jack who with his back to him draws his gun. He turns and levels it at Tony telling him, “I told you earlier today that if you were lying to me I’d kill you myself.” Tony asks Jack, ‘What are you talking about.’ ‘Vincent Cardiff,’ Jack spits. ‘You told me he was killed during the course of your interrogation but he’s alive and well showing no signs of abuse. Explain that.’ Tony is calm to Jack’s anger and says that Cardiff knew he would get himself killed for talking so he said he would make the FBI think that he was dead and he would disappear. It was a meaningless lie. Jack still holds the gun up and tells him, ‘You and I have been doing this long enough to know there is no such thing as a meaningless lie.’ Jack thunders, “How are you involved in this?” Tony is on the defensive, he doesn’t know what Jack is talking about, the intel was good. Without it he would never have been in the White House to save the President. Jack isn’t letting it go, “What is your involvement?” Tony puts his hands up, palms out to Jack and tells him, ‘You’re not thinking straight.’ Jack is starting to shake and asks Tony how he was shot, “Does Galvez even have a second man?” Jack’s voice falters, “Or was it just you?” Tony tries to talk Jack down by telling him to stop and listen to what he’s saying, ‘It’s insane, it’s paranoia.’ Tony tries to come closer to Jack and Jack yells, ‘Don’t move!’ Tony tells Jack calmly, ‘The toxin is starting to affect your judgement, that’s what’s happening. You can see that, right?’ Jack has dropped to his knees trying hard to keep the gun on Tony but the seizure is overcoming him and he drops onto his back. The gun falls to his side and Tony steps forward and grabs Jack’s arm and then the gun from the ground. He stands and lets the gun hang at his side. Tony pulls out of his pocket the black zipper container that Jack’s medication was being held in. He asks him nastily, ‘Is this what you’re looking for?’ He watches Jack seize and says, ‘I never wanted to hurt you Jack, I told you to stay out of it but you wouldn’t listen, would ya?’ Jack looks around, trying to focus on Tony and two medics round the corner of the ambulance. Tony stuffs the gun away in his waistband and calls the medics for some help. He motions at Jack and says he’s having a seizure. One of them gets to his knees next to Jack and starts searching Jack for his medicine. He tells the other medic to get Dr. Macer. Tony scampers off down the street leaving Jack and the medics alone.
In the split screen we see Cara, Kim, Janice, Taylor and Cara taking off her wig.
Galvez is being worked on by the medic in the ambulance. He doesn’t find a wound and says he is going to roll Galvez over. Quickly, Galvez pulls a knife and stabs the medic killing him. He goes to the front and tells the other to drive.
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Miscellaneous Thoughts:
-Jack is the first previously – usually not a great sign. This time I was tempted to disagree with that assumption.
-If you read about it, you know, but if there were 5 minutes of television I could magically delete and they could have no bearing on what was going on in the future, it would be the 5 minutes before this episode started
-Between this episode and the one before it was when production of 24 shut down for re-writes. From what I’m able to understand, it originally took a lot longer for Jack to figure out that Tony was working against them but it was changed, scrapped completely and reshot. That’s a lot of cash to spend. I’d rather they reshot and scrapped the entire Tony being bad thing, but hey, you can’t always get what you want. Especially when you’re just a fan.
-Okay, Tony whining-ranting over.... for now.
-Just when you thought you’d seen enough carnage in the ‘scene that must not be named’ (the Tony killing Moss with his bare hands scene), the carnage continues with the surprising and unpleasant death of Patricia the lawyer.
-Too bad, she seemed nice enough, except for the fact she was Jonas’ attorney.
-You can’t convince me that a house that nice and probably that expensive doesn’t have a garage.
-That was a pretty organized little operation for Cara and her henchman. I wonder how many times they’ve done stuff like that before.
-I love that 4 block perimeter. It’s four literal blocks, like squares on the grid on Janice’s computer.
-So, Galvez has been working for Starkwood for 2 years and he just throws it away to help Tony who probably convinced him in about 60 seconds. Sure, whatever. It’s just about as believable as the scene that shall not be named.
-I guess we are to believe that Tony can hear Janice’s voice from Moss’ earpiece. It might have been quiet enough for that, or Larry was hard of hearing in that ear so he had it really loud.
-I may be just grasping at straws here, but I see remorse in Tony when he looks at Larry. He’s not happy, he looks like he regrets this. At the same time, it might just be regret that he is about to shoot himself.
-I’m looking at all of this from the point of view of Tony being unhappy with what’s going on and I am looking for indications that he still cares for Jack. Sorry if you’re not on board with that but that’s the only solace I can find in the Tony the Terrorist twist. After everything we know about him, he has to care. He’s always been that way, even when he pretends he doesn’t.
-I’ve said this about Kiefer before and I’m going to say it now about Carlos Bernard. He is too good of an actor. The shot thing was scary well done. I just feel the non-existent pain, it’s crazy.
-Even though I saw the trailer where Tony shoots himself, I still didn’t see that coming. It seemed so random at the time. It made sense later but man, it just seemed so weird.
-For someone that’s in a world of trouble, Galvez sure comes off sounding like a chicken in this ep. He doesn’t want to help Tony now? How about TOO BAD, he’s in it.
-Hearing Tony talk about the monetary value of the canister to Galvez is like another nail in the coffin.
-remember in Episode 3 when Jack was interrogating Tony? What did he say, something to the effect of ‘Money’s the only reason I have left of doing anything.’ Only then he was blaming the government for everything, not a specific scumbag, I mean, person.
-Even though he’s supposedly evil, I can’t help but feel bad for Tony, even though he shot himself, even though he just killed Larry. When I see him even feigning unconsciousness, I can’t help it, I feel bad for him. That, in essence, is why this just doesn’t work. I can’t be rooting for Jack and the FBI to catch someone, to stop an attack, when I LIKE the person they are trying to stop.
-Did Renee honestly expect Kim to not know she was Jack’s only chance?
-Kim has a point. I think we’ve only ever seen Jack change his mind once, and that was in Season 3 about letting Kim go into the field. He was dead set against it but she used an argument he would use to change his mind.
-If you want to see more of what Kim had to say to Jack, get the DVD or BluRay of Season 7 and watch the extended cut of the scene with the two of them. Wow. Yes, it’s long, but man, is it ever better than the aired one.
-For a while, I really thought this ep would be the last one with Kim.
-Park is abrupt, isn’t he? No beating around the bush with the news on Larry.
-Renee was great when she heard about Moss, and Janice knows really from her reactions.
-See, this is what I’m talking about with dragging plotlines. We didn’t NEED a whole convoluted back story with Renee and Larry. They have been hinting around it all season but there was never any confirmation on anything. Then, when he dies, she simply says that she shouldn’t be the one to tell his wife. That’s all we need to know. They had a fling, Larry was married. Wow, it didn’t need like, 4 extra people and 45 minutes of screen time over 5 episodes. That’s it, clean and simple.
-Janice does a great job of compartmentalising this. She must have been taking lessons from Jack.
-I HATE watching Jack all shaky like that. It’s kinda scary, and Kiefer sure sells it.
-It’s always kind of weird when they do these flashback/debrief scenes where main characters talk about stuff that happened earlier. It just gives me a weird vibe in 24.
-And, to amend hating seeing Jack shaky with the water, it’s even scarier to watch him repeat himself like that. I’m not sure I want to see 5 more hours of Jack deteriorating.
-Did Tony ever tell us officially that his source didn’t survive the interrogation? He intimated it but never really confirmed it. Does that count as a lie? Bill guessed it and Tony didn’t deny it, but he didn’t confirm it either.
-The agent that enters and hands Rizelli the file and leaves the door open, I’m 99% sure was one of the torture specialists at CTU. The one before Burke.
-Renee is so back and forth with Jack, one minute she is all mushy and friendly, the next she’s acting all PO’d. They should check her for some kind of personality disorder the amount she swings back and forth.
-Well, I guess Rizelli will that Jack’s absence as the fact that he’s taking a break.
-Tony looks rough.
-I wonder if Tony knew about the locations of the important junk inside him when he decided to shoot himself like that. The medic said he was lucky he didn’t hit the splenic artery, which sounds bad. I didn’t think there was a whole lot of room in that area where there wasn’t important stuff, but hey, what do I know?
-And, here’s the CTU agent mentality coming through, ‘I’m fine’. Tony doesn’t want to be tended to, doesn’t want meds, doesn’t want... oh wait, I guess he does have to keep himself going still when he’s secretly masterminding against Jack and the FBI. Ugh.
-Just in case we weren’t really supposed to be sure where Tony stands on this whole thing, there he is ruthlessly talking about blowing up ‘a couple of dozen FBI agents.’ I think I’m going to be sick. They can never, ever, recover him from this if we are supposed to believe this is the same character they have spent building for 5 seasons. He never dealt that well with death, injury and bad things happening to good people.
-I’m pretty sure that if Renee wanted Jack out of that chopper, she could have had him removed by some of those lineless FBI agents that are hanging around.
-Another subtle moment, those two guards at the FBI? They thought Cara was hot. There’s just no getting around it.
-How nice that Taylor cared about Moss enough to take a second when she finds out he’s dead. I guess the pilot wasn’t important enough to name.
-Olivia is really grating on my nerves. I’m glad she was hardly in this episode.
-Sociopath – the word of the show for criminals. Phillip Bauer was also called a sociopath if I recall correctly. I don’t think Hodges fits the profile, Bauer did though.
-Hodges got comfy pretty fast there. Been there before?
-Hodges also got his coat on in record time. I think they hacked a couple of frames out of that.
-I think I like Cara better as a blonde too.
-They gave Voight some great lines, and he does so much with so little. I love his little poke about how she’s going to get him out of there.
-That’s a really redundant sentence from Cara to Jonas: he has put them in a very difficult position and his actions today have put everyone else in a very difficult position. Huh-what?
-Subpoena-waving goon squad. Nice. I love it.
-Line of the week: Cara to Hodges: “That bioweapon that you developed for us was not intended for personal use.” Oh my. It sounds like some kind of toy or vehicle or something. Not a weapon that can kill millions.
-Olivia makes good time down to transfer Hodges.
-And there is the reason Hodges is not a sociopath. He cares for his family.
-So, Tony is Cara’s ‘guy’, whatever context that opens up to. So, where the hell has she been for the last, oh I don’t know, 19 hours? You know, while Tony’s been being a good guy, stopping attacks, working WITH the FBI, etc, etc.
-So, I guess Tony stopped the attacks from Starkwood by Hodges because he was trying to do it for ‘personal use’. While he did that he also happened to line up with the agenda of the FBI and Jack? It seems pretty damn convenient to me.
-Man, Tony has been busy on that cell phone. Between talking to Galvez and Cara, he hasn’t had time for anything.
-Tony is probably thinking he should have taken the morphine from the medic. He’s having a little trouble getting around. Not to mention he’s pretty cranky to his personal mercenary there. Although, he might be just tired of talking on the phone as well.
-That’s quite a bit of C-4 that Tony handed off to Galvez at this unknown time
-Oh. My. God. If I have to hear one more word about Jack or Renee’s ‘feelings’, I think I’m going to do one of two things – make sure I haven’t checked to see if I’ve fallen asleep and woken up during a daytime soap opera and/or vomit. You know, I just don’t care what Renee is feeling. I do care what Jack is feeling, but the beauty of Jack is, you can TELL. He doesn’t have to talk about it. We’ve been with him the whole way, we know what he’s going through.
-Okay, so this is an exact demonstration, to the letter, of what I’ve been talking about with Renee. She bitched Jack out earlier because he didn’t ‘feel’ anything when Markia died. She asked him what he felt when his wife died and accused him of being all business. Then, he tries to help her because he’s been there and she takes his damn head off. I think he should have slapped her like she did to him.
-That conversation probably had the word ‘feel’ in it more times than the entire shows history up until now. I’m done with that. It goes in the pile with ‘Uncle Jack’, words I don’t ever want to hear again.
-I did however, find it interesting about Jack’s partners that he ‘lost’. Whether that’s they left CTU or died, we don’t know for sure. I’m guessing they died and he blames himself.
-I love the change in Tony when he sees Jack get off the chopper. He knows he won’t be able to get away with, well, jack with Jack around.
-see, this is another problem. Jack doesn’t really get attached to that many people. He said earlier that trust is not his best asset. But he cares for Tony. They’ve been through a lot together. You can see in his expressions that he doesn’t like that he’s hurt, he’s protective of him. They already had his brother and father ‘go bad’, now basically his only friend? They might as well turn Kim into a terrorist.
-Jack is trying to put out two fires here, Renee and Tony. Making sure Renee doesn’t have an emotional meltdown, Tony, a physical one.
-I was surprised that Jack actually touched Larry`s body. I guess he has always been `hands on’.
-Oh now Renee’s mad at Tony? Dude, what is her DEAL? He wasn’t even armed.
-Was there autofire? I don’t remember hearing autofire. Galvez used a handgun and then the big shotgun with the armour piercing rounds. Even Moss used a handgun. At least if Tony wanted Jack to believe him he could have come up with a story that would match the evidence.
-See, and there’s the problem again. Tony made Larry out to be the hero, saving his life. Why bother if he doesn’t care?
-The shooter did switch weapons, though. The clues that Jack used to base the idea there was a 2nd man off of were false. I guess maybe Tony rushed the timeline, but he made a pretty big conclusion. Maybe he suspected Tony all along.
-So, Tony shot himself with Moss’ gun. Looked like a .45 to me, but I guess he could have put a 9mm through it when he loaded it up. Maybe Galvez was using a 9mm and that’s where the clip came from? Tony used that based on the idea that it was Galvez that shot him. Who the hell knows?
-Steven seems nice. Grounded, not used to things blowing up and planes falling out of the sky. Obviously, he’s not in law enforcement. Criteria number one for Jack to like him.
-So the spawn of Jack has a spawn of her own. Wow. So, Jack’s a grandfather. Could you imagine if Jack Bauer was your grandfather? How kick ass is that?
-Teri is the name of the baby. Of course it is. Actually, I think it’s cute, I quite like it. At first it was a little eye-rolley, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that it’s a very real situation.
-All I wanted in life when I saw that Kim had a daughter and her name was Teri was for Jack to find out. I want to see Jack’s reaction. I know he’ll cry, but he’s hot when he cries. Hell, I almost cried. We’d be talking about serious Jack meltdown. That’s my request for the end of this season, for Jack to find out. Well, that and him waking up realizing the last 6 hours were a twisted dream, he got clocked in the head and Tony is really good.
-Jack and Tony are a great pair, we’ll forever call them Damaged (Tony) and Broken (Jack). Jack goes to give himself his injection and Tony hobbles off after him. Brutal.
-Jack needs a hug, dammit.
-Tony still cares about Jack. You just can’t fake that. He doesn’t like seeing him all broken.
-Did Tony really not know that the virus was terminal? I somehow doubt that.
-Jack doesn’t owe Renee shit. I can’t believe that was his explanation for being in the field.
-We’ve seen the two way manipulation before, only it was Jack doing the manipulating.
-Stoller, like Teo Stoller from season 4? Somehow I doubt it.
-That was super convenient that Jack couldn’t go with Renee. Who looks guilty now?
-Jack looks like a kid that got left behind off the team or something. He’s standing all dejected while the tac teams take off.
-So, at first Renee didn’t want Jack there because he was sick and now he’s pulling himself out because he is and she’s surprised?
-this is a real gauge of how terrible Jack must be feeling if he can’t go out into the field. We all know that’s where he loves to be, no matter how bad it gets, ‘some people are more comfortable in hell.’ (Quoting Tony to Audrey about Jack.)
-People couldn’t figure out how Tony got a hold of Jack’s meds. He left his jacket there while he spoke to Renee and also he walked by leaving (hey, maybe he went to the washroom) Tony next to it looking all suspicious.
-Hodges is still a patriot, just a wildly misdirected one.
-Caddon, not so much. He was fine until he had to be panicked. Then he lost me.
-That was one fast acting pill. Can I get one of those for my headache?
-for those of you keeping score at home, those photos of ‘Vincent Cardiff’ in the folder, are really Jon Cassar – director and producer for this show. Love him.
-Another set of names that are familiar to the 24 crew. These showed up on the list of agents when Jack was on the phone with Rizelli: Burke, Powell, Cohen, Parish, Grubb, Royce, Lindquist, Rush, Stoller, Gunter, Rebar, Harris, Decuir, Rosser, Reynolds). Check out IMDB, but I see lots of behind the scenes names, Nicole Burke, Stirling Rush and other names that ring a bell.
-If you read about it, you know, but if there were 5 minutes of television I could magically delete and they could have no bearing on what was going on in the future, it would be the 5 minutes before this episode started
-Between this episode and the one before it was when production of 24 shut down for re-writes. From what I’m able to understand, it originally took a lot longer for Jack to figure out that Tony was working against them but it was changed, scrapped completely and reshot. That’s a lot of cash to spend. I’d rather they reshot and scrapped the entire Tony being bad thing, but hey, you can’t always get what you want. Especially when you’re just a fan.
-Okay, Tony whining-ranting over.... for now.
-Just when you thought you’d seen enough carnage in the ‘scene that must not be named’ (the Tony killing Moss with his bare hands scene), the carnage continues with the surprising and unpleasant death of Patricia the lawyer.
-Too bad, she seemed nice enough, except for the fact she was Jonas’ attorney.
-You can’t convince me that a house that nice and probably that expensive doesn’t have a garage.
-That was a pretty organized little operation for Cara and her henchman. I wonder how many times they’ve done stuff like that before.
-I love that 4 block perimeter. It’s four literal blocks, like squares on the grid on Janice’s computer.
-So, Galvez has been working for Starkwood for 2 years and he just throws it away to help Tony who probably convinced him in about 60 seconds. Sure, whatever. It’s just about as believable as the scene that shall not be named.
-I guess we are to believe that Tony can hear Janice’s voice from Moss’ earpiece. It might have been quiet enough for that, or Larry was hard of hearing in that ear so he had it really loud.
-I may be just grasping at straws here, but I see remorse in Tony when he looks at Larry. He’s not happy, he looks like he regrets this. At the same time, it might just be regret that he is about to shoot himself.
-I’m looking at all of this from the point of view of Tony being unhappy with what’s going on and I am looking for indications that he still cares for Jack. Sorry if you’re not on board with that but that’s the only solace I can find in the Tony the Terrorist twist. After everything we know about him, he has to care. He’s always been that way, even when he pretends he doesn’t.
-I’ve said this about Kiefer before and I’m going to say it now about Carlos Bernard. He is too good of an actor. The shot thing was scary well done. I just feel the non-existent pain, it’s crazy.
-Even though I saw the trailer where Tony shoots himself, I still didn’t see that coming. It seemed so random at the time. It made sense later but man, it just seemed so weird.
-For someone that’s in a world of trouble, Galvez sure comes off sounding like a chicken in this ep. He doesn’t want to help Tony now? How about TOO BAD, he’s in it.
-Hearing Tony talk about the monetary value of the canister to Galvez is like another nail in the coffin.
-remember in Episode 3 when Jack was interrogating Tony? What did he say, something to the effect of ‘Money’s the only reason I have left of doing anything.’ Only then he was blaming the government for everything, not a specific scumbag, I mean, person.
-Even though he’s supposedly evil, I can’t help but feel bad for Tony, even though he shot himself, even though he just killed Larry. When I see him even feigning unconsciousness, I can’t help it, I feel bad for him. That, in essence, is why this just doesn’t work. I can’t be rooting for Jack and the FBI to catch someone, to stop an attack, when I LIKE the person they are trying to stop.
-Did Renee honestly expect Kim to not know she was Jack’s only chance?
-Kim has a point. I think we’ve only ever seen Jack change his mind once, and that was in Season 3 about letting Kim go into the field. He was dead set against it but she used an argument he would use to change his mind.
-If you want to see more of what Kim had to say to Jack, get the DVD or BluRay of Season 7 and watch the extended cut of the scene with the two of them. Wow. Yes, it’s long, but man, is it ever better than the aired one.
-For a while, I really thought this ep would be the last one with Kim.
-Park is abrupt, isn’t he? No beating around the bush with the news on Larry.
-Renee was great when she heard about Moss, and Janice knows really from her reactions.
-See, this is what I’m talking about with dragging plotlines. We didn’t NEED a whole convoluted back story with Renee and Larry. They have been hinting around it all season but there was never any confirmation on anything. Then, when he dies, she simply says that she shouldn’t be the one to tell his wife. That’s all we need to know. They had a fling, Larry was married. Wow, it didn’t need like, 4 extra people and 45 minutes of screen time over 5 episodes. That’s it, clean and simple.
-Janice does a great job of compartmentalising this. She must have been taking lessons from Jack.
-I HATE watching Jack all shaky like that. It’s kinda scary, and Kiefer sure sells it.
-It’s always kind of weird when they do these flashback/debrief scenes where main characters talk about stuff that happened earlier. It just gives me a weird vibe in 24.
-And, to amend hating seeing Jack shaky with the water, it’s even scarier to watch him repeat himself like that. I’m not sure I want to see 5 more hours of Jack deteriorating.
-Did Tony ever tell us officially that his source didn’t survive the interrogation? He intimated it but never really confirmed it. Does that count as a lie? Bill guessed it and Tony didn’t deny it, but he didn’t confirm it either.
-The agent that enters and hands Rizelli the file and leaves the door open, I’m 99% sure was one of the torture specialists at CTU. The one before Burke.
-Renee is so back and forth with Jack, one minute she is all mushy and friendly, the next she’s acting all PO’d. They should check her for some kind of personality disorder the amount she swings back and forth.
-Well, I guess Rizelli will that Jack’s absence as the fact that he’s taking a break.
-Tony looks rough.
-I wonder if Tony knew about the locations of the important junk inside him when he decided to shoot himself like that. The medic said he was lucky he didn’t hit the splenic artery, which sounds bad. I didn’t think there was a whole lot of room in that area where there wasn’t important stuff, but hey, what do I know?
-And, here’s the CTU agent mentality coming through, ‘I’m fine’. Tony doesn’t want to be tended to, doesn’t want meds, doesn’t want... oh wait, I guess he does have to keep himself going still when he’s secretly masterminding against Jack and the FBI. Ugh.
-Just in case we weren’t really supposed to be sure where Tony stands on this whole thing, there he is ruthlessly talking about blowing up ‘a couple of dozen FBI agents.’ I think I’m going to be sick. They can never, ever, recover him from this if we are supposed to believe this is the same character they have spent building for 5 seasons. He never dealt that well with death, injury and bad things happening to good people.
-I’m pretty sure that if Renee wanted Jack out of that chopper, she could have had him removed by some of those lineless FBI agents that are hanging around.
-Another subtle moment, those two guards at the FBI? They thought Cara was hot. There’s just no getting around it.
-How nice that Taylor cared about Moss enough to take a second when she finds out he’s dead. I guess the pilot wasn’t important enough to name.
-Olivia is really grating on my nerves. I’m glad she was hardly in this episode.
-Sociopath – the word of the show for criminals. Phillip Bauer was also called a sociopath if I recall correctly. I don’t think Hodges fits the profile, Bauer did though.
-Hodges got comfy pretty fast there. Been there before?
-Hodges also got his coat on in record time. I think they hacked a couple of frames out of that.
-I think I like Cara better as a blonde too.
-They gave Voight some great lines, and he does so much with so little. I love his little poke about how she’s going to get him out of there.
-That’s a really redundant sentence from Cara to Jonas: he has put them in a very difficult position and his actions today have put everyone else in a very difficult position. Huh-what?
-Subpoena-waving goon squad. Nice. I love it.
-Line of the week: Cara to Hodges: “That bioweapon that you developed for us was not intended for personal use.” Oh my. It sounds like some kind of toy or vehicle or something. Not a weapon that can kill millions.
-Olivia makes good time down to transfer Hodges.
-And there is the reason Hodges is not a sociopath. He cares for his family.
-So, Tony is Cara’s ‘guy’, whatever context that opens up to. So, where the hell has she been for the last, oh I don’t know, 19 hours? You know, while Tony’s been being a good guy, stopping attacks, working WITH the FBI, etc, etc.
-So, I guess Tony stopped the attacks from Starkwood by Hodges because he was trying to do it for ‘personal use’. While he did that he also happened to line up with the agenda of the FBI and Jack? It seems pretty damn convenient to me.
-Man, Tony has been busy on that cell phone. Between talking to Galvez and Cara, he hasn’t had time for anything.
-Tony is probably thinking he should have taken the morphine from the medic. He’s having a little trouble getting around. Not to mention he’s pretty cranky to his personal mercenary there. Although, he might be just tired of talking on the phone as well.
-That’s quite a bit of C-4 that Tony handed off to Galvez at this unknown time
-Oh. My. God. If I have to hear one more word about Jack or Renee’s ‘feelings’, I think I’m going to do one of two things – make sure I haven’t checked to see if I’ve fallen asleep and woken up during a daytime soap opera and/or vomit. You know, I just don’t care what Renee is feeling. I do care what Jack is feeling, but the beauty of Jack is, you can TELL. He doesn’t have to talk about it. We’ve been with him the whole way, we know what he’s going through.
-Okay, so this is an exact demonstration, to the letter, of what I’ve been talking about with Renee. She bitched Jack out earlier because he didn’t ‘feel’ anything when Markia died. She asked him what he felt when his wife died and accused him of being all business. Then, he tries to help her because he’s been there and she takes his damn head off. I think he should have slapped her like she did to him.
-That conversation probably had the word ‘feel’ in it more times than the entire shows history up until now. I’m done with that. It goes in the pile with ‘Uncle Jack’, words I don’t ever want to hear again.
-I did however, find it interesting about Jack’s partners that he ‘lost’. Whether that’s they left CTU or died, we don’t know for sure. I’m guessing they died and he blames himself.
-I love the change in Tony when he sees Jack get off the chopper. He knows he won’t be able to get away with, well, jack with Jack around.
-see, this is another problem. Jack doesn’t really get attached to that many people. He said earlier that trust is not his best asset. But he cares for Tony. They’ve been through a lot together. You can see in his expressions that he doesn’t like that he’s hurt, he’s protective of him. They already had his brother and father ‘go bad’, now basically his only friend? They might as well turn Kim into a terrorist.
-Jack is trying to put out two fires here, Renee and Tony. Making sure Renee doesn’t have an emotional meltdown, Tony, a physical one.
-I was surprised that Jack actually touched Larry`s body. I guess he has always been `hands on’.
-Oh now Renee’s mad at Tony? Dude, what is her DEAL? He wasn’t even armed.
-Was there autofire? I don’t remember hearing autofire. Galvez used a handgun and then the big shotgun with the armour piercing rounds. Even Moss used a handgun. At least if Tony wanted Jack to believe him he could have come up with a story that would match the evidence.
-See, and there’s the problem again. Tony made Larry out to be the hero, saving his life. Why bother if he doesn’t care?
-The shooter did switch weapons, though. The clues that Jack used to base the idea there was a 2nd man off of were false. I guess maybe Tony rushed the timeline, but he made a pretty big conclusion. Maybe he suspected Tony all along.
-So, Tony shot himself with Moss’ gun. Looked like a .45 to me, but I guess he could have put a 9mm through it when he loaded it up. Maybe Galvez was using a 9mm and that’s where the clip came from? Tony used that based on the idea that it was Galvez that shot him. Who the hell knows?
-Steven seems nice. Grounded, not used to things blowing up and planes falling out of the sky. Obviously, he’s not in law enforcement. Criteria number one for Jack to like him.
-So the spawn of Jack has a spawn of her own. Wow. So, Jack’s a grandfather. Could you imagine if Jack Bauer was your grandfather? How kick ass is that?
-Teri is the name of the baby. Of course it is. Actually, I think it’s cute, I quite like it. At first it was a little eye-rolley, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that it’s a very real situation.
-All I wanted in life when I saw that Kim had a daughter and her name was Teri was for Jack to find out. I want to see Jack’s reaction. I know he’ll cry, but he’s hot when he cries. Hell, I almost cried. We’d be talking about serious Jack meltdown. That’s my request for the end of this season, for Jack to find out. Well, that and him waking up realizing the last 6 hours were a twisted dream, he got clocked in the head and Tony is really good.
-Jack and Tony are a great pair, we’ll forever call them Damaged (Tony) and Broken (Jack). Jack goes to give himself his injection and Tony hobbles off after him. Brutal.
-Jack needs a hug, dammit.
-Tony still cares about Jack. You just can’t fake that. He doesn’t like seeing him all broken.
-Did Tony really not know that the virus was terminal? I somehow doubt that.
-Jack doesn’t owe Renee shit. I can’t believe that was his explanation for being in the field.
-We’ve seen the two way manipulation before, only it was Jack doing the manipulating.
-Stoller, like Teo Stoller from season 4? Somehow I doubt it.
-That was super convenient that Jack couldn’t go with Renee. Who looks guilty now?
-Jack looks like a kid that got left behind off the team or something. He’s standing all dejected while the tac teams take off.
-So, at first Renee didn’t want Jack there because he was sick and now he’s pulling himself out because he is and she’s surprised?
-this is a real gauge of how terrible Jack must be feeling if he can’t go out into the field. We all know that’s where he loves to be, no matter how bad it gets, ‘some people are more comfortable in hell.’ (Quoting Tony to Audrey about Jack.)
-People couldn’t figure out how Tony got a hold of Jack’s meds. He left his jacket there while he spoke to Renee and also he walked by leaving (hey, maybe he went to the washroom) Tony next to it looking all suspicious.
-Hodges is still a patriot, just a wildly misdirected one.
-Caddon, not so much. He was fine until he had to be panicked. Then he lost me.
-That was one fast acting pill. Can I get one of those for my headache?
-for those of you keeping score at home, those photos of ‘Vincent Cardiff’ in the folder, are really Jon Cassar – director and producer for this show. Love him.
-Another set of names that are familiar to the 24 crew. These showed up on the list of agents when Jack was on the phone with Rizelli: Burke, Powell, Cohen, Parish, Grubb, Royce, Lindquist, Rush, Stoller, Gunter, Rebar, Harris, Decuir, Rosser, Reynolds). Check out IMDB, but I see lots of behind the scenes names, Nicole Burke, Stirling Rush and other names that ring a bell.
-Tony’s little sly expression when Jack is putting his jacket back on tells us all we need to know on rewatch about what he did. It’s obvious when you know. Also, the little question just solidifies it.
-That’s a great reaction Renee has when Jack tells her about the location of Stoller: “What?”
-I watched that scene where Jack shoves Tony to the car over and over trying to figure out what Jack says to him. I just can’t pick it up. Right now, I don’t have my blu-rays with me to watch the closed captioning.
-Jack knows what’s going on. He has to know somewhere in the back of his mind that it’s Tony orchestrating this. Whoever is doing it is thinking like Jack.
-That’s a big explosion. Wow. For 4 blocks of C-4? Wow.
-Speaking of, how much C-4 does Tony carry around with him on a regular basis? He had some last episode too.
-Jack cares for Renee, you can see it already that he doesn’t want something to happen to her. Protective... in 19 hours. And you know, I don’t find that too much, too far. It’s okay, it works. Not too much too soon.
-I actually find what Galvez did to be pretty gross. After everything I’ve seen on 24, that grosses me out more than most of it. Hmm. Weird.
-Jack did a lot of calling before Renee heard him...or answered. Maybe she just wanted to see how panicked he would get.
-So, Jack can’t shoot guns but he can run into a burning building. Okay, suuure.
-Well, if Renee knew it was that easy to get a medic, she should have done that. Wow. They sure scurried over fast when Jack called them.
-Another sign Jack cares, ‘I want to get you out of here now.’ Cute. Chivalry in the life of a counterterrorist agent.
-Jack’s all gung ho to get Renee out of there, and then he just leaves her. Granted, the impending threat to national security is more important.
-You can tell Jack’s brain isn’t working all that well, he didn’t piece it together right away. We’ll call that compliments of the virus.
-I hope Galvez is doing most of the walking on his own, because Tony isn’t doing too well anyway, adding his weight isn’t going to help.
-So, this begs the question, did Cardiff even have anything to do with this today? Or did Tony already know about the attacks and make up the name Cardiff to cover for himself?
-Although their form of interrogation is technically ‘abuse’, I’ve never thought of it that way before. It feels way more serious when they refer to it that way.
-And again Jack’s head isn’t working quite right. He allows Galvez to go, he sees him. And Tony puts the bag in the ambulance as Jack sees him. THAT’s the pathogen, for sure.
-Hmm, we must have missed Jack tell Tony that if he was lying to him he would kill him. I remember him saying something like that during his interrogation in episode 3, but otherwise, I don’t recall that happening. At this juncture, it seems like an important plot point to be left on the cutting room floor.
-Although I hate evil Tony, it’s so nice to allow Carlos Bernard out of the regular Tony box. His acting in his little showdown with Jack was awesome. I love the way he uses his hands and also variation of the pace of his delivery.
-Oh, my heart breaks. When Jack asks Tony if Galvez had a second man or if it was just Tony. It was hard to tell whether Jack’s voice breaks because of the physical pain he’s in or if it’s because he’s staring down a gun at Tony.
-So, again, I find myself at 9:55 on a Monday night and not able AT ALL to get on board with what I’m seeing. Tony has already shown us IN THIS EPISODE that he cares about Jack, that he feels for him as a friend and that he wants him to be okay. He inquires about his status a few times and we can see it all over his face that he doesn’t want Jack to be in pain. So, here we are at the end of the episode and Tony is basically torturing Jack by allowing him to seize and withholding his meds. I just simply don’t buy it. There’s also argument that, since Tony had the gun, he was going to kill Jack if the medics hadn’t shown up. I’m not sure I believe that either, but it’s about as logical as anything else. Once Jack knew what Tony was really up to, there’s no way he would let him go. Jack would track him down, a la Nina and kill him. Which, again, is wrong. So, hey, I’m just going to give up.
-And I totally could have gone without seeing Galvez kill that nice medic, especially after what we just saw Tony do to Jack. Brutal.
-They're playing with our feelings, with Jack's feelings, with Renee's feelings. This is nothing more than Feelings. Like the Sinatra song.
-That’s a great reaction Renee has when Jack tells her about the location of Stoller: “What?”
-I watched that scene where Jack shoves Tony to the car over and over trying to figure out what Jack says to him. I just can’t pick it up. Right now, I don’t have my blu-rays with me to watch the closed captioning.
-Jack knows what’s going on. He has to know somewhere in the back of his mind that it’s Tony orchestrating this. Whoever is doing it is thinking like Jack.
-That’s a big explosion. Wow. For 4 blocks of C-4? Wow.
-Speaking of, how much C-4 does Tony carry around with him on a regular basis? He had some last episode too.
-Jack cares for Renee, you can see it already that he doesn’t want something to happen to her. Protective... in 19 hours. And you know, I don’t find that too much, too far. It’s okay, it works. Not too much too soon.
-I actually find what Galvez did to be pretty gross. After everything I’ve seen on 24, that grosses me out more than most of it. Hmm. Weird.
-Jack did a lot of calling before Renee heard him...or answered. Maybe she just wanted to see how panicked he would get.
-So, Jack can’t shoot guns but he can run into a burning building. Okay, suuure.
-Well, if Renee knew it was that easy to get a medic, she should have done that. Wow. They sure scurried over fast when Jack called them.
-Another sign Jack cares, ‘I want to get you out of here now.’ Cute. Chivalry in the life of a counterterrorist agent.
-Jack’s all gung ho to get Renee out of there, and then he just leaves her. Granted, the impending threat to national security is more important.
-You can tell Jack’s brain isn’t working all that well, he didn’t piece it together right away. We’ll call that compliments of the virus.
-I hope Galvez is doing most of the walking on his own, because Tony isn’t doing too well anyway, adding his weight isn’t going to help.
-So, this begs the question, did Cardiff even have anything to do with this today? Or did Tony already know about the attacks and make up the name Cardiff to cover for himself?
-Although their form of interrogation is technically ‘abuse’, I’ve never thought of it that way before. It feels way more serious when they refer to it that way.
-And again Jack’s head isn’t working quite right. He allows Galvez to go, he sees him. And Tony puts the bag in the ambulance as Jack sees him. THAT’s the pathogen, for sure.
-Hmm, we must have missed Jack tell Tony that if he was lying to him he would kill him. I remember him saying something like that during his interrogation in episode 3, but otherwise, I don’t recall that happening. At this juncture, it seems like an important plot point to be left on the cutting room floor.
-Although I hate evil Tony, it’s so nice to allow Carlos Bernard out of the regular Tony box. His acting in his little showdown with Jack was awesome. I love the way he uses his hands and also variation of the pace of his delivery.
-Oh, my heart breaks. When Jack asks Tony if Galvez had a second man or if it was just Tony. It was hard to tell whether Jack’s voice breaks because of the physical pain he’s in or if it’s because he’s staring down a gun at Tony.
-So, again, I find myself at 9:55 on a Monday night and not able AT ALL to get on board with what I’m seeing. Tony has already shown us IN THIS EPISODE that he cares about Jack, that he feels for him as a friend and that he wants him to be okay. He inquires about his status a few times and we can see it all over his face that he doesn’t want Jack to be in pain. So, here we are at the end of the episode and Tony is basically torturing Jack by allowing him to seize and withholding his meds. I just simply don’t buy it. There’s also argument that, since Tony had the gun, he was going to kill Jack if the medics hadn’t shown up. I’m not sure I believe that either, but it’s about as logical as anything else. Once Jack knew what Tony was really up to, there’s no way he would let him go. Jack would track him down, a la Nina and kill him. Which, again, is wrong. So, hey, I’m just going to give up.
-And I totally could have gone without seeing Galvez kill that nice medic, especially after what we just saw Tony do to Jack. Brutal.
-They're playing with our feelings, with Jack's feelings, with Renee's feelings. This is nothing more than Feelings. Like the Sinatra song.
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