7.23: 6:00am - 7:00am Political Filler
7.23: 6:00a.m. - 7:00a.m.
~ Political Filler ~
2009.05.23
6:00
Olivia Taylor is led into a tele-presence suite, the deputy AG is ready for her. She thanks the man that is escorting her and the screens light up. Introductions are made with a woman and two men from the justice department. He wants to let the record show that they are speaking to Olivia Taylor, acting White House Chief of Staff on the homicide of federal witness Jonas Hodges. She is a little bit concerned by this formality and the assistant AG says that they are making sure all the protocols are followed for her protection. She asks why she needs protection and he corrects himself that it’s a poor choice of words, this is just a formality. He turns the floor over to one of the others.
Taylor walks off an elevator and Tim follows. She wants Olivia in this briefing but she is in a meeting with the justice department. Taylor asks of they are getting anywhere with the Hodges murder. Tim says they can be certain that the leak came from someone on the inside, and it’s a short list.
Olivia Taylor is led into a tele-presence suite, the deputy AG is ready for her. She thanks the man that is escorting her and the screens light up. Introductions are made with a woman and two men from the justice department. He wants to let the record show that they are speaking to Olivia Taylor, acting White House Chief of Staff on the homicide of federal witness Jonas Hodges. She is a little bit concerned by this formality and the assistant AG says that they are making sure all the protocols are followed for her protection. She asks why she needs protection and he corrects himself that it’s a poor choice of words, this is just a formality. He turns the floor over to one of the others.
Taylor walks off an elevator and Tim follows. She wants Olivia in this briefing but she is in a meeting with the justice department. Taylor asks of they are getting anywhere with the Hodges murder. Tim says they can be certain that the leak came from someone on the inside, and it’s a short list.
Taylor enters a meeting where the Joint Chiefs and others are crowded in around a table. She says good morning to them all and they respond in chorus the same thing. They take seats and Taylor explains that she knows they are all in dire need of sleep but it is vital that she brings them up to speed on the events of the past few hours and a greater crisis on the horizon. She explains about the canister they recovered and that the danger is not over. She says that Hodges told them that there were other parties involved with him in the creation of the bioweapon. They are a secret group of powerful private military firms and they are trying to undermine the government of this country. They don’t know which firms are involved, they have no names yet or idea of which companies they are. Whoever they are they represent a very real and ongoing threat. They don’t have much actionable intelligence at this point but they have apprehended a former CTU agent, Tony Almeida. He is a key figure in this plot and she hopes to use him to find out who these people are.
FBI air support has the convoy with Tony, Jack and Walker in sight. Tony sits still looking rough and stares smugly at Jack and Renee. Cara tells Jack in his earpiece that it’s almost time. The convoy is about to get off on the I-70 and they need to break off before the downtown exit or they will have lost their chance. She warns him for his daughters’ sake that he should make that happen. Jack looks down at the ground, Tony watches. He needs to get off at the Taft Street exit in 4 miles. She reminds Jack that her people are with Jack’s daughter, in fact, Cara says she is watching her right now. Indeed, Cara is watching Kim read her paper from her car.
The man, Bob, sits and looks around the airport. Kim sits still with the open laptop across from her. She looks to the line up at the flight counter and sighs. She is worried that the flight will be full and she is on standby. Bob assures Kim that she will get on, there have to be people that are too spooked to fly after what went down yesterday. Bob’s wife scolds him for his bluntness but he thinks they will be safer, they will be taking extra precautions. A man comes up beside them and asks if the items on the chair are theirs, he would like somewhere for his mother to sit down. Bob gathers up his stuff and moves it and the lady sits down. While he moves, Kim notices that he has a bloody scratch on his neck. She points out that he is bleeding. His wife quickly starts to formulate an excuse, it must have happened when the cab door hit him. He says he will go to the newsstand and see if they have any band aids. His wife is unhappy and Kim looks like she’s getting suspicious.
Cara pulls over in her BMW SUV in a tunnel and waits. She gets out and walks a little ways and her phone rings. She pulls out her Bluetooth receiver and puts the phone to her ear asking what the caller wants. It’s Bob and he is worried. It’s only a matter of time before they find the body of the FBI agent he killed and he thinks Bauer’s daughter is getting suspicious. Cara only has a short window to free Tony, she wants him to stand by. Bob asks what happens if Kim Bauer makes them before that happens. Cara warns him that that can’t happen, he can’t allow himself to be taken. She says he knows what he has to do. They hang up.
The convoy drives along and Jack waits patiently. He looks out the front window and sees the exit ahead. Tony watches Jack and they meet each other’s eyes. Jack calls Renee’s name and asks for her comm. unit, he wants to adjust the frequency since it’s interfering with his. Renee hands it over and Jack opens up the back of it before he drops it on the ground and crosses to the other side of the van so he’s next to Tony. He pulls his gun out and tells them not to move. Renee calls Jack but Jack tells the driver to keep going and no one gets hurt. He wants Renee and the other agent to draw their weapons and put them down on the floor and slide them to him. Renee searches Jack’s face for answers and he tells her not to make this harder than it already is. He wants her weapon or he will kill the other agent. Renee calls Jack’s bluff, he’s not going to kill anyone. Jack fires at the other agent, shooting him in the foot. Renee is shocked and Jack yells, “Give me your weapon NOW!” Renee hands it over this time and the agent as well. Jack picks up another gun so he has two and points them at the agents. He turns to the driver and tells him to cuff his hands to the steering wheel, over and under. The driver does what he is told and Jack tells him to exit the freeway when he says to and until then maintain speed. Jack gives the order and the driver swerves out and onto the exit. The rest of the convoy is confused and bottles up, nearly hitting each other. Air support tells Chloe and Janice at FBI that they have lost sight of the vehicle and they call for a response.
Inside the vehicle, Renee asks Jack what’s going on. Jack explains briefly that they have his daughter. Renee thinks that’s not possible, they deployed Agent Franks to watch over her. Jack says that he’s dead and the people working with Tony have operatives with Kim. Tony tries to silence Jack with his name but Jack continues. They have threatened to kill her if he doesn’t break Tony out. Tony snaps, “That’s enough Jack.” Renee looks at Tony and coldly calls him a son of a bitch. Jack relays directions from Cara to the driver. Chloe speaks to the chopper who doesn’t have a visual. The rest of the convoy is going to get off at the next exit and double back. The transport vehicle goes into a tunnel and air support loses the visual.
Cara tells Jack that she is parked in the emergency lane a quarter mile in the tunnel. Jack sees her and tells the driver to pull over. Cara waves them in and waits. Inside, Renee tells Jack that he can’t do this. Jack cannot risk Kim’s life. He wants her to uncuff Tony and she complies. Tony tells Jack to cuff Renee and he will take the other agent. Jack goes over to Renee and leans over her. He whispers that he doesn’t trust Tony to let Kim go. He begs her to do whatever she has to to save Kim. Tony is finished and so is Jack. Tony waits expectantly and then asks for the gun. Jack reluctantly hands it to Tony and Tony says for Jack to cuff himself. Jack follows the order and Tony checks Renee who looks at Jack. Tony is satisfied and opens the door. He calls Jack out and they both walk around the front of the van.
Cara is relieved to see Tony but not so happy to see Jack, “What are you bringing Bauer for?” Jack tries to bargain for Kim, ‘I’ve done everything you ask, let Kim go.’ Tony opens the back door of the SUV and Jack gets in. Tony shuts the door and Cara argues that they don’t need a hostage, especially not him. ‘Just shoot him already.’ Tony tells her that she’s not looking at the big picture. Her people are going to be able to launch their attack just like they planned. Cara doesn’t understand, they lost the pathogen. Tony reminds her that they have Jack, ‘It’s in his blood, in his organs. We’ll be able to harvest everything we need from his body. Why do you think I put operatives on Kim Bauer. We’ll still need proof Jack is viable, have your chemist meet us at the complex.’ Cara is satisfied and walks around Tony. They both get in the vehicle, Cara driving, and leave.
6:11
6:16
Kanin arrives at the White House and greets Pierce who thanks him for coming. Pierce explains that he called about Olivia Taylor; a few hours ago Jonas Hodges was killed outside FBI headquarters. The theory is that he was murdered to stop him from implicating the people that participated in the attack but Pierce thinks there might be another scenario. Pierce thinks that Ms. Taylor might be involved. Kanin is shocked to hear Pierce say this and he takes him by the arm and leads him out of the way. He tell Pierce that Olivia Taylor is capable of many things but murder isn’t one of them. Pierce explains that after the President signed the witness protection deal for Hodges Olivia made a comment to him about wanting to see him dead. Kanin thinks she was venting and Pierce thought so too until she met with Martin Collier in her office. Kanin knows that none of this is enough to constitute proof of complacency but that’s why Pierce called Kanin in, he needs him to access the recording system in the office. Kanin clarifies that Pierce is asking him to break into an office that’s not his and access a recording of the Chief of Staff. If Pierce’s suspicions are correct he understands how grave this is. Pierce says that Olivia is with the Justice Department now and they don’t have time, Pierce tells Kanin that he needs to decide if he is going to help him or not. Kanin thinks and then nods. Pierce opens the door to the office and Kanin goes in. Pierce follows. Kanin heads to a framed document on the wall and pulls it forward revealing a recording device behind it. He puts his thumb on the reader and the cover is unlocked.
Olivia is still with the Justice Department. They put up her phone records again and asks her to review them again, she had no outside contact other than the number shown: Collier. Olivia is angry and snaps, ‘For the third time, that’s correct.’ One of the men says that they have taken up enough of her valuable time, she wishes them luck and shuts down the teleconference. Olivia closes her eyes and de-stresses before getting up and leaving the room. She moves around the corner and Pierce hears her, he warns that she is on the way. Kanin takes out the car from the recorder and Pierce opens the door to the office and goes out. Kanin closes the recorder.
Pierce goes to cut off Olivia and says that he tried to get word to her about something, he wants to explain. He moves exposing Kanin in Olivia’s office. She asks what he is doing there. Kanin has a folder in his hand and says that he forgot some files when he cleaned out his office and the Secret Service was kind enough to let him retrieve them. Olivia wants to see the files and Kanin hands them over and explains that they are nothing terribly important but he would like them for his own posterity. She is still unhappy and tells him borderline rudely that he got what he came for and she wants to be excused. Kanin says of course and leaves walking by her. Pierce and Kanin both leave but Olivia calls Pierce back asking him to stay a moment. He comes back in and Olivia asks him what Kanin was doing there. Pierce asks, ‘Ma’am?’ Olivia asks if Kanin was observed while he was in her office and Pierce asks if something is wrong. Olivia is mad, she says something is wrong. She yells that no one is allowed in her office without-, she stops mid sentence when she sees the painting pulled forward. She goes right across to the painting and pulls it open. She tries to get into it and Pierce asks if he can get someone to help her with that. She sees his voice register in the recorder. She turns and looks at him and he is not happy. Pierce just watches as she really tries to get at the recorder. She gives up and goes to the phone. She calls security, ID’s herself and says she wants Ethan Kanin put into custody and detained until she arrives. Pierce asks what happened and Olivia answers, ‘He stole my property, Aaron.’
An agent sees Kanin walking and he calls him back. They have been ordered to detain him, the order was given by the acting Chief of Staff. He asks Kanin to come with him. The man thinks and then agrees to go with them.
EMS and the FBI are on the scene of where Jack and Tony left from. Janice asks Renee if she is alright and Renee explains that Jack commandeered the vehicle and Tony forced him into helping him. Chloe and Janice ask what she means forced and Renee says that he threatened Kim Bauer. Chloe asks if they have Kim and Renee explains about the operative being with her. She wants to be connected to the gate and Chloe will do that, Janice will brief the White House. Chloe calls the airport.
At the airport they are announcing that the aircraft is there and they call standbys, including Kim. She’s happy that she got on and Bob says he told her she’d get on. She gets up and gets in line and at the desk one of the workers whispers to another one and the woman leans out and calls Kim forward. She says that Kim has a phone call and Kim takes the phone from her. Renee identifies herself and tells her not to react or look around but she is in danger. Renee explains that Tony has someone watching her to use her as leverage to force her father to help him. Kim doesn’t believe that Tony would do something like that but Renee assures her that he’s on the run and he’s taken Kim’s father hostage. Kim seems to be piecing things together and says that there was a man staring at her but she hasn’t seen him for a while. Kim describes him as Hispanic, medium build, short brown hair and he was wearing a suit. Renee explains that it was Agent Franks, his father deployed him to keep an eye on her but he was killed by the people following her. Renee says they have a live feed and they are close to her. She asks if anyone has a camera or a cell phone, Kim figures it out, an open laptop. Kim explains about the couple and starts to describe the man. She turns around and finds him coming around a pillar. She’s shocked and doesn’t hide it that well but changes her conversation to an apology that she will be more careful next time. Kim hangs up and Renee figures that the operatives may be moving. She wants security to move but do nothing that arouses suspicion.
Bob tells Kim that he saw her on the phone and Kim says she left her electric toothbrush and they called to say they broke her lock. Kim picks up her boarding pass as well as a pen that was sitting underneath it. They go back over to the woman and sit down explaining about the problem with the luggage. Kim looks up and sees security moving and the woman asks if something is wrong. Kim explains it that it’s the first time she’s been away from her daughter and she’s anxious to get back to her. Kim offers a picture of her and fishes out her wallet. She shows off the photos and shares her baby’s name, Teri, and points out her husband. Bob sees the security moving, he flicks his eyes to her and she pulls out her knife. Kim puts the photos away and Bob says coldly, ‘Take her.’ Kim is surprised and the woman gets up grabbing Kim. The man starts shooting and panic ensues. People duck for cover and security also takes cover. The woman pulls Kim back with her arm around her neck. Bob hits a security guard. Kim pulls the pen out of her pocket and uses it to stab the woman in the leg. When Kim moves the woman is shot. She goes down and Bob sees this. He is shot in the leg but limps off. Security comes after him and Bob is hit again but he keeps running. He stops to shoot some more guards. Kim crawls to her cell phone and dials it, phoning Renee. She identifies herself and says that security is down, the woman is dead and the man is getting away. Kim’s phone beeps and dies, the battery is dead. She yells, ‘Dammit!’ and Renee calls for her. Kim looks around and making a decision follows the man out the stairwell door.
6:28
6:32
Kanin waits and Olivia is led into the room. It looks like a storage room with a table put in it. He stands and she observes that she always liked that about him, even when she was little he stood up when she entered the room. Kanin shrugs that old habits die hard. Olivia asks for what he removed from her office but Kanin said she was welcome to it. It’s not the files that Olivia wants and she will give the order for them to strip search him if he doesn’t hand it over. Kanin admits that he took a recording, it’s his personal account of his last days there and he is entitled to them. Olivia argues that no one is entitled to take sensitive information outside of the White House. Kanin asks if it’s now National Security that she’s worried about. Kanin still has his clearance, he wants to listen to the recording together. Olivia argues that he is in no position to dictate terms, he has just violated about 10 federal laws. Kanin asks curiously what she is afraid of, what is so incriminating. Olivia wants him to turn over the recording now and he won’t face any charges. This is his last chance. Kanin doesn’t move and so Olivia calls in the agent outside. When he comes in she orders him to search Kanin for a data card. Kanin has been held without cause and he wants to speak to the President. Olivia lies that the President ordered his detention and considering their personal relationship she doesn’t deem it as appropriate to intrude on the investigation. The agent asks him to stand up and put his arms out. Kanin obliges but is unhappy about it. He shoots that this is a mistake and Ms. Taylor is grossly overstepping her authority but he is stopped short when the agent gets the card out of his pocket. Olivia gives the order to process Kanin out and the agent grabs his arm. Kanin pulls it away and then grabs his stuff. Before he leaves he warns that Olivia doesn’t understand the seriousness of what she’s doing. “I don’t think you do.” Olivia shoots back. He walks slowly out of the room and down the hall with the agent behind him. Olivia has the card and she tries to break it in her hand. She gives up and uses the table to push it and break it in half. She is relieved.
Kanin walks down the hall and Pierce comes and says he will take Kanin the rest of the way. Pierce and Kanin walk and Kanin says she was definitely hiding something. ‘Lucky for us I’m a paranoid son of a bitch.’ Pierce pulls another card out of his sling and hands it to Kanin. He asks what was on the other card and Kanin says nothing, it was blank. Pierce offers to try and get him into the communication office but Kanin says it’s too risky. He has a companion device in his car. Pierce muses, ‘You sound like you were expecting this.’ Kanin says, ‘One has to be prepared when you’re dealing with Olivia.’ Kanin will let him know what he finds.
Cara’s BMW drives up a ramp and into a warehouse. 2 men wait and they are wearing masks. Tony and Cara get out of the vehicle and they open the back door to the car. Jack is hauled out and Cara watches. He is having trouble and appears to be seizing. He is trying to get his legs under him but he’s leaning forward and almost sidestepping. He is obviously in pain. The men are on either side of him pulling him down a large empty hallway toward a plastic room. He pulls his head up and sees the light, Tony is walking behind them. Jack asks what they are doing. Tony doesn’t answer and Jack yells out, “What are you doing?” Tony says casually, ‘We’re gonna use you to reconstitute the bioweapon, Jack.’ They get through the plastic and there’s another man waiting who says to get him on the table and they do, face down. Jack doesn’t or can’t struggle as they slide him forward and then use large straps to secure him down. Tony watches with Cara and asks how long this will take. The doctor says 15 minutes depending on the level of the pathogen in Jack’s spinal fluid. Tony tells him to get started and leaves the plastic room. Jack calls after him painfully but gets no response. The doctor says that he needs something to control the seizure since he needs Jack completely immobile. The two men manhandle Jack and pull his jacket and shirt down lower. The doctor injects a needle into the back of his neck. Jack stops moving immediately but his eyes remain open.
Cara tells Tony she will contact the group as soon as they know Bauer is viable. Tony wants to talk to her first. He wants to play a larger role in the organization. Cara doesn’t think that this is a good time to make his case and they don’t ask in, they are invited in. Tony wants Cara to get him an invitation. After what he’s done today he thinks he’s earned it. She agrees that he has been resourceful but she starts to argue anyway. Tony cuts her off that he knows she talks to the top guy and all he is asking is to get them in the same room together. Tony will sell himself. Cara knows that he is careful to a fault and very protective of his anonymity. Tony reminds her that without him this operation would never have happened. He urges Cara that she has influence over the top guy, he trusts her and she can convince him, he has seen her do it before. Cara thinks this is different and Tony agrees, it is different. This time it’s for him. This appears to soften her and Tony turns.
Jack is still on the table and tied down but immobile other than his eyes. The doctor gets a giant needle and tells the others that he needs to extract spinal fluid; they need to hold his head still. The pair of non doctors get close to Jack and pull his shirt and jacket back again holding onto him. The doctor comes over and pushes the needle into Jack, a little above his shoulders in his spine. Jack’s eyes widen and he screams.
6:40
6:44
In the boxes we see Jack unconscious and Kim running after the hobbling Bob.
Olivia is panicking on the phone to Martin about Kanin being suspicious. They are sure he has no proof and he tells her to not panic, everything will be fine as long as she thinks clearly. Olivia ended Kanin’s career and he won’t let her off the hook. Martin reminds her that no one would come after the president’s daughter without hard evidence, least of all, Kanin. Olivia hangs up with Martin and leaves the room she’s in. She runs into Tim who stops her by grabbing her am. He asks if everything is alright and Olivia says its fine and leaves. Tim watches her suspiciously.
Renee and the FBI swarm the airport and find dead and injured people. Renee comes to the security guard that was hit by Bob and asks which way they went. The guard, who has people around him, says that it was chaos, there were people running everywhere. Renee radios that the male operative is gone and Kim is mission.
Bob runs and Kim follows hiding where she can. They go through where the luggage carts are and both pause as two workers pull out a bag from one of the carts. Once they’re gone, Bob passes them and Kim slowly follows. He heads up a set of stairs and Kim goes after once he’s out of sight. She only follows him up one flight before she peels off and heads into the parking garage. She finds two security guards who are supervising the parking garage. She runs to them and explains who she is and what she’s doing.
Bob gets in his car and as he drives away we see a plane taxiing behind him.
Renee and Kim speak on one of the two way radios. Kim tells Renee where she is and she has no visual contact. As she talks Bob comes driving up, not intending to stop. He shoots the security guards and Kim hides behind the nearest pillar. The car is shot at by the security and Bob loses control and the car hits the curb, comes right by Kim and goes up on its side landing on the roof. Kim goes to the security guard who has been shot and assures him that help is on the way. She sees the car is starting to catch fire and also the bag with Bob’s laptop in the back. She crosses over to the car and crouches down, slowly reaching in for the laptop in the bag. She gets a hold of it but Bob is still conscious and reaches out and grabs her arm. She tries to pull away and fight him off. The fire flares up and Kim’s arm is caught in the flame. Bob is also on fire and screams, but let’s Kim go. She backs out of the car with the laptop in her arms. She sets it down and rips her flaming jacket off.
Angry Renee comes running with FBI in tow. She calls Kim who picks up the laptop. She wants them to start working on it and Renee wants Kim to have her arm looked at. Kim doesn’t care about that, she explains that this is the laptop they were using to track her. They can do a D-11 inverse router to the people that have her father. Renee and the tech with her stare at Kim in shock and she explains that she worked at CTU, systems analyst. Renee recovers and says that Chloe is standing by. Kim is relieved that Chloe is there and wants her on the phone.
Jack is still unconscious on the table.
Kanin opens his trunk and pulls out a bag and then gets in the front seat. He plugs an audio card reader into the USB port in his car and works the screen until he hears what he’s looking for, Collier and Olivia talking about Hodges. He is right at the part where Olivia talks about Hodges being a monster and having to pay.
Jack is on the table strapped down and Tony comes back in. The doctor is on a laptop and tells Tony that the count is even higher than they’d hoped, 10 plus in his spinal fluid alone. They are still going to need his organs, though. Tony stands over Jack and opens one of his eyes with his thumb. Grimly, he observes, ‘He doesn’t look too good. How much longer does he have?’ The doctor says he has a couple of hours, give or take. Tony wants to know what happens if he dies and the doctor explains that the pathogen can survive up to two hours or longer. The only sure way to destroy it is temperatures over 500 degrees Celsius. Tony wants that in his report and it’s already done and on his computer. Tony wants him ready to move and leaves the room. Outside, Cara is on the phone saying that Bauer is viable. Jack’s eyes move just a bit but remain closed.
Wilson and Cara talk on the phone and Cara explains that the engineering of the pathogen is pretty straightforward. Wilson will contact the others, he tells her good work. Cara tells Wilson that they have Almeida to thank for this and she thinks they should consider going further with him. Wilson asks what she has in mind and Cara says that Tony believes in what they are doing and he wants to play a larger role. Wilson thinks is premature but Cara argues that if they don’t make a significant gesture she is afraid they might lose him. Wilson doesn’t know him and Cara is suggesting that he get to know him. He fills a knowledge gap in their planning and he has field experience. He would be a useful voice in the mix. Wilson calls that a compliment coming from Cara. Wilson is cautious but could be where they are in half an hour. Cara is surprised that he would come there but Wilson figures he should supervise Bauer’s transfer himself. He warns Cara that he is going to look Almeida in the eye and if for any reason he doesn’t like what he sees, he can’t let him walk out of that meeting alive. Cara understands. She hangs up the phone with Wilson and tells Tony that Wilson wants to meet him and he will be there in a little while. Tony takes her hand and thanks her. She says it’s up to Tony now and leaves. Tony watches her.
Jack is still face down on the table. The doctor says to wheel the gurney closer to him and the two guys in masks move the tools closer to get the gurney closer. He opens one eye as they unbuckle him from the table. Before they lay hands on him, Jack puts up a fight. He grabs a knife off the table and slits two of their throats. They fall and the doctor is on the way out but Jack catches up with him. He gets his hands around his head and uses the chains on the handcuffs to choke him. As he falls back Jack snaps his neck. They both fall, the doctor dead and Jack rolls further onto his back and clutches his midsection. He gets up and drags himself through the plastic. Jack is sweating and stumbling while he checks round and then moves pretty quickly, but is still breathing hard. He rounds a corner and pauses before hobbling toward the door. With his hands still cuffed he pushes open the door, sounding the fire alarm. Outside, it’s bright and Jack squints against the light and looks around. He takes off.
In the split screen we see Pierce, Olivia, Jack running, dead workers of Tony’s, Kim, Renee and Wilson and finally Tony running with Cara behind him. He pushes open the plastic and sees Jack’s is gone. They take off running.
Tony and Cara get outside the same door Jack went out. Tony stops and tells Cara, ‘He’s too weak to have gotten very far.’ He tells her to cover the north exit and he’ll go the other way.
7:00
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
-I was wondering for a few minutes if I’d put the wrong channel on and was watching a commercial – oh wait, no it’s CISCO presents.... 24!
-Olivia is just acting guilty. She’s got to be the worst liar ever and I have trouble believing that she could deceive the President for and extended amount of time.
-Poor Tim, he has consistently been the bearer of bad news and the guy who gets undeserving hell from anyone and everyone.
-Taylor must have some kind of inkling that Olivia was the one behind leaking the info on Hodges. I mean, Kanin wasn’t exactly hard to convince and he’s not even related to her. Maybe.
-There are a lot of people in that room waiting for Taylor. Wow. It’s like a military party in there.
-I was strongly reminded of elementary school when they all responded in chorus to Taylor.
-At least someone acknowledged that they needed sleep. I can’t believe that all those guys have been up all night. Someone must have gotten sleep.
-I love the guy that asks which military firms are involved in the group – I think that if Taylor know, she would have told them. Unless, of course, she was planning a poorly timed game of charades.
-I love the little video montage going on behind Taylor as she breaks down the day. Nice touch, too bad almost all of them are listed as ‘deceased’.
-Tony looks bad after that beating he took from Tony. They couldn’t even wipe his nose for him? Although, I guess Jack wouldn’t be jumping to do it. The bruise, though, is really ugly.
-Jon Cassar had a really good point here. If they were going to bring Kim back they couldn’t put her in a damsel in distress situation. This was a kind of good way to put Kim in danger, because she is being used to make Jack do what they want him to do, but when it comes down to it, she fends for herself. That’s why Cassar is great on staff, and that’s also why he’ll be missed.
-Do they still fly standby in the US? For a while you couldn’t do it at all.
-Even though Bob is evil, I like that he speaks his mind.
-I like the way Bob thinks. You know, like Jack in the Box – after they had that salmonella scare they had to be more careful, thus, it’s safer to eat there.
-Speaking of bad liars, the woman with Bob might as well just say, ‘Hey, I’m going to make up a story... now. So, the cab...’
-So, Cara can talk to Tony on Bluetooth but not Bob? Why else would she pull out the ear piece before picking up the phone for him.
-So, Tony took credit for putting the operatives on Kim, but Cara seems to be doing a lot of the designating and instruction giving.
-That was a great way to get Renee’s comm unit. Nice work. Not sure why he bothered to open the battery cover, though.
-I love how Jack plays on Renee’s weaknesses. She threatens to kill the man with her, not her. Also, he’s playing into his own pocket too. He seems to like Renee and we know he wouldn’t follow through on a threat to shoot her, although, it is for Kim.
-Those last few convoy drivers are SO fired. If the driver of the van could have made the turn, then at least the vehicle two behind them should have been able to make it.
-It’s interesting having Chloe and Janice working together, each having an agent on the ground that they care about.
-So, here’s my thoughts on Tony: There is no way that Tony should have let Jack say that much to Renee about what was going on with Kim. My theory is that Tony didn’t really mind if Renee found Kim and helped her, or maybe even wanted her to. Tony knew he was taking Jack with him and so then he wouldn’t need Kim as a hostage. There’s no way Jack could find out that Kim was safe, not like it mattered anyway. Once he was free, it didn’t matter what Jack wanted, if he wanted to help or not. He was a hostage.
-Isn’t that the second time in 20 minutes that Renee has called Tony a son of a bitch?
-I love how Cara waves in the van. It’s good to know that she could have a job as an air traffic controller if this terrorist gig ever fell through.
-Also, if Tony was worried about Jack getting Kim rescued, there’s no way he would have let Jack cuff Renee and spend that time talking to her.
-Cara’s tone of voice when she asks why Tony is bringing Bauer made me hate her even more. I have a strict no whining policy and that sounded distinctively like a whine.
-It was kind of funny, though. It sounded like he was really going to rain on their parade.
-Also, if Tony was really as evil as he seems, he would have just killed the FBI agents and left with Jack instead of tying them up and allowing them to give chase.
-I really don’t like the phrase ‘harvest organs’. I particularly don’t like it when they’re talking about Jack. I loathe it completely when it comes from Tony.
-Kanin is a thinker, I like that. He doesn’t just jump to crazy conclusions, even if we all know he’d love to believe that Olivia is evil.
-Olivia really isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. I mean, really, who meets with someone who knows people that kill people in their office at the White House.
-I love that high-tech recorder in the office. Nice work Novick.
-Getting snippy with the justice department isn’t going to help anything, Olivia.
-So, Olivia is so busted with that call to Collier – why else would she be calling him?
-Olivia is not very nice to Kanin. He doesn’t deserve that. If anyone should be being mean, it’s him.
-I’d just like to say now that there was way, way, way, WAY too much other ‘stuff’ in the middle of this episode. I needed more Jack and less Olivia.
-Olivia looked like a real idiot trying to get into that panel by banging on it.
-Olivia also sounds like a real idiot when she says that ‘he [Kanin] stole my property.’ What’s that you hear? The sound of my eyes rolling?
-I love how dignified Kanin is all the time, even when he’s being taken into custody.
-Nice how Kim has in the dark about Tony and his involvement. For once, I had the same reaction as Kim, ‘Tony wouldn’t do that.’ I stand by what she said. Unfortunately, she seems to actually believe Renee almost at face value, unlike the rest of us who are seeing it and still not believing it.
-So, how often exactly does Jack have Kim followed? She seemed to just take it in stride that he sent an FBI agent to babysit her until she got on the plane. Too bad it totally didn’t matter.
-Kim did do a good job trying to convince Bob that it was security on the phone about the luggage. Nice work.
-Listening to the commentary for this episode, the toothbrush-lock cutting story was something that actually happened to one of the writers, that’s where the idea came from.
-At least Kim is thinking ahead by taking the pen. How many people has Jack killed or injured with a pen over the years? Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
-How did those two get weapons through security? Minor problem that when you are passing security to fly people are scanned, searched and detected up the wazoo.
-I think the fact that the couple got weapons through proves this but they also lose the gunfight really bad. Worst. Security. Ever.
-Kim does a nice job throughout this of being independent, showing us she’s all grown up. Too bad she can’t charge a cell phone.
-Bob’s like a machine, he keeps getting shot and keeps running away.
-Oh Line of the Week: Kim Bauer to her cell phone: “Dammit!” Laughed for like, 10 minutes.
-That’s one high class interrogating/holding room that they put Kanin in. I guess since half the White House was blown up a couple of hours ago they’re hurting for places to stash people.
-So, Olivia thinks she is interrogating Kanin, but in reality, he is the one doing the interrogating.
-That was one of the worst returns that Olivia gave ‘I don’t think you do’. Like, “I know you are but what am I?”
-Kanin and Pierce had a nice little scheme there. I’m just wondering when, exactly, Kanin dropped the card on Pierce. There didn’t seem to be a whole lot of time for that kind of swap.
-Line of the week contender: Kanin to Pierce: “One has to be prepared when you’re dealing with Olivia.” Olivia is said like it’s something nasty stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
-So, is this thing like the swine flu or SARS outbreak? People that are paranoid wear masks and no one else does? Why are the two techs working with Jack wearing masks but the main doctor isn’t as well as Tony and Cara? I was pretty darn confused about that.
-Why are those two clowns wearing white coats as well? It’s not like it’s real hospital or anything.
-Tony is so sending mixed messages. He gets out of the car and moves facing the other way while the two get him out of the car, like he can’t watch.
-Jack looks fine until they pull him out of the car. Not cool.
-These shots where they take Jack to the plastic room are so Jon Cassar. He has just an eye for this kind of thing and the way it’s set up and the way it works makes it so creepy. It’s all dark and nasty outside, but then inside the plastic room everything is bright and medical looking. There’s this real ominous tone when Jack is led down to it and even Jack reacts to it the way he asks Tony what he is doing.
-I just hate the way those two thugs manhandle Jack. The slap him down on the table and slide him around like he’s a piece of meat. Essentially, that’s what he is to them, but I still don’t like it. That’s almost scarier than the other stuff they do to him.
-Jack sounds so sad when he calls Tony. If my heart wasn’t broken already, that did it for sure.
-Tony puts on a pretty convincing argument for Cara to get him in with the boss man, Wilson. I knew that it would work when he said that she was doing it for him this time. Also, I realized then that this plan probably had something else going on. Tony would know that the best way to get a woman to do what he wants her to do is to have a relationship, and he pushed that button right there.
-That gut wrenching scream was when they injected Jack was the one from the trailer, basically the same length and everything. So convincingly done and so so scary for Jack.
-So let me get this straight. Olivia is panicking about being implicated in Hodges death and about the trail that she has left behind with phone calls to Collier and things that she has said. So, in order to clear that up and to make herself feel better, she CALLS Collier on a cell phone and goes over the problem with him. Brilliant, Olivia, just brilliant. Any negative things I said about Kim working for CTU would be rescinded at the prospect of Olivia working on any kind of national security, well, anything.
-I love how they just threw Tim in there also questioning and being suspicious of Olivia. Nice. I like him and I’d like to see him back next year.
-I liked the chaos at the airport. I could have done without the down agent guy saying that it was chaos. I could see that, Renee could see that, anyone could see that. We didn’t need his terrible line to point it out. Thank you Capitan Obvious.
-There’s something just hilarious about Kim running in heels. She reminds me of a Barbie doll.
-Mental note, if you ever see Kim Bauer coming at you run the other way. Chances are she brings more trouble than her father.
-I give that Bob car crash an 8 out of 10. Nice form, a little sloppy at the beginning, and also completely unnecessary since all he did was hit the curb.
-Wow, Kim saves the laptop and herself, she’s on fire today (Terrible pun completely intended).
-I have grown to quite like Renee, not love her, but like her. The actress does a wonderful job, it’s just the incontinuity of the character that drives me nuts. That said, I had just calmed myself down from Kim’s ‘dammit’ when Renee came running to Kim all serious and angry and made me laugh all over again. Who says 24 is a serious show? This episode was freaking hilarious.
-So, when 24 isn’t sponsored by Cisco, it’s sponsored by Hyundai. Too bad.
-I just can’t get on board with Tony the Terrorist, and it looks like Tony can’t either. He looks so sad when he assesses Jack and talks about the virus in him. The evilness disappears and we’re left with Tony that we like. Too bad he doesn’t stick around.
-We keep hearing Jack’s theme when Jack is unconscious on the table. Just hints of it. Sean Callery is a genius.
-That was an extremely interesting footnote the doctor makes about the temperature to destroy the virus. Of course, we all know that Jack heard that no matter how out of it he looks.
-How does Cara know that Jack is viable? There wasn’t time for Tony to tell her that.
-Wilson goes from sounding like he is going to call Cara an idiot for suggesting he meet Tony to embracing the idea like his own in about 4 seconds.
7x24 spoiler thought: -Nice touch having Wilson ready to kill Tony. I guess this might stem back to the fact that Wilson effectively already tried to kill Tony in Season 5. The hit was ordered on him and Michelle to be secondary to Palmer. If Tony traced the death of Michelle back to Wilson then the attempt on his life also can be traced to him. Wilson probably would be aware of this but is assuming that Tony doesn’t know. Now he happens to be working for him and is a valuable asset to his operations but if he thinks Tony knows, he’s going to kill him.
-Those thugs seriously underestimated Jack. What did they think was going to happen when they bring a bunch of knives over to him? Also, they are making more work for themselves because the gurney is still too far away. That wasn’t the logical place to put those.
-Those were some gory kills, especially the throat slitting. The neck snap was classic Jack, though.
-Again with Cassar. I love the way Jack burst out the door when he escaped into the sunlight. It reminded me of Season 2 when he chased Alex Hewitt outside. We don’t really realize it’s light out until we come out of the dark. I think I either read an interview or heard a commentary where Cassar talked about how much he likes to do it that way.
-Cara runs funny.
-Words that hurt: ‘He’s too weak to get far.’ Just the admission of it makes me sad
-For a ‘finale’ episode, this one hardly had any Jack in it. Too much White House, too much Olivia and other stuff going on. It feels like the episode isn’t about Jack or Tony. It’s just political crap. Frustrating. It really dragged down the tone of the final two, that’s for sure. It hardly makes for a political thriller. More like political filler.
-Olivia is just acting guilty. She’s got to be the worst liar ever and I have trouble believing that she could deceive the President for and extended amount of time.
-Poor Tim, he has consistently been the bearer of bad news and the guy who gets undeserving hell from anyone and everyone.
-Taylor must have some kind of inkling that Olivia was the one behind leaking the info on Hodges. I mean, Kanin wasn’t exactly hard to convince and he’s not even related to her. Maybe.
-There are a lot of people in that room waiting for Taylor. Wow. It’s like a military party in there.
-I was strongly reminded of elementary school when they all responded in chorus to Taylor.
-At least someone acknowledged that they needed sleep. I can’t believe that all those guys have been up all night. Someone must have gotten sleep.
-I love the guy that asks which military firms are involved in the group – I think that if Taylor know, she would have told them. Unless, of course, she was planning a poorly timed game of charades.
-I love the little video montage going on behind Taylor as she breaks down the day. Nice touch, too bad almost all of them are listed as ‘deceased’.
-Tony looks bad after that beating he took from Tony. They couldn’t even wipe his nose for him? Although, I guess Jack wouldn’t be jumping to do it. The bruise, though, is really ugly.
-Jon Cassar had a really good point here. If they were going to bring Kim back they couldn’t put her in a damsel in distress situation. This was a kind of good way to put Kim in danger, because she is being used to make Jack do what they want him to do, but when it comes down to it, she fends for herself. That’s why Cassar is great on staff, and that’s also why he’ll be missed.
-Do they still fly standby in the US? For a while you couldn’t do it at all.
-Even though Bob is evil, I like that he speaks his mind.
-I like the way Bob thinks. You know, like Jack in the Box – after they had that salmonella scare they had to be more careful, thus, it’s safer to eat there.
-Speaking of bad liars, the woman with Bob might as well just say, ‘Hey, I’m going to make up a story... now. So, the cab...’
-So, Cara can talk to Tony on Bluetooth but not Bob? Why else would she pull out the ear piece before picking up the phone for him.
-So, Tony took credit for putting the operatives on Kim, but Cara seems to be doing a lot of the designating and instruction giving.
-That was a great way to get Renee’s comm unit. Nice work. Not sure why he bothered to open the battery cover, though.
-I love how Jack plays on Renee’s weaknesses. She threatens to kill the man with her, not her. Also, he’s playing into his own pocket too. He seems to like Renee and we know he wouldn’t follow through on a threat to shoot her, although, it is for Kim.
-Those last few convoy drivers are SO fired. If the driver of the van could have made the turn, then at least the vehicle two behind them should have been able to make it.
-It’s interesting having Chloe and Janice working together, each having an agent on the ground that they care about.
-So, here’s my thoughts on Tony: There is no way that Tony should have let Jack say that much to Renee about what was going on with Kim. My theory is that Tony didn’t really mind if Renee found Kim and helped her, or maybe even wanted her to. Tony knew he was taking Jack with him and so then he wouldn’t need Kim as a hostage. There’s no way Jack could find out that Kim was safe, not like it mattered anyway. Once he was free, it didn’t matter what Jack wanted, if he wanted to help or not. He was a hostage.
-Isn’t that the second time in 20 minutes that Renee has called Tony a son of a bitch?
-I love how Cara waves in the van. It’s good to know that she could have a job as an air traffic controller if this terrorist gig ever fell through.
-Also, if Tony was worried about Jack getting Kim rescued, there’s no way he would have let Jack cuff Renee and spend that time talking to her.
-Cara’s tone of voice when she asks why Tony is bringing Bauer made me hate her even more. I have a strict no whining policy and that sounded distinctively like a whine.
-It was kind of funny, though. It sounded like he was really going to rain on their parade.
-Also, if Tony was really as evil as he seems, he would have just killed the FBI agents and left with Jack instead of tying them up and allowing them to give chase.
-I really don’t like the phrase ‘harvest organs’. I particularly don’t like it when they’re talking about Jack. I loathe it completely when it comes from Tony.
-Kanin is a thinker, I like that. He doesn’t just jump to crazy conclusions, even if we all know he’d love to believe that Olivia is evil.
-Olivia really isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. I mean, really, who meets with someone who knows people that kill people in their office at the White House.
-I love that high-tech recorder in the office. Nice work Novick.
-Getting snippy with the justice department isn’t going to help anything, Olivia.
-So, Olivia is so busted with that call to Collier – why else would she be calling him?
-Olivia is not very nice to Kanin. He doesn’t deserve that. If anyone should be being mean, it’s him.
-I’d just like to say now that there was way, way, way, WAY too much other ‘stuff’ in the middle of this episode. I needed more Jack and less Olivia.
-Olivia looked like a real idiot trying to get into that panel by banging on it.
-Olivia also sounds like a real idiot when she says that ‘he [Kanin] stole my property.’ What’s that you hear? The sound of my eyes rolling?
-I love how dignified Kanin is all the time, even when he’s being taken into custody.
-Nice how Kim has in the dark about Tony and his involvement. For once, I had the same reaction as Kim, ‘Tony wouldn’t do that.’ I stand by what she said. Unfortunately, she seems to actually believe Renee almost at face value, unlike the rest of us who are seeing it and still not believing it.
-So, how often exactly does Jack have Kim followed? She seemed to just take it in stride that he sent an FBI agent to babysit her until she got on the plane. Too bad it totally didn’t matter.
-Kim did do a good job trying to convince Bob that it was security on the phone about the luggage. Nice work.
-Listening to the commentary for this episode, the toothbrush-lock cutting story was something that actually happened to one of the writers, that’s where the idea came from.
-At least Kim is thinking ahead by taking the pen. How many people has Jack killed or injured with a pen over the years? Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
-How did those two get weapons through security? Minor problem that when you are passing security to fly people are scanned, searched and detected up the wazoo.
-I think the fact that the couple got weapons through proves this but they also lose the gunfight really bad. Worst. Security. Ever.
-Kim does a nice job throughout this of being independent, showing us she’s all grown up. Too bad she can’t charge a cell phone.
-Bob’s like a machine, he keeps getting shot and keeps running away.
-Oh Line of the Week: Kim Bauer to her cell phone: “Dammit!” Laughed for like, 10 minutes.
-That’s one high class interrogating/holding room that they put Kanin in. I guess since half the White House was blown up a couple of hours ago they’re hurting for places to stash people.
-So, Olivia thinks she is interrogating Kanin, but in reality, he is the one doing the interrogating.
-That was one of the worst returns that Olivia gave ‘I don’t think you do’. Like, “I know you are but what am I?”
-Kanin and Pierce had a nice little scheme there. I’m just wondering when, exactly, Kanin dropped the card on Pierce. There didn’t seem to be a whole lot of time for that kind of swap.
-Line of the week contender: Kanin to Pierce: “One has to be prepared when you’re dealing with Olivia.” Olivia is said like it’s something nasty stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
-So, is this thing like the swine flu or SARS outbreak? People that are paranoid wear masks and no one else does? Why are the two techs working with Jack wearing masks but the main doctor isn’t as well as Tony and Cara? I was pretty darn confused about that.
-Why are those two clowns wearing white coats as well? It’s not like it’s real hospital or anything.
-Tony is so sending mixed messages. He gets out of the car and moves facing the other way while the two get him out of the car, like he can’t watch.
-Jack looks fine until they pull him out of the car. Not cool.
-These shots where they take Jack to the plastic room are so Jon Cassar. He has just an eye for this kind of thing and the way it’s set up and the way it works makes it so creepy. It’s all dark and nasty outside, but then inside the plastic room everything is bright and medical looking. There’s this real ominous tone when Jack is led down to it and even Jack reacts to it the way he asks Tony what he is doing.
-I just hate the way those two thugs manhandle Jack. The slap him down on the table and slide him around like he’s a piece of meat. Essentially, that’s what he is to them, but I still don’t like it. That’s almost scarier than the other stuff they do to him.
-Jack sounds so sad when he calls Tony. If my heart wasn’t broken already, that did it for sure.
-Tony puts on a pretty convincing argument for Cara to get him in with the boss man, Wilson. I knew that it would work when he said that she was doing it for him this time. Also, I realized then that this plan probably had something else going on. Tony would know that the best way to get a woman to do what he wants her to do is to have a relationship, and he pushed that button right there.
-That gut wrenching scream was when they injected Jack was the one from the trailer, basically the same length and everything. So convincingly done and so so scary for Jack.
-So let me get this straight. Olivia is panicking about being implicated in Hodges death and about the trail that she has left behind with phone calls to Collier and things that she has said. So, in order to clear that up and to make herself feel better, she CALLS Collier on a cell phone and goes over the problem with him. Brilliant, Olivia, just brilliant. Any negative things I said about Kim working for CTU would be rescinded at the prospect of Olivia working on any kind of national security, well, anything.
-I love how they just threw Tim in there also questioning and being suspicious of Olivia. Nice. I like him and I’d like to see him back next year.
-I liked the chaos at the airport. I could have done without the down agent guy saying that it was chaos. I could see that, Renee could see that, anyone could see that. We didn’t need his terrible line to point it out. Thank you Capitan Obvious.
-There’s something just hilarious about Kim running in heels. She reminds me of a Barbie doll.
-Mental note, if you ever see Kim Bauer coming at you run the other way. Chances are she brings more trouble than her father.
-I give that Bob car crash an 8 out of 10. Nice form, a little sloppy at the beginning, and also completely unnecessary since all he did was hit the curb.
-Wow, Kim saves the laptop and herself, she’s on fire today (Terrible pun completely intended).
-I have grown to quite like Renee, not love her, but like her. The actress does a wonderful job, it’s just the incontinuity of the character that drives me nuts. That said, I had just calmed myself down from Kim’s ‘dammit’ when Renee came running to Kim all serious and angry and made me laugh all over again. Who says 24 is a serious show? This episode was freaking hilarious.
-So, when 24 isn’t sponsored by Cisco, it’s sponsored by Hyundai. Too bad.
-I just can’t get on board with Tony the Terrorist, and it looks like Tony can’t either. He looks so sad when he assesses Jack and talks about the virus in him. The evilness disappears and we’re left with Tony that we like. Too bad he doesn’t stick around.
-We keep hearing Jack’s theme when Jack is unconscious on the table. Just hints of it. Sean Callery is a genius.
-That was an extremely interesting footnote the doctor makes about the temperature to destroy the virus. Of course, we all know that Jack heard that no matter how out of it he looks.
-How does Cara know that Jack is viable? There wasn’t time for Tony to tell her that.
-Wilson goes from sounding like he is going to call Cara an idiot for suggesting he meet Tony to embracing the idea like his own in about 4 seconds.
7x24 spoiler thought: -Nice touch having Wilson ready to kill Tony. I guess this might stem back to the fact that Wilson effectively already tried to kill Tony in Season 5. The hit was ordered on him and Michelle to be secondary to Palmer. If Tony traced the death of Michelle back to Wilson then the attempt on his life also can be traced to him. Wilson probably would be aware of this but is assuming that Tony doesn’t know. Now he happens to be working for him and is a valuable asset to his operations but if he thinks Tony knows, he’s going to kill him.
-Those thugs seriously underestimated Jack. What did they think was going to happen when they bring a bunch of knives over to him? Also, they are making more work for themselves because the gurney is still too far away. That wasn’t the logical place to put those.
-Those were some gory kills, especially the throat slitting. The neck snap was classic Jack, though.
-Again with Cassar. I love the way Jack burst out the door when he escaped into the sunlight. It reminded me of Season 2 when he chased Alex Hewitt outside. We don’t really realize it’s light out until we come out of the dark. I think I either read an interview or heard a commentary where Cassar talked about how much he likes to do it that way.
-Cara runs funny.
-Words that hurt: ‘He’s too weak to get far.’ Just the admission of it makes me sad
-For a ‘finale’ episode, this one hardly had any Jack in it. Too much White House, too much Olivia and other stuff going on. It feels like the episode isn’t about Jack or Tony. It’s just political crap. Frustrating. It really dragged down the tone of the final two, that’s for sure. It hardly makes for a political thriller. More like political filler.
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