News > TW RECAP: Twenty-Four, 4/30/07
May 1, 2007
SUMMARY
The following takes place between 1:00 am and 2:00 am (three episodes left!).
The show opens as Doyle tries to talk to Audrey and finds that she is totally unaware of anyone around her. She has only been conditioned to say one thing: "Help me, Jack. Please don't let them do this to me." This is why Audrey was capable of saying this line to Jack over the phone a few episodes back, but can't say anything else.
Back at CTU, Nadia refuses Morris's request for a transfer and sends him back to his desk without discussion.
As Morris sulks, Doyle puts Audrey in a CTU chopper and refuses Jack's request to ride along with her.
At the White House, Daniels tells Hayes that he knows she was forced to fire her husband and tells her that he appreciates her presence in the White House. Which is more than a little contradictory, all things considered. At the house of Daniels' Creepy Blonde Sidekick, she is ambushed by a young, not-played-by-Powers-Boothe male character who eventually begins to make out with her. She tells him about the political events of the day, and it becomes obvious that they've been sleeping together for quite some time.
Daniels has a video conference with Russian President Subarov (sponsored by CISCO SYSTEMS, by the way). Subarov knows that Chang has the nuke component and tells Daniels to stop the Chinese from leaving the country with it, to which Daniels gets really bitchy and asks not to be pushed around. Before hanging up on the CISCO SYSTEMS video conference, the Russian promises a military strike on the U.S.'s base in Eastern Asia if the component is not returned. The CISCO SYSTEMS video conference ends and Lennox says that the only explanation for Subarov's knowledge of the component means that they have a mole. Did I mention the video conference was sponsored by CISCO SYSTEMS?
In his Chinese SUV of Doom, Chang calls his tech guy about the component in his possession by using some sort of super-high-tech-amazo method of data transfer. The tech guy tells him that the circuit board is broken, and that they need "security override clearance" in order to fix it. What? It's a friggin' microchip. Don't talk to me about "clearance."
Back at DCBS's house, we find that -- surprise -- the mole is her younger, not-played-by-Powers-Boothe boyfriend.
Back at CTU, Morris breaks up with Chloe for calling him a terrorist-helper last episode. She cries like a wuss.
A psychiatric specialist (played by the "are you a married state police officer" guy from The Departed) shows up at CTU to talk to Audrey, while Doyle escorts Jack (who still pleads for the opportunity to speak to Audrey) to his own holding cell. The specialist dude tells Nadia and Doyle there is no way to get any real info out of Audrey without injecting her with potentially dangerous drugs. When Doyle tries to get the specialist to let him get Jack, the specialist pulls rank and decides to just go ahead with the dangerous drug treatment. Doyle protests to Nadia, and pulls out the old "Bill Buchanan would just let Jack do whatever and not care about rank" line, which really, really pisses off Nadia.
THe DCBS gets a call from Daniels, who asks her to return to the White House.
At the White House, Lennox, through clever research in recent White House calls, reveals that the DCBS (whose name is evidently Lisa Miller) is the unknowing mole. Lennox basically spells out the fact that she has been having a great deal of sex with a Russian spy. "Then we have a bigger problem than you think," Daniels says. "Because I'm sleeping with her, too." Lennox gives the best "WTF" face of the entire series, which lasts a full two minutes. Daniels asks Lennox what he should do, and Lennox replies that they may be able to turn the situation to their advantage.
Doyle goes to see Jack and fills him in on the Audrey situation before uncuffing him. "Why'd you uncuff me," Jack asks. "Because I think you need to do something about [the Audrey situation]. Make it look good." Doyle then turns around and allows Jack to put him in a chokehold, and steal his gun/ID badge. Jack also punches the crap out of a totally innocent CTU guard stationed outside his cell, not to mention a secondary psychiatrist inside Audrey's medical room. Jack takes Audrey, and the psychiatrist pulls the fire alarm. Nadia sees the alarm and panicks. Mile the Douchebag looks at her, shakes his head, and says: "If you'd have just let Jack talk to her, none of this would have happened."
Then there was a series of commercials, one of which was for CISCO SYSTEMS.
Nadia confronts Doyle and says she knows full well that he probably allowed Jack to subdue him, as if it were even remotely difficult to subdue Doyle.
In a hidden room within CTU, Jack talks really sweet to Audrey and gives her some of the "I know what you've been through" and "I love you with all my heart" BS. Ridiculously and miraculously, the latter prompts Audrey to voluntarily grasp his hand. An entire CTU tactical team breaches the room where Jack is holding her -- and when I say "breach," I goddamn mean "breach". They use a blowtorch on the door. As Jack trives to convince the team to let Audrey, be, Audrey utters one word: "Bloomfield." Nadia goes all badass and forces the psychiatrist to go to her office instead of taking Audrey. Jack lowers his weapon and lets Audrey walk off with Doyle. Jack is returned to his cell.
At the White House, Lennox confirms that Russia is sending troops to the US base in central Asia. Lisa Miller walks in and gets the coldest simultaneous double-stare in the history of mankind by Lennox and Daniels. Daniels, after some tiptoeing, tells Miller that he knows everything and that she must tell her boyfriend that the US has recovered the component or else he'll throw her in prison.
James Heller shows up and talks to Audrey. Hey, look! It's James Heller! He leaves Audrey and asks to see Jack.
Doyle tells Nadia that "Bloomfield" may have been the name of a place where Chang was holding Audrey. As Doyle leaves, Nadia admits that she should have stood up to the psychiatrist when she had the chance. Doyle assures her that she did stand up, when it counted. And that that's what matters.
Heller meets Jack. Jack promises that he will stay with Audrey and take care of her, but Heller tells Jack that he is forbidden from ever seeing Audrey again. It was Jack's fault that Audrey went to China in the first place, after all. Jack begs for the opportunity to talk to Audrey and get more info out of her, but Heller refuses and basically summarizes the entire show:
"You're cursed, Jack. Everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead."
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