I've decided that at 7:45pm each Monday night I'm going to open a bottle of wine and pour myself a glass. At 8pm I'll start on my second glass and by 9pm I'll be done the bottle. This is what I need to do to relax during Monday's Fox lineup of Prison Break and 24. I think it's great that these shows are put together for a night, both dramatic, both with great leads that I could just watch read out of the phone book for hours without their shirts on covered in chocolate, no wait, vanilla pudding. But damned if it takes me forever to fall asleep after I watch them both. 24 is winding down which means the show's winding up for the horrible finale that's going to make us wait until NEXT year to find out what happens. Damn you Fox. DAMN YOU!
At camp douchebag, Logan's on the phone with Henderson again, whining like a little baby about why Jack's not dead yet. Doesn't he know how hard it is to kill Jack? Give Henderson a break, he's trying the best he can. Henderson thinks they should use CTU to find Jack.
"Uh, it's you again?"
Speaking of CTU, Logan puts a call into Karen to make sure she understands that finding Jack is the number one priority. You'd think finding the guy who organized the sentox gas attack and killed one of their agents would also be on their radar of things to get done, but not with Logan. He reiterates that Jack killed Palmer and they want to find him. When Karen hangs up she's still a bit uneasy about this whole Bauer thing. You can tell she's not convinced that finding him should be their top priority, and that maybe there's something more going on. Miles, who I swear I'm gonna kick in the teeth if he doesn't shut the frak up, tells her that they'll use Audrey still to get to him. He thinks that Chloe's helping her. Yeah, yeah, so I guess he's a smart guy, he's still a douche. By using Chloe, they'll get to Audrey, who in turn will lead them to Jack.
Wayne and Jack are on the side of the road when a car pulls up. Bill gets out and boy am I glad to see him. Although the way people change sides all the time on this show I'm worried that maybe he isn't necessarily on our side. Regardless, Jack asks him to take Wayne to a safe place since he's a huge target and tells him what's been going down since his ass got fired from CTU. Jack says he's going to go hand over the tape to Heller and takes off.
Mark my word
At the airport, Audrey calls Jack from a pay phone. I don't know how this can be a secure line and untraceable but I'm assuming she knows what she's doing. She says that her father's plane is arriving and he says he's just a few minutes away. When Heller gets off the plane and Audrey hugs him, he's still curious as to what's going on. Jack arrives on the scene and Heller's surprised to see him, since he's wanted in connection to Palmer's assassination. Doesn't he know Jack by now? Of course he's being set up. Hello? For some reason Jack wants to talk to Heller inside one of the airport hangers. I'm sorry, but if I had this information I'd just frakin' show it to him, it's not like they're in a crowd of people, just the two Secret Service guys Heller has with him. But alas, they go into the hanger and Jack gives him the low down of what's happened the past few hours, sentox, Moscow, arms treaty, control oil supply in Asia, Palmer found out, yadda yadda. He also plays him the tape. After he hears all the evidence, Heller says he's not surprised because Logan's a douche. Jack wants Audrey to go with her father so she's safe. She doesn't for some reason that I'm blanking on.
Heller leaves and then comes back with both of his Secret Service guys and hits Jack in the throat. What the hell?!? He tells Jack that he's not going to be a part of taking down this administration. Although he thinks Logan's a tool, he can't take him down like this, in public. He says that he'll tell him the tape exists and to step down. I mean he does have a point, no need shouting it off the mountain top if it's going to hurt the country. But I also get Jack's point, don't really want to lie to the public. They do it all the time though. He wants to take Audrey with him but she refuses. Heller orders the Secret Service to secure her as well and hands one of the men the tape. As he walks out Jack yells that he won't be able to trust Logan.
At CTU, Chloe walks back to her desk right as a meeting in the situation room is wrapping up. She asks one of the tech's what the meeting is about and she says it's some high level meeting. Since Chloe's the head of the department she wonders why she wasn't invited. When the group comes out she asks Shari about what they talked about. Shari won't say, but Chloe eventually gets it out of her. She says that they found Audrey and that the TAC team has left to get her. Karen and Miles are listening to the conversation through a bug. Chloe immediately goes to her desk and calls Audrey. Miles and Karen monitor the call and are able to trace it to the Van Nuys airport. I knew that damned stupid pay phone would come back around to haunt them.
Karen calls her team and sends them to the airport. Chloe sees the TAC team walking through the halls and goes to Shari. She wants to know how the TAC team is there if they've just picked up Audrey. She figures out that Shari lied and wondered why she did it. Chloe says that Miles is an idiot and doesn't know what he's doing. Just then the security guards show up and take Chloe into custody. At the same time Karen calls Logan to tell him about thinking they've located Jack. When she says they've sent a team Logan says to pull then back, that he's going to send the military to get them. She's confused, again, but does as she's told. Seriously, when is she going to get a frakin' clue that maybe something isn't right about Logan. Logan hangs up with Karen and calls Henderson to tell him where Jack and the tape are.
As Audrey and Jack are tied up in a room in the hanger, she wonders what I did, if maybe Heller is right in what he's doing. Jack points out that Heller's just making himself a target, and if Logan can have President Palmer killed, then he sure won't have a problem taking out the dumb Secretary of Defense. He says that there's no way Logan will negotiate with Heller.
Finally Karen's starting to think maybe Logan's off his rocker a bit. She calls Mike Novick to inquire what Logan's smoking. He doesn't know anything about this plan to use the military to get Jack. He too thinks it's a little odd. He goes to Veep Gardner and wonders what he thinks about the whole military getting Jack instead of CTU thing. Gardner doesn't know why Logan would do that either, but can see his side of it. Mike's still not impressed and calls the Commander of the military in Los Angeles, General something or other. The General doesn't know what he's talking about, that he never got any orders from Logan. Haha, busted.
When Mike approaches Logan about it, Logan's pissed Karen went to him. I mean do you blame her? Really? None of what you've been asking for the past hour makes any frakin' sense. Anyway, when Mike tries to catch him in a lie, about him not using General whats his nuts, Logan says he's using some fancy shmancy special task force. He then brings up all this old sh*t, saying if anyone else found out he was alive, that could risk their relationship with China, he's still a wanted man there. Yeah, all the more reason to use CTU, since they all know he's alive.
Chloe Houdini
In the holding cell with Chloe, Miles is being a little punk. She tries to tell him that more's going on here then he knows and he tells her to tell him. Of course she can't, so he just leaves her in there. As he's leaving she bumps herself into him and takes his key card. When he leaves she slips out of the door, taking a laptop that's on the table. She's trying to make a clean getaway when Shari sees her sneaking out. Before she can call for security Chloe tells her about the evidence pointing to Logan. Of course Shari doesn't believe this so Chloe gets personal. She says she knows she made up that lie about Miles harassing her and if she calls for security she'll recommend she have a psychiatric evaluation. Shari doesn't like this, since she's crazy and all, and lets Chloe go.
As Martha's trying to convince Logan to get some sleep, Heller calls, saying he's on his way to the compound and needs to talk to him immediately. Logan doesn't know what this could possibly be about and Heller tells him that yeah, he knows. Martha's confused as to why Heller would be coming there after midnight, but Logan reassures her that it's just to talk about the martial law thing. She believes him, sorta. Once she's gone Logan calls Henderson and gives him the 411 on the Heller situation. Henderson thinks Jack got to Heller, but believes Heller probably doesn't have the tape with him, that Jack still has it. Henderson's about to get on a helicopter and Logan says to call the minute he has the tape.
Heller gets there and Martha questions Aaron about what could possibly be going on. She suspects it's something, but doesn't come out and say it. Aaron says to meet him out by the stables in a few minutes, that he'll show her his if she'll show him hers. She agrees.
In with Logan, Heller tells him that he heard the recording and knows what he's up to. Logan tries to get out of him where the tape is, but Heller won't tell him, just that it's in a safe place. Not for long. Logan says that he was just protecting their oil interests and that America wants gas prices to go down. I have to admit, he's right. Not sure killing a former President would be okay with me, but I'd entertain the idea. Depending on which former President it was. Heller tells him he knows he knew about Henderson ordering it. He tells Logan that he wants Audrey and Jack kept safe, and for Logan to resign. If he does both of these things, he'll keep the recording hidden, and no one will be the wiser. He wants Gardner to come in and watch as he presents him with his resignation.
By now Chloe's made it to Bill's house, with the laptop. He ushers her in and tells her where to set herself up. Bill doesn't think any of their codes will work anymore to get into CTU's mainframe or wherever it is they need to get in, but this is Chloe we're talking about, that won't be a problem. She is worried that Jack and Audrey are already in custody and thinks it's all her fault for believing that dumb biatch Shari.
I tried to dial this number and it was a Nextel phone that said it was searching for the subscriber. I got nervous and hung up.
Near the stables, Martha waits for Aaron to show up and tell her what the hell's going on. After a minute she gets antsy and calls him on his cell phone. She hears a phone ringing and looks around. She finds Aaron's phone on the ground, but he's not around. What the frak is this about? Please don't tell me Aaron's been kidnapped, or killed. My heart just can't take it.
What the hell are they doing? Jack, there's no time for that now.
Jack and Audrey are still tied up around a pipe of some sort. Jack looks above him and sees other pipes near the ceiling. He gets an idea and he shimmies up the pipe, using the molding on the side for leverage and puts the plastic restraints against the hot pipe. This looks like it hurts, but it also works and he's able to snap his hands free. Conveniently there are some pliers near and he uses them to cut Audrey's restraints as well. Audrey and Jack wait for the Secret Service agent to return, and when he does Jack kicks the door in and knocks the guy out. Jack takes his gun and Audrey puts him in restraints.
Jack runs around the hanger trying to find the other Secret Service agent. He finds him at the plane outside and ambushes him, taking his gun and having him put his hands up. Suddenly they hear a helicopter and Henderson's team lands. They start shooting at each other and I'm positive this poor Secret Service agent's a goner. Jack gives him his gun back though so he can have a fighting chance and he and Jack take out a bunch of Henderson's guys. Of course, the agent is killed and Jack finds the recording on his dead body and takes it.
Without Jack seeing Henderson has run into the hanger. Jack goes in to get poor Audrey he left behind and Henderson yells from behind some sort of metal equipment that he has Audrey at gunpoint. I hope he shoots her. They have some banter about why Henderson's doing it, and of course he thinks he's a patriot. Henderson lets Audrey walk towards Jack with his gun trained on her and Jack notices blood dripping on the ground from her arm. Henderson says he's cut her brachial artery and she'll bleed out in a few minutes so he better give him the tape so he can help her. Audrey begs him not to do it but he eventually throws him the tape. Henderson shoots some cover fire and runs out. In true McGyver style Jack cuts a piece of tubing from a nearby truck and makes a tourniquet for Audrey's arm.
Wow, he's pissed
At the compound, Heller happens to have a resignation all written up and hands it to Logan. Gardner walks in and is a little surprised to see Heller there. With a smug look on his face Heller tells Gardner that Logan has something he wants to tell him. Never be smug, really, don't be, it always backfires. And this one does because Henderson calls Logan and tells him that he has the tape. When Logan hangs up he tells Gardner that it's Heller who he's asked for a resignation from because he's accused the President of conspiracy. Heller tries to explain himself, saying Logan was complicit with the nerve gas thing and sanctioned Palmer's assassination, but Logan points out that there isn't any evidence. Ding Ding! Heller figures out what's going on, that the phone call he got has something to do with the change in heart. He warns him that Audrey better be safe. Logan orders the Secret Service to remove Heller from the compound. Hot damn!
