I'm having a hard time. You know I think this is one of the best shows on television, and damn if I don't want to marry Jack Bauer, but the President being behind all of this? The guy can't even make a decision about what tie to wear much less orchestrate this elaborate cover up.
When we join Jack and Wayne, Jack's trying to stop the bleeding of Evelyn's wounded leg. She finally tells them that she recorded a call between Henderson and Logan from earlier in the day and she hid it in a safety deposit box. The amount of things wrong with this I just won't go into. First of which is when did she have the time to go out to the bank to hide the tape, but whatever, I'm going to go with it. Anyway, the group decides to pull off the road to a motel since the military has a bunch of road blocks around the city.
Jack takes this time to call Audrey. She says they were unable to track Henderson on the satellite. He tells her about the evidence he's going to try and get and that they'll have to get her father involved in helping them bring it to light. He warns her that she should leave CTU since anyone can be involved in the cover up.
In a seedy motel w/ Jack Bauer, I have dreams that start like this
Wayne's found the bank manager's address and wants to head off to his house to get him to open the safety deposit box. They carry Evelyn inside the motel room and Jack does what looks like a piss poor job of cleaning her wound, since they can't take her to the hospital. She insists Wayne go with Jack since he'll need help with all of this and says that she'll be fine. Jack finally agrees and he and Wayne head off.
Henderson and Logan are talking and Henderson assures him that even though he doesn't know where the evidence is, he's monitoring all of the hospitals. Since Evelyn is wounded she's bond to end up there at some point. Logan says that this all got out control when he, Henderson, decided to kill Palmer. The smartest thing that man has said all two seasons. If Palmer hadn't been killed Jack never would have gotten involved and the gas would have been halfway to whatever it was going by now.
Thankfully, Karen's wondering to Miles if taking over CTU was the best thing to do. Because he's a little snot he tells her that of course it was, that they've done a bad job this whole day. I don't know what evidence he's looking at. Logan calls Karen to tell her that he wants Jack Bauer arrested for killing Palmer. Karen's confused, since Jack was exonerated earlier in the day and Logan insists that he has "new" evidence to implicate him. My blood is boiling, I hate him. Nevermind all the "old" evidence that shows he wasn't anyone near it, and the confessions of Walt Cummings and the actual shooter. Because he's the President she has no choice. She's also upset because now they're going to be focusing their resources on finding Jack, when it's Henderson who they're really after. Miles suggests they monitor Audrey, since Jack's bound to make contact with her.
Chloe's putting Audrey's cell phone on a secure line when Jack's name pops up on the screen, saying there's a warrant for his arrest. Audrey thinks it's starting now. Karen comes up to Audrey and tells her about the warrant, not saying who it is who issued it. Audrey pretends she's going home to sleep and Karen says "great, you wanna eat something too you cry baby". When Karen asks her if she's talked to Jack she lies and says she hasn't spoken to him in an hour. Before Audrey can leave Karen has one of the field agents put a tracking device on Audrey's car.
Jack and Wayne get to the bank manager's home and break in, Jack expertly picking the lock. I don't know why they don't just knock on the door and have Wayne talk to him, he is the President's brother! But that wouldn't be as dramatic I guess. Anyway, the manager hears something and walks down the hall to check it out. Jack puts a gun on him and they go into his bedroom where they tie the man's wife up.
Once Audrey leaves CTU she calls her father (Secretary Heller, yay!) who's on a plane, coming back from Japan or somewhere. She tells him that Jack's being framed and he says, 'not again'. She tells him that they're going to have evidence and she needs him there to back it up. He agrees and tells the pilot to stop at the Van Nuys Airport and to leave it off the manifest.
Audrey then pulls into a gas station. The field agents are a few miles behind her and see that she's stopped. She calls Chloe who tells her to use the CTU walkie to scan the car. She does and finds the tracking device under the car. After she pulls it off she puts it onto a DWP truck and drives off.
At the President's compound, Aaron's there as Gardner comes in, asking Logan why he issued a warrant for Jack's arrest. Before he says anything Logan dismisses Aaron. Once Aaron's gone, Logan tells Gardner about the "new" evidence. Gardner's clearly pissed he wasn't privileged to this so called "new" evidence, seeing he's the one heading up the Homeland Security/CTU switch. Logan remains vague and refuses to give Gardner anymore information about this so called evidence.
In the hotel room, Evelyn's daughter's just spent. She goes into the bathroom and starts crying. Evelyn's nearly passed out on the bed but when she hears her daughter crying she tries to get to the bathroom to help her. On her way she passes out and hits her head on the table. Frantically, her daughter calls 911, telling the operated her mother's full name. Of course, one of Henderson's men hears this and calls Henderson and gives him Evelyn's location.
It's nearly midnight but Logan likes to hear himself talk, and he likes to pat himself on the back. He holds a press conference and tells everyone that the terrorist threat is over. Martha's watching from inside the room and is impressed that Logan actually pulled it off. She notices that Aaron's a bit distracted and he plays it off that it's because he nearly got blown up earlier in the day and was shot at on two different occasions. He doesn't tell her about Jack and Wayne.
The two things I love about this: a) he has Pierce in his address book b) his battery's fully charged
Jack, Wayne and the bank manager get out of the car and walk the rest of the way to the bank. Jack gets a call from Aaron who warns him that Logan's issued a warrant for him. Jack tells him about Logan's involvement in what happened that day and that he's going to be giving the evidence to Heller to present it to everyone.
The field agents who were following Audrey calls Karen. They've pulled over the DWP truck and tell her that they've lost Audrey. They wouldn't have known except for the frequent stops the truck was making. Karen and Miles decide to redirect the satellites that are looking for Jack to finding Audrey.
Wayne and Jack finally arrive at the bank and Jack tells the manager that if he puts the wrong code in the system to activate some sort of silent alarm he has people near his wife who will kill her. He lets them in and they go to the vault. The manager finally recognizes Wayne and wonders what's going on. They finally admit what they're doing and how important it is they do it soon.
Evelyn's revived by a paramedic and is surprised to see them in the room. They call her by her name and Evelyn's shocked they know it. She starts to get scared when she realizes the situation, but before she can do anything the two paramedics are shot and killed by Henderson who tells her he wants to know where Jack is.
Martha and Logan have a nice moment where she tells him how proud she is of him. They kiss and I realized old people love is sometimes gross. He gets a call and she's a bit upset that he's still working since there's no danger anymore. It's Henderson telling him that they've found Jack. After Logan tells him to "get it done" and hangs up, Martha questions him about what could possibly be going on now that the terrorist threat is over.
Meanwhile at CTU, Miles locates Audrey's car with the satellite. Shari, the crazy techie, comes up to Chloe and asks her some techie question that I don't remember and Chloe sees from her computer that the satellite is now tracking Audrey.
At the bank Henderson's men have shown up and take position outside to ambush Jack and the crew when they come out. In the bank they finally get inside Evelyn's safety deposit box. Jack immediately plays the tape and we hear Logan tell Henderson that he killed President Palmer. The bank manager recognizes the one voice as Logan's and can't believe what he's hearing. He gives Jack his car keys for their getaway.
Jack hears something outside and through his handy site thing he carries around in his man purse, he sees that Henderson's men are stationed outside. He knows they're trapped. The only thing he can think to do is trip the silent alarm. Jack thinks Henderson doesn't want the cops to have the tapes anymore then he wants Jack to so he'll order his men to shoot them, causing enough of a distraction that Jack and the gang can escape.
Chloe goes to the server room and does some nerd stuff to corrupt the satellite feed. Miles and Karen see that they've lost the feed and Miles notices that Chloe's not at her desk. He becomes suspicious and goes to the server room. Chloe deletes some more files to cover her tracks and when Miles comes in she's gone. He walks back down the hall and just as he passes the ladies room she walks out. He wants to know what she was doing and she makes some snide comment about writing a report on what happened in the bathroom.
Jack tells the bank manager to stay inside the bank but he feels his best chances are with them, that when they leave the bad guys are bond to think he heard the tape and kill him. Oh buddy you're dead anyway. At this moment the cops show up and Jack's right, the commandos start shooting at them. Jack uses this time to leave the building and he gives them cover fire. A military vehicle passes by and starts taking out the commandos as well. Jack and the group's car isn't drivable so they move to a police car. Before they can get in the bank manager is shot. Wayne pulls him into the back seat as Jack drives off.
Unfortunately the bank manager dies and Jack calls Audrey. She's at the airport waiting for him and he tells her that he has the evidence that implicates Logan. This creates concern since Jack rightfully points out that they're talking about taking down the President of the United States. Something tells me taking down this douche won't be as hard as it sounds.
