At a little over a month of shows to go, it's extremely bittersweet. We're leading up to a huge finale though, I can feel it. I'm not sure what exactly's around the corner, but I'm sure it'll be something I'll be screaming at the TV about and hoping next January comes really fast.
Against my wishes, Jack's trying to stop the bleeding in Audrey's arm. Seems like he has it stopped and she says she's fine. They hear a cell phone ringing and it's coming from one of Heller's Secret Service agents. This I'm curious about because one died with Jack outside and the other they had tied up right outside the room they were held in. Kinda messed up that Henderson's men killed that guy. Or Henderson. He was tied up. I digress, sorry. Jack answers the ringing phone and it's Heller. Jack's good at controlling myself, because I would have been yelling, "I TOLD YOU SO!". Heller tells him about Logan getting the call and forcing him to resign.
Jack hangs up with him and calls Bill. He says he needs Chloe and is a little bummed he can't get in touch with her. Lucky for him, Chloe made it to Bill's house last episode and Jack wants her to find Henderson on the satellite. Even though this will make it so CTU may be able to find them, she does what Jack wants. When they hang up she starts giving Bill orders and feels bad about it, but not really, she is Chloe. At the same time, Jack loads Audrey into the cop car he arrived at the airport in.
"Yeah, yeah, you're right, I'm a douche"
Henderson calls Logan and tells him that he didn't kill Jack. Logan's pissed, but a little relieved when Henderson tells him he has the tape. Then he's pissed again when Henderson tells him that he hasn't destroyed the tape. I mean seriously, what did you expect? He's not destroying the tape, he's going to use it as insurance. He insinuates that Logan was behind Walt Cummings' "suicide" and at this point I laugh to myself. Maybe he means he had one of his Secret Service men take him out, because we all know Logan didn't do it himself.
Chloe's located Henderson and he's not too far in front of Jack. This gives Jack pause because Henderson left way too long ago to be so close. He'll have to think about that later though because he turns off his lights as he approaches Henderson's car. When he gets close behind he turns on his lights to blind Henderson who swerves, giving Jack the opportunity to run him off of the road. They crash near some sort of barn and Henderson tries shooting at Audrey and Jack to no avail, obviously. When Henderson runs out of ammo Jack has him cornered. Henderson then tells him that he's had his men following Secretary Heller out of the retreat and if he doesn't check in with them every fifteen minutes, they're going to kill Heller. By now Audrey's made her way in for a loud scream "No!".
Jack makes Henderson cuff himself and calls Chloe to patch him into Heller's cell phone. Why he doesn't just hit redial I don't know. Anyway, Heller confirms that yes, there is a helicopter following him and not just that, he sees one of those damned laser sites on him. Henderson's confident that Jack won't let Heller die, so he tells him to let him go. Heller hears this and says he won't let Jack choose him over the tape. He knows he fraked up not listening to Jack in the first place, and decides to make the decision for Jack. He runs his car off the road into a lake. Jack scream, Audrey screams, I scream, everybody screams. Chloe confirms that Heller's car is in the water, and since it was sorta a cliff, they assume he's dead.
Now that that's not a problem, Jack goes in with his gun. He yells at Henderson that he's killed two patriotic men today, Palmer and Heller. He wonders what's happened to his once friend. He searches him and realizes he doesn't have the tape, that's why he was so close in front of them. Henderson's not giving up where it is. Jack knows that nothing he does will make Henderson talk so Audrey encourages him to just kill Henderson, and I'm behind her on this one.
For a minute, I wasn't sure if I was watching Prison Break or 24 or quite frankly, ER, when Logan calls Graham (played by the amazingly nasty Paul McCrane), some sort of a mysterious money broker guy who seems to have Logan by his balls. Ewe, I just thought of Logan's balls. Logan wants them to call off the hunt for Henderson since he hasn't destroyed the tape and is planning to use it against him if anything happens. Graham and the three other guys in the room with fancy schmancy ear buds, tell Logan that it's not Henderson they're worried about, it's Martha. She's been running her mouth and has even been getting some information from Agent Pierce. Logan says he's going to handle Martha himself.
Speaking of that nut job, she's concerned for Aaron because they were supposed to meet and he didn't show up. Not only that, but she found his phone on the ground. She asks another agent what happened to Aaron and he says he was transferred. Since it's the middle of the night and he was going to meet the First Lady, she thinks this is shady. Another Agent, I'll call him Noneck, comes in and says that Logan wants to see her. He pushes her into another room and closes and locks the door. And guess what? The phones don't work in it so she can't call for help.
Audrey wants to get the tape Henderson handed off so she can get Logan back for causing her father to fly off the cliff to his supposed death. Chloe tracks Henderson's movements before Jack caught up with him and it looks like he stopped off and met another car. That car has made its way to Van Nuys airport, next to a plane that's preparing to take off. Jack wants someone to come get Audrey and Bill says that Curtis is near and since we know he can be trusted, he says he's going to contact him to have him get her. Jack wants to wait until Curtis is there but Audrey insists he go. She doesn't want her father to have died in vain. Since Jack hit Henderson earlier and knocked him out, he's still bound and out. He gives Audrey a gun and tells her not to use the cell phone unless it's an emergency since Henderson's guys will probably be able to track it.
At CTU, Karen and Miles are talking about why they haven't heard anything about Jack's apprehension, seeing they gave Logan the information so long ago. Because Miles is someone I want to kick in the mouth and isn't paying attention to anything that's been going on around him, he tells her to chill out about it. Suddenly they're told that Chloe escaped holding and that she spoke to Shari for a moment who let her go. Took 'em long enough to figure that out. They're pretty sure Chloe's going to try and use her CTU resources so Karen orders Miles to find her. Shari's brought to Karen's office and Karen wants to know why she let Chloe go. Shari tells her that Chloe threatened her with a psych evaluation. Karen wants to know exactly what Chloe said. She tells her about Logan being behind all of this and that he is behind what happened to President Palmer. The look on Karen's face makes me think she believes what Chloe was saying about Logan.
As Martha bangs on the door, Logan comes in. She wonders what's going on and he admits that he had Aaron transferred, and that even though he didn't order the assassination of Palmer, someone who works for him is the one who did it. Martha freaks out, and I'm really hoping she slaps him again because that was awesome. He begs her to stop asking questions because if it comes out what he did, the country wont' be able to take it. She tells him that she hates him and that even though he's a piece of doggie doo, she'll keep his secret, for the good of the country. When Logan calls Graham back, he assures him that he took care of Martha and she knows that if she says anything, she'll go back to the institution. Graham threatens him, underhandedly.
Henderson has finally woken up and has realized Jack's no longer there. He starts trying to convince Audrey that maybe her father is still alive, all she has to do is call someone to have them search. I think she's falling for it at first but then she gets the mad ugly face and tells him to shut up, that she knows what he's trying to do. Nice.
Jack gets to Van Nuys airport and is able to pull around to the fence where the person was dropped off. There's a private plane with what looks like military surrounding it. Not sure how Jack's going to pull this one off. Chloe calls him and says that the helicopter that was over Heller got rerouted and is on its way to Audrey's location. Jack calls Audrey to warn her but she doesn't want to leave the man who killed her father. His guys' helicopter lands and Audrey tries to shoot Henderson but can't, morally, not physically. She leaves the phone on as she tries to run and hide. Not sure how great she'll be shooting these guys if she couldn't even kill the guy who killed her father, but she's going to give it a shot.
Yay! Curtis!!!
Henderson's guys cuts him free and start their search for Audrey. She's hiding behind a hay bale or something and suddenly a hand comes over her mouth, it's Curtis. Yay Curtis!!! His TAC team takes everyone out and Henderson into custody. Audrey tells Jack she's safe and Jack gets on the phone with Curtis, telling him to bring Henderson and to not let anyone question him.
Jack calls Bill. He and Chloe have found out that the flight is a diplomatic flight that's leaving at 2am. What kind of damned flight leaves at 2am? Anyway, Chloe can't get through the State Department firewall without doing some computer stuff that CTU may see. Jack tells her to do it anyway and she does.
Meanwhile, Jack sees a fuel truck going onto the tarmac. He jumps on the back of it, using the ladder to climb on top. The guards search the truck, but don't look on top. Once on the tarmac Jack jumps onto another truck. Bill calls and tells him that he's unable to stop the plane from taking off and Chloe can't get the passenger list.
Unfortunately, Miles is able to do someting nerdy to the computers and traces Chloe to Bill's house. Karen's a bit more suspicious because even though Bill's not there anymore, he's highly respected. They dispatch the TAC team and Miles runs off to do something I'll want to kick his teeth in for later, I'm sure. Karen puts a call into Mike Novick. She asks him if he knows anything and they talk about how weird it is that Logan took the responsibility away from Gardner. Mike also admits that he hasn't seen this supposed evidence Logan has on Jack. This only fuels Karen's suspicions.
Karen makes the decision and calls Bill from her cell phone. She says she knows Chloe's there and that there's a TAC team on it's way to pick her up. They don't believe her at first but she admits that she made a mistake earlier, but after hearing crazy Shari's story, she's now convinced more is going on. To prove the TAC team is on the way she tells Chloe the techno babble Miles said he did to locate her. Bill wants Chloe to leave so she's not arrested but she needs to get the passenger list for Jack before she goes.
Jack sees luggage being loaded into the plane and puts on his magic hoodie. Thank the Lords of Kobol he wore that today. He pretends he's a baggage handler. Instead of throwing the bags on though, he hops in the cargo hold. The doors close behind him. BAD ASS!
