17 SECONDS

I know I'm way behind on my Grey's recaps. Okay, I think it's because I'm so sad it's over. Yes, it's over until the 3rd season begins, probably sometime in late September, early October. If there was ever a doubt why I love this show, you have to watch the three hour season finale. I laughed, I cried, I cried some more. This is the way you write a show people. Not with dumb women running around burning down houses, with every single character staying the course and being the exact character you wrote on page one, as they are on page 52 (the average length of a one hour TV show).

We start off in Joe's. Meredith's voice over tells us that we'll be dealing with anger in this episode. The girls are all sitting together and Burke and McDreamy are playing darts. Christina thinks Burke's picturing her face as he shoots, and I'm having to agree with her. Okay, I've never been in this particular situation, but I wouldn't think falling asleep during sex was like slitting someone's throat. He's pissed off though. McDreamy's pissed off too and Izzie thinks he's picturing Meredith's face. She says that he called her a whore, he lost the right to picture her face. Alex walks by and comments that Denny must have "kicked the bucket" for Izzie to be out of the hospital. I want to slap him, but my girl tells him that their table is only for surgeons, not gynecologists. A little rude, but Alex deserves it. Next George joins the girls with Callie, and they all don't really give her a warm welcome. I'm still not getting their problem with her. It's a catch 22 though, she's mean to them but only because they're mean to her. Can't we all just get along?

At Finn's office, he's telling Addison, Derek and Meredith about Doc's newest condition. The poor guy has bone cancer. As he's telling them Derek and Meredith are obviously pissed at each other, back talking and such. Finn and Addison notice, but innocent Finn doesn't get that it's a lovers quarrel. Addison does. Finn says they can treat the cancer with radiation and surgery, but he'll have to find out how bad it's spread before they do anything. At the hospital Meredith and Derek are still mad at each other in the elevator with Addison. If elevators could talk... that'd be weird. Addison wonders if something's wrong but they both deny it. I mean, why deny it, it's so obvious they're pissed at one another. The doors open and they go their separate ways, much to Addison's confusion.

Christina catches up with Burke and says she heard he was going to do a heart transplant. Yay! A heart of Denny! Finally. Poor (hot) guy. He coldly tells her that he's off to another hospital to get the donor heart. She wants to go with him, even points out when she went with Bailey and was such a help, but he's still playing victim. Seriously, he really is the woman in this relationship. He claims he doesn't need her and blows her off. She goes to the ER and there's been some big shooting. A guy went postal and shot up his workplace. And because Seattle's not known for it's amazing police force, the guy got away.

Christina and Bailey are working on an engaged couple that got shot. Unfortunately, instead of being brave and blocking his soon to be wife with his body, the guy's a chicken sh*t and pulls his woman IN FRONT of him to block the bullets. The two are arguing about this and he's trying to convince her they're still meant for each other. I'm waiting for Christina to shoot him again.

Callie and Meredith are working on a guy who's been shot in the leg. Because of the warm reception at the bar, I'm hoping last night, Callie's not playing nice and orders Meredith to take him upstairs for a bunch of tests. Meanwhile, George and McDreamy get a woman who's head in bandaged and who I assume got shot in it.

Izzie's fortunate enough to get this guy who I want to shoot. He's complaining about everything, including the small cuts he suffered. Don't mind the chick with the bullet in her head! Izzie back talks him a bit, hoping he'll get it that he merely has cuts when other people actually have the bullet still in them. As this douche is talking about how he's so smart and cool for avoiding the gunfire, two of his coworkers roll by and he makes fun of them for getting hit by the bullets. The guy, Brad, tells Izzie that he saw the gunman, and that he knows him. Izzie says that the guy must have been looking for him.

Alex and Meredith have a moment looking for enemas. Whatever happens, keep that woman away from enemas. She needs to keep as much nutrients in her body as humanly possible. She wonders, as do I, why if all these people are shot up in the ER, is he doing enemas. He says that he's "trapped upstairs with the Gyno-Beast on the Uterus Parade". Nice. And we wonder why he doesn't have a woman.

Before Burke leaves, the Chief downloads him on what they have coming into the OR. Burke volunteers to just send Bailey, but the Chief tells him no, that he should go get the heart. Because Alex is like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, he overhears this and wants in on it. Christina tells him not to bother, since she tried to get in on it and he wouldn't let her. Alex doesn't take this lying down and runs for Burke who's already made it to the chopper. Alex begs and Christina tells Burke how frakked up that'd be if he let him go, seeing she asked first. He looks her right in the face and tells Alex to get in. That is so messed up. When Alex gets in he finds out that the heart's for Denny. Now he's wishing he didn't come. Christina just watches the helicopter go, pissed.

Bailey's walking down the hall when Izzie comes up to her, all excited. Bailey tells her no even before she asks her question. Smart woman, Izzie was going to ask if she can prep Denny for his surgery. She's like a kid in the candy store when she realizes the rumor that Burke went to go get the heart is true. Bailey won't let her prep him and Izzie pleads her case, about knowing the case so well, blah blah, which makes sense actually. She promises to treat him professionally. She never says what that profession is, but we can assume she means doctor and not stripper. Bailey finally agrees and Izzie goes skipping down to his room.

Derek and George are in with the girl shot in the head, Kendra. George is doing his normal day dream about what life would be like if you came to work and got shot in the head. I don't know, wait about forty five minutes, you'll know what it's like. Not that George gets shot in the head. (or does he?) When you finish reading this you'll understand. Anyway, Derek says they have to operate ASAP and George tells him that she's pregnant as well. The girl's parents have been called and are on their way.

Meredith's with a sweet busboy that also got hit in the shoot out. The two of them are listening to Brad talk about how great he is that he didn't get shot. Something tells me he will get shot by the time this is all over. He's running his mouth waaayyy too much to walk out without a scratch. Anyway, the busboy wants Meredith to up his meds. He also wants her to check on Kendra. He talks about how nice she was, and that she tipped the busboys and stood up to Brad. She wants to know why he doesn't just quit the job, but like most people he needs to work to survive. Callie comes in and is rude to Meredith for having that crazy thing called a "bedside manner" and leaves. Meredith and the busboy exchange glances, he feels for her too.

Izzie's finally made it to Denny's room. Must be on the other side of the hospital on another floor. She comes in and says she has some good news. He makes a cute joke about the TV being replaced. No, not a new TV, an new heart, which is so much better then a new TV. Actually, for me I'd prefer a new TV. She tells him that Dr. Burke's already on his way to Mercy West to pick it up. He flirts that now he can take her out on some real dates. Screw the dates, now they can do the horizontal limbo without sending him into cardiac arrest. Before she can marinate in the love fest, an administrator comes in and has some papers for him to sign, DNR. For those of you not privy to the ER talk, DNR means "Do Not Resuscitate" Izzie's floored, and pissed. She thinks he's given up, just when he's getting a new heart. In his defense, he had the papers drawn up before she came in with the news. Regardless, he's tired, and he's cool with dying, seeing the pearly gates, all that stuff. Sadly, Izzie agrees with him.

Christina's checking on the two affianced patients. He's still trying to talk her into staying engaged, and she's saying they're not engaged anymore since he used her for a human shield. She's actually buying some of his begging but Christina sets her straight, getting personal by telling her not to fall for the "I love yous" and the "move in with mes" and that they'll pass you up for surgeries and duck behind you when someone's shooting. The girl points out that Christina's quite bitter and the guy says that he was thinking that too, so this means they were meant to be together. Gag me.

At Mercy West, Burke and Alex have gotten there and are told that there are actually two hearts for the taking. Something about two brothers driving crazy. Unfortunately, they don't have their pick of hearts, UNOS (the transplant people) have already assigned the heart to someone else. In fact, the doctor who's taking it is there, some bitchy woman who Burke knows. Apparently they went to John Hopkins together (Baltimore!) and she came in second to his first in the class. Oh, a doctor showdown. Nice.

In the scrub room Derek's preparing to operate on Kendra. Addison's there and tells him that she's twelve weeks pregnant. He doesn't seem to be listening to her. Not until she asks about whatever it is going on between him and Meredith. He claims it's nothing and before she can ask more annoying questions George comes in and says that Kendra's parents are there. McDreamy tells him to get the consent form signed and then scrub in. He walks out, leaving Addison standing there.

Burke and Alex are operating to get Denny's heart out when the heart gives out and goes into V-Tac or V-Fib or some other term I'm probably spelling wrong. Since the heart dies, the patient dies and the heart becomes useless. Burke thinks a minute and then darts off down the hall to the room the other doctor's in. She's about to cut open the guy when he barges in and yells for her to stop. She does and looks up at him. She, Dr. Hahn, tells him that he can't have her heart. He can if Denny's higher on the transplant list. They don't know so he tells Alex to get UNOS on the phone. Yes, he is there for a reason, I knew it. Hahn's pissed. Rightfully so, she probably has some "Denny" back where she is that's waiting for the heart too.

Because Meredith can see that she and Callie are so close, they have a heart to heart. No, actually a bitch to bitch. Meredith's done all her dirty work and Callie's complaining that she gets no respect from the other surgeons and they've bumped her surgery for other things, like brain surgery and a heart transplant. Those bastards, don't they know that a man has a bullet in his tibia?! Meredith takes this down time to break out some X-rays she carries around of Doc. She wants to know from the bone expert the success rate in curing bone cancer. In a dog. Callie tells her to they've got real patients, not dog patients she shares with McDreamy. Uh oh, she went there. George told her all about McDreamy. She actually calls him McDreamy too.

Hahn and Burke are on the phone with UNOS, measuring to see who's bigger. The guy on the phone says that Hahn's patient is twenty two hundredths of a point ahead of Denny and that he was admitted into the program before Denny. "How long before Denny" Burke asks for what reason I don't know. Seventeen seconds. Seventeen motherfrakker seconds. That's just messed up. Hahn's happy, since it's just like seventeen weeks. As they're talking, Izzie calls Burke's cell phone which Alex answers. She wonders how things are going and he gives her the download of the two hearts, Burke fighting, the other guy being ahead of Denny, blah blah. She's floored, this means Denny's not getting the heart. She quickly lies and says that Denny's getting worse, and his stats are dropping. Alex isn't buying it and she demands he put Burke on the phone.

Meredith's sitting at a table in a room doing something I don't remember and Addy comes in. She wants to know if she's seen Alex and Meredith says no. Then she decides to just ask her if she's sleeping with Derek. Here's one thing she can answer honestly to the woman. She says no, she isn't. Addison is relieved since it seems like they were having a lovers quarrel in the vets office. Meredith says that's not what was happening, and that she's moved on, in fact, she's dating Finn. They should have just put a light bulb over Addison head at this moment because she figures it out. And Meredith figures out that Addison's figured it out and tries to talk to her, but she just leaves.

Burke's on the phone with Izzie's who's telling him what's going on with Denny, frantically. He's asking her all these questions, but since she's nowhere near him, she can't answer them, just makes it up. He tells her to do exactly what he says and to not hang up the phone. Gonna be pretty hard when she's standing at a desk on the bottom floor. Burke tells Hahn and UNOS that Denny's now an A-1 candidate. Oh wait, that's 1-A. Sorry, I'm hungry. Hahn's pissed and wants to take off. The UNOS guy on the phone says that they should run tests, give them time to figure out if he's really that bad. If he is, Burke gets the heart, and if he's not, Hahn gets the heart. Hahn's pissed because this will take an hour, but the donor is stable so they decide to go for it. Burke tells Izzie to run the tests and they hang up, at which point Izzie starts freaking out.
McDreamy's operating on Kendra and it's not going too well. In fact, she's brain dead. Nothing he did though, she came in that way. Later, he and George are telling her parents. They want to know if the baby's okay. Yeah, besides its mother being virtually dead, it's fine. Derek wants their permission to take her off of life support but the dad wants to keep her alive to get the baby. George has to jump in at this point and says that it's not really a good idea. The dad gets upset and tells him to shut up.

Bailey's in with the busboy and Brad's still going on and on about how great he is for not feeling the pain of the cuts. The busboy tells Bailey that he wishes he could tell him to shut up. I'm wishing my foot could ram up his ass. Bailey says that he can't fire her and goes over to Brad. She gives one of her long ass awesome speeches where she basically tells him that he has minor injuries, compared to the people who were shot with a gun that was aimed at him. She also says that everyone around him aren't praying to live, or for less pain, they're praying that he shuts the heck up. Then she walks away, much to the delight of the busboy. BOO-YA!

Christina and Meredith are sitting on a gurney talking bout Burke and Derek. They're not in their usual spot. I actually haven't seen that spot since George almost lived there. I guess since Callie's living there people don't go there anymore to hang out. As they're talking about how their men suck, Izzie comes up, still freaking out. She tries to explain what's going on but she's only using sentence fragments. She gets out that there's a guy ahead of Denny on the transplant list but Christina's confident that another one will come along. Izzie screams that no, he needs this one. Eventually she figures out that these two are no help, especially since she's not really telling them anything and walks way. Not before grabbing some big machine and rolling it down the hall with her. Meredith and Christina figure that if anyone was gonna go crazy and shoot up the place it'd be her.

Izzie wheels the equipment into Denny's room who makes a few jokes about them doing the transplant right there. It's not time to joke dimples. Izzie explains what's going on with the other heart and the hurt in his face is there. He realizes he's not going to get the heart. Not if Izzie can help it. She tells him that a way to get the heart is for him to get worse, much worse. Since he feels fine he doesn't understand. She sits down with him and says that she's going to make it happen. She must have taken a class by Dr. Phil.

Alex and Burke are waiting anxiously by the phone. It's been half an hour and not only have they not heard from Izzie, but they've tried Bailey's cell and she's not picking up. That's just rude, she's not that busy. Hahn's taunting them about not getting it and Burke tries to tell her that she doesn't even want to heart, that there's some sort of defect in it. Um, she was #2 at Hopkins, not #13872. She gets what he's trying to do.

Izzie's preparing to do this, locking the door, drawing the blinds, and Denny's telling her to stop. He's not liking this idea. I mean, she is an intern and all. She's ignoring him and saying it'll be okay that he won't die. He doesn't like the idea of taking some other guy's heart and she tells him about the whole seventeen second thing. He tries to argue with her but she tells him not to give her that whole, seeing the light, heaven’s cool thing he was telling her earlier. She wonders what she's going to be doing while he's hanging out in the light. At this point she flips out, gets really emotional. And I'm getting emotional because I hate to see my girl crush upset. She begs him to do it for her, because she won't forgive him for making her love him. She cries some more, begs some more and I'm crying like a baby at this point as he tells her that he'll do it.

So my eyes are already primed from crying because of Izzie's breakdown with Denny, so why not cry at just some great dialogue. It's been known to happen. George and Callie are talking and Callie's complaining about Meredith asking about Doc. George reminds her that she does like the dog. Callie gets all defensive now. She says that she understands him defending Izzie, but defending Meredith after she did everything she did is just wrong. He explains to her that they're family. Izzie, Christina, Meredith, they're his family and that he can hate and be mad at Meredith, but that he's always going to defend her. Callie then asks if this means she has to forgive Meredith too. He says, "If you want a chance to be part of the family, yeah." Haha, nice.

Izzie's on the phone with Burke who wants to know what the hell's going on. She tells him to just hurry back. He wants to know what's going on and when she calls him "Preston" he knows something's going on. Oh, and then when she tells him that she doesn't know enough to know how long Denny's going to have once she "starts". Start? Starts what? She just tells him to hurry back and hangs up. Burke knows something's up and goes back into the room. He too lies and says things that aren't true about pulmonary edema and multiple IVs. He says that he wants to verify all of this in person and Hahn's pissed, since getting back and forth from the hospital will take more than an hour. Why? Doesn't he still have the helicopter? I guess not. Hahn wants him to call the Chief but Alex says that because of the shooting, everyone's in surgery. Burke leaves and tells Alex to protect the heart and not let her do anything.

Derek has Addison talk to the Kendra's parents about not keeping her alive for the baby. She says that her body can't regulate temperature, or hormones, and although they could do it, it's not really a good idea. They're not having it though and Addy loses her cool, telling them they shouldn't be using their daughter's corpse as an incubator. Hot damn! Derek pulls her out of the room and wants to know what's going on. She then goes off on him, basically saying that she slept with his best friend but he won't show any emotion, like being pissed, or calling her names, or not talking to her in the elevator. She says the guy came back to get her and still Derek doesn't lose any sleep over it. She thinks maybe going on a date with the vet will get some emotion from him but alas, it won't, since she's not Meredith Grey. She shouts so loud that everyone in the tri-state area (and Canada) hears her, including the Chief, Christina, and Meredith.

George has gone into Kendra's room to talk to her parents. He tells them about Denny and even though Kendra's not a match, that she could help at least a dozen people. He says that from what he knows about Kendra, if she had a choice, she'd save those dozen people. You can tell his speech has really affected them. Finally. I would have thought that corpse comment would have.
Meanwhile, Callie's called Meredith into an X-ray room. She's put up a bunch of X-rays of people with the same problem Doc has, unfortunately they all died. Good move Callie. Hey, at least she's trying. Somebody had to be the bigger person in all this.

Down in the ER, Christina's with the engaged couple who tells her that they're staying together, that she's going to give him another chance. Christina nearly rolls her eyes. Bailey's with the busboy who asks about Kendra. Bailey breaks it to him that Kendra didn't make it and he hangs his head. Brad overhears and comes over, promising the guy time to recover and still have his sh*tty job when he's better. I guess all you can do is try.

Addy's in with the Chief, apologizing for her behavior earlier. He's reading her a bit of the riot act. She admits that he's not having an affair anymore, but that the only people who don't know that Derek loves Meredith is Derek and Meredith. Ain't that the truth.

Meredith and Derek are guess where? The elevator. He looks like he's going to say something, but doesn't. You know who does say something though? Callie. While she and George are in the locker room she blurts out an "I love you". George just stares at her. I can't tell if he's happy or just surprised she said it. She apologizes but she asks what he's thinking. Before he can say anything Izzie bursts in and tells him that she needs his help. He debates for a second, but only a second because then he tells her he'll call her later and leaves with Izzie. Poor Callie.

Finn's in his office and Meredith comes in. She wants him to give it to her straight, how is Doc. He says that it's not good, and that best case scenario he'd have a year. Unfortunately, this isn't best case scenario. She breaks down and starts crying and Finn says he knows she loves him. She says that she does love him, that she loves him so much. I'm thinking she's not talking about Doc anymore.

George and Izzie arrive in Denny's room and Izzie obviously hasn't explained anything to him yet. She's just talking to Denny about the LVAD and how she may have to shock him. George is still wondering what's going on when Denny has Izzie kiss him for luck. She does and Izzie picks up a pair of scissors. George keeps asking her what she's doing.

Bailey's in the ER and sees Brad walk out. Kinda with his tail between his legs. Suddenly, we hear gunshots. The guy from the engaged couple gets behind the girl again and she tells him they're through. Bailey runs out towards the gunfire. I love this woman. In Denny's room Izzie tells him to stay away from the light and tells George to make sure no one comes through the door. When Bailey gets outside Brad's laying on the ground, dead. Izzie picks up the LVAD wire and prepares to cut it. Outside, Bailey rushes to the side of Burke!! He's been shot too and he doesn't look good at all. Eyes bugged out, not moving. Inside Denny's room Izzie looks up and says "It's okay. Burke will be here any minute" and cuts the frakkin' cord! HOLY CRAP!

The only solace I have is that this showrunner for this show is a black woman and there is no way ever she would kill off her strong black male lead. Never in a million years. So it's safe to assume Burke's not dead. He may be maimed, but not dead.

DANIELLE WINS!

Last week we were treated to the season finale of America's Next Top Model. As you probably know, Danielle won it all. After thirteen or so weeks of trying to find the best up and comming model in America I think the judges got it right. Finally. Not that I don't like the past winners, Nicole and Naima are the only ones I watched before this and who doesn't know Adrienne from the first one. They were fine, although the second Naima found out she won her head grew about fifteen times its normal size. Seriously, normal sized head before her image flashed on the screen, ginormous head the second it did, yelling, "I won! I'm so happy" and then telling us in her download that she knew she was going to win, blah blah. Not very humble.

What a dumb ho

The last episode of the show had three girls vying to be ANTM. Joanie, Danielle, and Jade. Yes, I did say Jade. And do you think the weeks of the judges telling her in their own words what a stuck up bitch she was changed her? No, not only did it not change her, I think it made her more of a stuck up bitch. She was completely oblivious to the fact that maybe these judges know a thing or two about modeling. Yeah, I make fun of Tyra and her big forehead talking about modeling, but the bitch knows what she's talking about. So thank my lucky stars was I happy when she was the last person voted out. She still didn't get it, doing some weird poetry as she was leaving. I hope she watches this back and realizes what a skank bitch she is. Probably not, she'll probably think something's wrong with the 129797 people on the show who couldn't stand her.

So the last half of the show was just Joanie and Danielle. I like Joanie, she seems like a down to Earth girl. She's pretty and takes great pictures. The only thing that was wrong with her was that damn tooth they removed a few episodes ago that had her looking all snaggle toothed. After they removed it she still wasn't comfortable smiling. And who would be after twenty odd years of having a troll mouth.

The judges tell the girls that the only thing wrong with Danielle is her accent. This season the judges have been particularly harsh on the girls. They made fun of Danielle's gap which in reality really wasn't that bad. Nothing like the mole that needs to be gnawed off of Cindy Crawford's face. Granted, when they made fun of Leslie's duck walk that was justified because it was so unattractive. And Joanie's tooth. Anyway, the way they made fun of Danielle's accent was really unfair. Give her a speaking coach and she'd have that accent licked in no time. If you just tell her, "don't talk like this, talk like this", who would understand that. Especially if they don't know they have an accent to begin with.

It all came down to the final runway show in Thailand. It was a long ass runway over water, but not in water like two years ago. The girls were dressed in some weird ass Asian duck suits that I didn't get. Danielle worked it out. She even gave Nigel a little wink when she passed them. But hey, who wouldn't wink at his hot ass? Joanie was okay, but she spent a lot of time looking down at the ground, which were covered in rose pedals, making it a bit slick. Danielle slid a few times but kept working it. In Tyra's words she was FIERCE. That's what won her the competition. And the fact that she's six feet tall and drop dead gorgeous didn't hurt either.

In the end I'm extremely happy Danielle won. She was the prettiest, seemed to be the nicest, and even after she was hospitalized with exhaustion and dehydration, she worked it out with a beautiful shot on top of an elephant. That's a model. Good luck Danielle.

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO

So, for the past month or so I've completely avoided talking about American Idol. It's not as much because I don't watch it, because like millions of you, I do. I think it's more because I'm bored. With shows like The Amazing Race and Survivor, I just couldn't commit to recapping it. Most recaps would be like this...

Jim-Bob sings "I Believe I Can Fly" and Randy says it was aiight, Paula says something incoherent about fortune cookies and eggs and her boobs pop out while she claps funny, and then Simon hates it. On the off chance Simon actually likes it I'll get teary eyed and that's just sad.

But, I couldn't let the last show get by me without saying a few words about the way this season has gone. Did I hate it that Mandisa got kicked off, hell yeah I did. Until I heard that she doesn't want to sing at any gay functions. That's just rude. The only person I was truly sad to see go was Elliott, but by that time I wasn't even watching the results show. There are better things on at 9pm on Wednesday nights, like Criminal Minds and LOST. I'm not going to fry my Tivo over 2 minutes of show. I don't care that someone's had a Bad Day. The only other person I wish hadn't had a Bad Day is Chris. I'm not into rock, but he could sing his ass off. Wasn't really a fan of his style of singing, with his head cocked to one side, but regardless, he could blow. I look forward to my roommate buying his albums when they come out and I'll listen to them in her car. Paris I wanted to be sad for but by the final 10 I was over her. She just wasn't impressing me, especially with that hairdo that kept changing every week.

So it comes down to Katharine and Taylor. Last night's show was pretty good, although they both sang two songs we've already heard them sing. Boring. If I didn't like it the first time, I'm not going to like it the second time. And no one can sit on the floor and sing like Fantasia can, so get up and stop singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Katharine has a good voice, when she remembers the lyrics and sings on key, but she spends way too much time making love to the camera and not enough time paying attention to the people who are cheering her on in the audience.

I have to admit, Taylor spends too much time on the audience in front of him then he does to the people watching, but most likely I'll be going to a concert and buying the album, not watching them sing on TV again. Obviously you know who my favorite is to win. Last night's first two songs were just "aiight" to quote the Big Dog. I mean he sounded great but he did a bunch of dancing and that never goes well.

Simon called it right when he said that it all came down to the last song. I was scared for Taylor at this point because Katharine can blow, and if it's not a good song, Taylor will just look weak compared to her. Boy was I wrong. Katharine came out, shaking in her boots. Literally. Well, she actually just had heels on, but they were shaking. The song was out of tune, she started way too low, and the end was like hearing a cat claw up a chalkboard. I was thinking Taylor would really have to frak up for him not to sound better. He didn't frak up, he sounded great. He sang it with heart and soul and the song was perfect for his voice. I got chills listening to him belt it out, knowing it was his only chance to go hard or go home. He did it.

Is it right that I'm judging who I vote for on that last song? Probably not. But I know that when it comes down to who I want to win, the person who forgets her lyrics and tries to seduce me with her eyes, or the guy who brings everything he has to entertain me for those 2 minutes he's singing, I'm gonna vote for the guy who brings it. I'm sure Katharine will have her fifteen minutes with Clive Davis and put out some "8th World Wonder" song, get some money to make her father stop crying and her mother to stop being a bitch backstage. I just want to see the good guy finish first for a change. Hey, I'll buy his record.

NO TURNING BACK

Finally. After what seemed like an eternity, the guys finally make it out. Or do they? After Michael pulled a shiv on Pope at the end of the last episode, there's only one thing that can happen, the guys getting out.

Michael's still in Pope's office with a shiv to him. Pope's forgotten all that sweet and fuzzy stuff he said to Michael before and says that he's just earned another ten years. The radio comes to life and it's one of the C.O.s. He tells Pope that he's looking at Bellick's truck in the parking lot, and that he has to be here. Michael instructs Pope to tell the guard that he spoke to Bellick, and that he walked to town. Bellick just out for a stroll, can you imagine? Under direst, Pope does what he says, although I think in hand to hand Pope could break Michael in two. We then see that Michael has taped Pope to his chair. I find this highly unlikely since unspooling tape makes an obnoxiously loud noise, and anyone outside of the office would have heard it.

When Pope's secure, Michael has him radio to have Lincoln sent to the infirmary. Of course he does it and he has some loyal employees because they don't even question why they're taking this healthy man to the infirmary. Before he leaves, Michael tells Pope that one day he'll understand why he did it. Then he gags him and hits him hard enough to knock him out. He pulls him into the closet and picks up the phone. He then goes outside and tells Pope's secretary that Pope said he's going to be on this conference call for awhile. She looks down at the phone and verifies that he is indeed on it. Michael should have added "And he said you could take the rest of the night off", but he doesn't. The secretary then takes the time to make Michael feel like a tool telling him how much Pope likes him and appreciates his help getting the Taj Mahal done. I really hope he put that piece back in it so it'd stand up before he left.

I hope he flushed first

Michael makes it back to his cell in the nick of time. I'm thinking Sucre's going to jump out of his skin. I'm about to jump out of my skin too. Michael reminds us that they have an hour to get everyone over the wall. Over with Westmoreland, he's not doing too well. He's changing the sock that he's put on his stomach wound and it's not looking too good. All the other cons are checking each other out through the bars, waiting for tier time to begin. Unfortunately, C-Note looks up at Trumpets, whose ass he kicked earlier in the kitchen and he makes the throat cutting signal which means his ass is grass once tier time begins. Dumbass Tweener's trying to make his jumpsuit white like the crazies' jumpsuit.

Michael looks over to Sucre and wonders if he unscrewed the toilet. No, he was worrying about his ass coming back. Unfortunately, that's five minutes they don't have. Ain't that the truth. Sucre realizes he's just made a big mistake and throws up. He says he can't do ten more years in there. No crap. Who could? Trumpets maybe, since he's the man in there. Suddenly the doors open and it's tier time.

Everyone starts making their way to Michael's cell in the most obvious convergence I've ever seen. We know the C.O.s at Fox River are dumb, but why they don't see eight people walking in one cell and not walking out I don't know. Regardless, they all get to the cell just as they're opening the sink. Sucre takes all the jumpsuits and puts them under Michael's bunk. C-Note looks up at Trumpets who's watching everything go down. Unfortunately, Tweener didn't take any home economics classes and doesn't know how to bleach. There are a few blue spots still on his suit. Poor kid. C-Note then goes into the cell just as Trumpets get his guys ready to pounce. He tells them that he's going to get C-Note and whoever gets in his way.

Down in the hole, Bellick's coming along well getting his ropes untied. He gets one and I'm sure that's the one, but it's not. Damn, Westmoreland did a hell of a good job tying this dude up. What I want to know is why they have so much rope in the guard's room. Anyway, there are some men above him in the room who come and go without hearing him screaming through his gag.

Trumpets and the rest of the brass section, get to Michael's cell. The curtain is dropped, but he doesn't care that C-Note and Michael want some private time. Abruzzi tries to stop Trumpets from going in, but Trumpets is on a mission. When he pulls back the sheet he just sees Michael sitting on the bed, reading or something, C-Note nowhere in sight. I'm glad the whole escape crew was in on what was going down with Trumpets and didn't think they were old friends or something. "He's over there". Trumpets leaves and we see that C-Note has already made it through to the other side of the wall. I'm really glad this cat's still alive. I like him.

Nick still has the gun trained on poor sappy looking Veronica. She wants to know what the hell is going on. He assures her that he's not working for the conspiracy people, he's working for Abruzzi. Apparently, Nick's father is a criminal that supposedly didn't do it, just like Lincoln. One of Abruzzi's guys who was already doing life, confessed to the crime Nick's dad was in the clink for. Because of this, Nick owes Abruzzi one. Veronica realizes that she's going to be exchanged for his father's freedom. Don't get all high and mighty on us now V, you would have totally done that for Lincoln. Nick foolishly thinks that everything will be okay if she just gets Michael to tell Abruzzi where Fibonacci is. He also thinks that all Abruzzi wants to do is get Fibonacci to sign his yearbook.

In Michael's cell, all the escapees are going through, one by one. Again, why no one is noticing this is totally beyond me. Michael hands them each the jumpsuit Sucre just took from them and stored. Not really sure why they did that either, but I'm going with it. When Manche gets stuck a bit, T-Bag tells him to move his fat ass. That's not nice. He may have a low metabolism. Since Michael's the captain, he goes last, not before Sucre wonders if he ever got that pesky key to the infirmary.

No, he didn't. He didn't because dumbass Sara's still staring at Lake Michigan wondering what the hell to do. I don't know, get your ass back to the prison and unlock the damn door. They're almost there. She has to be more then ten minutes away and something tells me that Michael and the guys are ten minutes away from the infirmary. Make up your damn mind already.

I just love Michael popping up over his shoulder. Made me laugh.

Down in the tunnels Michael tells his crew they're ten minutes late. He then looks at Sucre and shakes his head. If they hadn't had to unscrew the damn toilet... Bellick's also down there and he's now managed to get the gag off and starts yelling. The team stops when they hear him. Also stopping are two C.O.s. Our favorite white and black ones. They hear something and go back to the guard's room to check it out. Right as the guard come in and Bellick's about to shout again, T-Bag puts his hand over Bellick's mouth. Even though these are the smarter of the guards, they think they both just imagined hearing someone screaming from below the room and don't do anything to check it out. For some reason Michael tells T-Bag to get Bellick's uniform and hat off. Personally I would have put someone not into raping people in charge of that, no matter what a douche Bellick is.

Dr. Sara's finally made it to Fox River. She took K.I.T.T. the magic car that goes real fast and jumps over any traffic. She broods a bit but then goes into the prison.

Bellick's mouthing off to the escapees as they go by him one by one. You can tell T-Bag wants to do some unmentionable to him. When Sucre goes by he calls him a dumbass in Spanish, which is awesome. When Tweener goes by Bellick makes eye contact and tries to say something, but is cut off with a bunch from Tweener. T-Bag looks like he's going to do something again but doesn't, leaving Bellick to lay there, watching the group head off into the tunnels.

In Nick's car, Veronica's tied up in the back seat. Ah, it's like prom night all over again. She begs Nick not to do this, but he's not listening. If anyone knows what someone will do for a family member it's Veronica. I get a little queasy when he puts a pillowcase over her head. Personally I think if you want to go inconspicuously through the city having a woman in the backseat, putting a white sheet over her head may not be the best idea.

The team gets to a section of the tunnel and Michael tells them to put the white jumpsuits on. He's put on Bellicks hat and jacket and hot damn does he look good in a uniform, even Bellick's. He tells them to wait there, that he'll be right back. He goes to the keypad next to the door and blows some powder on it, seeing the four digits the person last touched. He starts going through combinations and thank goodness it's not like at the ATM where if you enter it too many times it locks you out. This is the most inept prison and prison system I've ever seen portrayed on television. As Michael does this, C-Note notices poor Westmoreland's condition, and because these two bonded over their daughters a few episodes ago, he's concerned.

Agent Brinker is in a meeting with The Company, I guess. A bunch of old white guys. Is it wrong to think this is exactly how our government is run? Anyway, they're talking about what to do with the Vice President. They were all for her when she was doing what they wanted, but they're not happy with her lately, the whole Terrance Steadman thing and all. They think maybe they should pull their support from her and because Agent Brinker is there, from one bitch to another, they ask what they think they should do. She tells them that the only thing Reynolds has going for her is becoming President, and if that doesn't happen she's going to go balls out. This solidifies to them what to do.

Ah, yeah, morphine

Dr. Sara comes into the infirmary and sees that Lincoln's being escorted in. For some reason this surprises her. I guess she didn't think Michael would really do it. She's in the supply closet and notices the bottles of morphine, which take her back to the days when all her problems were solved by shooting the stuff up. I have to admit, I had surgery on my knee and that morphine pump they gave me was frakkin' awesome. I wish I had one of those now.

Down in the tunnel, Manche's got a bad feeling about this. Not sure if they told him that the last part is scaling a flimsy wire fifty feet above the yard. T-Bag doesn't give him a pep talk. In Pope's office his secretary looks down in the middle of her solitary game, at the light on the phone, noticing that Pope's still talking. Suddenly, an alarm goes off. I nearly jumped out of my chair. The boys are freaking out too. Michael looks mildly concerned.

T-Bag starts to lose his cool too, and I wonder if Manche's going to try and help him out, probably not. C-Note tells them to hurry back. Why? So Bellick can bust your ass? Michael appears and tells them to stick with the plan. He's the one who set off the fire alarm. As much as I love Michael, that would have called for a slap in the face. He could have told them that. Above them, the psych ward is being evacuated because of the alarm.

A plane arrives at what we're told is Goose Field. We assume this is Abruzzi's plane. The guy on it is very Italian. He's holding a police scanner to stay informed of what's going on. The pilot doesn't seem as confident and thinks it's such a small town, "the sticks" to be exact, that people were bound to hear the plane lane. Well, the FAA is bound to track a plane leaving with escaped convicts, but hey, you're not too worried about that.

All of the psych ward patients are milling crazily around when the orderly comes out and says it was a false alarm. Everyone is ushered back inside, giving the escapees a perfect chance to come up out of the hole, which they do. From around the corner, it seems someone is watching them, breathing a bit too heavy for my taste. At this point my roommate shouts out, "It's Haywire!" We don't know this for sure, but it's a damn good guess. I'm impressed.

God I love a man in uniform

As the inmates are being led back in, before they can close the door, Michael comes up in his uniform looking beyond yummy and tells them to wait, that they have some stragglers. Yeah, and an extra guard. Our escapees try and look crazy, which for some of them (T-Bag I'm talking to YOU) isn't really a stretch. Before they can walk fully into the ward, the orderly calls Tweener over noticing that it's not the issued white. Michael's standing next to the poor guy when he also realizes that Abruzzi's in the mix. Michael takes the meds the guy has and sticks him with it, knocking him out. I don't know why, but it was at this moment when I realized they were in it to win it. All or nothing. No turning back. I don't know why stripping Bellick of his clothes or locking Pope in his office at shiv point didn't tell me and this did.

In the back of Nick's car, Veronica's still pleading for her life. I bet Nick wishes he had some of that sedative Michael used for the guard. He finally stops the car and pulls the pillowcase off of her head. She looks scared. She shouldn't be, Nick's called for a cab and promptly puts her in it, saying she can go to the airport and head to Blackfoot to find Steadman. Lucky for her he brought her purse along with him. After she's away, he calls his dad and tells him to meet at the apartment. Thinking maybe meeting somewhere a little less obvious may be a good idea.

In the psych ward, as they're walking through, Michael takes this time to call Tweener out. He says that he knows he's the one who told Bellick about the escape. Tweener tries to lie, but he can't. Michael tells him that he owed him, and he pays his debts. Unfortunately once they're out he tells him that they're going one way and he's going another. Nothing much for Tweener to say really.

Dr. Sara's finally at that damn door. She better hurry up and unlock it because if she's there when T-Bag gets there there's no telling what he's going to do to her. She pretends to lock the door, but it's obvious she didn't. Katie comes up behind her and she gets a good scare. Last thing you'd want to do to a pretty girl in an all male prison is sneak up on them. Regardless, she tells her that the fire in the psych ward was a false alarm, which I guess is why they're there so late. Of course Dr. Sara comes and goes as she pleases in that place.

Down in the bowels of the psych ward, C-Note's going back to Westmoreland, seeing how he's doing. He's not looking so hot. He tells Westmoreland that there's no point dying when he gets out, since the whole point is to see his daughter. But Westmoreland wants to continue. All this is seen by who I'm now also convinced is Haywire. As Dr. Sara and Katie leave the infirmary, Michael pokes his head out one of the doors. Because there's no reason to monitor the infirmary when a man sentenced to death and has just tried to escape is being held, Michael has the rest of the guys follow him down the hallway.

Kellerman's with the Vice President as she's freaking out. Aunt Flo must be in town. He's telling her to calm down and take some Midol, but she says that she knows more then him, and that The Company is selling her out, she knows it. Apparently they uninvited her to a fundraiser, which is really quite rude. He thinks they're just trying to see how she reacts to this, and that she needs to react Presidential. I can't figure out if they're hooking it up or if he's her son or nephew.

In the infirmary Lincoln's not only sentenced to death, he's sentenced to listen to this guard talk about his car or something. Lincoln looks completely defeated, until he sees Michael come up behind the guard. When the guard is ambushed by the group, he tells them that he's no hero for fourteen dollars an hour, and they can do what they want. T-Bag knocks the guy out and without anyone seeing, takes the guy's handcuffs. Kinky.

Nick's back at his place, wondering where dear old dad is. I'll tell you where he is, getting the barrel of a gun stuck into his forehead. His dad walks out with the guy from the Verizon store. Nick's surprised, not sure why, you're at your own apartment.

In Bellick's office, his secretary's getting hungry and wonders how much longer this damn call is going to last. She wants to listen in to get a better idea and picks it up. It's a "Jokeline" that Michael dialed and it's $2.99 a minute. Damn, those must be some good jokes. She looks pissed. I would be too, highway robbery I tell ya.

At Nick's house, the Verizon guy holding his dad wants to know where Veronica is. He tells him that's she's gone. The guy doesn't give Nick a minute to rethink his answer, he just asks if Veronica can be produced in two minutes. Nick says no and Verizon guy just shoots his dad in the head. Thanks for the memories, dear old Nick's dad with the cabin who we got to see about 30 seconds of. I guess being shot in the head is better then being in prison. Since this dumb ass Verizon guy just shot the only thing he had over Nick, he ain't gettin' anything out of him now. He shoots Nick in the shoulder, but hey, he's tough, he's been shot before. Her smiles and tells the guy that Veronica's a million miles away from there, which sucks because that's halfway to the moon, and I can tell you, Steadman is not there. Verizon man's not having it and shoots Nick, probably in the head, we don't see exactly.

Michael and the gang make it to the door Sara was supposed to open and with relief, she has left it unlocked. Unfortunately, she's in her car crying. Sobbing really. I'm assuming because she just helped a known child molester and killer escape, although she doesn't know T-Bag is there. All she knows is Michael and his hot brother are going to be free and they can find some place to meet up and finish what they started last episode.

Inside the room, Michael and the guys go to work trying to get the bars off of the windows. Michael and C-Note go to the fire hose and bust it out. Westmoreland's not looking too good still, even worse if that's possible. In Pope's office, his secretary decides to go in to see what's so funny on that damn joke line that he's been on it for forty five minutes. Back with the escapees Michael ties the hose to the bars on the window and then ties the other end into the elevator. This makes sense, except, the elevator won't close because it keeps hitting the hose. Why didn't Michael think about that? Genius and he doesn't think of that?! Frustrated, looks like the team's at the end. Luckily Tweener steps inside the elevator and pushes the down button. I've never tried this before, but I find it hard to believe this would work, but alas, it does and the pressure from the dropping elevator rips the bars off.

Pope's secretary is now worried. She needs a big strong guard to help her look around. Seeing his office isn't in Trump Tower, not too hard to figure out he's not there. Tweener comes back into the room. I was quite worried he wouldn't make it back in. Suddenly, the person who was following them around breathing heavy shows up. Guess what? It's Haywire! He wants to escape too and Lincoln just immediately says okay. Partly because the dude's crazy, and mostly because he's holding the guard's radio, threatening to spoil their fun. They all take their white jumpsuits off. I'm thinking all that work they did to get their scents out of their cell will now be for nothing, since they've been wearing those jumpsuits for at least half an hour and they probably have their smell all over them. Anyway, since this all started because of Lincoln, he's the first out of the window and as he hangs upside down, they all put their jumpsuits on him. I'm thinking this will be for the barbed wire. He quickly makes it to the other side. Abruzzi then comes up with the idea that they'll go alphabetically. Alphabetic by their real name, or alphabetic by their prison name. Regardless, it's Abruzzi who goes next.

Pope secretary and the guards have confirmed that no, he is not in the office and no, he did not leave through some back door. Once Lincoln's across, Abruzzi starts. We see the end of the wire start to give a little and I'm thinking Manche's never going to make it over. Sucre's next so I'm convinced they're not going by their prison names. C-Note goes to Westmoreland who's now sitting on the ground, unable to move. Michael and C-Note are tending to him as Haywire starts out of the window. Michael encourages Westmoreland that he can make it over the wall but Westmoreland's not buying it. He makes Michael promise to go see his daughter for him. Man, that's the luckiest dying woman in the world to get a visit from that. Michael promises to visit. Then, he tells Michael where the money is hidden, at the Double T Ranch in Toole, Utah. I bet the President from 24's from there. He then tells them that because of the embarrassment him stealing it caused, the didn't tell the public exactly how much was stolen. It wasn't one million dollars, it's five. The people remaining in the room all look at each other, Michael, C-Note, Tweener, Manche and T-Bag, all having heard what Westmoreland just said. It's gonna be like Cannon Ball Run. Awesome.

The brainstrust that is Pope's secretary and guards, finally realizes something's not right. They decide to call his cell phone. I get a personal flashback now, of being outside of a room and calling someone's cell phone almost hearing it ring on the other side. Story for another time. They do hear his phone from the closet and quickly open it up. At the same time, sadly, Westmoreland tells Michael to give Anna his love and Michael says that he will. T-Bag takes off, then C-Note, as Michael makes Westmoreland more comfortable. At this moment, the guards find Pope who's struggling to speak. They ungag him and he says to sound the alarm.

Manche's obviously going next and Lincoln doesn't look like he likes that idea. Westmoreland tells Michael to go and I'm screaming at the television too. Manche's scared to go so he insists that Michael do it first. Michael goes and is doing fairly well, until the huge lights turn on and the alarm sounds. He's hurrying as fast as he can and fortunately, because these Mensa member guards aren't expecting people to be crawling on a wire above them, don't really look like they've noticed the group yet. Cue Manche to get overzealous and decide this is his time. He hops on the cable which sends it flying to the ground. Luckily Michael's close enough to be almost in reach of his brother's outreached hand. Manche though is on the ground with dogs and guards swarming him. They see the wire hanging and look up, to which they see only the spot where the group crossed. Yay! They've officially broken out of prison!!!!!! Finally!

TO SHOOT OR NOT TO SHOOT

The good news is that Jack has the recording. The bad news is that the President of the United States wants him dead and everybody's stupid enough to listen to him. Everybody but those who have brains in their heads and know something's up.

On the plane, in the cockpit with a gun on Evans, the guy Henderson gave the tape to, Jack calls Karen to tell her he has the recording. She and Bill are in the holding room and Jack's afraid that someone will grab him the minute the plane lands. Bill tells him not to worry, that they'll have a team get him before he's picked up but the President's men.

Meanwhile, Curtis goes into the clinic at CTU and tells Audrey that her father was found, alive. Who called that? Yeah, it was me. Of course this makes her happy. Karen then calls Curtis and tells him to go to the Van Nuys Airport and pick Jack up. Man, is the Van Nuys Airport sponsoring this show or what? Anyway, she tells Curtis to make sure to get Jack and the evidence since Logan's peeps will be there to apprehend Jack.

Logan's talking to the mysterious Graham and wonders how in the hell he can order a diplomatic plane shot down. Graham tells him that he and the other guys in the room have figured out how to get around that whole, killing innocent people thing. They're going to send a distress signal from the plane to make it look like it's being hijacked. I don't know why this has to be false, because technically, it has been hijacked. Logan doesn't know if he wants to order all of these people killed, I mean, if they were Russian, that'd be okay.

Out of the CTU hold comes Karen and Bill, who actually make a handsome couple. But that's beside the point. Miles sees them coming out and his little ego gets hurt because he wonders what's going on that they're together. Karen's not as dumb as Miles and doesn't want to or have the time to tell him what's going on. We know this is going to bite her in the ass later.

Surprise Surprise, Mike comes in and tells Logan that they've received a distress call from Jack's plane, saying it's been hijacked. Again, not really news to us, but okay. Apparently this means that it may target a facility on the ground. Logan and Mike get on the video conference with some Admiral. The Admiral thinks they should bring the plane down. Logan does his best impersonation of someone who cares as Mike tries to insist that Jack would never use the plane to crash into something. I don't blame the Admiral for wanting to shoot the plane down. He doesn't know Jack. He doesn't know that Jack would never do that, unless it meant saving even more people. Mike tries to remind Logan of Jack's intentions, but Logan insists that the Admiral is right, and tells him to shoot the plane down, at which point Mike's jaw drops to the ground.

At CTU, there's a bulletin that Karen intercepts that says the President has ordered the plane shot out of the sky. Can I be on their mailing lists, this would be good information to know for the future. She calls Jack and Jack asks Bill to find a stretch of the road that they can land on. Apparently they need a buttload of runway. Since it's so late at night and there was a curfew, Jack's confident no one will be on the road. Finally, Chloe's brought in as Mile looks over in confusion. She goes into the situation room and Karen and Bill give her the download on what's going on. They want her to find out when the F-18 will get to Jack and shoot him out of the sky.

Jack goes out to the flight attendant, who's no longer afraid of Jack, she must have heard what went down in the cockpit, and tells her to get the passengers ready for an emergency landing. Bill gives Jack a stretch of road that's slightly shorter then what they need and Evans doesn't think it's such a good idea. If he wasn't landing the plane I can tell Jack would beat him with his gun butt. I want to. Karen then calls Curtis and tells him where Jack's planning to land.

Logan is patched into the pilot's radio just as Chloe realizes the jet is nearly on Jack. She says that there's no way to land the plane without getting hit by the missile. Well duh. Jack makes Evans descend faster, even though he will probably not be able to pull up because of the steep dive. Jack tells him to just do it and he does. The passengers are screaming in the back as the plane shakes and Jack tells Evans he can see the freeway. Unfortunately, Evans can't level off the plane because they're going in too steep. Jack has him lower the landing gear.

The F-18 tells Logan and the Admiral that the landing gear is down and that they're planning to land on the freeway. Since this means they're not going to fly the plane to the retreat and take out that little a**hole, the Admiral says that they can have the fighter stand down. Logan ignores him and says to fire on them anyway. This makes Mike wonder what he's doing, since the plane is obviously not a danger. Finally, with nothing else to do, Logan tells the fighter not to fire on the plane. He does order the Marines to meet the plane and get Jack as soon as they land.

With Jack's help, the plane levels out enough to land and is skidding at 300 miles an hour down the freeway. I don't know how fast it was going, but it was fast. In true action movie fashion, the plane comes to rest just feet away from an overpass. Bill tells Jack that Curtis is going to be there soon. Jack yells for all of the passengers to exit the front of the plane as he goes out the emergency exit on the wing. Still the safest place to fly! He gets to the ground and runs to the side of the road, just as the military pull up to the plane.

Logan gets a call from Graham who's pissed his little plan didn't work. Logan tells him that the Marines will get him, and not to worry. Oh you better worry.

Jack sees Curtis' truck on the other side of the freeway and hurries over to him. He hops in the back seat and they take off. Unfortunately, the Marines have already created a roadblock ("a Roadblock is a task that only one person can perform", sorry, just thinkin' about The Race). They pull up to it and the Marine tells Curtis to get out. Curtis explains who he is and tells them that they're looking for Jack as well. The Marine insists that they be detained, but Curtis talks his way out of it and they're let go. I love Curtis.

In the bonehead move of the night, Miles calls Karen and asks her what's going on, seeing that Bill and Chloe are wanted for helping a known fugitive. Karen agrees to meet with him and they talk in a corridor. She tells him what's going on, about the evidence that implicates Logan in today's events. Miles of course tries to tell her that she hasn't even heard the recording, so how does she know that Jack is telling the truth. Seriously, I want him dead. An agent interrupts them with the important news that Bierko is being transferred to jail or wherever. She asks Miles to keep this between them. Fat chance of that.

Karen goes to where they're moving Bierko. She says some standard thing, "Bierko you are now being transferred to blah blah blah'. She signs a few papers and he does his best to look defeated and hurt with a huge bandage over the side of his face from when Jack rescued him from the gas company fire. They take him to a van and load him in. Because CTU has the worst background check system in the history of mankind, Bierko gives the driver of the van a nod, obviously in cahoots with him.

Logan's depressed, and why shouldn't he be. He sucks, his wife hates him, and he's about to be outted as a traitor. Graham's calling him on his cell phone and he refuses to pick it up. How come no one's using Evelyn's little listening to device she used on him earlier? Oh, and speaking of Evelyn, did Henderson kill her and her daughter? That's messed up.

Jack's finally back at CTU and gives the tape to Chloe, telling her to prepare it to be streamed to the Attorney General and some more important people. Jack immediately takes off to medical to see Audrey. They kiss, eck, and he tells her that he has the evidence. Then stupidity she says that it's over. Girl, it's never over. They sit there, looking at each other in happiness.

Logan goes to his office and takes out a wooden box. Inside is a pistol. Thank the Lords of Kobol he's going to shoot himself. He calls Graham and tells him about Jack escaping from the Marines. Somehow, Graham knows about a call between the Attorney General and CTU. Logan's still thinking all that he's done has been for the best interest of the country. Graham mentions that a murder trial for a sitting President would suck. He winks through the phone. Logan assures him that Graham and his friends won't be implicated in anything and Graham believes him for some reason and they hang up. He loads his gun and I'm ready for some fireworks! Make sure to do it through the mouth because you can still live if you do it to the temple.

Martha's sitting watching the news when Logan comes in. Oh crap, please don't tell me he's going to kill her. He starts talking about how sorry he is and I'm getting a serious LOST flashback. She doesn't really accept his apology, just tells him that he's a bastard and a really good liar. Upset, he goes back to his office. Finally, I'm ready to see some blood. Right before he does it the phone rings. Guess who it is? That stupid frak Miles. He tells Logan about the tape, and that he felt it was his duty to say something. Miles also tells him that he'll take care of it for him. Logan gives Miles his private number and tells him to call and keep him updated on what's going on. Of course Logan tells Miles that he owes him one and Miles gets one of those snide looks on his face that you just want to smack off. Logan then puts the gun away.

Back at CTU, Miles goes into the situation room where Chloe's working on setting the tape up. He leans over her and starts asking her questions. In his hand is something that's flashing a big red light next to the tape recorder and I'm wondering why she can't see it. Unfortunately she just says something rude to him and he leaves, after apparently wiping the recording off the tape. Frakkin bastard!