'24': Jack reaffirms his status as a Lethal Weapon
I guess karma exists in the world of "24," as Jack receives a healthy dose of his own medicine. I think it's just the producers saying to the critics 'Hey, torture works both ways in our world!'Still not digging the Dana (Jenny)/Kevin/Cole whatever, but that's not my call. Thanks to Arlo, he decides it's time for Dana to confront Cole about all her recent naughty doings. That sounds good in theory... except she chickens out at the last second and promises to unleash the beast later. What she perhaps didn't count on was a truly miffed Arlo, who decides enough is enough and lets Cole in on her shady doings of the past few hours. This would be bad enough for a regular fiancé, but as the tactical leader for CTU, it's one more headache on a day full of them. Our Dumb and Dumber goofballs decide to celebrate their bonehead victory by throwing that hard-stolen money at a bunch of strippers in Jersey.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Meanwhile, Hassan has grown increasingly paranoid and has effectively cut himself off from the real world... that is, until Kayla insists that he release Tarin. What doesn't help her cause is when she admits they've been in a long-term relationship. Undeterred, she actually tries to appeal to the bodyguard holding Tarin, hoping for even a couple minutes. The guard promises he'll effort that request as soon as possible. Good luck with that not ending badly!
Right about now, Renee probably wishes Vladimir had taken her out because if they're not accusing her of blowing the entire operation, they're now officially saying she's gone off the deep end. Poor Chloe is the one who has to babysit her while she gives her statement. Now that's a jumble of emotions I hope I never experience for myself.
As for Jack, he gets dragged back to Hotel Ukraine, only to be strung up Martin Riggs-style and tortured with thousands and thousands of volts in an effort to find out who he's really working for. He spends roughly 15-20 minutes taking this abuse before he "passes out" long enough to take out Mr. Torture... again, Martin Riggs-style. So when does Mr. Joshua show up?
Anyway, Sergei becomes rather annoyed at Farhad. One thing he got out of Jack before the torture was that Farhad was behind the leak and the real enemy. When confronted with this, the other Hassan grows increasingly irritated. When the delivery of the rods is halted, Farhad storms off in a huff. That's good for the other Hassan, because the newly-freed (and barefoot!) Jack cuts power to the building, then goes on a Lethal Weapon-inspired rampage before ultimately fooling Sergei long enough to smack him with a table. Yeah, I'm getting hints of John McClane as well.
Once in police custody, Sergei cops to mercy killing Oleg and promises to reveal the location of the rods... provided he receives full immunity for him and Josef. Wait, he turns good just like that? Something's not kosher here, but once President Taylor herself tells Sergei that a deal will be made, he reveals the location of the convoy and the rods. Brian Hastings scrambles a newly distracted Cole to retrieve the rods, but only finds an empty box and two henchmen when he arrives. Once Cole mentions that a gold cross necklace was also found, Sergei realizes Josef has switched allegiances. The elder son just happens to be on his way to personally deliver the rods to Farhad himself.
Terrorists is the craziest peoples!
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It’s a good thing there was lots of Jack kicking ***, because the other subplots aren’t cutting it. With no new stories in sight, we’ll be in the long haul with Dana and Hassan. As long as there’s Jack and Renee…
Review of the episode on my blog:
http://th3tvobsessed.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-24-season-8-episode-8-day-8-1100.html
Who wants to bet that Hasan is being poisoned? Not in a "kill you" way, but in a "make you crazy-paranoid" way. I think that's happening. Dude's got crazy eyes!
I think watching 24 has become less about plot itself, and more about seeing if I can guess the plot twists. It's like a "Guess The Mole" game, all in my own head. LOL
I am always amazed at Jack's ability to snap back after whatever torture has been inflicted on him. But last night was beyond the pale. You'd think he'd at least have a bruise or two. . . but no! Not our Jack.
anne
jack bruise??? he doesn't have time to bruise
Jeanine
i like that idea sounds plausible because this early in the game you know there's a higher power pushing farhad 7 his people so the real bad guys probably set it up to happen like this
It isn't unrealistic at all for Jack to walk away from the 20-minute torture unscathed. Why? Maybe because he was tortured for 18 months by the Chinese? Pretty sure the 20-minutes felt like a deep-tissue massage compared to that.
I'm getting excited for the season. Every episode leading to this one has been SO tedious; I was HOPING that was just the show setting up the story in order to then go all out with the action - and it looks like I was right.
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Plot twist: Dumb and Dumber decide to steal the the rods
and ask for 250 million mexican pesos....
the dana plot better have a good resolution cuz is not going anywhere
If Hassan is being poisoned at all, it's probably from all that hairspray he's using to keep his coif from wilting. I've known playboys in their 20s whose hair hasn't had that much body at midnight as President Hassan's seems to. Then again, that would be an ingenious way to take down a country's leader--putting some bit of nasty in his can of White Rain.
Speaking of White Rain, I guess now that Starbuck is away from CTU, maybe we'll start to see Katee Sackhoff's stock-in-trade, that being a kick-*** woman who just...can't...take it...anymore! It'll be a hoot, since no agency in the real world would have one such as she in their ranks.
Given Jack's injuries in this and the last episode, it'll make sense for him to be featured less in upcoming episodes, which will allow Kiefer Sutherland time to recover from his surgery for a ruptured cyst (OUCH!). No wonder the guy's in the hospital, doing all that climbing around and such.
This season has yet to wow me, but at least there is comedy to be had every episode, even if it's not intentional. Sometimes, after a show has been on the air long enough, it becomes its own parody, and I think this season might be 24's.
this season it just totally all over the place.
I am a die hard 24 fan, and will always watch, but I dont even know what the hell is going on here, and I dont think the writers do either.
They need to go back to basics. Season 1 had ONE threat : assassination attempt on then-Senator Palmer. Sure stuff happened along the way (teri and kim kidnapped,etc..) but for the most part this was the ultimate goal of the season: stop the assassination attempt.
Now? there is a new threat every 4 episodes, and to be honest, i dont even know what it is right now. The nuclear rods? Sounds ridiculous, but big deal.. Obviously we dont want "the bag guys" to get their hands on nuclear weapons but aside from that, it makes for better tv/excitement when we know "if we get these nuclear weapons, we will blow your country up in 4 hours.."
*bag=bad
Isn't ex pres Logan supposed to be on sometime this season?