Most of CSCS’s team survives the trap. CSCS, too, even
though he didn’t wear his helmet. But the Brit PM ain’t happy. Not even after
Pres. Heller tells his general 2x to engage the RAF. (Ooops, another mental
gaffe—it wasn’t for emphasis or to quell second thoughts from general—this time
in front of someone who doesn’t know PH is gaffey.) Not even after PH tells PM
Jack’s on the job. And we’re not tracking him. And I don’t want you to either.
Yup, PM’s none too pleased. Especially with his chief of staff (need I say it, a
woman) telling him PH is going loopy. How does she know what drugs PH is on?
Yup, Jack gets his way again, and takes over his show again.
He wants Kate with him, and what’s CSCS gonna do when the Pres tells him to do
anything Jack wants? So, CSCS yoyos Kate, yet again, back onto active duty, and
she heads out with Jack.
Jack sweet talks her as only he can, telling her why he
picked her, quizzing her about her traitor hubby, telling her that despite his
plan he expects they’ll die, expecting that as soon as the contact sees Jack he’ll
take Jack out. Except if Jack has unconscious CIA agent Kate in the trunk. Kate
buys it, Jack sticks a needle in her neck, sticks her in the trunk, and the
game’s afoot.
Really afoot. Because did you really expect PM to do what PH
asked? Jack’s smart, and stuffs
Kate in the trunk while under a long overpass, but Brit surveillance can
see through roads and their IR technology sees Jack doing it (no way, by the
way), so they naturally think Jack’s double-crossing PH. So they discreetly
tail him to the meet. Probably for the better as Jack had just one backup,
whereas the Brits have a whole brute squad.
Jack faces the classic “what’s the password” puzzle. And
while Chloe’s fumbling to try to get it, Jack, having seen the movie, knows
there is no password. And with half a thought, any viewer would, too. Is that
the 1st instance of contrived suspense this episode?
Jack’s parts go pretty much as you’d expect. Kate gets
wakened and tortured over stuff she has no way of knowing. It makes one’s skin
crawl when thinking of torture, which I prefer not to do every chance I have.
But when she’s about to get drilled in the head—literally—after the Brit brute
squad took out Jack’s man (I sure hope Jack’s man sees more action that that),
the brute squad finally breaks in, all the baddies but contact get shot with
Jack’s help, Kate turns the tables on the torturers—that was cool if tough to
believe, Jack’s contact lives long enough for Jack to take him into “custody,”
which means long enough for the brutes to take him off Jack’s hands so that
contact can grab a grenade and blow some of them up. And by some of them, I
mean all of them that are left—it looks like Jack and Kate are the only ones
left standing. How convenient—and maybe Jack’s backup comes out clean, too!
In the meantime, chief of staff Mark’s forgery of PH’s
signature is in the hands of the Russians, and they want Jack—or want PH to
tell them why he’s changed his mind! Cool, drama is building again.
And Mummy, against Sonny’s better judgment, which earns him
a stern slap, sends wifey, now widow, out after MEH’s sister. To do what has to
be done, should it come to that. Here, I gotta pause to wonder what Mummy’s
thinking. I’m locked into Mummy exerting psychological pressure on the kids during
all their formative years. But here’s Mummy using her widowhood to drive her
vengeance against PH. And here’s Mummy pulling the trigger with wifey looking
on, making wifey a widow, too. And we know wifey loved MEH. Does Mummy really
think wifey is that brainwashed? Hasn’t Mummy also taught wifey to hate those
who make you a widow?
Pause aside, wifey finds sis. And sis’s very cute young daughter.
Uh-oh, wifey immediately gets second thoughts. Wifey finds out that sis doesn’t
know anything she shouldn’t, gets invited to dinner, calls Mummy who tells her
to kill her anyway. Wifey has dinner with sis, pulls knife, but doesn’t have
the heart to pull the trigger, figuratively. Wifey tells sis to pack and go.
Now, what would you do if someone told you that? Sheesh,
what was wifey thinking? First thing you do is call the police. At least
someone in this show has common sense. But as wifey tries to keep sis from
calling, using non-lethal force, of course, the knife goes off, and sis dies as
blood stains her blouse with nary a slice through it apparent. Daughter comes out
just in time to see mommy dying and goes tearfully tearing out the door. Wifey gives
chase through traffic, pays the price,
and we didn’t even have the foreshadowing of that Lost episode. Though is it
the ultimate price? Scenes say otherwise, as does other foreshadowing—Jack’s
trick of his contact (and pushing the Enter key) might pay off!
Episode closes with Kate’s bud at CIA telling CSCS that he’s
found some lost files about Kate’s hubby. Like a good manager in a time crunch,
CSCS tells Kate’s bud to backburner them, spend all his time tracking down
Mummy. I do wonder why Kate’s bud picked now to poke around in those old, dead
files. Must be more suspense contrivancing.
Yup. CSCS calls a guy with a run-of-the-mill voice
distorter, and we now finally see the intra-agency drama ramping up. Looks like
there might be a good reason Kate didn’t know hubby’s a traitor. Maybe he wasn’t!
And here we are finally getting into the 24
intrigue we know and love—Mark, CSCS, wifey. So far, all we’re missing is Jack
torturing anyone—has he gone soft?
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