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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: McGill's war path takes out Bauer, Manning, Nathanson
By: Dennis Mongello and Kaushal Toprani
Issue date: 2/17/06 Section: Entertainment
Originally published: 2/21/06 at 7:41 PM EST
Last update: 2/21/06 at 7:40 PM EST
Originally published: 2/21/06 at 7:41 PM EST
Last update: 2/21/06 at 7:40 PM EST
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This week's episode comes out of the blocks like a rocket. Five minutes in, two people are already dead — both terrorists, killed by terrorists. Bye bye, Mr. Yellow Tie. Aside from the bad-guy body count, President Logan's inability to accept responsibility is also on the rise. You see, Logan doesn't like making decisions. Even his first acts as president came from the mouths of Cummings and Palmer. Now, he still delegates all of his important decisions and yells at people for not doing their job when in fact, it's really his job to begin with. Right now his target is Lynn McGill. President Logan is angry at the fact that Jack Bauer managed to save the lives of about 900 Americans and failed in stopping a terrorist from committing suicide.
Now, since it's clear that McGill's idea of a good time involves kneepads and a fully satisfied superior, he goes on the warpath at CTU, throwing hissy fits at everyone who looks at him funny, which is bad news for Chloe and her scowl. Bauer must've given him one hell of a stare down, one reserved only for the likes of Habib Marwan, as McGill wants Bauer to come back into the office so he can pass the blame to him — the blame for saving American lives. Curtis Manning is instructed to bring Jack in. Curtis first disarms him; this is like taking away Jack's manhood. Besides a pair of killer aviators, the only thing Jack kept with him from his old life was the satchel of Satan, filled with guns and explosives. This obviously pisses of Bauer, as he then proceeds to choke out Manning so he can take control of the vehicle. It should be noted that Jack only bested Curtis because of a bogus cheap shot.
Bauer dumps Manning and hits the road with information from Audrey about the location of a man who knows where the nerve gas is. This man, named Nathanson, also mentions that Cummings wasn't the only person in the administration who knew about the gas. Holey moley, another mole! The terrorists want him dead for configuring the canisters to blow at their base camp; fair enough. In exchange for protection, he'll help Jack and the gang find the canisters. The local militia could have given him protection, since he avoids getting shot by terrorists armed with automatic weapons while he dashes about in wide open space. Who trained these guys? Chloe's a better shot. Maybe instead of having sex with 15-year-old Russian prostitutes, the terrorists should have been at target practice. But anyway, who could this other mole be? Too bad Nathanson didn't live long enough to tell us. After expelling all the metal in the free world, they finally hit him — via shooters in a helicopter He did, however, live long enough to witness Bauer's most amazing feat to date: taking down a helicopter with nothing more than a plain old handgun. Nathanson's dying act was to give Jack a chip. Bauer demands that the dead body tell him what's on the chip. He even asks twice, louder the second time, of course. Fortunately for Bauer, all terrorist cells around the world have an agreed-on media standard for chips, so he just puts the chip into his PDA and beams it up to Chloe for analysis.
The drama continues back at the office as Lynn finds out about Jack's going AWOL and Audrey being in contact with him. As he asks Audrey what the deal is, she instinctively has Chloe delete all her phone records. Lynn catches on and calls for martial law over CTU so he can see all the communication going on. Apparently, since Lynn has no control over his junkie sister, whose junkie boyfriend still has Lynn's government ID card, he takes it out on his underlings at CTU. He eventually puts Bill Buchanon into holding. So another 24 cliché has come to fruition: The person in charge of CTU at the beginning of the season has left CTU by the end.
At this point, Fox found it fit to run a commercial for Fox News featuring Gov. Ed Rendell talking about how unprepared Philadelphia is for a nuclear attack in our ports. Is the local affiliate trying to scare us or trying to get us to write to Frank DiCicco to tell him to hire Jack Bauer to take care of our ports?
Meanwhile, back at the presidential ranch, Logan gets a phone call from a Russian terrorist asking if he could respectfully hand over the plans for the Russian president's exit plans so he can assassinate him. President Logan says he'll think about it. Think about it? Who taught this guy how to talk to terrorists? Didn't anyone tell him we don't negotiate with them? Anyway, as he discusses this with Novick, of course Martha butts in. No matter the decision Logan would have come to, she would have just disagreed, so let's just say that she, along with agent Pierce, got into the limo with the Russian president, who is well on his way to get assassinated.
So what's on the plate for next week? Will Pierce step up and save both Martha and the Russian president, or will this fifth season of 24 end early, lowering the already dwindling list of characters who have survived each season of 24 thus far? Who exactly is this other mole that Nathanson spoke of? Most importantly, where is Kim?
See you in an hour.
Now, since it's clear that McGill's idea of a good time involves kneepads and a fully satisfied superior, he goes on the warpath at CTU, throwing hissy fits at everyone who looks at him funny, which is bad news for Chloe and her scowl. Bauer must've given him one hell of a stare down, one reserved only for the likes of Habib Marwan, as McGill wants Bauer to come back into the office so he can pass the blame to him — the blame for saving American lives. Curtis Manning is instructed to bring Jack in. Curtis first disarms him; this is like taking away Jack's manhood. Besides a pair of killer aviators, the only thing Jack kept with him from his old life was the satchel of Satan, filled with guns and explosives. This obviously pisses of Bauer, as he then proceeds to choke out Manning so he can take control of the vehicle. It should be noted that Jack only bested Curtis because of a bogus cheap shot.
Bauer dumps Manning and hits the road with information from Audrey about the location of a man who knows where the nerve gas is. This man, named Nathanson, also mentions that Cummings wasn't the only person in the administration who knew about the gas. Holey moley, another mole! The terrorists want him dead for configuring the canisters to blow at their base camp; fair enough. In exchange for protection, he'll help Jack and the gang find the canisters. The local militia could have given him protection, since he avoids getting shot by terrorists armed with automatic weapons while he dashes about in wide open space. Who trained these guys? Chloe's a better shot. Maybe instead of having sex with 15-year-old Russian prostitutes, the terrorists should have been at target practice. But anyway, who could this other mole be? Too bad Nathanson didn't live long enough to tell us. After expelling all the metal in the free world, they finally hit him — via shooters in a helicopter He did, however, live long enough to witness Bauer's most amazing feat to date: taking down a helicopter with nothing more than a plain old handgun. Nathanson's dying act was to give Jack a chip. Bauer demands that the dead body tell him what's on the chip. He even asks twice, louder the second time, of course. Fortunately for Bauer, all terrorist cells around the world have an agreed-on media standard for chips, so he just puts the chip into his PDA and beams it up to Chloe for analysis.
The drama continues back at the office as Lynn finds out about Jack's going AWOL and Audrey being in contact with him. As he asks Audrey what the deal is, she instinctively has Chloe delete all her phone records. Lynn catches on and calls for martial law over CTU so he can see all the communication going on. Apparently, since Lynn has no control over his junkie sister, whose junkie boyfriend still has Lynn's government ID card, he takes it out on his underlings at CTU. He eventually puts Bill Buchanon into holding. So another 24 cliché has come to fruition: The person in charge of CTU at the beginning of the season has left CTU by the end.
At this point, Fox found it fit to run a commercial for Fox News featuring Gov. Ed Rendell talking about how unprepared Philadelphia is for a nuclear attack in our ports. Is the local affiliate trying to scare us or trying to get us to write to Frank DiCicco to tell him to hire Jack Bauer to take care of our ports?
Meanwhile, back at the presidential ranch, Logan gets a phone call from a Russian terrorist asking if he could respectfully hand over the plans for the Russian president's exit plans so he can assassinate him. President Logan says he'll think about it. Think about it? Who taught this guy how to talk to terrorists? Didn't anyone tell him we don't negotiate with them? Anyway, as he discusses this with Novick, of course Martha butts in. No matter the decision Logan would have come to, she would have just disagreed, so let's just say that she, along with agent Pierce, got into the limo with the Russian president, who is well on his way to get assassinated.
So what's on the plate for next week? Will Pierce step up and save both Martha and the Russian president, or will this fifth season of 24 end early, lowering the already dwindling list of characters who have survived each season of 24 thus far? Who exactly is this other mole that Nathanson spoke of? Most importantly, where is Kim?
See you in an hour.
