24: Dana sits in the car and some bad guy has the uranium rods

Previously, on 24...

Remember how psyched I was that David Anders was moving into position to be a pretty awesome villain? Yeah, in the first 5 minutes of the show this week he decided to wuss out and take immunity, and then he got shot by a sniper. I'm not happy about that. Technically CTU hasn't found his body yet, but looks like he's out of the picture. I counting him as dead until proven otherwise.

Fahrad gets the uranium rods and his buddies take him to a warehouse and peer pressure him into using the rods to make a bomb to detonate in New York. Fahrad gets nervous and runs away and calls CTU for help.

Back at CTU, Director Hastings is trying to blame Renee for the missing rods because she got all stabby. Jack doesn't like that and tries to break her out of CTU, but he gets tazered by a guard and goes down. Riiiiiight. Jack was just electrocuted a whole bunch of times by the Russians and was still perfectly capable of breaking someone's neck with his monkey feet, but gets zapped once here and he's dropped like a sack of potatoes.

Hastings wants to send out agent Ortiz to get Fahrad, but Ortiz is off looking for Dana, who's been sitting in her car with a gun watching her criminal ex-boyfriend for the last 40 minutes . Ortiz' backup is some 14-yr-old kid. CTU's hiring skills again on display! Jack says he'll take over the mission and bring back Fahrad if Hastings agrees to stop bugging crazy Renee.

Dana Walsh finally decides to get out of the car and is stopped just in time by Ortiz. Good thing she sat there doing nothing for 40 minutes! Dana tells Ortiz about her secret past and Ortiz confronts the criminals, telling them to get outta town. Ortiz and Dana walk away, one criminal stabs the other one and then goes after Ortiz, and Ortiz shoots him with a shotgun. This entire time I was praying for Dana to somehow die, but it didn't happen. 24 kills off Joseph, but keeps Dana around. Grrrr.

I know it's a little backwards saving the Dana/Ortiz stuff for last, but really nothing else happened. That should say something about how terrible this episode was. Too bad too; they had been on a little bit of a roll. Hopefully Dana's stupid side-story is winding down now that those thieving blackmailers are dead. Just put her in jail and be done with her. Next week Jack should get some cheap anonymous henchmen kills. And I'm not even happy about that. You know why? Because I don't give a crap! So far Director Hasting has been more of a bad guy than most of the supposed villains. In nine hours we've had Davros, Vladimir, Sergei, Fahrad Hassan, and Joseph as the possible head evil-doer. Davros, Vladimir, and Joseph are dead, Sergei is in custody, and Fahrad is trying to give up. Now some guy named Sahim is taking over, but who knows how long that will last? There's no criminal mastermind, they're just playing hot-potato with the uranium rods and it sucks. And yes, that's my second potato reference in this post.

Death tally:
Ortiz: 1 (shotgunned one of the blackmailers)
Bad guys: 2 (Sniper kills Joseph, Dana's ex stabbed by the other blackmailer)

Ortiz has 4 kills now, bad guys are up to 21, projected totals for the season dips to 93 kills.