(Note: I was reviewing last week's notes and I realized that I miscalculated on the projected death tolls. I recalculated and updated accordingly. My apologies.)
Previously, on 24...
I think I'll just keep up my routine of recapping all the side story nonsense before moving on to the Jack stuff. Hassan's daughter is upset that he arrested her boyfriend. She tells her father that she loves him, and Hassan basically says, "Well then he must be guilty!" I like Hassan. I think if the peace treaty talks got pretty intense then Jack and Hassan could just have a beer together and everything would be okay.
Dana's convict friends are celebrating the big score at a strip club. They call Dana and she says, "So, we're all good now, right?" and they say, "Nah, we think we want you to keep helping us with crime." Then a CTU computer guy tells Dana that he knows she's sneaking around and she should tell agent Ortiz or he'll tell on her. Dana tells Ortiz that she has a secret past, and he says he'll love her no matter what, but then their conversation gets interrupted. Dana, empowered by her fiancee's love, sneaks out to maybe go kill the convict guys. I hope she dies.
Joseph finishes burying his brother, and Joseph keeps his brothers necklace.
CTU picks Renee up and is planning to give her a psychiatric evaluation. I like crazy Renee.
Jack is back at Sergei's place, dangling from the ceiling and being tortured. A henchman is electrocuting Jack and poking his bread knife wound. Jack pretends to pass out after being shocked and the henchman goes to get some smelling salts to wake him up. Jack uses his feet to grab the henchman and the cables and electrocute the bad guy into unconsciousness. It takes a few minutes for Jack to shake free from the ceiling, but just as he drops to the ground the bad guy wakes up and they wrassle. Jack snaps the bad guy's neck with his legs and grabs his cell phone, which doesn't work.
Jack cuts the power and the bad guys go to find him. Jack grabs and stabs one bad guy, takes his cellphone to call Chloe and tell her to send backup, and grabs his pistol and uses that to shoot two more henchmen. Sergei fires a blast from his shotgun and dives out of the way, then Jack picks up an uzi and hides under a table. Sergei shoots a few tables with his shotgun, and Jack jumps up and knocks Sergei out by flipping a table over.
Sergei is now in custody and agrees to give up the uranium rods if Jack can give him and Joseph full immunity. Jack calls the president and gets Sergei's immunity. It only took a few seconds, thank goodness. Last season it felt like Jack was on the phone with the stupid lady president for 15 of the 24 hours. Sergei gives CTU the info, and they go to check out the truck that was carrying the uranium. They find two dead bodies in the truck, and the uranium is gone. Hanging from the truck is a gold necklace, and the episode ends with Joseph driving around with the uranium and on the phone with Hassan's brother. The uranium will be delivered soon.
I had previously mentioned that I was afraid Joesph would become all sad and whiny, but now that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm thrilled that Joseph betrayed his father and will hopefully be pretty awesome as the main villain. Not as good an episode as last week, but I like the way things are shaping up with a clear bad guy, and with Jack killing people. Death tally!
Jack: 4 (broke one neck, stabbed one, shot two)
Bad guys: 2 (Joseph shot two in the truck)
4 kills for Jack! He had only 5 kills total before tonight. They weren't exceptional, but a kill is still a kill. A third of the way through the season and Jack has 9 total. Joseph's +2 for the bad guys brings their total to 19. Ortiz is still at 3, Renee is still at 1. I triple checked my work this time, and we're on pace for 96 kills.
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