24: Renee takes a shower

Previously, on 24...

If you've read the title, you pretty much got everything important you need to know about this week's episode.

The show opens and Jack says, "You know, instead of having a suicidal Renee go undercover, maybe I should try my methods to get the info from the Russians!" And then Director Hastings says no. There's just not going to be any interrogations by Jack this year. Meanwhile, President Hassan is rounding up people he suspects of conspiring with his brother, and is probably interrogating and torturing them, just to rub it in our faces.

Dana Walsh is making key cards for her convict buddies, and if she has any brains she'll anonymously set the cops on them when they get to the warehouse full of drug money... but she and her entire storyline are stupid, so she won't.

Renee takes a shower at Vlad's place. She gets out of the shower and Vlad acts like a creep. Renee will end up killing him sometime during this season. Jack hears all of this because Renee had her earpiece in while she was in the shower. I think Jack spent the last 10 minutes listening to her in the shower, and I was pretty impressed that the earpiece didn't malfunction under the running water. Vlad leaves and Renee tells Jack, "I'm going dark!" and takes out the earpiece and puts it in the sink, turns on the faucet, and washes it down the drain. But since water clearly doesn't affect the earpiece, Jack can still listen in on the sewer system. Hopefully there are terrorists down there.

Joseph tries to save his brother from uranium poisoning but his dad sends some goons to pick them up. They kill three hospital workers. Maybe this won't be how the good guys end up tracking and stopping the bad guys, as I predicted last week. I guess it depends on how well they clean up the bodies. Joseph's dad then kills Joseph's brother. It'd be nice if Joseph would become a cool villain, but he'll probably be all preachy and turn against his dad.

Jack meets with Vladimir's men and he wears Harry Potter glasses as a disguise. Jack's fake name is "Mir", or at least that's what it sounded like. The henchmen try to double cross Jack, but agent Ortiz is hiding and snipes three of them. In two seconds he just caught up to Jack's kill count. Jack talks to Vlad on the phone, and heads over to their hideout. Next week will be the adventures of "Vlad 'n Mir".

Some pretty insignificant deaths, but at least there were more than last week's debacle.
Bad guys: 4 (3 hospital workers, Russian dad killed uranium boy)
Ortiz: 3 (Sniped Russian henchmen)

Jack again stays put with 3 kills. Bad guys get some cheap kills in to bring their total to 17. Our projected death toll for the season rebounds a little to 92, but it's hardly anything to celebrate as Freddy frickin' Prinze kills 3 and is likely going to end up with more kills than Jack Bauer.