We see the aftermath of last week's torture scene: a big ol' pile of blood and guts! Jack tells the journalist to get the data to someone she can trust and expose the truth, then he goes after Logan. Logan is talking with President Taylor and shares the bad news that "Operation Capture Jack Bauer has failed! ... He escaped!" Yes, they actually called their secret operation "Operation: Capture Jack Bauer". And yes, after he said that Operation Capture Jack Bauer had failed, he needed to clarify that statement by saying that Jack Bauer escaped.
"OPERATION CAPTURE JACK BAUER HAS FAILED!"
(Confused look) "So... by 'failed' you mean...?"
"He escaped!"
(Comprehension!) "Ah! Now I get it! When you said Operation Capture Jack Bauer had failed, I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying! Hey, isn't it neat that we were both elected President?"
Logan convinces Taylor to stop the presses from running anything if they get condemning information. They send out CTU and the FBI and halt the newspapers and arrest the journalist lady, so right now it looks like the truth will not get out.
Logan drives off in his car, and Jack starts unpacking his bag o' guns that he had been toting around. Only it isn't just a bag o' guns, it's a bag o' guns and wicked body armor. Jack suits up and looks like War Machine from the new Iron Man movie, and while Logan's car is stuck in traffic under a bridge, Jack starts firing to cause a panic and trap Logan. Logan starts screaming, "IT'S JACK BAUER!" Jack shoots (but doesn't kill) Logan's secret service men, and then lauches tear gas into Logan's limo to smoke him out.
Jack drags Logan away and eventually starts threatening him for information, demanding to know who ordered the hit on Renee. Logan shakes and squirms and cries and pleads, and tells Jack that Novakovich (some Russian representative) was behind it all. Jack puts Logan in a sleeper hold and goes after Novakovich. He gets to Novakovich's hotel and kills three of his guards (I guess it's okay to kill secret service men from Russia), but Jack gets stabbed pretty bad while doing so, but moves on to face Novakovich.
Meanwhile, every CTU agent is chasing after Jack, and somehow this means that Chloe can get Agent Ortiz out of his holding cell for security detail or something. She wants Ortiz to find Jack's associate and help Jack, but Ortiz says that if Jack is crazy that he might have to kill him. Great.
Logan wakes up from his sleeper hold and tries to call Novakovich to warn him that Bauer is after him. The camera brings us back to the hotel and all we see are super-bloody dead bodies, including Novakovich, who was impaled through the stomach. Logan sighs, then makes another phone call to Yuri, the Russian President who is on his way to the peace treaty. Logan tells Yuri that Jack killed Novakovich, but that Jack doesn't know that Yuri ordered the hit on Renee. Then we see a closeup of Logan's collar and see a bug, and learn that Jack is listening to Logan's conversation. He bugged Logan while putting him in the sleeper hold! Jack's bleeding a ton and looks pretty bad, but now he can go after and kill the Russian President! Two-hour finale next week!
I was a bit disappointed that Jack didn't kill Logan this week, but he wracked up seven kills. It was fun to see the pile of guts from the torture scene, and Jack went bats#!t crazy killing Novakovich. Revenge is a dish best served within 24 hours, by a pissed off Jack Bauer! Kill count:
Jack: 7 kills (Russians shot, stabbed, impaled!)
39 kills for the season for Jack and 104 deaths for the season. With two hours left we have a projected death tally of 113. I don't know if he'll get 9 kills next week, but it's nice that we're ending the season with at least 100 kills. I'm hoping that Jack kills the Russian President for ordering the hit on Renee, and kills President Logan for lying to him this episode. Then, when the truth comes out about President Taylor's involvement, I hope one of Hassan's followers (or Mrs. Hassan, or Hassan's daughter) kills President Taylor. She'll probably just be impeached, but I think killing off three presidents would be a good ending to the series. And then Jack can get stiched up and take over as supreme ruler of the world. Or as I call it, "Operation: Jack Bauer takes over as supreme ruler of the world."
I - AM - IRON MAN! DADAH DADAH DADAH dahdah DAHDAH!
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