24 – Recap – 4 a.m. – 5 a.m.

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There hours left and only two episodes to go. Bierko has escaped and President Logan was just about to off himself before Perv decided to help him out.

Oh and by the way since I live in Canada I can avoid the whole Presidential speech that is causing delays of today’s shows. Therefore the recap will begin at 9 p.m. Eastern. Rob Purchase will join me once again to provide witty remarks.

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4:00

Karen tells Jack the Attorney General will be on the phone in 5 minutes. They walk over to the main boardroom.

Chloe is already there on a lap top getting things ready for the AG. Bill talks about setting up an impeachment proceeding so they can indict the President.

There is something wrong. No sound is coming from the recording. Jack yells at Chloe, she says its not her fault. The AG calls and Karen tries to delay.

Jack asks Chloe who had access to the room. Chloe realized Perv was in the room. Karen says she didn’t send him in the room. Jack goe

Rob: Time to see how Perv likes having someone touch him inappropriately.

Jack punches some random guy and grabs Perv by the neck and starts to choke him,

Rob: Yeah Death Grip!!

Perv tells Karen he has been transferred. Karen asks where? Jack answers for him”¦the White House.

Karen slaps Perv after he says he works for the President.

Chloe apologizes to Jack. Karen gets a call from the President who wants to know about the conference call.

Logan admits that the evidence against Bauer is inconclusive so he is dropping the charges against Bauer.

Logan says he has new info to indicate the evidence against Bauer was false.

Romo: I love the fire in the background.

Bill comes in and tells everyone that Bierko escaped. They talked to the one CTU guy who survived. He doesn’t have much info to tell them. But he says Bierko said he wasn’t finished and something about a nerve gas canister.

Jack wants to know how many canisters exploded at the facility. Bill says they cant tell.

Karen lays out orders to find Bierko.

Meanwhile Bierko is with his buddies and unveils one canister of nerve gas. He rips off his bandage.

4:10

Commercial

Rob: So this episode is kinda shitty so far.

Romo: I agree.

Rob: Its just retarded with this Bierko thing and they just let Myles walk away.

Romo: Yeah it looks like they ran out of ideas with 3 hours left in the day.

Rob: That is exactly what it is. At least we will notify our friends in the States before they see it. Stupid President. Too bad they can’t deport him to Mexico.

Romo: Best line ever.

4:13

Martha is shown popping some pills. But she spots them out instead and throws the bottle.

Rob: Hey there are a lot of pills left in there. That is one hell of a Saturday night you just threw away.

Martha paces around and finally opens her door and asks an agent to give Aaron Pierce his cell phone.

Meanwhile Pierce is tied up and bloodied.

Logan apologizes.

Romo: Piss on him!!

Rob: Spit spit SPIT!!

Logan starts to monologue to Aaron. Aaron asks for an explanation.

Rob: I love his down home ‘twang.

Logan tells Aaron the recording doesn’t exist and its over. He says Aaron has a choice. He needs to know they can put this behind them. He wants Aaron’s word and will reassign him to any post he wants other than the White House.

Romo: Lie and say yes.

Aaron calls Logan a traitor and a disgrace to this office, and finishes with”Is there anything else?”

Romo: Ha Ha!

Rob: How do you like them apples Logan?

Logan gets up and looks pissed. He walks out of the room with another agent. The agent tells Logan that Pierce’s loyalty is to Palmer and Aaron will be a problem. Logan gives a look of “Yes” to the agent who walks back to where Pierce is.

Logan calls Graham and gives him an update about how the recording has been destroyed. He assures Graham everything is sorted out and he is taking care of Aaron. He tells Graham about the plans to take out Bauer.

Logan sees Novick around the corner and says he has to go.

Novick tells Logan that Bierko has escaped. Logan starts to yell. Novick tells him that Bierko may be planning another attack.

At CTU Karen asks Chloe for any updates on Bierko, she has nothing so far. Jack says there are no witnesses.

Karen suggests talking to Henderson. Jack thinks it’s a waste of time. Karen suggests offering him a deal. Jack is not up for offering him a deal.

Romo: And he killed Tony Al-FuckingMeida. I’m pissed at Jack for not mentioning that.

Rob: Brutal. Almeida would be rolling around in his grave”¦if he had one.

Jack says he wants to present the deal if he is being forced to go along with their decision to offer Henderson one.

Rob: Present it in the form of a fist.

Jack walks into see Henderson. He tells Henderson that Bierko has escaped and wants to plan another attack. Jack asks for Henderson’s help and wants him to prove he is a patriot. Henderson asks for the offer”¦full immunity? Henderson says that must be really eating him up. Henderson gives another lecture about how the world works.

He says immunity is worthless and says if he walks out of here they will “take him down.” Jack asks who are they? Henderson says the people behind Walt Cumming’s suicide.

Henderson: “You can’t imagine Charles Logan masterminded this all himself?

Rob: Classic line!!

Henderson wants Jack to help him disappear and cover his tracks. Jack reluctantly agrees to help.

4:25

Commercial time.

4:29

Jack asks Chloe to check on 14 names of people Bierko may contact. Audrey makes an appearance and Jack goes to talk to her. She asks about the recording. She wants to help track down Bierko. She notices Henderson walking around and Jack tells her about the immunity deal.

Romo: I love how Jack turns from being against the deal to justifying it in two minutes.

Chloe says they only found one of the 14 names to have a cell phone, Joseph Molina. It seems Molina is an arms dealer. Henderson suggests that bringing him in wont work as Molina won’t deal. Henderson suggests he go in talk to Molina. Bill thinks they can crack his computer, Chloe says she can’t.

Romo: Chloe talking about computers gets me hot.

Rob: I’m leaving.

Karen agrees to Henderson’s plan against Jack’s wishes.

Martha having a smoke and decides to take a stroll out side.

A black car pulls up and an agent gets out, opens the trunk and goes into a door. He comes back with Pierce at gunpoint and orders him into the trunk.

Pierce struggles with him but he eventually gets knocked down. The agent notices Martha and points a gun at her.

She says “Are you gonna shoot me? Are you gonna shoot the First Lady?

The agent stalls”¦Pierce kicks him and starts to fight with him.

Romo: Kick his ass Pierce.

The agent gets the better of Pierce and has tire iron on him”¦.but a gunshot.

Rob: Did she shoot him?

Zoom out”¦and Martha has just fired the gun and is in shock.

Rob and Romo: YEAH!!!!!

Martha goes over to Aaron.

4:35

Commercial.

Rob: That was awesome.

Romo: I don’t think I’ve seen a better killing than that.

Rob: What about Chloe last year with the shot gun?

4:40

A fleet of CTU suvs head out. Curtis is in charge.

Rob: Yeah!

The SUVs stop and Jack, Henderson and Curtis get out. Jack lays out some orders. He says Henderson has 10 minutes and then they break in. Jack wants to wire up Henderson. He says that wont work because Molina will detect him.

Jack, “No games Christopher. I don’t need another reason to put a bullet in your brain.”

Rob: Deadly!

Henderson approaches Molina’s and hits a buzzer. Molina answers and asks who it is and sees Henderson. He says its about Bierko. Molina buzzes him in.

He enters Molina’s place while Jack is getting on top of the roof.

Molina has some sort of scanning machine that scans Henderson. He is clean, other than a zipper.

Molina lets him in the final door.

Henderson walks into the room and Molina pulls a gun on him and asks what he is looking for.

Curtis says he doesn’t like this.

Henderson tells Molina about Bauer and CTU.

Curtis senses something is up and orders them to go in.

Henderson tells Molina to delete the files and get ready to go. Molina goes to his computer.

CTU lets off a small explosion to open the first door.

Jack makes his way through the roof and is in the attic.

CTU break through another door. Molina and Henderson hear that one.

CTY rush in with Bauer coming down from above.

Jack shoots Molina. Curtis is hit.

Rob: Curtis got hit again!!!

Curtis says he’s been hit but he’s ok.

Molina has been hit in the hip but he’s ok. Henderson says he had him about to dump the files onto a flash drive so they could read it but Jack messed it up.

Jack sends Chloe the files. He tells Bill that Curtis is being sent back to CTU.

Chloe says it will take her time to decrypt the file.

Jack orders the CTU team out.

4:47

Commercial.

Rob: I don’t even care about this stuff. I want to see what happened with the First Lady!!

Romo: It’s true, that’s way more interesting at this point.

4:52

Martha is with Aaron and tells him that her husband lied to him. Aaron confirms that Logan ordered the agent she shot to kill Aaron. She tells Aaron she was going to keep quiet about everything else.

Aaron says he will get the body in the trunk. But he can’t drive the car away. He tells her to find Mike Novick and tell him everything.

Rob: Yes! Novick! Although I am a little concerned Novick will die.

Martha and Aaron talk some more, she asks him to make sure he gets off the property.

Jack and the CTU team escort Henderson to the SUVs. Jack calls CTU.

Chloe has the files. She notices something about a Russian submarine. It seems the US Navy is set to inspect it under the new treaty.

Jack thinks Bierko may be going for the sub, which Henderson confirms they have multiple non-nuclear warheads that can take out.

Jack and Henderson get in a chooper. Jack is taking Henderson with him because he knows the subs weapons system.

Audrey gets the ranking officer on the Russian Sub on the phone for Jack.

Jack tells him to lock down the weapon systems. He orders his crew to do so and goes to look for any terrorists. He pulls out a gun and moves around. He is going top side. He peeks his head out and Bierko shoots him.

Bierko’s boys put on gas masks and drop the canister into the sub and release the gas.

The chopper pilot says they are 5 minutes out.

Bierko and his crew move into the sub and the crew looks to be all out of commish. They move to the weapons area. They try to log into a computer with a code they got from Molina. It works. They have control of the weapons system.

Two other guys load the weapon tubes.

4:59

The next week on previews show basically nothing.


Final Comments

Romo: A very meh episode other than Martha’s shift from First Lady to First Lady Assassin. I think next season NBC should have a new show, “The Apprentice: Martha Logan” and just have Martha Logan test people on their abuse of prescription drugs and ability to shoot people when needed. I’m not a fan of the whole Bierko stuff but I do love the whole Martha, Pierce and Novick triangle.

Rob: Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha! Nevermind MVP of the episode, she is the now the leading contender for MVP of season 5. The only way this can be reversed is if my main man Mike Novick ices the President himself next week. Other than that I agree that this episode was sub-par.