Real Time 24 Recap: Hour 13

When we last left 24, a bomb had gone off disabling all of CTU’s computers but fortunately not hurting the Hot, but Daffy, Kayla, Princess of Seven or Eight Veils. This meant that Jack was without the help of CTU, which is sort of like me writing without the help of my cat, Gracie. Fortunately, Jack has a friend at the NSA who could shut down all of the bridges in New York, enabling Jack to find the terrorists. Jack found them in ten minutes, because New York is so small and quaint.

Jack, Agent Chico, and two soon to be dead CTU grunts, find the terrorists at a convenient riverfront. The terrorists recognize Jack and begin to open fire, pinning Jack and the guys in a corner while the Head Terrorist and Tarin escape by boat with the Dirty Nuclear Rods of Certain Doom. The Terrorists, being the sneaky bad guys that they are, have “jammed” all sources of communication. All is lost.

Or is it? Jack, seeing a red phone box, realizes that land lines cannot be scrambled, and remembers the movie “300”. It was such a great guy’s movie, although not nearly violent enough for Jack. Jack seizes upon a great idea. While being shot at by a ton of machine guns, let’s disassemble the CTU SUV-use it as a shield- and walk as one to the phone box.

Of course, it takes a team to make something like this work and one of grunts breaks rank and is shot by the bad guys. The other grunt runs out to get him and he is shot. Lesson told for 4 billion times on 24: always listen to Jack.

Back at CTU, Director Bubba is assessing damage. That means he is walking around half bent over. NSA sends over their senior engineer, Frank, to work his magic and bring CTU to life. Soon he overwhelms CTU with his engineering people skills. Chloe has an idea to bring the computers up, but Frank, of course, thought it was all stupid and sent Chloe away. Chloe calls her new "bff", Agent Freckles, and informs him about Frank and what ‘tard he is and that Jack is out there fighting the terrorists by himself. Freckles gives Chloe the courage to pull a gun on Frank. Director Bubba had to come down and mediate a Nerd dispute that he probably didn’t understand. He came down on the side of Chloe because Chloe can be cute, maybe, if the sun hits her right and she is not doing anything like reading.

You would think that the CTU being knocked out by a bomb would cause the world best parole officer, Bill Dauterive, to call it a night. In 24 world , this was as unbelievable as when Jack’s daughter was drapped by a mountain lion. But, no, he continues to confront the Not That Hot Tech, until she has to kill him to reveal the plot that she is the MOLE inside CTU!

At the Waterfront, Jack devises another suicide plan. He’ll draw the fire for the sniper terrorists while Agent Chico runs for the phone. Jack is shot and before he can be put away, Agent Freckles shows up and kills the two snipers (she just happened to be twenty minutes away!) Jack only has a collapsed lung, which for Jack is nothing considering he has already been stabbed and electrocuted in less than a twenty four hour period of time. Next week he'll be back in action.

Now about next week: Me and Mrs Recap are going on vacation, so no 24 recaps next week.