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24: Live Another Day Hour 3
Plot: Jack and Chloe are hot on the tail of the mysterious
blonde-turned-redhead lady currently in possession of some sort of techno-y
doo-dad that has the power to control drones. Just when it looks like Jack has
the gal cornered on at a subway station, she slices open her own leg and starts
screaming at him. Suspecting some form of spousal abuse, London’s finest
collection of helpy-helpertons get involved, allowing her to escape.
Well, that
and the fact that Chloe zoned out when she saw a man and a small boy who
reminded her of her husband and son. Her uh dead husband and son. She thinks
they were killed in an effort to get to her due to her connection with Jack.
There are emotions exchanged and so forth and then, as just as quickly as they
appeared, those emotions are bottled up and not mentioned again. Like it’s supposed to be.
Jack
and Chloe make their way back to Michael Wincott’s Techie Fanatic Pad and use
his crew to get more information on the currently-redheaded drone aficionado,
like the fact that she comes from a long line of terrorists.
Meanwhile,
Red, who goes by the name of Simone reunites with the rest of her terrorist
cell, which includes her brother, her husband and is run by her mum, Mama Stark.
There’s some tension with Simone and her husband because Simone has spent the last
three weeks in deep cover, the sexy kind, but then it turns out he’s not
worried about that, he’s having buyer’s remorse about that whole potentially
ending the world thing he’s wrapped up in. It also turns out besides attempting to
orchestrate the apocalypse, Mama Stark is also spying on and threatening the
hell out of everyone she knows. Luckily for the world, it’s going to take her
crew a little while to get the drone controller to work with their PC. Guess
they should have used a Mac to end the world, just like Steve Jobs intended.
Elsewhere,
Agents Kate Morgan and Erik Ritter are still getting in Jack’s way, President Heller
decides to speak in front of Parliament and has a hard time of it, things seem
conflicted between the President’s daughter Audrey and her slimy, Chief of
Staff husband, and that same Chief of Staff husband is working to deport Jack
to Russia.
The
episode wraps with Jack getting caught trying to sneak into the US embassy in
order to talk to a young drone pilot framed for killing a bunch of folks
overseas (it was really the terrorists), and then, in an inspired stroke, Jack
creates a diversion by shooting a bunch of protestors in the leg to create a riot,
allowing him to sneak in with Agents Morgan and Ritter right up his butt.
