Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 4: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on January 30, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Kiefer's big job this hour is showing DoDder the security-camera footage of TerrorGringo that will help identify him, but AIIIEEEE!sha the mole calls down TerrorMinions on them. They escape with an assist from some Soul Patch cover fire and now they're on the run. CTU's doctors nearly kill DrisKid. Better luck next time. TerrorMom tries to save TerrorTeen from TerrorDad, and gets winged for her trouble. Also on the run. Lispy Skip figures out a way to shut down all of the rogue nuclear reactors except for six. One of them is uncomfortably close to my house. I'm considering going on the run. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on 24: Kiefer rescued DaD and DoDder from the TerrorDome, which is sad for people who only get to see that excellent sequence during these previouslies. DoDder had recognized someone at the TerrorDome, but couldn't place him. DaD wanted DiCK to spill his guts. TerrorTeen found out that TerrorDad ordered his death, so he spilled Wahabist Wolf's brains. Driscoll brought the schizophrenic DrisKid to the CTU clinic. DoDder's soon-to-be-ex-husband Grayadder wanted to get back together, and looked thrown when she said she was "seeing someone" and introduced him to Kiefer. CTU found out that the bad guys were in possession of a nuclear reactor remote control from MacGuffin Factories, and AIIIEEEE!sha reported CTU's clued-in-ness to someone over the phone. The following takes place between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM.
Kiefer approaches DoDder, who's still at the CTU computer where he left her. He spent the previouslies on the phone with the private security company that has the tapes of the event where DoDder first met TerrorGringo, but since it's on a "closed system," Kiefer has to fetch the tapes for DoDder to view, because TerrorGringo is their "only lead." And Keifer is L.A.'s only licensed driver, I guess. They can't have the tapes couriered over? By commuter train or something? Meanwhile, DoDder is having the guest list emailed to her. She wonders why Kiefer seems to be in such a big fat hurry, and he tells her that her kidnapping was a diversion. Flattering. He explains about the MacGuffin and how it's being used for a remote attack on 104 nuclear power plants. And it looks like the terrorists aren't even threatening to melt down 104 cores unless certain demands are met; they're already working on it. Those guys don't fuck around. As he lays this all out for DoDder and the new viewers, DoDder walks with Kiefer to the checkout counter, where he picks up a "full tactical." That's a silver briefcase, in case you were wondering what tactical looks like when it's a noun. DoDder wants to go to the security company with Kiefer to save time. He doesn't want to put her at risk again, but he reluctantly sees her point.
Curtis is holding a briefing whose centerpiece is a map of the continental United States, with its 104 nuclear reactors represented by red blips. DaD is in on the briefing, and now that he's got some stubble to go with his preexisting sartorial and tonsorial disarray, he's looking like he just woke up from a three-day bender during the closing credits of Trading Spouses. With an assist from Lispy Skip, Curtis explains how 104 meltdowns will be very very bad.