Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Day 3: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
By M. Giant | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on May 17, 2004
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Lady Mac is dead! Kiefer threatens to check Spawnders into Inn Fection in order to force Saunders to help him locate ten of the remaining eleven vials of the virus. Soul Patch is staring down the barrel of twenty years in prison for treason. Lady Mac listens to a spurious offer from Palmer, but she isn't going to be satisfied with any position below First Lady. Oh, and the medicine bottle that she's using to blackmail him? Brother Palmer's hired thug finds it on Lady Mac's unconscious body after taking the not-previously-agreed-upon measure of knocking her out. Things get even weirder when Julia Milliken shows up and kills Lady Mac and herself. I know! Ten of Saunders's virus couriers get taken down and their vials secured, but number eleven is a wild card somewhere in L.A. and he's still at large. We're getting down to the proverbial wire. And did I mention that Lady Mac is dead? Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on 24: Senator Keeler had "proof" that Palmer lied to the police in the form of Alan Milliken's prescription bottle. Brother Palmer offered to try to steal the bottle from Lady Mac, because he is stupid. Soul Patch was ready to trade Spawnders for Bitchelle, but Kiefer put a stop to that so he could do the trade his way. Spawnders lost her nerve, the swap went south, and Saunders made a break for it, but Kiefer captured him with the help of a couple of handy fighter planes. Kiefer demanded to know where the remaining eleven vials of the virus were, but Saunders wasn't inclined to share. The following takes place between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM. Kiefer sounds glad that he doesn't have to give two morning times with the same amount of emphasis on both "AM"s for a change.
Things have calmed down under the Sixth Street Bridge. Soul Patch is giving a statement, firefighters are hosing down Saunders's burned-out helicopter, Saunders's henchmen are in body bags on the pavement, Special Agent Charlie Brown is getting a new bandage on his perforated hand, and Spawnders is experimenting with some new blank expressions. Kiefer approaches a CTU agent who's fiddling with a confiscated laptop. The agent tells Kiefer he's working on pulling the locations of the missing eleven vials, which is going to be tricky. Of course. Kiefer walks around to where a handcuffed Saunders is standing and asks where the vials are. Saunders tells him that he's wasting his time; he doesn't have the information in his laptop. Awfully nice of him to share that. Kiefer asks again. I'm just going to type a number every time he does that, preceded by the letter K. So we're at K2 now. Saunders boasts that his couriers are true believers in his cause, and it looks like he was serious about his motivation a few episodes ago. Too bad, but it's too late to do anything about that now. Kiefer reminds Saunders of the eight hundred victims at Inn Fection, and Saunders blows them off as the "first casualties." Kiefer wants to know "what happened to" Saunders, and all he gets is a smug smile and a lot of whining about how he was abandoned by the people he worked for. Yeah, that would suck, but you knew going in that that could happen, you crybaby. Saunders reveals that his men have been instructed to release the virus at noon, and that he'll only stop them if Kiefer agrees to his terms: he wants to be on his private plane from Van Nuys to North Africa. Ooh, how exciting! Just imagine flying to North Africa: you get off the plane at the North Africa Airport, you see all the signs saying "Welcome to North Africa," hear people speaking North African everywhere.