By M. Giant
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.While Olivia's being questioned by the Deputy Attorney General via teleconference and the Faux-yer's operatives hang with Spawn at the airport, Kiefer hijacks the van carrying Tony to break him out. Tony's so grateful to Kiefer for this that he proposes to reconstitute the bioweapon from his corpse for The Group. Once Kiefer's been taken hostage, Spawn's friends at the airport keep hanging out with her for some reason, and when Walker calls down security on them, the husband starts shooting the place up to get away. Luckily, Spawn goes after him. He wrecks his car, but Spawn's able to rescue his laptop in hopes that the FBI can use it to trace Tony. Ethan Kanin shows back up at the White House and agrees to help Aaron access the digital recording system in the White House Chief of Staff's office, but ends up getting busted when Olivia figures out what's happening. Ethan is relieved of a data card, but since he pulled a switcheroo, the one Olivia takes and destroys is blank, and Ethan gets to hear Olivia talking murder with Martin. Tony wants to meet with Alan Wilson for a job interview but when it comes time to transfer a seemingly unconscious Kiefer, our hero suddenly wakes up and kills everyone but Tony and the Faux-yer before escaping into what might just be his last hour of daylight. Yeah, sure.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!This hour's previouslies freeze-frames: Olivia Taylor, Jack Bauer, Kim Bauer, and that's it. That's a very idiot-daughter-heavy previouslies sequence.
At this late hour, Cisco has apparently realized it's not getting its product-placement money's worth this season, so suddenly Olivia Taylor is about to have a video teleconference with the Deputy Attorney General via TelePresence. Too bad the Justice Department isn't based in Washington, D.C., or they could maybe do this in person. The Deputy AG introduces a couple of sidekicks and assures Olivia that her questioning is only a formality before getting going. With a suspect pool smaller than that of your average Agatha Christie novel, he's either lying or stupid.
Taylor and Tim are about to enter a briefing in the Situation Room, but Taylor is wondering where her daughter is. Tim explains that Olivia is, as they say, assisting the Deputy Attorney General with his enquiries into the murder of Jonas Hodges. Tim has to admit that they aren't any closer to finding a suspect, but still maintains that it had to be an internal leak. Taylor enters the briefing and wishes everyone good morning. "I realize that we are all in dire need of sleep," she says, but says she wanted to bring everyone up to speed. While some slick computer graphics zip around on the big screen, Taylor explains to them about the conspiracy that Hodges told her about. Which she apparently thinks is going to do something else in the few hours. "We don't have much actionable intelligence at this point," she admits. "Then why can't we go home and sleep?" nobody asks.
Tony's prisoner transfer convoy is in motion; the van has not only four vehicles surrounding it on the otherwise empty freeway, but a helicopter escort overhead as well. Into Kiefer's ear through his cell phone earpiece, the Faux-yer tells Kiefer that his chance to bust Tony out is coming up. "You'll need to commandeer the van and peel onto the Taft Street exit in about four miles. I'll direct you further once you've managed this. Remember, my operatives are with your daughter. In fact, I'm looking at her right now, so don't try to be a hero." Wonder why they're going so far out of their way to establish that Spawn is on camera?
It's 6:05:12, as the airport departure gate where Spawn is waiting is getting more populated. She worries about getting on the flight, being on standby and all, but the "husband" of her new "friend" (honestly, I'm just going to have to start calling those two "Bob" and "Smiley") assures her she'll get on. "There have to be some people that are too spooked to fly after those planes went down yesterday," Bob points out. Smiley has just finished remonstrating with Bob for being ghoulish when a guy standing to his aged mother asks Bob to move the stuff from the chair to him -- including the webcam-equipped laptop that until now was pointing at Spawn. While he's doing that, his hair shifts aside and Spawn notices a bloody scratch on his neck, which is odd because it didn't look like Agent Franks got a piece of him in their a href="http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/24/day_7_500_am_-_600_am_3.php?page=10">scuffle last hour. "That must have happened when the door hit you getting out of the cab," Smiley says, as though that makes any sense at all. I mean, unless he customarily gets out of cabs by using a trapeze, that's a worse cover story than none at all. He pretends he's going off in search of band-aids. Spawn almost looks suspicious. Or just worried about getting on the flight. Or trying to remember when there's going to be another scene where she has a line.