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Review/Commentary
Reviewer: J
We open this week learning that already the van used to transport Dina and Jack when one of Marwan’s seemingly endless supply of minions willing to detonate themselves pulled the switch-er-oo on CTU has been found. Man, that was quick, but sure. I mean, dozens of people were watching Jack and Dina’s location on monitors, with field agents, with infared tracking, with satellite images and utilizing traffic cameras… and yet they still lost them in a tunnel. But the van is easy to locate? Okay, I know, I’m overanalyzing. But that’s what you pay me for. What’s that? You don’t pay? Ohhhh, I beg to differ – you’re reading this drivel, aren’t you? The wear and tear on your eyes and brain are more than enough payment for me.
Anyway, they realize that Dina’s still-unseen body is in the truck, apparently riddled with bullet holes. I find it interesting that they still don’t show us her body. Killing her off-camera last hour was something that engendered quite a bit of debate among the dorks who don’t believe things unless they see everything with their own eyes. Well, Audrey and Michelle both have boobies and we haven’t seen them yet, have we? But we can agree they exist, right? See? You don’t need to see things to know they’re there.
Regardless, Dina is definitely dead, which for Behrooz makes two parents and an uncle in the last five hours. Tough break. Throw in his dead, busty, American girlfriend and the minion that Behrooz flat-sided with a shovel and he’s seen a lot of deadness today. Well, granted, he hasn’t seen MamAraz dead yet, but you get my drift. Don’t worry, we’ll get to more Behrooz later.
Since Jack’s body isn’t alongside Dina’s, Captain Michelle deduces that “Marwan may be holding Jack.” I’m fairly certain she doesn’t mean a post-coital, lovebug, little spoon/big spoon kind of holding, either.
Tony and Michelle are working together nicely, as D pointed out last hour, and I think it’s fairly realistic. They know it’s an intense situation (and who doesn’t like being “intense” with a woman they’ve seen naked?) and that they need to remain professional and work together as seamlessly as they have in the past. Like two bodies becoming one, working together, gyrating together, descending into passionate movements that only the music can describe… oh, wait, err, did I fade into another kind of writing there? Sorry about that…
Anyway, Tony wants to tell Audrey about Jack’s potential predicament. Which, as far as Tony knows, could be that Jack has a gaping hole in his noodle. Michelle thinks as much and tells Tony since they don’t know anything, they shouldn’t worry Audrey even further about her pretend husband, especially with her actual husband in surgery. Since when did CTU begin caring so much about people’s mental health? They all work 24 hour days with no food or drinks and people are expected to keep working after being fired, tortured or watching/hearing a family member kill themselves. So why are we worried about Audrey? Oh, right, because she’s a giant ninny who likes to scrunch her face into that weepy/crying look that makes us guys so uncomfortable. Do we hug you? Leave you alone? Walk away? Smile? Cry with you? We have no idea.
Regardless, Tony and Michelle go back and forth a bit about this with Tony saying at one point, “She’s a professional.” A professional? Hey, take that as you will.
He ends up deferring to Michelle with a “hey, you’re the boss” (thus answering a question from a long-ago awful television show) and telling her it’s her call. And, clearly, he’s going to respect whatever she decides. And just when we think Michelle is going to, you know, go with her instinct, she spills it to Audrey that Jack’s missing and in pretty deep shit. Predictably, Audrey pitches a fit, demanding “Who was in charge of this operation?” Well, that’s a silly thing to ask. I mean, if it’s not Michelle, who’s currently running the place, then it’s either you or your papa, Audrey. Anyway, Michelle fesses up that it’s her who was in charge and Audrey actually asks how it could happen. Here’s about the 500th spot where I’d get myself fired if I were in Michelle’s position, because I would respond with something like, “Well, you mean besides the fact that Jack has a death wish, handed his gun to a known terrorist and decided to pose as a hostage for a group of terrorists who don’t even value their own lives?” Gee, let’s think about this – is there any reason to think they wouldn’t kill him on the spot? I mean, besides the fact that Fox executives would be pissed? (heh, thanks D).
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