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24 Episode 6.20 - "1:00 AM - 2:00 AM"
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 4:00 PM - by Matt Springer
24 Episode 6.20 - "1:00 AM - 2:00 AM"
Airdate: Monday, April 30th, 2007
"Youre cursed, Jack. Everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead."
When I started watching this season of 24, which is the first one Ive followed consistently every week, I expected the thrill ride. I expected the loopy plotting and cliffhanger endings, the ticking plunk of a clock at the end of every hour telling me it would be another seven days before Id find out the fate of 24s free world. I expected a master class in plotting from some of televisions most diabolical minds.
What I didnt really expect was to become so involved, so engaged, with the CHARACTERS. I assumed these men and women, from Jack Bauer to Chloe OBrian and onward, were just elaborate placeholders in a big, crazy board game--a televised speed chess match born in a Southern California writers room and broadcast to the world an hour at a time.
Yet this season, while a real white-knuckle ride, has really boiled its essence down to people, and the things they do for love...like walking in the rain and the snow, when theres nowhere to go, and youre feelin like a part of you is dyin.
Seriously! Its not just a crappy song on lite FM radio anymore; its the theme to last nights episode of 24!
In the White House, we have love betrayed--Vice-President Daniels learns that his top aide and bedroom partner, Lisa Miller, has been sleeping with another fella, and this fella has leaked critical information about the situation with the Chinese to the Russian government, who are not lovers but fighters, and thus are none too pleased that Jack Bauer used a piece of key Russian defense tech as a bargaining chip to free his girlfriend.
The scene when Daniels reveals Lisas betrayal to Tom Lennox is a minor masterpiece in 24s long history. All along, whether through ignorance or lack of information, Ive assumed Daniels to be the kind of guy with a wife his own age and a younger piece on the side. In last nights episode, we learn instead that he sought comfort from Lisa Miller because his own wife had died. Powers Boothe really humanizes the character in these few moments, to the point where its easy to feel sorry for the guy, even though in the back of your brain you know he tried to kill President Palmer and nuke Iran into the stone age.
At CTU, its love triumphant--well, sorta. Jack is secretly freed by Mike Doyle to take Audrey hostage so that a creepy, evil CTU doctor wont try to use risky drugs to free her from her catatonic state. Jack takes care of business and whisks Audrey down into the bowels of CTU, where he locks the two of them into a room and tries to break through her brainwashed haze. At long last, Audrey reaches down and takes Jacks hand, and all is sweetness and light...
...until Nadia and a cadre of CTU agents turn up to burn the door open, which pisses Jack off and freaks Audrey out. The music swells, and metal sparks fly at the impenetrable door, and it reminds me of nothing less than Han Solo going into carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back. Maybe its just cause Im a Star Wars nerd, but theres a similar feeling of hopelessness--the best-laid plans of Jack have finally hit a wall, and theres not much else he can do to help his lady love.
But 24 hasnt even played this weeks trump card yet. No, that comes from a surprise cameo by The Great William Devane as Audreys father, former Secretary of Defense Heller. (Its not an official title, like "Sir" or "Doctor," but I prefer to refer to The Great William Devane with all caps, in deference to his decades of service as one of Hollywoods most dependable and scenery-chomping actors.)
The Great William Devane is there to take Audrey home, but before he can, he stops by Jacks cell, where he utters the words that opened this review. Its a CRUSHING moment--not only have all of Jacks schemes ultimately failed him completely, to the point where hes saved the world but finds himself a captive of his own government, but the woman he loves has suffered the ultimate price for his actions. Which has of course happened before, so this isnt even his first time at this particular rodeo.
Deep down, he must know Hellers words are true, but having to hear them spoken--what Jack Bauer, and we the audience, have known for years--its truly devastating. If all of Jacks plans and schemes have left him here with less than nothing, then whats been the point, other than the visceral release of adrenaline?
Powerful, powerful stuff. I didnt expect to get that from season six of 24, but Im glad I did. Its great television.
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"1:00 AM - 2:00 AM"
Vern Seward is a writer who currently lives in Orlando, FL. He’s been a Mac fan since Atari Computers folded, but has worked with computers of nearly every type for 20 years.
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