Karen, Erik and Jack

(I’ve just been busy and tired, not necessarily in that order. Sorry, guys.)

Morris, I’m pretty sure you’re never going to be a negotiator. Or, a man (in my eyes) ever again. After being captured, he tries to convince McCarthy’s girlfriend to let him escape. Instead, she kills McCarthy and delivers him to Fayid. After a short but gruesome time being tortured, Morris gives up everything – how to arm the nuclear bombs, his ATM PIN, his mother’s address. Fayid is a nanosecond from killing Morris when Jack Bauer comes in and saves the day – and disarms the nuclear bomb left behind! When Morris tells Jack that he gave up the nuclear arming device, Jack is all, “Are you fucking kidding me? I was tortured for two years, got back TODAY, been used as a hostage and tortured, killed a colleague, survived a nuclear bomb, saved random dudes from a helicopter, tortured my brother TWICE, supposedly killed him and had to find you and ps YOU’RE WELCOME. And you don’t see me giving up (since the nuke went off).” Morris spends the next hour whining at CTU until Chloe shames some sense into him, and he gets back to work. I’m so disappointed in him!

Dr. Larry FLEINhart starts trying to remember the words to “Take This Job and Shove It” (he’d write his own song, but nothing rhymes with “colossal liberal mistake”) when Chad Lowe tells him to hold his horses. If FLEINhart stays in office, he might not have to work for Brother Palmer much longer anyway, wink wink, cough cough, shadow shadow. FLEINhart is aghast for 3 seconds and then decides he’s in. He gives Chad Lowe Brother Palmer’s itinerary, which shouldn’t be too full since he’s TRAPPED IN A BUNKER.

Speaking of Brother Palmer, he spent the episode writing a speech with NOT a Terrorist and getting pissy phone calls from Powers Booth. Nobody cares.

Jack is… well, not TERRIBLY upset that his brother is dead (seemingly because of him, thanks to crappy autopsy results). But Jack does tell Bill Buchanan that he wants to accept the consequences of his actions, instead of having Buchanan try to cover it up. Yeah, MORRIS, that’s how you deal with a problem, instead of being snippy with your girlfriend! Marilyn is not particularly upset at Jack either, so she gives him some random memory of this one time, there was this place and this guy and her husband was there? So Jack decides to take her out there to see if it can lead them to Gredenko (ps someone remind me what season he was in before).

On the way out there, Dad Bauer calls Marilyn and says, “Guess what? I totally killed your husband. I am the father in law FROM HELL and I will kill your son who happens to be with me if you do not lead Jack Bauer to this house where I planted a bomb!” And Marilyn… GOES ALONG WITH IT. IDIOT. She was stupid on Melrose Place, too. Marilyn ignores the infinite number of opportune moments to tell Jack the truth, and almost gets him killed from the explosion. Marilyn and Milo (yah, he was there too) run away from Dad Bauer’s evil henchmen. Milo can’t drive for shit, but he does a great job of blowing up their getaway vehicle and making a (probably shortlived) getaway.

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