24 Recap: Day 6, 3:00am – 4:00am

Title: “Day 6, 3:00am – 4:00am”
Original Airdate: 5/14/07
GMMR Recapper: LaLa

Oh Josh, you poor kid.  Forced to be a sacrifice to your sociopathic grandfather in order to prevent World War 3 with Russia (which, conveniently, they will not launch for two more hours, which – wouldn’t you know it! – happens to be how much time is left in the season).  At least the kid has spunk, though, and actually managed to kick evil Cheng in the face and escape his clutches (man, that moment was awesome).  Here’s hoping the kid has enough spunk to escape Daddy Bauer once the U.S. delivers him to his dear old evil grandpa in exchange for the Russian nuclear component.  I know you’re scared, kid, and hate your psychotic grandfather, but seriously: you’ll be fine, especially compared to the possible World War 3 and millions of lives lost that will ensue if you don’t go.  Of course, it would be nice if someone (*cough* Doyle *cough*) had the decency to explain that to Josh before abducting him again.  Oh well.

In other news, Nadia sure is having a rough 24 hours.  First Homeland Security limits her security clearance on the CTU database, then she gets tortured by Doyle, then Milo kisses her in front of everyone at CTU, then Milo gives her many jealous glares because of her sudden budding closeness with her former torturer (i.e. Doyle), then she’s forced to take charge of CTU, then she doesn’t do a good job and gets browbeaten by many guys (like Doyle and Jack), then a bunch of freaking Chinese terrorists attack CTU and take everyone hostage, then Milo sacrifices himself for her (so now she has to deal with that guilt), and THEN…. (*breath*) together with Jack and Morris (?!) she manages to kick terrorist butt with just her bare hands and successfully defeat the bad guys… and now those jerks from Division (because Division only has jerks) are blaming the Chinese CTU attack all on her?!  SHEESH.  Give the girl a freaking break!!!

Ehem.  Anyhoo, if anything good came out of all of that insanity, it was the nice little moment where Morris gave Nadia a pep talk and comforted her.  And this from a guy who’s dumping Chloe because he knows that she knows that he’s a coward?  Sure.  Here’s hoping he also comes to his senses about the aforementioned stupid matter, and un-breaks Chloe’s heart.  Speaking of Chloe… I miss her.  She’s barely on the show anymore.  Here’s hoping they don’t suddenly kill her off for pointless shock value.

Speaking of characters who have been largely missing from the show this season, it was nice to actually see more of Jack this episode – especially Jack in action!  Loved the little slide and shoot move he did on the Chinese terrorists.  Here’s hoping we get much more Jack and much less White House drama in the final two episodes.  And speaking of…

Ugh.  What else can I say about that plot line except that I don’t like it and I want it to be over – especially since the Lisa spying subplot ended up being a completely pointless waste of time.  I mean, I like Karen, and I now actually like Tom Lennox (who remained eerily focused on his job while watching and listening to Lisa have sex), but man… do NOT care about Daniels.  When Tom got that weird phone call at the end of the episode, I was SOOO hoping that it was Logan, back from his flat-lined grave, calling to give Daniels advice and just basically take over.  Sigh.  I gotta say…  I’m really looking forward to this season ending – and not because I’m excited.  So here’s hoping we get less Daniels and more Jack and Chloe in the final two hours.  Hear that 24 producers?  Start re-editing the finale now…

LaLa is a writer who currently resides in LaLa Land, aka Los Angeles.  LaLa also likes to sing.  LaLa also knows some lawyers in a law office.  LaLa is also prone to making bad jokes, like this one.  And of course, LaLa also loves her some quality television shows with quality actors on them, like House… and The Office… and 24… and, well, pretty much any smartly written show that doesn’t include a fat guy with a hot skinny wife or the words “two and a half men” in the title.