Viewer discretion is advised because we get another presidential speech, and that’s real torture.

In the Recaps, we relive the Siege of the White House. Or, in Bill’s case. We redie the siege. I had missed last week that Bill said “It’s a suicide play, Jack.” We just didn’t realize whose suicide. The whole sordid Ryan Burnett affair. Olivia. Walker suspended. And Jack is on the run, but not after clobbering his umpteenth uniformed officer on this show. I wish I had kept track over the years.

As we begin, we’re in one of 24’s favorite locations, a parking garage! Lucky for Jack, he finds an old car that he can hotwire in a jiffy.

Morris! He’s at the FBI wondering where his wife is. He’s pretty sure he dropped her off there several hours ago. Janis blunts at him, “She’s been arrested.”

Rrrowr! Walker is sitting there in a minxy blue sweater. When did she find time to change? Larry is flummoxed, as usual.

Back to Jack. Ok folks, I’m hoping you can help me with this one. Where did Jack get this laptop? Did it just happen to be in this car? I didn’t see Jack bring one with him.

A couple of product placements. The Apple laptop. A Sprint USB device thingy. Jack calls Walker and sends her a pic of Quinn. Again, where did Jack get this? Show? Show? Are you there?

Walker has it in her inbox. Let us peek now into the exciting world of the FBI Agent. Her other emails have subjects of Assignments, Budgets, Security Measures, Hackers List, Software Updates.

Jack is practically begging Walker to try and id the photo. Walker plays hard to get.

Driving around somewhere else, monitoring FBI radio traffic, Quinn hears that Jack escaped. His face registers his disappointment. He calls Boss Hodges with the bad news.

Hodges is having a conversation with Mr. Seaton. Hodges then almost weeps, saying he takes no pleasure in casualties, but collateral damage is inevitable in war. Ok, nice try show, but I still have zippo clue as to why these American are willing to kill tens of thousands of their fellow Americans. Hodges says to wake up their colleagues. What, are they robots? Clones? Droids?

Walker has id’d Quinn. He’s a black ops vet. Starkwood apparently provides private armies. And, surprise, Senator Mayer has been investigating them.

Moss is already back at the office. Larry finds Walker in her office. But, he knows his woman. He zens she’s been talking to Jack, and has Janis work her technomagic to find out more.

At the first break, clocks are at :11 to :11. Coming back, clocks are at :15 to :14.

Olivia comes to see Mommy, and says “I have a thought.” The Prez says “Good for you, honey! I know you’ve been working hard on that!” Kanin comes in, and Olivia stares hot poison-dipped needles at him. By the way, Olivia’s hair seems to have grown a couple inches in the last five hours.

Kanin is there to confess his role in Burnett’s death. He says he was just trying to protect the president. (If we had a male president, he would’ve disemboweled Kanin right there on the carpet and nailed his skin to the wall.)

Walker tries to skedaddle out of the FBI, but she’s trapped. Larry confronts her in the hallway as he did Sean. Larry just isn’t having the best of days, is he. Walker won’t squeal on Jack. Larry says to put her in Holding. Isn’t that where Chloe is?

The Senator is home. He turns off the alarm. He tosses his coat over his briefcase and plant. And then notices something. “Say, I didn’t have a computer on my desk before.” Or something. The krazy kaptions says “printer whirring.”

Ah, Jack has let himself in. He’s holding a knife. He snarls at the Senator “If I wanted to kill you, you’d be dead already.” Senator Mayer snips back “You’re a real enigma.” Jack wants the Senator to open up his Starkwood files.

At the break, clocks are at :24 to :23. Coming back, clocks are at :29 to :27.

Ah, the Prez is going to give a Big Speech. There are few things more boring on this show then when President Doesn’t Matter gives a Big Speech. So, look elsewhere for a recap of that. I will note that the adversarial, tough-nosed White House Press Corps gives the Prez a standing ovation when she enters. Bunch of liberal namby-pambys.

She starts out “My fellow Americans, John Adams…” Why is she addressing John Adams? Why not Paul Revere?

A CNB reporter collars Kanin. He already knows about Burnett and Kanin’s role. Hmmm? The number of people who knew about this was pretty small, and it included Witch Olivia. Whom Kanin naturally suspects and confronts her about it. Olivia denies all knowledge.

Jack is still not found, so Larry orders a 25-mile cordon. *snicker* I bet FBI perimeters don’t work any better than CTU ones used to. Janis can’t get past Walker’s file header and decrypt what she sent Jack. I can’t get past her headers either. There is someone in the building who knows how, though. Chloe!

Morris is talking to someone, and says “give Prescott his babu.” *pause* I was hoping you’d know what that is.

Larry figures Morris knows how to decrypt the file too, so he puts some pressure on Morris. “If you don’t help, I’ll release Chloe and you’ll be stuck living with her still.” I mean, Larry says “Help us and we’ll let Chloe go.” Janis says Walker used Blowfish 148 encryption. Ah, Japanese tech. I suppose she could’ve use Octopus Testicle 172.

It takes Morris all of 30 seconds to decrpyt. If Janis were a man, she’d be emasculated right now.

At the break, clocks are at :36 to :34. Coming back, clocks are at :41 to :38.

Chloe is mad that Morris helped them find Jack. Morris wasn’t keen on little Prescott having to visit Mommy in jail until he’s ready for college.

Back at the tony Georgetown resident, Jack and the Senator have a heart to heart about Jack’s past.

You know, I’m not sure you realize how much of  a strain it is to come up with wisecracks with nothing but serious material to work with. I mean, I stomp around trying to come up with something, I kick the dog, ignore my wife, crush my kids’ self-esteem. It’s hard on a family.

Jack discovers Quinn was at the scene of an “accident” that killed a Starkwood whistleblower. Suddenly, Jack recalls that Juma was neck deep in testing a bioweapon. They figure Starkwood is after bioweapons.

The police are at the door. Senator tells Jack to start trusting their institutions. (Except, don’t start with what you think is the police institution.) The Senator says “Son, you have to start somewhere.” Now, remember, on this screwy 24 timeline, Jack is over 50 years old by now. He’s no longer a “Son.”

The Senator goes to answer the door, and…. is promptly murdered not by DC’s Finest but by Quinn. Jack runs for it, and Quinn the Black Ops guy fires at Jack and misses at point blank range with his automatic weapon.

At the break, clocks are at :48 to :45. Coming back, clocks are at :53 to :49.

In the Oblong Circular Office, President Mommy confronts Olivia, with Kanin standing there. Olivia says the leak came from the Marshalls Office, and says CNB will sit on the info in exchange for an interview. Hmm, is Olivia mixed up in Starkwood. Is CNB?

I also noted that Olivia didn’t ask about her father in this episode. You know, that guy who was shot, nearly died, and has been in surgery for hours? Oh yeah, that father.

Quinn the Bloodhound sees dark blood on dark streets at night. Jack has a hand wound that apparently is leaking blood like he had an artery cut. A chase to some construction site. Quinn guns down an office door in cold blood. Only to find that Jack has hotwired a front-end loader and tips over the construction trailer.

A fight, yada yada. Jack kills Quinn by throwing a screwdriver at him. Quinn says the weapons are already here. Jack loots the body, and finds a cell phone that helpfully says “Port of Alexandria” on it. Uh-huh. Jack calls Tony for assistance. They’re going to need weapons and surveillance equipment.

Jack then yanks the bloody screwdriver out of the rapidly cooling Quinn and uses it to start a truck.

The episode starts leaking oil with the clocks at :00 to :56.

Number of times someone says a variation “Now!”, “No!”, “Move!” or “Go!”: 57
Number of times a “protocol” or “grid” is mentioned: 11
Number of times a “perimeter” is mentioned: 10
Number of times Jack/someone says “Drop the weapon!”: 6
Number of torture scenes : 6
Number of moles: 6
Approximate Body Count: 69, plus one security camera, plus two planes, plus one cable, plus numerous glass doors, plus one finger, plus vintage bottles of methane