What is the ocean these days, some kinda giant bath house?

Apparently!

ita, here's the TWOP recaplet:

Now that the search for the nerve gas has hit a dead end, President Logan reams out McGill so widely that the poor Hobbit ends up involuntarily shitting on everyone he encounters. First, McGill orders Kiefer taken into custody for defying the order to release the gas at the mall. But Kiefer escapes after he gets a call from The Man, offering to secretly help Kiefer find the canisters. And because Audrey was the one who transferred The Man's call, McGill starts leaning on her, almost literally. Which forces her to drag Chloe and Buchanan into her little conspiracy to help Kiefer under the radar, which in turn sends McGill closer to the edge and Buchanan to a holding cell.

Meanwhile, Erwich gets fired/killed by his boss, who hasn't given up on striking at Russia; he's just going to do it in the U.S. Specifically, he plans to ambush the Russian President's motorcade to the airport, using intel that he requests from President Logan. When given a choice between sacrificing the co-signatory on his fresh new treaty and potentially thousands of American lives, Logan goes with the former. The First Lady disagrees with her husband's decision, but what can she do about it? Not much, really. Except to hop into the Russians' limo just as it leaves Not Camp David. As if Logan needs people making his decisions even harder for him.

The only thing I'd add is that Samwise the grind is also trying to get his key card/ID back from his sister and her boy friend, he looks like he's going to try an extortion scheme on the Hobbit. Also, the guy trying to help Jack get the canister back gets killed and gives Jack a chip that's got DoD encryption that Chloe manages to access thanks to Audrey.

no one pees.

I know! I just want ONE TIME, to go to commercial with Jack heading out of the room, (maybe saying "I gotta go"), and then see him coming out of the bathroom. BTW, I hear that Geraint Wynn Davies, aka Nick Knight is the baddie this season?

I love a good gay whale crosspost. ::nods approvingly::

I love a good gay whale crosspost.

I love that I'm not the only one who went straight to the interspecies bowm chicka bowm.

I love a good gay whale crosspost

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I just want ONE TIME, to go to commercial with Jack heading out of the room, (maybe saying "I gotta go"), and then see him coming out of the bathroom.

No one eats either. Is CTU the only company on earth that doesn't order pizza for its employees the minute they know it's going to be an all-nighter?

I'm getting a little tired of President Lameass. At least when Palmer was fucking up and letting terrorists get away with shit, he looked competent.

I'm also not sure why Jack couldn't just call in and say "hey, sorry about Curtis and the whole running away thing, but I've CAPTURED A TERRORIST AND HAVE A GOOD LEAD ON THE LOCATION OF THE NERVE GAS." I mean, Samwise still wouldn't be happy with him, but the President just wants results.

Jessica, I think Jack was using his little free time to go to the bathroom and/or find some snacks -- clearly calling The Hobbit was a low third on the totem pole.

I was about to note the no-eating thing. I'm willing to believe that everyone goes to the bathroom when I do, during the commercials. I have worked well into the night, and occasionally for 24 hours, and the result is always a toxic waste dump of coffee cups, Coke cans, pizza boxes and junk food wrappers.

Who plays Erwich? Is that Badger?

I caught from the First Lady getting into the limo, and was mightily confused. I mean, it looked like the good guys were doing a bad thing. And that never happens.

Part of me was hoping that the First Lady would turn out to be a baddie somehow, but I guess that's off the table.

Thanks!