When we last left our hero, he was being led away with his estranged father by henchman under orders from his even more estranged brother Graem, who is both supremely evil and an incredible weasel. Though it doesn’t look good at the start, Jack and Poppa Bauer quickly dispose of their intended assassins and head back to Graem’s house, where Jack intends to get more information from dear-brother, no matter what it takes.
With quick dispatch, CTU takes control of Graem’s house and that’s where the real story begins. There are a few awkward moments between Jack and Graem’s wife, who seems more concerned with protecting her son (and, I’ll just say it, Graem’s son bears an uncanny resemblence to Uncle Jack) than her husband’s fate.
Alone in the house with a CTU interrogation team, Jack proceeds to quesion his brother. Graem denies knowning anything about the nuclear bombs, but the interrogator says that he’s holding something back, so Jack orders more and more of a pain-inducing drug pumped into his brother. In one amazing scence, Jack hugs Graem as he cries out in pain, telling him he doesn’t want to have to do this.
Then Graem breaks, but not about the nuclear bombs. He reveals his role in last season’s murders of David Palmer, Tony Almieda, and Michelle Dressler, and confesses that he’s tried to have his brother killed before. Satifised that this is all his brother knows, Jack ends the interrogation.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Lennox proceeds forward with his plans, convinced that President Palmer will finally sign on to the Executive Order he rejected only six hours previously. Suddenly, and stunningly, in the middle of a cabinet meeting in which we meet this season’s Vice-President, played by Powers Boothe, Palmer says no, he isn’t going to trash the Constitution. You go Wayne !.
And just in case you forgot about the nuclear bombs, Abu Fayeed is still looking for an engineer to program the triggers for the remaining four devices (the first one having been killed in the Valencia bombing). CTU intercepts a phone call and a data file with a picture of an engineer who will have to be forced to cooperate. And, at the end of the episode, Morris O’Brien is kidnapped after an obvious set-up lured him out of CTU.
But it’s not over yet folks. Graem is being prepared for a trip back to CTU and more interrogation and Poppa Bauer asks for a moment alone. In a conversation that makes it clear that Poppa is far more involved than we’ve been led to believe, Graem says he won’t let CTU break him. But Poppa can’t take that chance……..and with the injection of one syringe murders his son.
One less plate at the Bauer Thanksgiving Table.
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A Broken Hero
A Broken Hero, Part II
All In The Family
Unmasking The Enemy
