In the meantime, we get to see more of Hodges and the whole Starkwood operation, which turned out to be pretty boring. And again they've gone in-your-face with that gigantic Starkwood logo. Have they heard of subtlety? But Jon Voight is cool and I was amused by his dialogue/acting.
Jonas Hodges (Jon Voight) plotting more doom and gloom
And finally, the main plot...Jack and Tony trying to recover the bioweapon that Starkwood is picking up from the shipping yard. First off, it was apparent from that security guard's initial phone call to his pregnant wife that he wasn't going to get killed. But then they went over-the-top again with him explaining the situation in completely unnecessary detail to Tony and Jack in the guardhouse. So of course, Jack blows their element of surprise in trying to save the guard's life instead of concentrating on recovering the weapon which Tony was trying to convince him to do. And sure enough, it went wrong when the Starkwood guys managed to get the shipping container on a truck to get away. Jack made it onto the truck, but ended up leaving Tony outnumbered and eventually captured. But at least he got the bioweapon right? Wrong, he did manage to call Larry and explain what happened, and also stopped a toxic gas leak, but he exposed himself to whatever chemical was in there, and he got ambushed by a helicopter and SUV. The bad guys managed to quickly remove the weapon from the truck and airlift it out while Jack was forced to take cover, so now he had to call Larry and tell him it was gone. But how convenient...it was going to a nearby military base! What if they had flown it somewhere else? Jack and Larry were somehow positive they would take it straight to the military base, but had the bad guys taken it anywhere else, Larry and Co. would be headed for the wrong place.
From the looks of next week's preview, Starkwood's base gets attacked (though I'm betting even a million FBI guys can't get in without help from Jack) but Tony is their hostage and getting tortured for some information. And Jack is waiting to find out what he's been exposed to. They can't kill him, right? And there's plenty of episodes left, so could Starkwood pull off an attack?
This was a review of Season 7, Episode 15. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.
Posted by: dave on Mar 24th, 2009 | 2:48pm
Seriously though, I think that was some of the worst decision making by Jack when he stopped the bioweapon truck in the middle of the highway. He couldn't have pulled over to a secure spot to stop the leak?