I have to say, I'm running out of interjections. Where's Schoolhouse Rock when you need it?
Let's try this one:
...and this one:
Larry Moss is the most incompetent boob on television.
Okay, ALMOST the most incompetent.
You can almost feel Larry being overwhelmed by his own ineptitude.
What kind of idiot automatically assumes the worst when given tons of contradictory evidence? Government rube Larry Moss, that's who! Give it a little time. Things are going to disintegrate to the point where Larry either gets offed as a result of his sad decision-making skills, or fired and forced into another career.
(Hmm. Apparently as a hairdresser or occupational therapist.)
Wasn't Hodges threatening and maniacally diabolical in this one?
Here we see him trying on disguises for when his henchmen spirit him away in the dead of night to his bunker in the Hollywood hills:
(Pope costume purchased cheap at Wal-Mart, early November)
(the "Keith Urban in Beard" getup, along with his aide Seaton dressed as Jennifer Beals from "Flashdance")
Well, Senator Mayer comes around and becomes Jack's ally.
The scenes at Mayer's house featured some of the best dialogue of the season:
"If I wanted to kill you, Senator, you'd be dead already. Now, take a seat!"
"Every day I regret looking into the eyes of men, women, and children knowing that any moment, their lives might be deemed expendable in an effort to protect the greater good."
"You know what I regret the most? Is that this world even needs people like me."
Mayer: "How can we presume to lead the world unless we set an example?"
Jack: "You make it sound so simple."
Mayer: "Well, maybe it's simpler than you think."
Mayer: "It's time for you start trusting the institutions that you've sacrificed so much to protect."
Jack: "Trust isn't my greatest asset."
Mayer: "Son, you have to start somewhere."
"And son, why don't we start trusting our government with my taking several bullets to the chest in the worst pizza delivery EVER!"
Well, all I could say then was "HOLY COW!"
I was truly shocked.
The final confrontation between Quinn and Jack was some of the best TV smackdown I've seen in a while. Not too many TV fights include using a bulldozer to tip over a trailer, a trailer-top gymnastics routine that sends the combatants tumbling onto the top of a car, hand-to-hand martial-arts combat with a tire iron and a screwdriver, and a screwdriver-throwing act that culminates with the rakish mercenary assistant getting impaled on said screwdriver.
That is, unless you're watching this...
...this...
...or this:
Of course, once again Jack becomes, well, you know, a moving target, the proverbial...
...although I guess you can't be both a moving target and a sitting duck, but I really liked the picture. Anyway, Jack must figure out how to protect his own tailfeathers while saving the world from doom and destruction.
Next week, Senator Hodges enters negotiations to change careers and become the Antichrist.
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