6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Does anyone else think they should change the 24 theme song to "Bad Day" by R.E.M.?

Geez where to begin? Charles Logan does the infamous slow walk through CTU into holding room 2 where he gets very antsy very quickly. Chloe comes in and to Logan's question of "who are you?" Chloe responds with, "I’m just Chloe O’Brian and I have to do something with this computer." I thought that was pretty hilarious. Chloe obviously has no idea how to talk to this guy, which probably has something to do with the fact that she was an integral part of bringing him down.

In the CTU conference room, we meet Doyle, who is played by Rick Schroder. I don't know who he is, even though I've seen him in a million things. But my friend gave this perfect description of him, "he looks like a baby and an old man at the same time." It's true, look harder next time. Anyway, he's the new guy in charge of tactical teams. We quickly learn that he doesn't mess around and that there is a past history with him and Milo. And Milo's been pretty cool every since he took those bullets to the arm, so I don't like this Doyle character one bit.

At the Russian consulate, Jack is thrown down a flight of stairs and he falls very quickly and violently down them. He cuddles for a little bit with the dead body at the bottom of the stairs as his captor calls to make sure it’s ok to kill him. Markov says that’s cool with him and the Russian guard draws his gun. Meanwhile Jack undoes the belt of the dead guy and when the guard aims his gun at him Jack uses the belt to disarm him and kills him while his hands are tied up. It looks really cool, but it doesn’t seem like it would actually work in real life. Whatever. Jack is clearly in pain and he grabs a gun and stumbles around looking for a place to hide. He finds a phone and calls CTU to tell them he knows where Gredenko is, but Markov shuts the phones off before he can tell them. At least now CTU knows that Jack must be saved. Jack cuts the power in the consulate and goes into a room where two Russians are canoodling and he makes the guy go find him a phone. While he aims his gun at the woman he tells her not to be afraid and that he’s not going to hurt her. At this point, I don’t even think I would be afraid of Jack because he can barely stand or breathe. I would just want to hold him and stroke his beautiful blonde hair to make him feel better.

In the batcave, evil Vice President Daniels is telling Lennox that the Ambassador of unnamed Middle Eastern country (on blogs4bauer.com they refer to it as Derka Derkastan, which I will steal, because Team America is the funniest movie ever) will be meeting with him soon. He wants Lennox to say he saw Assad carry the bomb to the podium so he can declare war on Derka Derkastan. Lennox does not want to do this, but he agrees anyway, because the vice president is terrifying.

Buchanan is finally meeting with Logan and is explaining to him that the Russian president is in a diplomatic stand-off with the veep and that they’re sending in a tactical team to go get Jack. Logan flips out and does not like this act of war. He tells him that his ex-wife Martha is BFFs with Anya Subarov, the Russian president’s wife. He thinks Martha can convince Anya to speak to her husband about the matter, and have the Russian consulate hand Jack over peacefully. Bill rolls his eyes and is all “yeah this is a good idea” but he knows there aren’t too many other options so he tells him to call her up.

We see Aaron Pierce carrying a bag of groceries to Martha’s insane asylum bungalow. Aaron Pierce has lost a ton of weight while living with Martha in her crazy cabin. For some reason this scene cracked me up. I think it was because when Aaron asked Martha what she had been doing, she was just like “Well I’ve been chilling reading this book, now I’ll eat this awesome produce.” I don’t know, I just couldn’t stop laughing for some reason. Personally, I like it better when Aaron is an all-business awesome Secret Service agent as opposed to babysitter for crazy Martha, but I’m still glad he’s back. So Charles calls Martha and Aaron picks up and says, “Martha Logan’s bungalow.” See? Hilarious. Anyway, Martha initially doesn’t want to talk to him, but comes around and then goes crazy on the phone. Charles decides it would be better to talk to her in person.

Charles arrives in his chopper and tries to convince Martha that he’s asking her to do this for the good of the country and not for his own personal benefit. Since she’s crazy, she flips out, taunts him and runs around the bungalow in a very nervous matter as they wait for Anya to be put on the phone. Martha starts chopping up Mel’s produce, there are a lot of zoom-ins on knives and when heading back to the kitchen, Martha stabs Charles in the shoulder in slow-motion. WHAT?!? I think she needs more than just a little crazy-halfway house bungalow, put that woman in a padded room. If she’s crazy, why is she allowed to keep so many knives at her disposal? Aaron’s secret service sense must have dwindled significantly. They cuff Martha, which confuses her, because she’s crazy, and still ask her to talk to Anya. Everyone doubts that she’ll be able to pull this off, but she convinces Anya to talk to her husband. President Subarov calls Vice President Daniels and tells him, “The United States of America has the full support of the State of Russia in this matter” which is good, now there won’t be another cold war. Markov refuses to stand off and the tactical teams move in. It’s a full bloodbath with Jack and Doyle leading the charge. Jack fights off about 37 Russian guards with only a handgun. Before Markov is shot in the stomach, he calls Gredenko and tells him he has to launch the drones ASAP. Jack tells Bill where Gredenko is and sends people out to the desert to find him.

The episode closes with Charles Logan crashing in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. They are killing of major characters incredibly quickly if he’s dead.

I have now stopped watching previews. I didn’t watch them at the end of last week’s episode, or this week. Apparently if you watched them for this week’s episode you knew Martha and Aaron were coming back and that Logan was going to be stabbed. They give away too much and I’m done with them.

Not enough Jack in this episode. I think I’ve had to say that 4 or 5 times this season, which is 4 or 5 times too many. While this season started off really strong, I think it’s slowing down and losing direction now. The writers had a lot of great opportunities with Graem, Phillip and the return of Charles Logan. Now, at least the first two characters were quickly killed or written out. This was the third episode in a row with no Poppa Bauer. Having Jack’s family involved could have brought a lot of heightened drama for way more episodes, but it was like the writers didn’t know where to go with those plots and ended them just as soon as they began. Now if Logan’s dead, they will have definitely wasted an opportunity to have a lot of Jack and everyone else verse Logan style episodes. We were convinced to trust him too quickly, and now he’s probably dead.

I’m sorry ... I’m feeling ambivalent, Torres out.