BLUE MAG

First of all I have to mention that we start out looking for the male agent O’Brian, and I have a bone to pick with other TV writers. Said missing agent is everywhere else referred to in print as “Morris,” but if he’s a British man, as he appears to be from his accent (I am very observant that way), shouldn’t his name be spelled “Maurice”? For example, the other guy from The Bee Gees is Maurice Gibb…you spell Maurice, you say Morris. From here on out I will refer to him as Maurice O’Brian.

This was another great episode, full of the usual jargon–uplink this, tac teams that, reconfigure the whosit, encrypted whatsit. Maurice has been abducted by weasely dealmaker McCarthy in the car that Vincent Chase gave to Eric, and Jack is immediately retasked to find him. McCarthy switches cars and is backstabbed by his girlfriend, who I always thought something was up with, that what turns out to be blinding greed and stupidity, and she is dead within like 15 minutes of making the biggest decision of her life. Fayed convinces Maurice to rejigger the nuke trigger, and by convince I mean coerce by torture. It’s so hard to get good engineering help these days without having to take a half-inch metal drill to their shoulders.

Both Lowe brothers are trying to get into the White House these days. I hope this is not a precursor to real life. The day after big brother Rob annouces to Ally McBeal, little brother Chad appears to be involved in some sort of assassination plot. Didn’t they do attempted assassination of a President Palmer already? We’ll see where that goes. Overall, great episode, with a couple of great twists. I can’t believe they don’t do the phone conference bomb disarming more often, it is one of the classic action sequences.

By the way I am trying hard to do recaps without just sounding like a ripoff of TWOP. I think there is room for me to scuttle beneath their giant feet in this party, though. I can bring it.