Bad night to be named Dubaku In a two-hour period, the Dubaku family tree was all but cut down and inserted into a wood chipper: First, the badass Colonel Ike goes out with a whimper, or rather, convulsion. Unconscious in a hospital, he was administered a lethal injection by a Juma underling who was posing as an orderly. Later, Dubaku's son Laurent (also part of the Juma militia) tracked down Renee, who informed him that Juma had Daddy Dubaku killed. A disbelieving Baby Dubaku was in the process of choking Renee to death when Team Boss Moss arrived just in time to drop him with a bullet.
This week's most powerful button... is the delete key. At Jack's behest, Chloe removed Ryan Burnett — Senator Mayer's chief of staff — from Dubaku's list of government conspirators. The thinking: Burnett, who's providing support to Juma and Dubaku, will lawyer up if he's arrested, but if Jack can get some one-on-one time with him at the White House, Burnett will sing. ''Jack, you don't expect to interrogate a suspect in the White House!'' exclaimed Chloe. ''Let me handle that,'' answered Jack. (Translation: I brought my favorite taser.)
The guy most likely to shout, ''Damn kids! Get off my lawn!'' Sen. Mayer is in no mood for small talk at the White House, where he's been summoned by the President to chat about Jack. When Ethan tried to bond with him (''If it ain't from Kentucky, you can't call it bourbon''), Mayer crankily retorts: ''Spare me the Southern Gentleman routine, Ethan. The President didn't call me up here at the ass end of the day to drink her booze and flip through a briefing book.'' (Ass end of the day? Mr. Kurtwood Smith Goes to Washington as Red Forman!) The Senator then referred to Jack as a ''thug'' and a ''sonuvabitch.'' (And we drink!) Ethan told him that the Prez would support his War Crimes Act amendment if he'd postpone the hearings and let Jack's subpoena expire. When Mayer hesitated, Ethan hinted that she could just pardon Jack. ''Well, if that's how the President wants to play it,'' returned Mayer, jacking up his cranky pants, ''you can tell her she just walked into a street fight.''
Don't fight the catchphrase The pantheon of classic 24 lines — Dammit, Chloe! We're running out of time! Copy That! — needs to open its doors to that three-word wonder: ''Don't fight it.'' Jack tends to utter this advice gently when administering his super awesome sleeper hold on a friend, as if he were serving it with a side of chamomile tea. Curtis was on the receiving end of those words a couple of seasons ago. Renee was treated to a DFI at the FBI earlier this year when Jack needed to bust Tony out. And now Bill joins the Bedtime Bunch when he wouldn't reveal Burnett's location to Jack. In Jack's defense, he didn't want to play sandman: He was trying to keep Bill's hands clean of a nasty interrogation. Plus, he even apologized to him before applying Nap Grip.
NEXT: Janis goes after Chloe
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