I am – Hercules!!

“I want to introduce everyone to Mike Doyle!! He’s the new head of field ops!!”

“There’s an international incident brewing and I think you might be able to defuse it!!”

“Cut the crap!! At least you used to be an honest crook!!”

“I had an understanding with your president!!”

“You help us find those nukes or I’m going to unleash the full power of our military on your country.”

“I’ve been ordered to send an assault team into the Russian Consulate!!”

“Must launch now!!”

“Go!!”

“I’m terminating them!!”

TV Guide says:

Mike Doyle (Rick Schroder) joins CTU as head of Field Ops, just in time to oversee a crucial mission. Meanwhile, Jack has information CTU needs and no way to get it there, and Charles and Martha Logan have a tense reunion.

Proven spy “Dr. Robert Hume” has spoilers on tonight’s installment. Don’t read them. They will rob you of any enjoyment you might derive from the episode.

Tonight:

- Palmer lives, but is incapacitated enough that VP Powers Boothe (he's evil? Who could have guessed?!?) gets to take over and start instituting all the crazy right-wing policies that Palmer was resisting.

-- Powers Boothe tells the Iranian ambassador that if Fayed gets off just one of the nukes, he's going to annihilate Iran. Oh, and he makes Lennox lie and say that Assad planted the bomb.

-- Bauer escapes his captors, but is trapped in the basement of the embassy. He calls CTU, but gets cut off when the Russians cut all the lines.

-- If you've got to save Jack Bauer from the Ruskies, who ya gonna call? Ricky Schroeder of course! But does Ricky get along with Milo? Not after what happened in Denver he doesn't!! (whatever the hell that means)

-- Meanwhile, Logan says he might be able to get the Russian president to allow a full-on assault on their embassy, but he must enlist the help of the president's wife's best friend who just happens to be... the former Mrs. Logan! Yes, she's now living in some sort of very comfy "facility" with that Secret Service guy. Man, is she not happy to hear from Logan.

-- The Russian ambassador knows he's screwed so he tells Gredenko. Gredenko's none too happy.

-- Logan pushes the ol' missus a bit too far and, in the most hilarious moment of the episode, she straight up stabs him in the shoulder (the irony of Logan avoiding prison but not the accompanying shivs does not escape this viewer)! Regardless, the woman loves her country and makes the call to the Russian first lady.

-- With the green light, Ricky Schroeder sweeps in and saves the day. Jack's rescued! Medic!

-- Speaking of medic, the episode ends with Logan being driven away in an ambulance. Will he make it? Will he live? Does anyone give a rat's ass? Dink-dank-dink-dank-dink-dankdankdank...

9 p.m. Monday. Fox.

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