I am not proud of the fact that I have an uncanny ability to tell when a woman is repulsed by the thought of being touched by a certain man. Maybe it’s the result of some repressed memory of a humiliating experience in high school, I couldn’t tell you. The memory, if it exists, is suppressed, remember? But the instinct is not. I know fake emotion when I see it. And you, Lisa Miller, couldn’t fool me on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine.
As an aside, I both love and hate the fact that Roark’s concubine is named Lisa Miller. I’m tempted to adorn her with the nickname of Maura Tierney, in honor of the original Lisa Miller, but I’m already confusing people with the Senator Roark business, so I suppose I will call her by her (stolen) name. Still, this Lisa Miller will always be Maura Tierney to me. Only not as pretty.
Man oh man, did the Chinese rewire Audrey something fierce. Over a hundred injection marks? That would explain the bulky clothing she wore to the exchange; had she looked like a heroin junkie at the drop, Jack probably would have flicked the switch on the C4 in an attempt to save her honor. Instead, Audrey lives long enough to teach Nadia a valuable lesson on the importance of doing what’s right versus doing what the rulebook requires. Jack and the Ricker, they’re peas in a pod, they are.
William Devane doesn’t get a tremendous amount of work, but I just love his low-key intensity in situations where a lesser actor would take things way over the top. “You’re cursed,” he tells Jack right after he’s ordered her to stay the hell away from his daughter. And you could tell that, in the way that he didn’t argue the point, Jack believed what Big Dick Heller said to be true. After all, look at the lives of any female who has dared to get close to him. Death, torture, bear trap, child out of wedlock, that’s what the Women of Jack receive for their troubles. (Yes, that last one is still unconfirmed, but come on, we all know that Jack Jack is not Graem’s kid.)
So “Lisa Miller” is put in play to snare the lobbyist. Was it just me, or was the thread connecting Lisa as the leak a tenuous one at best? Sure, you’ve got her dead to rights as a philanderer, but I don’t recall them unveiling any hard evidence that she told the lobbyist anything. Did he get it off of her email? Not even Roark was sure of that. Well, if you guys aren’t sure of your intel, then how are we supposed to buy into it?
And speaking of stuff we’re supposed to buy, we still do not know what Wheelbarrow Wayne gave the Chinese in order for them to give up Jack. We still don’t know what’s up with former President Buck Buck Brawwwwwk. And we still don’t know how Farmer Hoggett connects the dots between President BBB and Jack. Are they saving all those plot points for the “24” movie? Will there even be a “24” movie now that “South Park” has torn them a new one? Why don’t they just make another “South Park” movie? That’s what I really want to see. “Shut your fucking face, Uncle Fuckaaaaaaa…”
