Opening sequence: Farhad calls a General loyal to him in Kamistan – B.
Sergei Bazhaev cares for his younger son, while his other son Josef wants to take him to a doctor – B.
Sergei allows Josef to take him to a country house while they think about their next move – B.
Farhad tells Sergei that he’ll get the money for the nuclear rods in five hours – B.
Sergei gives Farhad two Russian women to play with – A. That’s definitely an A!
Renee is bandaging Ziya’s hand – A.
Jack wants to call off the operation – D.
Jack calls Renee unstable – C.
Renee glares at him – A.
Jack thinks Renee is still in a dark place but Renee disagrees – A.
Jack decides not to call off the mission – A.
Jack agrees to continue – A.
Renee pouts – A. (she’s got a sexy pout).
Ziya screams in pain – C. He’s such a woman.
Renee tells him he’ll get $3 million and he stops whining for a second – B.
Loving this really, really dark Renee – A.
Chloe calls Jack and asks what happens, Jack tells her – B.
Chloe doesn’t understand how Ziya’s tracking braclet was taken off – B.
Ziya rides with Renee to go to Vladimir – A.
Dana Walsh is working on Jack’s timeline and gets a phone call from Kevin – F.
Kevin blackmails Dana and she leaves her post while getting Arlo to cover for her – F.
Not included in the grade: Michael Phlelps piss poor Subway ad – F all the way
Rob Weiss tells President Taylor that Farhad is trying to buy weapons-grade uranium from the Russians – B.
President Taylor is surprised that the uranium is in the US – D.
Ethan Kanin tells President Taylor that President Hassan is cracking down in Kamistan – C.
Renee gives Ziya some vodka for the pain – A.
Ziya tries to get into Renee’s head about Vladimir – B.
Ziya saying “Touchy, touchy” – A.
Jack wants to know what happened between Vladimir and Renee – A.
President Hassan comes in to speak to President Taylor (Weiss said it would take 10 minutes for him to reach the UN, so much for the real time aspect) – C.
President Taylor scolds President Hassan about his crackdown and human rights violations – D.
President Hassan says he has to do what he has to do – A.
President Taylor asks him to find some middle ground for peace sake – C.
President Hassan leaves – D minus
Josef is taking his brother to the country house, but then decides to take him to a medical clinic – B.
Josef losing his Russian accent – D.
Dalia and Kayla talk about President Hassan and Kayla whines – D.
Dalia wants to know if President Hassan loved Meredith Reed and he says he felt something for her – C.
President Hassan asks Dalia for help – D. (Thanks for the correction, Jinny!)
She refuses and leaves – F.
Renee and Ziya arrive at Vladimir’s place – B.
Ziya goes inside to talk to Vladimir and he gets beat up – A.
Ziya tells Vladi that Renee is with her – C.
Hugo doesn’t believe Renee – A.
Cole asks Arlo where’s Dana and he finds out she went home – F.
Kevin invites one of his friends to stay at Dana’s apartment – F.
Kevin hits Dana – F.
Kevin wants Dana to get money for him through CTU – F. This storyline has got to go. Please end it.
Ziya summons Renee to Vladi’s place – B
Chloe tells Jack that Vladimir beat her up in her previous mission and tried to rape her – C.
Renee gets patted down by Hugo – A.
Vladimir and Renee play chicken with each other – A.
Vladi ties up Renee and Ziya and puts them in a trunk and drives off. – A.
Jack tails them – A.
Jack says “DAMMIT!” – A.
Josef brings his brother to the clinic and points a gun at the doctor – B.
Jack continues to tail the Russians – A.
Hastings authorizes his CTU agents to engage the Russians when necessary – A.
Jack finds out he was following a decoy – A.
Vladi has his men take Ziya and Renee to the water – A.
Ziya is shot dead – A.
Renee tells Vladi to pull the trigger – A.
Renee sheds a tear and tells Vladi to do the deal or pull the trigger – A.
Vladi wants to make about Renee – A.
Ziya is dumped in the river – A.
Jack tells CTU Vlaid bought Renee’s cover – A. Damn, that was intense.
Overall grade – 84, Solid B.
