In six months when I’m watching the entire season again on DVD, tonight’s episode will fit nicely into a marathon viewing session as an episode that helped build toward our eventual climax. Tonight, with a week off before the final run of episodes, not so much. “The Last Recruit” served to move people around on the chess board while Jack decides what he wants to do, and not a whole lot more. From that perspective, a pretty disappointing episode. It’s a bit late in the game for a “treading water” episode, sweet explosions notwithstanding.
