Double the hours! Double the Bauers! Thoughts on tonight's 24 episodes:
Tony Almeida is finally back in play. Quite a healer, that one. Six hours to recover from a gunshot to the neck. Ten hours to recover from a bomb blast. Go Tony!
Martha talks to Agent Pierce, and is upset that her husband knew the attack on the motorcade was coming and did nothing to stop it. Yeah, but the same goes for her!
I'm sure this is the not the first time lines of cocaine have been cut by a government security card.
I thought Tony would be all Phantom of the Opera under the bandage. Damn, he really is a fast healer.
That doctor attending Tony is a real weakling if the guy that just got up out of his sick bed after a ten hour nap can shove him out of the way. Or Tony's a real stud. Probably both.
Whatever the Russian president whispered to his wife after getting out of the helicopter was probably Russian for "honey, let me talk to this pigfucker alone."
Samwise's sister's boyfriend is such an idiot. Of course, he is an ex-con. But the only way he's going to get $20,000 is if the bullet that kills him is made of platinum-plated super-platinum.
Evelyn's messed up her job as the First Lady's aide twice today. Now she turns the President away. Third time's a charm.
Cut to terrorist, pushing the Gurney of Death through the hospital.
Shouldn't Mike Novak's threat/warning to Aaron Pierce have been "whatever 'didn't happen,' make sure it doesn't 'not happen' again"? Unless he thinks Aaron and Martha would make a cute couple. I'm so confused.
The terrorist is told he has to set off the gas, even if it kills him. I don't care how good the pay is... the retirement plan sucks.
President Logan: "The country has already suffered three devastating attacks today. We need to stop this madman." Which one, him or the terrorist leader?
That computer pad video screen thingamajig Curtis used at the hospital to look at the security footage of the terrorist? Freakin' sweet! I want one!
Henderson is home. And no one gets the drop on Jack Bauer three times.
Somehow, I knew Jack was gonna shoot the wife as leverage. But it was still cool and messed up to see.
Wait, they're running the nerve gas outside??!! "Everybody, back in the building, now!" Couldn't they have just taken it to some "Bubble Boy's" room somewhere inside the hospital?
The cavalcade of "familiar faces whose names you may or may not know" keeps coming. C. Thomas Howell? Ray Wise? Everyone gets on 24.
Oh, the terrorists have that same creepy face morphing program the Oscars used last night during the "Besk Makeup" category.
You brought Kim Bauer to CTU? Are you people completely crazy?! Don't you know she is a walking disaster rod?
Maybe the Vice President just plays a lot of Civilization. In Civilization, you can station troops in a city to keep unrest down.
I was so sure they were going to reveal Barry as Kim's husband at some point before the end of the episode. I figured they'd have to be engaged at the very least. Pimp, maybe? (The Oscars have now taught me it's hard to be one.)
I was wondering when someone was going to mention the people that did die for knowing Jack was alive. Leave it to Chloe to talk about the thing no one else is talking about.
Alarms blaring! Prisoner having possible complications from his torture medicine! It's really gonna hit the fan now. Well, in about ten minutes actually, "it" being the nerve gas, and "the fan" being... well... the fan.
Ah, Jack Bauer has seen Star Trek II. No uncoded messages over an open channel when a hostile might be listening in.
Canister of nerve gas hidden somewhere in the building? Only a minute to find it? Send Kim to look for it! I swear, she'll find any disaster in no time flat!
Yes, what better place to run than the situation room? Because you definitely have a situation!
Moving Henderson to the clinic isolation. He'll be bunkmates with Tony. Yeah, that'll go well.
Now Chloe and Edgar are channeling a Star Trek II moment of their own. And as we've seen before, a "main character" death often means no boop-thunk, beep-thunk of the clock at the end of an episode.
Poor Edgar. He never even really got his heroic moment before he died.
The next update phone call to the president ought to go well. "So... the good news is, now there are only 17 canisters of nerve gas on the loose. The bad news... well, we've got to do a whole bunch of new hiring now. And you know how we always seem to let new moles in every time we do that."
2 comments:
I really think the show has hit it's high standard last night. lots of really powerful moments.
the only hang-up I have is that the terrorist's super-big suitcase was not examined when he used Lynn's keycard. they check everything at the *airport*, surely they shoulda had him at least open the case at *CTU HQ*. I'll play along beleiving Lynn had a high enough security level to avoid a check...
I like it when they have a new-punky-guy try to talk tough to Jack. the audience gets to go "you have no idea who you are talking to!" it's fun stuff.
poor Pierce. 5 seasons builing up his goody-goody reputation, and Martha wrecks it in 5 seconds. it's been a while since she's had a "real" man for sure.
they are all trapped in a room with KIM!!! what could possibly go wrong? :-P
the mole
Yeah, I got a few issues with the security card thing. First off, yeah, it should've been reported. Second, cards aren't programmable. They carry ID information. The rules/access granted to that ID are in the security computer, not the card. Third, if he HAD reported it missing, it would've been deactivated. What kind of terrorist plot assumes that Lynn will meet his sister, have his ID on him, get it stolen, and not report it in the four hours it's been missing? Nitpicky I know, but the show DOES revolve around a government agency.
And yeah, Jack's been watching Indiana Jones. The shoot-the-one-you-love thing worked for Donovan and that Grail.
RoboCop's wife, by the way, is the wife from Poltergeist, but I couldn't find any good jokes for that one.
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