2/3rds Done...

This week, on 24:

Jack couldn't use his "the only reason you're conscious is that I don't want to carry you" line on Bierko.

Jack makes two un-frakking-believable statements back-to-back: "I don't know. Bill, I'm scared." Bill Buchanan has to be on his end of the call going... "oh, I'm sorry, I must have the wrong number."

Why does Karen Hayes' right hand man even hatch the idea to go to Audrey to get a signed statement? It was he and Karen that caused Audrey to be tortured barely 45 minutes earlier! (And why, when she is confronted, doesn't Audrey mention that?)

The Chevy Tahoe -- with storage space to comfortably fit an unconscious former president's brother.

Three minutes later, Wayne Palmer is up and at 'em to go question Evelyn. He just needed to wrap his hand. (That Agent Pierce has mad first aid skillz.)

The return of "data mining," as Chloe goes to work on Henderson's work record.

Since season four, Audrey has apparently taken a few courses at Jack Bauer's Academy of Do Whatever You Have To Do To Get the Job Done. She's not up to killing and torturing people yet, but hey... those are post-graduate level courses. Selling out co-workers, though? She got an A.

Wayne bumps into the Vice President, played by Ray Wise. Is he in on the plot that killed David Palmer? If so, someone needs to stop trusting him around people with the last name "Palmer." (Ha! See what I did there, Twin Peaks fans?!)

Evelyn's story develops a few plot holes. She says her daughter has only been abducted as of an hour ago. That leaves 15 hours or so where she had possession of the information she gave to David Palmer, and no apparent reason not to report it to somebody.

Audrey: "Chloe, I don't have time to explain right now. Wait until the commercial."

Oh yeah, remember this guy? 45 minutes into the episode (roughly two hours since his last appearance), President Logan re-enters the story.

I realize this factory is like the third backup evil headquarters this season, but seriously, why didn't they spring to put an alarm on the door Jack breaks into? For that matter, it says "Authorized Personnel Only" on it. Why doesn't it already have an alarm?

Wayne's not quite mad enough to kill his first ever person by shooting him in the back.

Jack's method of garbling the walkie talkie signal is much more effective than "kssssh.... I'm going through a tunnel... kssssshh."

When Christopher Henderson and Jack Bauer wind up in close proximity to one another, women get shot in the leg. Consider yourselves warned, ladies.

Alright, 24 writers. You got some 'splainin' to do. While this revelation about Logan certainly goes a long way toward accounting for his colossal ineptitude so far this season, it serves up many more questions than it answers. What possible motivation for these actions will suffice? And once this season is all done, if we go back to the beginning and watch all the episodes again, will Logan's actions make sense? Or are there going to be Nina-Meyers-in-season-one-esque moments that simply cannot be reconciled with this plot twist? (For those who want to pull out the season one DVDs and see what I'm talking about, watch the episode where Nina is unnecessarily helpful in identifying a bad guy that's moving about in the hospital where Kim and Teri are taken just before the safehouse.)