Hayes is still running “active manhunts” for Jack Bauer and Christopher Henderson. What other kind of manhunts are there? I mean, I wouldn’t think that “let’s just stand on a corner somewhere and wait for him to show up” would be a very effective manhunt strategy.
Hey, welcome back to the story, Buchanan! Did you happen to run into Curtis while you were away?
Plot necessities aside, why the hell don’t they make copies of this recording? How about you call Tony and Michelle’s house and play it for their answering machine? I guarantee you they won’t pick up.
Heller blind-sides Jack, showing that he’s willing to perform his duties as Secretary of Defense personally.
Kate Mara might not have won any Oscars for her performance in Brokeback Mountain, but her new character Shari is going for one in her performance conning Chloe.
Mike Novick is back from wherever the hell he's been for four hours! His explanation? "I've been on other things."
Whatever Mike was doing in that four hours, it apparently explains how he's gone from warning Logan about potential seedy maneuvering by Vice President Gardner to talking to Gardner about suspicions about Logan.
Look at Chloe go with her mad pickpocketing skillz! (Somehow, I think it won't take Miles as long as it took Samwise Gamgee to come clean about his ID card being stolen.)
Chloe's out of holding, and immediately picks up a laptop computer. For her, this is equivalent to Jack Bauer finding a gun.
Martha comes to have another conversation with her husband, a virtual replay of the conversations she's had with him in the last episode or two. They desperately need to hook that woman up with a plot...
...ah, like talking to Aaron after the commercial break. That's more promising.
Logan tells Heller that he has no idea "until you sit in my chair," that he can't know the pressures of being President. Of course, "Heller" (William Devane, anyway) did sit in the President's chair in a couple episodes of Stargate SG-1.
That weird James Bond-y/Peter Gunn-y music is back as Chloe arrives at Buchanan's house.
Uh-oh! Aaron's been bagged! Boy, I hope it's not up to Martha to find him, or else he's screwed.
(Oh, by the way -- during Martha's handling of the cell phones, we see that while Aaron has a standard television "555" number, Martha has a real phone number: 310-597-3781. I had free cell minutes, so I figured, what the hell? It connects you to a Nextel message box for 24. I assume there's probably something moderately interesting for you to hear there. But by the time I got to it, the message box was full.)
I might be questioning Jack's badassness ever so slightly. It took him about 30 minutes of being zip-tied to a pipe before he was willing to burn his wrists to get loose.
As soon as Jack is out, he takes the gun off the guard. For him, this is equivalent to Chloe finding a laptop.
The helicopter appears out of nowhere to get Jack. It's able to land before Jack can up his "helicopter destruction via handgun" count to two for the day.
Henderson slices up Audrey (much to the delight of Dave Barry, who has made it abundantly clear on numerous occasions how much he hates her character). But then (much to Dave Barry's utter horror and outrage, I'm sure), Jack hands over the recording to save her.
Holy boxes, Batman! A record eight boxes on screen for the end of this episode. I feel like I'm watching The Brady Bunch.
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On the phone number, they've used it before.
Sounds like if you want to talk to a production designer or Kim Raver or whoever, you should keep callin' that number.
24 once mentioned a web address while I was watching and sitting in front of the computer (before I bought the laptop, so that was sort of rare back then). I went to the URL and saw a message from the 24 team thanking the fans and saying they would be back the next year. It's silly little things like that which make you feel just a little bit a part of the show experience.
There's a fan song in that Brady Bunch thing somewhere, but I'm too lazy to come up with lyrics. I'll just offer this as a start. "Here's a story, of a bleeding lady..."
Dude, I should do, like, five more seconds of research before I'm done posting comments.
here is an account of what happened when people called the number when it showed up on Behruz's girlfriend's phone, and here is the website they mentioned, and their goofy message is still there.
William Devane also portrayed JFK, so the guy is oozing with presidential experience.
I loved it how it actually made more sense for Henderson to *not* kill Audrey, as it would distract Jack longer and give him more time to escape. nice mirror of the earlier scene where Henderson was willing to let his wife die, too.
the "real" CTU is now being run out of Buchanan's living room! freakin sweet! Super Chloe gots mad skillz! (and theme music!) maybe they will all have to go into hiding by the end of the season. they'll be the new A-Team!
I like the Star Trek-like thinly veiled take on a real-life situation. where the President is so obsessed over the oil. you can definitely feel the post-trek writers at work here (in a good way, I know some of the recent ST has been less than great...)
the mole
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