Monday, May 08, 2006

3:00 AM - 4:00 AM

Apparently there really was an air pocket somewhere for Secretary Heller to hide in, because he survived his mad plunge over the cliff a few episodes ago. That, or he held his breath longer than David Blaine.

All President Logan needs to do is appear to struggle with the ethics?

Bierko is being transfered? What the hell? Weren't we done with him five episodes ago?

Mike Novick comes to tell Logan about the distress signal "from the plane." Logan has to play dumb. It's not a stretch.

I had heard somewhere that it was actually part of the interstate highway system planning that one mile out of every five be designed to accommodate emergency airplane landings. But apparently that's not true (check waaaay down at the bottom of the story). In any case, this is still going to be the most plausible thing that has happened on 24 in weeks. (Not that we tune in for realism, mind you.)

Chloe was going to just hang out at the hotel for a while and keep tazering (tzaing?) that lout, but they needed her to come open up a socket.

What a bad flight attendant. The oxygen masks drop, and she doesn't secure her own about her head as she's supposed to -- she simply holds it to her face.

Visual effects department to production team: "You want us to do what now?"

Too bad they stopped before that overpass. I would have liked to see "property damage" added to Jack's list.

Creepy mastermind has a name now: Graham. Is this supposed to make me really invest in hating him as a bad guy?

Ooo, Curtis gets to do something and talk their way out of a roadblock.

Bierko apparently knows the driver of his prisoner transport van. This would be what, CTU Mole #947? And seriously, what the hell difference does it make if Bierko escapes? Don't "we" have everything we need out of him?

Holy crap! Jack actually made it back to CTU without further incident! I didn't see that coming!

Jack agrees with Audrey that "it's over." But the show's not called "21," folks.

Come on. Do we really believe for a second that a spineless weasel like Logan is going to commit suicide?

Mrs. Logan is watching news footage of Palmer mourners from "earlier today." It's now 3:50 in the morning. Shouldn't that be "yesterday?" And what is she doing awake? Didn't she scarf down a fistful of sleeping pills last hour?

Apparently Miles is not nearly as loyal as Karen said he was. He springs into action, wielding a device with flashy red lights that presumably erases digital recordings. And if that is indeed what happened, it again begs the question: why -- given the countless opportunities to make a copy of this recording -- did no one make a copy of this recording?

2 comments:

Shocho said...

True dat about making a copy of the recording. When Jack was on the phone with CTU, I was yelling at him to just play the damned thing over the phone.

It was a good episode, but the worst part was that flashy red lights erase voice recorders. I guess it was optical, or maybe from Krypton and the simulated red sun did it in.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait for next episode when we get a huge Chloe moment of "duh, of course I made like 10 backup copies of that thing already and emailed them to lots of off-site places. [rolls eyes]"
at least I hope we get that moment... she had control of the recording for how long before Miles apparently erased it? lots of time.

and maybe there is a small chance that Jack will get to torture Miles? we've been denied the Jack-torture scene all season. I wanna see him break some fingers already!

it was going to be quite a stretch to believe Logan would have the ability to shoot himself. oh, he took one sip of liquid courage? he shoulda drank the whole bottle. the gun was more "dramatic" but I would think he'd be a poison kinda suicide guy.

glad to see that Toonces didn't kill Heller after all. now they get to kill him another time in a hopefully less-silly way. we need to have a couple of recurring characters to kill dramatically next season...

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