The U.S. miltary forces have to be withdrawn "within 24 hours." So... more "season eight," then?
Jack walks the FBI agents through how the sniper must have had help escaping the "perimeter." Drink! (I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of that tonight.)
Just so we're clear about how we're not torturing Tony: "Is that comfortable?"
"Dammit!" (Drink!)
Money's the only reason Tony has left for doing anything. The same might be said for the writers who brought him back from the dead.
Couldn't Tony have just shouted "Deep Sky" back on the boat when nobody else was around and saved both himself and Jack a lot of grief?
And a hearty "welcome back" to Bill and Chloe. Of course, Truly Evil Tony never seemed likely. But it's almost a shame it wasn't true. The show hasn't had a good baddie against whom Jack has truly personal stakes since Nina.
Yes, genocide sucks. But doesn't America pretty much want its president to put American lives first? And can't they just withdraw the forces and then redeploy them in the "six days" or however long it's going to take to rebuild the firewall?
Now there appears to be another mole somewhere in the President's inner circle. Another day on 24.
Chloe was watching Jack on C-Span while she was monitoring undercover Tony? No wonder Tony got captured.
The late "First Son" has now been murdered-no-commited-suicide-no-murdered all in the space of 15 minutes. Wheels within wheels!
Why is it that the technicians investigating security leaks always have to go by themselves to dark, secluded rooms hidden deep in the recesses of the building where they might get ambushed by the object of their investigations?
Jack and Chloe are doing a lot of "copying."
Jack is sorry he almost re-killed Tony.
It's Chloe vs. Janis in a Geek War!
Are there still any cars on the road that can be hotwired like that? Especially how ever many years in the future 24 must be taking place now after all the years skipped in between seasons?
Somewhere in this escape, there were so many "dammits" that I couldn't even see straight anymore if I actually drank for all of them.
So the FBI really believes that the plan all along was for Jack to convince them of a mole to help spring Tony out later in case the FBI took Jack out of the hearings to help them find Tony in the first place? That would be like what, Plan R?
Obviously, being a rogue former government agent pays very well, judging by the place Bill and Chloe are set up in.
Tony explains how he was only "mostly dead," but that Miracle Max injected him with a hypothermic compound. Gotta get me some of that, just in case.
Bauer and Almeida have gotten outside the "perimeter!" (Drink.)
They're taking Jack down to the basement to make him stand in the corner, Blair Witch style.
Ah, the old "you have failed me for the last time" villain-on-villain execution.
Jack is "back in black!"
Mr. Taylor must have some serious dirt on this poor bodyguard to keep convincing him to do stupid things like taking him out off the records and leaving him alone in a public place. Unless, of course, the bodyguard is working for the bad guys.
Agent Walker spent barely two hours with Jack, but his bad influence rubbed off on her. Badass influence, that is.
The Prime Minister is off to the panic room. Wait, I've seen this movie!
Well... overall, an improvement on last night, I think. Then again, it's rarely been the first few hours that have been the problem with the not-so-good seasons of 24. It's when they get a few hours in and start making stuff up as they go along that things come unglued. Here's hoping that doesn't happen this time.
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we might have a new "drink" moment every time that Madam President says "impossible" she's done it a bunch in the few episodes so far, it's an impossible coincidence.
hmm.. Jack has to break out Tony from FBI Headquarters. oh, he's got Chloe's help? nevermind, piece of cake! somehow it's just as believable as Jack one-shot-one-killing the minions. and it would be less believable if it wasn't easy for the Jack & Chloe combo. (of course it wasn't easy but still it looked like it would have been...)
it was fun to watch Walker "cross the line" and start to understand the urgency to get information from Tanner. it kinda made it more believable that the Tanner would accept that she had snapped and tell her stuff.
as far as all the mole theories go, it looks like the plot this year is that there are tons of moles all over the government? being paid with genocide diamond money?
(let's test and see if I can try a little 24-predictability exercise...) I think it's about time to kill a main character to remind us that we are watching "24" where anything can happen. The list of candidates is short, but I'm going to guess it will be Mr. Taylor right after he hands off the evidence to New-Aaron who won't know who to trust.
the mole
Has anyone else noticed that the FBI uses Dell computers and Chloe & Bill use Macs?
It's when they get a few hours in and start making stuff up as they go along that things come unglued. Here's hoping that doesn't happen this time.
Unfortunately, with Brannon Braga on board, there'll probably be time travel.
Jared -- Indeed, I did. If Justin Long and John Hodgman ever stop make the Mac commercials, maybe Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub can start doing them instead.
"Hi, I'm a PC."
"And I'm a Mac."
Which is better for counterterrorism?
The escape from the parking lot was fun, as was the "This is gonna hurt" line. I don't remember ever hearing Jack say something like this before -- somewhere in the vicinity of humor.
(Chloe's line of "you looked good, though" was also in that neighborhood.)
But I was really bugged by the fact that when the car smashes into the concrete block (before falling down one floor onto the other car below), the front was pristine.
Now of course the "concrete" was actually something like styrofoam, but couldn't they smash the front of the car *before* doing that shot where we see it go through the pseudo-concrete? I mean, the car lands nose first into another car just a second later, so it's not like it won't end up all busted anyway.
FKL
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