Monday, March 15, 2010

Day 8, 3:00-4:00 AM

They outline the entire season's plot thus far and manage to name drop just about every person in the cast right there in the first 45 seconds of the show. What does that say about how interesting the plot thus far has truly been?

NYPD needs to set up a "perimeter." (Drink!)

The NYPD has absolutely worthless bulletproof vests.

Jack gives the very important clarification that the cab Tarin and Kayla are escaping in is yellow.

They put Kayla in a blindfold. It's kind of like a burka, but in reverse.

Tarin can't watch them put the plastic bag over Kayla's head. She only likes it when he does that.

Do we not think it might be a good idea to tell President Taylor about all the compromised national security information? I mean, she's right there in the same building and everything.

A 100 gig thumb drive? (Well, but then, this is several years in the future, thanks to all the in-between-seasons time-jumping 24 has done.)

Dalia Hassan basically psyches her husband up to talk to the terrorists by telling him he's a very good liar. Gee, thanks, wife.

What Tarin does with the fire extinguisher is not half as cool as what Jack did with the fire axe back in the first hour.

There was a series of tunnels leading directly into this bank's vault? One wonders how it went out of business.

I guess they just had an EMP sitting around for just this sort of emergency.

Any chance the parole officer had a pacemaker? I wouldn't mind really being rid of the Dana subplot.

"Dammit, we're blind!" (Drink!)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

who wants to bet money that Jack gives exposition speech next week that explains what exactly an EMP is and how it took out CTU? he'll do it in 30 seconds. sometimes the intro recap is good but Hastings seemed like he was talking directly to this audience this week.

I felt robbed that Tarin's death was faked. I really thought it raised the dramatic tension of Kayla's escape, the whole thing was very exciting (my favorite type of random spontaneous 24 coolness) but then psyche! fooled you! I got punked!

they shouldn't have hesitated, they could have drove that car far away in the 20 seconds or so they had. this is 24, so he might have made it clear across town in that much time...

the whole Dana thing is woefully annoying at this point. that dude was wandering around a top-security government facility during a nuclear crisis. get him the FRAK out of there! dude, come back TOMORROW it's 4am for crying out loud! let's all pray that the EMP erased her incriminating files and that guy will go away! he can leave mad, just leave.

the mole

Jason said...

Yes, the Dana thing has gone from annoying to utterly implausable at this point. His threat is to talk to Hastings? Let him, Dana. Hasting will tell him to get the #*$& out of his face.