# 24: Hour 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711 "2001-11-28T15:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711/21 "2001-11-29T17:55:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Podkayne \* > \*\*-- The Sentinel is not really her dad and doesn’t care what happens to Janet. > > I think it’s more plausible that the kidnappers/terrorists managed to lure Janet on the date as part of some internet-enabled ruse, with Kimberly, of course, being the real target the whole time. They just went through Janet to get to her.\*\* This scenario gets my vote. I don’t think he’s her dad. We saw him with a slip of paper calling Mrs. Bauer, saying his daughter was missing, right? How do we **really** know he’s her father? Why did he want to keep Jack’s wife at the furniture store? I would have been out looking for the girls, not staying in the store. Has Janet ever mentioned her dad? I think it’s all part of an elaborate set-up to lure Jack away from the assassination plot. Get Kim away through her friend, get Kim’s parents involved in looking for her, and the killing of the Presidential candidate can go on. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711/22 "2001-11-29T18:34:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Natural-J-Bankie \* > \*\* > Bauer and the cop get into an ugly situation. The janitor distracts the cop, so the bad guy takes her hostage. Bauer confronts him, but the bad guy makes him drop the gun. As he dropps it, the janitor shoots at the bad guy (without hitting him, apparently). \*\* I think what happened was Bauer drops his gun and the bad guy blows the cop’s head off. The janitor didn’t at shoot anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711/23 "2001-11-29T18:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Natural-J-Bankie \* > \*\* > Bauer and the cop get into an ugly situation. The janitor distracts the cop, so the bad guy takes her hostage. Bauer confronts him, but the bad guy makes him drop the gun. As he dropps it, the janitor shoots at the bad guy (without hitting him, apparently). \*\* I think what happened was Bauer drops his gun and the bad guy blows the cop’s head off. The janitor didn’t shoot at anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Hestia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hestia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hestia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711/24 "2001-11-29T20:21:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* > Is anybody else suspicious of “the Sentinel guy” (Janet’s dad)? I am, but I’m not sure why. [hijack] The “Sentinel Guy”'s real name is Richard Burgi. I don’t know what he’s called on “24”, since I live in Holland and we don’t have that show over here (yet). We’re always behind with this kind of thing. [sub]I loved “The Sentinel”. Often badly written with some outrageous “plots”, but Jim and Blair were _so_ doing it.[/sub] [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711/25 "2001-11-29T21:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hestia \* > The “Sentinel Guy”'s real name is Richard Burgi. Yeah, but it’s so much funnier to call him “The Sentinel.” 😉 His name in “24” is Alan York. Presumably Alan York doesn’t have _super senses_\*. Signed, Podkayne, Doing her part to perpetuate typcasting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-hour-4/95711.md?page=1)