If he had a bug on her phone, then he’s just a complete idiot at this point. Remember the episode before they arrested Stanton, when she was on the phone with Stanton? If her phone was bugged, he wouldn’t need confirmation of an alleged link with Stanton or be suprised when Stanton says ‘ask Sherri’, and he wouldn’t be as unsure about what’s going on with her in general. The chat with Stanton is really key, though.
Basically, it’s pretty dumb of him not to bug her, but it’s ‘I wouldn’t buy it if Homer Simpson did it’ dumb of him to have her bugged but completely ignore all information coming from the bug.
Nah-- that’s not the anywhere near the most far-fetched theory possible. That “honour” would go to this possibility that actually crossed my mind for a nanosecond on Tuesday night: Survivalist Boy is Seventh Soldier. Have we seen his bare arms yet? I don’t remember – I was blinded by Kim’s headlights. Anyway, he has all the accoutrements, and is demonstrably expecting a nuclear blast, and something is going to have to happen to bring Jack to his cabin to rescue Kim. I think that the bending of time, space, and probability necessary for him to wipe out the rest of the Snake Team and make his way back to his bunker in time to find Kim ensnared a mile or two away clearly fetches this theory from farther out than anything short of a conspiracy of Masonic aliens, but hey, we’re talking about a Bruckheimer production here – we can’t rule it out altogether.
I think Abusive Dad went into a long period of semiconsciousness because the actor playing him now has a recurring guest role on “The Gilmore Girls”, which is on right before “24” in most cities.
And if you’re like me, it’s a real big switch to watch those shows consecutively.
Well, except for Nina. When’s Nina coming back? I thought that some of the best moments were some of the interactions between Jack and Nina.
Well, on that note… Maybe the Seventh Soldier is… the Pool Guy! You know, the guy who helped the Three Lackey-Stooges fix the flat tire. He saw that they were going to be off schedule, so leaped in at an opportune moment to lend an anonymous helping hand.
Of course, his overly large girth and plumber’s crack is just a disguise so that nobody suspects him…
You’ve got me there. I have a $5 bet that she gets killed this season. Jack needs to murder that woman in cold blood. Do what he should have done in the garage last year but couldn’t. Maybe take her for a ride to the pier and shoot her 6 or 7 times while no one is looking.
If Abusive Dad is the Seventh Soldier, then presumably he has been with the unit for some time. The unit is based at Ft Bragg, in North Carolina, and his living in California would preclude that. Plus, there’s no way to afford that house on a soldier’s salary
Maybe it’s just me, but did anyone else get an odd vibe from all the stuff Kim saw on the shelves in the bomb shelter? You know, the stuff that we saw shots of just before Kim bolted out of there, being freaked out by that stuff? I now have this odd feeling that the truck carrying the bomb may just show up at that bomb shelter. (That is, if the truck gets away from the airport.) I dunno, when I saw that stuff on the shelves, I got a distinct impression of “far left-wing anti-government survival wacko.” And whenever I see a FLWAGSW in a tv show, he usually is trying to (or plotting to ) blow something important up.
Anyway, just an impression from a casual “24” watcher. (No, contrary to popular belief, that is not a contradiction in terms. )
Remember the snake team according to Stanton has been dark for about 3 hours, right? That gives the 7th soldier plenty of time to be gone. They’ll have to find out his identity before they begin looking for him. So it COULD be survivalist guy (who maybe built the bomb shelter so he could set off the blast and survive, not because he expected the attack). It’s possible that he killed the guys 3 or so hours ago, stole the bomb, planted it in LA, and was on his way back to his bomb shelter when he came across Kim in the woods, and decided to keep her as “company” for his bomb shelter stay.
When we first saw the scrap of paper with “N34” on it, my first thought was that it was geographical coordinates. The 34th parallel runs right through Los Angeles; it hits the beach at Santa Monica Pier and runs roughly parallel to, and 2 miles south of, Interstate 10. When they searched for the plane with that number on its tail, I thought I was way off, but maybe that was all a distraction. They are still analyzing the scrap, and I thought they said they found a “G” after the 34. Does that mean anything in any coordinate system? If it were a “W” or more digits, then my theory would be getting somewhere.
Is there any reason they couldn’t have just dropped a daisy-cutter (or similar massive explosive device) on the spot where the bomb was believed to be? Collateral damage at the airport notwithstanding, given that the alternative is a nuclear explosion downtown! I always thought that in order to detonate, a nuclear bomb’s trigger charges had to explode with near-perfect timing and symmetry, so blowing one up with a conventional bomb would not cause the nuclear bomb to detonate. (For example, if an ICBM blew up on takeoff due to a rocket failure, the warheads wouldn’t go off, right? Or would they?
Although blowing up a nuclear bomb with conventional explosives would almost certainly not cause the fissionable material within to attain critical mass, it would widely scatter the plutonium inside. This is what you’ve probably heard described recently in the news as a dirty bomb. People exposed to the scattered plutonium, either airborne or on the ground after the dust settles, would suffer the same fate as George Mason.
For what is worth, N34G5 is not a valid tail number (I assume they did that foir the same reason phone numbers always start with “555”- to prevent people from calling/looking up)
I too initially though N34 could be part of a lat/lon pair.
Count me amoung the many thinking that the airport SHOULD be surrounded
Looking at the preview
They obvioulsy find Marie, so maybe she did’t get past the perimeter
Also count me those who think Sheri should be defibrolated. (That or her and Ensign Ro should mud wrestle )
Still find it hard to belive Elisha Cuthbert is the same EC from Popular Mechanics for kids
