Jack’s been dead before. Anyone else expect him to wake up and say, “you’re not Julia Roberts!”?
I don’t understand these rednecks. They beat a man to death, kidnap a woman with the intent of robbing and possibly raping her, then when Jack bursts in blasting, they whine, “I won’t give you the chip! You shot my friend! You’re a meanie!” I so want Jack to just whale on these guys for a while.
Finally, this is getting a little too “X-Files”-ish for me. A small cadre of old white guys in dark suits manipulating the government like puppets? For what end? Precipitating a war and a coup d’état against the President just for more money? If you tie it in with John Mace’s theory, it makes you wonder what kind of people are writing this show.
Busy with all the riots, I would assume. The people coming into the clinic looked like they were all in fistfights.
Lynn pulled a Kim when she tried to take the elevator. That was the worst part of the show, right there. Bad guy hot on your heels? Yeah, wait for the elevator! Even if it was at the floor, the doors would take to long to open/close.
And also, why is a drug like that invented in the first place?? IANAD, but I see no reason to ever paralyze your diaphragm (ending hiccups notwithstanding, of course).
I think Lynne’s first mistake was not delivering a more devastating blow to her captor. It seems like it was pretty much just a surprise shot, and didn’t even knock him out; if I was in the situation, I probably would’ve landed one more just to ensure my safe escape down the stairs.
It looks like Father/Wife Killer is going to be involved again somehow, I’m interested to see how…
Not much to add, everyone covered everything already. But I have to say my favorite part was Jack taking the guy’s gun while he’s suffocating, and then kicking him over (naked to boot). What a badass!
I don’t think Mike feels guilty, I think he’s scared that he’ll be revealed. What a punk! Although Lynn could have at least brought a weapon with her to make good her escape. I saw some iron bars that would have done nicely in that closet.
Kate should have made up a story about the chip, “That’s the proof that those damn towelheads set off the bomb and without it the US can’t retaliate against the bastards, I need to get it back to CTU”.
I’m new, so I’m wondering; if one is just speculating about what might possibly happen, how is that a Spoiler?
If this is a criterion, I need to somehow install a Spoiler function in my brain as I am always running “what if’s” through there. If I happen to be right about something, I don’t usually think, “Oh s*#t, I spoiled the whole thing by thinking about it!” :smack: But that’s me.
Randwill, a lot of 24 fans don’t watch the preview for the next week’s show. So we generally put any information revealed in the preview in a spoiler box. You can do that by doing {spoiler} blah blah blah {/spoiler}, only replacing the {} with [].
well since previews are a touchy issue, i’ll be super-cautious here.
but when Jack tells Kim “Shoot him now!”, and she actually pulls the trigger, i said something like 'Dear God, you mean Kim actually does something smart?!?" Hubby cheerfully replied, “Well, you don’t really see what she’s shooting. She probably just shot herself in the foot.”
i laughed so hard i thought i was gonna cough up a lung.
My bad. I just figure seeing as how the previews are shown on t.v. right after the show, they’re fair game. I mean, they’re helpful whenever making guesses as to what’s going to happen next, so when it gets into that bit of conversation, I don’t see a reason for the boxes. I’ll try and be a bit more considerate next time.
If something paralyzed your larynx, could you talk at all? It would seem to be an unusual method for information extraction. I guess you could have the person write down their information.
Yousef knows when he’s going to die, he knows when other people are going to die. He’s a death psychic. We could have used him in the next four hours.
I hate the redneck plot. There are so many other ways to put Kate and Yousef in jeopardy, do we really need a lecture on how racists are bad?
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Ha! That’s just what i was thinking. I bet in the next few episodes, Jack will have to contend not only with this huge evil conspiracy, but with the wrath of Billy Mahoney.
And having seen Flatliners and 24 within a few days, I’m wondering, how foolproof are these electro-cardio-paddle-thingies? They invariable work in fiction (after a few tries, and after at least one person in the room decides to give up), but what are the odds in real life? Anyone know?
As I semi-predicted last week…after hours of torture, flatlining and being whipped, Jack is able to jump off the table, blow away two guards and get info out of torturer within 3 minutes…then he jumps in a car and drives like a NASCAR finalist and is not even winded as he bids farewell to Yosef dying in what is probably the last exisiting phone booth on the West Coast of the US. (Maybe that is the one they borrowed to film Phone Booth?)
And two Kim-free episodes - hotdamn!..man, it’s like winning the lottery!
What’d I do? 
