If you get tortured without good reason twice in a 24-hour period, you get a new CTU coffee mug and use of the special “Most Tortured Employee of the Month” parking space.
Here’s my guess at what is coming next:
Audrey and Paul were in this together from the beginning (crazy huh). Audrey will now be working as a mole at CTU while Paul keeps an eye on Jack. Audrey killed Driscoll’s daughter, as you could tell from that look she gave shen she saw Daddy consoling The Driscolltron 3000, to upset the balance of power at CTU.
Now we know why the President has been in the air the whole show. Habib Marwan tells his homey to make sure things are ready at the airport, so the terrorists can take off in a couple of Fighter Jets and take out Air Force One.
Little do they know that Jack Bauer can also fly a fighter jet…
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if Air Force One is the ultimate target. I mean, there has to be SOME reason the POTUS has been in the air the whole damn season.
I’m hoping things aren’t going in the direction John Mace is predicting. I really got annoyed last season at people being unable to do their jobs without having a heart-to-heart every ten minutes or so.
Which is a pretty cushy job, all that flying around and interrupting busy counterterrorist units with useless meetings. 
However, ignoring the possibilities for the next 13 hours, I have to say I thought this was a great episode. The commercial breaks were excruciating.
Am I the only one who thought it would have been cool if, while the EMP bomb was charging up, they had distorted the picture a bit? Kinda thrown in some pixillation and feezing (like when you watch satellite TV in rain fade)? I thought that would have been fun.
They could have cut to complete static or total blackness (leading into a commercial break of course) when it actually went off.
So is this the season of 24 where everything gets resolved by 8:00 and Jack goes home, pours himself a gin and tonic, puts on a DVD, and makes it an early night?
It seems like they’re fairly desperate to drag in some new crisis, given that they’ve already resolved a hostage crisis, cleaned up a train wreck, and stopped 50 nuclear plants from melting down. Most people would call that a good day.
It’s sort of amusing that they’re speculating that the melting down of multiple nuclear plants wasn’t the terrorist’s ultimate goal but was just another diversion, like the hostage crisis. I can just imagine the pitch that would involve:
a. Let’s take a high profile hostage and make him confess his crimes on the web. Of course, we don’t actually expect that to work and we’ll lose 50 men.
b. But it will give us a chance to melt down all the evil American’s nuclear plants. Not that that will actually work, and we’ll lose our entire infrastructure except for one man.
c. But that will give us a chance for one more bold strike!
I dunno – seems like a hard sell, even for terrorists.
The only way it makes sense is if the whole thing is a play to take out the President and put the VP in power…if the VP is a terrorist mole.
Speaking of which…were there more commercial breaks than usual?
It seemed like it.
Also, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but the existance of “an EMP bomb” is total sci-fi unless “EMP bomb” is actually “tiny tiny nuke”, right?
-Joe
The instant message scene had me laughing. I fully expected Jack to type “OMG! WTF?” after Tony’s warning. I think it would have been a little less silly had they not added in the IM “bloop” sound after each message.
Love how Jack screamed like he was riding down the Matterhorn at Disneyland when the EMP bomb went off though.
Not so fast, my friend. Remember, TerrorMom indicated that there were several terror cells being controlled by Imhotep. My guess is that Air Force One is gonna catch a couple SAMS during its landing at the AF base, opening the door for…well, you know. And after that fails, they’ll borrow a page from Lex Luthor and try to seperate California from the rest of the continent w a nuke-induced earthquake.
Auuuuuuuuuuuudrey and Paul are up to no good and I will maintain that position until they both croak (which, for Paul, could be jolly soon). I was surprised Jack left Paul w the hard copy of the ‘evidence’ but it made for better tv I guess.
Edgar is rapidly approaching Chloe-levels of annoyance. Less talk, more work, tubby. (‘Tubby?..ah, yes, tubby’ - a bonus if you know where that comes from).
Next week’s show:
Dazed by the EMP event, Jack stumbles outside the building into darkened streets. Two men, clearly bad guys, are approaching him from a distance with guns drawn. Suddenly a motorcylce screaches to a halt in front of him, the diver yelling “Get on, quick”-- it’s Jessica Alba, fresh from “Dark Angel”. How about that to spice up the plot a bit???
Better yet, on the motorcycle is a leather-jacket-clad Arnold Schwarzeneggar. He shoots both bad guys with a lever-action shotgun then turns to Jack and says “Come with me if you want to live.”
Better yet, it’s Batman, and Jack beats him because he was better prepared.
Yeah, but Jessica is hot, and she knows all about EMPs.
Less talk, more work? Edgar’s been a hero on more than one occasion, and he’s pulled off a couple of miracles. I’d say that he’s more than proven himself.
So when does Jack poop? He’s been drinking coffee all day and Tony’s drained a couple of beers. Have they ever said anything like “right after we stop this nuclear catastrophe, I have to take such a piss!”
I’m just wondering when Edgar is going to realize that his mother might still be alive, but hasn’t figured out that the nuclear plant won’t melt down.
I figure she’s going to off herself 2 minutes before he walks in the front door.
I am convinced that the President is (choose one or any combination):
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blatanly trying to up his frequent flyer miles - after all, he could get a free upgrade!
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trying to get into LaGuardia when it’s drizzling
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lost, but doesn’t want to admit it, or
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trying to get into the Guiness Book of Records for the longest US Presidential flight during a national emergency (current record holder:GW Bush)
Deleted scene for the DVD set:
Tony: jack - u there?
Jack: yep
Tony: U will never believe this. i’m head of ctu!
Jack: are U serious?
Tony: and just this morning I was a drunk 
Jack: LOL
I just can’t suspend my disbelief anymore… they’re not even making sense in their own world anymore.
How are they able to IM Jack when the EMP bomb charging up is disrupting all communications lines?
If CTU had the capability to get into MF’s systems from outside, why’d they even need to GO there? They could have just downloaded the file instead of printing it out. I feel bad for the person who has to type all that back into the computer. Though I suppose they’ll have some super scanner that does it for them. Or Edgar will just glance at it and be able to read it.
The security guy is pretty crazy: We’ll go to jail if they find anything, but I’m pretty sure I can murder the CTU people and not have to worry about it. How does he plan on explaining that, anyway? Umm, another terrorist killed them. That just makes it worse, admitting they had more than 1 terrorist working for them.
I just know that next episode will contain a gunshot, then Paul will realize that OMG I wasn’t shot, Jack shot the bad guy instead, right at the last second.
The president will definitely not be landing safely.