Well Once the show started to really go off the rails with this uber complicated plan I began to get frustrated. It was the episode when Airforce One was attacked that I turned to rooting for Marwan and the show suddenly got better.
Each episode I’d be watching thinking “How is Marwan going to escape this situation?” Oh oh can they silence the girlfriend in time? Will amnesty international… I mean world amnesty free the weak link?
This week was a disapointment, no Marwan and too much soap opera nonsense at CTU but a good ending. Jack is definitely a psychopath.
What’s all this crap over insisting on having the promises written on paper and signed by the president and it being a problem?
C’mon. You run around violating embassies. Killing people is so routine you probably don’t mention it in your diary. What’s the anguish over a little forgery? The guy wants amnesty, a flight on the space shuttle and all the gold from Fort Knox? No sweat. Call up CTU and they have it ready by the time you arrive. One flunky types out the list while another flunky preps a sheet of ‘official’ presidential stationery. Print the list on the paper and have any handy slob sign it Abraham T. Logan, President.
Come on, do you really imagine a Chinese bomb specialist has any idea what the signature of the ex-vice president looks like?
What’s the Chinese guy going to do later on, when he finds he holds a piece of worthless paper – sue Jack for lying to him? Besides, the guys around JACK. What are his odds of surviving long enough for him to find out the hoax?
Yeah, President Wuss would never sew women’s pantyhose.
The Chinese marines at the Embassy are as well trained as the red shirts. Gee, a masked man in black has just kidnapped a man under our protection and is carrying him draped across his back. I know, let’s shoot at his back. :smack:
The van driver who got his mask lifted and scraped/scratched…any speculations where they are taking that?
I’m guessing DNA evidence to link the abduction to CTU. How they’ll get results in a 24 hour period is beyone me, but not impossible in the 24 universe, where everything moves at the speed of light
RYBTP, the Chinese embassy is 15 minutes away, according to Jack (and I ain’t gonna argue with him). I’d have to rewatch the show to guage how long travel time actually was although, even with irrefutable evidence, I’d still agree with anything Jack says.
Was I the only one bothered by the condition of that operating room? Folks running around in there in street clothes, no masks, etc. Concrete walls, for Pete’s sake! How sterile was that?
And it was lit like a cave. Oh, maybe it was a cave. The CTU cave. No wonder poor Paul bought the farm. Probably wasn’t even Jack’s fault. If I were Audrey, I’d sue for malpractice.
The assistant consulate will call up Gil Grissom for a favor. I think one of his CSIs might be in town
Too bad they don’t have anyone else to pin the blame on. Like a bunch of violent terrorists. They could even say that this group had an interest in the guy who was abducted upon locating him. Such a group might even break international protocol by ignoring international agreements and treaties. Hmmmm…
That bothered me too, but they don’t really care if the Chinese guy dies of an infection later as long as he lives long enough to tell them what they want to know. As for Paul, well he was toast anyway, he had some nerve even surviving his initial go as Jack’s human shield.
Sorry for the preview spoiler, I didn’t think it was much of a spoiler since it was rather obvious that’s where the whole thing was going. Let’s pretend I had just phrased it “it looks like next week we’ll be on the verge of WW3 with the Chinese.” and it will just be spec.
I really like the idea of Jack being a Mad Max in a post-apocalyptic near future, then he can do anything he wants and not worry about the rules! Oh wait, that’s not much different than now.
Jack wasn’t trying to interrogate Paul. He wanted to interrogate the Chinese guy. So Jack had to play heart surgeon while the real surgeon patched up the Chinese guy. Unfortunately, Jack flunked de-fibrillation in med school and Paul bought the farm. We don’t know about the Chinese guy.
Has anyone thought to tell Audrey that if Paul couldn’t survive the five minutes it took him to die after the docs left him, he sure as hell wasn’t going to survive surgery?
Do you think the surgeon felt any pressure trying to perform an emergency life-saving procedure only to be forced to switch to another dying patient at gunpoint?
I was hoping that Curtis would break out with “Always look on the bright side of life…”
Ah, thanks. That explains all the only-one-doctor? comments. Jack’s bedside manner is a lot like his interrogation technique. Which probably explains why his malpractice insurance rates are about to skyrocket.
BTW, does Tony have perhaps the least understanding girlfriend evar? Even without knowing about the missing nuclear weapon, there’s been a terrorist caused trainwreck, abduction of the Secretary of Defense, and the President’s plane has been shot down. And she’s all, “What are you doing at CTU?”
In her defense, Tony doesn’t actually work there anymore. Neither does Jack. Or Palmer. And exactly what is Audrey, the Secretary of Defense’s personal assistant? Whatever she is, she can be carried out of the OR kicking and screaming whenever Jack says so. The entire government is suddenly in civilian control. They could’ve called OfficeTeam to do it. It’s like in 1950s sci-fi movies where a local scientist can declare martial law.
[quyote=YPOD]
By the way, nice way for Jack to get rid of that pain in the ass ex-husband. How did he plan it that well? But it looks as if the girl friend will have a bug up her ass about it for a while.
