For a web broadcast, I doubt they are just using AOL dialup… 
Clarification (for me at least): I never said I was hot for Chloe’s bod or anything – just suddenly liking her personality, which was like a cheese grater to the head last season. I’m especially liking her little snarky remarks in the last few hours:
“I was going to quit anyways”
“Edgar, you’re a geek!”
“Amateur…!”
She doesn’t have my undying lust. But now she has my respect. 
Regarding knocking out the internet, wasn’t there a brief line earlier about how knocking out the internet messes up too many banks, etc.?
GREAT episode overall. I love the ending… “Jack, don’t go in there alone”. Yeah, right. Let us know how giving Jack orders is working out for you there, missy.
Any speculations as to what the Overall Evil Plot is? A bunch of middle eastern people who think they’re on a mission from god and one white guy who knows the secretary of defense’s daughter, and a trial, and a briefcase, and internet servers… Oh man this show rocks 
Obviously, it’s nothing to do with anything we’ve seen so far. Whoever TerrorDad works for is the only one that knows, and that guy won’t be introduced until the very end of episode 12.
I thought it would have been funny if they tried to trace the source of the broadcast, and they ended up breaking down the door of some family with a cable modem that had a trojan horse on their computer that was relaying the broadcast. Then cut to commercial with an advertisement for norton internet security or something. Just not that stupid AOL commercial where they try and convince you that you need AOL service to protect your computer.
It occured to me this morning that finding warm bodies of the secretary and the terrorists in a deserted area, the kicker would be the several bodies approaching room temperature.
Earlier I had taped 9-10 AM and 10-11 AM. I re-used the tape to record 11-noon.
But I neglected to rewind the tape before playing, so i was watchinh 10-11 and thinking “boy, they are really stretching the ‘previously on’ segment!”. Took me ~10 min before I figured out what was going on. :wally
My prediction that Marianne would make Edger do something he shouldn’t came true pretty quickly. Still not sure if she is just ambitious or has a larger motive.
I hope Edger does something smart / couragous (log mariannes activites for counter-blackmail maybe?)
Chloe in the field would be interesting…
Rtaher than wait for the gas to suffocate them, Heller & daughter should have tried to make a spark.
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Eww! They’re father and daughter, for pity’s sake!
A little OT… Seems like for a while before the season started, there was a news ticker item on CNN or MSNBC or one o’ them that said the show was catching flak for portraying an “Islamic terrorist family.”
Has anyone (at least anyone who hasd a clue) at any point mentioned Islam in any way on this show?
didn’t DeadMartyrTerrorGuy spout the obligatory foreign language equivalent that translates roughly as either “There is no god but Allah” or “Allah is great” as he was aiming for the truck?
Interesting as in…disastrous?
She didn’t even have the presence of mind to fake surprise when Driscoll briefed CTU about her good friend.
Driscoll: “By the way, they found Hacker Slacker and he’s been rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.”
Chloe: “Can we go now–I need to get back to my desk”.
In the field, you need a poker face, not a bitch face.
Someone in a previous thread mentioned that the actress who plays TerrorMom (HOT!), didn’t want to play the part, if it ended up being a stereotypical terrorist role.
Doesn’t make much sense to me. People seem to freak out about single, male muslims wearing beards. Now they’re going to freak out about the all-american A-rab family living next door.
Tell me about it. She’s very sultry.
Anyone else wondering why Driscoll hired Marianne on presumably the busiest day of her life? Without an interview?
“Ah yes, your resume seems to be in order. Why don’t you go over there and start working on some national security?”
Don’t you think working at CTU would require a lengthy interview and training process? Her character seems really tacked-on as the show stands now.
It wasn’t Marianne’s first time there. She had worked for CTU before, as a consultant.
I believe that Terror Family are supposed to be Turkish. So while the Saudi’s make up the majority of the 9/11 bastards, the Iranians and Syrians underwrite who knows what, the writers pick a democratic, secular Muslim country to provide the villains.
I agree Terror Mom is hot, mainly because of the voice. I was going to say she must be a Marlboro woman, but on reflection, it seems obvious that she would smoke Camels.
In the past, 24 has been pretty vague about the nationalities of their Arab terrorist characters (lest we forget the “Three Middle Eastern Countries” from Season 2). The terrorist who bombed the train and who Jack shot in 7-8AM was identified as Turkish, but I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the Terror Family’s ethnicity yet.
There have been a couple of offhand mentions…
-Debbie surmises that Barus’ parents don’t like them dating because she isn’t Muslim.
-Kalil and Omar exchange an “Allahu akbar” before he “martyrs” himself.
-Omar makes mention of “True believers” during his speech on the net.
Oh yeah, she’s hotternell.
She made a spoilerish comment to the Television Critics Association:spoiler[Shohreh Aghdashloo] added, though, that patience was a virtue in assessing the show’s message and portrayals.
“Wait for the series to finish, and then jump to the conclusion,” she said. “Do not make assumptions. Things may not appear as they seem.”(/quote) (Golly, actual quote boxes are readable inside spoiler boxes.)
So it looks as though by the end of the season, Terrormom will either a) have a change of heart and switch teams, or b) be revealed to be a ‘mole’ working within the terror cell to subvert it.
I’m still leaning toward junior putting his foot down, forcing mummy to choose between hubby and son, but who knows?[/spoiler]
Man, do I have a dirty mind or what?!
Nah, I got you beat, cuz I envision her smoking… just not cigarettes.
Camels??? No wait, you got me beat!
Chloe would be shot dead within 30 seconds of storming out into the open and loudly tossing snide comments at the terrorists as only she can.
And as she was dying,
“Fine. I was gonna kill myself anyways. You can’t even shot me right, I’m still not dead yet. Here, give me the gun, I’ll do it myself.”