I think you’re wrong about that. As far as I know, polygraphs aren’t that great, and when somebody is clearly nervous it makes them that much less reliable because you can’t be sure if the person is reacting because he is lying, or just nervous because of the situation, or what. His comment to his father that he did withhold something but it was none of CTU’s business, on the other hand, was just stupid. They’ve devoted enough time to his interrogation that I guess he has to know something significant, but after that exchange I don’t really believe the character anymore.
Depends on what you’re gonna do. Go to the cops and say “Terrorists killed my family and tried to kill me, but I hit one with a shovel and got away”. It might work. Get stopped with a gun leaving the bodies and it might not.
Taking over control of the nuclear plants via the web…how about the good guys do a denial of service attack on the plants and keep the bad guys from getting to them?
Dammit, “family” should read “girl friend”.
You might wanna have someone take a look at your whoosh-meter 
I thought so the first time, but not as much when I re-read it. Oh well.
Based on the credits, the guy the episode was dedicated to was a Marine in one of the units that supervised the use of Marine helicopters in this episode.
A friend of mine told me how scary a harrier coming over the hill and turning it’s nose from side to side is, but I bet those helicopters put the fear of God into you.
Harriers are DAMNED loud, but I don’t anything pegs the holy-shitometer like a pair of A10 Warthogs coming over your shoulder.
I’M SICK OF DAMN CTU MOLES EVERY SEASON!!! Ok, Gael was a good trick, but they can’t do THAT again. I really felt like giving up on 24 at that point. I’ll just watch from now on to see Jack kick ass, that first 12 minutes or so was great.
Oh, and this is pure genius:
I could even hear it in my head, with Nuclear Technician being South Park’s Saddam Hussein voice. “Relax, guy!”
I think Audrey’s husband is totally guilty of something… maybe he’s the one that gave away the info that allowed Heller to get kidnapped, and Heller’s son is just a bad lead when they finally find out who he’s protecting.
I have to see how they try and explain the power plant thing not being able to be stopped easily. I’m guessing the remote commands have priority over anyone actually inside the plant trying to give commands. Unplugging the ethernet cable won’t work because they already hacked all the plants while the trial was being broadcast, and commands are probably irreversible (like my raincoat) except through the same device. Cutting the power would cause a meltdown, so that’s out, leaving the only solution to have Jack find the device, then go to an internet cafe and be talked through cancelling the commands, complete with a graphical webapp that shows the rods requiring him to line them up properly like a puzzle.
As a side note, I missed the original broadcast, and found it on alt.binaries.multimedia.24 in HDTV widescreen, which was much better, especially when they do the split screen stuff (781 MB total size). Anyone with broadband and access to an acceptable news server should keep it in mind if they miss an episode, especially since they don’t seem to rerun the episode during the week anytime. I checked FOX and FX schedules for the whole week.
Behrooz, according to Episode Guide on Fox. And yes, he left gun and shovel on the ground.
I think TerrorMom is going to get pissed when she finds out from son that Dad was the one who ordered him to get whacked, and she realizes that TerrorDad lied to her about the order coming from Marwan, apparently the guy higher up. She’s probably going to try to take off with son and get away from TerrorDad – and he’s going to send evil henchpeople after them to kill them both.
I always thought about Abraham and Issac-Muslims believe it was Abraham and Ishmael-“You know, son, we don’t have to tell your Mother about this.”
Terrormom won’t live - she killed an innocent girl, and something that egregious is usually good for a death sentence on 24. My suspicion - the boy will get caught by terrordad, and she steps in the way to stop him from killing the kid, and she gets herself killed. Then the boy kills his dad, and becomes an asset to CTU. Or maybe he’ll go straight to CTU, and they’ll put him back into the family as a mole.
And I think the SecDef’s son told someone he trusts implicitly. Didn’t he say as much? Probably his girlfriend, who happens to be high in the ‘peace’ movement or something, and it’ll turn out that she gave the information to someone else.
That’s what I’ve been thinking too. And I agree – TerrorMom’s days are numbered. But she won’t turn good – she’ll just get killed trying to protect Behrooz.
I do still love you, Behrooz. It’s just that Allah told me to kill you, and all. Now let’s go turn your mom into a pillar of salt.
The plot is ridiculous- mainly because every commercial reactor is required to have an emergency shutdown system, and why would it be connected to the Internet?
Making that leap of faith, I’d like to mention the first few seconds of the preview for next week:
That is a coal-fired power plant, not a nuke! Nukes don’t need 800 foot tall smokestacks.
On another note- do ya think that Audrey’s hubby was the one to visit his brother-in-law? Also, it was weird that he knew the person who is cuckolding him was Jack, just from the conversation and meaningful looks. Jack had a legitimate reason to be in the room, didn’t he?
Uh, that’s why they call 'em “meaningful” looks.
:insert three page semiotic analysis of guilty facial expressions here: 
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the processing power of all those computers was goint to be used to hack that device itself, not the power plants.
Apparently the terrorists used the broadcast to upload a distributed computing app (terrorism@home?). I think it was to hack all the power plant firewalls.
Ya, no manual overides there :rolleyes:
Will Chloe be brought back to hack the hack? What about here injured nerd friend?
Brian
Trivia: The case was actually a WiebeTech Forensic Field Kit.
(http://www.wiebetech.com/products/forensicffk.php)
Read at: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/25/wiebe24/index.php
Brian
Chloe’s gotta be brought back for something major. She’s Jack’s Main Chick! And I think you’re right about her function being Super Hackerette! The injured nerd friend has to make a really fast recovery to be of any use at all. Isn’t he pretty much stuck in the hospital? Oh, I forgot. . . hospitals these days push the Eject button pretty quickly, no?