Umm…isn’t this just the second season with a CTU mole?
Season 1: The Mandible[sup]TM[/sup] and Nina
Season 2: No one (well, Nina, but that doesn’t count, she was already a bad guy.)
Season 3: They fooeld us with Gael, so no real mole.
Season 4: Mini-Shirley is either a Mole, or a fake-mole, or a combo (I would qualify working for another government agency as a combo, since she isn’t out to sabotage, just get information.)
Is life imitating 24? There was the little ‘leak’ at the nuclear plant in Michigan and now there is a train accident in So. Cal.
I may be a little dull on tech stuff but correct me if I’m missing something here.
How the hell does a large amount of Internet activity outside hide a firewall attack? I mean the IT guys are behind the wall, they are not surrounded by outside activity and an attack from outside would be noticed whether or not there is other activity outside. Wouldn’t their plan make more sense if they made their transmit ion as a means to carry a Trojan virus?
If Jack has spent 2 to 3 hours getting to the Terror Hidey hole, how did he get back to CTU so damned fast?! I mean were they just down the block? Ok maybe they used the choppers but how much faster would that be.
Why are these terror guys getting progressively less clever or less committed?
Last week the guy being trailed put two and two together and rather than risk exposing the group he killed himself. I was impressed. This week. One gets shot in the leg and rather than fire his gun to at least warn the others he sits there waiting to be shot a second time.
Head terror guy has the girl, he knows he will not escape. He says he will kill her. First he threatens then it looks like he’s decided to commit when he sees no chance of escape. What does this hardened evil Terrorist do… He waits… and waits… and waits. If he was truly committed he’d kill her and die while doing it. Sure it ain’t the big prize but you’d think he’d want some conciliation prize.
I think that injured nerd friend has served his complete plot purpose and has now been dubbed “Sir No-Longer-Appearing-In-This-Series”.
That doesn’t bother me so much, since the guy being trailed was higher up in the ranks of evil baddies, and he was a lot smarter. Stunned-Bullet-In-The-Leg-Guy was at more of an entry level position. I think he was hired at the rank of “Gun-Toting-Goon Level I”. Pays slightly more than Fry Cook.
You’re right – they seem to have super-fast choppers. After all, a chopper got Jack back from his parachute jump near the nuclear blast site (season 2), all the way back to CTU – in about the same amount of time. Guess flying back from this compound was a leisurely trip comparatively.
You’re right… for some reason I thought there was a mole in season 2 as well. I still count season 3 because the idea is there, plus you had Tony being forced to help as well. I hate the whole concept of people inside CTU working for the bad guys, either voluntarily or forced. Seems like it’s been done enough.
My thought exactly – you’ve got two dead bodies, a shovel, and a freshly dug grave. Do the math, kid! Bodies into grave, dirt over bodies, gun stuck stylishly into rear of pants. Grab the car keys . . . oops. Dirt out of grave, body out of grave, keys out of pocket, body back into grave, dirt back over bodies. Jump in car, and you’re off to save the world!
Heh. Last year Tony was shot in the neck – milimeters away from certain death. Those top quality docs gave him two aspirins and a spongebob band-aid and sent him out the door!
While I enjoyed the first 10 minutes or so of the episode, I was annoyed at their adherence to the almost universal law of TV gun fights – the guy with the bigger gun always loses. How is it that the guys with the automatic weapons always die in droves, while the guy with the pistol can consistently nail a bad guy at 50 yards?
A remote control for nuclear power plants? Yeah, because they’re all exactly the same design, and were all constructed long after the invention of the internet, so they have all sorts of remote computer capability. Oh, wait…just the reverse of that.
I’m guessing that Fox is gonna get sued due to that train wreck in CA. Scarily similar to the first episode.
Because the guy with the pistol is JACK BAUER!!! Please do try to keep up 
Yeah, that’s pretty silly. Ah well. Doesn’t stop the show from being fun.
Not to overgeneralize, but Middle Eastern terrorists…and hell, even conventional Middle Eastern soldiers…are notoriously bad shots. As a rule, they seldom aim and “spray and pray” is almost a religious ritual with them. I speak from some
personal experience, having trained with some Saudi Arabian Army officers when I was in the infantry.
I enjoy the heck out of 24, but I view it like a cartoon. You can’t worry much about whether it’s realistic, because it’s not going to be and it doesn’t need to be. The only bad thing it can do, in my opinion, is be boring. Everyone at CTU is either brain-damaged or a spy? Fine. You can get anywhere in the Pacific time zone during a commercial break? Sure. Kim Bauer is the stupidest person ever, and employs no logic in her decision-making processes? Hell, I have relatives who fit that description. As long as it’s entertaining, it can be as goofy-assed as they want to make it, and I’m not worried about it. Half the fun for me is yelling at the TV.
Except that the tragedy down here in L.A. was apparently caused by a man who wanted to commit suicide and then changed his mind, but still left his vehicle on the tracks.
He was arrested at the scene after telling authorities where his truck was.
I would have to say that reality sucks some time.
She hasn’t been reported missing as far as we know. I was yelling at al-Bever to take the gun, but none of these things are an immediate problem. He has much bigger shit to deal with than a perfectly justified self-defense killing, whenever somebody finds the body and ties him to it, which in the course of ordinary events could take longer than 18 hours. His parents just tried to kill him and he either has to find out why, or get rid of Dad before he tries to call Tariq and guesses something went wrong, or go to the police and foil the terrorist plot. Burying the bodies would be a waste of his time when you consider that his life is in danger.
Great season so far, and great episode.
However, when Jack was quietly, and slowly passing the knife to blonde in danger, and whispering a few lovey-dovey re-assurances, I looked over to my SO and said, “yeah Jack. Take your time. You got six minutes until 1000 bombs blow the place up. No hurry dude.”
And my guess is terrorist mom will be around awhile longer - she was an Oscar nominee and they usually don’t kill off that calibre of actress so early in the season. Plus they were only able to get her to sign onto the show under certain conditions (spoiler info so I won’t go into it) and those conditions haven’t been met yet.
I agree – I definitely think she’ll be around for quite a while longer. But I think eventually she may buy the farm to save her son, which ends up casting her in a more noble and self-sacrificing light, almost convincing us to forgive her for killing Behrooz’s little Debbie snak cake girlfriend. 
I could go for one of those about now. I need a snack.
Well, you know where to find her. 2nd grave on the right, lying next to Shovel-Face.
And don’t forget - anything you can’t see through will stop bullets of any caliber. You can hide behind drywall, or an old box, or a thin steel car body, and bullets can’t touch you.