# 24: Season 4: Episodes 23-24 (5:00am - 7:00am) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139 "2005-05-23T19:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/21 "2005-05-24T00:42:25Z")
Always bet on black! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/22 "2005-05-24T00:44:37Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Which part are you talking about? It is obvious that Tony and Terror chick are still alive, and that she forced the neighbor peeps to walk out to the car so she could blow them up to cause a huge distraction while she escapes. > > She is good. This would have been a lot more wrenching if the idiots hadn’t SHOWN the scene with Jack holding a gun on Tony and Hot Terrorist Babe in the previews from last week. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/23 "2005-05-24T00:48:18Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > This would have been a lot more wrenching if the idiots hadn’t SHOWN the scene with Jack holding a gun on Tony and Hot Terrorist Babe in the previews from last week. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/24 "2005-05-24T00:50:21Z")
Weak Agent cracked… wuss ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/25 "2005-05-24T00:53:01Z")
That’s it, Prez Wussy has to go. I’m gonna resurrect Sherry Palmer and set her loose. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/26 "2005-05-24T00:54:05Z")
David Palmer is the freakin’ man. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/27 "2005-05-24T00:56:11Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Weak Agent cracked… > > wuss Hmmm. I wonder if this season will end with Jack being kidnapped by the Chinese and transported to China. Frankly, I’m a bit baffled. With a nuclear missile bearing down on some unknown city, I don’t see why the writers need to amp up the suspense. (Nor do I see why they’re including this bit with the pardon for HTB. Especially because a well-written pardon shouldn’t include past acts of terrorism.) They’ve got a lot of wrapping up to do in an hour if they want to tie up the Chinese loose ends AND have time for Jack and Marwan to have their climactic duke-out in some rain-soaked street. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/28 "2005-05-24T01:01:28Z")
[spoiler] Marwan’s pretty spry considering Jack busted a cap in him two hours ago. Ooh – sparking richochets. We know they don’t really do that. Jack should have known he couldn’t hold on to Marwan – for the last 24 hours, he’s been teflon. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/29 "2005-05-24T01:01:33Z")
Wow. Why couldn’t we get action like this all season? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/30 "2005-05-24T01:02:30Z")
I give Marwan a 9 on the approach, but he totally blew the landing. Nice puddle of blood, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/31 "2005-05-24T01:03:32Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Why couldn’t we get action like this all season? Because every veiwer’s heart would have exploded “hours” ago. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/32 "2005-05-24T01:10:45Z")
This episode is pretty cool, and has mostly made up for a lot of crap. But I just don’t get Chinese story line. Is the Chinese Government THAT unreasonable that the POUS couldn’t say, “look, Yun, I’ve had a rough day, I’m not even the real President. I’m not sure if you’ve heard or not, but we’re kind of under a massive terrorist attack, and at the moment a nuclear warhead is less than 1.5 hours from landing in one of our largest city. We’ve already had a train explode, Air Force 1 was shot down, a power plant went critical, and our secretary of defence was taken hostage. Do you think you could cut us just a _little_ slack?” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/33 "2005-05-24T01:12:54Z")
Nick of time, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/34 "2005-05-24T01:13:16Z")
Uh, guys? There’s still about 40 minutes left. Oh my God! It’s Zombie Marwan!! ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/35 "2005-05-24T01:13:42Z")
Is what Jack said about the warhead true? It won’t detonate unless it reaches its target, even if it is shot down with another missle? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/36 "2005-05-24T01:14:19Z")
Maybe they are setting up next season with an escpe from a Chinese gulag. ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/37 "2005-05-24T01:14:56Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Uh, guys? There’s still about 40 minutes left. > > Oh my God! It’s Zombie Marwan!! Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that Marwan is going to come back as some sort of Egyptian god with incredible mystic powers–mostly involving sand and scorpions. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/38 "2005-05-24T01:15:30Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Is what Jack said about the warhead true? It won’t detonate unless it reaches its target, even if it is shot down with another missle? It’s about the only true thing this season. Might be some radioactive material spread around, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/39 "2005-05-24T01:15:52Z")
And the missles target is…wait for it… Los Angeles!!! What a frikkin’ surprise! Do the people who write and produce this stuff even know that there are people in other parts of the country? Wotta’ riot. Los Angeles - center of the known universe. Repository of all that is good and worthwhile on the planet. Rolling on the floor L-A-U-G-H-I-N-G!!! ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139/40 "2005-05-24T01:15:57Z")
Oh, and President Wuss… “This administration doesn’t condone murder. Is that clear?” _wink wink nudge nudge_ Anybody buy that one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-4-episodes-23-24-5-00am-7-00am/305139.md?page=3)