-There is no way Logan is ever getting laid again.
-Mike looks like he’d dearly like to smack Logan around. He helped dopose palmer for being “indecisive”. Working with Logan has got to be a living hell for him.
-Did logan ever stop to think that the Russian President getting killed on US Soil would do a lot to invalidate that treaty he loves to take credit for? Didn’t think so.
-I was suprised. I expected the bomb in the trap room to be nerve gas. After all, it doesn’t open the door, still kills Jack(hypotheically) and doesn’t mess up the servers.
-Oh my God, they killed Aaron! Those…Well, he’s not quite dead. He may even pull through.
-I was dearly hoping for SecDef Heller to call up and browbeat Lynn to within an inch of his life. But that was pretty good.
-Chole has mellowed out this season. Before she would have had a snarky remark for Lynn…or blew him away with an M-16.
-First rule of surviving a Coup: Don’t piss off all your employees!
-Second rule of surviving a Coup: Don’t annoy Black Bauer!
-Third rule of surviving a Coup: Don’t act like a petty Tyrant.
-Roboterrorist: “Nina Myers or George Mason may have set me up”. I wonder if he knows if they’re both dead. And for a while I wondered if Nina did set him up.
Ever since Snidely Whiplash, villains have been thinking they can leave their nemesis in a locked room and destroy them remotely. Do they never learn??? Damn, kiddo, just shoot Jack in the back of the head and walk away.
Black Bauer came thru in the end! Of course, we all knew he would. And that one scence when Curtis waddled into the corridor to meet with Chloe had me thinking: Jar-Jar meets Jabba.
I kept waiting for President Poopy Pants to say to Karl Rove: What’s wrong? Don’t you want to pray with me… Jew-Boy!! (Does anyone else remember that classic Nixon/Kissinger SNL skit?)
Let’s see… this episode had:
(1) Logan being presented with a really tough choice, and some good writing and acting
(2) A fucking FLAMETHROWER
(3) A new hot female CTU agent, plus more of the Chloe-being-bitchy action we love so much
(4) A brand new nemesis from Jack’s past being revealed… one clever enough to get the taser drop on Jack
(5) Someone leaving Jack for dead
(6) The total breakdown of Lynn, which I thought was a pretty well done plot development overall. You could see how his personality would lead him to be overconfident and unable to compromise, which earlier in the season allowed him to be very effective, but the combination of too much stress and getting mugged pushed him so far that he became too brittle and couldn’t yield any authority or admit any mistake.
(7) Curtis being a badass, ableit only .2 or .3 on the Bauer scale.
Man that’s good television.
Remaining unanswered questions:
(1) Audrey still hasn’t found Kim?
(2) What about Lynn’s keycard?
At this point, how does FLOTUS know that POTUS didn’t spill the assasination plot? She heard that the SS was given the code to abort, which saved their lives. She couldn’t know it came from CTU and was outside POTUS’ authority.
Didn’t it seem wierd to anyone else that Henderson just happened to have a “clipboard bomb” sitting on his desk to conveniently take with him to the bunker?
Aaron popping back to life reminded me of the Terminator.
By the way, there is no way the “old” Jack would have spent his time on the phone explaining his past with Henderson to Audrey. He’s so emotionaly available these days.
I’m a little cloudy on spoiler rules for stuff in previews, so I’m gonna box this one up: I could swear I saw Tony Almeida with a Kotex on his head getting up from his sickbed with a bit of a headache but looking like he was getting ready to rev up for action. Anyone? Anyone? (If so, it could balance out the Return of The Kim!)
I didn’t notice who wrote last night’s episode, but they name-checked former Buffy writer Jane Espensen last night (when Audrey made the fake call to Weller’s secretary). Other former *Buffy * (and Lost) writer David Fury writes for the show now, and I suspect it’s his handiwork.
annieclaus, I think you are right. He’s a wuss. It took him 11-12 hours to get better. Jack has been going straight. Cracked ribs, knife in the leg (I think). Meanwhile, Tony gets a long nap.
Is it just my Fox affiliate, or was everyone getting ‘news’ promos about “Trouble on 24 - the character hated by everyone on the set”. (Turned out to be yet another 24 commercial tucked into the evening news, the character being President Logan.)
I was thinking that too, then I realized that he is guilty of theft, murder (or at least conspiracy to commit murder, with the three lead scientists working on Syntox dead,) treason, etc… and so it makes sense he would be paranoid and take measures to protect himself and whatnot.
Although I was starting to believe he wasn’t evil. He mentioned Nina or Mason setting him up and Iwas liek, well, Nina WAS evil, so it might make sense. Then when they found out the scientists were deadm he seemed genuinly shocked. But as soon as he left to “go to IT right next door” I knew he was evil.
Me, too. But then nerve gas would have slowed Jack up for a bit and it looked like this episode was Kiefer’s “rest” episode. Jack just wasn’t on much. He didn’t kill anybody. But we almost got the “AND MILLIONS WILL DIE!” line. Warmed my cockles. . . .
Anyway, Jack should be just fine for next Monday’s two-hour episode. And he’ll be really mad now!
Of course, Henderson being a bad guy ups the ratio of CTU moles to actual hardworking employees to at least 1:1. And the remaining employees are either psychopaths, incompetents, or total social misfits.
Thank goodness Aaron is ok. I was cheering for that.
I hate Logan. I can’t believe they killed Palmer and are spending so much time on this wimp. Although I like to pretend Palmer isn’t really dead, they just made everyone think he was so that he could be part of “The Unit”.
Not enough Jack this episode. I’m looking forward to Mrs. Logan smacking her husband around. Maybe Mike will get in a few kicks while he’s down.
I also started to believe Nathanson when he mentioned Nina. I guess it’s safe to say that he really was guilty of the thing Jack investigated him for in the past. I think a nerve gas trap would have been better also, but I guess there’d be no way for Jack to survive that, unless he’s already immune to it from the mall attack. I could see Jack’s lungs torturing the nerve gas for information, though.
I can say with certainty that they always wear kevlar vests under their suits, and they have optional titanium alloy plates for the front and rear that they wear when the situation calls for it. I can’t say if being part of a motorcade would warrant it or not. When doing raids or high risk activities where they weren’t concerned with being able to blend in they’d strap on large tactical vests over their clothes.