After a mild WTF last night, my brain turned into speculation mode.
I figure Mr. Controlling Egomaniac the president wanted Palmer gone because he couldn’t stand having to call him in last season to deal with a terrorist threat. And he was pissed that Jack died, yet his body mysteriously vanished.
So Logan went through Jack’s file, and found out that Jack had Henderson sacked after being brought into CTU. Logan contacts Henderson, gets him to find out if Bauer is still alive – and to make sure he’s dead.
Then, in another plot to make sure Pres Logan looks very very strong on the day he signs an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, he gets Henderson to mastermind the whole Badger/Palmer assassination thing. Henderson funnels this plot through his old contacts (like the dead guy in the shipping container), which eventually percolates up to Cummings. Cummings, thinking he’s in charge, ends up offing himself, without realizing that he’s been played.
Bierko and the escaped nerve gas was a loose cannon – Bierko controlled Badger and made sure he was in charge – so when Bierko demanded the Russian President’s route to the airport, Logan really was caught off guard, and being the wishy washy guy he is, waffled and did nothing.
Seriously, they’re National Guard units. If the world’s best trained terrorists can’t kill Jack Bauer, what makes you think a bunch of Weekend Warriors can? grin
Perfect! I never realized it before, but Chloe is clearly Artoo Detoo. “Shut down all the ventilation units on the command level! Shut down all the ventilation units on the command level!” “Bloop-bleep-boop-boop-boop. I’m doing it already. Jeez.”
-I’m surprised that they didn’t have Jack come walking out of the smoke still on fire, but he doesn’t have time to burn because “thousands of lives are at stake!”
-In other terrorist shows blowing up a natural gas refinery would be the objective of a terrorist attack, in the 24iverse it’s the solution.
-Wayne listen to Jack, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s killed…what…200 some odd people
Surprising in this episode was that Jack was 20 minutes away from a meeting.
So, if Logan is the big baddie, why did veep want CTU out of the picture. It didn’t seem he was acting on Logan’s orders. And if they’re both in on it, then I wonder truly…what’s the dealio?
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. I’d just like to know why Jack Bauer is suddenly afraid of 10 guys at once. I guess it’s because he didn’t want Wayne getting killed.
The Homeland Security guy does a GREAT job of being evil and slimy. Great villain.
And Poor old Bill. Only CTU boss without his head deep in his rectum and he gets ousted.
And yet, and yet, Henderson still had a squad of trained goons willing to assist in the kidnapping of a little girl. * Where do they get all of these morally compromised henchmen?*
And what kind of hare-brained plan is “bring us the evidence or you’ll never see your little girl again?” That would be any intelligent person’s cue to hit the copy machine and mail out letters to various friends, saying “If you don’t hear from me, mail this to the FBI and New York Times”.
Maybe things will be different when I have a kid (gimme about six months…), but I think the proper reaction is, “So what you’re saying is that she’s already dead? Okay. Here’s what we’ll do. My daughter will come wandering into the Fifth Precinct within the next fifteen minutes. If she does so I’ll give you a half hour head start. Otherwise, I CC this evidence to EVERYONE starting at minute sixteen. Oh, and I’m at one of several thousand Starbucks in Los Angeles. You can’t stop me.”
That was absolutely, positively, by far and away the stupidest fucking plot twist in the history of absolutely forever. There are microbes on Mars saying “that rover that ran over Bob five minutes ago; that was unlikely, but THIS?”
Sheesh. I would rather have Sherri back than have plotlines this utterly ridiculous. I feel positively insulted. Bah.
p.s. Larry, I had to go and drink some milk so I could snort it out my nose just then.
Wanted: Analyst for Homeland Security for exciting new opportunity in government muckery and political in-fighting. Must own black suit and have an attitude of tactless efficency.
This show is once agin firmly in comic book/James Bond land.