# 24: Season 5: Episode 18 (12:00midnight - 1:00am) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065 "2006-04-17T21:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 18, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/21 "2006-04-18T03:44:53Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > He went with Henderson. Hendrson is Robo Terrorist, right? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/22 "2006-04-18T03:48:37Z")
I’m glad they brought Buchanan back into it, tonight. And it seems that the **real** CTU staff has now moved headquarters to Bill’s house. 😉 Karen Hayes is getting suspicious. I had a feeling she was okay. I still think her lackey (and I think a good nickname for him at this point would be Wormtongue) could turn out to be part of the Logan cover-up team. And since Karen seems to be actually after the truth, I still say it would have been a good move for Jack (last week) to call CTU and play them the recording. Get more people on your side – there’s the chance it could get them helping you again. And if all of Homeland turns out to be “in on it”, then they haven’t really found out anything new, other than they know that you know that they know that… awww, screw it. I refuse to believe that Aaron is toast quite yet. I think somebody grabbed him, but she only found a phone, not blood or anything. I think he’s being held, but I don’t think Logan’s got balls enough to start whacking people at the Presidential Retreat. And Henderson’s not there to do it for him. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/23 "2006-04-18T05:24:10Z")
> [@annieclaus](#): > > I thought maybe he gave up the tape player, but kept the tape. It was a digital recording. No tape. Oh, and Hack Bauer was in mighty fine form tonight. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/24 "2006-04-18T05:27:33Z")
During the airport shootout. Me: “Are those terrorists hiding behind that fuel tank?” BOOOOOOOOM! Me: “I guess so. Stupid terorrists” Also, I knew the phone was gonna ring at the last minute. There’s 6-7 more hours. But I’m suprised Jack would give up the recording when the bad guy said “She has 3 minutes to live”. I would have taken that as “I can’t save her now, so die Robocop!” But today we learned that Jack’s favorite show is McGuyver. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/25 "2006-04-18T05:30:33Z")
Oh, that reminds me. Was I the only one who noticed Chloe slip the card of jerkoff’s brest pocket. I said “How did he not notice that?” but soon realized that neither of the two people I was watching with noticed it at all. And I really expected Chloe to punch out cute but crazy girl. That would have been so cool. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/26 "2006-04-18T05:39:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Hendrson is Robo Terrorist, right? :smack: You’re right. As someone else said, he went with Buchanan, and that’s what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/27 "2006-04-18T05:58:42Z")
The phone rang, so I missed a minute or two… I saw Wormtongue questioning Chloe, then when I got off the phone, she was walking out of the building. How did she get out of there? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/28 "2006-04-18T05:59:56Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Oh, that reminds me. Was I the only one who noticed Chloe slip the card of jerkoff’s brest pocket. No, it was pretty obvious. Heller leaving his daughter with Jack was so stupid I couldn’t believe it. LA is under martial law, and the evil president is doing everything to get Jack. Sheesh. :rolleyes: This is getting to be even too cartoonish for “24” if you ask me. Oh, I hope Audrey is right handed… ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/29 "2006-04-18T06:42:37Z")
> [@Squee](#): > > The phone rang, so I missed a minute or two… I saw Wormtongue questioning Chloe, then when I got off the phone, she was walking out of the building. How did she get out of there? She pickpocketed Wormtongue’s keycard (he’s really got to keep those things on a lanyard or something…that’s the second time this season Chloe’s got him!). He helpfully left the room and went around the corner so that she could sneak out unobserved, though she had to talk her way past sexual harrassment girl on her way out of the building. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/30 "2006-04-18T07:59:43Z")
Danke. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/31 "2006-04-18T09:42:16Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Oh, I hope Audrey is right handed… Judging by the upcoming previews at the end of the show, she recuperates from a dropped pint of blood pretty fast. Maybe Jack called his daughter and left a copy of the tape on her machine. That way they can get her in and get her kidnapped too. That’s hasn’t happened yet. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/32 "2006-04-18T12:20:29Z")
Once again, Jack and his pistol go up against overwhelming forces armed with automatic weapons. The bad guys really have to start training their guys better. Or at least have to start handing out Kevlar vests. When the bad guys clustered around the fuel truck, my first thought was “It’s a good thing that Jack doesn’t watch Mythbusters.” Apparently, shooting a fuel truck just makes holes in it. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/33 "2006-04-18T12:53:28Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > But I’m suprised Jack would give up the recording when the bad guy said “She has 3 minutes to live”. I would have taken that as “I can’t save her now, so die Robocop!” I was kinda hoping Jack would go all Keyser Soze on the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/34 "2006-04-18T12:56:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Once again, Jack and his pistol go up against overwhelming forces armed with automatic weapons. The bad guys really have to start training their guys better. Or at least have to start handing out Kevlar vests. Or start equipping them with pistols. 🙂 -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/35 "2006-04-18T13:21:40Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > During the airport shootout. > > Me: “Are those terrorists hiding behind that fuel tank?” > > BOOOOOOOOM! > > Me: “I guess so. Stupid terorrists” That scene makes Mythbusters’s Kari cry. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/36 "2006-04-18T13:23:07Z")
Mmm… Kari… and Chloe… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/37 "2006-04-18T13:26:55Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > I was kinda hoping Jack would go all Keyser Soze on the situation. I nominate this as the best post in the thread! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/38 "2006-04-18T13:41:43Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Once again, Jack and his pistol go up against overwhelming forces armed with automatic weapons. The bad guys really have to start training their guys better. Or at least have to start handing out Kevlar vests. > > When the bad guys clustered around the fuel truck, my first thought was “It’s a good thing that Jack doesn’t watch Mythbusters.” Apparently, shooting a fuel truck just makes holes in it. Might have been an episode I missed, but the episode I saw was trying to shoot the fuel tank on a large sedan, not a fuel truck. Not that I know what the difference in real world results would be (and given the price of fuel, it’s probably way beyond MB’s budget). Watching last week’s previews, I know that SecDef Heller was going to be toast. Too much season left. If it were hour 21 or 22, he might have pulled it off. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/39 "2006-04-18T14:30:40Z")
> [@mack](#): > > I haven’t entirely ruled out the possibility that Jack passed another recorder to Henderson or somehow he made a copy of the recording. Let’s just hope that he didn’t copy it to one of those self-destructing memory chips that he keeps in his Jack Bauer Big Bag o’ Tricks®. > [@Monstre](#): > > I’m glad they brought Buchanan back into it, tonight. And it seems that the **real** CTU staff has now moved headquarters to Bill’s house. ;). Chloe: Can I get a drink of water? Buchanan: I’m sorry Chloe, you don’t have kitchen clearance yet. Let me change the protocols. > [@Monstre](#): > > I refuse to believe that Aaron is toast quite yet. I think somebody grabbed him, but she only found a phone, not blood or anything. I think he’s being held, but I don’t think Logan’s got balls enough to start whacking people at the Presidential Retreat. And Henderson’s not there to do it for him. Unless Logan did it himself, he arranged for someone else to do it. If it wasn’t officially directed, that would mean that there is another conspirator on the grounds. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065/40 "2006-04-18T14:42:38Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > Chloe: Can I get a drink of water? > Buchanan: I’m sorry Chloe, you don’t have kitchen clearance yet. Let me change the protocols. Chloe can change the protocols herself, thank you very much. All she needs to do is open a socket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-18-12-00midnight-1-00am/353065.md?page=3)