Well, it was between 2:00 and 3:00, so maybe they had stopped serving. The bar was empty, except for Chole and drunk guy, so maybe the bartender was just a little slow running them out.
Presumably then, he had purchased that stuff before the clock hit 2 a.m.
And at the risk of repeating myself… dang, Chloe looks nice when she smiles.
I’ve been served after hours more times than I can count. I know that grocery store scanners are programmed not to scan booze after 2AM (I missed the cutoff by mere seconds once), but come on. Bars aren’t always known to go by the rules.
I see you posted during the show, so you probably already had this answered. He did have it when she called back about the pilot. However, I wondered the same thing: Why did they make a special point about him putting the phone down then?
Perhaps this is the answer: Jack is the Engergizer agent. Too much contact with his cellphone and it overcharges.
In a universe where you can shoot down helicopters with a 9mm pistol, do you think they worry about liquor laws? 
CTU cell phones and tasers are powered by small nuclear reactors; hence the long “battery” life and knock out strength tases.
We all have our individual hangups
You don’t know the power of the California Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
Even Chloe couldn’t get into their system!
“Jack, I’ve been trying to get you a phony permit to serve beer and wine, but the ABC people are demanding that you hang up a sign and ask for public comment for 30 days.”
Shooting down the helicopter was very reasonable, actually. Helicopters are a mass of quickly moving, relatively fragile parts. It’s not hard to bring them down with small arms fire at all. Even military helicopters like Apaches are vulnerable to small arms when flying low and slow. This one was hovering a couple hundred feet away while Jack plinked away at it.
However, blowing up the tank of gasoline with his handgun was not even remotely realistic.
So how come the Taliban guys carry RPGs intead of Glocks?
Maybe they’re all into D&D in a big way? 
I know this is a stupid question, but why bother to shoot down the plane? I though they were already planning on having the Secret Service arrest/kill jack the moment he lands. Considering everything we’ve seen tonight, that seems like a reasonable enough plan.
Well, now that Jack’s recovered the recording for the second time, he’s sure to realize any moment now that it’s a good idea to maybe PLAY THE RECORDING TO SOMEONE ELSE. So Logan probably wants to shoot him down before Jack regains common sense.
I can’t blame him.
ALL questions are answered by the Jack Sack. ALL of them! Yes, even that one!
I guess everyone’s threshold for suspension of disbelief is different…
-Joe
Dammit, Chloe, we don’t have time for that. If we don’t get our hands on that permit in the next ten minutes, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL BE DRY!
For if we don’t find
The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, i tell you i tell you we must die
He should put it over the loudspeaker on the plane. That way the people who have just been hostage to him will maybe understand why this guy popped up thru the floor and held them at gunpoint. More witnesses. Then agian if the plane gets shot down…but with a new 3 year contract something tells me it won’t be. Not sure Jack can escape a plane going down from 30,000 feet–unless he has a parachute in that shoulder bag of his.
Jack’s doesn’t need a parachute. He’s got a pistol versus an F-18. The F-18 doesn’t stand a chance.
I wonder what’s going on in the cargo hold. Also, even though I watched twice, I missed what happened to the pilot. Can someone explain, please?
It looks like the pilot got up and was gonna open the door, and just managed to unlock it when the co-pilot bashed him over the head with the flashlight from under his seat.
Precisely. The pilot was finally convinced by Jack, made a lame excuse about “gonna go stretch my legs” and then got beaten down with a flashlight - but not before he managed to open the door to the cockpit.
-Joe
I wonder if it’s significant that the little screen on Jack’s cell phone clearly said CHLOE and SPEAKER PHONE.