# 24: Season 5: Episode 21 (3:00am - 4:00am)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966 "2006-05-08T21:45:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966/61 "2006-05-10T18:35:44Z")

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Well, Miles’ actions this week made me think immediately back to last week’s perfect line, said to him by Buchanan – “you little ass-kisser!”

Now Bill and Chloe are probably thinking back fondly to the time when a hobbit was in charge at CTU…

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966/62 "2006-05-11T01:27:42Z")

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If Miles has indeed erased the only copy of the recording, I’m immediately switching channels next week.

I don’t care how stressed out and overtired you are. When your co-workers have been stabbed and killed to get this recording, when the President orders a plane full of innocent people killed to get this recording, the first fecking thing you do is make a copy of the recording.

Nobody’s stupid enough not to copy the damn thing. _Nobody_.

There are limits to the suspension of my disbelief.

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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966/63 "2006-05-11T01:42:44Z")

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> [@Barbarian](#):
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> If Miles has indeed erased the only copy of the recording, I’m immediately switching channels next week.
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> I don’t care how stressed out and overtired you are. When your co-workers have been stabbed and killed to get this recording, when the President orders a plane full of innocent people killed to get this recording, the first fecking thing you do is make a copy of the recording.
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> Nobody’s stupid enough not to copy the damn thing. _Nobody_.
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> There are limits to the suspension of my disbelief.

Chloe couldn’t make a copy of it for the same reason Jack couldn’t just send it over their super-cellphone-datalink-network back when he had his hands on it 5 hours ago. It can’t be copied because of (shakes magic 24-ball) a binary protocol matrix.

Or at least, if you take that as an article of faith, your enjoyment of the show will increase greatly.

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-5-episode-21-3-00am-4-00am/355966/64 "2006-05-11T23:30:01Z")

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Anyone else think Miles Slimeball sounds like Hannibal Lecter?

“Miles, what are you doing here?”

“Karen wanted to ask you if the lambs have stopped screaming.”

Or a possible scene from next week:

“A supervisor tried to evaluate me; I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti!”

😃

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