I guessed it was him when they played the altered phone call.
You know, maybe because its the first two hours, but so far, this season has been FAR more plausible than last… then again, last season got really off kilter after the 12th hour.
The 25th Amendment was invoked last year, which means one time V.P. Logan is president until he gives up the job. My best guess is that Keeler will somehow play a role in this season. My guess is that Keeler is still alive and in “recovery” mode. My guess is that at some point Keeler will play a similar role that Palmer did last season. He’ll be brought in as a “consulant” at some point when Mike Novick becomes exasperated enough at Logan’s behavior.
“The only reason you’re conscious is that I don’t want to carry you.” is not only the line of the season, I think it’s the line of the series. 
Random Obvervations:
-Oh my God, They Killed Palmer! Those bastards!
-And They killed Michelle!
-Well, at least Tony is still alive. He might live, considering he did survive that gunshot wound to the neck a couple seasons back, and being held captive by Mandy the hot lesbian assasin.
-Nice to see Wayne again.
-Is there some kind of clause in the production contract that at least one annoying Young Adult must be in each season?
-Anyone else half expecting Jack to pull out a gun and scream “You will drink from a glass, Mister! OR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE!”?
-Jack’s really getting into beating up people today. I guess it’s therapy to keep him from torturing people all the time.
-At least FBI perimeters are somewhat better then CTU perimeters from last season. If CTU had been after that van, it would have escaped without a trace.
- Logan is a whiney little bitch. I immediatly predicted that he’d react to palmers shooting in the same way Marie Warner reacted in season 2. “ITS MY SPECIAL DAY! YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
And he keeps proving me right.
Yeah, diverting the Russian’s President’s helicopter would have dampened his entrance, but I suspect having a flaming chopper and a dead head of state on your lawn would have been a bit worse.
It’s almost as if Logan is the Mayor in Jaws. “No, we can’t start talking about shark attacks, because it’s tourist season.”, as if sharks eating the tourists isn’t going to bother anyone.
-So what did happen to President “I talk to stuffed bunnies in my basement” Keiler? I though he was still alive in season 4. Granted, I might have had it slip by me because they kept throwing new plots at us every five minutes.
But all that aside, it’s a good start. As long as they resist the impulse to have one plot covering up another plot covering up another plot, like last season, this should be good.
Is Dave Barry going to do a blog on this season?
They need an escape plan. They have seen all the movies where the criminal get screwed over when he asks for a ride to the airport and decided to skip that part and take hostages at the airport itself.
24 also seems to be doing a pretty efficient job of going through their list of nationalities for terrorist. We have so far had Latin American, American, Middle Eastern, and now what seems to be Russian terrorist. What do they have left, Jamaican terrorist?
As long as they don’t bring out another universal remote after hour 5.
“Jack, the terrorists have a remote that can change all the TV’s in the world at once, and change the water tempreture in everyone’s showers so they are alterativly burned and frozen!”
Would I be going to far in saying that the terrorists killed the wrong president? Logan is just asking for it. There’s still 22 hours left though.
But Logan can’t fight himself out of a paper bag. These aren’t the dumb terrorists of old ;).
Russian?
Somehow I have a feeling that Keifer is going to resolve this by kicking their asses at hockey.
“Get me a zamboni. I said, get me a ZAMBONI! Do it NOW!”
When I become a Supervillain, I’m going to do something really fiendish to televised professional sporting events that run long and screw up everybody’s schedule. I even tacked an extra 5 minutes onto the end of the program, just in case, but it still wasn’t quite enough.
Thanks for the wrap-up, interface2x.
I don’t think that’s quite how it works. If Keeler was able to return, he would do so unless Logan and his Cabinet felt he was still incapacitated and got Congress to approve a resolution saying the same.
Do King of the Hill reruns get such great ratings that it makes more sense to mess around with the 24 schedule instead of, oh, say, cutting of Hank Hill in progress?
Anyway, I’m missing the end of the show because FOX schedulers are just plain stupid. Thanks for the recap
Also, wasn’t the President still alive (but injured) and that was VP Weenie? Did the president officially die sometime? Was he killed off last season, but I just forgot about it?
They’re too relaxed to be dangerous. Here’s betting that the bosses of the Russian terrorists are Antarctic penguins.
I was sure I was going to HATE Derek, but he turned out to be a pretty good guy so far.
The big eye rolling moment was definitely how quickly they all bought into Jack being the bad guy. Hellooo… he’s saved THE WORLD at least 4 times. Come ON people, have some faith in the guy.
I don’t know quite what it is, but you can see a hundred shows in which some bad-ass guy kills badguys, and it’s just NEVER as much fun as when Jack Bauer does it.
So, I heard mention that the season 5 preview from the season 4 DVDs says something about what Kim knows. Can anyone fill me in? Thanks.
She knows he’s dead and she was heartbroken, says Chloe. That’s all you hear.
I’m sure there would have been more, but Kim was trying to figure out how to get out of yet another Cougar trap.
True, but CTU is the most mole-infested intelligence or security agency in history. So, on the one hand, he’s saved the world more often than most agents ever even fire their guns; on the other hand, he’s a career CTU officer, so you can’t really blame his superiors for presuming he’s secretly working on behalf of some mind-boggingly byzantine Conspiracy until proven otherwise.
When Kim was working for CTU, she got a company car. Ironically, it was a Mercury Cougar.
Is the guy on the news in the show a real broadcaster from the area? He’s made quite a few appearances on Arrested Development too, and I wasn’t sure if that was a nod to AD fans or what.
I loved this one too. 24 has officially been my favorite television show since Season 2 when Kim shot someone (I don’t remember the circumstances). She fired the first shot and I yelled from my couch “Shoot him again!” and then Jack shouted “Shoot him again!” almost simultaneously.
Couple of nitpicks with last night’s episodes:
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If Palmer had some information vital to ‘national security’ about the Russian President’s visit, wouldn’t waiting to meet with the CFL (Crazy First Lady) have been too late? If the Russian President was arriving first thing in the morning, shouldn’t he have spilled the beans when he had her on the phone?
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Why would Palmer put Cherevensky’s name and work address in his memoirs (as opposed to writing it on a piece of paper, putting it in his daytimer, etc.)?
Did anyone find it odd that everyone just accepted that Jack was alive so quickly?