Doctor Bauer.
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Beam Me Up Bauer.
Holo Bauer.
Transporter Accident Bauer.
Fan Wank Bauer.
Help me out here…
Mirror Universe Bauer
There is no way in hell that Assad is gone. My WAG is that he’ll become increasingly disturbed by the way Muslims are treated as the day’s events go on, particularly since:
- Mr. Anti-Freedom is running amok in D.C. now that Karen is gone, and;
- CTU’s own Muslim agents are being targeted by the government.
Since he’s spending his time in the CTU office, he’s guaranteed to learn all of this information. Somewhere near the end of the day, he’ll be faced with a choice of whether to help CTU or help Marwan – I mean, Fayed. Everything will hinge on his decision.
You heard it here first.
He’s on a plane to Washington.
I thought they were transporting him now – not in the CTU office any more.
But I don’t think we’ve seen the last of him either. At least, I hope not – I like his character. I’d just like to see him partnered up with Jack again for some other escapade. The little “road rage” ploy they pulled off was fun.
I gotta say, Jack’s looking pretty good and energetic for some one who has spent 16 months being tortured and starved by the Chinese. I get a mild cold and I look worse than he does.
So, Jack’s a reluctant but efficiently sadistic torturer and his brother is a cold-hearted ruthless murdering schemer. Playtime at the Bauer residence must have been a barrel of laughs.
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention, but was it more than five minutes between the threat from the weasel and when Karen Hayes resigned? Most people don’t decide on which donut to pick from the box in that time. You don’t think she’d ponder for a bit longer? Maybe get her husband (or lawyer) on the line and talk strategy? Realistically, by the time you get to be a Presidential advisor, you can play hardball with the big boys. You don’t pussy out at the first threat from some weasel. Either she’s got a plan, or a really bad secret. (Or the 24 writers are ignorant of reality-- not an unlikely option.)
As for the mercenary arms dealer and his equally mercenary girlfriend. Was there anything realistic in their scenes?
a. They are driving away from a city that just got hit by a nuclear attack on streets that seem to be only moderately trafficked. Every street leaving the city would be jammed. Honking horns -- screaming motorists -- running gunfights, the works.
b. Everyone's cell phone is working. Again, nuclear bomb. Everyone would be using their phones and service would be absolutely impossible, even if there weren't EMP effects.
c. Fayed offered 7 million(?) dollars for the required electronics. First of all, where does he get that kind of funding? Second, apparently there are lots of electronic geniuses around who are remorseless monsters. Just how many people are going to look at the news and agree to whip up a nuclear bomb triggering device? Third, even if the arms dealer himself is an amoral prick, he's a mercenary amoral prick. Whatever Fayed is offering for the triggering device is a drop in the bucket for what the US would pay for information leading to Fayed. It would be much more profitable and safer to rat him out.I got the feeling that Karen hadn’t told Bill about “disappearing” the file that the Biscuit was threatening her about. It seemed that she was afraid to tell Bill what she had done, so didn’t even call him about it.
Didn’t Fayed scam $25 million out of the Li’l Pres. Palmer? Besides, this is Fayed. It’s not like he’s expecting to lose the money in the end. Lastly, though a mercenary, he told Fayed he would do something. If he wants to work again, he can’t renege.
5 minutes is an eternity on 24.
[Nuclear bomb obliterates northern LA]
Mercenary Amoral Prick: “Hello, CTU? Hey, I know who did this; this dude Fayed. How do I know him? Well, I make nuclear bomb triggers. OW! Hey, where did this taser come from?! Oh, probably from the three dozen heavy armored angry guys who have suddenyl appeared and are pointing large guns at me.”
I was under the impression that she didn’t “disappear” the file – the Weasel had just drummed up enough people to falsely claim that she did something improper.
At birthday parties they probably played “Pin the Tail on the Guests” and served birthday cake laced with “Beroglide” (see season 2).
And Mini-Palmer would say, “Trusted aide, how could you? Your agonizer, please!”
C’mon, this is a universe in which the President has pardoned so many heinous criminals that his secretary has a prepared Word template labeled “Complete Absolution for Evil-Doers”. They can prepare a pardon, get it vetted by lawyers and have a signed copy faxed to CTU in LA faster than Dominos can deliver pizza. They’ve already prepared one for a mass-murdering terrorist this morning. To nail Fayed, the guy with four more bombs? They’d print out a hundred pardons and use them to gift wrap 99 bars of gold bullion and an iPod.
Seriously, which has more risk, to broker a deal with the US government, or to broker a deal with Fayed while the Feds buzz angrily around monitoring phone calls and checking up on anyone with the know-how to develop bomb triggers? Especially because Fayed is of the “thank you very much for the device, now I must shoot you” school of doing business.
Your pardon guaranteed in 30 minutes, or your next terror crime is free.
Good, he should be there in 10 minutes.
Don’t count your chickens and all that… if he’s flying Air Force One, it will take about 13 hours…
You’re right. I forgot about the “24” logistics where you can get anywhere in LA in 10 minutes, but it takes forever to get anywhere in AF-1.
Bauer Section 13.