FAQ Bauer (aka Thread Rules) 1) What can be discussed in plain text, unboxed?
A: Any events in episodes, once aired on the east coast – as well as any speculation based on these already-aired events.
2) What should I confine to spoiler boxes?
A: Any discussion of upcoming shows that contains information from sources outside the aired material, or any speculation based on such things. This includes the “Next week on 24” previews, which some people choose not to watch.
3) Where’s Tony?
A: Undercover. Yep, he found a nice electric blanket, and he’s taking a nap.
Previously on 24…
the First Gentleman is in the hospital, heading into a 5-hour surgery. So, Madame President will probably not be making any crucial decisions for the next 5 hours, besides what she would like from the snack room vending machine.
which leaves the country in the capable hands of… well, nobody really. As we’ve seen, most of her aides are either Evil Agents of the Other Side, one-track-repetitive baboons, or dead. And if there’s a Vice Pres, he/she must be already in an Undisclosed Bunker somewhere.
So, it looks like for all practical purposes, Jack is running things. And at this moment, he and Agent Rowrrr are surrounded by the first ever government agency “perimeter” that forms a closed 2-dimensional object from an overhead view. You know – the sort of shape for which it would make sense to compute an area.
After looking up “perimeter” in the dictionary, FBI Secret Mole Agent Creepy Guy sinisterly called the cops, gave them the definition, and told them to make one around Jack. Now he and Agent Rowrrr will be delayed, and Colonel Dubaku will have a few extra minutes to slap around his would-be girlfriend and tell her how disappointed he is that she chose her country over her mass-murdering-going-by-a-false-name lover.
Okay, Jack…? Handing off the super-important-no-copies-available chip to some random officer? That doesn’t seem smart.
And the only way that Creepy Guy’s “crash-the-server-when-they-download-the-data” makes any sense at all is if in the 24-universe all computers have only “Cut and Paste” functionality, not “Copy and Paste”. Otherwise, what’s to stop Chloe from just plugging the chip into some other computer.
“What, the whole FBI system has been erased? The data we just downloaded is gone? Okay, can somebody give me a lift over to Langley? We’ll try downloading on the CIA computers…”
Reformatting will not permanently erase files. I don’t know how long it would take to recover them, but unless you physically destroy it, the info isn’t gone.
If they buy the line of bullshit that Moleman is feeding them. Please let Jack get a nice firm grip on his nads before the ep is over-Moleman would be one of Jack’s easier breakjobs.
well, never mind forensics or anything. There’d probably be powder burns on his shirt, showing the close range of the shot, right? So if she shot him before they “struggled”, why shoot the arm? Bad story, Creepy Guy.
Afterward, his arm seemed quite functional when he was… putting on his jacket… running down the hall… getting grabbed by THAT arm by the guys apprehending him…
