NO ONE EXPECTS…
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That occurred to me too. I mean, after a couple rounds of yelling for help, the guy started promising to tell everything he knew, wasn’t that Jack’s cue to say “Spill it now and I won’t have to hurt you more”? Instead Jack’s drawing out the threatening gestures and remarks and stuff.
Honestly though that’s just typical the typical television approach to making things more dramatic and to make events seem plausible. What was really odd was leaving Jack locked alone in the room while everyone watched on CCTV 50 feet away.
What was the point of that? I don’t believe Agent Moss was at the White House at the last torturing, so it’s not like he’d know Moss is opposed to torture and realize it’s faked. Even if he was, just keep 3 stern looking agents in the room with him.
Jack tortured him to get him to admit that he was planning to raid the White House. Then hours later, after the invasion was to have been attempted, Jack comes back and threatens to torture him. Is having other guys in the room going to lessen the threat? Would anyone think to themselves “The president already told me she’s opposed to torture, so the fact that there are FBI agents in the room tells me this is all a ruse… I’m sure the fact that she was just attacked by a bunch of armed Africans couldn’t possibly have changed her opinion on torture!”
Heck, I’d say that having two or three stoic-looking guys in the room, standing by silently as Jack makes his threats, would be even more intimidating.
Nah, because Weasel Boy can appeal to them, or “you can’t let him get away with this!”
Much more intimidating to be alone with Jack.
I disagree. Yelling for help does nothing if these guys don’t budge.
And that’s why having a group of silent, stoic types standing by would make the situation more intimidating. It reinforces the message that nobody is coming to save him.
Especially if one of the guys is standing with his enormous back blocking the door.
I just want to know where you can pick up canisters of magic nerve gas that will drop someone in their tracks for exactly two minutes and then leave them with no apparent side effects. That’d be real useful stuff to have.
The magic PDA that can tap into random databases in seconds and control surveillance devices would also be a fun toy to play with – even better than an iPod touch.
The 24 Universe has a fixation with blueprints. Even a nurse’s station has full blueprints of the hospital. Pretty remarkable.
For the second time in one day, I note, we have an assassin who comes up with a hospital penetration plan on the spur of the moment with less than an hour’s notice. Where do they find these conscience-less paragons of efficiency?
Once again, Jack makes the stupidest conceivable decision. There’s no chance that the frame is going to take – Jack has no tools for freezing the surveillance camera, tests would have indicated the presence of a nerve agent in his system, he didn’t have any blood on him, and he had no motivation whatsoever for killing the guy. So the best thing that Jack could have done would have been to cooperate with the FBI in setting up one of 24’s famous permeable perimeters in an attempt to stop the assassin.
It would take way longer to prove his innocence than would be acceptable.
Actually they have that app available for iPhone and iPod touch. It’s $3.99 though… not worth it.
Yes, he needed to go get the assassin. Plus if the head FBI agent could start thinking past trying to get laid by a redhead, then he could figure this out on his own.
Jack should have just said: “Larry, you know me. I might torture a guy to death, but a piece of glass in his throat? Are you an idiot? A 30 second death is practically a mercy killing, and that just ain’t me.”
It’s interesting to note that Larry Moss appeared to be at least somewhat inclined to believe him. Some might consider this to be a stretch, but it actually makes sense to me. He saw the video glitch, and while others might not think anything of it, it would certainly make me pause and think.
Yeah, I think I’m out on this one before the season ends again. They had what appeared to be a tense hostage situation, and could have played off of that for another ep or two, but pretty much blew that to pieces within the first 30 minutes. Now we have Jon Voight making a reappearance, to do his special brand of Evil (wouldn’t someone from the govt. have been relentlessly suveillance-ing his ass for the past 3 years? Yet he somehow slips under the radar once again). The other stuff abovethread pretty much says it all (the idiotic setup of Jack most notably-like he would have a motive to do that). There’s at least a dozen gaping plot holes surrounding this season by now, too many for me to willingly suspend my disbelief any more. I keep dreaming that one day, they’ll have a season where the writers/directors do everything right, and at least make a serious pretense of believability, but I rather doubt it. Adios once again.
“Quinn is good, but Jack’s good too.”
Maybe it was the alcohol but that was the funniest line ever.
Anyone else notice that Bill got the famous silent countdown?
I thought this was one of the weaker episodes of the season, for two reasons, particularly:
(1) The business where and torturee are 100 feet away from the guys monitoring them, behind a lockable-from-the-inside very insecure room? Come ON. If Quinn is that badass, he should have been able to frame Jack with Larry right there, somehow
(2) The idea that moments after escaping from a hostage situation, the president (a) is still in the White House, not being whisked away, medically examined, metal-detected, and a million other things, and (b) has plenty of spare time to discuss bringing her daughter in as a consultant; is just preposterous.
Still, the gas explosion was a neat and unexpected and not prima facie idiotic way to end the standoff, and Jack on his own chasing a nearly-Jack-level baddie is good times.
Who is a Jack level baddie? Hannibal Lecter? Auric Goldfinger? The Earp Brothers (added together)?
Mandy was pretty good. She was just the subtle-plan-to-death-fruition and not the rip-throat-out-with-teeth type like Jack.
-Joe
Crap, my 24 memory isn’t good enough. Who was Mandy?
Does the name “Frequently Naked Lesbian Terror Chick” ring any bells? 