# 24: Season 8: Episodes 3-4 (6:00pm - 8:00pm)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-8-episodes-3-4-6-00pm-8-00pm/525487>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 18, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-8-episodes-3-4-6-00pm-8-00pm/525487 "2010-01-18T23:51:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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:** [January 20, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-8-episodes-3-4-6-00pm-8-00pm/525487/61 "2010-01-20T21:48:25Z")

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> [@Monstre](#):
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> Of course, he had already planted the encrypted-fake-bomb-threat file on Meredith’s laptop – so perhaps the original plan was to “out” her in some other way, like an anonymous tip phoned in, then wait for the bomb threat file to be deciphered (which had encryption that they knew CTU would be able to break in reasonably short order).

Thinking back on it more, I think I’m wrong on the order of things here. I think he didn’t plant the “evidence” on Meredith’s laptop until after he already had decided to step up the timetable. I’m guessing that the plan was to simply do the same thing later – then go to his normal shift, and wait for CTU to decrypt the “evidence”.

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**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-8-episodes-3-4-6-00pm-8-00pm/525487/62 "2010-01-25T23:05:08Z")

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> [@tr0psn4j](#):
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> I’m glad they brought FBI Chick back!
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> Renee was so hot the few seconds before she got to cutting off that guy’s hand.

Before?!?!? I thought she got hotter **after** she took an angle-grinder to Yakov Smirnov’s thumb.

What? Me likey the crazy.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-season-8-episodes-3-4-6-00pm-8-00pm/525487/63 "2010-01-26T01:48:12Z")

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> [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](#):
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> Before?!?!? I thought she got hotter **after** she took an angle-grinder to Yakov Smirnov’s thumb.

Think about Lorena Bobbit.

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