24: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
March 20, 2007 at 2:32 p.m.
Two twists in this episode, and I’m still bored. It’s getting better, though.
But, the kicker this week was the revelation that Audrey died in China in a “car accident.” Apparently, she was the one who figured out that the Chinese took Jack, and she spent the past year trying to use back channels to get him back. Jack was angry when Marilyn told him (there go my hopes of a cage fight I suppose), but now he has a reason to live. He tells Bill that he has to go out to help stop the nukes from being detonated or Audrey’s death will have been for nothing. This entire season, he has been going through the motions like a broken man, but now he has something to shoot for—to avenge her death. For the record, I’m thinking that Audrey really isn’t dead, but it sounds like a nice mission for season seven to unravel the mystery of what really happened to her. Maybe she is the one who’s in Chinese prison right now. Hmm…of course, Jack can never be happy, that’s just a given of the show, so don’t expect a happy resolution to this one. (Speaking of Chinese prisons, Jack was in one for a while. I think a couple of broken ribs would be a walk in the park at this point. Plus, he’s Jack Bauer…he’ll just reach into his own body, take out the ribs in question and go about his business.)
The other twist was that Nadia was identified as a mole in CTU. The pilot operating the drone carrying the nuke, which was heading for San Francisco, by the way, wasn’t showing up on CTU’s radar, and Morris figured out that someone in CTU was scrambling the signal so that radar couldn’t pick it up and track it. The signal was coming from Nadia’s computer, so they detained her, and Doyle got a bit chokey when he was trying to interrogate her. My question is this: Chloe knew that Nadia was using Milo’s security codes, so couldn’t it have been Milo who was the mole? Chloe never mentioned this, which was bizarre, considering she made a big stink about it in the beginning of the episode.
Although they played the racial profiling of Muslims card with Nadia, we’re still wondering about this still-yet-to-be-identified Muslim country. All we do know is that the VP is chomping at the bit to nuke it. I’m not any sort of national security expert or a high-ranking politician (shocking, I know, but it’s true), but I’m pretty sure that the VP’s behavior would never fly in the real world. I feel like someone would tackle him to the ground, president or not, before he would be allowed to order a nuclear strike on another country. Karen Hayes brought up a good point—what about the worldwide response, particularly China and Russia? As we learned last season, China is no one to mess with. And Russia? Gredenko is the one running the show in terms of the nukes, and I’m pretty sure he’s not the only holdover from the Cold War who would be willing to help destroy the United States. No president, ever, would ever be so glib about launching a nuclear weapon against another country. He kept calling it a “warning shot,” but I think it’s pretty much game over when some brandishes a nuke.
So, now President Palmer is in a medically-induced coma, and he’s the only one who can stop the VP from launching the nuke. Karen Hayes asked his doctor if they could bring him out of it, but he said it might cause brain damage or, you know, death. Are we really going to lose two President Palmers on 24?
What happened to the Logans? Is Charles dead? Is Martha in jail? Are Karen and Tom really going to work together to stop the VP from launching the nuke? (The best line of the week was when Tom said to Karen “I tripped over your ineptitude.” That was Chloe-esque.) What’s going to become of Nadia? What’s the deal with Milo and Doyle? Is this nuclear attack really going to happen? Are the terrorists really going to launch more bombs?
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