The Following Takes Place Between 12pm And 1pm
Overall
A pretty powerful episode dramatically, particularly for Wayne at the beginning and near the end and Jack around the mid point.
Tom
I was wrong, he’s much worse than Rayburn, a bit like Stanton but more of a coward I think. I want to see him and Mike in a knock-down drag-out fight. Mike would win it handily despite his advanced age. Why? He’d want it more. Come on 24, a fist fight between administrators? That’d be original. Let’s break that mold one more time. I will say this; I like Tom’s historical references.
Karen
Why is she so tight-lipped? Just stupid? Is there more to the story? Maybe she resigned not for the reason Tom found but for something else in her past not far beneath what he DID dig up.
Morris
Still getting along with Milo! I called it! So odd that he was working on his own picture but I have to say I kinda suspected it. You’d THINK when someone says “this can’t be right” when they get that kind of news it’s just cognitive dissonance doing it’s job but in this case there may be very good reasons. Maybe he hated Valencia, lives very far away from it, or doesn’t have a car…One good thing about this whole mess is we get to see some of Rota’s dramatic range, I think there’s a lot of potential there. While I really hope he doesn’t get killed off I look forward to him getting some meatier stuff. Poor Morris.
Milo
An image file? So the phones and computers were both somehow linked on the same transmission? I realize that given all the time jumps between seasons we’re well into the future but that doesn’t even make sense, why would we need that ability?
Sandra
They finally gave her something a little different to play, I can’t say I was overly impressed.
Graem
I WOULD ask how many times Jack is going to have to interrogate his brother but, well, I guess we all know the answer now. He admits to being complicit in a presidential assassination conspiracy that succeeded and expects to only serve a short jail term…even if Phillip was connected with the Vice President and the VP ascends to office he couldn’t very well issue a presidential pardon for a presidential assassin could he? There’d be riots in the streets.
Darren
Do Americans know what a CV is?
Phillip
“It’s all for you” hello cliché. When he asked to speak to his son I was like “uh, he’s on a chopper” then I realized he meant the other son. I had a feeling this was all an act. “I need a few minutes”? When does Jack ever turn his back on someone who says that? So those guys that were allegedly going to kill him and Jack were they the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of this operation or were they packing blanks and squibs? I get the feeling this has nothing to do with the family company; this is much more than just another McClellan Forrester. Man the Bauer family’s messed up.
Cloe
Jack order his backup teams who don’t know him and therefore have no reason to trust him to go dark? He’s a persuasive guy but he’s not a mind control expert.
Wayne
You know, I can’t help but think that with Assad on his way to DC, it makes the OC a primary target. I know, I know, it’d be virtually impossible to take out, but 24 has done the impossible before. He spends much of the episode looking like he’s ready to cry, I’m undecided on whether that’s effective or irritating – will advise. He’s one heck of a smart cookie though; I still think he could drop the gloves a bit more. Standing your ground is good, kicking the people working against you in the junk is better.
Jack
When his dad says “I’m really sorry” when they’re tied up in the van Jack gives him one of the best you-gotta-be-kidding me looks. How does he know who Burke is?
Rita
I don’t trust people with LV wallets. Always seems to be an indication of someone with backwards priorities. I mean, they’re not very nice looking, they’re just about having a name or a status symbol that someone somewhere arbitrarily decided was fashionable. This goes double for those white ones with the multiple colour logos. She turns out to be a deceptively helpful accomplice.
Marilyn
I don’t trust her. Maybe it’s those cold blue eyes that show no emotion, maybe it’s just that she’s too attractive to be with her husband but I think she’s involved.
Josh
He’s about the only Bauer other than Jack I DO trust…not many left to choose from though.
Burke
I like this guy, he hardly seems like the right person to be in charge of interrogations though.
Noah
Why do all the Vice Presidents end up being, or at least seeming, evil at some point?
TWO HOURS next week? TWO?! *claps* Assad’s back! Wheeee!
