Thursday, June 24, 2010

Day 2: 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM

Characters Introduced:

  • Alex Hewitt (Rick Wasserman): The hacker behind the Cypress recording who may or may not be insane. He is at least twitchy and paranoid.

Returning Characters:

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Key Moments:

  • Jack takes out Sherry’s bodyguard. This moment has been coming for a long time. Sherry now has to deal with a man that she has no ability to manipulate. Sherry claims to be helping David. Then she moves into how dare you mode so Jack just shoots at her. She immediately starts talking non-stop about her sources. Jack notices that there is a hidden room. He fires a couple more shots to get Alex Hewitt to come out of the room. Sherry immediately starts telling Alex to keep his mouth shut.
  • When Hewitt says he will only talk to Sherry, Jack locks him in the closet. Sherry admits to working with Kingsley in order to take down David’s presidency. She wants immunity for help and Jack lets her talk to Hewitt.
  • Palmer and Pierce have another heart to heart with Pierce agreeing to get David a phone.
  • With Prescott now in power, Chappelle reassigns Tony when Carrie rats on him … again.
  • David calls Tony and gets connected to Jack. Jack gives him the update on Hewitt and Kingsley but also tells him about Sherry. David awesomely tells Jack not to trust her. He also tells Sherry to stay out of Jack’s way. Tony and Michelle try to figure out how to get a chopper to Jack.
  • That cocksucker Mike Novick arrests Pierce for providing David with a phone.
  • Throughout the hour Sherry has been manipulating Alex and when Jack is distracted by his idiotic daughter she goes in for the kill on Hewitt. But since he is slightly mad and Sherry deserves it, he stabs her and runs away. This is made even better by Sherry begging for help and Jack leaving her to chase down Hewitt.

Ridiculousness:

  • In one of the weakest Jack Bauer can’t be trusted moments in 24 history, after Chappelle informs CTU about Prescott’s ascension Tony asks about Jack and Chappelle tells him that Bauer is rogue and no resources should be spent on his efforts. NONE!
  • Michelle and Tony’s big plan is to call Chappelle into a interrogation room and chloroform him. That is the best you could come up with?
  • Gary kills the officer outside his house, and then proceeds to hunt Kim down. After Kim knocks him out by hiding in the attic and kicking him off the stairs, she calls Jack for help and Jack tells her to shoot him! Then after shooting him, Jack tells her to shoot him again. Best dad ever!

Running Totals:

Kim Does Something Stupid: 1 (20)

  • Although it is not even 6 in the morning, Kim goes back to the Matheson’s house to get her stuff. Couldn’t you have waited a couple of days till, at least, Gary was apprehended?

2 comments:

  1. If 24 got a Lost like two hour retrospective before the final episode*, and there had been Lost-like overly serious parties to watch it**, Jack telling Kim to shoot him again would've gotten the biggest cheer.

    * - rather than a 30 second Thanks For Watching filmed while waiting for someone to get back on a beer run

    ** - wait, why didn't this happen again?

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  2. It would be that or walking off into the sun at the end of the 4th day.

    24 ending in its prime would have been cool but who doesn't want their favorite show to overstay until no one cares anymore? Isn't that the point of television?

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