03.10 | Episode four, 11AM - 12PM
Hoorah! The whole office building blew up without any major characters being killed. Only a few polystyrene pillars got knocked over - one squished Paula the techie to bits. Poor old Darlene - I'm hoping that Al Bundy out of 'Married With Children' will turn up as the guy who detonates the nuke.
Mason clearly doesn't know whether he's coming or going. Sadly, it looks like he's going for good, but not before coming back for a bit. Or something.
Jack finally gets into a Ford, and only three hours and fifteen minutes into the series. I hope that they didn't pay much for their sponsorship.
Palmer, Lynne and Raeburn blah blah casualties blah blah estimated blah percentages blah evacuation. I don't see the point in them discussing this, since it's blatantly not going to happen. Who'd be left for Jack to save? Can't see him hanging around the empty streets of LA waiting with turncoat Nina for the bomb to go off.
And there's more 'blah' over at the wedding. Reza shows that he's not in any way a terrorist by making out that he's going to do something nasty to Kate. And then promptly not doing so. Back in the last series, someone like Gaines would have shot her five minutes after he met her. Like I keep saying, the sooner this bomb goes off and turns Kate and her sister to two piles of radioactive blonde dust, the better...
The best part was the 'Panic Room' sequence. Plenty of dramatic tension - a last chance for Jack to sit down and catch his breathe, yet still allowing him to shout out threats like a double hard bastard. It was like some old black and white film, but I'm not quite sure what the name of it was. Still, eh?
Shame that the script writers feel that the audience needs reminding that THERE'S A NUCLEAR BOMB! ABOUT TO GO OFF! IN LOS ANGELES! Yes, I can remember - I'm not a goldfish. When they finally find out, I'm sure Kate and Marie will need it all spelt out for them, though.
PS: - I'm so ahead of the game that I knew that the informant was Nina Myers the second that Joe Wald mentioned that he met with a woman. So when did you lot guess? I bet you had to see the photos.
