03.03 | Episode three, 10AM - 11AM
Well, it had to be more exciting than last week's episode. 9AM – 10AM was a waste of an hour, but this week's proved to be the best season two show yet.
Starting off with President Palmer having the casualty figures reiterated to him yet again, we also have Kim’s stupidity pointed out again by having her phone her Dad’s office again and asking them what to do. Considering that she has no clue about the nuclear bomb and she's got a wife beater on her back, she's sticking her neck out for trouble. If you want to stay out of harm's way, don't go hanging around at a counter terrorist agency. It's that simple.
I almost missed the whole bit with Mason getting infected with deadly green gas, because I was concentrating on the dead body lying just to the back of the green gas box. So how did that guy die, eh? Unless it was a member of the crew who got into the shot by mistake, but that would just be silly and obvious, yes? And Mason entered the building with five cops, and not one of them saw the guy with the machine gun sneaking up from behind on the 'danger danger! high radiation' zone. Tch, eh? You just can’t get the staff.
Eric Rayburn used his evil eyes and 'softly, softly' voice to pacify both Palmer and his aide, Lynn, about three times during the hour. The best use was the 'heavy stare across the room' as Lynn hung up on a phone call with Jack.
And Jack, you'll be pleased to know, has finally got his phone dialling fingers back. It's just not '24' unless at least two major characters are at risk of head cancer through cell phone abuse. Although, I am worried that Jack's not as on the ball as he used to be. Having just watched Eddie Grant's gang somehow put interference onto CTU's phone lines by fiddling with a box, Jack then tries to warn his fellow agents by phoning them up. I mean, was he not paying attention? They've just cut the phones at CTU, so what does Jack do? He phones them up to warn them. Maybe he was relying on Tony's 'wireless protocol', whatever that means.
The gang make Jack let slip that they're blowing up CTU because they're 'patriots'. Maybe it's just me, but they've probably got connections to Kate Warner – probably attend the same Klan meetings, or something.
More boring girly stuff involving dodgy Reza, wimpy Marie, KKK Kate and Reza's dodgy cousin. Actually, I suspect the cousin – anyone standing around aimlessly in a kitchen listening to an argument in an adjoining room must be suspect.
And as for cutting yourself in the head, Jack – I don't know what you're thinking. It'll go gangrenous by midnight, I'm sure. He's obviously expecting this whole nuclear plot to be wound up in a couple of hours so he can get his head sorted out down at the ER. So Jack's a bit off at the moment. He probably just needs a coffee down him – it is only 11AM, after all. Maybe the terrorists can stop for elevenses, and Bauer can get his head together.
With some stitches, or something.
