04.07 | Episode eight, 3PM - 4PM
Gah. The telly died on Sunday afternoon.
Luckily, in true special agent fashion, I managed to have a spare secured by the time came to watch '24'. And through a special mix of scart cables, I even managed to have two rigged up, true split screen style for a while.
The terrorists had a little argument whilst driving the bomb around LA. The kind of argument where two of them ended up dead, and the clueless (and gunless) third man ended up alone with the bomb. It would have been excellent if he'd had run off, leaving the van where it is. I could just imagine Jack and Mason running around for the next twelve hours, while the nuke's parked in some back street, getting a whole bunch of parking tickets. It'd probably end up getting towed by midnight.
Kim told a copper that there's a bomb set to explode. I feel that a law-abiding policeman isn't the one to go around spreading mass panic, so I fear that dimension of the storyline might hold off for a bit. The mass unauthorised evacuation of nine million people is something I'm looking forward to. I hope the public get scared and run wild in the streets. I just want to see how it's portrayed on screen, and also how much it ends up interfering with CTU's attempts to save the city. I can imagine crazed and panicked proles might smack Tony whilst trying to steal his car, or something.
Worst things about this episode? The lack of Gary Matheson. I'm beginning to miss the wife-beater, and he's only been gone for about 40 minutes. He was a bit unrelenting, like the Terminator, but now he seems to have relented. Can't imagine he'll spend the rest of the series lying face down in a hospital car park, though. Maybe Megan will blab that Daddy had plans to take her off to Mexico, and whoever she tells will put two and two together, and link murdering Daddy with the terrorist plot...
And you must be braindead if you couldn't tell that something was going on during Jack's phonecall from the plane to Kim, when Nina started whispering to Faheen. Considering I thought she had a box of matches up her sleeve, I thought they were going to explode the plane somehow. I was miffed when she 'only' slit his throat. Then, just as I thought Jack's feet might actually come back to Earth safely, it all went a bit 'Final Destination'. Actually, it reminded me more of the plane crash scene in 'Fight Club', thinking about it. Maybe Jack is Syed Ali? Nah, that'd be silly.
Not as silly as Jack and Nina being able to walk away from a plane crash. I can't see how this is going to work.
As we all now know, '24' isn't being shown on either BBC2 or BBC3 next week, because of the US Masters golf tournament. I recommend that, at some point over the next fortnight, any BBC2 viewers go out and get either cable, satellite or Freeview. It's worth it. The episodes are really beginning to demand your respect. Splash out on a decent telly to watch it all on, too.
