04.21 | Episode nine, 4PM - 5PM
They're under starter's orders... and they're off again.
It'd be more fitting that we use a golfing cliche, since that's what the BBC deemed valid to show us last week, instead of our '24' fix. At least Jimmy Tarbuck didn't turn up for a round in aid of starving kids, or something. Kate Warner could do with a good feed, though. Maybe her and Marie can stuff themselves full of wedding cake.
Surprise of the week? Jack and Nina not crashing. Well, duh. I think even 'Sex In The City' viewers could have guessed that one. It was nice that they were met by some nice friendly militia men. And, if I was confronted by men with big guns, I wouldn't go handing my ammo to my mortal nemesis who killed my wife. Silly ol' Jack. And I'm not even a top-ranking CTU agent. Sheesh, eh?
It was probably just a chance for Jack to be showing being stupid for one last time. I think he's beginning to get his head screwed on right by now. No more curling up all foetal-like and daydreaming about his family, you've got a city to save from a bomb.
And whilst I'm talking about his family. Kim - is she stupid or what? She spent most of episode telling Miguel that her dad's going to come and save them. And she just listened in on a phone call during which Jack's plane is crashing. Did she seem the slightest bit concerned? Not at all. This is where I'll tell the continuity people to pretend that 'she must have been cut off during the aircraft's free-fall'. Oh. Yes. That must be right. Yes.
Doh!
Bob Warner gets sold out by Reza. I'm in two minds about this pair. There's no way Reza can be a baddie - he's been set up as one, and he's too obvious - and Bob seems in the clear - everyone at CTU, and Kate, Marie and Reza seem to be convinced that he couldn't possibly have anything to do with the bomb plot. He thinks he's involved with the CIA, but whoever signed him up is probably in charge of the militia men, or the 'patriots', or the sinister Government agency behind the entire X-files and the rest of the conspiracy.
And for those wondering, Michelle brings up some lovely satellite pictures of the missile streaking towards the badly-drawn CGI plane. Now why didn't she trace those photos back a few seconds/minutes and find out where the missile came from? Another plane? A unit on the ground? Who knows? I figure that it was the militia men with big guns who did it. After all, those guns that they were carrying looked like they could shoot down satellites, let alone badly-drawn CGI planes.
And yet they let that tiny helicopter slaughter them all. Stupid dumb militia men. Obviously they all failed the KKK's intelligence entry test.
Kate Warner wakes up at Syed Ali's house. You can tell that it's the home of an Arab terrorist, because it's kitted out with a whole bunch of lovely middle-eastern rugs. I figure that'll be the turning point that proves that the sinster Government agency and the patriots are wrapped around Second Wave's middle finger. As for the private investigator Kate got kidnapped with, I think he could probably use another middle finger right now. His original one has probably been hacksawed off and put somewhere unpleasant. Whatever happened to Jack's hacksaw? I wouldn't be surprised if it's at the centre of the sinister terrorist conspiracy militia agency's plot.
I bet you can defuse a nuke with a hacksaw. Now wouldn't that be ironic - giving away the finale plot in the first episode. Maybe Jack Bauer is just one big post-modern hero.
But as to how Jack gets away without Nina blowing his balls off with that big militia man's big gun? I have no idea how he'll do it, but I bet he will. Unless they stay stuck in the forest with a target pointed at his arse for the next 14 hours. I won't be surprised to see Nina take a non-lethal bullet, though. Maybe Jack'll get his hacksaw out.
