04.28 | Episode ten, 5PM - 6PM
Well, fuck me. Marie really was too stupid not to be a baddie.
Sorry to be so blunt, BUT IT'S NOT EVERY DAY THAT THE WIMP WHINING BARBIE TWIN TURNS OUT TO BE A BADDIE.
Phew. Is there anything else to say about this episode? Hands up how many of you were expecting that? On the life of my sainted Aunt, I wasn't. I had the structure of a carefully-word exposé (you know, nothing like the rambling nonsense this site normally gets updates with) which would have fingered Bob Warner as the suspect once and for all. I mean, it couldn't be Reza as the bad guy, could it? Not if he's off helping CTU with their enquiries? NOT WHEN HE GETS SHOT IN THE HEART, you know-it-all nincompoop.
And that's shot in the heart literally AND figuratively, symbolism fans.
So, the unexpected question I find myself asking this week is 'Could Marie Warner turn out to be the best baddie the show has yet seen?' Well, maybe. If she can hide her criminal alter-ego from Reza for two years, she has to be pretty shit hot. Much like, say, Nina Myers in the last series. Only, the conversion between goodie and baddie isn't quite so shocking because Marie, unlike Nina, doesn't carry the same kind of baggage. Nina had 22 and three-quarter episodes to impress her goodieness upon us, she had sexual history with both Jack and Tony and she'd done the dirty by admitting her affair with Jack to Teri Bauer.
Marie, on the other hand, has cried a few tears and nearly got married to to a character who, let's face it, was just set up as too suspicious to be of any real harm. But all credit to her. She's a mega bitch, and we get to see her acting it out for as long as possible. My predictions for her lasting through to the end of the series have shot right down like a badly animated CGI plane, though. I get the feeling that she's going to get in over her head a whole lot deeper than she meant to, though. Does she know that she's meant to be blowing up her father? Given her penchance for SHOOTING HER LOVED ONES THROUGH THE HEART, I doubt she cares.
I don't really fully understand that storyline yet, but I'm sure it becomes clearer soon.
Still, in other news:
Miguel and Kate discover 'fire' in the back of a van. Unfortunately, when Miguel breaks his leg in the resulting crash, they can't discover the power of 'wood' for a 'splint'. Sadly, it looks like actor Innis Casey must wave goodbye to his acting career. George Mason feels the affects of the smell of plutonium in the morning, and starts going mad. Either that or he's turing into a hippy. Tony also goes mad and accepts a date with the door-stop book-end Michelle Dessler. I'm guessing that she won't last until the end of the series. There's a well known and well used movie plot device that a couple must have sex before the lady partner cops it, so maybe '24' will be up for a quick knee-trembler sometime in the next fourteen hours. It wouldn't be realistice without at least one couple going at it just as they think all hope is lost and the bomb's about to go off. Kate Warner is lucky to be kept prisoner by the most rubbish torturer ever. He had at least 15 minutes alone with her, and all he could manage was to pierce her ear. Maybe he was planning to get her talk by implanting some dreadfully tacky '80s style earrings and making her wear them for the rest of her natural life. Also: keyword 'prayer'. As soon as Kate told Jack that her family had lived in Saudi Arabia, I knew she'd understood at least a part of Syed Ali's conversation with the ear piercer. And, by some weird twist of fate, that 'prayer' would play a big part of it. As for Kate herself, she might have been hated just as much as her jackass sister, but you can't really be annoyed with someone who's just watched a man die. And, besides, Jack seems to like her (now that he's finally met her) and his word is gospel, frankly. Since the time in Los Angeles is now 7:00PM, it'll be getting dark in the next episode. Which it why it was damn clever of the producers to keep the on-screen action inside and away from windows during the last five minutes of tonight's show. Hopefully the continuity will be a damn sight better the the same effect last year. For those who didn't watch the last series, it went from perfect sunny daylight to the black of night in about two minutes. Yes, really. President Palmer knows that Roger Stanton has been using a communications channel called OPCOM that was set up by the CIA. Bob Warner is apparently a CIA stooge. Anyone else put two and two together? I figure that just because Marie's a baddie and Reza's dead, Bob doesn't get off the hook. He's in on it somewhere, and probably a hell of a lot more involved than you'd immediately think.
