05.26 | Episode thirteen, 8PM - 9PM
The five best bits from last night's episode:
1. Jack Bauer hurtling down the runway in his jeep, chasing the terrorist who's about to take off with the nuclear bomb. When Jack popped his head out of the side window, how many of you thought he would jump onto the plane's wing, Indiana Jones-style? And how many of you disappointed when he merely shot at the guy driving the plane at near-enough a hundred or so miles an hour? I think Jack forgot that there was a nuke on board. 2. We see George Mason struggling to put his suit jacket on over his heavily bandaged and painful looking right arm. Two minutes later, he greets Hammond, the visitor from Division. They shake hands, and Hammond manfuly pats George on the forearm whilst doing so. The grimace that Xander Berkeley gave was absolutely priceless. If you've got the episode to hand, give it another watch - it's a great piece of in-jokery and visual humour. Can he get an Emmy for that shot alone? If so, he should. 3. Sherry and Lynne arguing in the lift. Which was odd, because they seemed fine when they 'bumped into each other' at Lynne's meeting with her 'source' outside the OC in the last hour. You can cap off this moment with the look of power spreading across Sherry's face when the lift stopped and she found herself in the control centre of America. 4. When woodland survivalist Lonnie convinced Kim that the bomb had gone off. He tells Kim that all the radio stations and police bands have gone to static, and that they should head down to his fall-out shelter. Look closely, though, and both times that he was twiddling the dial, the read-out said that the radio was tuned to '00000000'. Either it's a clever move on his part, or a slight fuck-up by the graphics department and the continuity people. Either way, it works, but wish I knew which it was. 5. If you were paying even the slightest bit of attention, you could predict that there was no way that the bomb was going to be on the plane. Remember when Marie Warner and Omar, the plane's pilot, said their goodbyes? Well, just before that, Marie is seen waving off a van just outside the airplane hangar. And obviously, in light of the fake bomb Jack finds, we know that the van is where the real nuke is. The question is: where is it going?
