07.21 | Episode twenty one, 4AM - 5AM
Well, that cliffhanger was resolved swiftly. The two rednecks start fighting, Jack breaks down the door, recovers the chip and gets Kate to tie them up.
The question is... does the chip still work? Or does anyone - Chappelle, Prescott, Novick - actually care? Are these three all tied up with Peter Kingsley? I guess that is what the next three episodes will uncover.
I'm also guessing that Kim Bauer will encounter Gary Matheson. Anyone can see that coming a mile off. However, don't trust me. It was nineteen episodes ago that I predicted Ron Wieland "isn't long for this world". He seems to have lasted the pace for longer than George Mason, Syed Ali, Reza Naiyeer and a whole host of others. Well, I was wrong - so sue me. Any chance of Eric Raeburn doing a come back whilst we're still here? Only three more hours...
Palmer and Prescott go head to head in a face-off. Or do they go face to face in a head off? I have no idea. Anyway, Prescott wins (natch) and gets sworn in as the new President. Palmer gets locked up. And after all this time, the Secretary of State, the guy with the deciding vote, is still sitting on his plane. I don't know, but if I was President of the United States, I'd want Mike Novick to be my Chief of Staff - his Powerpoint skills are sweet! That funky vote presentation that he knocked up in around an hour or two was great. For some reason it reminded me of the bonus round at the end of The Weakest Link. I half expected Anne Robinson to boo Palmer out of the room.
The chip with the Cypress audio files is, of course, duff. There's no time for Jack to take it back to PC World, so he hotfoots it over to the coder's flat. I'm sure Mike Novick could have fixed it with his l337 computar sk1llz. Tony Almeida tells Jack that the coder - Hewitt - has no connection to our main bad guy, Peter Kingsley. Which means that there must be someone else who links him into the storyline. And in steps Sherry Palmer.
What a farce, eh? Thing is, does Mrs Palmer know that her ex-husband is no longer the President? Is she in league with Prescott or Peter Kingsley? Will we ever find out?
