24

I have been on bated tenterhooks of pins and needles all week, because tonight is the night when AUDREY FINALLY GETS IT. At least I hope she does. Last week the Evil Thong of Doom Sex Temptress Collette told Jack that Audrey sold her some secret information to give to the terrorists running around Los Angeles with the Killer Kanisters of Komplete Karnage. We know from the previews that Jack is going to throttle Audrey tonight, but I'm worried that the only reason they showed that was to get everybody's hopes up, and there's going to be a Shocking Plot Twist and Audrey will somehow manage to weasel out of this and remain in the show, and I will have to beat myself to death with the remote control. We shall see.

Meanwhile, President Complete Handbag, acting under the influence of Vice President Flagrant Villain, has placed Los Angeles under martial law. Naturally, since Los Angeles is a gigantic densely populated metropolitan area, it took the government nearly six minutes to clear every single human and vehicle off the streets. The lone exception was Deceased Former President Allstate's brother Wayne, who was trying to deliver some shocking information to (I think) the Secret Service agent who we suspect might be secretly servicing the first lady, when he (Wayne) got run off the road, possibly at the behest of Vice President Villain. Fortunately Wayne was able to escape into a forest. (There are forests all over Los Angeles.)

Edgar is still dead.

Also there is now a German agent in the plot. Yes! A German! Like it's 1945! I don't really know what the German is up to, but he's really ticked off at Jack because Jack gave him an exploding memory chip, and you just know the German is going to be on hold with Technical Support for HOURS before he straightens that out. ("You say the chip exploded? Do you have the serial number?")

So that's where we stand as of just before 9 Eastern Thigh-Shootin' Time. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted, and nothing has happened yet.

UPDATE: You know, Jack is actually kind of short.

UPDATE: They're gonna torture Audrey! Be still my heart.

UPDATE: Jack wants to handle it heheheheh.

UPDATE: Proof? He wants PROOF? This is 24, you moron!

UPDATE: I like the way the main terrorist explains to the other terrorists, in English, what they're doing, for the benefit of us viewers at home.

UPDATE: Audrey's a SLUT! Chloe has the proof.

UPDATE: Chloe's a fun co-worker.

UPDATE: The WHAT Matrix Analyzer? I think Chloe just makes this crap up.

UPDATE: Just shoot her, Jack! Time's a-wastin'!

UPDATE: BUSTED! Shoot her!

UPDATE: We HAPPENED TO BE THERE???

UPDATE: Oh NO. Jack still has feelings. I can just feel it.

UPDATE: See? When he throttles her, they're like the same height.

UPDATE: Sherry Shari is, what, 13 years old? And already a Provisional Level 3?

UPDATE: OK, even for Jack, that was pointless.

UPDATE: Chloe is a standup gal.

UPDATE: Too much computering, not enough shooting.

UPDATE: Even the terrorists have a perimeter!

UPDATE: Oh man, these hardhat dudes are so dead.

UPDATE: What kind of substance, indeed.

UPDATE:Wayne, deep in the forest of LA.

UPDATE: The torture guy is gonna MAKE Audrey purchase the extended service warranty.

UPDATE: Jack spits on your "immunity agreement."

UPDATE: Natural gas! Those BASTARDS.

UPDATE: Jack and his freaking feelings for Audrey. You know?

UPDATE: Oh, puke.

UPDATE: Soft romantic string music! On 24! Where'd I put my cyanide?

UPDATE: This is basically an advertisement for the all-electric home.

UPDATE: OK, the 13-year-old is as weird as Chloe.

UPDATE: Good old Aaron.

UPDATE: Chloe knows everything.

UPDATE: "The noise from the plant should cover our descent." Thanks, Mister Scriptwriter!

UPDATE: Heat signatures AND approach vectors!

UPDATE: It is GO TIME.

UPDATE: Jack always has some C-4.

UPDATE: Think Jack'll make it?

UPDATE: They didn't show Jack in the previews! Maybe he's dead! Har.

Comments

[shane]

Well, if Jack's dead, they can just promote Sherry. She's on a hot streak lately.

[Glow]

Gas mask anyone? Cigarette?

[Varjak]

I like how the explosion caused lots of broken plywood to land ritht on the car. Plywood! Because most of a natural gas facility is made out of wood, naturally.

[Betsy]

OK...can someone explain to me how blowing everything up helps to contain it?

[Bucket]

judi
Did you mean jack DIED AGAIN, right?

[«LabSpecimen»]

Was that a Star Wars ending, or what?

[bizrey]

Local news reports 3 high school students poisoned by alchohol, so, a regular Monday.

[Glow]

The curfew was a great idea. Everyone IS HOME breathing their piped-in gas. Woohoo!

[shane]

Virgin Mary in my hometown update:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4684198

[Amy]

Jack - dead? NOT A CHANCE, Judi m'love.

[bizrey]

Betsy, the fire in the explosion should burn up the nerve gas.

[slyeyes]

Did Audrey take time to wash her hair?

[Varjak]

No Jack in the promo for next week. He MUST be dead!

[homeybeef]

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?

[Glow]

UH HUH! I knew they would pull an Asian sooner or later. My emails of doom and threats worked! Bwahahaha.

[Sam G.]

The Department of Homeland Security?
Uh-oh, a bunch of ambitious young go-getters are moving into CTU! What will our lovable, quirky team do?

[Roger]

Whoa .. Aaron's protogee is evil ...

[bizrey]

What did she (the aide) mean by that?! Is FLC behind it all??

[shane]

Is Mrs. Handbag the Evil Emperess? That was HER SS agent being throttled in the preview, right?

[Glow]

Besides, the nerve gas is really just bad coffee, Betsy.

[FleaBailey]

Jack Bauer. Dead. Been there. Done that. Bought the T-shirt.

[Roger]

This betrayl of Aaron is worse than that of Savak's betrayl of Spock in Undiscoverd....

[wordsure]

Okay, so it wasn't exactly a Target store.

[Glow]

I really think we should outsource CTU to India. That way, we can cover every accent.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Gosh, we went thru a whole episode without Prez Weenie. I kind of missed him a little. *ducks*

[KOW]

Sherry is a bad name on this show. All Sherry's are crazy.

[bizrey]

By the way, did anyone else notice Department of Homeland Security is abbreviated: DOHS! Agent in Charge Homer Simpson. It explains so much.

[Glow]

So, all that's left are the Real Canisters of Doom on the Prez's wife's chest, right? And left? And right...

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

*snork* @ biz

[Betsy]

Are ALL the canisters of doom gone?

What will we use for a plot, then???

[Glow]

I'm really disappointed that Audrey did get more pain. All that crying and not even a shot thigh.

[slyeyes]

Seriously. Which one was Sam?

[Glow]

Sam was the gas company's Edgar.

[Dave]

Obviously the canisters are just a ruse to distract us from the REAL plot, which is... OK, it's something besides canisters. I hope.

[bizrey]

Sam was the hardhat wearin' guy in the gas plant lowering the pressure

[Sarah]

They wasted a perfectly good moment to torture Audrey on a kiss. What a waste.

[Bucket]

how many hours are left? I SAW the clock, but, as I simultaneously saw something shiny, it didn't register...

[Jerry]

they wasted all the gas for a substation explosion? Not a very thrifty terrorist

[Glow]

The Real Plot--tune in next week.

[Bucket]

*snork* @ Glow... what? you were serious? Oh. Nevermind

[slyeyes]

Thanks, Glow.

I'm going to top off my wine while waiting for steve's summary. Can I get anything while I'm up?

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

Yep, hopefully that's the last of the canisters. New plot please. Thank you.

[Jerry]

Substion Manual Section 12.54

If a terrorist asks you to lower the pressure to release gas to kill the entire metropolitan area, make sure you give in to him. It is not worth it to fight.

[Sarah]

I agree Jerry, and with the price of gases these days...

[JBismyhomeboy]

i guess Wayne Palmer is going to be the next pres?

[Glow]

Bucket--what, you dare doubt 24's brilliance? You too will tune in (here) next week to see it!

[mnich]

did Jack really expect Jeremy Irons' brother to be unconscious by hitting his own head on a police car?

[Bucket]

*hangs head*
Yeah... I will.
*brightens*
It's fun!!

[Wes S.]

Well, at least we know who's going to die next week...the presidential aide (or was that actually First Lady Cleavage's assistant) who told Aaron and Wayne that she "knew everything about what had happened today."

Jack, of course, will survive.

And if they really want to find Traitor Robocop, then why don't they just stake out Kim and wait for him to show up and kidnap her? Just curious...

[Hullabaloo]

Whooo, boy! Thanks everyone. I've never seen more than commercials for 24, but I am now hooked on reading the blog's commentary live. I just sit here at the keyboard hitting the "refresh" button and laughing my guts out!

[Ernie G]

how does the gas get INTO the pipe from a ROOM?

That is the question of the day.

[Bucket]

Ernie-

so many questions... so few days....

[Glow]

Ernie, It's UNNATURAL gas, man. Very noisy, sizzly unnatural gas, at that.

[Wes S.]

Dave: have you already beaten yourself to death with the remote?

Personally, after Audrey's "I knew you'd come for me" line I was ready to start writing my own suicide note. Unfortunately, the severe nausea I was experiencing at the time made it impossible to hold the pen steady...

[bizrey]

"...Very noisy, sizzly unnatural gas..."

Man, I've been there. Darn TexMex :(

[Glow]

Wes, it's all bad aftereffects of the nerve gas still circulating around CTU, that's all. Everyone's acting weirder than usual. I mean, Jack got himself taken down! It's got to be the nerve gas. The moment I saw him with his knapsack again, though, walking in fresh air (before explosion), was when I knew he was Jack Bauer the great again.

[mnich]

maybe to make up for the gaps in the plot they'll off Audrey....

[Jerry]

I figured it out. psycho-harassment-chick is the girl from show sliders. remember that stupid show? She goes on to 24, the professor becomes a dwarf in lord of the rings.

[homeybeef]

So there was no more threat but Jack still wanted to catch head terror guy right away? they could not have used the satalite coverage they had on the area, or track the police car he was going to take, or something that is not Jack running into the exploding plant? Ahhhh whatever, explosions can't hurt Jack Bauer.

[Glow]

Maybe it's laughing gas? Then the whole metro will be full of heliumed shrieks. Just thinking while waiting for Steve's brilliant summary.

[Steve]

9:00 pm - Bill wants Chloe to check on Audrey about suspicious activity. Bill tells Audrey she's being taken into custody, and she asks if she's under arrest. That Audrey...She's pretty quick on the uptake.

9:01 pm - Jack tells Terrorist Woman that he'll make this the worst day of her life, and threatens to let Geraldo interview her.

9:02 pm - Madam Haig wants to use drugs to get the truth out of Audrey. Bill tells her that all she has to do is look at her cross-eyed, and she'll burst into tears.

9:03 pm - Jack wants to talk to Audrey directly, and reminds Madam Haig that Audrey's father eats people alive. Apparently he's a troll of some sort. Doh! If only The Hobbit were around to verify.

9:04 pm - Bill tells Jack that Impeccable English Speaking Terrorist (IEST) is going to release the gas sometime during the next hour. Going by the "24" rule, that means it'll be close to 10pm.

9:08 pm - Fight in a dark area in LA, the cops come in and get jumped by terrorists faking the fight. IEST did this to get a police escort.

9:09 pm - Chloe finds dirt on Audrey. Jack gives her a handiwipe to use, but Chloe says that's not what she meant. Audrey is having an affair with Robocop! Jack doesn't like this ONE bit.

9:10 pm - Audrey's in the room, and hasn't burst into tears yet....mighty suspicious.

Commercial - Jack Bauer is moonlighting as David Breckenridge in a movie called "The Sentinel"? Wasn't that an old movie about a guardian at the gate of Hell? Does this mean that Jack's going to take on Hell itself next? This is so confusing....

9:14 - Sherry from Section 5 reports to Chloe....as an Edgar replacement. Chloe tells her that she's COMPLETELY the wrong shape and size. Sherry looks over at Edgar's workstation, and asks how she'll get rid of all the Ho-Ho wrappers. Sherry sees the creepy Homeland Security guy, and Creepy seems to recognize her.

9:15 - Jack goes to see Audrey, says "Hi", asks how she is, and how long she's been a crazy Russian terrorist. Audrey tries to talk her way out of it, and Jack pulls the pictures out of Weasel and Robocop. She tries to lie about Robocop, and Jack catches her at it. T-minus 1 minute to tears.

9:16 - Tears!

9:17 - Jack isn't buying it, slides the table away and goes to choke her.

9:20 - Madam Haig wants to give Audrey those drugs, and sends in the drug guy.

9:21 - Chloe tells Sherry to upload information, and Sherry looks like she was asked to semaphore the lower level of a TCP/IP stack using Cobol.

9:21 - Creepy Homeland Security guy comes over and tells Sherry that she's not qualified to replace Edgar because she's not cleared, doesn't have the training, and can't eat nearly enough Twinkies.

9:22 - Turns out that Creepy harassed Sherry in the past. Color me shocked.

9:22 - Jack doesn't want Audrey taken, and gets tasered AND hand-cuffed (after taking out a guard). Audrey tells them that's NOT how to apply handcuffs properly, and then shuts up when she realizes she actually said that out loud.

Commercial

9:27 - Robocop gets a phone call from the guys that tried to take out Allstate's brother Wayne.

9:28 - Secret Service guy wonders where Wayne is, and asks another agent if he's seen Wayne or Garth. The agent tells him he wasn't allowed up that late.

9:29 - Jack tries to patiently explain to Madam Haig that Robocop is probably lying, but Madam Haig REALLY wants to give Audrey those truth drugs. Jack wants Chloe to help him find info on Terrorist Woman.

9:30 - Creepy tries to get Sherry in trouble, and Chloe stands up to him by pointing out that she can probably dig up pictures of him from the Internet. He gets a scared look on his face and backs off.

9:31 - Terrorist Ice Cream truck drives up to a guard, and when the guard orders a Creamsicle, they shoot him. IEST strikes various modeling poses while waiting for the canisters to be unloaded from the truck. They enter the natural gas building.

9:34 - They find two guys, and ask who's in charge. FIRST RULE: If someone scary looking asks to see a control room, don't ask who they are, because this will get the other person with you shot. He let's them into the control room, where they promptly shoot another guy who tells the first unshot guy not do do what they say. SECOND RULE: Don't tell people with guns things they don't want to hear. Unshot guy runs off to reduce pressure in the lines.

Commercial - Visa ....A whole lot of people in conference rooms asking "What would so-and-so" do.....and NOT ONCE do they ask "What would Jack do"? Jack would know. I'm sure of it.

9:39 - Secret service guy in the woods looking for Allstate's brother, and is snuck up on by....Allstates' brother...who has a gun. Where did he get that?? It must have been one of those guns you get in storm drains... the ones marked "Break glass in case of getting car shot on the road by mysterious van".

9:40 - Audrey's sweating in the interrogation room, and the interrogation involves a LOT of yelling and more table pushing around. She's making up for a LOT of time not crying, because she's crying a lot now.

9:41 - Chloe finds out that Terrorist Woman has been talking to Robocop, and voila! The immunity agreement is voided! Jack looks excited he gets to interrogate Terrorist Woman.

9:42 - The guard who's guarding Terrorist Woman must be a new guy, because he starts trying to pull rank on Jack. Jack knocks him out with one punch, and looks kinda surprised that's all it took.

9:43 - Terrorist Woman admits she was lying about Audrey, and tells Jack they're in a natural gas distribution center but doesn't know which one.

9:44 - Jack runs in to save Audrey...and yells really loud to get rid of Interrogation Guy. Jack and Audrey kiss because there hasn't been a tender moment in several episodes.

9: 45 - Bill calls Jack about the gaslines. Sherry speaks up and says that she just happens to be a chemistry major, and to check gas pressure in the tanks.
Then just after Bill left, she says "Did you notice that? The way he brushed up against my shoulder? He shouldn't have done that." Even Chloe has a "Oh my....Maybe Creepy was right!" They replaced our lovable Edgar with a psycho chemist!

9:46 - Secret Service Guy and Wayne return to Wayne's car, because that's the LAST place the van guys would look. Oh, whoops. These guys have stinger missiles too. Does every bad guy on the show have those? Fortunately, they don't have many brains because Secret Service SUV's are bullet proof and Secret Service guy dries off.

Commercial

9:52 - Helicopter, and Jack's in it. Chloe says Jack has 4 minutes because this hour of the show is almost over.

9:53 - Terrorists with gas masks are playing with the canisters.... the canisters now have flashing lights and make funny noises when you touch 'em. Just to be sure we know they're RUSSIAN terrorists, IEST tells them to get back and one says "DA".

9;54 - Jack is still headed to the natural gas terminal, and he looks ready to jump out. They're using one of those silent helicopters so that Jack can sneak up on them..... and down a rope they go.

9:54 - PSI in the pipes is down to 54%, and Madam Haig still looks made they're done with Audrey.

9:55 - Inside the gas plant, Jack and Curtis shoot a couple of terrorists and then Jack tells everyone to take their silencers off because the guns will be louder that way.

9:56 - Gun fight! Canisters going off! Jack wants to blow up the plant to stop the gas! That's our boy Jack!

9:57 - IEST looks a little nervous that he didn't plan a better escape route. Jack sets an explosive device in the plant.

9:58 - Explosions and Jack looks pretty happy he was the one that got to do that.

9:59 - Fight with IEST! Explosions!! Jack pulls IEST into the police car!!! More Explosions!!!! I'm running out of exclamation points!!!!!

10: 00 - Cut to clock at "10:00:00"!

[bizrey]

Steve! Were you trained by Chloe? Excellent summary including the funny asides!

[bizrey]

Jerry, I think you're thinking of Sabrina Lloyd

[Pirateboy]

Just found a 24 parody video:

Had to share, but it's sort of "eh" overall, and not appropriate for the workplace.

[Pirateboy]

Sorry!

[Glow]

Wow, Steve, worth staying up for, thanks! Haven't heard the word COBOL since...oh, the Eighties, heh. Loved the observation on the emergency gun panel in storm drains...of course there are those, for the use of White House escapees!

Thanks again!

[Jerry]

Is Sabrina Lloyd psycho-saxual-harassment-chick (pshc)? Looks like her, but i might be crazy.

[Jerry]

Steve,

Pure genius!

[KOW]

9:21 - Chloe tells Sherry to upload information, and Sherry looks like she was asked to semaphore the lower level of a TCP/IP stack using Cobol.

I am terrified that I understand big chunks of that sentence.

Brilliant as always Steve (though slight mixup on the bad guy sleepover. Was with Walt Cummings and not RoboCop. But it's not like anyone's following the plot anyway).

[Tramp]

Boy, every Monday I feel so left out. I thought not watching TV was a good thing.

[Steve]

KOW,

Doh! I didn't realize I had that mixed up. You know, it would be a lot easier if they just used the names we give them on this blog. It'd be a lot less confusing!

[Johnny]

Okay, has anybody else been wondering how Jack can keep exerting himself like that with a cracked rib (thanks to American terrorist guy that Chloe's one-night stand let into CTU a few hours ago)?

Is anybody else wondering how Wayne (who obviously survives into next episode, according to the previews) got that big gun with the green scope???

And is it just me, or does anybody think that Audrey's I-didn't-want-you-to-think-less-of-me-for-sleeping-with-a-terrorist excuse for lying came across as incredibly fake considering she was talking to Jack sleept-with-evil-terrorist-traitor-and-future-wife-killer Bauer????!

[Jerry]

Johnny,

1. Cracked ribs happened 2 whole hours ago. A few cracked ribs don't stop Jack.
2. Steve answered that above. Storm drain.
3. Good question. Jack should be able to really empathize with Audrey on that one; and shoot her in the thigh just to make sure she tells the truth if necessary.

[Jerry]

Is it my imagination or did Jack also choke Nina? Jack seems to have a girlfriend choking fetish.

[Glow]

Johnny, keep wondering like that and you're going to go bloop bloop beep.

[Adonis]

Absolutely amazing Steve. You must be on some kind of blog-enhancers to be so outstanding week after week. Are you on The Snork™? I won't lose any sleep over it, I just want to know. If you are, where do you inject that? And get it? Do you have a connection? When will you answer the important questions? *pantpant* I'm okay, I just got a little excited there.

[bizrey]

CNN is reporting on their front page that government investigators sumggled radioactive material into the US...start the clock.

Remember when we only worried about evaporating in the flash of a Soviet first strike?

[ASK]

So basically I picked a good week to start watching this? Wrapped up the non-plot that everyone hates and learned who everyone still alive is except the president (who is still alive?). Next week starts a new non-plot! Can...hardly...nah, I'll just keep reading about it. I've watched three episodes altogether - the blog version is always better.

But if he'd shot either one of them (Audrey or the hot terrorist) in the thigh, I'd have been hooked.

[ASK]

Actually, the news seems more exciting.

Which I guess is not a good thing.

[Steve]

Adonis,

pantpant Ha! A pair of pants! ...Ahem....

Nope nothing like that, just me a Wordpad (I don't even have Word installed on this laptop). ...I need to work on cutting down the typos, I had a zillion that time.

[ASK]

It seems to me that Jack has already put in a pretty tough 10 hour day. He needs to spend the next few episodes winding down at the bar (he can shoot guys in the thigh when they hit on Chloe), then go home and sleep until next season. Oh, wait - I forgot to have him blogging for a few hours between the bar and sleeping.

Has anyone told the writers that there has already been a show with Superman and no plot?

[mellio]

So they've wrapped up the Killer Kanisters non-plot. Glad to see that done. Hey, at least the villian this time had a REAL accent (even if it was the wrong one for a Russian guy) and not that fake, horrible Dennis Hopper accent from the first season And Jack ain't gonna die. If broken ribs haven't stopped him yet, a giant, exploding natural gas terminal won't either.

But hey--now, the real fun begins. NOW, it's time to...uncover the Shadow Government! OMG, led by Vice-President Laura Palmer's Dad and that guy from Knots Landing...uh, wait...wrong shows...

[daisymae]

I missed the show, but thanks to Dave, the faithful, and Steve, I didn't really miss anything.

(Did I read correctly...that Jack got killed and Audrey got off?)

[Justin G.]

Some thoughts on tonight's exciting episode:

- The people from the Department of Homeland Security all suck. Karen needs to get with the program and realize that Jack gets results when others don't. Also, that supposedly sexual harassment guy is kind of a creep.

- This new 15-year-old taking Edgar's place is going to be trouble. She could never fill Edgar's shoes! Or his pants or his shirts or pretty much anything else belonging to him...

- The ending scenes at the gas distribution plant were awesome. Jack blowed that place up REAL good.

- President All State's brother is alive, and he found Aaron, and it looks like Vice President Flagrant Villain might soon be revealed. Assuming he IS a bad guy, of course, and I am currently making that assumption.

- I am officially excited for next week's episode. Did Jack get blowed up good? Will the DHS screw things up by absorbing CTU? Will President All State's brother help reveal the other traitor inside the White House?

All these questions will be answered... right now!

No, yes, and God I hope so.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

BLEEP! BLOOP! BLEEP! BLOOP!

JACK BAUER POWER HOUR! WEST COAST STYLE!

WITH JACKSACK™!

[ASK]

Bated tenterhooks?

[Stephen J]

Chloe had a couple great lines as usual. I loved when the homeland security guy was accusing her of lying to protect the new girl and Chloe makes her threat and as she is threatening the guy she walks closer and closer until she ends up right in his face.

I want a Cloe spinoff. She deserves her own show. The way I see it, it would be like if Rhoda Morganstern had worked for the CIA.

[bizrey]

Yup, Audrey got off with Walt Cummings.
* Ba-Bump-Keesh * Thank you I'll be here all week, remember to tip the wait-staff and try the veal!

[Betsy]

Screw Shakespeare (whom we were discussing earlier). Someday archeologists of the future will find this thread and young people will be forced to analyze it and write lengthy dissertations on it in order to get their Certificates of Competent Personhood (CertComPers).
And one of them will find an ancient TiVo, and compare the thread with the show, and the entire discipline of the humanities will be blown wide open.

O, the humanities.

[Toccata]

When was the last time anyone saw a chemistry major from CALTECH who wasn't Asian?????? Teenage psycho-babes don't last very long as Techies. Now we know she is lying--Chloe might as well start downloading the schematics to Noyes right now.

[the principal]

Is it just me or does anyone esle find Chloe to be a hot computer chick?

By the Way...what ever happened to sam wise ganges?

[Riteaidbob]

He touched her shoulder? That's not right?
Another phycho babe on the job with a HISTORY with her boss?

Could the CTU possibly be more dysfunctional? It's getting to be a bit of a joke. Each weeks it's one more mental head case after another. The President is bad enough.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

bizrey: Good catch with the Falcon reference...I was thinking exactly the same thing...Jack leaping out as flames were all around him... :)

[Mike S.]

Can someone tell me:
1. Why the nerve gas in the pipelines would be a threat, since it can be burned and neutralized. Normally natural gas is burned when used, not released into the air. So the only people at risk would be those with leaks (whose homes are due to explode shortly anyway) or those with their heads in their ovens (who are trying to commit suicide anyway.)
2. Why (other than the pyrotechnic compulsion of special agents, terrorists, scriptwriters and special effects departments) they needed to blow up the natural gas facility, when simply restoring the original pipeline pressure would neutralize the nerve gas.
3. Am I missing something here?

[Pingu]

Poor Sam Wise ate too much strawberry yogurt and kicked it. Hobbits don't last long in LA.

[goaligrltildeath]

AAARG!!!! The night Audrey FINALLY gets it I'm stuck doing boatloads of homework and miss it! Does anyone know if Fox reairs episodes for the benifit of unworthies like myself?

[goaligrltildeath]

Alright, so after reading Steve's summary, Audrey got it but she wasn't guilty, and Jack still loves her? For being able to do damn near everything, Jack sure is a moron when it comes to women.

And I missed gunfights and explosions? What a week to miss...

[slyeyes]

CNN is reporting on their front page that government investigators sumggled radioactive material into the US...start the clock.

*goes out to buy a JackSack™ and JackHoodie™. And duct tape*

[goddessoftheclassroom]

Mike S.

1. The nerve gas wouldn't burn. It would enter homes via the gas lines to stove, water heaters, pool heaters, etc. The natural gas would burn, but the nerve gas would enter the home.

2. The facility had to be blown up because the nerve gas had entered the delivery tank and would shortly enter the pipeline, after which it couldn't be stopped.

3. The pressure couldn't be raised because it would take too long and some nerve gas would already be in the system.

Has anyone else noticed that it's not a good thing to have a name ending in -erry:

Sherry (Palmer, Psycho Chick)
Teri (Bauer)
Carrie (Season 2 witch, season 5 innocent victim)
Barry (Kim's S5BF)

[The Sarcasticynic]

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