24
Here is where we stand:
Last week Jack recruited Agent Freddie Prinze Jr. to the Rogue Team. They are now on their way to the safe house containing Agent Dana Walsh, where Jack intends to interview her regarding the role of the Russians in the whacking of Renee. Agent Walsh is currently being waterboarded by henchpersons working for President Woman President, who, at the urging of disgraced ex-President Complete Handbag, has gone over to the Dark Side to save the all-important Peace Procezzzzzzzzzz.
Edgar is still dead.
I will not be joining you tonight, as I'm starting the tour for my new book, which by the way is for sale so please buy it.
TRUE FACT: Several thousand times, I've had the following experience. A person will say to me: "Where can I buy your books?" This always strikes me as an odd question, but I try not to betray this in my facial expression as I answer: "In a bookstore." The person often seems surprised to learn this, as if he or she is thinking: "Huh! So THAT's what goes on in bookstores!"
Anyway, because of the book tour I won't be blogging 24 tonight or next week. So I will be counting on you folks to keep track of things down in the comments section. And of course we will all rely on The Amazing Steve to explain the plot to us afterward.
Meanwhile, here's a scientific poll:

I feel like endorsementwise, this should be a Bank of America.
Posted by: Bryan | May 03, 2010 at 09:34 PM
Hurry up, the bank closes at noon today
Posted by: Steve-O | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
Diva, please email and let me know, okay?
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Woohoo, bank shooting coming up! Yes?
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
Jack may as well check his balance at the ATM, do some online bill pay while he's waiting...
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
Couldn't she just start screaming? Like,"ROBBERS, ROBBERS, someone please help me!
Posted by: Cheesewiz | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
Anyone here have a Sprint phone and can upload the "extras"?
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
when cole strains his neck he looks just like scooby-doo
Posted by: trustf8 | May 03, 2010 at 09:35 PM
((Hugs)) for Diva.
I'll pray for you.
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Thanks, Genn - I will. :)
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Cindy, I don't do the sleep thing. Time is no factor, doll.
Posted by: MartiniShark | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Caruso out-Shatners Shatner with his pause before every other word dialogue.
Posted by: Twoina | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
i honestly dont thnk its fair 2 compare Dana 2 Starbuck. Starbuck is jst way way way way way way way cooler. I also think Battlestar Galactica has more of a plot.
Posted by: emj | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
I've been diabetic for many years. It's no fun but I'm probably in better shape now than ever. I have Type I. No fun but controllable. Just eat right and exercise. AND take your medicine exactly as you're told to.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Tropic, yeah, her hair and clothes dried up fast! Make up too!
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Wes, I'll take 'em all.
Two - YES! LOL
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
Let's do the bank shooting X-Files style... Mulder and Scully blowing up numerous times that day. Hey, we'll get more violence that way. ;)
Posted by: Cassie | May 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
LeDud, I'm going to see Ironman II on Friday 'cepting I have to find an alternative theatre since my ususual choice has a couple of feet of water in the lobby.
Posted by: Mitch | May 03, 2010 at 09:37 PM
Siouxie is being awfully quiet tonight.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:38 PM
cindy, yes. I way need to shift my so-called diet, and that's the hardest part for me.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:38 PM
The MacGuffin is now walking through the bank and Russian government is now Handbag's personal mob, about to get the MacGuffin so they could let there be a peace agreement. I'm right so far? And Chloe drank Hastings' personal water while I was gone last week, right?
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:39 PM
I'm amazed that CTU vehicles don't have transponders on them. I mean, really? No GPS tracking of their own vehicles?
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Diva, I'll email you some tips.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Is this dragging on for anyone else. Is the show and hour and 20 minutes tonight?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | May 03, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Isn't 24 already like that X-Files episode/Groundhog Day? The same crap everyday?
Posted by: homeybeef | May 03, 2010 at 09:39 PM
That would make sense.
Posted by: Kate | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
I think they just made MacGuffin Chloe's boss.
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Just shoot him Chloe.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
"Will you be able to accomplish a mission in the field with that titanium rod of your rectum?"
Posted by: MartiniShark | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Chloe is ousted!
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
snork@homey
Posted by: Cassie | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Diva--I have diabetes, too--type 2. At least you have company.
Posted by: Twoina | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Castle in 20 minutes.
Posted by: Cassie | May 03, 2010 at 09:40 PM
"What Bauer is going will destroy the peace agreement."
YES!!! YESSSSSSS!!!! GO JACK!!!!!!!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Too much yack, yack, yack, on the show tonight.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Oh, so Chief MacGuffin is going to take the gloves off with Jack?
This ought to be funny.
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
f*** u stupid director man
Posted by: emj | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Taze him Chloe.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Please do, cindy.
Genn - that wasn't water, it was Kool-Aid.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Is Mitch in Nashville ? That whole area looked bad. Hang in there.
Posted by: LeDud | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Blonde lady just had her contractually-obligated line for the season,
Posted by: Bryan | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
"Discussing" a health condition with one's doctor does not sound promising.
Posted by: Mitch | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Time for Jack to pull that Phone Booth voice.
Posted by: Cassie | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
We want Jack to destroy the peace agreement, preferably with high explosives. Lots and lots of explosives.
Posted by: Kate | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
Uh-oh1 He a Level 8 now! Unrestricted! They're liable to call in an airstrike!
Posted by: The Dead Henchman | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Bwahaha, the couple counseling has begun!
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Too much yack, yack, yack, on the show tonight.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
And then too much "yak, yak, yak" in my bathroom after!!
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Cole is a crotch with no brain.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Switch to conspiratorial whispers.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
pants on fire
Posted by: trustf8 | May 03, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Do these people ever go outside in the daytime? Really, really white white people.
Posted by: Twoina | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
So we have Russian agents trolling Arkansas looking for impressionable bad little girls to recruit?
Glad to see even Cole is having trouble believing that one...
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
Sorry to hear you are taking care of Real Life, Dave (but I'm so glad you haven't grown up either). What could be more important than figuring out what the Russians will do with their Covert Assets?
Posted by: Formerly Woman President | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
She looks surprised that the engagement is over??
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
I sweear I thought he was going to say "There is no Dana, only Zul!"
Posted by: MartiniShark | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
Yeah, I know, Mitch. I'm steeling myself.
Thanks for the solidarity, Two. There are a LOT of diabetics out here.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
I bet a gun is in there.
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
"something funny?" asks Cole.
"That you believed me," laughs Dana.
SHe's playing Cole like an old fiddle.
Hopefully Cole will shoot her, smack her, or
tell Jack she has to go, as in Final Exit!!!
Posted by: funnyman | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
I love Dana's smile. I won't sleep tonight
Posted by: LeDud | May 03, 2010 at 09:43 PM
So much for a clean start...
Posted by: Kate | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Aha! The old "Flashbang in the safety deposit box" trick!
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
That's one way to change how we bank in this country!
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
The safe deposit box is the MacGuffin, isn't it?
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Alrighty now! What a witch she is!
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
If anyone was surprised by that, then you just failed 24.
Posted by: homeybeef | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
*pays tropic on the bet*
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Tense Music #19!
Posted by: Bryan | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Thank you, Brian. Here's two bullets for your trouble.
Posted by: Twoina | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
How is the video file undamaged?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | May 03, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Hmmph. Dana is an amateur.
Nina would have capped Cole in a New York minute.
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Wow- best acting Dana's done all season on the 911 call...
Posted by: rockin01 | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
I'm starting to like this girl...
Posted by: The Dead Henchman | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Starbuck can fake anything...
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Oh, she's a weasel extrordinaire.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
It's Chloe vs Bauer!
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Dana is 2 gud uv a terrible actor on TV. iz u confuzzled lyk me?
Posted by: emj | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
I miss Nina. Now THAT was one cold b!tch.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
I wanted to type but my fingers fell asleep...
Posted by: Steve-O | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
Good point Cheesewiz. And Nursecindy, is it hygenic to stick money down your pants ?
Posted by: LeDud | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
If they have a Level 8 to put on Bauer's status, do they have a Level 11?
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
Yep. I live about 15 blocks from where the downtown Nashville, Cumberland River bank.
The cost of this flood to the city is going to be astronomical.
Posted by: Mitch | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
srsly, emj.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
Damn, Dana has undiluted freon running through her pulminary system. Wait a sec -- She looks familiar, I may have dated her . . .
Posted by: MartiniShark | May 03, 2010 at 09:46 PM
LeDud, Only if you're pole dancing.
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:47 PM
I AM the Gatekeeper!
Posted by: rockin01 | May 03, 2010 at 09:47 PM
Yep, ol' Starbuck has got it going on...
Posted by: The Dead Henchman | May 03, 2010 at 09:47 PM
LeDud,
I meant Cole Dancing. I'm still asleep, sorry.
Posted by: Gennita Low | May 03, 2010 at 09:47 PM
LeDud I guess it won't hurt you but the next person that gets the money might get some e-coli germs they weren't expecting.
Posted by: nursecindy | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Gennita: Sorry, only Spinal Tap can go to 11...
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Seriously, where does CTU NY find such incredibly moronic personnel, excluding Chloe?
Do they go to the local Burger King and just hire the graveyard shift?
Posted by: funnyman | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Saw another Good Guys promo.
Please, God, don't make me watch that show...
Posted by: The Dead Henchman | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Only if it's wrapped in tinfoil, tropic.
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Chloe is back on Jack's side. Handbag's AH buddy is too slick to be right.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 03, 2010 at 09:48 PM
Why worry about Dana's money. You know she's gonna launder it anyway...
;)
Posted by: Wes S. | May 03, 2010 at 09:49 PM
funnehman, tht wuld probs b da easiest way
Posted by: emj | May 03, 2010 at 09:49 PM
I thought it was "some guy"
Posted by: Steve-O | May 03, 2010 at 09:49 PM
The writers have just surpassed my expectations for the season - they actually used "supposedly" correctly instead of "supposably."
Posted by: Diva | May 03, 2010 at 09:49 PM
"We said "Supposedly" because he is under contract with Bank of America. It would void his endorsement deal."
Posted by: MartiniShark | May 03, 2010 at 09:50 PM
If this show doesn't get better within the next 4-5 episodes, I'm done with it!
Posted by: homeybeef | May 03, 2010 at 09:50 PM
i miss hastingsPosted by: trustf8 | May 03, 2010 at 09:50 PM
Chloe is so going to go 100% NSA puke on his ass.
Posted by: Loudmouth | May 03, 2010 at 09:50 PM