24 Episode 8 & 9
1:00pm–2:00pm
Let me begin by saying that the episode was interrupted multiple times because of a shooting in Salt Lake, so I didn’t see everything.
I liked what I saw of the first episode, it was intense. Morris stood his ground as long he could. Fayed drilled his back for heaven’s sake! But, one thing I was thinking. If Morris is so amazingly smart at just about everything he does. Couldn’t he have programmed the trigger to make it look like it worked when in reality it wouldn’t when tried? Then again I did miss most of the dealings of Fayed and Morris, so I have no idea what went on outside of the drilling and Fayed killing Rita.
Speaking of Rita, I couldn’t believe she capped McCarthy and thought she’d get away with whatever she was trying to pull. That was completely insane.
Jack’s Dad is getting creepier and creepier. He’s no good, and will surely be added to Jack’s kill count sooner or later.
Another thing that was a little hazy because of all the interruptions was the whole interchange between Reed and Tom. I gather that Reed is planning some sort of coup on the President, but how big and how bad I have no idea. Please, if anyone has any details about this share them.
In the end Jack found Fayed’s hideout, saved Morris, added two more people to his kill count and actually disarmed one of the suitcase nukes (all in a day’s work for Jack). I liked the entry into Fayed’s hideout. Jack holding that shotgun, it was the old Jack we all know and love. He’s coming back with a vengeance, he really is. But, Fayed escaped through the walls on his trusty rope that he no doubt learned to tie at Boy Scout terrorist camp.
Thankfully the interruptions stopped for the second hour, but a lot of the pizzazz and suspense were gone. It was hard to keep my attention focused on the show. Especially that now the “breaking news? interruptions were gone, but they insisted on streaming a news ticker at the top of the screen saying the same 2 sentences over and over.
2:00pm–3:00pm
I really liked this episode. It was quintessential 24.
Phillip Bauer is sneaking around CTU making secret phone calls. Jack is getting screwed over by people closest to him. And there’s some sort of crazy overthrow of the President being planned at the highest levels, yup that’s what 24 is made of!
Graem’s wife. Didn’t she learn from Scott’s Mother from a few episodes ago? Why didn’t she tell Jack about the house? Why, oh why? I’m sitting there, yelling “tell him? and she was just about there, it was on the tip of her tongue then…eh, we’ll screw Jack over some more.
Oh, and Milo saw some field action. That was some great driving. If UPS ever needs a driver to get packages places ASAP, well you saw how he drove that monstrous van.
We were also introduced to the actual Russian General that may be behind everything that’s going on. He did mention about how the “Arabs were going to get the blame.? Meaning Fayed may just be a puppet. That’s an interesting twist. Maybe this will stop all the bickering about how 24 is so anti-Muslim and probably start in with how 24 is so anti-Russian.
Finally, Jack’s Dad is pulling a lot of stings. How high up does this go? That’s what I want to know. But, I’m sure you all want to know that also.
Overall they were two great episodes, and I’ll report back tomorrow with the rest of my feelings when I see the episodes in their entirety.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Sucks you got interrupted. I don’t know why Morris didn’t rig it to quit working after a few minutes or something like that. Fayed was pressuring him really hard to hurry up. The building was being evacuated because CTU set off the fire alarm. Fayed figured it was CTU and that they were about to come in. I guess that might be why Morris did it, maybe he thought once CTU busts in he’ll be saved and Fayed would be caught and it wouldn’t matter.
What we learned that Reed is working with some others to overthrow Palmer so the VP can step up and put into action Tom’s plan. Reed said the VP didn’t know about it, and apparently he wasn’t going to tell Tom either. He just mentioned it to get him from resigning. But he said it wasn’t just him, he was just a conduit and he wouldn’t tell Tom anything more for his own safety. But the guy that Reed was contacting is the same guy that Phillip Bauer was contacting. So, I guess the Russian General is really behind everything just pulling strings to blame the Muslims and use the Presidency to put them in concentration camps. Seems like a round-about way to attack at someone. I wonder if there is anything else on his agenda.
Phillip Bauer is getting creepier and creepier with each episode and he looks even more mad in the next. I think its because he’s old, it makes him more scary somehow. But he is really going all in by telling Graem’s wife that he killed Graem and he is holding her son hostage. Since Jack and her survived (thanks Milo! that was awesome!), she’ll for sure tell Jack now and Jack’s gonna come after him like nothin’ else. Remember, Jack promised her that he’d make sure nothing happened to Josh. So far, when Jack promises something like that he really comes through.
Overall, good two episodes. The best parts were the action scenes - Jack busting into Fayed’s apartment, and Milo escaping with Graem’s wife.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:25 am
It sucks that you missed some of the first hour. A lot of it was torturing Morris (I was very sad when I saw the blood ring in the bathtub) and Chloe flipping her shit, then pulling a phone tracker out of her ass to find Fayed and Morris. Super shady Reid made a call to someone and the conspiracy to overthrow the president was brought into more light. What pisses me off is that Tom was starting to show some decency when he demanded his letter of resignation.
I’m sure you can catch the full episode again on A&E sometime this week.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:49 am
The more I watch 24 the more I realize two things. Never do what a terrorists ask you to do (they’ll just kill you anyway), and always do what Jack says.
If people could live by those two simple rules, then life might be a little easier.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:58 am
It would make sense for the person that is behind the coup to be behind the nuke plot as well. A level up on Gridenko, so to speak. I’m thinking the vice president is behind it all, even though Tom’s aide claimed otherwise.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Well, these two episodes were well worth watching, they reminded me of “Jack’s good old days? with CTU and the bad guys!!!
Before I begin my comments I would like to ask you out there:
a) The recurring theme from the season’s beginning, “I don’t think I can do this anymore . . .!? . . . will it continue?
b) Where is Jack’s daughter? (You figure that a guy that just came out of Chinese torture prison for 2 years would want to see his loved ones, right?)
c) Sorry about this one, Jack has not eaten since his return flight from China? (I would miss one of those big juicy American steaks with all the trimmings).
1-2 PM
Fortunately the TV station in my area only had a small bottom banner to warn about the incoming snow. There is so much to say and so little space . . . well I will just omit the obvious.
It was nice to see how they homed in on Fayed’s hide out, extremely high tech! As far as the bald guy (Morris) goes, talk about getting the crap kicked out of you wow!!!. . . first the terrorist hit him, then they grab a handy 2X4 and beat him some more (on his back and whatever), but it does it stop there? NO!! . . . then they drag him to the bath tub and make him play “submarine? where he almost chokes to death a couple of times and finally to convince him to arm the nuclear bomb there is the always handy DeWalt cordless drill with a fully charged battery!!!??? I think I’ll drill his left shoulder blade, OUCH!(Yes, that’s what I learned in Terrorist Boot Camp, and as a good terrorist I always carry around MY cordless drill?! . . . never leave home without it!!?) . . .
. . . and as Aron mentions, if Morris is so smart, then why didn’t he program the bomb to look as though it was armed, or perhaps have a “delayed? fuse or convince them that everything was OK but every time they tried to arm it, it would ask for another input signal??? Furthermore, I would have probably armed that bomb, however I would have programmed it for a “one time? arming sequence, thus the terrorist could not arm the remaining 3 suitcase bombs.
Additionally, I don’t know about you, but after Morris took all that beating, he just gets up, arms the nuclear bomb and that’s it?! (Remember his beatings: got hit, beat with a 2×4, submarine, drilled in the left shoulder blade).
Oh yeah, and on top of that an hour later he is at work at his old post at CTU!!!!!? . . . after Chloe says, “stop feeling sorry for yourself??. . . well I wouldn’t go back to work unless you are all pumped up on morphine!
The blond that blew away McCarthy after seeing Morris get beat/kicked all around the terrorist’s apartment, finally says, “Ah, I don’t want the $7 million anymore, just let me go.? Oh, lady, you have not been watching 24, have you?
I was happy to see that Tom was getting ready his letter of resignation, but I knew deep inside myself it would not go through, something evil is lurking in the darkness. However, at the end he will get what he deserves!
Boy, is Jack’s dad getting more evil all the time or what??!! . . . (what I suspected all the time, the question is who else is involved with him and what governmental position does he hold?)
The only disappointing moment was the way in which Fayed escaped. Com’on “24? guys!! . . . a rope with knots in a closet? . . . and of course a helicopter waiting on the other side? Especially after all that high-tech search for his hide out??? Either CTU and/or Jack is slipping, or they let him get away on purpose for some reason. Eureka, to lead him to the other 3 bombs!
2-3 PM
Doesn’t anybody at CTU pick up anything that Jack’s father is doing?—sneaking around like a snake. Or ALL the phone calls that Jack’s father is making???!! He might as well have an office there and just use CTU’s phone line.
. . . and what can I say about Marylin (Graem’s wife), she is hot and on top of everything when Jack tries to apologize for killing his brother, she just brushes it off “ah, don’t worry, I’ve been trying to leave him and I’ve been hot for you for the last 20 years.? Wow . . . !!! Jack’s still got it!! However, she should have told Jack, she will make up for it somehow, you will see. She already wants to kill her father-in-law.
Of course we cannot forget the theme for this season, “I don’t think I can do this anymore!? . . . and we hear it again in when he talks to Buchanan . . .
“I lost control. I tried to tell you I didn’t think I could this. This job. I wanted to kill my brother. I wanted him dead. I was standing over him and I looked up and I saw my father in the doorway… and then everything just stopped.”
We see Gratenko (? The Russian general) who was actually responsible for a lot of things, including last year too. Now does he really want to get back at us (Americans) or are the Arabs using him? Or who is using who?
Josh, (Graem’s son) is actually smarter than what we think, after he tells off his grandfather that he knows what was going on with his father that he was dirty.
Our poor little sweet Chloe, what about her? What about our nuke-disarming-petite-innocent-girl at CTU??! She should be doing Jack’s job! She was the one who told him HOW to disarm a suitcase nuclear bomb. What’s Jack doing out there if he can’t even disarm a little nuke? Oh, and by the way, what is it with his hand shaking all over the place, its not like he JUST left a Chinese torture prison camp? Is it??? However, with the other hand he steadies himself and everything is OK.
Oh, and Chloe, next time tell him its 4 & 5 wires not the 2 & 3, OK? Don’t make Jack more high strung than he already is. Besides, anybody can make a nuclear-bomb-contact-switch mistake, right?
And what about the plot against the President????!!! They will probably overthrow him and Buchanan will take over as president after Jack and the CTU wack the rest of the White House Government bad guys!!! . . . No this is just my version, however . . . Lennox “sneaks” off to the boiler room (a “safe location?) and meets his right hand man. Overly suspicious Reed tells him in no uncertain terms that he has very powerful friends, many are involved, (not the VP) . . . . and the ever faithful we all love this country, I think Palmer is weak, and Let’s wack him! Oh, and for you there is plausible deniability, right?
(Sorry guys, I got carried away).
February 13th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
. . . one more thing, the actor who plays Milo, boy, he must have some connections in Hollywood. He always gets to play the “cool” parts. Last year he was the cool lawyer in a weekly lawyer buffet drama series …. this year he also plays a cool guy, like that NASCAR commercial UPS driver …. ???
February 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Ya i can’t wait till we start hearing about all the anti-russian sentements… hahaha. And i really liked both of these episodes. I do however have some burning questions. What is jack’s dad’s company that is so important? What really happened between Jack and his siter-in-law? And what finally happened to get milo to arm the bombs. (i also live in utah…) But all in all i loved seeing jack back to his old form, and hope to see more episodes like this.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
“If Morris is so amazingly smart at just about everything he does. Couldn’t he have programmed the trigger to make it look like it worked when in reality it wouldn’t when tried?”
My thoughts exactly.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
@The Other Aaron, regarding Jack’s promises to keep people safe. I can think of at least one time Jack promised to keep some one safe, and then failed to keep the promise. He told Audrey he’d protect Paul Raines, and then he held a gun to the head of the surgeon who was operating on the guy and made him quit. Not that Marylin could know that…
February 14th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Aaron, I can’t believe you would show disdain for the local news coverage of what happened on Monday night. The nerve of you and so many others demanding to see what’s happening to a fictional terrorist when there is a REAL terrorist killing REAL people disgusts me. It is the media’s RESPONSIBILITY to inform the public when such a terrible crisis is happening, and a news ticker just isn’t going to work in this case. A lot of people had friends and family there and were worried sick about them, and you should bloody well know that I was one of them. A few of my best friends were at work on Monday night and I was glued to the TV, demanding any fragment of information I could get to find out if they were safe. Did the thought even cross your mind that one of your friends works at trolley square at nights? Or were you too worried about how Fayed was getting Morris to talk? You know I love 24 as much as the next guy, but when people that I love were in danger of losing their lives, I don’t give a damn what Jack Bauer is doing. People need to realize that 24 is a fantasy TV program that would be broadcast on the internet the next day for you to watch as many times as you want to.
Listen mate, you are one of my best friends and I’ve told you loads of times that I love what you’re doing with this site, but I really think you dropped the ball on this one. I think you really need to sort out what the priority should be in a case like this.