Says the description: Jack will stop at nothing to avenge Renee! Oh, I think he's stop at a few things. Mixing plaids and stripes, for example. But overall, he's a man who's had just about enough over the last 8 seasons, and doesn't strike me as someone worried too much about his 401(k) or whether he has to take PTO this month or lose it.
Where we left off: the skinny version of Paul Blart, Mall Cop is waterboarding Agent Dana Starbuck; Jack has enlisted Freddy Prinze Jr. to help him rescue Dana so they can apply more persuasive measures. They'll use hard water, and smelly rags! Chloe has mobilized CTU - aka a couple of slackers watching Predator drone feeds - to find Jack, while the wife of Mister President is giving a press conference to support the treaty. Logan, aka Twitchy McNixon, is waiting to be more important, and appears to have applied some clown rouge to his cheeks between last week at this. It's quite fetching.
00:11 If you're keeping track: Jack can be stabbed and still beat up people, but highly-trained mercs can be taken out if they're thrown off a roof and fall three feet.
00:14 Number one last-words issued by people facing Jack Bauer: "no YOU put down your gu "
We'll never know what they meant. Gull? Gub? Guggenheim Museum pamphlet?
00:18: Chloe asks a tech to pull up an address, and he asks why - he wouldn't ask the last boss that question, would he? No one respects Chloe. She's like a housekeeper who took over the Titanic after it hit the berg.
"24" is ending at the right time; the show suggests that every square block of New York can be surveilled, often by time-travel cameras that can replay the previous five minutes - as if the skies are dotted with silent drones. Obviously not, if the Times Square bombing attempt was any indication. They had to rely on grainy footage of a guy changing his shirt in an alley. In the world of "24" they would have been able to zoom in on identifying moles.
00: 34 Dana makes a good point: Jack probably won't trust the World Court at the Hague to prosecute Russian diplomats. Then again, the World Court never had the head of their chief justice delivered by DHL in a leak-proof box.
