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I am – Hercules!!
That Bubba Blue fellow seems awfully excited about something! What’s the big twist that changes everything at 3:52?
Last week CTU got word from a pre-blown-up kid that Hassan’s security guy, the one making time with Hassan’s daughter, was behind the terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Fox says of tonight’s installment:
While Jack and Cole team up in the field to shield New York from the calamitous threat, a hostage situation has CTU completely stressed out. Meanwhile, unrelenting parole officer Prady presses on in his investigation, and unexpected developments send the Hassan family into a major tailspin. Guest Cast: Stephen Root as Bill Prady; Necar Zadegan as Dalia Hassan; Nazneen Contractor as Kayla Hassan; Mido Hamada as Samir; Rizwan Manji as Ahman; David Gianopoulos as Sergrant Amis; John T. Woods as Bellow; Charlie Bodin as Gerrard; Julian Morris as CTU Agent Owens; T.J. Ramini as Tarin Forush; Hrach Titizian As Nabeel; Matt Yang Kin as CTU Agent King.
9 p.m. Monday. Fox.
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Second! That is all.
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Best lethal weapon villian. 'You like gladiator movies?' Wow death of a legend. Sad day
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Damn that sucks.
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Died of a heart attack coming home from brunch with his family. He dropped before he entered his house. Horrible way to go my heart goes out to his loved ones
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First episode I've intentionally missed ever. I've finally checked out.
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I can understand that role is memorable but watch 'Boomtown' and he will forever be Bobby 'Fearless' Smith. This Hastings role is so beneath him. This looks real exciting. Well done promo. I think the twist is that Prady the parole officer is not who he claims to be. He is working for somebody. Also I belive CTu is the target and it looks like they might be trying to send the rods down the tunnel
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He calls and asks, "May I ask whom I am speaking to." Thus, he had no idea who's cellphone he's calling. What person calls people at 2:30 am? And then is nearby to set up a meeting? The guy just happens to be in New York at 2:30 am and near CTU and calls somebody who should surely be sleeping. As somebody working for the government...he could actually lose his job for that. Calling someone at such an hour is considered harassment. Kind of ridiculous. But I guess he is Milton from Office Space.
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The one in the movie was an impostor.
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We got two dead Duke Boys and Boss Hogg hot on the trail of Dana Walsh. And what the hell does any of this have to do with the main plot? It better tie in somehow, or this is a colossal waste of time.
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i was watching Black Dynamite this weekend and its funny comparing bubba to his role in 24 to his role in that, plus the movie is hilarious. also, Dr Lizardo, you might wanna check out last episode. the last 30 min is pretty damn good. Jack talking shit to that kid is classic Jack Bauer
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for a bomb to go off at CTU headquarters? I guess it is. Maybe the ghost of Edgar will warn people to evacuate. The CTU chief looks winded after running two steps in that clip.
Also, I would not be surprised if the parole officer ends up being the third man in the hillbilly crew. It's the only explanation for him threatening federal terrorism agents over the phone at 3:00 am. Before they died they texted him and asked him to call her as a prank just to mess with her. If this actually happens I might have to stop watching. -
Any sane person would have waited until 9am the following morning. But 24 can't operate on the rules of common sense.
How do you think they're going to handle the Manhattan rush hour traffic situation from 7am till 9am?
Helicopters everywhere? Mass evacuation? Or will Jack start taking the subway?
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I sure hope we get to see Freckles come back and actually do something other than talk on her cellphone.
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when it was entertaining. Not so much this year. Even if NBC picks it up, it's probably time to kick the habit...
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Can anything save this season? Honestly, outside of Bobby Ewing-style "the first 12 hours were just a bad dream", I got nuthin'.
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Mar 15, 2010 8:35:19 AM CDT
I neer thought I'd see the day where NBC would think about
by yackbacker
taking FOX's discarded table scraps. We are through the looking glass, indeed.
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Shouldn't they make Jack head of Secret Service or something? I mean, seriously. Put him actually in charge of something, anything. The fucking guy hasn't even had a paying job since working fucking oil refineries back at the start of Season 5, has he?
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Would kick the kids out of my room and sit down and watch 24.
Now I DVR it and watch it when I have some free time. Braga and crew have totally ruined this show. AT least Kim and the Cougar lasted only two or three episodes. The banjo boys subplot has been going all season. And the episode where Jack spent the entire time in the car was too much.
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"a hostage situation has CTU completely stressed out."
Don't tell me someone breaks into CTU headquarters and takes hostages again. CTU has been broken into so many times you would think Barney Fife's retarded brother is in charge of security.
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A lot come to visit from way upstate... Its funny how once you cross certain parts of the state (for example Middletown NY) people are on some country shit. My cousin moved upstate and when I went to visit her she looked and sounded different and was a proud Wal Mart shopper... It's odd.
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When it was on the bubble back in the day NBC was rumored to want the show. NBC has fucked up a lot in the past. To pass on House (a show they produce) and give it to Fox is still something that I can't understand.
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Oh well, as long as I can still get my fix of Renee, 24 will still have the babe factor.
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It's what we want, so give it to us, 24 writers/producers.
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....hearing that Michael Madsen comes into it in Ep.21 as a military guy from Jack's past.
Maybe Jack will finally have that showdown with the big bad being a guy that can take Jack on like for like. Dont give up hope yet and lets hope im not wrong. -
Show me how I could be wrong...
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Mar 15, 2010 12:21:52 PM CDT
Jack Bauer to David Zucker:DAMMIT,WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!
by thanos0145
Crawling to NBC to save your show? Just end it this season and let Jack, Freckles, and Chloe move onto the big screen.I'm guessing that tonight's game changer is that there is a mole (AGAIN) working at CTU. Just give Freckles more screen time and I'll be happy the rest of this crappy season.
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I saw Bubba running. lol stoop-necked running crouch.
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Threatening that kid and ordering him to look into his eyes- while forgetting how fucking stupid the set up to get him in that chamber was- made me wake up. It seems Bauer is back to his old self, it only took 8 hours to wake up. Let's see if he stays awake.
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...from here on in, he's been too calm this season so far.
Oh and anyone else excited for more Lost this week? Hmmm? Im hoping for more references to ying and yang, black and white, good and evil, whilst randomly slamming us, the viewers, back and forth between timelines! Awesome! -
an Angel of the Lord! Gotcha!
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as underwhelmed for the rest of this season as I am?? Good LORD it's been crappy so far. Killing off Mr. Sark didn't do it any favors either...
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"People are locing this redneck story! we ended it way too early! How can we possibly extend this even further?" "His parole officer shows up?" "YES! We're sure to not get cancelled now!"
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not locing
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@goatherdingclownhunter They definitely need to do more with Rack this season. She was one of the standouts (in more ways than two) of S7 and her turn as a blubbering nutcase was a real disappointment. I hope they give her some redemption this season as it seems like they did what they did for shock value. Way to waste the best thing to happen to 24 since S5, new writers please!!!
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I was drifting in and out of sleep during last week's episode, but that moment woke me up pretty fast. It's moments like those that made "24" worth watching since the beginning, and it's unfortunate this season has been so lacking in them.
For that matter, the countdown to the guy's bomb vest blowing up was good, also. (Though the timer on the vest was stupid even by "24" standards.)
Sadly, I don't think the twist tonight will be big enough to put this season back on track. The banjo boys plotline (now with Jimmy James!) is the stupidest shit "24" has ever done.
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Mar 15, 2010 4:56:26 PM CDT
The only thing that can save 24 is Freckles doing jumping jacks
by runawayboulder
BELIEVE DAT!
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http://www.digitalspy.com/cult/s9/24/news/a208209/michael-madsen-to-guest-on-24.html
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Seems like this season's been going on forever.
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And 24 is all about urgency. Incredibly, they found a way to contrive a digital bomb countdown, and I didn't still feel any sense of urgency. The writers have managed to make Starbuck and Renee Walker into helpless blubbering wrecks, minimize ass-kicking by both classic Jack and Cole, under-utilize Sark, over-utilize the Indian Regis Philbin, and reveal the Big Bad to be a foreign Secret Service guy sneaking off to bang the President's daughter. I like what they did with Kim Bauer, but the rest of the season is a mess.
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Jumping Jacks or "Jumping" Jack? ;^)
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There could have been a sewer in that tunnel!
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but the other would be cool too.
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or swat team or whatever they were. How can so many be killed so easily? And convenient for them to ignore CTU orders. This season has been a disappointment.
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He couldn't see the cab was empty from 10 feet away?
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As bad as the writing is I have a feeling that it is network interference that is the real problem.
Some dipshit at Fox thinks they know what the 24 "formula" is:
1) America threatened by WMD.
2) Swarthy Middle Eastern Enemy.
3)Mole in CTU
4)Subplot involving POTUS
The network hacks insist they include these elements every season because they think that is what the audience wants.
The real 24 "formula" is:
1) Jack actually having something at stake.
2) Jack killin' bad guys.
3) A good cliffhanger at the end of every episode.
I can come up with a half a dozen plots off the top of my head that would be better than what we have gotten the last three seasons:
- Jack Bauer Prison Break.
- Jack Bauer hunts down Nina Myers
-Jack Bauer does "Die Hard" at Disney World.
- Jack Bauer infiltrates right wing militia men.
- Jack Bauer Industrial Spy.
- Jack Bauer in remake of "The Body Guard"
The possibilities are endless.
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They went down way too easy.
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and end this awful storyline.
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I wanna shoot everyone involved in the FACE! >:O
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either to CTU or the UN building . . but which one???
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is coming to CTU - speedy delivery!
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first sign of hope in years. jack vs terrorists without ctu support.
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...heavily shielded? Who knows? Who cares? The terrorists took out CTU? Who could have known, except the people who bought the DVDs of seasons 1 - 7?
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At least they surprised me. I was expecting a straight-up bomb. EMP was a nice angle.
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Idiots.
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Mar 15, 2010 9:06:28 PM CDT
The EMP wipes away the evidence of starbucks complicity
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Fuckme. Means we are stuck with this hillbilly shit. It seems the writers want to get fired. Maybe they think NBC pays more?
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Non-stop action and suspense. Best episode of the season.
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Just curious...when you so blantently ripoff the ending of a movie..i.e. an unknowing victim driving a bomb into the heart of a government facility...do you have to pay royalties or do you just hope no one will notice. Then again Keifer and Jeff Bridges starred in awful the vanishing together so maybe he won't mind the swipe
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Man, if this show can take tonight's episode and run with it till the end of the season, this might be like the slow building season 1 which turned out to be fantastic.
I still believe that Dana is this year's big mole. she will likely kill prady now that she has the chance. It actually makes sense that Prady called Dana at 230. He's been playing stupid. He knows that she's at work, and Kevin called her cell phone literally 3 hours ago. So with all of his informats and stuff, he completely knew who he was calling the second he started to dial. He's just an incredibly nosey character looking for a big pay day. Dana will kill him. Mark my words. I believe sometime during the season Dana will kill Arlo too. -
For real - I hvane't cared about anyone this season, but that little redshirt who got in the car to drive the bomb out - despite there being just 13 second remaining - he's a hero. Did he survive? The car looked like it tore up pretty bad.
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I'm not a parole officer nor have I had the need for one. But what PO could just walk into a high security government building during crisis, forget that, even during a non-threatening event and just demand security tapes. One more reason why this Dana subplot has ruined this season. Even Kim's dumb subplots weren't this bad
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They only gave themselves a 13 second window, driving all the way from the LES to Queens.
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Was driving through Times Square or past the Empire State Building or some other equally iconic location when she was bitching about not knowing where she was.
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but it took out most of LA, not CTU. This was the first decent episode in a while. AND BRING BACK FRECKLES DAMMIT!
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I know it's 3:00am and such. And I've never been to NY but wouldn't there at least be some traffic to slow any of these groups down?
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...kept playing the "maybe I'll just talk to your supervisor" card. Maybe that works at Walmart, but I can't believe it worked at a place where the supervisor talks directly to the president. Of course, if Dana'd just said "It's 3 am and a national emergency; I don't know who you're talking about, you need to fuck off now." the storyline would have ended. Mercifully, ended.
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Well considering CTU is easier to enter than a pornstar being double penetrated, that's probably what we have to deal with.
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Who tried to "move the car"... BAM! I don't think he even got it into gear.
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CTU New York is knocked out, but the satalites are still up there. Call CTU Albany and have them run the friggin things.
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Taking out the NY CTU office wouldn't be a gamechanger because the backup facilities would be up and running asap. Wiping out the power grid ala Die Hard would've done the trick but these writers aren't innovative with their writing.At least Freckles reappears next week since the preview showed her running. (She just happens to be in the same vicinity that Jack's standoff with the terrorists is occuring.)
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Mar 15, 2010 10:05:37 PM CDT
Would have been awesome if an Oklahoma City type bomb went off a
by boynamedsue
Now that would have been some drama!!!
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...makes some of what is going on easier to handle. Nonetheless, the whole Dana Walsh storyline is just god-awful. It was from the beginning and it keeps getting worse. Not only is it insulting to the show (as someone already said about the catfish bullshit PO from hick-ville waltzing into CTU at 3AM), but it wastes the talents of Katie Sackhoff who ought to be out in the damn field kicking terrorist butt!! A waste of time and a waste of talent. But knowing this is the last season, I will endure it with a grin; hoping the final scene has Jack reading a bedtime story to his grand daughter.
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I mean, even on CONCEALED BOMBS like the EMP device. Who's stupid enough to sit around and watch a bomb count down to zero? And on the SUICIDE BOMBER VEST last week, too. Fucking annoying.
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best of the season so far. nonstop suspense & cat & mouse all the way through with the terrorists being just one short step ahead the whole time! nice twist at the end with the EMP & Tarran being still alive. definitely did not see that coming.major step up from the lackluster episodes we've been getting so far. well written & very well directed. if they can somehow sustain this momentum then this season just might redeem itself.
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Wonder if Cherry Jones would even bother coming back in season 9? She hasn't done anything this season, though the spoiler on who's coming back will probably give her character someone to play off with. Her chief of staff is an empty shirt.
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... knows that, since 9/11, you CANNOT drive into ANY major building without being stopped and your car checked for bombs. It's even more thorough for government buildings
CTU has the equivalent of fucking valet parking at its front door?
Great research from the writers!
... and now that CTU is knocked out and they lost the terrorists as they crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the writers will not only have to suspend reality, they'll have to MURDER it in order to make it REMOTELY possible for Jack to find two specific Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn.
All in all, too little too late.
There has been an introduction of new characters and subplot almost every other episode then those characters are killed/arrested ... not including the "Ma & Pa Kettle" Dana Walsh storyline of course. I wonder who's Cheerioes she peed in to get such a career momentum killing story? She barely escaped "The Bionic Woman" now this crap? -
24 is past the annual lame block of episodes and now we're in high gear.
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A solid episode from start to finish. For the first time this season, I was excited about an episode of "24."
Sure, the EMP plot was done back in season four (and done better). But the potential to have Jack killing terrorists without CTU has a lot of potential.
And, yeah, the Dana Walsh storyline is the stupidest plot "24" has ever done. Not even The Misadventures of Kim Bauer from season two can compare.
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... that mediocrity is now hailed?
we saw 5 members of SWAT in full body armor get killed with 5 bullets
we saw a civilian car pull up to the nation's terrorism protection agency without being inspected
we saw a stranger walk into the NERVE CENTER of CTU unescorted and unchallenged
*sigh*
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...big enough to drive an entire convoy of trucks through but, I agree, this season has had more than others. In almost every bloody episode. Some that are just damn inexcusable. There's just piss poor writing to blame for that.
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U mean to tell me the director of ctu, of fucking ctu, doesn't have a walkie talkie or blue tooth or can pick up a phone or has a direct way to contact security other than running down the hallway shouting for security?!! Man this is lazy writting. Especially when a full body swat team obviously wearing vests can get shot with regular bullets through those said vests just to move the plot?!! Wtf man!!! Horrible epsiode. Gee ctu gets attacked again, been there done that. In no way is that a game changer. We seen jack do battle without ctu before it was called season 7
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LOL good ole CTU recap for the idiot viewers who cant follow along.
Hahaha SCHEMATICS! my favorite 24 word next to DAMMIT!
LMAO why is Agent Gump introducing himself to Jack again? I think he knows who u are my nigga.
HAHAHA this fucking cop has watched too many movies. LMAO@ him being so got damn reckless. Im sure he has an interesting backstory about being denied head of field ops for CTU because he was a few teddy grahams too fat so this is his big shot to show them he is the fuckin man – OH SHIT SHOTS FIRED! TONY ROBBINS RELEASING THE BULLETS OF PERSUASION all over NYs finest.
Bye bye rogue cop, u flabby fucker. The only loose cannon we want is JACK FUCKIN BAUER, u got that?
HAHAH@ Jack figuring shit out in ZERO point 3 seconds. Like nah nah no way robbins would do that, so viola its HIM. Who DOES this kinda shit? Are only white men capable of such gully action? Nah, cuz this nigga is like Jordan in his prime. PURE animal instinct, Jack is a got damn BEAST.
OH SHIT REAL NY FOOTAGE! But too bad for Jacks sake its not real NY traffic. That fucking cab wouldn’t have gotten 20 feet in real lfe. Real life motherfuckas woulda been like “WHATS A MATTA WIT U, I AINT MOVIN SHIT U PAKI” and that woulda been that. Game fuckin over!
Yo no lie this shit looks like a fucking movie right now, I AM FUCKING AMPED! SHIT all that got damn awesome shit went down in just 11 minutes. Best start in a while!
Ahahaha Agent Starbuck doing the long long long walk of shame.
YES Daddy Duke Boys aka Rip Torn staring into this dirty white whore’s SOUL. And got damn this bitch is ugly, but damn if I wouldn’t FUCK. She got that slut look down perfect. She NEEDS a dick in her mouth. Oh and tell me she don’t look like one of those bang bus bitches? U know she fucked Dirty Sanchez. Damn Daddy Duke is fucking ON it. Still its obvious this country bumpkin is up to no good.
Ahahaha Curtis lil brother chilling with jack and the fresh prinze.
Ahaha Samir is smug as fuck. LOL@ all these fucking untraceable cell phones. CTU got drones and image processing software but cant trace a paki iphone? Oh and this is great, a fucking High Definition Terrorist assassination feed. Who gave these motherfuckas HDMI cables? They got some serious funding. can a nigga get a job? shit.
WTFFFFFFFF@ LEAVING this File 33 shit with president slumdog. This poof hair nigga got SCHEMATICS! on the US and bauer and co just trust this dude not to send it when their daughter might get murked? Wtfffff.
LOL@ robbins and samir arguing out their shit in front of the princess. Get a room you stinky motherfuckas.
Hahahaha old man duke just roaming the fuckin halls. He is just all up in her shit. Dude look like he don’t wash his hands when he take a shit either. Poor white folk need to call the ACLU cuz this aint right how they making yall look this season.
Whoa whoa what??? Tony robbins with a change of heart? What the fuck is this double triple agent shit? Ahahaha damn robbins took one to the chest! NO! i NEEDED him to meet up with jack at some point. Say it aint so lunkhead.
Ahahaha gump done stated his name for at least the 3rd time this episode.
CHLOE’S SCHEMATICS!!
Aw shit gump is smiling telling these crackas good work, when a black man all smiles u KNOW some serious shit is about to go down.
Whoa wait a second time out. tony robbins got hit with rubber bullets or some shit? cuz i know i saw samir shooting REAL bullets into the cars when paki princess rolled out. So u are meaning to tell me they staged that entire shit with princess slumdog just to get the bitch to CTU? These motherfuckas cut it close as fuck JUST for that shit?? What kind of elaborate 10 minute set up shit is this? Especially if they just now came up with this plan to use the rods on American soil…..man these dudes are geniuses and know how to do the impossible. they need to be trying to get health care passed, not fucking around trying to bomb us and shit.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHIT!!! Ahahah that redshirt security guard trying to captain CTU just got the shock of a lifetime OH SHIT OH SHIT
Another Modern Warfare 2 moment. On some “WE HAVE BEEN EMP’D! ELECTRONICS ARE DOWN!” type shit.
Ok so who is the genius in CTU that designed that shit to allow DRIVE UP SERVICE? No guards, just drive up a hidden batman cave tunnel and there we go, bomb in tow. CTU at the whim of some janky ass architect going for the star trek look but forgot to add the got damn SECURITY CHECK POINT.
So agent starbuck just caught a MAJOR break. What a coincidence that she has to hand over some files that have now been erased from existence. Well now she can send drunk ass daddy duke on his hick way without having to murder his ass.
Meanwhile Jack and the fresh prinze are on their own working with a handful of units,Im thinking Bauer needs to swing by his apt and pick up Freckles. She might be crying into a pint of rocky road watching old boys 2 men videos on VH1 Soul right now, but hand that bitch a gun, she will be right back at it the second jack tells her whats up. I still cant believe she fucked that dirty ruskie a few hours ago. Nasty ass. Im willing to bet she sacrifices herself for jack at some point.
While zany as fuck, what a hilariously great episode. Still in the scheme of things what has really changed? Its not like the FBI couldn’t run shit, or some lil mini ctu hub in a mcdonalds somewhere. All they really need is chloe and an ipad and they could get schematical as all fuck. -
Mar 16, 2010 1:33:59 AM CDT
Athis time last year we had the attack on the white houset w
by phoenixmagida5th
now that was a game changer. Sure the way the africans got into the white house was considerded ridicouls but soon after two nobodies actually snuck into the white house wearing formal wear with no invetations when security was on full alert. So I can forgive that. But it was exciting. We didn't know who was gonna live or die and we lost bill and felt real heartbreak. This season ends episode 12 with a attack on ctu we have seen countless times before.
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Okay, so if the rumors are true, we should see these items appear over the next 12 hours: Mr. Blonde, Charles Logan, Naked Mandy. It will take a lot of writing to effectively pull that off, but I wonder if this season might get better on the backswing...at least with the Redneck Rampagers dead, we can move on (sort of). I think the last two episodes were better than the previous two, if that is worth anything. We NEED more Freckles though.
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"Im thinking Bauer needs to swing by his apt and pick up Freckles. She might be crying into a pint of rocky road watching old boys 2 men videos on VH1 Soul right now, but hand that bitch a gun, she will be right back at it the second jack tells her whats up."
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"I've just got one more question...."
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decent editing for a change. the weakest part is the ridiculous subplot at CTU. IF she were will to kill two hillbillies, why wouldnt she just take care of this guy too? Nice use of the EMP by the way.
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...when they have to publicize a "shocking twist" in a trailer for an episode of 24 where that would have been just a normal episode in the first couple of seasons. This is really just embarrassing writing. I'm glad the united states in 24verse gets attacked so much because its not even a challenge. Think about the history they have. Nearly every president in the past 12 years has been assassinated or had an assassination attempt on them, the white house attacked, ctu been blown up god knows how many times. Moles every single fucking year at the highest offices in the land, nuclear bombs being detonated in major cities and so on and on. Let's just have cars pull right up without even looking in the fucking BACK SEAT. The security in 24verse is an absolute joke. But not as bad as the scriptwriting in the real world here. Embarrassing.
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Jack Bauer is the murder suspect and Columbo hangs out with him at work trying to catch him out. Yeah, parole officer is totally Columbo, and knows already the blonde chick is secretly Face Man, working undercover for the A Team.
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Mar 16, 2010 7:27:06 AM CDT
Lost the cab under the bridge? Hasn't that been done before?
by alice cooper stalker
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Every time Columbo goes outside Jack kills some terrorists but when Columbo comes back in to ask one more question he never sees it. Cat and Mouse you see.
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except how would we know she was missing?!
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These are the two cheapest, laziest ways writers get bad things to happen. The SWAT team guy completely disobeys orders, then shows that every member of the NYPD SWAT unit is less competent than one single terrorist with a pistol. And yes, I would think, in reality the CTU head would quickly shout into a radio, "Lock down. Don't let that car in." And some doors would close instantly or guards would dive out to that entrance.Oh, the other cheap plot devices are people being horrible liars. Starbuck can't come up with a good lie? Plus, she could easily have him thrown out because she's too busy fighting terrorists. And no guards note him strolling around? Ugh. You're killin' me, guys. And I still kind of like this show!
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Did they have an EMP lying around somewhere or can you pick one up at the all night Radioshack? I only ask because 5 hours ago they supposedly weren't really planning any of this.
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Mar 16, 2010 9:39:51 AM CDT
Am I the only one doing Office Space lines when the PO talks?
by garbageman33
"I'll put strichnine in the guacamole". Yes, that's what it takes for this show to entertain me now.
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Jack realizes how badly he has been screwed over by the US (they left him to be tortured for a year and a half in china and only brought him back as a hostage exchange where they knew he would be killed), and decides to bring down america. He throws out crazier and crazier requests, which people go along with because that's just what they do. He asks for a live nuke. He loads it into a truck, drives it up to the white house and detonates it.
Screen goes white. Silent countdown. Roll credits.
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That game has taken over my life. I think I have to go play now. Did not see that ending coming until they IDed the security chief not being dead and smirking as he got in the SUV. The EMP was a nice touch. NYPD ESU must be pissed for made to look like Mayberry's finest.
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but it was riddled with stupidity on all fronts.The hillbilly guy just starts walkin around CTU? WTF? "Security!!!" WHAT security!?! CTU should be the most inaccessible place around, with layers upon layers of boundaries and barricades. Jeez, it is harder to get into a movie theater than it is to wander aimlessly inside CTU.And the huge kidnap and File 33 ruse? Completely unnecessary! All they had to do was have LiarBoyFriend tell DumbDaughter that she needed to go to CTU, here, call them or we're both dead.... and the result would have been the same.Except that the result was OVER THE TOP IDIOCY! A realistic scenario would have been to give her driving directions to an interception point, have her walk away from the car and be searched/etc before escorting her into CTU. But to open the gates and DIRECT her to drive a Known Terrorist Vehicle right into the bowels of CTU was just beyond stupid--and that is without even mentioning how ridiculously vulnerable CTU is in the first place.Braga has "nookyallerd the fridge" this season. Whoever gave him any role beyond delivering latte's to the crew really screwed up.
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Mar 16, 2010 3:17:13 PM CDT
Stephen Root just wandering around a federal building
by detectivemills82
Gotta love the security of this place. Stephen Root shows up randomly at 3am during a national crisis....and homeboy just starts strolling around like you do an aisle at a grocery store.
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It works with his character- this pushy, "I don't give a fuck" type would walk wherever he wants in order to get results. He knows the second someone asks who he is, he can put Walsh in a corner again. And I am a firm believer in the notion that you can get away with a lot of shit if you have the audacity to give it a try.
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pushy or not, for him to get into CTU like that. It might fit HIS character, but it should in No Way fit the CTU "character"
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"I am a firm believer in the notion that you can get away with a lot of shit if you have the audacity to give it a try." That's all well and good until a Secret Service agent drops you to the ground and forces a gun to your temple for taking a leisurely midnight stroll on the White House lawn.
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"Ok so who is the genius in CTU that designed that shit to allow DRIVE UP SERVICE? No guards, just drive up a hidden batman cave tunnel and there we go, bomb in tow. CTU at the whim of some janky ass architect going for the star trek look but forgot to add the got damn SECURITY CHECK POINT."To me CTU's entrance looks like the front door to a hotel. You drive up, a couple of security/valet guys come out to park your car, head of CTU is there to greet you 'cause what else would he have to do in a national emergency but be the freakin' doorman.
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It was one of the less boring episodes the season, but the Stephen Root thing really got to me. I wasn't even sure what his position was at first and I thought it was ridiculous. Now that I come here and realize he was just a parole officer, I'm throwing my hands up. Fucking retardedly indefensible.
And of course, taking down five heavily armed swat officers with a tiny pistol would have been ridiculous, even if it had been Bauer on the trigger. -
Jack already escaped from a mximum security prison in season 3.In ONE fucking hour! Michael Scofield ain't shit on Bauer.Good episode this week though, the first 10 minutes were great.I hope this keeps up to the end of series.
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At last - 24 is back....Great way to resolve the Dana story (EMP). Sure it'll come back, but hopefully she'll take part in the badasrey now.Maybe there will be something to salvage - lets stay the execution to see how it turns out.
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the writers have an endgame in sight. I hate it when they're in the midst of a season, not knowing if they should tie up any loose ends and create more of a sense of closure (kinda like the last season of "Married...With Children", although on a much lesser scale. Ideally, it'd be nice if they wrapped this season up nicely (nice past 4-5 episodes finally) and have a classic, PERSONAL story for Jack, possibly bringing back characters from the past seasons (Tony, Mandy, Chase). I would just hate for this to be the last season without any real sense of finality, instead of another unnamed Middle East terrorist threat.
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the writers have an endgame in sight. I hate it when they're in the midst of a season, not knowing if they should tie up any loose ends and create more of a sense of closure (kinda like the last season of "Married...With Children", although on a much lesser scale. Ideally, it'd be nice if they wrapped this season up nicely (nice past 4-5 episodes finally) and have a classic, PERSONAL story for Jack, possibly bringing back characters from the past seasons (Tony, Mandy, Chase). I would just hate for this to be the last season without any real sense of finality, instead of another unnamed Middle East terrorist threat.
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As Kayla's car careens toward CTU, the Director orders the entrance sealed. A heavy door slowly lowers, but it's too late. The car scrapes under the edge, tearing the roof off, ALONG WITH KAYLA'S PRETTY, STUPID HEAD. The deadweight of her lifeless foot floors the accelerator. The car crashes into the loading dock, exploding and taking down most of CTU. Dana Walsh emerges from the rubble to see Bounty Hunter Milton hurt, but alive, so she slams a red Swingline stapler into his skull, eliminating the worst sub-plot of the year with one swing of her mighty Cylon arm. In the background, Chloe sees all... 3:59:59
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Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
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Also, Dana doesn't want Prady talking to Hastings. If I was Hastings I would want to know who this asshole walking around is.
This is like a SCTV skit- CTU blows up real good. Jesus- don't they have anyone guarding the entrance? -
Most of the questions I'm reading here are legit, just not strong enuff to be used as another whiny cry about how '24' has ruined your life.
I definitely thought those SWAT guys were wearing armour too. But you know what? Head shots don't go over well on network TV...so a muzzle flash and a dude getting dropped is good enough for me. The point was clear, not to mention Jack told them Tarin would get the drop on 'em and guess what, it happened. Jack's always right!
Yackbacker told you what you need to know about why this Prady guy was wandering around. Not to mention he got clearance from Dana, which must be kinda a big deal.
And all this crying about security checks for the daughter's car...geezus, you guys. If you really care how the daughter of a foreign leader who was only minutes before about to lose her head by terrorists and "somehow" managed to escape and has been directed by phone how to get to safety didn't have to go thru a full body scan and remove her shoes before entering the private CTU underground base...then I'm pretty sure no explanation would suffice. How do you know she didn't clear some sort of gate outside the tunnel? Who cares! Goodbye drama if it takes her an hour to clear security...that's always healthy for a real-time format. Fuck.
As for the question as to where the terrorists got an EMP at 2am when this attack wasn't originally planned? I'm pretty sure that we all discovered a few hours ago when the Kamistanian Wayne Palmer was told about the REAL plan, that it had nothing to do with getting the rods out of the country. I'm also pretty sure that this Samir guy has said for some time now, "don't worry about CTU" tracking the rods, "I'll take care of it." EMP plan WAS the plan.
So after watching the latest episode, I did have a question. Please don't interpret this as a cry that '24' needs to end, but more as a request to other fans to help add some insight. Samir and Tarin had a conversation that basically implied that Tarin was prepared to die in the assassination attempt on President Omar earlier in the day. I missed some of this dialogue, but was that right? If the plan was to kill Omar, and Tarin and his brother weren't willing to do it (being likely the two closest to the President anyway), then what were the terrorists trying to avoid by instead hiring a hit man? Am I right to guess the brother being put in charge would have avoided a politically messy coup in the eyes of the world, and they wished to remain hidden?
Apart from one horrible episode (1am) that I openly criticized as maybe the worst in '24's' history, I've been patient with the slow build and appreciate the different approach this season. Looking forward to a wild finish to the series! -
Been with this show since day 1, but I can't take anymore. Utter shit. I stuck it out for half a season but if this is the best they can do then I'm OUT.
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