24: Day 5 Grade Hour 21

On a scale of 1-10 what did you give it?

JoettaB...

I give it a 9. I would've given it a 10 if Jack hadn't stopped in the middle
of a national crisis to do a smoochy scene.

Slayah...

That was so painful I needed to wash my eyes out.

CK...

Wasn't he choking her and threatening her life just a couple of hours ago?
She's pretty quick to forgive. And i thought the domestic violence rule was
to get away from the abuser immediately. That if they did it once they were
sure to do it again.

Maureen Goldman...

This was a peculiar situation in which Jack was by far the preferable
interrogator. We've seen their methods at CTU. As things go in their
line of work, he was protecting Andrey, not being abusive. I don't
believe that he threatened her life; that would be counter-productive.
There is nothing whatever to indicate that he has ever been violent in
a domestic situation, and in any case their association today has
taken place in the workplace.

Mark Nobles...

But this wasn't domestic violence. They were at work. That makes it,
uh, something different.

Brian Thorn...

3.5

Most disappointing episode this season. Excellent until the last ten
minutes, then Manny Coto hit his patented _Star Trek: Enterprise_
story-writing self-destruct button.

Zombie Elvis...

What a weasel.

holefamily1...

9.8 Its better and better each week!!! Fox owned the night today!

I notice when Manny writes the ep "Curtis" gets to do something.

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Mr. Hole

The favor of your reply is requested.

"You would make a destructive god, Mr. Hole, but as a human, you remain
pathetic and ineffectual." -- Heck

Schmedley...

Super Priceless

Marines: Set Up a Perimeter!

Miles nukes the recording with a Sonic Screwdriver!

Bierko transferred to County; somebody call Jack Ruby

Big traffic trouble in LA for the morning rush hour.

Uniblab...

Brett A. Pasternack...

Yeah, absolutely ridiculous. They should have been making copies of this
for hours now. Jack should have played it on the phone for anyone he was
talking to. Absurd. And, yeah, at least have Curtis or someone sitting
with Chloe.

Brett A. Pasternack...

Well, if he thought he was about to eat his gun, that might change his
perspective a bit.

My "favorite" moment was when they told Curtis where Jack would be
landing the plane, and he didn't bat an eye. He didn't even say, wait,
are they actually landing ON the freeway, or is that just where I should
meet him?

Jeffrey Kaplan...

bhartman33...

I think they must care a lot. It takes some effort to think of some of
the ridiculous plot twists they've had lately (not to mention some
set-up). It seems to me that they take some effort to apply the twist
at the end of each episode. In addition to making more sense, it would
also take less effort to write the whole story at once and break it up
into 1-hour pieces, precisely because you avoid having plot holes to
fill with mounds of absurdity.

Part of the original design criteria for the Eisenhower Interstate
highway network was specifically to provide emergency landing areas for
military aircraft as part of the Cold War civil defense system. As
such, all interstates are supposed to have at least one mile-long
straight and flat stretch with no overpasses or cables over the highway
every five or so miles.

Brett A. Pasternack...

As someone else pointed out, this is an urban legend. However, my point
wasn't that I doubted it could happen; it probably could. I just thought
that Curtis--who I don't think was aware that the plane was in danger of
being shot down--should have registered *some* surprise about it.

However, the "118" is not part of the Eisenhower highway network.

In an RPG a few years ago, set in the 1950s, I ordered the pilot of an
airplane I was in to land on the highway because we were being shot at
by a pair of fighters.

The first half of the episode was fairly exciting, but it's painfully
obvious that the writers ran out of story several episodes ago, so
they're just milking the now-they-have-it-now-they-don't hijinx with the
recording, and it isn't working.

Dick Sidbury...

Well, I half disagree. I don't think any of the episode, with the
possible exception of Miles' chicanery was exciting. I mean, we already
know that Jack will survive and that by 7 am things will be right with
the world. I was noticing while watching the episode that if they were
trying for excitement they weren't succeeding.

OTOH, you're on the money about the writers running out of ideas several
episodes ago.

I do, however, think it's possible that Jack or Chloe or someone
actually copied the recording, even though we're meant to think that it
was not copied.

7. Lots of fun, as always, but what was with Jack letting go of the

CK...

I take it you've never been married?

recording after risking his life multiple times to obtain it? Come on,
Jack - you should know better.

Brian Thorn...

On the other hand, F-18s aren't usually trying to shoot down airliners
over populated areas. Extra precautions may have been implemented,
such as positive visual ID (not easy at night) before firing.

patty1...

In fact, I expected the F-18 pilot to say at some point, "I can't
fire on them right now; they're over a populated area." But there
was no discussion from him or Logan or the admiral about where they
expected the jet to fall after it was blown up. Just one of those
loose ends...

shawn...

Agreed. There were lots of homes below the plane and yet the issue
never came up. The writers should have brought up the subject, but as
you say it was another loose end.

~consul...

Where were they supposed to be? ??Rt 118?? When they showed the view through the cockpit,
they showed a pretty close view of what I was presuming to be Downtown LA.