Day 6, 6 AM - 7 AM (Episode 1)
- The President decides to pay China "a lot" in order to get Jack Bauer and then give him up again because a known terrorist claims that he knows the location of a bigger terrorist, and they're really, really desperate.
- The President has yet again chosen a Cabinet member who is going to undermine him at every possibility, but will not get fired.
- Chloe is able to blackmail Nadia in 5 seconds with the information that she left the "Janis firewall open", even though telling Chloe about Jack is clearly an even worse offense and comes very close to ruining what seems to be the Government's only chance to stop the terrorist attacks.
- Abu Fayed's men have the keys to CTU handcuffs. (Buchanan seems to produce them from his own belt, and never drops the keys for the men to pick up.)
- Someone in the White House actually cares about the Constitution. (Ha! Ok, I'll lay off the politics for now.)
- Fayed tells Jack his whole plan for no reason, when he just as easily could have told him enough to make him think he'd die for no reason, but not the whole deal regarding killing Assad.
- The President has yet again chosen a Cabinet member who is going to undermine him at every possibility, but will not get fired.
- Chloe is able to blackmail Nadia in 5 seconds with the information that she left the "Janis firewall open", even though telling Chloe about Jack is clearly an even worse offense and comes very close to ruining what seems to be the Government's only chance to stop the terrorist attacks.
- Abu Fayed's men have the keys to CTU handcuffs. (Buchanan seems to produce them from his own belt, and never drops the keys for the men to pick up.)
- Someone in the White House actually cares about the Constitution. (Ha! Ok, I'll lay off the politics for now.)
- Fayed tells Jack his whole plan for no reason, when he just as easily could have told him enough to make him think he'd die for no reason, but not the whole deal regarding killing Assad.
posted by Dave at 11:00:00 PM
4 Comments:
The idea of paying for Jack with Money IS Stupid. If, instead, it was a prisoner exchange that somehow later made this plot-point relative, then I'd let it slide. Giving him up on the grounds that it might provide them the clues they need is also weak, however to start the show with the demonstrative coordination with Fayed to establish warrented trust in the veiwer can not happen in two seconds - thus this weak point. I think Jack should've just friggin' escaped from the chinese. Give him some credit here, he is VERY VERY good at escaping.
Chloe and Nadia and the blackmail idea is not really stupid, but forced exposition to establish that Chloe is unofficially allowed to subvert CTU now and that her power and rank there have eclipsed everyone else. you know what this means? She's has to die.
Handcuff keys: Smut-Li turns red with high concentration of stupidity!
Fayed telling Jack his plan makes sense if you believe that Fayed is relishing the anquish and pain he can inflict upon him. Fayed wants to hurt Jack as much as possible and this is the best way to do it. Fayed probably doesn't watch much TV and therefore is unaware that Jack will surely use his taunting as motivation to escape, foil his plans, and ultimately kill him 23 hours later.
Ok, so point by point:
- They were deliberately vague here about how they paid for Jack, so we can just take them at their word that it was "a lot", and may have involved prisoners, possibly even some sort of arrangement that may eventually lead to more deaths, but had to be made. They were smart here in not elaborating. Given that it's a lot, they're really not getting a whole lot back, given the slim chance that giving up Jack will actually lead to Assad's capture - that's what I was saying.
- I hadn't thought about that point regarding Chloe and Nadia - but if this is the case, why isn't Chloe Nadia's boss?
- We now know that Fayed is basically the most successful terrorist in history. He could have just as easily told Jack "I have no intention of giving up Assad, and you will die for no reason." Why tell him any more than that?
Found this blog by Dave Barry that's pretty funny.
Whoa Kevin!
You are insightful. I knew I saw the subway scene before.
Smut-Li has heard the "let me insert a subdermal transponder" line before. He no dummy. I'm sure Jack was wise too.
As for #5. Their sat stuff is already fantastic beyond absurd.
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