24, the Fifth Day, at the 17th Hour

SPOILER WARNING: READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

This episode turns the President into a complete villain. And he’s using his power to get Jack. They are really in trouble now.

• I still think to have the President be the biggest villain doesn’t make any sense at all. I mean, starting in this episode he throws away that anxious, weak face and suddenly becomes assertive and strong. Like I said last time, what a good actor he was the whole time. It would be more believable if he wasn’t such a wuss before.
• Since Logan is revealed as the villain, the Vice President Gardner suddenly loses his evil,scheming face too. That change is so obvious as if to remind viewers that “Hey! I’m not the bad guy! It’s my boss!”
• I thought Evelyn would have the evidence with her when they went to meet Henderson. How does that work? Now that I think about it, how come Henderson didn’t ask to see and verify the evidence before letting go the little girl? He really had the upperhand at that point.
• I didn’t think it was wise for Jack and Wayne to leave Evelyn alone, wounded staying in the hotel with her daughter. I would think at least Wayne should’ve stayed behind. Oh well, it can’t be helped that the little girl called 911 when her mom fainted. Henderson found them and I think they are going to die.
• That poor bank manager dude. When I saw that Jack was going to have the guy open the bank by force, I knew this guy is dead. This is like a golden rule in 24: if you happened to be an innocent civilian and you happened to have the misfortune to be enlisted by Jack for help, you are more than likely to get killed. As soon as Jack got the evidence, the bad guys conveniently arrived and the poor guy was killed during their escape.
• On the other hand, Jack was shrewd to get the LAPD to battle Henderson’s men. It was also kind of cruel because they were pretty much being used as human shields.
• The DHS people are a bunch of dumb asses. They actually thought Audrey wouldn’t know her car was bugged? Come on. It’s even more ludicrous that they put the transponder at such an easy-to-find location.
• I really hate that dude, that DHS lady Karen’s henchman. He has “Hello I’m a bureaucrat and I’m an ass” written all over his face.

I did get to see the preview of next week’s episode. They are in a world of trouble. Audrey is being followed by the DHS/CTU agents. It seems that Jack is going to be ambushed at the airport when he meets up with Audrey. (I wonder what the DHS agents’ faces would look like when Secretary Heller shows up.) Chloe gets set up by the paranoia chick and the bureaucrat bastard and it looks like she’ll be arrested. I really hope that bastard would go down in flame before this season ends. Let’s see what will happen next week.

~ by haydeé on April 10, 2006.