24, Season 7: 4-5 PM

Not a whole lot to say this week. Some groundwork was laid for future episodes, and a couple of old friends were brought back, but not a whole lot of action.

-How exactly did our newly-uncovered mole, Shawn, figure out what was going on with the track-down-Dubaku operation before he tried to ruin it? Did he say something about tapping in to Moss' phone line? Questionable. And why did he have to get his wife's plane on the ground so urgently back at the beginning of the season, if he was in on this all along? Couldn't he have kept his wife off flights that day, or said "Dubaku, make sure not to crash Flight 226 today?"

-Sending some civilian in on a dangerous trip, like they did tonight when they let Dubaku's girlfriend go meet with him, is common on 24. They already did it this season with the PM. They always hook up some tracking device. If I'm not mistaken, this type of stunt fails about half the time.

-I think Dubaku is screwed now. Almost all of his henchmen, who really ran the show, are dead, and everyone else in the conspiracy outranks him. Sure, he has leverage, but he'll screw up somehow. He is dumb and impetuous. He'll die within 2.5 hours.

-If someone says to you "Help me break the rules or I'll tell the boss about your affair," like Janice did to Shawn, can't you just say, "Well then I'll tell the boss you threatened to blackmail me?" That's what I'd do.

-Good to have Chloe back to bluntly telling people what she thinks of them again.