4.29.2009

24, Season 7: 3-4 AM

This is a little late. Sorry.

-Sprint offers its customers a chance to view "extended sneak previews" of the upcoming 24 episode. I am a Sprint customer, although I have no fancy features that would allow me to see the previews. But even if I could, I wouldn't, because the regular previews we all see at the end of each episode already give away too much. And I'm not that impatient; I can wait a week.

-In the hotel room, we had a showdown between Tony and his fellow bad guy, the one who smuggled the canister out of the perimeter. The guy, who was previously a highly-trained killing machine, turned into an incompetent law enforcement officer during their fight. How did he get beat and killed by a guy he had a gun trained on, one who was weak because he recently shot himself in the gut?

-There's a mysterious group that is organizing this whole thing. They talk to each other via teleconference with their voices scrambled for anonymity. We are led to believe they are all executives of private defense contractors. They also use parliamentary procedure and have votes. It's good to see that they value democracy, even as they plot attacks on the US.

-It looks like we'll soon figure out the deal with Janice. She's been asserting herself lately, questioning behavior she sees as illegal, but she's stayed loyal. So far.

-The phrase "enemy combatant" was thrown out twice this week, referring to Hodges and Tony. In both cases, people were suggesting that the bad guys be designated as such. Is this merely an attempt to link the show to real events, or is it a preview of upcoming events? Will Jack get to go to Gitmo and do some waterboarding?

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