President Pussy's First Hour in Office - 
by J-Unit
There are a lot of things we have come to expect from a season of 24. Yes, there is non-stop action and knuckle-grabbing suspense. That's the good part. Unfortunately, we also have to come to grips with the idea that certain things are implausible, but then again, that is television. If Jack Bauer and friends had to follow the laws of physics and/or probability, the show would be less fun. There has been a steep increase in the "That would never happen" moments over the last few episodes, but the story line is not as disjointed as the last couple of seasons, and the producers are still bringing that suspense everyday.
At the end of last week, we were all lamenting at how stupid Jack was for letting the football go. Although he seems like MacGuyver one minute, fashioning a diversion with some bullets, a coffee can, and some dead grass, he wasn't able to figure out a way to slow down the getaway. Couldn't he use his knife and slash some tires, perhaps cut some hoses or belts or something? Even if he just had George Foreman sit them and tell them that they aren't going to pay a lot for a muffler at Meineke would have been better than what Jack came up with.
But that is all in the past. Although the terrorists were not able to get away with the entire contents of the nuclear football, it seems that they got the most important part. You know, the pages that have the launch codes for our entire nuclear arsenal. And whoever made this nuclear football, did you have to put all of those codes in the red section? Doesn't that just scream "Important Pages!" to you?
Knowing that Marwan likely has the launch codes and is planning to secure a nuclear weapon, CTU starts the protocols to begin locating all of the known warheads. Considering all of the weapons we had created to scare the Soviets away, this is quite the monumental task. It's going to be lots of high pressure situations and the people in charge are going to have to work together well, so when Buchanan said that Tony and Michelle would be working on this together, we all sort of wondered what the hell was going on.
The current Tony and Michelle saga is much like their saga as we watched them fall in love for the first time. Every episode, we get about two minutes of them talking to each other in order to sort their feelings out. They have been pretty angry and testy before this, but ever since a few people have been making comments on how the other one seems like they are still in love, Tony and Michelle have been working things out. This week, we had a mutual respect, and an understanding that everything was in the past. We also had an awkward silence as the both realized they might have feelings for each other, with an even more awkward "I hope I'm not interrupting anything" from Chloe to kill the mood. Love works in mysterious ways in the CTU building.
Chloe did have some good information though. It turns out that they found an associate of Marwan from a terrorist watchlist. Have we noticed how many watchlists these people have? I really don't think CTU gets it. They can make a watchlist, but it doesn't seem like they can watch the watchlist. And when it comes right down to it, watching the list is the most important part of a watchlist. Why do these names keep popping up all over the place? If you are supposed to be watching them all along, why is it taking so long?
Anyway, the person on the watchlist is Yosik Khatami, an associate of Marwan's. He bought some gas at a gas station with the wrong credit card, but soon realizes his mistake. He calls Marwan for some help, and Marwan sends him to the marina, which is close to Khatami's current location in Inglewood. Now, I am assuming the marina is Marina Del Rey, and if that is the case, then Inglewood is still pretty far off. Then again, you and I have to travel on actual Los Angeles streets, and not the bullet trains that whisk 24 cast members from one side of Los Angeles to the other in five minutes. (Actually, in this episode, Jack was caught by reverse 24 travel speed. Apparently he was traveling in a helicopter, but it was going to take him more time to get back to CTU than it takes Marwan to drive back.)
With Jack in transit, CTU sends Curtis after Khatami. I love it when Curtis gets to be a bad ass. The guy is obviously smart, but why in the hell keep him behind a desk? Quite obviously, the problem at CTU is with the field teams. And even with Curtis, I was just waiting for Michelle to give the instructions. When she said "Be discreet", I thought to myself "oh yeah, I am sure that means only three field team members will die". I was waiting for her to order a hard perimeter to make sure nobody escapes. Since they were in a marina, it wouldn't be hard. Right? Right?
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