The title of this is AWESOME. That song will be playing in my head all day. The only better title I've seen on TVGasm was "I kelly the amazing race." Great recap!

The title is spot on!

Anyone admitted to the CTU Clinic is guaranteed to leave dead. Which is why whenever Jack or Tony has an injury they say "I'll suffer through it" rather than check into the Clinic.

Does Jack have this convenient ski mask stuffed in his underwear? It seems every other episode he's pulling it out from down there.

the 24 folks are setting us up for a knockout season 5.

PS. J-Unit it would have been nice to get your take on last weeks episode.

This had to have been one of the most disappointing episodes this season. Come on, did anyone else NOT feel the drama when that surgeon had to choose between Paul and the random Chinese guy? Paul's such a wuss! Let him go already! It was good to see some genuine emotion from Audrey though. Can someone get her out of here...NOW! Finally!

I heard that two fairly major male characters die at the end of this season. Please let Paul have been one of them. I can't say much for him being a major character though. I feel no connection to Curtis either. Let him be the other one.

Bring on Chase and Mandy!!

I kelly the 24 vernacular: "Whatever it takes." = "Jack, go kick maximum ass NOW!"

There were many textbook examples of the Jack Bauer Method of Communication employed (i.e. "The Whisper and Bark Technique": "Curtis, bring the van around to the front...NOW!). Nice. And many thanks to MymomstalksB-side for bringing that to our attention (see Monday Night Football, #9). I take note of those every time I watch 24.

And finally, did anyone else hear the "Young and the Restless" theme song a few times? I heard it on three different occasions:

1. Uberneedy Audrey and a remarkably healthy-looking-an-hour-after-spinal-surgery Paul talking in the hospital.

2. Tony and Michelle prior to the skank's (aka, "First woman who enjoyed the whiskey aftertaste when you blow your load" - kickass description) phonecall.

3. Hospital visit #2 with Audrey and Paul, when Jack barges in.

I love how they invent technology based on need. Like, this week they have that infrared jobbie that allows them to map every floor of a building AND know exactly where the people are inside. What, did they forget about it last week, when they resorted to the old camera in the ventilation system trick? Or what about the time before thatn when Marwan escaped? Or the time before that???

Man, this show stinks !!!

Now the Chinese are going to rain down nukes all over the country. Ya pissed off the Tiger, Jack !!

Gotta close the medical unit!!! HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE????

I think that the Nixon President is going to name the Black Kennedy Vice-Prez, and then quit to join a Village People Cover Band.

Chloe and Edgar will get married this summer, join a swingers club and ....... fill in your own blanks.

PS - There is a scandal at "Jack's" old school in Montreal - Seems that the kids were doing some serious internet gambling...

ANTFan,

Last week was only OK, but the last five minutes with Chloe made my whole evening. This week wasn't that great either, but you know they are going to have to really write in some crazy shit to be able to tie up everything at the end.

Personally, I can't wait. This season has been laughable at a lot of points, but they are still bringing some pretty good suspense.

Who says there will be any loose ends tied up this season? Season 2 - The ole Mandy shakes the Prez's hand and then nothing ever comes of it. Season 3 - Let's cut off Chase's arm and then....end scene! I bet you anything we will know no more about Behrooz or Heller at the end of this season than we do right now. I sure hope so though.

24 was great last night! Chloe has become the only girl I enjoy watching on the show, I want Audrey dead now! I do enjoy watching Jack blimb walls, carry a man on his shoulder, all in the same day as he stabbed himself and I think got shot in the arm. I dunno, I want some of what he's having! I do hope Chloe goes out into the field more and kills some more people, her hooking up with Edgar is starting to get too close for my liking, she needs a real man!

I loved how Edgar made a point about how Marwan's tape was only partially restored, yet they played to whole thing. The damage only made the Marwan seem like Jambi from Pee Wee's playhouse. Perhaps they could only restore the tape from Marwan's neck & up.

Did this scene bug anyone else?
"what does he mean by that when he says we'll wake up to a new world? Would he really unleash the WMD's before sunrise???? Nah, that's crazy"

In praise of Paul Raines -----
He reminds me of Oliver from last year's The O.C.

Jack is officially crazy! The way he held the surgeon at gunpoint... I mean, who can work under those circumstances?! Wow!

"Palmer assures him that his country will be greatly rewarded if they give up Mr. Lee. Well Taiwan, it was nice knowing you."
"We never thought that you were washed up and shacked up with the first woman who enjoyed the whiskey aftertaste when you blow your load."

I have to admire the mind that comes up with those. That shows some RANGE, brotha.

I am so glad Mr. Bean is dead. He was so disgusting in his touching tender moment with Audrey. She is so stupid and whiny. I can't believeshe would have the job she has, even if she is the Secretary of Defense's daughter. It would be like giving that job to one of the BUsh girls. Shudder.
I remember when I saw Dennis Haysbert at the Best Buy in Pasadena, and he is like seven feet tall. No wonder all his scenes with Kiefer are over the phone. I wish David Palmer was our real president.

Realityforme:
I'm nervous that you said that. The opening shows Dennis Haysbert as a "special guest star" or something like that.

If you're right, he better not be the one to go. Not when we have Edgar hangin' around!

If the writers could just have stopped their characters from doing stupid things, this show could have been called "12" and it would be over by now.

"God, isn't there an intern or something at CTU medical? Do they have to get approval from Paul's HMO before they can call in another team?"
Oh, that's good!

What's with all the people milling around the operating room? Are they taking a CTU tour group through the CTU clinic at two in the morning? Also concerned about nonsterile conditions in the O.R.

Am I missing something?
Where on earth did the secretary of defense go?
Was there any explanation for him being present at CTU and running the show to being completely MIA?
How can they have him being to central to the plot one week, then just vanished the next week? Doesn't whiny-ass Audrey even care that her dad's missing?
After 4 years watching this show, I'm starting to get fed up with these rediculous plot omissions. They could at least have had someone give us one line of dialogue to explain this rather than to just leave it hanging.

Charlie13 - I laughed out loud at your comment. THanks!

Victoria - I wholeheartedly agree. Why can't David Palmer be our real president, he is so reassuring and presidently and not....stupid.

Well, you could see that one coming from a mile away. The only good reason to have kept Paul alive this long was to come up with some forced scenario where Jack would have to make another one of those tough choices President Pussy couldn't handle and end up pushing Audrey even further away. Of course, at this point, nothing would please me more than for Audrey either to pull a Maya Driscoll or to pull off a rubber head mask and turn out to have been Nina Meyers all along. Yeah, Nina's dead, but Jack has died twice in one day before and still managed to kick some terrorist ass before the sun came up, so it wouldn't be that big of a stretch.

Well, I'm still wondering what happened to Behrooz, but at least Marwan didn't slip through yet another hard perimeter this week. My faith in the writers has been severely tested yet again (really, wouldn't Palmer at least tell Jack to wait long enough for the Chinese Consul to put the phone down before he sent him in? And why didn't he try to throw suspicion onto Marwan for Lee's abduction? And wouldn't they have, I don't know, called the CTU infirmary so they could prepare for Lee's arrival, at which point they would have known that the doctor was in surgery and maybe, oh, I don't know, gone to THE HOSPITAL instead?). But like our excellent recap scribe J-Unit, I anticipate a grand finale with lots of explosions and gunfire, at least one more Scooby-Doo-style exposure of a mole/traitor in either CTU or the Presidential cabinet, and a major character death--please, God, let it be Audrey.

Hard perimeter, soft perimeter, iron perimeter, gelatinous perimeter...it doesn't matter, they all suck dog.

However, were Edgar to set up a vaporous perimeter after a couple of hours at the "All You Can Eat Burrito Buffet"...

I wish Palmer was our president too. He's so much better than any other president in recent history, and especially better than the one we have now!

I wonder why Jack didnt decide to, you know, drive to a real hospital with Lee. They were already out riding around, and I'd rather go to a real hospital than the makeshift CTU one.

Palmer for President. The guy rocks. One episode and we're about to wake up to a nuclear
explosion

and world war III.

The guy gets stuff done.

Jack can do anything (well maybe not so good in the O.R.).Why don't they send Jack out to get Bin Laden. Shouldn't take more than a couple of days tops. He could take Curtis with him.

Victoria -- I agree about Palmer being gigantic. I met Dennis Haysbert about a year ago, and not only is he super tall, but when I shook his hand, I felt like I had the smallest hand on the planet.

Paul sucks. I'm glad he died. Can you imagine Audrey living in Amherst? I bet she'd sit around college coffee houses and be annoying. And you just know she'd always be bugging people to go with her to lectures at Smith and Mt. Holyoke nearby. Shut up, SMALL LIBERAL ART SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS!

Edgar and Chloe, sittin' in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the frowning, lisping baby with a God complex in the baby carriage.

Seriously, my helper monkey could write a better season of 24.

Jack, you are meant to kill people and break things, not get all emotional about killing your girlfriends, husband, who took a bullet for you. Look at it this way, there's no more competition for Audrey's heart.

Tony, you are as well meant to kill people and break things, when I was first introduced to you, you were walking into a garage, guns blazing, you were a tortured soul (patch) without a wife nor a country, but you would not relinquish your honor. That is until your ex wife became head of CTU, hero to pussy in 3.2 seconds, a new record.

Curtis, you too were meant to kill people and break things, and you've done it in a fantastic fashion, the way you cracked the neck of that mofo terrorist after he beat you to a pulp, outstanding. Now you've been relegated to holding the perimeter, that's right, big, small, tight, loose, running, to stable, always look to the CTU badasses to hold a perimeter, kinda, Marwan did escape a perimeter or two while running from CTU.

Enough of the love stories, the only one that was any fun was the three way between Jack, Audrey, and the now deceased Paul. Well, maybe the loving relationship between the Araz clan was not that bad, but get rid of Driscoll and her daughter, Tony, Michelle, and that Uma Thurman doppelganger.

By the way, what happened to Behooz, the SecDef, and Driscoll?

The above statement was typed by my helper monkey, Stevie. He lovers 24, and humps the furniture while watching, I wanted to watch Everybody loves Raymond, but no.

I didn't watch the show at all till this season and only did because my wife wanted to and I had nothing else to do without Monday Night Football on. What a horrible waste of time. Kiefer owes me hours of life. It was ok to start, and occasionally good but man since the sun went down so did the show. Sort of like a reverse vampire where the talent dies with the sun. I know I should turn the channel off especially when the shows veers off into Rupert Murdoch Propaganda 101. Jeeze Himmler has nothing on this guy. But there is something almost addictive about this show, or even subliminal. They should do that to Arrested Development and then maybe people will actually watch it.

hey, the guy who plays pres. logan played mike's dad in friends. mike = phoebe's husband.

Was it just me, or did anybody else wonder why the President couldn't call the Chinese Premier DIRECTLY? No, he gets told to wait a few hours! Hilarious.

And didn't they pronounce it "counselate" instead of "consulate"?

Best Comedy Series: 24

IMO this was one of the best episodes of the season, the scenes between Jack and Audrey, PRICELESS, loved every second of it.

24 - ROCKS... and im very happy with this season...

has anyone gone back to Day 1 recently? Jack looks so young! I think 24 is the best show ever and im glad to have found this web page...