so apparently heller, or DoD, is working on a plan to get out, and stuff happens at CTU. are we gonna sit through an hour of 24 sitting in police custody? if so... that'll suck.

anyone know what the kill count is?

Dod? he killed 4, right?
24? um... anyone yet?
Terrorists? train... debbie... 3 or 4 of the computer dudes friends, "not-jack"... secret service agents....

terrorists winning right now.

So what day is it now?

24 killed the two terrorist dudes

which two dudes? he shot the terrorist in the interrogation room, but he didn't die. so who has he killed?

no, jack is going to get out of the custody somehow. driscoll will probably get him out.

BUT WHAT DAY IS IT!!??

The two guys beating the shit out of Andrew Paige

it's the fourth season. so it's day 4.

Yes, this is the fourth consecutive day Jack Bauer has had to save the world.

24 has only saved the day twice, he stopped the nuke on day two, but did not save the president from the viral attack. and this season so far, we don't know if he will save it, the producers have said that he may not.

what's phase two of the terrorists plans? if 24 presumably saves DoD and DoDer, what else are they planning?

driscoll's daughter is being brought into ctu.

official body count:
hour 1
-train 30
-andrew's friends 3
-secret service 8
hour 2
-andrew's mom 1
-not jack 1
-security guard 1
hour 3
-jack 2
hour 4
-debbie 1 -DoD 3

breakdown body count
terrorists in general 38
terrorist dude jack is following 6
DoD 3
Jack 2
Terror Family 1

the in no way implies accuracy, despite sarcasm noted.

Interesting episode, more of a building episode than an action one. Still addicting, though.

great stuff. i knew jack was going to end up going in there by himself. i can't wait to see what the big shocker is that they talked about in the previews.

I'm still waiting for Jules and Vincent to show up to get the briefcase back.

Good stuff so far this year, but I really wish they would can the stupid CTU character sideplots. The bit w/ Driscoll's daughter & the bit w/ bitch who's trying to "get ahead" have got to go, but I guess it's too late now. These little asinine, unimportant detours have been 24's main shortcoming. Everything else is fine...the scene where the cops stopped the hostile up through his head-on collision was particularly good.

Oh, and good riddance, Chloe. Please don't come back.

I think Imagine Entertainment has a couple of good opportunities for spin-offs from this season of 24.

The first, of course, is the Araz Family, a sitcom where America's favorite immigrants get caught up in all sorts of hilarious situations. Just imagine this week's scenario (trying to hide Debby Does Behrooz' body) but done with a Friends-Style "Wacky Stack."

Next week: they've got to hide Debby's body, so they kill the mother. Then her husband comes looking for Debby's mom, so they kill him. Then Debby's Dad's Boss comes looking for him, and they kill him. Then the CEO of Debby's Dad's company comes looking for Debby's Dad's boss, and he dead too. Then a writer from FORBES magazine comes a-calling, and they're about to get him out the door until HE hears the CEO of Debby's Dad's company's cellphone ring, which just happens to be "Money Money Money."

The Forbes writer realizes something's up, and Behrooz tries a last minute save with "I am the CEO's love slave. He traded for me in Qatar for some blankets infected with monkeypox. We downloaded the same ringtones because we're going out. Me love him long time." And the writer starts to buy it, right? So he turns around to leave and Dina clubs him to death with Debby Does Behrooz' limp body. The episode (of the greatest sitcom ever) would end with the police coming to the door. Dina answers and hundreds of bodies spill out, resulting in her looking right into the camera and hissing then everybody laughs and Josie and the Pussycats play us out.

The second would be "Joe and Audrey." Watch every week as the Secretary of Defense and his gangly daughter try to kill themselves in creative ways! Next week, watch on as they challenge each other to a liquid fertilizer drinking contest!

Seriously, though. Audrey is either unaware that her lover is 24 or she has no faith in his ability (I'm guessing the latter, they probably cut the scene where she went on a tirade about how "typical" it was of 24 not to have her out within an hour of her capture and plus he always leaves the toilet seat up and one night she rolled over onto his pillow and the gun underneath hurt her face and he ate the last piece of garlic bread without asking her if she wanted it first) to rescue them. And what's up with Heller, anyway? Methinks he's a tad suicidal. They kidnap him and immediately he's all "I HAVE TO KILL MYSELF!" Could you imagine working on this guy's personal staff?

Me: Huh. The elevator's stuck.

Heller: That's it. I HAVE TO DIE! It's the ONLY WAY! YOU HAVE TO KILL ME! Maybe I can fake a heart attack to trick the elevator into opening. No? THEN KILL ME!

He's lucky he didn't get kidnapped with 24 because he wouldn't even get the words "Kill me" out of his mouth before 24 would snap his neck like a pretzel. Yeah, he'd probably get the "m" in "me" out.

When Debby Does Behrooz' cellphone rang, the look on Behrooz face was classic. I realized it wasn't a case of him panicking, he was disgusted by her choice of ringtones. He was all "Seriously, Debby. WTF? You chose THAT? Why didn't you download MY favorite song "Jabula Ntliziyo Yam" like we talked about?" I was waiting for Dina to come in and start making fun of Behrooz "Stupid DEAD American Girlfriends and her stupid dead taste."

I'm starting to love Edgar, simply because of the fact that he talks like he's got a mouth full of mashed potatoes. Or dog poop. He's all "Chwowe, I can't hewp you anymoah. Ewin Dwiscaw ith gonna catch me and I'll be in big twoboah."

Oh, and what's up with Chloe telling Edgar HE'S a geek? He should have come back with something along the lines of "I may be a geek, but you'ww be chiwdwess for the west of yoah wife because they're ithn't enough awcohaw in the worwd for even me to have thex wif you!"

I also dig the new CTU security guard uniforms. Nothing like RED SHIRTS to emphasize they're totally expendable.

And for the record, Heller killed two people.

Papercuts, I took your advice on the capitalization, though I may not use it for long.

Heller killed 3 people. The dude he choked out to get the handgun. Then he killed the dude with the AK. He then shot one more dude before Omar told him to put his weapon down slowly. I rewatched em all yesterday, but the fact that FOX had the show on at 8 pm CST really pissed me off. Not your normal pissed off, but Lewis Black pissed off with the pointy fingers.

I really hate that Mary Ann lady.

But if it's been on for 4 years, how can it only be the 4th day?