Moose watches 24

Season 4: 2pm - 3pm

Aww, Tony's all down in the dumps because Michelle left him after Jack and Palmer got him out of prison. He was all angry and started drinkink after getting out of prison apparently. Michelle's working at Division now, so hopefully she pops up again.

Jack and Audrey hid at Tony's house while Heller tried to find the spy at CTU. They got the wrong person at first, but got the right one in the end.

Jack got the ID on the man Audrey saw and tracked him down, but a sniper killed him before Jack could take him in.

lol when you said Marwan got repetitive I assumed you'd at least be nearing the end. You are in for a bumpy ride.

Season 4: 3pm - 4pm

One of the reactors melted down. Jack needs that override now. They found Behrooz's mother and she promised to help them if they could rescue Behrooz from his father. But the father thinks that if he kills Behrooz the mother will talk, because he knows his mother is only helping CTU to keep Behrooz safe. So he's just going to stall until the reactors meltdown.

...Not sure how that works.

Season 4: 4pm - 5pm

Thanks to Behrooz's mother Jack found the building that was used to plan all the attacks. One of the companies that owns the building is run by Audrey's husband, so Jack went over there and smacked him right in the mouth.

Jack also got Tony temporarily re-instated at CTU so he could interrogate Behrooz and his mother. No one seemed to have a problem with that.

There's only an hour or two before the rest of the plants enter meltdown and they don't seem particularly close to finding this override. Even if they do find it in time there's still half a season left to fill and I can't believe that will just be about finding the terrorists. There's bound to be another crisis that needs averting.

Season 4: 5pm - 6pm

Well that all happened very quickly. Audrey's husband gave Jack the name of the guy who bought the company that was on the lease for the building they checked. That ended up giving them a list of other locations, one of which a CTU team had just gone to to follow something up. So that's where the override is. They got in there and got it and stopped the other 5 meltdowns just in time, but the main bad guy is currently escaping.

There was also talk of a contingency plan. Since the terrorists chose to do business with the step-son of the Secretary of Defense Jack reckons they will have used that connection to form Plan B. Don't know what that is but it's bound to be important.

Season 4: 6pm - 7pm

Yep, Marwan's definitely planning something else. He managed to slip past CTU and he has a plan involving an airbase.

CTU found out that Marwan had been working at the company that developed the override, and had been running his operation through there. The company didn't know, but they do now and they don't any proof to be found because it would ruin them. So to stop Jack getting the files they set off an experimental EMP bomb that they just happened to have, wrecking every electrical device for a few blocks in every direction.

Tony was temporarily put in charge of CTU (which I really don't believe would happen) until someone else arrives. Someone else arrived. MICHELLE! WOOO! Tony should be out of the picture now then, but I bet there'll be a reason for him to stick around.

Season 4: 7pm - 8pm

This was a great episode. The company that Marwan worked at means serious business. But then they are a big defense contractor. After setting off the EMP bomb they capture Paul (Audrey's husband, who was with Jack for various reasons), but Jack and Paul. So the company call in a group of commandos to hunt down Jack and Paul in the blacked out neighbourhood.

What's Jack's plan? Hold up in a gun store and deliberately start a fire fight with the commandos so that CTU can find them. Lovely stuff. It worked but Paul got shot in the end, which isn't going to go down well because Jack promised to keep him safe.

Tony's sticking around at CTU for now because he's just good at his job. Plus Michelle fired one of the other employees almost immediately so they're a bit short-staffed.

Marwan's other plan hasn't kicked in yet, but it involves the President somehow.

Season 4: 8pm - 9pm

Jack tried to go undercover to get to Marwan and it failed miserably. Well, he got to Marwan, but he has no contact with CTU and no one knows where he is and Marwan knows about the cover story.

Season 4: 9pm - 10pm

Marwan organised a trade. Jack for Behrooz. But it was just a ploy to distract CTU from some important news that would be coming in about a pilot and his missing family. The pilot has been replaced by one of Marwan's men, and this pilot is flying a stealth bomber out to do something. My guess is he's going to attack Air Force One.

Season 4: 10pm - 11pm

HOLY SHIT. AIR FORCE ONE JUST GOT HIT WITH A MISSILE.

I thought they'd stop it at the last second, and they certainly gave it a go. Raided the location where Jack was held, discovered who the fake pilot was, raided his apartment, discovered what the plan was, got in contact with the stealth plane, tried to talk him out of it... But he shot down Air Force One anyway.

That was a great episode. Marwan's still at large too, no doubt with some more attacks planned.

Season 4: 11pm - 12am

This shit just keeps on coming. As well as killing the president, the attack on Air Force One had another goal; To make it possible to steal the nuclear football, a document the president always carries with him containing all the information and activation codes for America's nuclear arms.

So, to sum up Marwan's plan so far, if it had been entirely succesful:

1. The Secretary of Defense would have been executed during a live broadcast online
2. Over 100 nuclear power plants would have entered meltdown
3. The president of the United States would be dead
4. All of America's nuclear weapons would be under terrorist control

This guy wants to destroy the world. It's mental.

Well, Marwan only managed to get away with a few pages from the football, but it's enough apparently. He might not escape this time though, CTU is right on his trail.

Season 4: 12am - 1am

Marwan's men managed to steal one of the nukes using the information from the football. CTU managed to capture one of the terrorists, but Marwan called Amnesty Global and got a lawyer over there before they could question him. The new president is a coward so he wouldn't overrule the decision and let CTU torture the guy. So they let him go. But Jack also resigned, so he could "question" the guy outside as a regular citizen. Awesome.

Looks like the big threat going into the final stretch is a nuclear strike on LA, so pretty much a repeat of season 2. Which is a shame. The last few episodes have been a really great run though.

Also, no Kim at all, and it hasn't made the slightest difference. She really was totally unnecessary in seasons 2 and 3, and cutting her out entirely was definitely the right choice.

That episode was offensive. Oh the normal human system doesn't work so we just torture the shit out of the guy and it actually has immediate results. Fuck the law! Long live Guantanamo Bay!

Kaio wrote:

Fuck the law!

That's Jack Bauer's motto. He does whatever he thinks is necessary whether it's lawful or not.

Season 4: 1am - 2am

That was both annoying and brilliant.

The president found out that Jack had tortured the guy without his permission, so he ordered secret service to arrest Jack immediately. Which completely fucked up the operation to capture Marwan, so he escaped. Again. That must be the 28th time so far. Annoying.

Meanwhile the girlfriend of one of the terrorists working on the bomb became suspicious and phoned the police. CTU sent Chloe to her house with a team because they needed to check the guy's computer and Chloe is the best analyst. But of course the terrorists also sent someone to kill her. He killed both the CTU agents (the terrorists always manage to take out CTU agents like they're nothing, except when it's Jack), but Chloe and the girl got away. They hid inside the CTU car and Chloe ended up killing the guy with a machine gun. Brilliant.

Season 4: 2am - 3am

Well that's a new one. Jack invaded China.

Well, the Chinese Embassy, which is technically part of China. A Chinese man staying there had been giving the terrorists information on nuclear weapons, and they weren't going to get him in time through official methods. So Jack broke in and kidnapped him. However, the man was shot in the escape, so they had to get him into surgery as soon as they got back to CTU.

But Paul was also in surgery at the time. Something went wrong and they had to operate on him again. So when Jack got in he forced the medical team to stop working on Paul and start working the Chinese guy, which caused Paul to die. I guess that's the end of Jack and Audrey's relationship then.

Plus the Chinese Consulate was accidentally shot and killed during the raid. So now there's a possible war with China to worry about too.

Also, I just remembered that Jack stabbed himself about 6 episodes ago to make his cover story convincing. He sure recovered from that fast.

Season 4: 3am - 4am

Well fuck me. They finally caught Marwan but he managed to launch the missile anyway. An American city is going to get nuked now, no way back.

One of Jack's men was briefly unmasked during the raid on the Embassy so the Chinese know CTU was involved.

Season 4: 4am - 5am

Marwan fucking escaped a-fucking-gain!

Richard Heller was brought in again. A call was made from his phone to Marwan a week ago, which activated some techno-babble which meant Marwan was able to hear every phone call Richard made. So that's how they knew where Secretary Heller would be when they kidnapped him.

Richard was tricked by some couple and the woman made the call from his phone while Richard was having gay sex with the dude. CTU managed to track down the couple and the woman is that cool chick who tried to kill President Palmer at the end of season 2. It's always nice to see her again.

Aww, Tony and Michelle are in love again! And they want to quit their jobs so they can be together safely! Which means one of them has to die! Oh look, Tony was taken hostage by the cool chick!

I'll be really annoyed if Tony or Michelle dies. That missile has been in the air for an hour now. There's a maximum of two more episodes before it hits whatever it's going to hit, which just so happens to be the number of episodes left. I don't see how a detonation is avoidable though. You can shoot down a missile, surely?

Season 4: 5am - 6am

Jack caught the cool chick, Tony's alive. She's going to make a deal. It'll have to be a fucking miraculous deal though.

The Chinese kidnapped the CTU agent who was caught on camera at the Embassy and he gave up Jack as the man in charge. So even if Jack somehow stops the missile he'll have a serious problem on his hands and there is no way it's going to get a satisfactory resolution in the next episode.

They still need to catch Marwan as well. There hasn't been this many balls in the air for a finale since season 1.

Season 4: 6am - 7am

Huh, so you can shoot down a missile without it detonating. That was easy.

Not so easy was the Chinese thing. The president was going to hand Jack over to the Chinese but the chief of security decided to have Jack killed. Jack was informed about this though and faked his own death to get out of it.

An okay finale. Overall I think this season was better than season 2 but not quite as good as season 3. It was the season with the least filler so far, and what filler there was was just small details that lasted an episode or two. Jack is now on the run too. Presumed dead but the Chinese would still want him if he turned up and a few people in the American Government would be pretty interested to find out he's alive too. Mind you, the president did specifically order that he not be killed, so that could work in his favour. Still, it's a lot sort out next season, as well as whatever the next threat is.

Season 5: 7am - 8am

Oh fuck off. Fuck right off. They can't do that. That's not right. I mean, fair enough, kill David Palmer. Never cared about him. But... It ain't right.

So all the people that knew Jack was alive are being targeted. Including Chloe. She phoned Jack, who's living as some kind of drilling free-lancer, and they met up. But she was followed. Jack killed the men and got one of them to talk. Palmer was the primary target, and the rest were targeted just to set Jack up, presumably to make it look like Jack was killing everyone who knew about him. Palmer was killed to stop him from talking about something he knew.

The piss-weak president from the latter part of season 4 is still in charge. His wife has some kind of disorder or something, but the day before he was killed Palmer called her and said he needed to talk with her. She told her husband, the president, but he doesn't want to do anything about it. He thinks she's imagining it.

So clearly he's the bad guy. He knew Palmer was writing his memoirs, he was worried Palmer would talk about what happened during season 4, so he had Palmer killed. He also somehow knows Jack Bauer's alive and tried to set him up. If that's not what's going on then it will at least appear to be what's going on until some twist about 10 episodes in.

Season 5: 8am - 9am

With Chloe's help, Jack managed to get into Palmer's apartment to search for evidence. Which is ridiculous, since the place was crawling with literally hundreds of agents, and Jack is now the lead suspect in the assassination because he was caught on camera breaking into the building the sniper used. Except he didn't do that, so it must have been a double.

Anyway, Jack found an encrpyted document which named some some security officer at an air port, so he went there. But the guy killed himself and while Jack was there some terrorists entered the airport and took everyone hostage.

It seems the president's own head of security is in on the attack, and that Palmer somehow knew about it, which is why he was killed. So my previous plot assessment was completely wrong. At least there should be a few surprises then.

Season 5: 9am - 10am

Jack stayed in the airport and contacted CTU to help them out with their operation, giving them info and stuff. Unfortunately this got back to the president and his head of security, so the terrorists also found out that Jack was there. They made him surrender himself.

I really like the pacing so far. Everything has been completely focused on Jack. I'm sure that won't last and we'll get some silly filler later on but for now it's nice. Well, there is that story with the president's wife, but it's at least relevant since she's trying to find out what Palmer knew.

Season 5: 10am - 11am

While Jack was being held hostage he noticed a terrorist hand something to one of the other hostages. Not all the hostages are actually hostages then. They made Jack contact CTU and give them false information so that when the teams entered the airport the terrorists would be ready and waiting. But Jack managed to slip a code word in to let CTU know what was going on, and they manage to get in and kill all the terrorists without any of the hostages being hurt.

The fake hostage slipped away though. Jack wanted to look for him but he had to go to CTU because he's still a suspect in Palmer's death. There was footage of him at the site after all. I want to know who knew he was alive and who the fake Jack is. Hopefully it's a double like the photographer in season 1 rather than just an altered video.

Season 5: 11am - 12pm

I would complain about there being yet another mole in CTU, but it was dealt with in one episode and it was a different scenario. Walt Cummings, the president's chief of staff, recruited this guy Spencer, telling him he wanted to make sure CTU was operating by the book. But he was actually just using him to spy on CTU. Cummings got the guy to let a professional assassin into CTU, but Spencer just thought he was technician.

So Spencer confessed after Jack killed the assassin (because really, assassinating Jack Bauer is a suicide mission. Even if you kill him, he'll come back to life), and Jack and CTU now know what Walt Cummings was behind the Palmer hit and framing Jack. They just don't know why.

Everyone at CTU was like "We need evidence Jack, we can't just arrest the chief of staff!", but Jack was like "I don't work for CTU, I'll just go and grab the motherfucker".

I love how Jack can get away with insane shit like that. Not being a CTU agent does not magically solve this problem. Sure he doesn't have to follow CTU's rules (not that he ever did anyway), but there's still the law. He just told the Counter Terrorist Unit that he was planning to abduct the president's chief of staff, and they seem to be okay with that. Mental.

But I'm over that kind of thing now and I'm just enjoying it.

Season 5: 12pm - 1pm

Fuck me that was incredible. The best single episode since the season 1 finale. I really hope the rest of the season is as good as is. It'd be a shame for it to peak so early.

First off, Cummings found out that Jack was coming, and had him arrested when he arrived. Then h did something completely unexpected and confessed to the president. Told him about the stolen nerve gas and everything.

He was working with the terrorists, helping them steal the nerve gas and move it out of the country. The terrorists wanted to use it for an attack in Russia, but Cummings had someone reprogram the detonators so that he could remotely release the nerve gas once it reached the terrorist's compound. This would provide proof of weapons of mass destruction in central Asia and give America a reason to substantially increase it's military presence there, and secure all of the oil (of course).

Meanwhile Jack convinced the head of Secret Service, who he's met a couple times, to help him out. Jack into a room with the president and Cummings, and Jack just started beating the shit out of Cummings. He insisted he didn't know where the gas was but Jack got out a knife and got right in his face and had the knife right up to his eye and it was so god damn intense and Cummings finally confessed.

However the terrorists found out that Cummings was going to betray them, so they moved the gas before CTU could get it, and now they're going to attack America with it.