For two hours, not a lot happened. Well, yeah it did. But it didn't leave me feeling like the story was moving along all that quickly.
I think it's hard for them to come up with new material. Once again we had the good guy being tortured. Personally I was surprised Morris held out that long. I know he's not a traitor or anything, but his character seems like a wuss. I actually thought the chick was going to uncuff Morris and help him, but sometimes the twists are so obvious, you don't see them coming. So she kills Darren McCarthy (who I like to believe is named after Darren McCarty) so she can get the $7 million all to herself. Until she whines like a ten year old and gets killed.
Jack has to disarm one of the bombs. I wish just once he would know how to do it, and quickly. Maybe not as quickly as Chloe seemed to get those schematics though. (Come on, it took them longer to get the schematics for the hotel to find Fayed.) It's 24, the "Jack Bauer Hour of Power". It's not like we're on the edge of our seats wondering if Jack will mess up and die in an explosion. And to have him disarm it with the trigger almost touching, they might as well had put a timer on it and have it say 00:00:01. Of course, without the shaky hands, he could have made it a lot less dramatic.
John Cage - oh sorry. Tom Lennox! He wants to resign but Rob Lowe's brother talks him out of it with an idea to kill Palmer. Really? I wonder if there are this many moles and death plots surrounding real Presidents. It's too obvious. In the world of 24, we're up to like 55 Presidents already. Why not a few more? I'm surprised Sherry Palmer didn't have her shot at it. Well, I don't think it was ever 100% clear that she was really dead, so maybe one day!
In the second hour, the big thing is Jack's father telling Marilyn that he killed Graem and to lead Jack to a different location. Marilyn wants to tell Jack SO BADLY about his father, but thinks better of it so we can have more dramatic pauses. Jack and his men surround and enter the house. A bomb goes off in the house, ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO MAKE US BELIEVE JACK DIED IN AN EXPLOSION. Ok, well it's probably more to make Marilyn think that. But sheesh. Remember when Jack could barely speak? And couldn;t keep his hand steady? Now he's jumping out of exploding houses. Whatever. Milo escapes with Marilyn, hopefully to shave that goatee he's worn as every single character he's ever played.
But now we know the Russians are behind the bombs and not the Arabs. So, if Fayed is just a pawn, why is he even working with the Russians? Oh well. I probably missed something.
Jack: Are you sure this time?
Chloe: About as sure as I'm going to be before this bomb goes off.
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