24: Live Another Day

In contrast to Die Another Day.

Started last night with a double episode. I accidentally watched the second hour before the first.

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The CAPTCHA had a double set of 24s. First a string of numbers starting with 24. Then the second set was simply '24'

 

it's stand alone. I watched all the seasons and a lot of this season is new stuff. It picks up from stuff that was never shown (it's supposed to be 4 years after the last show).

There's minor background so far. Jack Bauer is a hero. He has a daughter, Kim, who he hasn't seen because his government doesn't like him being a hero.

He used to be with Audrey Raines (now Audrey Boudreau) until the Chinese government kidnapped her and tortured her because she was Jack's girlfriend (and this asshole Mark Boudreau blames Bauer for it).

Most of the characters are new because the concept of 24 is basically to kill everyone except Jack. Chloe is the other old character, because she's been in most of the seasons. She worked with Jack in CTU; she's a tech person. Jack always trusted her, unlike most of the people he worked with. She has an odd personality.

Also the president is Heller, who is Audrey's father. He appeared occasionally in past seasons. Not a major character.

They have some new hot chick working for CTU who supposedly is really good and that's a new storyline, with her husband. The mastermind is a new bad guy (a woman in this case), the head of CTU (if it is CTU) is new, the black dude who hates the hot chick is new, Mark Boudreau is new, etc.

With 24, you deal constantly with new characters. If someone were to go back and watch seasons 1 and 2, for example, almost everyone there has been killed off in the 24 world. The politicians, bad guys, people working for CTU, etc.

 

Agreed on all points.

 

Heller's Chief of Staff (Boudreau) is continuing with the "blame Bauer for everything" mantra that the 24 government has always had.

He acts like Bauer tortured Audrey into a coma (the Chinese did it a few seasons ago, which is what Boudreau referenced in the second episode).

So now he's trying to have Bauer murdered (I guess tortured first, because he wants to 'discreetly' give Bauer to the Russians), even though Bauer's "crime" was just loving Audrey.

It's pretty odd the Chief of Staff's name is Boudreau, because I think that's a French-Canadian name.

 

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More of Chloe's past is revealed. Terrible but I guess it explains why Morris is out of the picture.
I knew Boudreau would forge the signature. He knows Heller would never go for it.

more info:

"grass" is British slang for a narc or a rat. The criminal said "I ain't no grass."

Navarro screwed over Ritter big time.

He sticks him with Kate Morgan and then says Kate Morgan doesn't exist, so anything she does is Ritter's fault.

 

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the daughter is a brainwashed moron

I don't know why the crazy bitch needs Naveed to pilot the drones. Does he have some kind of expertise?

I figured she'd torture him but she somehow decided he wouldn't break so she tortured her own daughter.

So good that Kate finally saw the light and saved Bauer's life. Loved her crouched over him. They wanted to shoot anyway but the Marine realized it would be cold-blooded murder with no way of justifying it.

The Marine giving orders to murder Bauer must've been in touch with the scumbag traitor Boudreau.

President Heller is also scum. He's seen Bauer sacrifice everything for his country and he orders him to be murdered without giving him a chance?


oh, and Navarro and the others keep saying Kate is not that good because of her husband.

There's obviously something more going on there. I expect we'll eventually find out.

I would also like to know the backstory on the guy who has been helping Bauer (he said this past episode that Bauer saved his life).

 

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you have to suspend belief for 24. It shocks me for every season that no one will ever listen to Jack, even the people who have personally seen him save the country over and over.

Heller, for example. He may not like Jack (he ordered him to stay away from Audrey), but that was supposed to be because Jack put everyone around him in danger (as well as Jack himself, of course). He knows full well that Jack sacrificed everything to save the country time and time again. And then he orders Jack killed?

The Marines didn't even care about the hostages. I heard the word 'execution' mentioned.

And then the senior Marine ordering the younger Marine to kill Jack in cold blood? What a spineless move. You want to do something gutless like that, do it yourself. Don't make someone else do it so they take the fall.

I think Boudreau is behind it. Ideally he wants Jack murdered, but he needs to make it look plausible, like here. Failing that (like if the CIA captures him), he'd have Jack turned over to the Russians because it would be hard to make a murder look good if he's captured.

Kate saved the day because otherwise they were going to stop the transmission and confiscate the flight key right before the transmission completed. Jack said he'd hold them off as long as possible, but that wouldn't even be a minute. A bunch of Marines bursting in vs. one guy? And Jack wouldn't want to kill any of them, either. It worked perfectly for the Marines, with Jack trying to hold them off (Kate was the fly in the ointment). If Jack had surrendered, for example, it would've been hard to argue they had a legitimate reason for killing him. Remember, the hostages were witnessing it.

Kate's appearance reminds me of Elisha Cuthbert, aka Kim Bauer. Regarding her husband, I think there's something going on where he's not a traitor but she has to pretend he is because she can't tell the truth about it right now for some reason. I can't believe Kate is a traitor. No indication of that.



And for the Chloe fans, she looks fierce this season.