Season 6 Episode 10 Thoughts
This episode we get a break from Jack’s family and Jack in general. As a matter of fact, I think he got less screen time this episode than any other I’ve seen in any other season. Maybe this is why I really didn’t like this episode, not enough Jack. Aside from a brief scene seeing off Graem’s wife and son as they returned to CTU, the only thing Jack does this episode is go to talk with ex-President Charles Logan. Now he’s sporting a beard and about 20 extra pounds. Looks like retirement and house arrest hasn’t done much for his looks. He tells Jack that he’ll help, but he’s not looking for a pardon or the like. Apparently he’s found religion. My husband thinks that he’s really doing this to win back Martha, but I think there’s something deeper and more sinister going on. Bottom line, however, Logan knows how to reach Gredenko, and Jack is off on another misadventure to invade a foreign consulate. Doesn’t he remember that it was a maneuver like this last time that landed him in a Chinese prison for the last 2 years?
The whole scenario with Chloe and Morris doesn’t really go anywhere. Doesn’t Chloe know that Morris NEEDS beer goggles to tolerate her (looks and attitude). He’s a drunk, he’s not a drunk, he’s in AA, he’s not in AA, he called his sponsor, he didn’t call his sponsor, he has a new sponsor, he’s fit to work at CTU, he’s not fit to work at CTU… This is really all just filler. It seems clear that the producers realized they’d given us so much action the last few episodes that they needed to give us one slow episode to catch our breath.
But let’s not forget the mildly exciting attempted presidential assassination. While Lennox is tied up with electrical tape in the bunker’s boiler room, his deputy played by Chad Lowe, is up to no good. He keeps going back in forth trying to decide whether or not it’s okay to kill Lennox. I think they’re in love. The thing I wonder is how can he be so concerned about killing his friend but so utterly callous about assassinating the President? It just doesn’t make sense.
Speaking of not making sense, do any of you really buy the argument that Assad’s press conference will really change any minds? If real life experience is telling, terrorists who reform themselves have only been labeled as traitors, infidels, and dragged through the streets and shot as collaborators. If Osama bin Laden himself went on the news to say that, hey, America is not that bad a place after all… no one in al Qaida would believe it was him, and if they did, they wouldn’t care. But, whatever, this is television. Assad catches on to the bomb plot when he notices a device with a red flashing light leaking chemicals is under the podium… He shouts bomb, jumps to get away, but I think he’s dead. It looks like he managed to save the president however.
So, next episode, it looks like Jack will get himself into a new debacle at the Russian consulate, Gredenko and his toadies will do something with this mysterious drone they’ve acquired, and we see if the vice president completes the coup. Stay tuned!
Tags: 24, jack bauer, kiefer sutherland
1 opinion for Season 6 Episode 10 Thoughts
Dave
Feb 27, 2007 at 5:57 am
I agree it wasnt so intresting this week but it seems like something is going on between jack and gram’s wife I probly also agree that assad is dead and mabey the president is alive and the way they ended it was typical of 24 you can never guess what will happen next….
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