Jack Bauer is a very persuasive man. He always manages to figure out his opponent’s soft spot. Tonight, all the action centered on Markos, the crazy-eyed young America-hater, who locked himself in an oxygen chamber last week. I’m so used to Jack yelling and screaming, so it got my attention when he tried to reason with Markos in a calm, reassuring voice. Raise your hand if you thought that gently telling a terrorist, “Nobody’s going to hurt you,” would actually work.
Poor mom — I really felt sorry for her, especially when I thought that she might see her son blow himself to pieces in front of her eyes. Not that he doesn’t deserve it, but she at least seems like a decent person. Too bad her pleas to his sanity failed to sink in. “Sorry, mom. Gotta go kill myself now. Love ya.”
After observing Markos’s emotional attachment to his mother, Jack identified the kid’s soft spot and found a sharp stick to poke it. The video surveillance goes off (always a bad sign for the terrorists), and Jack finally turns on his persuasive voice. Yes, that voice. “Look into my eyes. LOOK INTO MY EYES!!!” *Death stare into camera* Terrorist in suicide vest bursts into tears and wets himself. Markos obviously did not want to die, because as soon as he gets out of the oxygen chamber and realizes that his vest is going to go off, he’s like, “Oh no! Get this vest off me!!!” Big, bad terrorist indeed.
This is kind of horrible, but I thought the explosion and the big red splatters were cool.
In other news, Tarin is a bad guy, and Kevin Wade is still getting Dana into trouble. Ah, the predictable fun never ends. The more we see of Tarin, the more obvious it is that he’s up to no good. Why else would we have to endure him and Kayla for this long? The old plot twist of someone suddenly realizing that their lover/relative is a terrorist has been used so many times on 24 that it no longer qualifies as a twist. If Tarin turned out to be innocent and Kayla turned out to be a terrorist, that would be a twist. Although I don’t like Kayla, I’m glad that her mother Dalia is back. The Ice Queen knows how to handle President Hassan.
What more can I say about this continued drama with Dana? When I heard the probation officer’s voice on the phone, I thought the ghost of Kevin had come back to haunt her. Dana needs to just turn off that phone and sit at her desk.
I feel like not that much actually happened this hour. I enjoyed it though. How about you — what did you think of this latest episode of 24?
Clacked by Ruby T.
on Mar 09, 2010 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
The whole Dana story line is soooo annoyingly contrived. The character is fine, her BF is fine, but the whole ex-BF is just unbelievable. She’s a senior CTU analyst, a competent liar, but seemingly is unable to tell a parole officer, who weirdly phones at 3am, to get lost. As if he’s want to meet her there and then at CTU HQ. It’s such a bad story line it’s ruining every episode.
I think 24 may have had it’s final hour :/