Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Wow, B-I-G SURPRISE ending this hour -- innocent little Marie Warner is a killer. And possibly... a terrorist? 9:52:48 PM

Jack and his crew think they're closing in on the top terrorist -- Syed Ali -- but they've taken down his evil sidekick instead. Ali is off somewhere saying his final prayers before the bomb blows. However Jack has done his good deed for the day, rescuing Kate Warner from certain death. 9:33:33 PM

Hour 10, 5pm-6pm: Those Macs, they boot up fast, don't they! We're 20 minutes in and nothing notable happening yet -- unless you count possible conspiracy from within the NSA as notable. 9:19:50 PM

As we prepare for this week's episode, the Bauer body count officially stands at 12 -- or an average of about one kill every 45 minutes. Up the total to 16 of we include the four additional military-types who appeared to be shot off-camera in Hour 9. Add an additional 30 from Hour 8 if we're willing to blame Bauer for letting three bombers take down the CTU building. And add one more from Hour 3 if we believe Bauer pushed his old pal Eddie to commit suicide. That would bring the total to 47. And the 24-hour day is not yet even half over. 8:49:10 PM

Hour 9, 4pm-5pm: The Bear missed last week's episode, but caught it on tape, so we won't miss any of the mounting body count. And during this hour, Jack Bauer added significantly to the numbers. If you remember from the previous episode, Nina got the lowdown on where the L.A. nuke is stashed. She kills the captive who passed her the info, and now she's using it for leverage to buy her way to some additional immunity. The plane (shot with some kind of ground-to-air missle, as we learn in this week's episode) crashes down in the boondocks. Jack and Nina survive; Bauer calls CTU a a search and rescue. But before the posse arrives, a platoon of other unidentified military-types appear at the crash site; seconds later they begin killing any the survivors they find. Jack and Nina break for it, but not without having to lay down some fire. Tracking the Bauer body count: Jack takes out the first one using a flare gun from the plane. Possibly another two right after that, off camera. Then he gets Nina to work recon spotting, and he takes out two more, and possibly another two as well, according to his apparent targetting. Count for this episode adds 3-7. (The exact count is a bit unclear, but to help simplify matters we'll assume he kills everyone he hits.) Playing it conservative, we'll call it 3. 8:06:01 PM

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