Sunday, January 15, 2006

Spoilers. All over the place.

Okay, eighteen months later. Jack/Frank is a migrant derrick worker (who apparently isn't all that great at his job) and former President Palmer is putting together his memoirs. Tony and Michelle are in the private sector designing greeting cards or something, while Chlöe and Edgar are still with CTU. Bill is still running the place and Audrey is coming in as the DoD liason. President Logan is still petty and ridiculous and we find out that his wife is crackers.

A large treaty is planned to be signed by Logan and an inbound Russian president.

1. President Palmer gets taken out by a sniper.
2. Tony and Michelle get blown up. Well, Michelle's car blows up and there's a second blast which engulfs Tony after he rushes outside. Possibly a second charge on a twenty-five second timer or they want us to believe the gas tank is immune to the front of the car exploding.
3. Chlöe freaks out and is followed by the same guy who offed Palmer. She breaks radio silence and calls Jack's cellphone.
4. Jack steals a helicopter and flys to Los Angeles with the Derrick kid of his love interest (who followed Jack/Frank) in tow.
5. He finds Chlöe but she was followed by the band of assassins. So yes, they've taken out a President and two crack field agents, but Chlöe was just too much for them to this point. Jack is sufficiently badass and takes them all out, but Chlöe shoots the guy who killed President Palmer. He's got a few hits just south of center mass and, despite a ruptured diaphram, is able to tell Jack the plan. Unfortunately, the masterminds used a cutout, so this guy didn't know much more than the primary target (Palmer) and the secondary goal of framing Jack by taking out the others who knew he was alive. So there's at least a fifth person who knew he was alive.
6. CTU gets a video feed that indicates Jack Bauer as the assassin. It would be nice if Jack didn't have five or six eyewitnesses hundreds of miles away from L.A. at the time Palmer was hit, so they don't really care about the framing, just a personal grudge to get Jack back in the open?
7. Audrey informs President Logan that the primary suspect is Jack Bauer.

[08:15] Timecheck. Jack arrives at Wayne's (a.k.a. President Palmer's brother's) apartment. Diane is half an hour outside of L.A.

8. Chlöe logs into the 'wireless access point' and gets a 3D map of all the agents on her notebook PC. Jack sneaks into the building to get information on Palmer's assassination. He encounters Wayne and after a few tense moments, they find some information on Palmer's computer.

24-style plot hole: Jack is hearing everything that Chlöe says. Later on, he doesn't know about a conversation that Chlöe has with Derrick in the van.
24-style technology: IP address 292.162.12.2. It would have been a nice touch to make it 130.81.64.10.

9. There's a subplot of President Logan's crazy wife having had a conversation with Palmer the night before in which he wanted to divulge critical information. Again, to the crazy wife of an, to paraphrase Scott, incompetent executive.

24-style technology: "The traffic's redirected to an external socket. Even I don't know how to do that." Also, a faint wireless signal means she's in a parking garage.

10. They figure out that Chlöe is alive and logged in. They get a lock and try to crash their position. Chlöe bolts as a decoy and Jack and Derrick steal a car. Jack calls Diane and they plan to meet up at the Ontario Airport.
11. Terrorists of unknown ethnicity (We like the Chechens.) are seen plotting.
12. Jack hands off Derrick and finds a guy he saw mentioned in a chapter in Palmer's memoir. That guy takes a cyanide pill. Terrorists take over the airport. Derrick has run in and is now a hostage. Jack is armed and inside the building.

Guys, feel free to edit this to include all the ridiculous 24 tech and plot points. Stay tuned for more fun tomorrow.

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