Review: 24 Hour 14 - Deal or No Deal

Vocabulary Lesson for Day Five

Key Card: 1. ID card for many secure workplaces. 2. Something your junkie sister’s boyfriend steals from you and you’re too much of a wuss to tell anyone.

Schematics: 1. Combination blueprint and flowchart of a functioning mechanism, usually electronic. 2. Fancy CTU talk for a building’s (and possible terrorist attack target) floor plans

Nerve Gas: 1. Some very bad stuff that kills you in a matter of minutes. You die from both inhalation and contact with the skin. 2. Also known as Sentox. 3. AKA known as Sentox Six. 4. AKA known as Sentox VX. 5. AKA known as Sentox VX-1.

Terrorist: 1. Some bad folk with bad style, and worse accents. The terrorists du jour sports either a British or pseudo Eastern European accent – or combination of both. 2. AKA known as a hostile.

Protocols: 1. A prescribed manner of behavior for certain situations. 2. Something that apparently everyone at CTU and DOD and Homeland Security is hot for.

Perimeters. 1. Boundaries around any given area. 2. Something that Curtis Manning specializes in setting up.

Work-Around: Still figuring this one out. Seems to be a ‘nother fancy term for ‘jury-rig.’

Facial Contortions: 1. See President Charles Logan

Broker: 1. A middleman in certain business negotiations. 2. A terrorist who doesn’t usually get his/her hands dirty.

Hack: 1. See President Charles Logan. 2. An easy way for CTU folk to get into any secure system, computer or otherwise.

President Charles Logan: 1. Former Vice President who was sworn into office when the President died in a plane crash (during Day Four). 2. The man running our country. Specialties include dithering, wavering, vacillating and indecision.

Welcome to Hour 14. Jack swallows frustration and anger as Tony’s body is taken out of sickbay. Oh right, they call that ‘medical’ these days. We learn that Robocop has flown the coop. The good news is, Chloe has hacked into his computer and found a link to a woman named Collette Stenger. Yes, about her. Last week I mistakenly referred to her as Mandy, the Hot Terrorist Babe. What do I know? Scuttlebutt is that Mandy is supposed to show up on 24 at some point.

Anyway, this Collette babe is promising to get some schematics for Snakehead. She’s some kind of Century 21 broker chick. All she needs is the fancy gold jacket. Go real nice with her Nancy Sinatra boots, eh? And last week showed us that she’s a lusty wench as well. Her boyfriend is still lying around in bed, talking pillow at her. He’s asking her how much she gets paid for her ‘brokering’ but she’s all business. “Meet me at the airport in 45 minutes” Boyfriend sure puts up with a lot.

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