TV Review: 24 – Hour Nine: When a Stranger Calls

Airwick goes to see his boss, reporting about the successful testing of the nerve gas, but also telling of the problems with Jack and all - casually mentioning, “Someone has to pay.”

His boss agrees, and stabs him.

Airwick has been snuffed. Ah, he was a breath of fresh air for those last few episodes – but lets meet the new boss, same as the old boss? It’s Julian Sands – err, Vladimir Bierko. Another familiar face, and voice. Where have I see this guy before? Ah yes, as Snakehead, in the Jackie Chan flick, The Medallion. (Not one of Jackie’s best by the way). Snakehead is on a mission now, and all of a sudden bad guys being capped everywhere. I’d like to know where they all came from actually. They only show a few at a time, but they keep coming. Sort of like when Agent Smith started multiplying in The Matrix Reloaded. Maybe we’ll have ourselves a burly brawl!

Anyway, now they are after Nathanson. Who the f%*k is Nathanson? Wait, no way, this guy? The Shadow/Matrix Guy? What’s he doing out in broad daylight, without all his monitors and high tech things? Well, he still has a high tech Secret Squirrel-ish phone, with at node-thing that can detect if anyone comes on the line. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Meanwhile, Sam/Lynn is pleading with his sister Jen/Honey-Bunny to ask her lame boyfriend Duane/Pumpkin to give him back his key card. “You can have all my money, and you can max out my credit cards too. But please, please let me have my key card. I need my key-card. I just love saying … ’key card’. See how it just roles off the tongue?” Honey-Bunny hangs up on Sam and his tongue rolling. When Sam gets another phone call a second later, he is ready to blast her.

But it’s the Prez! Prez is mad. He rides Sam hard. He keeps asking for answers and tells Sam to do his job. Evidently Sam’s job is to roll shit downhill, because within seconds, he’s downstairs, blasting everyone in the situation room. Pout, pout. More perimeters and protocols are pressed into position. Putting another plan on the platter is pulling in to custody, the pit bull that is Jack Bauer. Audrey pooh-poohs the idea. “He has permission from the President!” Sam pontificates, and pleads, “Please placate me, and provide me with Jack!"

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Mary K. is a freelance entertainment writer living in the Greater Boston area. She pens CD reviews for Metronome Magazine and is a former Features Editor for Hot Psychology Magazine. Mary K. has also contributed to the anthology, Brewed Awakenings.

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  • 1 - Jeff

    Feb 21, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    "Logan in the shower..." Ha. I was thinking much the same thing. "No, no, I'm not here. I'm in the shower!" etc...

    Oh, it's good to laugh sometimes.

  • 2 - Mary K. Williams

    Feb 21, 2006 at 11:15 pm

    Oh, it's good to laugh sometimes

    Oh, yes it is Jeff. Like I said, your post was so funny, (Well I had a few laughs with my own).

    One thing I was going to put in mine, and forgot. When the baddies were shooting at Jack on the roof, and he was trying to hide behind the AC unit? They were shooting the AC, and all I could think of was.."Oil cans...They're shooting at the oil cans!" (Steve Martin's The Jerk

  • 3 - Jeff

    Feb 22, 2006 at 8:57 am

    He hates cans!

  • 4 - Mary K. Williams

    Feb 22, 2006 at 9:01 am

    He hates AC units! Or, the fact that Jack posed as HVAC guy last week. Ya think?

  • 5 - Jeff

    Feb 22, 2006 at 11:21 am

    Heh, I forgot about that. What's with the AC theme all of a sudden?

  • 6 - Mary K. Williams

    Feb 22, 2006 at 11:30 am

    What's with the AC theme all of a sudden?

    I don't know? But I think we need to keep a close eye out for the next *gasp* 15 hours?

  • 7 - Jeff

    Feb 22, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    15 hours?

    Holy cow. There is that much left, isn't there. I can't even begin to imagine where this plot could end up by then.

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