Good Morning. It’s 11:00; do you know where your nuclear weapons are? That’s okay; neither does anyone else, except for Abu Fayed. You know, something about that dude bothers me. Besides the fact that he’s a nasty terrorist, it’s his name – Abu. Abu. You may remember a certain cheeky monkey of the same name in Disney’s 1992 animated feature film Aladdin. Ohh, I could have a LOT of fun with this.
Moving on. Tom Lennox is aggravated the with president’s speech, Prez Wayne made a promise he couldn’t keep, referring to the temporary nature of the current security measures. Karen butts in. “Am I a bleeding heart liberal?” Back and forth bickering about the constitution, with Tom telling Karen that she ought to “hop a shuttle” to the justice department. She hangs tough, cautioning Lennox that he won’t be able to wear her down. His parting shot:
“Actually you’re wearing me down.”
This Lennox, I’m thinking now that I really don’t care for him. His character is what last season I referred to as a red herring. Lynn McGill (Sean Astin) was a perfect example of such - a character that seems to either be at cross purposes with one or two of the protagonists or downright alienates most everyone, yet comes through with some great nuggets of support, or even truth. But for several episodes, or perhaps near a whole season, we just can’t decide – ‘Good or Bad?’ In the previous hour, Lennox advised Prez Wayne about how to address the country, and his counsel was fine. But now he’s truly showing a vicious side.
He wants Karen Hayes to go away. And the long awaited appearance of Chad Lowe as Reed Pollock shows us a deputy Chief of Staff who is all too eager to help in that department.
And at CTU, Nadia is getting profiled. Seems that a mandate came from Washington, instructing that now all government employees of Middle Eastern descent will be working with restricted security access. She’s pissed, Bill is pissed, and in turn Milo is pissed when he finds out why. He needs his best workers going as fast as they can, and Nadia is suddenly slowed down to a crawl because of this new rule.
Article comments
1 - Triniman
As usual, all it not what it seems.
Wayne sort of pales in comparison to his brother as Prez. Nadia and Milo are somewhat weak characters to me. Homeland Security has flagged Nadia. We're upset. How unfair, she's been here since she was 2. I won't be surprised if later on we learn that she's connected in some way to the bad guys.
2 - Victor Lana
You capture the two most important elements going on here: the Jack-Graem-Dad dynamic and the Karen-Tom-Wayne interaction. Doubtless, last night's victors (Graem and Tom) are going to come down fast and hard.
Next week (spoiler alert) Jack will introduce Graem to some things he learned from the Chinese prison. Ouch!
3 - Brad Schader
You left out one important part- the terrorist cell in the internment camp is not a terrorist cell and they are spying on and detaining innocent Americans.
I was happy to see Cracker (we call him the Bald Blue-tooth at my house)finally showed that evil guy we saw last season. I was annoying me that this guy had such control over the President.
Great summary. I think Milo just set himself up. I do not think Najia is a terrorist, but somehow he is going to get set up for using his password.
I hope Cracker does the classic bad guy thing and tells Jack everything before trying to kill him. It would be a shame for Jack to kill him without first knowing the full reasons why.
4 - Mary K. Williams
We're upset. How unfair, she's been here since she was 2. I won't be surprised if later on we learn that she's connected in some way to the bad guys.
LOL Trin. That made me laugh. My husband was wondering the same thing about Nadia. Right now - far as I can tell - she's not giving any indication that she's dirty. We'll see!
5 - Mary K. Williams
Doubtless, last night's victors (Graem and Tom) are going to come down fast and hard
Let's hope so Vic!
Btw, did you know that if you look up Graem on 24's site - you'll see that for Season Five, they're using 'graham' and this year - of course it's that pretentious spelling 'graem'.
6 - Victor Lana
Regarding Nadia, in S1 Nina Myers was the mole, but it was played with in such a way as to cast some doubt (right until she started speaking German over the phone). We have to wait and see what Nadia does, but I'm starting to think that Milo might just be setting HER up somehow.