TV Review: 24, Hours 11 and 12

Hour 11

Watching 24 can be quite the educational experience. First of all, there’s the whole telling time thing. Sure, it is digital, but there’s still a lesson to be learned, that time waits for no man, nor woman, not even for Kim Bauer, no matter how hot she is. Then, you have those 20 canisters. But not really 20 any longer, and you can turn it all into one of those annoying word problems that seem to mess up your brain. You know how that works, you’re doing your math homework, buzzing right along, a(24-12) = y and so on – when you are rendered, stupid by the following word problem.

The US Government had 20 canisters of Sentox Nerve Gas hidden at the Ontario Airport. (Bonus, True or False – The airport is located in Canada). After some hoopla concerning hostages and terrorists, those 20 canisters are stolen by said terrorists hostiles. Over y amount of time, (with y equaling more than one hour, but less than 24) several canisters are deployed. The first canister of Sentox Six Nerve Gas was triggered at a shopping mall. Two more canisters of Sentox Six VX Nerve Gas will be detonated over the next two hours. When and where? (Hint: timestamp=18:00) Please show your work on this page.

Um, yeah. Pressing on.

We open at CTU; Bill is going in to see Tony. Tony’s doc advises Bill not to tell Tony that his lovely wife Michelle is dead. He says some nonsense about Tony not being physically stable enough. Sorry doc – aside from the nasty burns and abrasions on the face – Tony seems stable enough for me. Which is confirmed soon enough as Tony whips off monitor and IV lines, and goes sneaking around to find a computer to check things out for himself. I don’t know why Tony didn’t believe Bill and the doc about Michelle – they sure were convincing, right?

Speaking of convincing, at the scene of the motorcade attack, Martha, Yuri, Anya and Aaron Pierce are collecting themselves. Wait – that sounds as if there are various body parts to be collected, like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. No, they are all intact physically, though Pierce starts to wonder about Martha’s mental state again. She’s mumbling about the Prez having previous knowledge about the attack. Pierce is doubtful, Martha keeps trying to explain, but she’s all shell-shocked and so on, and then the Navy helicopter arrives to bring them and the Subarus back to the Retreat/Western White House.

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