As for the mole, I forgot her name - the one played by Aisha Tyler. She was dispatched fairly early, but I’m not so sure she was placed deep enough in ctu to have enough valuable info anyway.

With Jack, Tony, Palmer, and Michelle retired, I can see Jack going freelance while the other three give support from a distance. Someone’s gotta pay that cell phone bill!

There’s nothing odd about a politician wanting to destroy American heroes and protect known terrorists. Call him “Howard Dean”.

Speaking of which, did any one else find it odd that the presidential advisor who didn’t want to toruture a terrorist was the same one with the idea of killing one of our own agents? Seems a bit of a reversal, but as you pointd out this show has many such points (Toms about the Chinese one of them).

Intriguing question: What will Jack’s name be next season?

Rick - I love the fact that you blogged this series. I got in a little late on the action, but this is good stuff. Definitely makes the show more involving and fun, and I’ve checked your blog for new comments on these posts a whole lot more than any other threads. Thanks for facilitating our enjoyment.

Sometimes there can be too many cooks. There were so many writers and advisers on 24 this season.

Remember back to the O.J. trial. The State kept inviting in more Asst.D.A. to show boat on their expertise. Things got disjointed and soon went into the craper. We all know the out come. Seems that has happened here. Granting access to writers for various reasons does not serve 24 well, the whole season seemed to be cut and paste, jumping from here to there. Abruptly ending story lines and starting new ones.

So they stopped the nuke, almost in a split second. Anti-climatic. Marwan, a truly enjoyable baddie, gone in a wisp! Mother, son, what the f***. Apparently the writer for those two had another gig
to go to. When a show gets popular, like 24, people want to jump on the band wagon. And of course the producers want to hand out writing “Plums”

I’ll be back next season, hope that Jack has gone “postal” and is doing free-lance “ops” All in the interest of America. Jack will forever be a patriotic American and probably assembles a team that we will root for. Does anyone know the name of the movie something Fish, John Travolta starred in it. Good men, willing to do what it takes to protect this country.

I will say about the SS that there is an unwritten code that they not reveal things that otherwise would be interesting. The reason is they have to have the absolute trust of the man they’re guarding. The SS has been the keeper of Presidential secrets for a long time.

That said, it’s doubtful that Cummings could have manuevered Spaulding into the spot of picking up Jack - in real life. But your comment was spot on about them knowing each other.

Love to see Mandy a full time villain next year. She’s hot and deadly…a great combo. Maybe Jack will be conflicted and fall in love with her.

Yikes! Don’t go there.

the epinephrine. there’s a clinic in ctu. fake blood? agents probably have a closet full of stuff to help them pull off their deceptions. i did wonder about the dead body they were going to pass off as jack’s, though. maybe it was one of the many agents that got killed going after marwan or the consulate.

another possible set up for jack’s future: mandy got total immunity. will she and jack cross paths again???

and about the lingering questions and holes. they could’ve pursued what happened to burn, etc., but i’d lose my mind or start drinking if this show turned into 48. i would make sure to become a faithful patron of any advertisers who would pay for more story time and crowd out the massive commercial time. it’s my goal to be tivo-ed at our house by next season. the amount of commercials was ridiculous!!!!

and i hope you are blogging next time, too. it’s been part of what’s made this so fun!!