8:00: Jack Bauer and Assad are LOCKED IN. How do they just bump into each other like that? LOCKED IN. These guys are the Starsky and Hutch of the Global War on Terror generation.

-You see. You see. Fayed can reach the President now. That would never happen if any number of ‘24’ Presidents refused to negotiate with terrorists. I’m pretty sure that last year’s President Logan is responsible for ALL of this. He started the country down a slippery slope Constitutionally and a slippery slope in regards to negotiating with terrorists. The man was a menace. And just like that, America negotiates with terrorists.

-This administration has enemy combatants (Palmdale as Guantanamo) in violation of international law, also.

-Come on, Assad, you’ve got to work with your enemies. The enemies of your enemies are sometimes your friends, but not always. But sometimes.

-“Chloe this is Jack [Bauer].” How on earth does Jack Bauer know Chloe’s direct dial? Who cares?

-JBKC: 4. (Random guy with a jeep). I’d like to say this is a rougher grougher Jack Bauer, but I’m not gonna do it.

-JBKC: 5. (Fayed’s guy, Jack hit his car with a jeep). These last 2 JBKCs are illustrative of why I count knockdowns AND kills.

-That was great. These guys are awesome. Jack Bauer and Assad make a fantastic team. They could win the Amazing Race handily. They’d win or they’d kill everyone.

-Kumar is really a terrible terrorist. I think they picked Kumar because Michael Jackson wasn’t available. Also, they were thinking Jack from Will & Grace, but he wasn’t “ethnic” enough.

-I just have to take this opportunity to say that I watched the first 2 episodes with the ability to pause and rewind and it made this liveblogging thing a LOT easier.

8:21: “I don’t know, it’s your character flaw, not mine.” Oh, Chloe, cut Morris some slack, he’s the man you love.

-There’s no harm in putting these enemy combatants on busses, right? There’s not even any harm in putting these enemy combatants on an airplane and then shooting it down after a little bit, right? I mean, we’re suspending habeas corpus on them presumably, how come we’re all of a sudden a little bit frightened of shooting them out of the air? I don’t buy it. Shooting the airplane down wipes a Constitutional crisis right off the boards. No enemy combatants held against international law? No problem.

-“It’s not our call to make.” That’s not something Jack Bauer would ever say. He makes calls. Remember, “Don’t forget, I don’t work for you.” He said that just last year. Jack Bauer makes the calls. Believe it. And it seems like maybe Curtis wants to make some calls, too! “We’ll see.”

8:32: That orange jumpsuit guy keeps making eyes at the guard. Try to make it a little less obvious.

-Can the President bail someone out? That FBI agent is either going to be someone or he’s not. And anyone who has watched ‘24’ over the last couple years knows exactly what I mean.

-“Revised Enemy Combatant Statute”, we don’t have that, do we?

-That’s Kumar’s dad, isn’t it? I kind of thought something like that was going to happen to Walid. He’s in detention by accident, but he doesn’t keep his head down and that leads to him getting into trouble. Poor Walid, Sandra messed up big!

8:41: “You mean like I’m doing already?” Chloe LOOKS better, but she’s still a Rhino.

-Curtis seems to have an issue with Assad. But Jack Bauer is going to “take care of it as soon as this is over, I promise.”

-Uh oh. That operation didn’t go as smoothly as they had hoped. You gotta not be letting Fayed’s guys get shot and then use grenades. You HAVE to keep them from doing that.

-Is the guy who keeps making eyes at the Palmdale guard a good guy plant or a bad guy?

8:53: We finally found out what Kumar’s package is all about.

-What are you going to do Ray? $50K is a lot of money, but you know you’ve got it saved up for Scott’s college.

-Why doesn’t Kumar tell Ray what he’s looking for, otherwise, how’s he going to get it?

-Man, who would have thought Ray had this in him? This is kind of like Walid getting in trouble after being thrown into a bad situation. You know what the moral is? When put into stressful situations, good people mess up and get into more trouble or kill dudes.

-Oh, a suitcase nuke. I think that guy’s in Palmdale. Yes! I am the man, he is in Palmdale.

-What is this “priority three” junk? Jack Bauer used to call the President and say, “This is Jack Bauer I NEED to talk to the President.” Then he would will the President to the phone.

-Ah, the guy making eyes with the guard was certainly not a good guy plant. And the guard was a bad guy, too. Of course. So this implies that they let the prisoners use the bathroom on the bus. I never would have thought. In the future, the US policy should be to suggest prisoners use the bathroom before leaving because they’re not going to be able to go again until they get there.