9:00: “A Sergeant is missing.” They have to find this Namir guy. Bill Buchannon is starting to lose it.

-“Capturing Namir is our top priority.” I wish I had access to all of CTU’s top priorities over the years. Just to see how they turned out and how many actually ended up being the TOP priority.

-Chloe really needs to be able to cover for Morris a little better than that. She walked right into that. Morris and Milo are so silly.

-This is the second year in a row that we have a threat in which hundreds of thousands of people will die. Maybe the third year in a row. Who knows. I can’t keep track of it anymore.

-“There’s you and us, there is no we.” Kind of like the UBS slogan, but this is Curtis and Assad and the USA, not a financial institution.

-Curtis really has an issue with Assad. Time was Jack would say jump and Curtis would ask how high. Curtis must have gotten a big time raise in the 20 months since Jack was back. Either that or a personal thing. Probably a personal thing.

-How many of these pain pills has Ahmed taken? Won’t they make him sleepy?

-I love how people continually leverage each other in this show. Ray and Kumar just flipped then flipped back and now Ray is on the bottom again. Ray values Scott more than his wife. Think they’ll bring that up in therapy next week?

-How is Ray going to find the address? I hope he’s got a GPS.

-Jill, I think that’s the right move, even though Kumar told them not to call the cops.

9:19: Milo and Chloe and Morris, threesome! Yes. I’m glad, because, well, I just love this show and Morris.

-Milo and Morris are best friends now, I love that, I was getting tired of that story line.

-Jillian meet Jack Bauer, all of your problems are solved. And Jack Bauer will fix the drain when they’re done, too.

-Anytime anyone wants to make a deal on this show, they need to see it in writing first. What does that mean? Like the President couldn’t draft up some shit and then go back on it?

-“Do I detect a threat?” “Yes.” Sandra Palmer doesn’t give an F and she’s not afraid to tell Tom Lennox that.

-How is Walid going to save the day? I’m thinking that maybe he doesn’t make it out of the day. But he’s going to get some info from those guys in the detention center. We’ll see.

9:28: Ray is having a REALLY bad day. It’s too bad he didn’t leave the package and call Kumar to have Fayed to check.

9:37: Why are Tom Lennox and the NSA chief Karen Hayes doing the messaging on this Assad agreement?

-Good thing Kumar is all doped up, otherwise he might see CTU coming in.

9:39: Heh, he is TOO doped up. I see. Scott’s going to kill Kumar by accident before Jack Bauer can capture him.

-Yeah, Scott. 3501 Old Mill Rd, Valencia. Scott’s the man. He is SO much better at this shit than Kim Bauer.

9:48: So is this an urgent call or a ‘priority 3’? Isn’t it likely that they’re going to do the tactical strike and the suitcase nuke will be long gone? According to Nasir, he’ll be done right around 10 of 10.

-I love Walid, he’s a true patriot. He cares more about his country than the admissibleness of the evidence he’s gathering. Sandra, you better believe it.

-Jack Bauer better tell Curtis to LOCK IT UP. Curtis has got to get it together.

-This is one of the things I read about on the internet before watching it. I read that Curtis doesn’t make it, and I hope he does, but I’m not feeling good about it.

-Damn it. I’ve never been sadder. Why couldn’t he have shot him in the arm? I guess I should have been prepared for this, I should have better stuff written in advance.

-JBKC: 6. (CTU Agent Curtis Manning, an honorable man, a fine agent, and one of the best damn co-agents Jack Bauer ever had. Right up there with Tony.)

-Jack Bauer just threw up, this is hard on all of us. Bill Buchannon better tell Jack Bauer to LOCK IT UP.

-I’m relatively speechless, and I just wish that Curtis could have gotten his own show, first.

-It seems like the suitcase bomb is still in the house.

-Holy shit. A nuclear bomb was just detonated on US territory. Something tells me that Ray didn’t make it out, but that Jack Bauer is back on the job.

-It’s great that Nadia can translate this stuff. So 4 more bombs to go, eh?

OK, I watched 4 episodes in 7 hours. I don’t want to have to do that again. I’m glad that the writers are still writing crazy government stuff into the storylines. I’ve read they tilt right, but all of the different references they make to the current administration seem like satire, like they’re trying to show just how ridiculous the Bush administration is. I don’t get it.

What do we know:

-4 more suitcase nukes are somewhere in the city. Is Valencia far enough out that we won’t have to watch them run around in fall out for 20 more hours?

-Heroes is definitely going to get watched at a different time than Monday at 9.

-There are several candidates for characters that are seemingly good guys, but act suspiciously so we think they’re bad, only to find out that someone else is the bad guys. These candidates so far are Tom Lennox, and well, everyone else except Jack Bauer.

-There are also several candidates for people who don’t do anything suspicious until 15 seconds before we find out they are bad. These candidates so far are Tom Lennox, and well, everyone else except Jack Bauer.

-I’ve heard that Matha Logan and Chase will be back on this year. Audrey had planned to be tied up all year in “The Nine”, but, well, we expect her to be available this year, too. I’m hoping against hope that Kim Bauer is in another country and unable to make it back by the end of the day.

-We’ve seen year in and year out that the initial bad guy and dangerous threat are not the threat that ends up getting thwarted in the end. Are 4 nuclear bombs set to explode today a big enough threat or are there more menacing dangers afoot? We’ll find out in about 19 weeks.