This week's edition of "Armchair Quarterback Fox's 24". Warning Spoilers inside.

[David]

In the scene where after the husband / wife campers split-up per Agent Jack's suggestion, the husband is then located by a terrorist.

From my quick view of that scene, it looked like the bad guy's pistol
(a S&W ?) had its slide safety engaged (i.e. in the down position).

For such highly trained terrorists, one would think they would keep their weapons "hot" at all times.

Did anyone else notice that as well?



Also, after Agent Jack rescues the campers, he calls on the radio for a "medic".

At the ending of this episode, in the split-screen shot, they show the medic already on site working on the husband camper's injuries.

Where did this medic come from to get on scene so quickly?

 

[RRTX]

They should have just made it look like they went into the power station, and then ran out into the desert to wait for Jack. The terrorists would have gone into the station and probably spent hours looking for them while they were really half a mile away waiting the 5 minutes for the helicopter to show up

 

[David]

Also another cool scene from last night's episode of 24.

When Agent Jack gives his mobile phone number to the campers, he gives a "realistic" telephone number instead of the usual Hollywood 555 prefix phone number!

 

[Edmond]

I wonder how many people have tried calling that phone number!

How much life does his cell phone battery have?

He must carry a lot of ammunition, enough to burn some of it like he did.

 

[El Rojo]

Does anyone have TVo? Get us the number and I will call it!

I noticed most everything you guys did. We need to get out more often.

 

[zaijian]

Yes, that bugs me in just about every episode - why the hell doesn't Jack have a rifle??

Examples off the top of my head:
1) Storming Marwan's compound (ep 16). Everybody else on the assault team has rifles, most of the terrorists have rifles/smgs, yet Jack goes native with a handgun. He might as well had a pair of six shooters and shot with a blindfold on, he's pretty much invincible by now.
2) Retreiving the football - again, armed with only a pistol, Jack destroys everything in his way.
3) Visiting the apt with the fake FBI agent - although this one is somewhat excusable.
4) Marwan's office where he's operating the override.

I'm sure there's plenty of more examples from other seasons.

I guess Jack is just a Pistol God.

 

[thorn726]

Actually, the last thing I probably would have done was go to a building like that

they'd find them faster in the desert. heat scanning or whatever.


i just can never believe how long they wait around before moving.

that was a pretty good episode overall. not to much filler nonsense whcih this season is waaay heavy with.

They should have just made it look like they went into the power station, and then ran out into the desert to wait for Jack. The terrorists would have gone into the station and probably spent hours looking for them while they were really half a mile away waiting the 5 minutes for the helicopter to show up

now that might have been a better idea.

Nuclear football with a code to open it, but not a code to fry its control board.

we dont know that, they were trying to keep it intact, otherwise they would just have taken the book, ran , burn the book something like that.

i can never stand the use of computers in movies having been using them
so much so long= BOY those TV computers have some incredible graphic interfaces and net speed.
yeah, building ownership displayed 3d. Sure.


had to add-

Campers without a gun are more believable in California than campers with one.

totally true.

Well there was that yahoo in Utah who had to cut off his own arm with a Pakistani gas station freebee.

What?????? what???????? huh? what is that about? hahah

Hollywood is full of surplus tricorders for passive triangulation.

oh yEAH! what i want is the replicator!

Unmanned reserve powerstations never have minimium wage security guards

oh this totally. powerstations like that , especially in CA with bankrupt PG &E, that equiptment just runs. , think of power substations- theyre always empty. you should see the size of the FAA beacon faciltiy we used to break in to just to look around, huge generators from WWII, weird stuff. never any guard, ever.









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[RRTX]

Also another cool scene from last night's episode of 24.

When Agent Jack gives his mobile phone number to the campers, he gives a "realistic" telephone number instead of the usual Hollywood 555 prefix phone number!

Actually I read that is a real phone number to a voicemail box for the show or something like that.

 

[pete f]

I tried several times to watch the show. so freaking Dumb I gave up. I can not figure out why if the bad guys are so bad, why only one guy was being sent against them. The fibbies would flood the sight with hundreds of people. The Other Agencies would be there too, with people who all they do is practice for this.

One team, carrying sidearms to stop the end of civilization as we know it. Hmmmm When we send a battalion to catch some guy suspected of owning a legal barret 50?

Not too far from us is a small airport, The federals sent at least five vans full of guys to secure one private hanger they thought was being used for criminal activities, and Jack gets sent with a buddy?

 

[LiquidTension]

I don't think they just sent Jack and the cannon fodder guy on purpose - I think they were just the two closest agents. Of course, I missed the first 15 minutes.

I bet one of the reasons that Bauer never carries a rifle is because it would obscure his face - bad for cameras.

The wife - STUPID. Sometimes you gotta think of the overall picture. Yeah it would be a tough decision, but while the BGs were torturing my spouse I'd be getting the NUCLEAR WEAPON CODES out of their reach.

 

[jval]

How about those bullets in the tin can with the burning grass. They sure did sound like"real" gun shots!!!!!

 

[Edmond]

and Jack gets sent with a buddy?

Yeah, and that no name guy gets whacked seconds after landing. Like we didn't see that coming?

 

[williamcrane]

The bullets in the campfire always worked for the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

 

[El Rojo]

they'd find them faster in the desert. heat scanning or whatever./quote]I disagree. Even if they had heat scanning, we are talking about a big desert and these guys are on the ground. You can scan for my hot body (no pun intended) all you want, but if I am in a ditch, you aren't going to scan through 10 foot of dirt. If they were airborne, sure, since they weren't, their night vision and heat sensing is not going to be all that effective.

You know I have been wondering why the terrorists are able to use their cell phones without fear of compromise this whole time. You would think they would have some way to crack down on that.

 

[richyoung]

"You go with Jack" have become the deadliest words on television since "Welcome to the Enterprise security detail. Here's your red shirt."

 

[ZeroX]

The wife - STUPID. Sometimes you gotta think of the overall picture. Yeah it would be a tough decision, but while the BGs were torturing my spouse I'd be getting the NUCLEAR WEAPON CODES out of their reach.

Not to mention she told them the combination to open the damn thing.

 

[spacemanspiff]

why doesnt his cell phone have 'silent ring'?

 

[Greybeard]

Quote: "The wife - STUPID. Sometimes you gotta think of the overall picture. Yeah it would be a tough decision, but while the BGs were torturing my spouse I'd be getting the NUCLEAR WEAPON CODES out of their reach."

My wife insisted that she'd let 'em shoot me.

 

[Ratus]

Why are they so worried about the "football"?

It’s just a radio and some paper plans.

Not some magic box with a big red button that'll blow up the planet.



Just remember, not to ask "Why..." when watching TV shows.

The best answer is normally "because its a TV show"

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Since when can an F-117 carry an AA missle?

Bingo. Nighthawks are AG only. And they're portraying the terrorists to be superhuman genius types, while our best and brightest are day-late and dollar-short morons with yesterday's technology. I love the show and this year, it promised to be the best yet. But the last 3 weeks or so........