[CharlesWayneCT]

OK, Here's my list of complaints about tonight's two shows. These were particularly full of unbelievable and weird things, so there may be more than 10. Some have been pointed out all ready by others, but I steal them shamelessly without attribution.

1. In a previous episode I noted that Lynn managed to get back into the building without his key card. The only way he could do that is if the guards knew him and let him in, or if they had him on file with his picture. But then they would have cleared his key code in any REAL world. NOW, here comes the terrorist using his keycode and they don't seem to notice it's not Lynn but let him in anyway.
2. CTU once again demonstrates is inter-spacial-dimensional qualities. The terrorist is at Lynn's sister's place, and makes it to CTU in under 8 minutes, even though he has to program the key card. I can't make it from my house to work in 8 minutes and I live 3 miles away. Sure they could have been nearby, but it's awfully convenient.
3. Why not use baggies? The things don't blow up, they just emit a gas. Why not just carry around a dozen hefty trash bags and bag the stupid things? It should at least work for a minute while you get your anti-nerve gas vacuum. Heck, I wonder if you couldn't just jamb the thing into a concrete space where it wouldn't be able to open -- I can't imagine they spent a lot of money on an extra-heavy-duty motor for the opening mechanism. Clamp if shut, duct-tape the seams.
4. We've now had 3 attacks, all at the central ventilation, and they still haven't started there when looking. And why not carry the little containment box into the place? I suppose it should be too big and unwieldy to carry, but it didn't look like it was.
5. Earlier, the Flotus assistant tried to stop that dead chief of staff from coming into the room because flotus said keep everybody out, but when he insisted she HAD to let him in. But she was able to order the president to stay out. Something just isn't right about that.
6. Why don't they have enough gas masks for all the CTU people? They have them for all the guys running around to the scenes, surely within 4 hours they could have picked up a couple hundred masks for the workers at CTU?
7. Why 10 minutes after an evacuation starts does the hospital still have workers just standing around in the aisles getting in the way, none of them looking like they are in much of a hurry? I understand that evacuating patients is hard, so why aren't all the workers in rooms getting patients out?
8. The case the terrorist carried into CTU wasn't large enough to hold the cannister, nor did it look heavy enough either when compared to Curtis picking up and running with cannister. Further, when we see the cannister/bag later at CTU, the bag is bigger.
9. So CTU doesn't have any gas masks -- OK, maybe they don't expect a gas attack. But wait, they have SEALING ROOMS, with fancy rubber seals mysteriously snaking down between the edges of the glass conference room doors? Why would those three areas be the only place they can seal? Wouldn't ANY seal protocol have started with the VENTILATION SYSTEM? Doesn't anybody know how to shut off the ventilation system? See, I can believe they wouldn't, but I can't believe they would build a hi-tech sealant system and NOT do the air ducts.
10. And the final nail in the coffin -- The gas released 50 seconds EARLY. The 15 minute countdown started at about 6:43:20, and the gas started at 6:57:30. It shouldn't have started until 6:58:20. Then Edgar could have made it.

Wouldn't Edgar have been safer if he stayed in the room with the dead girl? After all, there was a huge fan sucking all the gas away from that room.......

[CharlesWayneCT]

This one deserves its own post.

The guy who ran the hospital knew what every orderly looked like, so he was able to recognize an orderly that didn't belong from the surveillance cameras and they caught the terrorist.

But at CTU the guards who are paid to provide security couldn't even tell that a terrorist wasn't really Lynn.

Of course, since CTU changes leadership about 5 times a day maybe they can be forgiven for not knowing, or not caring.

[HairOfTheDog]

We've now had 3 attacks, all at the central ventilation, and they still haven't started there when looking. And why not carry the little containment box into the place? I suppose it should be too big and unwieldy to carry, but it didn't look like it was.

Remember they were reluctant to move it at all for fear it was booby trapped... they picked it up and ran out only as a last-chance measure... still, I said the same thing... bring the safe box in with you rather than risk running and tripping with the dang thing. But running with it is better TV :~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Earlier, the Flotus assistant tried to stop that dead chief of staff from coming into the room because flotus said keep everybody out, but when he insisted she HAD to let him in. But she was able to order the president to stay out. Something just isn't right about that.

Oh come on... she's learned more about orders, for one... and for another, this president has no spine... "Oh - she said no? aw shucks, OK"

[HairOfTheDog]

And the final nail in the coffin -- The gas released 50 seconds EARLY.

Nail in the coffin? These were great shows... They aren't real, they may play with reality or reason a little, but jeepers... who wants to watch a great show and make it's coffin? I like to discuss the details too, but I don't share your attitude.

[ZGuy]

The briefcase the bad guy brought into CTU was much smaller than the canister in the ventilation unit. It may have been a writing error, but no one has asked the obvious question -- Is there yet another mole in CTU?