He should have played one of the "Rush"ians (ducks)
Great show. Here's my top 10 odd things for tonight:
1) How could they know that every terrorist had a different detonator with a different frequency? If they were all supposed to blow up, it would make more sense for all of them to be rigged together.
2) How could they reprogram a cell phone to send a different frequency? And if they did, how did it still work to talk to them?
3) And how was he talking to CTU while his cell phone was rebooting?
4) The WMD looked like it was in some concrete bunker which had been broken into, a large hole in more than a foot of concrete. How could that take place at an airport and nobody know?
5) The whole special keycode to open that thing seemed contrived -- what were they trying to prevent?
6) The misdirection seems a bit contrived as well. In any REAL hostage situation, the airport would be locked down for HOURS, nobody in or out, and all the hostages would have been taken under custody just to make sure none of the bad guys had stripped down to regular clothes. You would have to plan for that -- so why would your plan require that the place blow up, but your guy gets out with the key card, and then meets with other people to remove WMD from the airport through what should be a sealed perimeter?
7) How did they jam JUST jack's cell phone, but not any of the communication of the rest of the CTU team, and not their own cell phones? And if they had that ability, why didn't they just do that right off as a precaution?
8) I don't care how important Walt is, I just can't believe that FLOTUS doesn't have secret service protecting her. SS would assume that ANYBODY could be bribed to attack, and wouldn't trust anybody except maybe the president.
9) Of course that should mean she shouldn't have been able to get out of the room either, except I guess that girl was the SS agent in charge of watching her? In which case she never would have let her go alone, so I'm confused on that one.
10) Jack left CTU 18 months ago. How could an entire SWAT team have forgotten the "old" duress code in only 18 months? It was clear Jack was trying to say SOMETHING. Nobody even questioned it. Curtis didn't even tell his team to watch not to shoot at that position like Jack said.
Other stuff:
1) Jack saw the yellow-tie guy. It was out of character for Jack to let the guy get away while he messed around with the reunion stuff. Not a plot error, just that Jack doesn't make too many mistakes, and that was a big one.
I wish they'd do the entire season in 2-hour steps. But then it would end too soon.
I actually have the script of Rush's "24" appearance.
Theme: "My City was Gone"
Rush: "What? I know it's a three hour difference. It's still Noon on the east coast and I'm going to have my cigar!... buh buh buh uh... Greetings ladies and gentlemen... Excellence in Broadcasting is on the air!..."
Announcer: "LIVE from Sunny South California via New York City... it's OPEN LINE FRIDAY"
Rush: "Yes yes yes.. I, an experienced radio talk show host, take an extreme risk every Friday by opening the critical issue of topic selection to you... rank amateurs. Lot's to get to today, but first let's go straight to the phones... ummm... JACK in a "Flank Two Position"... Welcome to Open Line Friday"
Bauer: "Rush... Thank God! My cell phone battery is about to die. Tell Chloe to send the building schematics of the Liquor Store at 5th and Marshall to my screen.
And I've got to tell you. Those Dems don't understand what it's like on the front lines of terror. I've been in and out of CTU for over 5 years and I've done more in 5 days than those punks in Washington have done in their whole...."
Rush: "Jack? Jack? Darn... he was doing so well and he was going to make me look good, too. HA HA HA! Okay... let's go to Behrooz in Los Angeles. You're on Open Line Friday."