r/TwentyFour

She was dangerous, to be sure, but because she fell for her girlfriend, the latter ended up getting killed. It also exposed part of their operation when gf extorted another million from their boss. (To her credit, she did a good job surviving.)

I was thinking who was Jack's actual love, looking at it:

Teri - Yes she was his wife and the mother of his daughter (gotta give him props for putting up with her), but he managed to 'work with' Nina over the next couple of seasons for the greater good.

Audrey - One could argue she was and rightfully so, but he fulfilled his mission before avenging her death.

Renee - I personally think she was, after losing her, no-one was safe, ex president, Russian delegates, Russian president, he was on a bloody warpath

At the start of the season when the plane is blown up and they immediately get the passenger manifest, shouldn’t it immediately raise red flags that a guy who was scheduled to take photos of Palmer was on board? Wouldn’t it then raise even more red flags when he signs in at the breakfast?

Audrey was initially in danger because of her connection to Heller and they were even about to commit suicide together, but fortunately it failed and Jack saved both of their asses.

Jack's actions later in the day were necessary to prevent to potential collapse of the country itself. While the consulate raid lead to a sequence of events that resulted in Audrey's torture, if he didn't do that Los Angeles would have gotten nuked along with all the people he loves, including Audrey but also Heller's son.

Which I why I never bought into the idea that Jack dooms himself from having a normal life, and his work or need to get back into action can ruin the lives of the people he loves. Larry Moss even brings up Curtis and Ryan, when Curtis died because he was about to something worse than the kind of shit Larry dislikes Jack for, and Ryan died because he works the same kind of job, Jack was just picked to pull the trigger. But fundamentally, the stakes in each season get so insane, the argument doesn't work at all. I can't imagine Kim would like the stake of the country or be fine if all the nuclear power plants melted down, and LA got nuked while she was in Valencia, if she even survives at all.

Jack washing his hands of the responsibility would eventually just lead to either he himself dying from a nuclear bomb, or him living in a failed state. It actually is literally his problem, and also Heller's problem because his son lives in LA.

It's only Season 8 where you could argue it would have been better if he wasn't involved, since New York only ends up in danger because he saves Hassan, but Hassan dies anyway. The russian conspiracy would have remained secret, but it's not like uncovering it did much good anyways.

Which season do you think was most physically painful… Let’s exclude Season 7.

I’m thinking Season 2. Plane Crash, Tortured till his heart stopped.

In season 5 Christopher Henderson apparently tries to kill Jack using a bomb. Not only does this fail completely, but it doesn't fit Henderson's M.O. at all.

Also, later he goes home without realizing Jack is in his house. The writers made him look like an idiot for two episodes in a row.

He certainly had many valid opportunities to kill Jack, and yet the best they could come up with was a half-baked bomb? A bomb that cannot kill one person who is trapped in the room?

Season 7's twist with the Jonas Hodges assassin was much better. Hodges had a valid reason to keep Jack alive. Otherwise there would be no way Jack could survive that either.

In 6x12, Jack tells the Russian consulate security chief to help by calling 310-597-3781 (CTU), ask for Bill Buchanan and tell them of Gredenko's location in Shadow Valley.

Then, in 6x17, Cheng calls Jack, informs him that Audrey is alive and that if he wants to see her again, he has to call Cheng back in ten minutes on.... guess what, 310-597-3781.

Believe me, I absolutely love 24. I have to absolutely re-watch the whole show once a year. I have been doing it since 24 first came out. I didn't notice this till now. 😎

I just finished the Chinise consulate episode when Paul dies. It is a emotinal moment, but i have 2 problems with that. First is that the Chinese guards are complete lunatics and just shooting anything that moves. They fataly wounded two Chinese citizens, not sure this would have really happend. Second problem is that Paul is fine for a few episodes now, but suddnely he is dying. They could have either kept him in surgery for this time or make the problem happen a bit sooner. I also find hard to belive that CTU has so few doctors, Curtis even calls ahead, they could have been prepared better. Still a good episode, but it could have been a bit better. The stealth section felt straight out of videogame.

S3E20: This is one of my favorite one-liners from the series lol.

She couldnt have rigged the car after she was discovered by CTU, so did she just have her car filled with explosives for no reason?

My favorite season finale on the entire show. When Jack got captured by the Chinese it was so unexpected, but was brilliantly set up close to the end of day 4. I felt genuine fear for Jack's life and freedom. "How the hell he's gonna get out of this situation", I thought to my self.

So when Michelle comes back she tells Tony to work on some list of terrorists. Then she fires Sarah and Tony has new position with Edgar and Curtis. But then in the next scene he is back at his old place working on the list. Did i miss something?