Okay, I hate to say this but the two-hour 24 last night was BORING! Sure there was lots of action – car chases, explosions, shoot outs, a power drill to poor Morris’s shoulder – but it’s all starting to feel a little too familiar. Morris programs the detonators for the nuclear suitcases after Fayed drills him? Come on, how much pain could the drill have caused? Certainly no more than any of Chloe’s withering glares. He does end up back at his CTU desk by evening’s end, remember, and both arms seem to be functioning normally. The political machinations with Prez Palmer and Lennox and Hilary Swank’s ex – it was like watching Meet the Press. Bring back last season’s Nixonesque President Logan and his whackjob wife. Marilyn sets Jack up and feels bad when he appears to blow up – she was never like that when she was trying to steal bowling alley lawyer Ed Stevens away from Carol Vessey over on Ed. For a moment there I thought Milo was going to turn out to be a double agent. And a Russian bad guy pulling the strings? How very Boris and Natasha. Makes me wonder if Jack is supposed to be Moose or Squirrel.
