24 3-4pm (spoilers)

24
Fox Mondays
Imagine Entertainment
Real Time Productions
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Seventh Season
Feb. 9 episode: 3-4pm

The switch to Washington has really enlivened this season, in my opinion. I never really got tired of all the L.A.-based locations. The difference between 24 and most other shows shot in or near L.A. is that except for the scenes at CTU, 24 is mostly shot outdoors. Now the FBI takes the place of CTU, but there have been plenty of scenes in or near the District. It's a fresh change of location. I've been trying to track Bauer all over the Beltway on Google Maps! I wish Fox had a link like www.fox.com/24/followbauer.

Is that affair the FBI couple is having going to affect the plot one way or the other? If not, do we care?

I don't know if SWAT would have saved Mr. Taylor from being shot. Impressive takedown without a team.

Kiefer Sutherland is 5'9" or 5'10". He frequently is on screen with men over six feet. I just noticed.

I felt bad for Mrs. Vossier, the rogue agent's wife. As my friend Hank pointed out: what did Vossier really have to gain by attempting to fight Bauer? He knew Bauer and Walker had his family. He had already given up Dubaku's position. So let's say he was able to subdue or kill Bauer. And then what? He would still risk Walker killing his family. So warning Dubaku probably wouldn't be such a good idea.

I think/hope Mr. Taylor will be all right. As Hank noted, he's already had a hell of a day: drank a paralytic, fell over a balcony, rode in a car trunk, had a finger crudely amputated with a serrated knife, and then shot. Ouch!

Did you notice that "Dennis Haysbert" (former President David Palmer) sounds a lot like former Speaker of the House "Dennis Hastert"? Before he played the president, Haysbert played a Secret Service agent in the movie Absolute Power. Assigned to protect the president, he went after Clint Eastwood in an attempt to cover up the president's murder of his lover. In the book, the conspiracy murdered numerous people loosely connected to the conspiracy, including the Clint Eastwood character, before being ultimately exposed and brought down. The Haysbert character committed suicide. Suicide is always a copout, author David Baldacci! That book was so good I was caught reading it at work. I still remember that--very embarrassing.

Is the rest of the season going to be this interesting?