24 Character Countdown (Episode 7)
Tom Lennox (55) 
-Acted like he really gave a crap about Karen’s resignation (-8)
-Gave yet another history lesson about the Founding Father’s, blah blah blah (-10)
Net Gain/Loss: -18
Current Total: 37
President Wayne Palmer (19)
-Said Tom’s words “sounded hollow� (+10)
-But, after saying that, he called a meeting with the Joint Chiefs to agree on the plan of racial profiling (-11)
-In the end, didn’t sign Tom’s racial profiling agenda (+15)
Net Gain/Loss: +14
Current Total: 33
Bill Buchanan (123)
-Took forever to explain to Morris what was going on and why he needed to come back to CTU. How about next time try this “Morris get back here they’re going to make you program the nuke.� Instead of “Morris, this is Bill Buchanan I’m on the line with Jack Bauer…� (-14)
Net Gain/Loss: -14
Current Total: 109
Milo (91)
-Didn’t want to Chloe to tell Morris (+4)
-Told Chloe about Morris’ brother (-9)
Net Gain/Loss: -5
Current Total: 86
Jack Bauer (321)
-Has some sort of disorder where anyone he loves is trying to screw him one way or the other (-7)
-Performed the tricky shoot a man with another man’s gun while handcuffed (+9)
-Finally added another person to his kill count (+5)
-Tied his brother to the same chair and interrogated the little twerp again (+8)
-Found out that Graem was behind the entire Palmer assassination, and the killings of Tony and Michelle (+18)
-Believed that was all Graem knew (-15)
-Went completely insane and almost shot Graem in the head (+10)
Net Gain/Loss: +28
Current Total: 349
Chloe O’Brian (125)
-Against all 24 rules and regulations, told Morris about his brother. If George Mason were there that would’ve never, ever happened. (-10)
Net Gain/Loss: -10
Current Total: 115
Morris O’Brian (103)
-Thought of his brother over millions of people (-10)
-Actually stayed to finish his program (+8)
-Didn’t stay long enough (-9)
-Not only does he have his own personal satellite, but he also knows where to download the perfect “Make the Image Appear Flawlessly� software (+6)
-You thought the whole satellite and image downloading was pretty amazing? Bet you didn’t know that as one of Morris’ many talents programming a nuke is one of them (-10)
Net Gain/Loss: -15
Current Total: 88
Sandra Palmer: (-17)
-Showed everyone that, yes she really does have a caring side beneath that abrasive and annoying exterior (+8)
-Told President Wayne what really happened to Walid, which made him change his mind about Tom’s plan (+7)
Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: -2
LEADERBOARD:
Jack Bauer—339
Nadia Yassir—126
Chloe O’Brian—115
Bill Buchanan—109
Karen Hayes—108
Morris O’Brian—88
Milo—86
Tom Lennox—37
President Wayne Palmer— 33
Sandra Palmer—(-2)
Special Awards:
Scariest Vice President Award: Goes to Powers Boothe as this season’s Vice President. That man frightens me. I am afraid to put him on the Countdown, for fear of my life if I give him negative points.
World’s Worst Father Award: Goes to Phillip Bauer. Graem was a little twit, we all know that, but what kind of guy could sit there and do that to his own son?
Best Quote Award: Goes to Powers Boothe for saying “I didn’t think this President had the stomach for the cure.” In his scary, Sin City-esque voice.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
You forgot one for Sandra Palmer:
Refusing to accept that her sub-plot is painfully slow and keep calling the President, -17
This is definitely the best episode so far this season. Very Sweet.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Final summation of the ranks is off. Bauer has a 349, not a 339. Good stuff otherwise.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Only 9 points for “Performed the tricky shoot a man with another man’s gun while handcuffed”?? I think that should be at LEAST 20! It’s like you’re developing an immunity to the awesome stuff Jack can do.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
How about -20 to Karen Hayes for thinking she’s going to get from her office in DC to CTU headquarters in LA, just after a nuclear bomb has been detonated there, in “a few hours”.
Yes, the VP is very, very scary - somehow I find that one of the easiest character profiles to believe - can’t think why ….
February 7th, 2007 at 7:44 am
OH. MY. GOSH.
You see, I haven’t watched any of this season because I’m waiting on the DVDs to come out at once (I’m totally into watching them back-to-back), and so I got very little of what you posted in this message, except:
TONY AND MICHELLE WERE KILLED OFF? WHAT?
And now I’m a bit sad.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Just for clarification, Tony and Michelle died in Season 5.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Sandra Palmer should get negative points for saying Walid was the strongest, most principled man she’s ever known. That’s a lie. We all know she grew up with David Palmer.
February 7th, 2007 at 9:38 am
the chances that this is the last of sandra palmer (-15)
February 7th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Yeah, @Jes, you might want to catch up on season 5 first!
February 8th, 2007 at 5:28 am
i think you’re being a little hard on tom lennox. the president needs a hawk on his side to toughen him up a little. plus you have to like his quote about shippin’karen hayes out on the first bus to ‘justice’ (as in the department of). he’s kind of entertaining, don’t you think?
February 8th, 2007 at 8:43 am
What? I haven’t seen Season 5? Gawd. I’m so behind.
February 8th, 2007 at 10:40 am
You’re in luck! You can buy or rent the season 5 DVDs to tide you over until the Season 6 DVDs come out.
February 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Has anyone noticed that Tom Lennox really looks and talks like Congressman Sherrod Brown (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrod_Brown). Although Brown isn’t quite as conservative as Lennox, its still a funny paradox.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Aaron, something bothered me about Episode 7 that you haven’t mentioned in either the Episode Review or the Countdown. At the meeting with the Joint Chiefs and the Cabinet, once again, Wayne, in what should have been a moment to display strength, whispers all his lines, and comes off like he’s about to cry. I’ve liked DB Woodside’s acting in previous seasons, but this season, I’m really underwhelmed. Wayne Palmer is coming off somewhat 1-dimensional.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Willy,
You’re right about Wayne. And I just plain forgot to mention it.
The reason why I think you liked DB’s acting in other seasons was because he was supposed to be kind of a shady person that did shady things. He was also contrasted very well with the real President Palmer.
Who knows though, maybe somewhere down the road DB will surprise us…
February 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Like, maybe in Episode 21, in the dramatic showdown with Powers Boothe (shot in grainy B&W on Air Force 1 where, inexplicably, it’s raining), he’s going to amazing us all by vampire-biting the Veep’s jugular vein out?
/willy
February 10th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
@willy
Best. 24. Side-Ending. Ever.
Unless the President is bad guy (again….uggh), then you would see Jack yelling “PALMER! DROP YOUR WEAPON!” That would rule just as much