Watching 24

Hello, again! It’s time to score em again for last week. As always, be sure to tell me what you would’ve given people. Thanks go out to Aaron.

Jack Bauer (404)
Being good enough at multi-tasking to operate a computer AND a car +25
Finding Burnett’s real killer +27
Admitting he regrets some of the things he’s had to do +30
Figuring out what Starkwood is probably up to +20
Stopping Quinn +20
Gain/Loss: +122
New Score: 526

Renee Walker (497)
IDing Quinn +30
Uncovering the Starkwood link +28
Doing what she feels has to be done +24
Getting caught by Larry and Janis -15
Gain/Loss: +67
New Score: 564

Larry Moss (137)
Being one step ahead of Jack and Co a couple of times +25
Ultimately getting in the way of saving the day -20
Trying to save the Senator +18
Admitting Jack is better than then at the job +20
Gain/Loss: +43
New Score: 180

President Taylor (286)
Questioning the leak +20
Possibly falling for the ‘you can call and ask them yourself’ routine -10
Giving a good speech +15
Gain/Loss: +25
New Score: 311

Ethan (100)
Believing that pretty obvious Bauer set up (-15)
Screwing up yet again -10
Standing up to Olivia +30
Gain/Loss: +5
New Score: 105

Olivia (130)
Convincing Taylor she’s innocent of leaking that info +30
Calling Ethan on his mistakes +23
Gain/Loss: +53
New Score: 183

Senator Mayer (aka: Senator Hardass) (50)
Having sympathy for Bauer and actually seeing his point +20
Stating his own case well +18
Helping Jack with the investigation +20
Almost getting Jack to trust his +30 (ya know this is a superhuman feat)
Not checking before he opened the door -10
Gain/Loss: +78
Final Score: 128

Hodges (100)
Having an actually organized and so far capable group of baddies +20
Having a conscience +10
Giving Jack an actual challange again +17
Gain/Loss: +47
New Score: 147

Hello again! Let’s take a look at how everyone did this week. As always, thanks to Aaron and feel free to give your own ratings.

Renee Walker (349)
• Having bad timing -10
• Managing to find out about the fake orderly +17
• Not taking Moss’ lip +18
• Stowing away on the boat -8
• Outswimming Dubaku Jr’s boat +16
• Mouthing off to Vice President Wuss +20
Gain/Loss: 53
New Score: 402

Chloe O’Brian (244)
• Taking Burnett’s name off the list +6
• Getting out-geeked by Janis -10
Gain/Loss: -4
New SCore: 240

Senator Hardass (78)
• Refusing the President’s offer of support for his bill -10
• Not having anything more to say than ‟Jack bad‟ -18
Gain/Loss: -28
New Score: 50

Jack Bauer (374)
• Handcuffing Bill and using the sleeper hold on him -10 (I’m being generous there because I know it’s to keep Bill from getting in trouble too. Still, he was pretty harsh about it all, which loses him points.)
• Tasering the traitor +19
• Disobeying Taylor’s order to stand down and leave traitor alone -10
• Stopping Juma’s guys from getting in the safe room+23
• Obeying Taylor’s order to let her out -20
Gain/Loss: 2
New Score: 376

President Taylor (144)
• Trying to get Jack off the hook +14
• Pulling rank on Jack when he won’t listen to her +6
• ‘Apparently, you don’t’ +20
• Seeing the stupidity in Jack getting hauled off while the actual traitor is being offered a get-out-of-jail free card +10
Gain/Loss: 50
New Score: 194

General Juma (100)

• Having a pretty drawing of the White House on his boat for any spys to stumble upon -14
• Actually pulling off an invasion of the White House +20
• Bluffing the Secret Service +20
• Being cold enough to actually smack the President +10
• Threatening Hodges to get him to help find another way into the safe room +15
Gain/Loss: 51
New Score: 151

Special Awards

The “Kim Bauer” Award goes to: Olivia Taylor for getting captured.

The “Most Likely to be a Mole” Award goes to Tony Almeida for continuing to be very shady.

The “Bravest Agent” Award goes to Bill Buchanen for taking the President’s tracker to throw Juma off.

The “Better Survive” Award goes to Agent Pierce.

You know what time it is…. break out those score pads and let’s see how everyone did this week. Did I miss something? Would you have given different point totals? Let me know about it!

Jack Bauer (324)
-Handling delivering the bad news to Taylor well +20
-Managing to once again take charge of what was once Bill’s operation +12
-Finding the address for Dubaku +10 (split with Renee)
-Convincing Marika to meet the driver (+12)
-The ‘one job’ speech +15
Gain/Loss: +69
Total: 393

Bill Buchanan (174)-
Offering to escort the President to the Hospital +20
-Bringing in Chloe to help with the search for Dubaku +17
-Bringing Aaron back +18
Gain/Loss: +35
New Total: 209

President Taylor (40)
-Managing to go another episode without using the word ‘Sangala’ or giving some big speech about the importance of the mission there +20
-Insisting on being with Henry at the hospital +20
-Allowing Bill and Chloe to take more of a role in things +15
-Actually showing an interesting personality +17
-Getting Bill to contact her daughter +10
Gain/Loss: 82
New Total: 122

Renee Walker (201)
-Pointing out that Jack’s idea regarding the Vosslers worked +18
-‘She has no idea her husband is a killer and a traitor to his country , and she’s looking at me like I’m the monster’ +25
-‘I didn’t say it didn’t bother me, I said it worked’ +17
-Trying to look out for Marika’s safety +8
Gain/Loss: 68
New Total: 269

Larry Moss (171)
-Setting up that ‘backwards computer network’ -19
-Once again, trying to protect Renee from getting herself into a bad situation +15
Gain/Loss: -4
New Total: 167

Chloe (164)
-‘That’s inefficient… whoever set up your network that way didn’t know what they were doing’ +25
-Defending Jack to Moss +12
Gain/Loss: +37
New Total: 201

Dubaku (91)
-Convincing Marika to run off with him +14
-Figuring out the other bad guys were going to do away with him +20
-Blackmailing them to get them to back off +15
-Being willing to get caught just to confront Marika about turning on him -13
Gain/Loss: +36
New Total: 127

Special Awards:

The Dummy of the Week Award goes to: Sean for letting Janis use that device. He’s the mole and he’s letting someone do something suspicious on his equiptment just to keep from being busted to his wife? He deserves to get caught.

The Most Useless Award goes to: Janis for spending the whole hour trying to spy on Chloe to see if she is gonna get replaced. She deserves to if she keep this up.

The Computer Geek of the Week Award: goes to Chloe for obvious reasons.

Good morning, everyone! It’s time to see, once again, how some of our favorites did this week. Enjoy!! Thanks, once again, to Aaron.

Jack Bauer (251)

-Reminding them that bad guys don’t play by rules +20
-Getting Vossler to admit where the First Gentleman is +18
-Rocking the man purse + 15
-”With all due respect, Madam President, ask around” +20

Gain/Loss: +73
New Total: 324

Bill Buchanan (147)

-Planning the decoy operation +17
-Letting Jack take over his group +10 (After all, Jack always knows best)

Gain/Loss: +27
New Total: 174

President Taylor (28)

-Not backing down (as I expected) when her own husband is on the line, realizing how unfair that would be +20
-Questioning Jack’s loyalties +2 (because while it is smart to question someone who has participated in a kidnaping, it’s Jack. Everyone should know by now he’s on the country’s side.)
-Saying ‘you wouldn’t dare’ to a mass murdering crazy guy. -10

Gain/Loss: +12
New Total: 40

Renee Walker (190)

-Insisting on involving Moss -10 (You know this won’t lead anywhere good)
-Going along with Jack’s plan +15
-Not going too far with the Vosslers +10
-Showing sympathy and pity when she realizes that Mr. Vossler is dead +12
-Not telling Larry right off not to say her name while on the phone -16

Gain/Loss: +11
New Total: 201

Larry Moss (171)

-Saying Renee’s name repeatedly during a phone call after he’s been told no one can know she’s alive -12
-Delivering a low blow to Jack -8
-Objecting to the plan -10
-Looking out for Renee +20
-Actually following the order not to tell anyone Renee is alive (unlike a lot of other people who ignore orders like that on this show) +10

Gain/Loss: 0
New Total: 171

Dubaku (83)

-Managing to play evil terrorist by day, sweet boyfriend by night (now that’s a multi-tasker!) +12
-Leaving the operation to go deal with his girlfriend’s sister -8
-Blackmailing President Taylor +12
-Hurting Henry -8 (what can I say? I like the First Gentleman)

Gain/Loss: +8
New Total: 91

Special Awards:

The Dumbest Move of the Week goes to: Rosa (the girlfriend’s sister) for telling Dubaku she knows he isn’t who he says he is and ordering him to break up with her sister. Yeah, that’s gonna get her real far. I’m also giving her the Most Likely to Jump into the Death Pool Award.

The Most Useless Award goes to: Who ever did the background check on Vossler. You’d think the Sangala connected would’ve raised a few red flags. Unless, of course, that person’s dirty, too.

The AMEN Award goes to: Janis for calling out Sean on his girlfriend.

Good morning, everyone. It’s time, once again for a character countdown. If you want to see the previous two, click these links. Now, let’s see where everyone stands this week:

Jack Bauer (171)
-Using his obvious telepathic powers to get word to Chloe and Bill about Renee’s whereabouts (+16)
-Reminding Renee he’s the one that helped save her life when she gives him hassle (+10)
-Kicking some ass and taking a few names alongside Tony (+15)
-Looking oh-so-good while fighting the bad guys (+11)
Gain/Loss: +52
===223 (corrected)

Tony Almieda (157)
-Killing Emerson to save Jack (+20)
-Using some fancy moves while doing so (+12)
-Doing one hell of a bluff on the bad guys (+20)
-Looking a bit sad about Emerson (-2.. I’m being lenient because of their history)
Gain/Loss: +50
===207

Larry Moss (151)-
-Laying down the law in the office and refusing to hear Renee may be dead (+20)
Gain/Loss: +20
=== 171

Bill Buchanan (100)
-Saving Renee (+20)
-Setting up the operation to get Dubaku (+12)
-Rocking the grey well (+15)
Gain/Loss: +47
=== 147

President Taylor (99)

-Having an obviously limited vocabulary (-18)
-Not understanding they can put Sangala on the back burner for a little bit (-14)
-Asking for the resignation of Stevens (-20)
-Giving that awful speech (-10)
-The injustice of her maybe being the only Taylor we’ve met to survive the day (-19 to her and the writers)
Gain/Loss: -81
===18

Henry Taylor (124)

-Managing to Push Brian over the edge of the balcony (+20)
Gain/Loss: +20
===144

Brian (77)
-Attempting to kill yet another great member of the Taylor family (-20)
-Lying to Ethan (-14)
-Killing Samantha, who I was starting to like a little (-12)
-Breaking the First Gentleman’s fall and giving him a chance to survive while jumping into the death pool (+20)
Gain/Loss: -26
====51

Best Line of the Night Award: Awarded to Tony for saying “Now, let’s put that behind us” after disarming a bad guy.

The “Amen” award goes to: Dubaku for saying what we’ve all been thinking when he implied the president was insane.

The Idiot of the Year Award: Is awarded to Emerson for basically admitting to Jack that they manipulated everything to lure Tony over to the terrorist side. If he wasn’t already killed, I’d put money on Jack having a… private conversation with him over that one.

The “Say What” award: Given to the writers for basically expecting us to believe the terrorists were able to, yet again, pretend to be ATC and fly two planes into each other. Considering they have already ordered many planes grounded, I’d say the FBI or someone has been in touch with pilots and would’ve warned them about listening to everyone who gives them directions.

Good afternoon. I’m back as promised with the countdown for this week. If you’d like to read over the recap for the episode first, here’s the link. And now… let’s get on with the countdown!

Jack Bauer (137)
-Taking a huge risk by gassing out the Prime Minister and his Wife (+12)
-Managing to not blow his cover while Renee was lecturing him (+12)
-Fooling Emerson and crew by pretending to shoot Renee (+10- had to take points off for lack of originality, though. He did almost the same exact thing with Nina in Season 1)
Gain/Loss: +34
=== 171

Janis Gold (117)
-Lying to the AG guy (+18- I really didn’t like him!)
-Being the only one apparently with the brains to realize Moss is hot for Walker (+9)
-Showing emotions other than nervousness or sarcasm (+12)
-Actually admitting what she did for Renee to Sean (-14. So much for that brain power from earlier. Especially if he’s the mole)
Gain/Loss: + 25
=== 142

Larry Moss (114)-Lecturing Renee about the torture charges (+8)
-Telling off the guy from the AG’s office (+20. Again… really don’t like that guy!)
-Getting Janis temporarily off the hook (+9)
Gain/Loss: +37
=== 151

Renee Walker (139)
-Disobeying her boss and turning her phone off on him to find Jack and Tony (+16)
-Getting caught by the terrorists (-9)
-Keeping cool and defiant while being captured (+18)
-Apologizing to the Prime Minister and his wife for her failure (+9)
-Trying a guilt trip on Jack, who she thinks is an evil terrroist (-8)
Gain/Loss: +26
=== 165

Sean Hillinger (87)
-Turning out to be a cheating creep (-19)
-Wearing a smug little smile through that reveal (-10)
-Helping Janis trace the call that refers to Renee (+9)
-Being kinda hot (+8)
Gain/Loss: -12
=== 75

President Taylor (103)
-Refusing to back down to terrorists (+15)
-Constantly whining while defending her invasion plan (-9)
-Making me almost fall asleep this week (-10)
Gain/Loss: -4
=== 99

Henry Taylor (113)
-Pushing ahead with the investigation to clear his son’s name (+20)
-Not filling his wife in on what’s going on (-9. Don’t these people learn anything? Unless you’re Jack, working alone is a good way to reserve a hop into the death pool.)
Gain/Loss: +11
===124

Tony Almieda (122)
-Spending a lot of the episode being Jack’s bitch (-8)
-Still wearing that outfit (+14)
-Actually speaking for himself a few times to try and save Renee (+17)
-Pointing out to Jack they might kill the Prime Minister with his little plan (+12)
Gain/Loss: +35
=== 157

Mutobu (100)
-Refusing to give the terrorists information (+13)
-Being willing to sacrifice himself before he’d hurt his country (+14)
-Not insisting on a more secure ‘safe room’ (-9)
Gain/Loss: +18
====118

Mrs. Mutobo (100)
-Thinking it’s ok to sacrifice the guard for Sangala, but not herself (-10)
-Opening the Safe room and allowing them to be captured (-10)
Gain/Loss: -20
====80

Brian (100)-Taking a gamble and suggesting they go to the President (-9)
-Giving away the whole plan like some cheesy super villain (-14)
-Poisoning the First Gentlemen and maybe offing the only interesting member of the Taylor family (-10)
-Looking good while being bad (+10)
Gain/Loss: -23
====77 (corrected score)

Weekly Awards:

Most Efficient Lawyers Ever Award- Given to Tanner’s lawyers for managing to have a full scale investigation in Renee’s interrogation of him in less than one hour. Now that’s speedy service!

The McGuyver Award- Given to Jack Bauer for managing to make a deadly gas out of the cleaning products in the Prime Minister’s Home.

Worst Contractors Ever Award- Given to whoever put together that ‘safe room’. Shouldn’t the ventilation system be just a little harder to attack? I mean, really…

The Best Timing Ever Award: Given to the FBI for calling and interrupting the execution of the Mutobo’s guard.

So, there you have it: the character countdown! Do you all agree? Any points you’d give out/take away to people? Let me know! Take care and see ya next time!

Good afternoon, everyone!! It’s back as promised: The 24 Character Countdown. I’m going to do a shortened version this week combining the past four episodes. Starting with Monday night’s episode, I’ll be doing the post each week for that episode. Since we’re in a new season, I’ll be starting all characters fresh with a 100. So let’s see how everyone did…

Jack Bauer (100)

-Telling off Senator Mayer at the Hearing (+10)
- Figuring out real fast the FBI has a mole (+9)
-Getting Renee to agree to chase leads alone (+4)
-Asking the question we all wanted to know: ‟why aren’t you dead?‟ (+10)
-Being testy with Chloe and Bill (-4)
-Knocking out Renee (-4)
-Breaking Tony out (+9)
-Getting mad at Tony for faking being dead after having done it himself (-6)
-Convincing the bad guys he’s on their side (+9)

=== 137 *corrected

Michael Latham (100)
-Talking on his cell phone while driving (-7)
-Breaking so quickly (-9)
-Standing up to Tony by demanding what happened to the planes (+9)
=== 93

Senator Mayer (100)
-Being rude to Jack (-6)
-Thinking a terrorist’s rights are less important than the rights of innocent people (-8)
-Being sarcastic to Agent Walker (-8)
=== 78

Janis Gold (100)
-Panicking in the middle of an investigation (-9)
-Using deep, cleansing breaths to calm herself (+4)
-Calling Sean an idiot after catching him accessing files he shouldn’t (+9)
-Winning a computer geek-off against Chloe (+10)
-Stalling the lawyers (+3)
=== 117

Larry Moss (100)
-Being rude to Jack while asking for help at the same time (-4)
-Standing up to Jack when Jack gets in his face (+8)
-Figuring out what Jack and Renee were doing and following them in a helicopter (+10)
=== 114

Renee Walker (100)
-Matching wits with Jack and doing it well (+12)
-Saying ‘I wouldn’t advertise that’ to Sean when he says he’s not needed (+7)
-Using Jack’s reputation to get Schechter to talk without actually having to touch the guy (+9)
-Getting Jack’s obedience and respect (+10)
-Lying to Moss about where they’re going (+5)
-‘Interrogating’ Tanner (-4)
=== 139

Sean Hillinger (100)
-Admitting he’s not needed (+5)
-Apparently thinking he’s too good to do cross-referencing (-3)
-Complaining about the lockdown repeatedly (-8)
-Using his position to get info on his wife’s flight during a crisis (-3)
-Using Larry’s name to get his wife’s plane landed faster (-4)
=== 87

President Taylor (100)
-Wanting her people to be yes men (-6)
-Apologizing for ripping him a new one in front of everyone(+4)
-Asking Ethan why they can’t ‘just unplug the bastards’ (+8 what? I thought it was amusing!)
-Complaining about having to negotiate with Terrorists (-3)
=== 103

Henry Taylor (100)
-Investigating his son’s ‘suicide’ (+8)
-Doing a pretty good job at it (+5)
===113

Tony Almieda (100)
-Working with the bad guys for awhile (-9)
-Almost making two planes crash (-9)
-Making them just miss each other to send a message (+8)
-Getting the best of Jack during his interrogation (+10)
-Working with Bill and Chloe undercover (+10)
-Wearing that outfit (+12)
=== 122

Chloe (100)
-Commenting on Jack’s appearance during the Senate hearings (+8)
-Guiding Jack and Tony out of the FBI offices (+7)
-Winning the re-match with Janis (+9)
=== 124 *corrected

Weekly Awards:

The Martha Logan Consipracy Theorist Award: Given to Henry Taylor for sounding almost as crazy as she did. Let’s see if he ends up getting committed for awhile, too…

The Jack Bauer Award: Presented to Renee Walker for going from a by-the-book agent to a Bauer wannabe in about 5 seconds flat.

The Computer Geek of the Week: This is a tie between Janis and Chloe, since they both got one up on eachother.

Best Line of the Week: “Why Aren’t You Dead?” Jack to Tony.

Well, that’s all for now. Take care and I’ll see you next time with more. By the way… I think a new logo for the countdown would be appropriate. If anyone would like to help with this, let me know.

Good morning, again!! I’m back on track and wanted to share a plan for the blog as well as get some feedback from you guys. Just the other day, I received two e-mails very close to together asking me if I was planning to do the 24 character countdown for season seven. Since it looks like people really enjoyed it, I am definitely bringing it back. You can find the countdown for all four episodes of the premiere on Sunday. I’ll also have the last part of the recap up for you guys tonight. Now that the big 2-night premiere is done, expect a recap up every Monday night. These e-mails got me thinking- I’m sure there are other old features people would like to be able to see again. If there are, please feel free to e-mail or comment below to let me know and I’ll start adding them.

Now, I wanted to share something kinda cool with you guys. Not long ago, I was browsing some fan forums when I came across a link to this website. It’s a phoney news page devoted to the 24 universe. It’s hilarious. My personal favorites among the headlines are ‘Whiny blond girl kidnapped for third time today’, ‘CTU now composed of nothing but moles’ and ‘25th amendment invoked for the 25th time today’. Do you agree? Disagree? Let me know!

Finally, the ratings are in and while not the greatest, they are definitely steady. If you remember the ‘Redemption’ movie got around 12 million viewers when it aired back in November. Well, the first two premiere nights averaged about the same amount with very slight deviations. If the trend keeps up, FOX should be pretty happy. Don’t forget… next week, 24 goes back to airing one episode per week in it’s regular Monday at 9 PM timeslot.

Good morning, everyone I hope everyone who celebrates Christmas out there had a great one and everyone has been having a great Holiday season so far. I thought I’d spend some time before the season starts introducing you all to the new cast members. I’ll start with the lady who has been described as the female lead: Annie Wersching.

Annie is mostly known for her guest appearances on shows like Charmed, Boston Legal, Supernatural and Cold Case but she’s done plenty more. Until 2007, she had a recurring role on the soap General Hosptial. She played a character named Amelia Joffe. On 24, she’ll be playing Renee Walker, a Special Agent in the FBI. It’s rumored she’ll have a lot of screen time with Jack in the upcoming season.

She’s got much more to her than acting abilities. According to her bio, she has a degree in musical theatre and used to compete as an Irish dancer when she was younger. Looks like she’s got plenty to fall back on if her character doesn’t make it through the day. Good luck to her in her new role If you want to hear her talk about the show and other stuff, check out this youtube video posted by FoxSource. I haven’t been able to sit and watch it yet, so I can’t promise there will be no spoilers. As soon as I get to watch it, I’ll edit this post with a little run down of what she had to say.

Well, that’s it for now. Take care and I’ll see you all again on Monday with much more.

Since we’re about to have a new administration in real life and on the show, I thought I’d take the time to introduce you to the lady who played the President-Elect on 24: Redemption. Her name’s Cherry Jones and she’s, of course, going to be a regular in the new season. I personally didn’t know about her before she got the role and I’m sure some of the rest of you don’t either so here’s a little run down.

She’s a well-respected Broadway star and Theater Actress. One of her best known roles was as the lead in The Heiress. That one actually won her a Tony Award in 1995. She made waves that year by thanking her domestic partner in her acceptance speech and has since worked in support of gay rights. If you’re wondering where you may have seen her before, she’s been in Signs, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Ocean’s Twelve. The picture you see, by the way, is of Cherry at the New York Premiere of the movie version of Doubt. She’s pictured with Meryl Streep, who’s playing the same part Cherry played on Broadway.

Cherry recently did an interview with nymag.com where she talks about her new character, Proposition 8 and being in New York during the 9/11 attacks. You can read the entire thing here. One of my favorite parts of the interview is when the interviewer tries hard to get her to spill the dirt on Taylor’s husband and other plots and she plays coy, refusing to give away much of anything. Keep reading to get a little tidbit I read elsewhere. If you don’t want to be spoiled, I suggest skipping the rest of this. (more…)

So, as you might remember, I also write the Desperate Housewives blog. Before I got the 24 blog, I also started watching season 1 of 24 on DVD and it seems they have had a few common elements.

I’m sure you all remember that in Season 1, Teri ended up getting kidnapped by a guy pretending to be Alan York, the father of one of Kimberly’s friends. Well, it wasn’t until I re-watched some of the episodes on DVD that I realized that he was played by Richard Burgi. For anyone who doesn’t know, Burgi plays Karl Mayer, Susan’s first ex-husband, on Housewives. It was pretty strange looking back on that season and seeing him as an outright evil guy. I got so used to watching him play someone who, while a bit of a creep at times, is a good guy when it comes down to it. He made me completely forget Karl Mayer while watching him on 24. The guy needs to be on my TV more.

That’s not the only link between the shows, either. Surprisingly, Stephen Spinella, who played Miles in season 5, recently showed up on Housewives as the psychiatrist treating Edie’s husband. If you don’t remember, Miles was the guy brought in to help transition control of CTU after a nerve gas attack hits the office. The powers that be think it’s best if the remaining staff is replaced. Last we saw, he was offered a position with the White House. Who knows if he ever took the job, though, because President Logan was arrested not long after offering it. The picture, by the way is of Stephan and castmate Lea Michele. They were part of the original cast of Spring Awakening and attended a revival in October. Well, that’s all for now. Take care and see ya tomorrow!

Tom Lennox (115)
-Stood up for Josh when the air strike was announced (+5)
-Totally turned his character around 180 degrees (+10)

Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 130

Bill Buchanan (179)
-Can fly helicopters, who knew? (+6)
-Perfect ladder placement for Jack when he had to jump off of the exploding oil rig (+9)

Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 194

Nadia Yassir (105)
-Still is pretty good looking even though she has a humongous scar on her face (+2)

Net Gain/Loss: +2
Current Total: 107

Jack Bauer (620)
-Commandeered CTU helicopter (+5)
-Took out tons of people on the oil rig platform by blowing up flammable canisters (+8)
-Made it awfully hard to tally the final kill count (-3)
-How do you like your Cheng? Regular or extra crispy? (+8)
-Didn’t put a bullet in Phillip Bauer’s head when he had a chance (-6)
-Jumped off an exploding oil rig, all in a day’s work for Jack Bauer (+5)
-Took a swim in the ocean (+2)
-Can kill countless people and save the world a dozen times, but he still got totally owned by a wave (-4)
-Showed up at Heller’s house unannounced, it’s a great thing that Heller lives about five minutes away, walking distance (+3)
-Gave a rousing “Jason Bourne-esque�? speech to Heller (+5)
-Said goodbye to Audrey even though he didn’t want to (+6)
-Stared out into the ocean and thought about nothing in particular (-1)

Net Gain/Loss: +28
Current Total: 648

Chloe O’Brian (217)
-Is pregnant (-8)

Net Gain/Loss: -8
Current Total: 209

Morris O’Brian (114)
-Felt bad for Chloe’s “Pale�?-ness (+2)
-Is out of the medical knowledge loop because he’s the Ex Husband (-2)
-Found out that his “boys�? can swim (+9)

Net Gain/Loss: +9
Current Total: 123

Vice President Powers Boothe (-21)
-Confirmed the air strike on the oil rig (+2)
-Dropped the charges against Bill and Karen (+15)

Net Gain/Loss: +17
Current Total: -4

Karen Hayes (130)
-Got the charges against her dropped (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +5
Current Total: 135

Rick “Mikey Doyle�? Schroder (94)
-The terrible acting continued even with the Blind Doyle “Get the kid Jack. Get the kid.�? Uggg! (-5)

Net Gain/Loss: -5
Current Total: 89

FINAL LEADERBOARD:
Jack Bauer—648
Chloe O’Brian—209
Bill Buchanan—194
Karen Hayes—135
Tom Lennox—130
Morris O’Brian—123
Nadia Yassir—107
Rick “Mikey Doyle�? Schroder—89
Charles Logan—Good thing he made his peace with God, because he’s dead, dead, dead!
President Wayne Palmer—72
Milo—0
Vice President Powers Boothe—(-4)
Sandra Palmer—(-7)

Special Awards:

Pointless Storyline #2 Award: Goes to Chloe being pregnant. That’s all we need for next season, an entire subplot of Chloe managing her baby. All around the pregnancy was just a stupid idea more suited for Grey’s Anatomny.

Take That Grandpa Award: Goes to Josh. Nailed his gramps with a wrench then shot him in the shoulder. Now that’s some good old fashion family love there. Way to go Josh!

Tom Lennox (95)
-Offered to look the other way if Karen decided to help Jack behind the VP’s back (+5)
-Agreed with Karen when she said that Jack has been the most right today (+5)
-Vouched for Karen and Bill and wanted the VP to let them resign peacefully (+10)

Net Gain/Loss: +20
Current Total: 115

Bill Buchanan (166)
-Helped Karen and Jack (+5)
-Even did a little recapping (+3)
-Best recapping was when he recapped that whole agent’s career, and how he had trained him (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +13
Current Total: 179

Nadia Yassir (117)
-After everything that’s happened today she’s still trying to follow stupid orders (-5)
-Questioned Karen when she asked about Jack (-5)
-Didn’t smack Marylin Bauer who was acting like a loon (-6)
-Found out from Milo’s brother that Milo saved her because he loved her. Awwwww…(+4)

Net Gain/Loss: -12
Current Total: 105

Jack Bauer (618)
-Got put back into CTU custody (-3)
-Pistol whips people like it’s nothing. (Have you ever noticed that TV/Movie characters always know the exact amount of pressure and where to hit someone to knock them cold for the exact period of time they need to do whatever they need to do) (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +2
Current Total: 620
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Well, everyone here it is. Sorry for the delay. It’s been a crazy week, but I know how much everyone loves the Countdown, so here it is. Again sorry about the delay everyone.

Tom Lennox (82)
-Uttered the quote of the episode when he said “And finally we’re done,�? when referring to Lisa and Mr. Bishop (+8)
-Got Bishop to send the emails to the Russians (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +13
Current Total: 95

Bill Buchanan (161)
-Was shown in the preview for next week’s episode. Bill’s going to be recapping like a madman after he’s missed so many episodes (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +5
Current Total: 166

Nadia Yassir (129)
-Got slapped right in the kisser (-2)
-Took on her own terrorist in the fight (+5)
-Saved by Doyle (+2)
-Tried to tell Jack that he was still under arrest (-8)
-Blames herself for Milo’s extra body hole (-3)
-After everything she’s still being pushed around by Division (-4)
-Still feels bad about poor Milo (-2)

Net Gain/Loss: -12
Current Total: 117

Jack Bauer (590)
-Calmed Marylin down to the joy of the terrorists, the CTU personnel, and the other 14 million people watching the show (+5)
-Concocted a plan to take CTU back over (+3)
-Doubted his own plan. Come on Jack we all knew it would work (-3)
-Killed guy by using him as a shield (+3)
-Killed “Zhou�? with a little strangulation and a whole lot of neck crackage (+5)
-Shot one of Cheng’s getaway drivers which resulted in a huge fire fight (+5)
-Killed quite a few people in the fight, but none as great as the SLIDING KILL OF AWESOME-NESS (+15)
-Saved Josh (+5)
-Let Cheng, his own “White Whale,�? escape again (-10)
-Fell for the old “There’s a call for you Agent Bauer, and it’s urgent�? trick (-5)
-It took about 11 guys to hold Jack down (+5)

Net Gain/Loss: +28
Current Total: 618
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I’d like to begin by apologizing for the lateness of this Countdown. Since school is out, the need for a 9 to 5 job has become apparent. So, I no longer have time in the after noon to do the Countdown. So the last few will be around this time.

Tom Lennox (83)
-Told Lisa she should be scared she’s going to be charged with treason. Be afraid be very afraid (+3)
-Gave pointless bit of dialogue #1 by saying: “Let’s button things up here�? (-2)
-Gave pointless bit of dialogue #2 by saying: “Just get outta the room. Leave him alone with the PDA.�? (-2)

Net Gain/Loss: -1
Current Total: 82

Nadia Yassir (133)
-Wouldn’t let Jack out to “clean up his mess�? (-5)
-Gave some little lovey-dovey eyes to Doyle…Bow-chica-wow-wow (+1)

Net Gain/Loss: -4
Current Total: 129

Jack Bauer (585)
-Spent half the episode confined to a CTU holding cell (-5)
-Wants to clean up his mess (+3)
-Wants revenge on Cheng. Here’s hoping he gets a great death like Fayed (+4)
-Totally thought about taking down the two CTU guards and escaping (+3)
-If Audrey doesn’t ever come out of her catatonic coma, then Jack always has a rebound girl with Marylin, Ahhhhh Yeah! (+2)
-Killed 5 Cheng terrorists (+10)
-Acquired a fully automatic Cheng terrorist rifle (+3)
-Didn’t acquire a second one. Which really hurt him a few minutes later. But, most of all we were hurt. Because who wouldn’t want to see Jack running around with two blazing automatic rifles? I thought so (-8)
-Got his only automatic weapon stuck in a ventilation fan (-2)
-Got caught, again (-5)

Net Gain/Loss: +5
Current Total: 590
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