24 - Jack is Back Hours 1 thorugh 4

The 6th Season of 24 premiered with 2 hrs on Sunday and 2 on Monday. Jack came back from China looking like a homeless guy. Wayne Palmer became president (why critisize the Gandhis in India). Karen Hayes is the new NSA. Chloe (ol potato face is still around), Bill Buchanon controls CTU.
They all brought back Jack to hand over to a terrorist called Fayed, he wants to kill Jack for killing his bother. In return Fayed would hand over Al-Asad to the Americans, who think Asad is causing explosions all over the US. Jack finds out Asad is a good guy and Fayed is the bad guy, so between destroying America Fayed negotiated to bring Jack back from China where he was likely being tortured like hell, to kill him. huh! dont terrorists ever read newspapers? dont they investigate CTU agents? Dont they know Jack is the only guy in the US(or not in the US) who can stop them? Needless to say Jack escapes, tries to convice the president and others that Asad is the good guy, they dont belive him. After 6 seasons, you belive Jack or u dont know Jack. Jack proceeds to rescue Asad from death by the americans and finds a new sidekick. All this while the scenes of brutal torture just keep getting more and more gruesome, made me and D cringe as we watched.
Jack saves 1 subway from getting blown up and convinces the administration of his theory. Meanwhile there are more explosions all over the US. The president has not imposed a curfew and the citizens have not chosen to stay at home and are dying by the 100's in Malls and Airports. I remember on 9/11 even the homeless people had sealed themselves inside thier boxes. Anyways, the president decides to give into Fayed's demand and release some 100 captives from a Guantanamo like place, but heres the catch, they dont investigate if any of the captives has an obvious tie to Fayed and is a nuclear expert! Dum dum dum dum... Needless to say Dr Nucleo escapes during the prison to airport journey and reaches Fayed.
A sububan family meanwhile try to help an Arabic neighbor (Kal Penn or Kumar) who is being targetted by the neighborhood bully because his father was arrested by the FBI during a profiling sting. Kumar, on his way to White Castle had picked up a package for Fayed. He is the real terrorist. He holds the son and wife captive and forces regular subarban dad to go out with the package to pick something up. That something is a nuclear detonator. Jack reaches the hostage home and rescues the kid from being shot. Jack shoots at Kumar, who dies enroute to the hospital. I think he needs to get a better agent. First he does not get 1 dialogue in Superman Returns, i mean he could have just said a word. then he gets shot in the 4th hour of 24, whasup with that?
Jack gets the presidential pardon for Asad, they have given out so many of these over the last 6 seasons, im surprised Saddam didnt have a copy. Curtis gets annoyed by this because during the first gulf war, Asad had personally beheaded some of Curtis' buddies in the army. He tries to kill Asad but Jack takes him out with a single shot to the neck. Poor Curtis he survived last season, just barely and didnt make it out of this seasons premiere.
Meanwhile Fayed had assembled the Nuke with the help of Dr. Nucleo and Subarban Dad. and they blow it up when attacked by the US forces. The nuclear could over LA was a chilling visual. Just the thought of it gives me the chills. Jack has front row seats to the mushroom cloud, but there are no EMPs from it, no radiation storms, nothing. Jack should have been fried/radiated by now. Soon we learn that there are 4 more of these in the hands of Fayed.
Despite all this, the scariest part of the 4 hours was the depiction of the Presidential head of staff, the FBI and the Army combining forces to suspend civil liberties in America. They set up temporary camps in parts of LA and start rounding up Arabs to put in these camps. No warrants no reason required. They act very cold and callous in doing so. Somehow, the writers manage to try and convince the viewers that this too is acceptable because there are 2 Arabs in one of the holding cells who know of the plan. 2 Arabs!!! profiling 100s of people on the basis of religion and comming across 2? wow.
Last season, they blew up a nuclear reactor in or near San Diego (Edgar's mom died), this season they blow up a nuclear bomb. The writers are either stuck with stale storylines or they really really want to keep the fear alive in the viewers of such a possibility in real life.
With so much already transpiring in the first 4 hrs, i hope they have planned a good season because usually around hour 16-17, the story drifts off and stops making sense.
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