TV: 24: 2/7/2005

The writers seem to be repeating the same themes this year: the flawed hero (last season: Jack addicted to smack, this season: Tony's a drunk), the mole (every season), the kidnapping (every season), you get the idea...

So in this episode, the son of the terrorists brings his mom to a hospital, where they tell the doctor "I walked into a nail". Yeah, ok - they're gonna buy that. Naturally, the cops show up (luckily not the father) and they're forced to bolt.

Tony takes Jack and the Secretary's daughter back to his house where they meet Tony's bitchy stoner girlfriend, with whom he's obviously punishing himself. We find out that Tony's wife from last season left him (big loss for him - she was hot) because he was a drunk after Jack and Prez Palmer got him out of jail. They use Tony's computer to decode the video data and send it to an acquaintance of Jack's. The contact tells them the guy in the video is some dude who worked for the defense contractor who made the magical override gizmo for the reactors. Long story short, they catch up with the guy and a sniper takes him out before they get any info out of him. Shocker.

I knew it was all being tied up too neatly - they found the guy from the tape, they finally discovered the real mole and everything seemed hunky-dory. Then, the guy from the tape gets ganked and the mole's car blows up. Cool stuff.