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There is no way that that dude could hack the drone console. Those things are airgapped.

Yes, they could have intercepted the satellite, and hacked the drone, but the keylogger showed that the operator did it. The only way to do that is to hack the console, and that's impossible.

OK, they anti-nitted me.

They did hack the satellites. But I still don't believe the console was hackable that way.

Great to have Jack back, if only for 12 episodes. All the 24 cliches are right in place - the split screens; the incompetent government bureaucrats; Sean Callery's intense music; Jack ordering someone to do something at gunpoint "Now!". I feel like I've come home again.
What's with Benjamin Bratt? He seems to have lost weight since his Law & Order days.
Jack is tattooed, especially on his right arm; Chloe has gone goth.

12:00-1:00 p.m.
In one of the first split screens in the episode, we see Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski) on the phone, IIRC. The image is reversed; her hair is parted on the right, not the left, as it usually is.

It's a shame to see Heller fighting Alzheimer's. I always liked his character.
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OK, Ben Bratt's Steve Navarro has morphed from head-up-his-ass bureaucrat to full fledged creep. Rey Curtis would be appalled.
The missles launched from the drones look too much like CGI.

Episode 7 - 5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Conspicuous product placement - Jack is shown driving the just-released 2015 Chrysler 200. With left-hand drive, in England. A country where almost all cars have right hand drive. Including the Jeep Cherokees seen in previous episodes this season. (Chrysler was a sponsor of this episode, and has supplied many of the vehicles this season, BTW).

Perhaps I missed something but in episode 5 I believe, when the flight key is decrypted and override code discovered, Kate is quick to say that "this proves Margot hijacked the drone." Where did she get that from? That only proves the drone was hijacked, not who did it.

Also, why would the CIA send their own team to a private residence in the UK without getting the Brits on board, particularly when it was so obviously a trap? Is Chloe really that much better than practically everybody in the US and UK?

Adding to what ScottN said, hacking today's drones is not that easy. They are operated by multiple satellites through specific terminals controlled by particular individuals who must frequently show they are who they say they by one way or another. The override code demostrated here would only be able to control a drone for a short period of time, like a few seconds, and its use wouldn't allow full control, so weapons would automatically go offline and their transponders would be unchanged. This sort of thing is certainly not out of the ordinary for 24 but it would've been more believable had this group bribed one or two of the pilots instead.

This sort of thing is certainly not out of the ordinary for 24 but it would've been more believable had this group bribed one or two of the pilots instead.

AWhite, true. Remember we had a magic box a in day 7(?) that not only could take over ATC in DC, but also make a pilot so stupid, he would ignore the fact that he was going to crash into another plane.

I've been slowly catching up with this mini-series and overall it's been decent, but naturally has a number of implausible plot points the series seems to love, which are mostly technology-related. Pretty much everything regarding the drones and the "override device" has been easy to pick, particularly that whole chase around London scene in ep 7 I believe.

The side-plot involving the prez's chief of staff forging Heller's signature on Jack's extradition papers to the Russians has felt contrived as well. At one point the Russian consular, or whatever his title is, says he doesn't have time to wait for Jack any longer, even though he's already waited four years since Jack went into hiding.

Sneaking Heller out was far too easy. They seemed to only worry about the secret service, whom there about a quarter of the agents there should've been, but they're in England in a government building; there would be plenty of them running around as well. I used to have the same pair of eye glasses he does

SPOILERS!!In episode 8, Jack is repelling down the side of a building to get to the room Margot and her son are in. The son sees Jack, opens fire and goes to check the window, with the gun going out first. Not surprisingly, Jack pulls him out of the window and he falls to his death, despite not having enough leverage to do so. I had to laugh in shock a few moments later when Jack casually throws Margot out of the same window, after he placed her in custody.

Reed had the hit man sent to kill him in his sights and he fell for the old 'make sure the safety's not on' trick. For one thing, I don't think that gun had a safety to begin with, and secondly, an easy way to do a safety check when you're threatening to use it on someone is to pull the trigger.

Kate certainly healed from her torture by that group of arms dealers pretty quickly. end spoilers

Sorry this post mixed about so much; the episodes are starting to blend together.

In episode 10, Chloe didn't try very hard to get away from Cross. She already had a credible reason to be out of sight, because she 'had to pee', so why not escape down an alley instead of flagging down a truck driver right in front of him?

SPOILERS Now a group of Chinese rebels have the override device and the Russians are able to locate Jack. I was hoping the Russian thing would sort of fade away, much like Margot's daughter did, but there's still plenty to pack in the last two eps. However, the manner in which the Chinese were able to get a US sub to sink their carrier was completely ridiculous. The system used receive the torpedo firing order is reserved for the use of nuclear weapons, which this particular type of sub doesn't use. There would be a fair amount of dialog with high-ranking officials before actions like these are taken; certainly not from a single message without any prior notification.

Chloe's line of "that's a nuclear submarine" also deserves some scrutiny. At first I was preparted to pick on the fact that, based on the outside shot and name of the vessil, it wasn't a sub that carried nuclear missiles, but when they simply fired torpedoes I realized she was referring to its engine being nuclear, which is what powers every sub in the US Navy, so the line was a bit redundant. end spoilers

I have to say that Jack and Kate's method to get Navarro to talk was brilliant! The assault rifle Navarro 'borrowed' from a British soldier (L85A1) ran out of bullets awfully quick.

At one point the Russian consular, or whatever his title is...

I've been calling him "The Walrus", because he sure looks like one, with that bushy mustache and soul patch.

DVD and Blu-Ray to be released on 9/30/14. The entire series, including Live Another Day, will also be released.

Adam: I've been calling him "The Walrus"
Very fitting Adam though I think his moustache/soul patch combo suited him ok.

The remainder of is post will contain heavy SPOILERS!!, please continue at your own risk:




During the finale, after Jack gets off the phone with Kate telling him about Audrey, Jack sets his phone down beside him and doesn't pick it up when he goes on his rampage. However, when the Russians call him to set up the exchange for Chloe he has his phone again.

Speaking of which, how did the other Russians track Jack et al down a second time? I have no doubt that 'The Walrus' let someone else know about obtaining Bauer, but it just seemed too easy for them to find Jack a second time.

I don't have much of a basis for this opinion but killing off Audrey didn't really seem necessary to me. The president has Alzheimer's and Jack is in the hands of the Russians, not to mention the loss of life in London as well as on the Chinese carrier. Also, there were two turncoats on this mini-season, so why kill her off? I read that TPTB don't even know if Jack is officially retired now, but if they were to bring him back again it would've been interesting if Chloe and Audrey, amongst other familiar characters, were to sort of team up to rescue him from the Russians. There's another half-season right there!

Anywho, although it wasn't technically 24 hours this time, because they had the last ep cover 12 hours, I very much enjoyed this season and hope they consider another, or at least a cross-over of some kind.

This just got rebroadcast on a minor UK channel. I'd not seen this season before and I've been watching it weekly, although for far fewer weeks than I thought! I had no idea that the series wasn't the usual 24 episodes and was therefore completely bewildered at the beginning of what turned out to be the final episode when the voiceover said that the episode "takes place between 10 p.m. and 11 a.m." I was convinced that either I had misheard, or that America does the a.m./p.m. crossover differently to the British!

I also may have misheard due to what I thought was mispronounciation by one of the Americans (I think it was Kate), but in the last episode, was the ship that the Chinese were going to escape on really at Southampton docks? (The character said it as 'South Hampton' rather than the correct 'SouthAmpton' with no gap in the middle.) I'd lost track of where Jack was when he took the call, but at that point the passage of time still seemed to be as if real-life, and it takes a good 3 hours to get to Southampton from London, even in the middle of the night with light traffic.

But then there seemed to be a few problems with distances. Margot's house/hideaway looked to be well outside London just by its layout and grounds, but everyone seemed to get back and forth easily between there and central London inside an hour episode, and often in no more than about 20 minutes.

I laughed hollowly and frequently at the lack of security around and inside Wembley Stadium, plus the fact that the non-security had conveniently left the lights on and all the doors unlocked. It was bad enough that there was nobody else around when Jack and Heller arrived; after the explosion in the middle of the pitch, it seemed like still nobody came to investigate for ages. If I remember correctly, there was airborne footage at the American Embassy before the first sirens could be heard when Jack and Heller were talking outside the stadium!

We're honestly not that backward in the UK, America dear.

Despite the fact that I haven't watched 24 since about the 3rd season and therefore didn't know which characters had been in previous seasons, nor about what had previously happened between some of them - Jack and Audrey, for instance - this series still kept me interested and was enjoyable, albeit surprisingly brief!