Kwyjibo said:
Jack Bauer is like a lame duck agent to me ... what are they going to do? give him to the chinese? kill him? or let him be nobody again ... I dont' think they can really imprison him because the chinese would find out about that. They can dock his salary or fire him because well he's the greatest national hero ever ... and he's not legally employer or alive.
When I saw the previews for next week I thought, "well, I guess Jack and Audrey won't wind up happily ever after!" I'm fairly certain that Audrey won't actually be the bad guy here, but I want it to be her dad, Secretary Heller. There's just something weird about him, I thought so last year when he just went off for eight hours to a meeting at a "secure location." (Unless that was just poor writing to get him off the storyline for awhile.)
That, or her little brother could be annoyed with them after what unfolded in season 4, and be exacting his own revenge. I mean, they thought he had intentionally given information already, so why not actually do it?
As far as Jack goes.. I like how this year he's up against Henderson, whom I kind of see as equal to Jack. He can hide the things he needs to, he's tricked Jack, he's gotten himself out of a drug-induced coma and subsequently attacked someone who was plotting to murder him, etc. After this year, I can't really see how any government agency could rationally allow him to come in and act as a free agent, just based on his reckless disregard for anything but results. I think I read that Jack is going to be around for at least another year, and it might be really interesting to see him actually working against the country somehow, but I might have a hard time actually buying it.
That said, I didn't watch last week's episode until late Sunday night, and am really annoyed that they killed Tony off. I'm worried that they're going too overboard in jamming the "anything can happen" sentiment down our throats, and are killing off too much of the heart of the show too quickly. It's only been the first 12 or 13 hours, right? And they've wiped out four of the multiple-season "biggies."
