News of “24”:
* Echoes of “Alias”! The first scene of the second season will depict two Asians torturing a third Asian with some very painful truth serum. The last words of the scene: “It’s happening today.”
* Echoes of Lloyd Bridges in “Airplane!” Minutes before President Palmer phones Jack up about the nuclear threat to Los Angeles, we learn from a pharmacist that Jack Bauer’s physician did not authorize a refill for one of Jack’s prescriptions. Jack, on leave from the Counter-Terrorism Unit, is looking pretty scruffy these days.
* Moments later, a testy Jack will be confronted at a red light by an overly-aggressive squeegee guy.
* By episode two, Jack, undercover as a recent parolee, will be lugging something highly unpleasant in his trunk. He will show it to bad guys.
* Also in episode two, Jack’s going to meet some angry young white middle-class Tim McVeigh types – anxious to see the U.S. government “pay.”
* Echoes of Lloyd Bridges in “Airplane!” Minutes before President Palmer phones Jack up about the nuclear threat to Los Angeles, we learn from a pharmacist that Jack Bauer’s physician did not authorize a refill for one of Jack’s prescriptions. Jack, on leave from the Counter-Terrorism Unit, is looking pretty scruffy these days.
* Moments later, a testy Jack will be confronted at a red light by an overly-aggressive squeegee guy.
* By episode two, Jack, undercover as a recent parolee, will be lugging something highly unpleasant in his trunk. He will show it to bad guys.
* Also in episode two, Jack’s going to meet some angry young white middle-class Tim McVeigh types – anxious to see the U.S. government “pay.”
* By episode two, Jack, undercover as a recent parolee, will be lugging something highly unpleasant in his trunk. He will show it to bad guys.
* Also in episode two, Jack’s going to meet some angry young white middle-class Tim McVeigh types – anxious to see the U.S. government “pay.”
